Weight-Loss Is Diet Soda bad for you?

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Diet Soda Kills!!?

mamabravo said:
thanks for the reply

i do drink lots of water and i don't drink soda at all! (the stuff will kill ya expecialy the diet stuff!) i am finding my tummy quite bloted I don't know what else to do. after a month you would think i would of lost a inch. but nothing. I tried on a oair of dress pants the other day thinking they would fit and they don't

I am relly tired of all this

thanks

p.s. how DID you do it?
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Are u serisis diet soda can kill you? and if so wats the reason and how long for effects? :eek:

im scared :(
 
From what I understand, its the aspartame in diet soda that kills people. BUT it is extremely rare.
 
I didnt know that. I have been drinking Diet Pepsi for years. HHHMMM You learn something new everyday. I heard that theres something in it that they also use in Embalming fluid when you die.
 
you will find, more often than not, that things that are labelled "fat free" often contain a high amount of chemicals. Many of these products, you are safer to eat the fat than to eat the fat free. Also, fat is healthy, so eating everything that is fat free is not healthy .. just keep it around 10%.
 
I drink....one diet soda a day....I have fat free( or reduced)..dressings, crackers. turkey meat, cheese, fugepops, and now I am going to die from it??That is the stuff that is helping me lose weight so that I dont get more fat and die of complications from obeseity. Oh..well I guess it can join the air pollution, chemicals on my fruits and veggies, microwaves....and everything else that is gonna get me in the long run.....lol.....
 
Lol...Im with you I drink One Diet Pepsi everyday and eat tons of fat free and low fat things. Everything can kill you now a days and you cant avoid everything so what the hey, Ill keep enjoying my diet Pop.
 
ok i was a little harsh

but after i found out what different side effect aspartame does to you i have not been using or drinking it for a bout a year.


Here read this it will change your mind:

Aspartame Side Effects:

The components of aspartame can lead to a number of health problems, as you have read. Side effects can occur gradually, can be immediate, or can be acute reactions. According to Lendon Smith, M.D. there is an enormous population suffering from side effects associated with aspartame, yet have no idea why drugs, supplements and herbs don’t relieve their symptoms. Then, there are users who don’t ‘appear’ to suffer immediate reactions at all. Even these individuals are susceptible to the long-term damage caused by excitatory amino acids, phenylalanine, methanol, and DKP.

Adverse reactions and side effects of aspartame include:

Eye
blindness in one or both eyes
decreased vision and/or other eye problems such as: blurring, bright flashes, squiggly lines, tunnel vision, decreased night vision
pain in one or both eyes
decreased tears
trouble with contact lenses
bulging eyes

Ear
tinnitus - ringing or buzzing sound
severe intolerance of noise
marked hearing impairment

Neurologic
epileptic seizures
headaches, migraines and some severe
dizziness, unsteadiness, both
confusion, memory loss, both
severe drowsiness and sleepiness
paresthesia or numbness of the limbs
severe slurring of speech
severe hyperactivity and restless legs
atypical facial pain
severe tremors

Psychological/Psychiatric
severe depression
irritability
aggression
anxiety
personality changes
insomnia
phobias

Chest
palpitations, tachycardia
shortness of breath
recent high blood pressure

Gastrointestinal
nausea
diarrhea, sometimes with blood in stools
abdominal pain
pain when swallowing

Skin and Allergies
itching without a rash
lip and mouth reactions
hives
aggravated respiratory allergies such as asthma

Endocrine and Metabolic
loss of control of diabetes
menstrual changes
marked thinning or loss of hair
marked weight loss

*****GRADUAL WEIGHT GAIN****** (I FIND THAT FUNNY)

aggravated low blood sugar (hypoglycemia)
severe PMS

Other
frequency of voiding and burning during urination
excessive thirst, fluid retention, leg swelling, and bloating
increased susceptibility to infection

Additional Symptoms of Aspartame Toxicity include the most critical symptoms of all
death
irreversible brain damage
birth defects, including mental retardation
peptic ulcers
aspartame addiction and increased craving for sweets
hyperactivity in children
severe depression
aggressive behavior
suicidal tendencies

Aspartame may trigger, mimic, or cause the following illnesses:
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Epstein-Barr
Post-Polio Syndrome
Lyme Disease
Grave’s Disease
Meniere’s Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease
ALS
Epilepsy
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
EMS
Hypothyroidism
Mercury sensitivity from Amalgam fillings
Fibromyalgia
Lupus
non-Hodgkins
Lymphoma
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)

These are not allergies or sensitivities, but diseases and disease syndromes. Aspartame poisoning is commonly misdiagnosed because aspartame symptoms mock textbook ‘disease’ symptoms, such as Grave’s Disease.

