does diet soda actually have something in it that causes cancer?

Question

my friend says it does but i dont kno if shes rite or not.

Answer 1

Yes. Recent studies have shown that potassium benzoate found in diet sodas of various kinds has a correlation to cancer.

Answer 2

No, it does not. Cancer is caused by environmental factors (e.g. radiation, smoking, chemicals) in only a very few cases, and none of these are food-related. Both the food industry and the regulators in the US and every other nation are quite careful about this sort of thing. With the exception of certain members of the benzene family and other rather specialized chemicals, there is almost nothing you could possibly find to eat that could cause cancer. It might poison you outright, but tumors are rather difficult to start on purpose, which is just fine as far as I'm concerned.

Answer 3

There was an old joke,how to commit suicide the painless way. Sit on a colorTV and drink a six pak of diet Pepsi.
If there is anything in it,I think the quantity would be so microscopic you'd have to drink a couple gallons a day for a couple years.

Answer 4

I dont like anything that makes me addicted to it...soda or whatever...but I'll bet it does...hey look at milk it has 75 chemicals and at least 3 cause cancer....learned that from cousins in Ireland in the dairy business...and cold cuts still have nitrates that cause cancer...
so if you didn't cook it yourself dont eat it...and go from milk to soysilk...and no artificial anything like margarine, imo, cool whip....and go to healt food store and get the scoop on what can CURE cancer and not the meds/drugs and all that junk...there are teas like pau d arco that do wonders...and detox teas...and organic meat and veggies and fruit....the less toxins, meds, steroides, antibiotics, unnatural hormones the better...and if nothing else soda eventually cause incontinence...which is an inability to hold your urine...and it rots your teeth...go healthy...

Answer 5

Yes she is absolutely right ! It took many yrs and a change of president to get aspartane on the Food and Drug allowable additive list . As soon as it was the then presidental advisor quit and took up his position on that companys board! That goes back to President Reagan . Stay clear of it or at very least small doses .

Answer 6

Aside from all the controversy over artificial sweeteners some of these preservatives in sodas may even switch off vital parts of your DNA.

Answer 7

Not in humas at any rate. Some labs use mice from a strain prone to cancer from distilled water.

Answer 8

aspartame, it's a sweetener that the soda company uses to replace sugar

Answer 9

everything has a carcinogenic in it these days. there are too many genetically modified foods with additives and preservatives. live recklessly and drink it often!!