Are there any negative health effects associated with drinking diet soda?
I see that diet soda is calorie and sugar free, so it seems like a great alternative to regular soda which is loaded with sugar, and the taste really isn’t that different.
Are there any negative health consequences with drinking diet soda?
Thank you.
It is still bad for you..just not as bad.
Yes! In kids 12 and under it can cause brain cancer or retardation or something similir to it!
Actually, it’s worse for you. Period. The soda is loaded with artificial sweeteners and chemicals to make it taste like the real thing. Aspartame is listed as the second or third ingredient in all diet sodas, many gum brands, and anything else “diet”. Let me ask you something, how many fat people do you personally know who drink “diet” soda and eat “diet” foods? I’ll bet quite a few. Don’t believe me? Go to aspartamekills.com or killercoke.org or just do a search on aspartame and see what pops up. If you really need a jolt of caffeine, just drink regular soda. Otherwise, drink water or 100% juice.
Good luck, I hope you get pointed in the right direction! : )
Read this before you drink another diet soda.
Years ago, I had a serious Diet Coke habit. But I thought of myself as just an occasional soda drinker. I thought I had it under control. And then I got a wake-up call.
http://cleansingblog.com/2007/12/17/another-reason-to-say-no-to-soda/
yes, there are lot of them
not to be the bearer of bad news but. . .
just becasue it is calorie and sugar free doesnt mean its okay.
it has aspartame which has been blamed for lots of maladies
also methyl alcohol a component of aspartame enters ur body and turns to formaldehyde which is toxic and carcinogenic
lab scientists use this as a disinfectant or preservative not to drink haha
also
when aspartame is paired with carbohydrates it causes your brain to slow down its production of serotonin
drink water instead sodas diet or not are satan!
i have heard from friends that if you drink one 6 pack of diet soda…it is like drinking one regular soda. Also i have heard diet 7up or sprite is better than coke or dr.pepper.
last month i recieved a email from a friend about coke. it said all the different things a person can do with a can of coke like……clean your battery posts on your car and if you put a T bone steak in a bowl of coke…it will eat the steak in 4 days or melt the rust from a nail in a week. do you really want something like that in your belly???
it get back on track….maybe you should try diet 7up or sprite.
You be the judge, here are some quotes in my health forum, and read the following:
“Everyone,
if you get information from Urban Legends saying that this information is false, then you can counter this by knowing the fact that the number one complaint to the FDA is Aspartame poisoning.
Secondly, the reason why I didn’t want to get my Cirtification in nutrition from a course that was accreditted by the state, is because the nutrition text books say that Aspartame is safe.
I often ask people with Lupus, how many diet sodas do you drink? They admit a six pack in a week or in a day. More often then not, they are putting packets in their iced tea as well.
Laura http://www.dorway.com Site on artificial sweeteners and a non biased history of how the neurotoxin became labeled as food.”
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“Thank you Laura , I appreciate it. I have to add that the blue packet works great for killing ants. (Yes, I use it around our house.) For fire ants you have to dump it on their mounds, for the types of other ants we place it around the doors (inside and out) and they pick it up and….die. No doubt it does the same to us.
Joe
Make it a Great Day !!!
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. John 14-3″
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“I can personally attest to the potentially negative effects of aspartame. Back in the mid 80′s I was consuming diet caffeine-free coke. I started having unpredictable blackouts. I could just be standing and would suddenly collapse. The doctor I saw told me he could not find anything wrong with me and maybe it was caused by stress. I began doing some research on my own. No internet web at this time, so I had to go to the library and look at current health and medical magazines. Fortunately, I found a couple of small articles on the suspected negative consequences of consuming aspartame and other artificial sweeteners. I was also using saccharin at the time. I stopped using all artificial sweeteners and within a few weeks all my symptoms disappeared.
One of the unintended effects of this experience was to raise my awareness of toxins and the potential physiological consequences. It was also the genesis of my 20+ year quest to learn as much as I could about nutrition and fitness. Other effects were a return to a more active lifestyle and change of body fat from 28% to what is now about 10% and I’m in better shape today than I was in my 30′s and 40′s.
To be compliant, I’m not stating that anything I did cured, treated or mitigated any health condition. Yeah right!
