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02-13-2006, 10:13 AM | #1 |
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| Diet Coke & Sugarfree Gum Bad For You? I've never heard this until last night, when I was doing some research because cchu lost her gum (for a bit, luckily her Zoe didn't get at it!)... Have you ever heard that Diet Coke and Sugar-free gum is bad for you? --- It is about the dangers of Aspartame. Nutrasweet in the US and "Pal Sweet Diet" in Japan are Aspartame. Aspartame is an active ingredient in Diet Coke which I drink A LOT of. I am going to definitely take dive into the links on this page. If what this page says is true, I probably should stop drinking Diet Coke today... I have attached some of the highlights from the page below, but I would go to their page which has a lot of links if you currently drink a lot of diet soda products. Here are some highlights from the page: Aspartame is poison! Aspartame/Nutrasweet is not very sweet in itself, that may be why Equal puts Dextrose (sugar) and maltodextrin as the first ingredients, so that it tastes sweet. Aspartame/Nutrasweet is a brain drug that stimulates your brain so you think that the food you're eating tastes sweet. If you pay attention you'll notice that when using Aspartame/Nutrasweet, everything you eat at the same time also tastes sweet! This may be why Aspartame/Nutrasweet causes you to crave carbohydrates. Hence, you won't lose weight using it. BTW, cyclamates got pulled off the market in the 70's in the US (but not Canada or the rest of the world) because the sugar industry saw too much of their market disappear. Aspartame/Nutrasweet (aspartylphenylalanine-methyl-ester) breaks down to its poison constituents at 86 degrees (Aspartic Acid 40%, Phenylalanine 50%, and Methanol 10%). Remember your stomach is at 98.6 degrees! Therefore you should never use Aspartame/Nutrasweet in hot beverages or cooked foods such as Jello. How the FDA allows this remains a mystery. There is mounting evidence that the "Burning Mouth Syndrome" experienced by the Desert Storm troops was actually Methanol poisoning from the Diet Coke they drank lots of, after being exposed to desert temperatures. Aspartame/Nutrasweet's 10% Methanol appears in the body quickly and is the same alcohol (wood alcohol also in lacquer thinner), that your mother correctly warned you could make you blind. Many skid-row alcoholics had major problems with this cheap but deadly form of alcohol. Aspartame/Nutrasweet's 40% Aspartic Acid is an "excitotoxin" in the brain and excites neurons to death, i.e. it kills brain cells and causes other nerve damage. Aspartame/Nutrasweet triggers Migraine Headaches This even happened to me!. The Usenet is filled with posts by people who have pinned their migraines down to aspartame/Nutrasweet consumption. Aspartame/Nutrasweet's breakdown products attack the bodies tissues and create Formaldehyde which builds up in the tissues forever. Remember the smelly, eye watering fumes from the frogs you dissected in school? They were preserved with Formaldehyde! Formaldehyde is thought to cause cancer. The American Bottlers Association did not want the FDA to approve Aspartame/Nutrasweet because of what the test report showed. But the FDA approved it anyway! Airline pilots stay away from Aspartame/Nutrasweet because they are well aware of the documented dangers. Aspartame/Nutrasweet also breaks down to diketopiperazine [DKP] which is proven to cause Brain Tumors! Brain Tumors used to be rare. Several of the rats in the original study formed brain tumors during their Aspartame/Nutrasweet exposure. The researchers surgically removed the tumors and returned the rats to the study and discounted the tumors. http://joi.ito.com/archives/2002/10/...d_for_you.html |
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02-13-2006, 10:17 AM | #2 |
I Love My 3 Lovebugs! Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: north east ohio
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| OMG! I LOVE diet coke.....what am I going to do now! LOL But that is a very interesting article and I have heard about the diet coke thing before though. YIKES!!!
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02-13-2006, 10:18 AM | #3 |
Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member | This is NOT good to hear - I drink Diet Pepsi and have artificial sweetner in my coffee every morning....Thanks for posting this. Rats. Is everything bad for us ? Even the good stuff is bad when you really look at it sometimes.... unless it comes straight out of the ground ...and even then...we have pesticides to think about. |
02-13-2006, 10:20 AM | #4 | |
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I sooo agree!!! There isn't anything thats good for us anymore! One day its ok to eat one thing, then the next day they do a study to find it causes cancer or something. We won't be able to eat anything before you know it!
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02-13-2006, 10:36 AM | #5 |
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| Are they good for you? I doubt it. Are they poison? No. Aspartame (NutraSweet) is one of the most highly tested ingredients of all time. To date, no significant (ie large, well-controlled) scientific study has found any adverse effects. Are there pages and pages of claims to the contrary on the internet? Yes. That doesn't make it fact. I wouldn't be unduly alarmed.
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02-13-2006, 10:37 AM | #6 |
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| I have heard stuff about this before, but I thought nobody had any concrete evidence to prove it. I drink diet pop ALOT!
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02-13-2006, 10:53 AM | #7 |
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| There are studies that show aspartame is safe as well as those that show it's dangerous. I'd just never heard of it being bad before, that's all (I don't drink Diet Coke, I just chew sugarfree gum once in a while)... I do think it's odd there's so many anti-aspartame Web sites out there though. --- EFSA receives results of aspartame cancer study By Rick Pendrous Published: 19 December, 2005 The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has received data on the Bologna based Ramazzini Foundation's study, which claimed to have discovered an increased risk of cancer associated with the artificial sweetener aspartame, and can now begin its review of the findings. EFSA recently claimed that it had made several calls for this data without it being provided. However, Ramazzini countered by saying that it had previously been agreed with EFSA to supply the full results before the end of the calendar year. It could take three to five months before EFSA's Scientific Panel on Food Additives, Flavourings, Processing Aids and Materials in Contact with Food (AFC) can begin to finalise its work and come to a conclusion. EFSA said AFC would begin its evaluation of the dossier “as a matter of priority”. It will consider the data in the context of previous “extensive safety data” available, most of which gave the sweetener the all clear. A review of safety data on aspartame by the UK Food Standards Agency in 2001 came to the conclusion that aspartame was safe to use. The latest news follows a call made last week by Liberal Democrat MP Roger Williams, a member of the parliamentary committee on food and the environment, for aspartame to be banned following publication of Ramazzini's research. Aspartame is used in around 6,000 food, drink and other products. http://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/new...cer_study.html |
02-13-2006, 11:16 AM | #8 |
Enja's Mom too! Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Raleigh, NC
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| I drink diet coke with splenda. I think splenda is suppose to be better for you than the other artificial sweetners, b/c it is made from sugar.
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