Aspartame changes the ratio of amino acids in the blood, blocking or lowering the levels of serotonin, tyrosine, dopamine, norepinephrine, and adrenaline. Therefore, it is typical that aspartame symptoms cannot be detected in lab tests and on x-rays. Textbook disorders and diseases may actually be a toxic load as a result of aspartame poisoning.

Ever gone to the doctor with real, physical symptoms, but he/she can’t find the cause? Well, it’s probably your diet, your environment, or both.

Aspartame is the common denominator for over 92 different health symptoms at the root of modern disease. The Aspartame Detoxification Program demonstrates the most effective way to reverse disease symptoms is removing the underlying cause - aspartame.

I counsel aspartame victims worldwide and have witnessed nine out of 10 clients restore their health by following the Aspartame Detoxification Program. Begin with detoxifying your body of all residual chemical toxins from aspartame's chemical make up of phenylalanine, aspartic acid and methanol and their toxic by-products, and see if any adverse health symptoms remain. Try the Aspartame Detoxification Program, and within 30 days your symptoms should disappear.

Steps:

Remove all sugar-free products with aspartame from your diet.
Learn to 'read' your body. Begin recording any health changes.
Get a hair analysis.
Be happy with yourself.
******Detoxify. ******
Restore depleted nutrients.
Exercise and get plenty of rest.
Eat 75% raw foods at every meal.
Drink water, water, water.
Get control of your life.

*****READ THIS****

Formaldehyde in Aspartame/Nutrasweet - will the diet pop you are drinking 'embalm' you?



This experiment was conducted in 1997. It has been repeated many times and yet, ignored by Monsanto and the FDA. The study proves that there are significant amounts of the chemical, formaldehyde in Diet Coke - more if the pop has been stored at room temperatures or higher (and it's often stored in hot warehouses in the South and Southwest). A 2000 JAMA study established that intaking even trace amounts of formaldehyde, can cause damage to several areas of the body, yet this is Monsanto's excuse - "yes we know diet pop has formaldehyde in it but it's in such small amounts as to not be dangerous". Aspartame/Nutrasweet is in some 6000 foods and OTC medications. Formaldehyde is on the FDA list of cancer causing chemicals. On some foods, nutrasweet is not listed however, all foods having nutrasweet in them must carry a warning about "phenoketinuria". If you see this warning, you might want to say "no" to the food or medication.

***** PRETTY GROSSE EH!**** :( :eek:
 
If it causes all that stuff why in the world are companies allowed to use it?
Instead of bombing other countries maybe we should just send them millions of crates of diet coke.
I'm sorry....but I am still gonna drink it.....I think everything that come across in my life has the potential to give me all those side affects and reactions.
 
blame ronald regan

Aspartame was approved to be added to dry foods, in 1981. For over eight years the FDA refused to approve aspartame because of study results of seizures and brain tumors found in lab animals. FDA continued to refuse it until President Ronald Regan took office. He fired the FDA Commissioner who wouldn't approve it and appointed Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes. Even after Dr. Hayes was appointed, disapproval was so great that a Board of Inquiry was set up. Although they agreed "Do not approve aspartame", Dr. Hayes went against their wishes and overruled his own Board of Inquiry. On his way up the corporate ladder, Dr. Hayes shortly left for a position with G.D. Searle's Public Relations firm, after the approval of aspartame to be used in carbonated beverages. On June 27, 1996 the FDA removed all restrictions from aspartame allowing it to be used in everything, including all heated and baked goods.