If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck and has feathers, it’s probably a duck.
George”
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SWEET POISON
(A MUST READ)
In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick. She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain.
By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick.she just knew she was dying. She put her house, bank accounts, lifeinsurance, etc., in her oldest daughter’s name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of.
She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd
On March 19 I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn’t find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS.
I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked my sister if she drank diet soda? She told me that she did. As a matter of fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment.
I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda!
I e-mailed her the article my friend, a lawyer, had sent.
My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk! The muscle spasms went away. She said she didn’t feel 100% but she sure felt a lot better. She told me she was going to her doctor with this article and would call me when she got home.
Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! He is going to call all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners of any kind.
In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda…and literally dying a slow and miserable death.
When she got to Florida March 22, all she had to take was one pill, and that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her way to a complete recovery.
And she is walking! No wheelchair! This article saved her life.
If it says ‘SUGAR FREE’ on the label; DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!
I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on “ASPARTAME,” marketed as ‘NutraSweet,’ ‘Equal,’ and ‘Spoonful.’
In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United States in 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this to be rampant.
I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.
I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. Many people were being diagnosed in error. Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity is!
Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. The victim usually does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a life-threatening condition.
We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas.
In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the symptoms disappear. We’ve seen many cases where vision loss returned and hearing loss improved markedly.
This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia.
During a lecture, I said, “If you are using ASPARTAME (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting, pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss you probably have ASPARTAME poisoning!”
People were jumping up during the lecture saying, “I have some of these symptoms. Is it reversible?”
Yes! Yes! Yes! STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many products are fortified with it! This is a serious problem.
Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice, a nurse stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence!
Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you crave carbohydrates. It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight!
These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin andis used primarily to preserve “tissue specimens.” Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body!
Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the “diet products” and with no significant increase in exercise; his patients lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.
Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics.
We found that some physicians, who believed that they had a patient with retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame.
The Aspartame drives the bloodsugar out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance.
Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE. Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrierand it then deteriorates the neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, seizures, depression, manic depression, panic attacks, uncontrollable anger and rage.
Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as well.
Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet. So called “behavior modification prescription drugs” (Ritalin and others) are no longer needed. Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first place! Most of these children were being “poisoned” on a daily basis with the very foods that were “better for them than sugar.”
It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.
Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e. mental retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early pregnancy.
Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NEVER be given artificial sweeteners. There are many different case hist
It IS worse than regular.
http://www.lovethetruth.com/truth_about_aspartame.htm
http://www.aspartamekills.com/
YES, terrible ones! I’ve read about it, and learned in class, and the homeopathic person I see said it’s a lot better, if you’re going to drink soda, to drink regular. However, if you must have the diet, at least get the one sweetened with Splenda (not that that’s good, either, but better than alternatives). I would recommend Skinny B*tch, without the *..Ignore the title
, it’s is such a good book and it’s a quick read, too!!
Diet soda is terrible for your health and ironically it causes weight gain.
Aspartame (the artificial sweetener used in over 9000 products) has over 92 known side effects that impact your health. It was listed as a bio weapon by the government to be used against our nations enemies before it was approved to be put in our food and drink.
Do yourself a favor and drink good water.
http://www.diet-and-exercise-for-health.com/aspartame.html
Good health and good luck!
aspartame is unsafe. far more so than sugar.
see hear http://dorway.com/dorwblog/
#1 You gain more weight than from normal sugar. I can link you to some studies for this.
#2 Aspartame is highly addictive, so you will drink more soda than you would otherwise.
#3 Aspartame is incredibly toxic (since it was originally developed as a chemical weapon), and the previous posters have listed some of the many side effects from the substance. It should not be in the food supply, but when Regan came into power, his friend owned the aspartame company and got him to fire the FDA director and replace him with one who would approve it.
If you care about learning more of the wonderful properties of aspartame, watch this!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-566922170441334340&q=sweet+misery&total=463&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
It is classified as an exitotoxin, it is a toxin that breaks through the blood brain barrier, there are over 92 different negative health side effects associated with aspartame consumption. Airline pilots are prohibited from drinking any diet soda, because the government knows that aspartame can cause brain seizers as well as a whole host of brain and nervous system problems.