Diet Soda

[OuTaKeR]

I remember a long time ago Diet Soda used to have some health problems associated with it. I was curious whether or not Diet Soda still had health issues, or if the soda companies fixed the problems. What does everyone think?

[Acharne]

i've heard stuff (fucking debate class, one year of it was enough to drive me away) about the sugar substitue (aspertame i believe) being the cause of all sorts of problems (from memory loss to who knows what). i dunno, i have a lot of aspertame in my diet i geuss (i love these little diet flavored water thingys...) and i have bad memory, but that could just be because i have bad memory.

[snaggle]

I remember the aspartame scare a few years back...I never drink diet soda though...it tastes even worse than the real stuff...

I spent more time explaining how to pronounce aspartame than I did worrying about the effects on the human body it caused.

[astralCow]

Last night I had a dream.

I found myself in a desert called Cyberland. It was hot. My canteen had sprung a leak and I was thirsty.

Out of the abyss walked a cow - Elsie. I asked if she had anything to drink. She said, "I'm forbidden to produce milk. In Cyberland, we only drink Diet Coke."

[Vorn]

I seemed to recall something about parents putting very young childern on a very sugar restricted diet, including nutrasweet. I think these childern developed learning disablities, but wether that was simply due to the lack of sugar for proper brain developement I don't know.

[OuTaKeR]

Thanks guys. I appreciate the responses.

[QBert]

some drinks still contain sacharine, like Tab.

Sweet and Low is also Sacharine, while as mentioned previously, nutrasweet is aspartame.

A biology professor once told me that to consume the quanity of sacharine that caused cancer in rats in proportion to humans would be to drink a diet coke (used to contain sacharine, guess it's aspartame now) every 3 seconds over 25 months. That's how rediculous the dosages they were exposing the rats to. A human would die from drinking that quantity of water alone.

You continue to amaze me, Una.












With your flawless stupidity.








:p

[Obscure]

Originally posted by Unabomber
That somewhat reminds me about a survey that asked if a certain chemical should be banned. This is a very crude rehash of such a survey (many sources), describing that substance:

The substance can make a human being die of drowning with as little as one tablespoon.

The substance, when mixed with household solids, can form a dangerous electrically conductivity medium.

The substance can absorb other substances from the air, and corrode metals.

The substance, when exposed to electricity, produces a highly explosive gas.

The substance in its non-pure form, can damage electrical circuits with merely a few drops.

When a mouse is injected with a dose typically taken by a human, certain death occurs.

The substance will cause the depletion of electrolytes in humans, and repeated excess will cause certain death.

When mammalian cells are placed in this substance, they rupture, as the substance will travel through its membranes, and accumulate in such amounts, that the cells will burst.

In its supercritical form, the substance will easily destroy the hardest of steels in a matter of minutes.

When exposed to certain metal oxides, a potentially explosive reaction occurs.

The substance can be a reasonably plentiful source for one of the ingredients found in a bomb that is almost 1000 times as destructive as the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima.

Of course, they were referring to ordinary water, but one can see how such information can be used for fear mongering.

Bah, I was going to make similiar point but Una beat me to it. Injecting rats with huge dosages like that is just bad science I think. You inject too much of any substance into something or someone and of course it could probably kill you.

On another note, my dad freaked out when he heard about that and he didn't drink his favorite soda, Diet Pepsi, for a couple months. It was kind of funny.

[QBert]

Originally posted by Obscure
On another note, my dad freaked out when he heard about that and he didn't drink his favorite soda, Diet Pepsi, for a couple months. It was kind of funny.

Everyone freaked out. One of the highlights of the 80s for me were the nation-wide scares...
things like sacharine, red coloring #5, pop rocks + coke.

[OuTaKeR]

Thanks for the posts guys.

One more question: the methanol that is produced by drinking diet sodas...does it stay in the body for a while? Like is it fat soluable?

[YourFavoriteWeapon]

I have a question: Are there any other drinks like Fruit2O or Crystal Lite, but without the artifical sweetener? I know Gatorade has their water line, but is there anything else that is better than drinking soda/iced tea/etc. and has more flavor than water? Just looking for other substitutes - I drink Poland Spring water too.

[DarKCroW]

This is off topic, but i work at the movies, and i love it when ppl order popcorn with extra extra butter, then they order a diet pepsi to stay "healthy." ppl are so stupid.

[snaggle]

That's like the women who are trying to lose weight and watch what their intake levels are...yet they still drink several diet colas a day...it's like...Hi, I'm going to excersize a ton, and then not drink any water because water would make me look fat because it's not all absorbed back into my body immediately.

[QBert]

clearly canadian is awesome.

[Summer]

Originally posted by Obscure
On another note, my dad freaked out when he heard about that and he didn't drink his favorite soda, Diet Pepsi, for a couple months. It was kind of funny.

That's not as bad as when that 'don't drink Coke' nonsense came out a little after Sept 11th, and random people from everywhere freaked out when I bought a Coke anywhere.

Originally posted by YourFavoriteWeapon
I have a question: Are there any other drinks like Fruit2O or Crystal Lite, but without the artifical sweetener?

I don't know what it is about Crystal Lite, but I have never tasted any drink that taste as good as that. To stupidity of my own, I'm scared to drink that because I can't believe any drink can taste that good.

[Acharne]

lol, i've almost given up drinking anything that isn't crystal light =/

unless i'm out somewhere with friends or something, that's what i drink. when i'm out it's coca-cola classic.. but that doesn't seem to taste as good to me as it used to...

crystal-lite is the best evar :P, in fact i think i'm gonna go get me some now... i like how it comes in those little tubby things.. woot! yum!

umm.. yah, that water thing was cool una, i figure a lot of ppl would say ban it, stupid people. anyhow, off to get my crystal lite.

[blah]

Everyone freaked out. One of the highlights of the 80s for me were the nation-wide scares...
things like sacharine, red coloring #5, pop rocks + coke.

Wasn't it yellow-5 QB, or am I thinking of something else? I just remember people avoiding Mello Yellow like the plague cause it was supposed, well, you remember the rumors. :)

[QBert]

i remember that mellow-yellow rumor. :o

I'm almost positive it was red-#5 b/c that's why they took it out of the M&Ms.

[ElevatioN]

Originally posted by astralCow
Last night I had a dream.

I found myself in a desert called Cyberland. It was hot. My canteen had sprung a leak and I was thirsty.

Out of the abyss walked a cow - Elsie. I asked if she had anything to drink. She said, "I'm forbidden to produce milk. In Cyberland, we only drink Diet Coke."

quoting rent?? wierd