Aspartame is a drug that causes slow, silent damage to those fortunate to not react immediately. Some people can react immediately, or it could take 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, or 40 years to develop changes in health. The Barcelona Report, conducted by the staff of the biology dept of the University of Barcelona, proves that we have reason to be concerned. The results show that aspartame (labeled with carbon 14 isotope) was transformed into formaldehyde in a study with rats. The formaldehyde then binds with protein and to the tissue structures in the rats. The liver has little effect on the formaldehyde and the formation binds to tissues. Formaldehyde is also a known carcinogen, and causes retinol damage, interferes with DNA replication, and causes birth defects.

Methanol (otherwise known as Wood alcohol)is another component of aspartame, approximately 10% of aspartame is made up of methanol. Methanol is a deadly poison that caused "skid row" alcoholics to end up blind or dead when they ingested it. Methanol is gradually released into the small intestines when it encounters the enzyme chymotrypsin. 'Free methanol' is created from aspartame when it is heated to 86F. Free methanol is absorbed much faster in the body. For example, Jello containing aspartame, is heated up and the methanol becomes a 'free methanol'. When the Jello is ingested, it is absorbed at a considerably faster rate than if it was not heated.

Methanol is then broken down into formaldehyde and it then converts to formic acid by the body. Formaldehyde is a deadly neurotoxin (toxic to the nervous system). An EPA assessment proves that Methanol "is considered a cumulative poison due to the low rate of excretion once it is absorbed. In the body, methanol is oxidized to formaldehyde and formic acid; both of these metabolites are toxic." Toxic formic acid is used to strip epoxy and urethane coatings. Imagine what it can do to your soft tissues.

Phenylalanine and asparic acid (90% of aspartame) are amino acids, accompanied by other amino acids in the body (there are 20) they become neurotoxic. Finally, the phenylalanine breaks down into a brain tumor agent known as DKP.
 
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not only that but diet soda is not good for weight loss. it also creates the same cravings as you would get from eating carbs.
 
I don't like diet soda anyways...o.0

My mom used to love diet coke...but then she found out what aspartame does, and stopped, and she said she started actually feeling 'better' after she stopped drinking it. What she was feeling better from, not a clue, but you could tell. She wasn't as cranky :p
 
I have also heard of these side effects and I have quit drinking soda all together. Not because of the side effects but because of the cravings it brings on, as soon as I gave it up and started drinking water then my cravings were a lot easier to overcome.
Shelley
 
water is the best!

educate your kids on this stuff. too many kids eat and drink stuff that is just not good for them, causing weight gain ect...
 
I know of people that will drink anywhere from 1 to 2 liters a day of regular coke, and diet coke.....About 2 years I could do it myself. I went to my doctor and she help me figure out how much pounds I was adding to myself with that kind of behavior.
She told me to switch to diet free sodas...and limit them......I lost 10lbs the first month.
Now I have 1 diet soda a day...( If that)...and get most of my liquid intake from WATER, orange juice, tea and milk....
When I was young they only had juice machines at school....not soft drinks....and now...I see kids drinking a coke at 7 in the morning waiting for the bell to ring...
 
I think that one of the things to remember with this is moderation. Yes anything in too much excess will kill you... I think that if you are only having a few diet sodas a week, you will probably be fine... but like someone above said, I do know people who will drink 6 cans in a day... and i'm sure that can't be healthy...
 
Switch To Organic Ice Cream

IF YOU LIKE ICE CREAM I NOW EVERYONE DOES READ THIS:

Ice Cream, Anyone?

The average American consumes 24 quarts of ice cream every year. He thinks he is only eating cream, sugar, and vanilla. But he is actually putting a lot of very strange things into his body.

There are over 1,400 flavorings, stabilizers, colors, and emulsifiers available to the commercial producer of ice cream.

Unfortunately, ice cream manufacturers are not required by law to list the additives used in making their product. As a result, most ice creams are synthetic from start to finish.

Ice cream makers are giving us a wide variety of delicious flavors, but are they fit to eat?

There is hardly any ice cream flavor that does not have a chemical substitute. Some of the artificial flavors are potent poisons which are powerful enough to cause liver, kidney, and heart disease.

Some ice creams contain natural flavorings; some contain a mixture of natural and artificial flavors, and some are entirely artificially flavored. The artificial flavors are favored by the manufacturers because, since they cost less, the profit is increased.

