Diet Coke
Has anyone else in here seen these websites that say aspartame in diet coke is poison... like this one
aspartame toxicity center
I stumbled on to it yesterday and Ive been trying to find out if these sites are bunk or the sites that refute these sites i.e. fda, coca cola are bunk.
It seems there is a clear lack of *real* proof, to sort of quote one article that I read, 100% of nutrasweet/industry funded studies show that aspartame is not poison but 90% of independant studies show that it is bad for you... who do you believe ?
Anybody got any knowledge or even anecdotal type knowledge of this ?
aspartame toxicity center
I stumbled on to it yesterday and Ive been trying to find out if these sites are bunk or the sites that refute these sites i.e. fda, coca cola are bunk.
It seems there is a clear lack of *real* proof, to sort of quote one article that I read, 100% of nutrasweet/industry funded studies show that aspartame is not poison but 90% of independant studies show that it is bad for you... who do you believe ?
Anybody got any knowledge or even anecdotal type knowledge of this ?
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Still, there is a lot of evidence against it out there. Have you seen this thread? From Aspartame to War, A look at Donald Rumsfeld
Also consider this: my mom drank 3+ Diet Pepsis per day. She died of a brain tumor in her late 40s.
Originally posted by Voxapps
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Thanks Im officially paranoid now.
1) It has the same effect as MSG, or for that matter sugar, in that it alters blood-sugar levels. That is, after you drink a diet coke, you'll want another one fairly soon afterwards.
2) A small percentage of the aspartame you intake breaks down into formaldehyde. This is the amount that for whatever reason gets "stuck" in your brain, and it is chiefly why aspartame is a bad idea.
Personally, I've found that I am allergic to the stuff as well, but I don't get headaches. If I drink more than one diet soda in a day, I tend to have painful urination.
MSG (monosodium glutamate, also an amino acid derivative) acts in a similar manner. ( I believe )
However, chances are that if you haven't had any problems drinking diet coke, you aren't suffering from phenylketonuria. (Or you'd be dead).
Caffeine can give you headaches, however, esp. if you are used to drinking it, and then suddenly stop. (It's a vasodilator, and stopping suddenly causes vasoconstriction -> headache).
Hope this helps!
MSG acts like a neurotransmitter, and thus its metabolism isn't required for adverse effects.
The human body hasn't evolved to handle large and regular ingestions of such materials like this without, so I tend to avoid if I can. Aspartame is also known under various trade names like nutrasweet, equal, spoonful, candera etc.
Some anti-aspartame propaganda at:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~eye/pro...aspartame.html