Diet Soda, bad for you ?
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And tomorrow morning, everyone wakes up a day older & one day closer to death, unless you 'go' tonite---As I tell all my patients, getting older is a good problem to have, the opposite of getting older isn't getting younger--------
It's not the "diet soda" that is affecting people, it is the aspartame aka Nutra-Sweet. When it came onto the market in the mid 80's, it was during the saccharine scare (which proved to be a bogus study). I, along with other members of my family, are extremely sensitive to aspartame. The real problem is how this product is not just in diet soda, but in thousands of products right down to your toothpaste. Small amounts of the substance tend not to be as problematic, but when you pile the doses in all the products you consume in a day, you can be taking in quite a large amount of the substance.
I was a regular drinker of diet Dr Pepper. They switched from saccharine to aspartame around the late 80's. I started developing severe headaches and neurological issues with gait and would lose all sensations to my hands and feet. It would come and go and at first and my physician thought I may have Multiple Sclerosis. I had many, many, many tests including multiple spinal taps to figure out what was causing all these symptoms. It wasn't until I ran out of diet soda, and was off of it at college that in a few weeks my symptoms disappeared. After some experimentation, I figured out what had been causing the problem. I would get the symptoms with all products containing nutra-sweet, but never had any issues with saccharine or sucralose. After about a year, I was tested along with my brother and we were found to have a severe sensitivity to aspartame.
There are some facts to the claims of nutra-sweet and those that consume large quantities of diet products containing that substance. I am still surprised the FDA hasn't come down on this product. It is in truth, as Dr Janet Hull says, sweet poison.
Aspartame Side Effects
Carolyn:shark2:
The best advice...drink plain water, it's much better for ya!
I was a regular drinker of diet Dr Pepper. They switched from saccharine to aspartame around the late 80's. I started developing severe headaches and neurological issues with gait and would lose all sensations to my hands and feet. It would come and go and at first and my physician thought I may have Multiple Sclerosis. I had many, many, many tests including multiple spinal taps to figure out what was causing all these symptoms. It wasn't until I ran out of diet soda, and was off of it at college that in a few weeks my symptoms disappeared. After some experimentation, I figured out what had been causing the problem. I would get the symptoms with all products containing nutra-sweet, but never had any issues with saccharine or sucralose. After about a year, I was tested along with my brother and we were found to have a severe sensitivity to aspartame.
There are some facts to the claims of nutra-sweet and those that consume large quantities of diet products containing that substance. I am still surprised the FDA hasn't come down on this product. It is in truth, as Dr Janet Hull says, sweet poison.
Aspartame Side Effects
Carolyn:shark2:
The best advice...drink plain water, it's much better for ya!
tridacna: I have rewritten my original post to read as follows. I hope it no longer offends your sensitive nature :mooner:
Highjack: I tried to make a new post and got this error "You are only allowed to post URLs after you have made 5 posts or more." How do I make it go away? Please do not flame me, as I am a neophyte when it comes to forum rules and etiquette. I apologize profusely for my plebian approach to this esteemed establishment...
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Carolyn:shark2:
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