For example, consider "vanilla": Category I is commercial vanilla flavoring made entirely of vanilla. Category II is a combination of natural and artificial flavors; and the package may read, "vanilla flavored." Category III is entirely artificial; and the label may read, "artificially flavored vanilla."

What is in artificial vanilla flavoring? It is peperonal or vanillin. Peperonal is a chemical used to kill lice. Vanillin is made from the wastes of wood pulp and has no relationship to the vanilla bean.

Natural vanilla (which is pureed vanilla beans or vanilla extract) is much more expensive than artificial vanilla. Today it is only rarely found in the ice cream you buy at the store.

Then there is strawberry flavor. How nice fresh, ripe strawberries taste! But in your dish of "strawberry" ice cream, you will find benzyl acetate—a synthetic chemical that tastes like strawberries.

According to the Merck Index, an encyclopedia for chemists, this substance is extremely dangerous and can cause vomiting and diarrhea. It is a nitrate solvent.

Would you rather have pineapple flavoring in your ice cream? Ethyl acetate is used to give that flavor. It can cause liver, kidney, and heart damage. It is also used as a cleaner for leather and textiles. Its vapors have been known to cause chronic lung, liver, and heart damage.

What about banana flavoring? It is amylbutyrate, which is also used as an oil paint solvent.

Cherries anyone? Aldehydec 17 is used to provide the cherry flavor in your ice cream. This is an inflammable liquid which is used as aniline dyes, and the manufacture of plastic and rubber.

Perhaps nuts is what you want in your ice cream? Butraldehyde is the chemical used to provide the nut flavoring in ice cream. It is one of the ingredients in rubber cement.

The problem is that nearly all our artificial food flavors and food colors—come from coal tar! This is a substance in coal and also petroleum. We would never think of putting coal or gasoline in our bodies; yet that is what is put into all the processed food which contains, what the label calls "pure food colors" or "artificial flavorings." Coal tar is notorious as a causative agent in producing cancers of the stomach, bowel, kidney, liver, and other organs.

Back in the old days, fresh eggs would be added to ice cream as an emulsifier, to make it more textured. Today diethyl glycol is used instead. This is the same chemical used in antifreeze and paint removers. Like all the other chemicals, it is dangerous. You do not want even small amounts of these chemicals in your body. According to the Merck Index, it is sufficiently toxic to cause liver and kidney damage.

Stabilizers make ice cream smooth; and emulsifiers make it stiff, so it can retain air. Here are some of the chemicals used to stabilize and emulsify the ice cream you eat:

Propylene glycol (also used in antifreeze), glycerin, sodium carboxyl methylcellulose, monoglycerides, diglycerides, disodium phosphates, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, polysorbate 80, and dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate.

Government regulations permit all these things to be placed in your ice cream.

Last but not least, ice cream makers pump air into the product. Homemade ice cream weighs 7 to 8½ pounds per gallon. Store-bought ice cream weighs 4.5 pounds or less. So you are paying a lot for a smaller amount of cream; but you are still getting a heavy dose of chemical additives. Is it really worth it?

The next time you are tempted by a nice-looking banana split, think of it as a mixture of oil and nitrate solvent, antifreeze, and lice killer.

YUK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Diet Coke is dear to my heart. I drink a Min. of a 12 pack a day. Approx. 2 months ago it came to me drinking that much diet coke could not be good for me. I went cold turkey. Not one soda from that day on. Hardest thing I ever did.
 
Wow, troutman, good for you!

I agree, 1 day at a time....I can't STAND the aftertaste of diet pop! Yuck!

The best thing I've had is this new 7 up w/ calcium...Its not diet...its only 10 cal's a can, and their cherry flavor is really good!
 
Diet soda kills?

This post was interesting. I drink a lot of diet soda. I did not know it was so bad for me. i am going to start drinking more green tea and water.
i currently weigh 180 and I am trying to get down to 145-150.
I had no idea there was formaldahyde in diet soda. Maybe I will be well preserved! LOL!
Babyfroggz
 
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diet pop - other interesting facts

thank you for all the info on diet pop - also I just recently learned that the carbonation in pop depletes calcium in our bodies - and us women need all we can get!!

It it to thin it -

Terrilynnemiller@comcast.net
lost 35 lbs maintaining for 3 years - yahooooooooooooo :p
 
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