Aspartame is deadly poison - drop that Diet Coke right now!

[GoldKey]

Originally Posted by PetiteFlower

Considering that obesity is the single greatest health risk at least in the US right now, if drinking diet soda will help someone lose weight without having to give up the sweet taste they crave, they are better off drinking it then anything with real sugar.

Amen, I lost nearly 20 lbs in 2003. The biggest thing I did was switch from drinking regular soda (1-2 cans a day) to diet soda. I also increased the number of vegetables in my diet (but didn't really reduce anything else) and started minimal exercise.

[GoldKey]

Originally Posted by PetiteFlower

Considering that obesity is the single greatest health risk at least in the US right now, if drinking diet soda will help someone lose weight without having to give up the sweet taste they crave, they are better off drinking it then anything with real sugar.

Amen, I lost nearly 20 lbs in 2003. The biggest thing I did was switch from drinking regular soda (1-2 cans a day) to diet soda. I also increased the number of vegetables in my diet (but didn't really reduce anything else) and started minimal exercise.

[AllUrUtube]

I like to ponder the long term implications of humanities long term use of the many diverse chemicals we have invented and ingest regularly. I think it's a pretty scared proposition. Even if we've been studying a sugar substitute, anti-depressant, or artificial flavor for 70 years, that's still a drop in the bucket of time, and it doesn't tell us what these chemicals could be doing to our very DNA!!! Yes, just because we don't see the harmful effects of something now, doesn't mean we won't find them later. Some things you can only see WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME. What if we are permanently altering, however subtly, our individual DNA, and the gene pool of all of humanity? Yeah, I'm just speculating, and some would call me an alarmist over reactionary, but the truth is NO ONE truly knows the LONG TERM EFFECTS. Only time will tell.

[ionen]

Should we all go organic?
Just saying...

[movvadinesh]

Even though they are harmful, sometimes we forget or dont even care that it harms and we will drink them when we are generally with our friends or in a party or something.