Remind me how bad even diet soda is please

Contains aspartame which is rat poison. Puts holes in your brain. Enjoy.

God must really love stupid people, because he certainly put enough of them on this Earth. :huh: Some people will believe anything that they're told.

Again those against it often wil find a 1 case in 10,000,000 and say thats a common occurence or it will cause premature death easy. I have 1 small glass or a can every other day i'd say, and drink over a litre of water every day. I'd regard that as a happy medium of drinking it and none, its small amounts and I have gone weeks without it too.

Thats how I feel about it.

I'm not a doctor or dentist or a carpenter (not that that has anything to do with it), but I think all things in moderation. I may have a Diet Dr. Pepper today, but I will have it in addition to the 3 liters of water I drink while at work (8-5). I won't reach for one when I'm thirsty because then i will just down it. I prefer to have it around two hours or so before my lunch break or around the 3:00 hour when time seems to be creeping by. I won't drink it out of the can, but pour it into a glass with ice and drink it slowly and enjoy it.

Saturday night I was CRAVING some ice-cream at like 10:30 at night, and I waited for it to pass and it didn't. I grabbed a DDP and slowly drank, it helped curb the ice cream craving and got me back on track.

Soft drink companies spend millions creating demand for their useless products in third world countries, by buying their product you are supporting the expolitation of the planet's most vulnearble people. Drink water.

How about this: My step dad drank 2 2 liters of diet coke a day for years. He died of a heart attack at 48.

Diet soda is TERRIBLE for you.

Sorry for your loss, and you know for a fact that it was the diet coke that caused his heart attack. I drink it everyday and not just 1 or 2 cans and I don't have the effects that some of these people are saying. I think each person is different. I will not stop drinking it, in fact I'm going to go and have one right now for my break.

Aspartame is one of the most common artificial sweeteners in use today. It is sold under the brand names NutraSweet® and Equal®. Aspartame is composed mainly of 2 amino acids, aspartic acid and phenylalanine. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins and are found naturally in many foods.

Rumors claiming that aspartame causes a number of health problems, including cancer, have been around for many years. Many of these continue to circulate on the Internet.

In the United States, artificial sweeteners such as aspartame are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These products must be tested for safety and approved by the FDA before they can be used. The FDA also sets an acceptable daily intake (ADI) for each sweetener, which is the maximum amount considered safe to consume each day during a person's lifetime. The ADI is set to be about 100 times less than the smallest amount that might cause health concerns, based on studies done in lab animals.

The FDA has set the ADI for aspartame at 50 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg) of body weight. (In the European Union, the European Food Safety Authority has recommended a slightly lower ADI for aspartame, at 40 mg/kg.)

To put the ADI for aspartame in perspective, this would be 3,750 milligrams per day for a typical adult weighing 75 kilograms (about 165 pounds), far more than most adults take in daily. A can of diet soda usually contains about 180 milligrams of aspartame, so a typical adult would have to drink about 21 cans of diet soda a day to go over the recommended level.

Most studies in people have not found that aspartame use is linked to an increased risk of cancer.

One early study suggested that an increased rate of brain tumors in the US during the 1980s might have been related to aspartame use. However, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the increase in brain tumor rates actually began back in the early 1970s, well before aspartame was in use. And most of the increase was seen in people age 70 and older, a group that was not exposed to the highest doses of aspartame, which might also make this link less likely. Other studies have not found an increase in brain tumors related to aspartame use.

In the largest study of this issue, researchers from the NCI looked at cancer rates in more than 500,000 older adults. The study found that, compared to people who did not drink aspartame-containing beverages, those who did drink them did not have an increased risk of lymphomas, leukemias, or brain tumors.

Expert agencies in the United States and elsewhere that have evaluated aspartame have found it safe for use.

Though research into a possible link between aspartame and cancer continues, these agencies agree that studies done so far have not found such a link.

Here is the American Cancer Society's view on the possible link between aspartame and cancer;

http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerCauses/OtherCarcinogens/AtHome/aspartame