Would you drink diet soda if...?

Question

you knew that aspartame (artifical sweetner) was banned by the FDA for 16 yrs prior to its introduction because it could not pass a singel toxicity test? DId you know that aspartame is linked to many medical conditions and drug interactions one of them which mimics multiple sclerosis? Did you know that the CEO of aspartames maker (Searle) was none other than Donald Rumsfeld, who with the help of Ronald Reagan used political clout to get it on the market and block the FDA from acting against them despite a huge pile of medical research opposing it? Would you boycott aspartame products of you saw the research for yourself? just do a search on aspartame poisoning, and see. In the meantime, what would you do to help spread the word? Would you be able to give up your precious diet sodas and sugar free treats?

Answer 1

I don't drink that crap anyway, so it doesn't make a difference to me personally. This reminds me vaguely about the EMF issue. Each year, the gvmt pays one Harvard and one Yale prof 100K each to produce an article saying that EMF doesn't cause cancer. Nobody funds studies and the one study that links EMF to cancer was too small to be statistically significant.
If it were ever published that living under a high voltage powerline causes cancer, imagine what would happen to the real estate market.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if business considerations were at the heart of the aspartame controversy as well.

Answer 2

Urban myth. No truth. Debunked.

Evidence does not support links between aspartame and cancer, hair loss, depression, dementia, behavioural disturbances, or any of the other conditions appearing in websites. Agencies such as the Food Standards Agency, European Food Standards Authority, and the Food and Drug Administration have a duty to monitor relations between foodstuffs and health and to commission research when reasonable doubt emerges. Aspartame's safety was convincing to the European Scientific Committee on Food in 1988,2 but proving negatives is difficult, and it is even harder to persuade vocal sectors of the public whose opinions are fuelled more by anecdote than by evidence. The Food Standards Agency takes public concerns very seriously and thus pressed the European Scientific Committee on Food to conduct a further review, encompassing over 500 reports, in 2002. It concluded from biochemical, clinical, and behavioural research that the acceptable daily intake of 40 mg/kg/day of aspartame remained entirely safe—except for people with phenylketonuria.3

Answer 3

Well, i do not know where to begin, but i will say this ,i am addicted to diet soda, i drink diet rite cola because it is sodium free, i drink it constantly,and i know it is not good for me, i do not know if aspartame is in diet rite, but i am going to check when i finish this message,

If aspartame is the ingredient, as of today, i quit,
actually, i have been wanting to quit, i did quit about six months ago. for about two months, and i do not know why i started the stupid habbit.
I did read that diet products,especially sodas have an iingredient in it that actually keeps the weight on the body, and i believe it, that is why all the diet everythings because there are so many fat people, and fat people think that consuming diet this and sugar free that in those isles, they are helping themselves, yet they are making the diet industry richer, and if everyone los the weight, they would go out of business,
it is really disgusting, and i am so glad you..made this statement, and i am serious YAHOO ANSWERS IS FUN, and sometimes silly and yet this is the first, time that i have read something that is so importand, and you are making others aware,
i will too, wish me luck, i have some health issues, and i am not stupid, just foollish, i drink rum too, rum and diet rite, and it is time for me to get off it, and even get help encouragement, and support, if you have moe info re those topics please let me know, thru email ,,

thank you very much for startiing my day with a serious alert,,maybe i can help someone else, after i get myself straightened out,

Good for you- and good for who ever listens , and if they don't believe you . they can do some research, and find out for themselves,
Well, i am ging to go and find out what is in "diet rite"
either way, i need to know,,
you have my gratitude, and respect

Answer 4

If you really think about it, very little out there is good for us. We are not going to live forever and everything that gives us substenance today will eventually kill us anyway.

For right now, regardless of how good or bad aspartame is, it is helping to keep my weight down, and I'm saving at least 500 to 1000 calories from drinking soft drinks with sugar (which is also supposed to be bad for you).

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Answer 6

Well... Weather or not it is diet or regular, the key factor is that it is SODA! It is going to have unhealthy ingredients nonetheless.
People have that basic understanding that soda in general is bad for you. It is just like smoking light ciggarettes and smoking regular ciggarettes, your still smoking.
It is called an un wanted addiction and there is no real health measure you can take other than not doing it period.

Answer 7

An oncologist told me to avoid aspartame (Equal), saccharin(Sweet-n-Low) and sucralose (Splenda)!

Answer 8

i hear you though i dont know if this is the best forum for you to get the word out. there may be more effective ways to get the message out.

Answer 9

I don't drink diet soda because it tastes like crap.

Answer 10

stop worrying, everything causes cancer -- just eat, drink in moderation. enjoy life ---your going to die anyway.