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Everything causes cancer.
Does drinking diet soda really cause cancer?
Everything causes cancer.
I agree with SW... Everything is bad for you. Even if you drank 10 gallons of diet soda a day, methinks there would be a dozen other things in your everyday life that would probably kill you faster.
Everything causes cancer.
I just looked at him and said, "Ok" but it got me thinking. Because I've heard that before too...
Regular soda will kill you faster.
I just looked at him and said, "Ok" but it got me thinking. Because I've heard that before too...
It has to do with the sweetner in diet soda, but only in heavy doses does it cause cancer
http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz...rt08192004.jsp
Oh good, I barely even drink one can of Diet Soda a day...! And I only started drinking Diet Soda about a year ago...because unfortunately it's the only soda we have at work..."A 12-ounce can of diet soda contains about 225 milligrams of aspartame and a packet of Equal provides about 40 milligrams. In order to reach the ADI, a 150-pound adult would have to ingest about 15 diet sodas or 85 packets of Equal each day," Sass says.
Here is an interesting link that may clear up the confusion for you.
Cancer Causes
Personally, I will NEVER drink diet sodas.
Aspartame (the sweetening agent) has for a long time been a restricted substance for airline pilots, meaning that commercial pilots are NOT allowed to ingest aspartame before piloting a plane. It has proven links to depression, mood swings, schizophrenia and all kinds of nasty things. The FDA passed it for general consumption on the back of years of bribes and back-handers. Go to www.nexusmagazine.com - they will tell you all about it and a lot of other suppressed information.
I alway thought that sweet n' low casuses holes in your brain.
mostly becasue dupont advises thier employees not to use it.
and pilots cannont fly if they have drinken or otherwise ingested any.
but i've never been sure if that was an urban legend or what.
Too much caffeine has been proven to hamper calcium absorption, hence that statement. But, it takes a lot to do that.
I just looked at him and said, "Ok" but it got me thinking. Because I've heard that before too...
I sure hope not, because Black Cherry Vanilla Diet Coke is the BOMB!
Never thought I'd say that about a Diet Soda, but Mr. High Blood Sugar almost cost me my job.
Diet Pepsi sucks ass, BTW...and I'm a Pepsico employee, so I can say that. (At least I hope I can...
We saw on Dr. Know that aspertame, while it does NOT contain it itself, in large doses can cause a chemical reaction in your stomach that produces fromaldihyde.
Interesting stuff.
*takes a swig of diet Big Red*
How Aspartame Became Legal
Some sites with info if you're curious:
www.sweetpoison.com
www.dorway.com
Everything causes cancer.
wasn't there also a study that white bread causes cancer
Lesson ONE:
Trust NOT the DOT.COM
so that's what it was...
WHY????
DOT COMs are for sales/ads...COM = commerce/commercial...Find some .edu/.org sites and those are more reliable.
Most of the stuff you read about concerning this and other stuff is the anecdotal information.
New England Journal of Medcine is a good site.
The Calcium leeching is not anecdotal BUT has ZIP to do with Aspartame. It has to do with the fact that Calcium and Phosphorun are chemical twins that the body cannot distinguis. lots of PHOSPHORIC ACID in sodas. Bone takes it up, at the expense of Calcium (that is a simple way to put it)
Just one example.
Aight foo'
This is a study I found at an .edu site: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1998/aspartame-0916.html
"Mood, aggression and selected cognitive functions were tested" Ooh-wee... that sounds like some serious hard-core science.
"During a four-month period" Are you kidding me? Four months?? I could drink bleach for 4 months and probably not have significant changes in my "mood, aggression and selected cognitive functions".
Come to think of it, why would MIT lend their good name to a visiting scientist to conduct such a useless experiment? Oh... "This work was supported by a grant from the NutraSweet Co. to the Center for Brain Sciences and Metabolism Charitable Trust."
And, no, I'm not a complete conspiracy theorist. Yes, most the sites that warn about the dangers of aspartame come off a bit like the faked-moon-landing sites. They're just anecdotal evidence. For me, it was enough to remove artificial sweeteners from my diet. But speaking of anecdotal evidence, here's mine. I began drinking diet Coke about 3 years ago as part of losing weight. After the third or so time someone mentioned to me that diet sodas interfere with conception (actually, it was Kori), I googled it and came across the info I posted above. I cut the stuff out of my diet on October 21. I got pregnant in November. Could be coincidence. But I'm never touching the stuff again.
DATED...check the NIH, there are some studies that show SOME anecdotes and relationships but much of the data is scatterred about. Come hard with some good, significant p. values and reliable Confidence intervals and we can break down the stats. MIT usually does a good job with those. For every statistical analysis you can find to support your effort, you can find another to blow it off. Trust me, I read stats all day! I HATE SPSS!!!!!
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