I have been drinking diet coke for at least 20 years
whats gonna happen to me?
2007-03-19 15:36:25 · 9 answers · asked by to tell ya the truth........... 6 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
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ok then why does dr phil not want us to have it...he is really big on not having his biggest loser people avoid it
thanks!
2007-03-19 15:56:48 · update #1
oops I mean he makes them avoid it lol
2007-03-19 15:57:57 · update #2
Aspartame is about as dangerous as anything else.
I can't remember who did it, but someone ran a test with rats similar to the tests using artificial sweeteners, except they did it with sugar. They had a 100% mortality rate. The sugar industry had a fit, and called the research flawed.
So if Aspartame will give you cancer, Sugar will kill you.
Just goes to show, too much of anything is bad.
2007-03-19 15:57:26 · answer #1 · answered by timmn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably nothing will happen to you, but my personal philosophy is to avoid artificial sweeteners altogether, because no long term studies were done before being approved by the FDA. So, saccharin, aspartame, ace K, sucralose--I don't trust any in large and/or regular quantities. Saccharin is the only one that I know of for sure that is a known mammalian carcinogen (rats), but we are talking about seriously large dose to weight ratios, so the impact at usual food doses over a normal human life-span could be entirely negligible for this and all sweeteners...just hard to know in my opinion
2007-03-19 15:44:27 · answer #2 · answered by M T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does variety formaldehyde because it breaks down, however that is a substance that your frame is already generating in small amounts. Since aspartame is enormously candy, you should not be ingesting a lot of it, and it generally is not hurting you. If you do not adore it, use merchandise sweetened with sucralose, that's generally more fit.
2016-09-05 09:09:23 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
brain damage and cancer. and no, the lab rats were not just given random amounts of aspartame, they were given proportionally about as much as like 4-5 cans a day. still a lot yes, but it proves its point.
just drink diet coke sweetened with splenda. coke zero and pepsi one are both great drinks that use splenda and they taste ten times better than aspertame.
2007-03-19 15:50:16 · answer #4 · answered by J Balla 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a study that found that aspartame could cause cancer. However, the test subjects were rats, and they had to drink five gallons of aspartame-laced water per day to develop cancer.
Proportionally, you would have to drink about 300 gallons of soda, or 150 2-liter bottles per day to run the same risk as the rats in that study. (Very rough estimates!)
I'd say that one soda per day, and the occasional 2 or 3 sodas per day can not hurt you. At least, they haven't hurt me beyond the requisite caffiene rush yet. ^_^
2007-03-19 15:42:11 · answer #5 · answered by peachfuzz 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's been shown to have brain damage in lab rats and stomach ulcers in humans. Personally, I don't trust it, or like the taste much.
2007-03-19 15:39:22 · answer #6 · answered by Kallie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Girl, it seems like damn near everything is bad for you, nowadays. Soon the air outside will be bad for us to breath.
2007-03-19 15:41:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think so. I have been using it for several years without any problems.
2007-03-19 15:46:23 · answer #8 · answered by badbill1941 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it doesnt form naturally then its dangerous
2007-03-19 15:39:56 · answer #9 · answered by rgn_gray 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