If You Drink DIET SODAS Then YOU Need to Read This.

Its funny how people get so outraged when you try to warn them about diet soda. A woman died because of drinking too much soda that's a fact. I'm not saying don't drink it but anything artificial or fake is not good for you. People should be leaning towards eating healthy foods not chemically processed foods. Diseases have skyrocketed in the last 30 years because of all the junk we eat, that's a fact. You don't have to drink just water but diet soda isn't that great to drink either and there are warnings on packages of NutraSweet ever took a look at it?

To the bolded … yep, all the time.

"Warning, phenylketonureics, contains phenylalenine" (ok, my spelling is probably off).

Phenylalenine (how ever it's spelled :blushing:) is an amino acid. For those who haven't had biology, that's a building block of proteins. Phenylketonuresis (PKU) is a metabolic disorder that prevents the individual from breaking down that specific amino acid. There is a blood test done now, at birth and again at two weeks, to rule out PKU and other metabolic disorders. There's no cure, the best thing they can do is avoid that specific amino acid. Since it occurs NATURALLY in foods, they have to be kind of picky about what they eat, and the warning labels on Nutra Sweet and other foods containing aspartame let them know it's not a good choice for them. If they get too much, they develop dangerous ketones that cause brain damage and even death.

Don't have PKU? Then the warning doesn't apply. And if you had it, I'm pretty sure you'd know by now.

I'll just leave this here..
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

Stop posting stupid.

The doctors are chalking it up to the aspartame in the three 2 liter bottles of diet Coke that she used to drink per day.

100% pure BS!

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

I didn't realize the aspartame patent expired now everyone is on the action!

http://thenaturaladvocate.blogspot.ca/2011/04/another-reason-not-to-trust-snopes.html

My point was only that DOCTORS are saying this.

I don't drink the crap. So, I really could care less.

I'm skeptical.

I'm sorry. You're skeptical about what? That the doctors told him this? Or, that aspartame causes memory loss. Based on your reply a few posts down, I do hope that it's the latter.

My point was only that DOCTORS are saying this.

I don't drink the crap. So, I really could care less.

I'm skeptical.

I'm sorry. You're skeptical about what? That the doctors told him this? Or, that aspartame causes memory loss. Based on your reply a few posts down, I do hope that it's the latter.

Both.

I am a biological researcher (scientist) and I studied MS and other inflammatory diseases for years. Unless soda is killing the myelin sheath that surrounds the nerves in the spinal cord and brain, you will not get lupus or MS from it.

Whether the OP article is authentic or not, why would anyone with a brain defend diet sodas or indeed any sodas!? Madness! It's just common sense that that stuff is not nurturing or helpful to the body in any way, shape or form.

Common sense is not science. I'll take science over common sense any day, because the body is complex and what we expect to happen isn't always what actually happens. Common sense is how we got a lot of the diet myths that have been disproven by research, like the 6 meals per day thing.