Ok, someone please tell me why diet soda isn't good for you.......
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Scientists forced fed mice an obscene amount of aspartame and determined it raised their risk of cancer. Too much sun also can increase risk of cancer, but no one recommends to live in a cave forever.
Artificial sweeteners have also been shown to cause an insulin response like real/digestible sweeteners. I'm not sure what the effect of that actually is though.
And how much aspartame did they give those mice? Wasn't it more than we would ever take in? Context.
And didn't the group of rats that had a little bit of aspartame (like a dose equivalent to a soda a day) actually get cancer less than the rats that had no aspartame at all?
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Scientists forced fed mice an obscene amount of aspartame and determined it raised their risk of cancer. Too much sun also can increase risk of cancer, but no one recommends to live in a cave forever.
Artificial sweeteners have also been shown to cause an insulin response like real/digestible sweeteners. I'm not sure what the effect of that actually is though.
And how much aspartame did they give those mice? Wasn't it more than we would ever take in? Context.
And didn't the group of rats that had a little bit of aspartame (like a dose equivalent to a soda a day) actually get cancer less than the rats that had no aspartame at all?
That poor little rats.
They should have stuck to saccharin:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/scientists-think-saccharin-could-be-a-cancer-fighting-tool-032615.html
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She also worries about butylated hydroxytoluene, sodium citrate, potassium citrate, sucralose, monosodium glutamate, pesticides, herbicides, and three-legged frogs.
She does not fear vinegar. Three syllables. So good.
What's her thoughts on dihydrogen monoxide and Ascorbic Acid?0 -
stevencloser wrote: »She also worries about butylated hydroxytoluene, sodium citrate, potassium citrate, sucralose, monosodium glutamate, pesticides, herbicides, and three-legged frogs.
She does not fear vinegar. Three syllables. So good.
What's her thoughts on dihydrogen monoxide and Ascorbic Acid?
what about pyridoxine?
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I daren't ask her, @stevencloser , she'd smell the setup and give me the evil eye. I'll articulate my argument with sense, intelligence, and passion to anyone else but my daughter. One of the few people I've found more stubborn than I.0
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I daren't ask her, @stevencloser , she'd smell the setup and give me the evil eye. I'll articulate my argument with sense, intelligence, and passion to anyone else but my daughter. One of the few people I've found more stubborn than I.
Pffft, you haven't met my daughter...
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She also worries about butylated hydroxytoluene, sodium citrate, potassium citrate, sucralose, monosodium glutamate, pesticides, herbicides, and three-legged frogs.
She does not fear vinegar. Three syllables. So good.
Not to be a language geek, but . . . pesticide, herbicide, and sucralose all have three syllables.
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Women should be mindful of caffeine consumption. Caffeine inhibits iron absorption.0
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I can't quote my sources but I've heard that diet pop as well as regular, leaches calcium from your bones. Also the diet pop stimulates you to eat more. I don't know about any of this for sure, but I do have now now and then.0
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......i was scared to drink it...but now idec0
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I would avoid diet soda like the plague if it had arms and legs like that
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I_Will_End_You wrote: »There's nothing wrong with it. People just love to hate on artificial sweeteners just because....well, I don't know. I've never seen legit reasons other than...because artificial sweeteners!!!!!!
I blame the natural = good folks. Like my daughter. Who could not understand that natural honey is a poisonous combination for a diabetic. She also fears aluminum (dementia/cancer), fish (mercury), GMO (fish DNA), and plastic wrap (dioxins).
sounds like my cousin who is also convinced modern medicine and the pharmaceutical companies are evil and kill.
seeing as modern medicine saved my life, my sons life, and my husbands life, and drugs allow my husband to CONTINUE to live..... yeah. she knows not to spew her beliefs my way, cause I'll shut her down QUICK.0 -
People say that it stimulates your appetite which I really disagree with, it doesn't make me want to eat any more than normal.
Also, there's the whole "aspartame is evil" thing but I couldn't care less about that. If a second head started growing on my shoulders than I would probably still drink diet soda.0 -
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Not a damn thing diet soda away.0
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12 years ago I drove with my wife (we suspected she got sick from aspartame) all over the country to find out if these people that kept popping up on the internet were indeed real doctors, lawyers, victims, researchers, etc. You can click here to see what we learned:
Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World-1 -
you don't take information from random internet people at face value????
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something about chemicals and sugar whatever. health wise, it isn't too good if you have a lot of it (like most food), but if it helps your sugar cravings, then why not have a can? :-)0
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If you follow the CICO theory, you are only worried about calories and diet soda fits into your daily allotment very easily. If you are working towards health - as a nurse you know that the ingredients in diet soda are far from healthy.0
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simplydelish2 wrote: »If you follow the CICO theory, you are only worried about calories and diet soda fits into your daily allotment very easily. If you are working towards health - as a nurse you know that the ingredients in diet soda are far from healthy.
Why?
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LoupGarouTFTs wrote: »simplydelish2 wrote: »If you follow the CICO theory, you are only worried about calories and diet soda fits into your daily allotment very easily. If you are working towards health - as a nurse you know that the ingredients in diet soda are far from healthy.
Why?
How would someone have to fit in a 0 calorie soda into the calories?
How is it bad for our health?
It's not unhealthy, although any soda has acid (phosphoric acid, potassium benzoate and citric acid) which can cause ulcers and destroy enamel. An issue that can happen in some people is that it'll cause insulin levels to rise because the body mistakes the aspartame for real sugar. I've had it happen a few times when I hadn't eaten but I have normally low resting blood sugar levels to begin with... But this can lead to overeating because LBS causes you to get really hungry for sugar and other carbs.
But water, color, aspartame, phosphoric acid, potassium benzoate, citric acid and caffeine aren't unhealthy components they just don't add any nutritional benefits...0 -
Exactly what i think about! I hear people yap ad nag me about chemicals and amount of sugar in diet coke but I drink it anyway. So long as I don't end up drinking liters of it in a day and have my good share of water!0 -
12 years ago I drove with my wife (we suspected she got sick from aspartame) all over the country to find out if these people that kept popping up on the internet were indeed real doctors, lawyers, victims, researchers, etc. You can click here to see what we learned:
Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World
With a name like that I'm sure it's unbiased research.0 -
It's made by taking pure disappointment and doing unspeakable things to it in a laboratory. The end result is something so horrid it takes twice as much of what you actually wanted in order to forget the taste.0
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All carbonated sodas erode your teeth. You are pouring acid over them. Moderation....if course I feel that way about most foods. I only will not eat shellfish and gluten - and those are deadly allergens for me.0
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Jesus disapproves of it.0
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