The Diet Drinks Health Paradox

Horgh · Banned Joined: 30 Jan 2008 Posts: 973

Turns out diet drinks, containing Aspartame (sugar substitute) kill you way faster than consuming real sugar.

[quote]The artificial sweetener aspartame has been the subject of public controversy regarding its safety and the circumstances around its approval. Many studies have recommended further investigation into the possible connection between aspartame and diseases such as brain tumors, brain lesions, and lymphoma. These findings, combined with alleged conflicts of interest in the approval process, have engendered vocal activism regarding the possible risks of aspartame.[/quote]

Full article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy

Also, aspartame is already banned from Germany.
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London · Moderator Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 6474

Solution: stop drinking soda.
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Horgh · Banned Joined: 30 Jan 2008 Posts: 973

Diet drinks anyway.

I drink ones with real sugar in them.
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Selphius · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 2:14 pm Post subject:

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

D:
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Brianhjh · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject:

I drank 3 cans of diet pepsi when I read this article, out of spite.

go fuck yourself.
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Horgh · Banned Joined: 30 Jan 2008 Posts: 973

[quote="Brianhjh"]I drank 3 cans of diet pepsi when I read this article, out of spite.

go spork yourself.[/quote]

Diet drinks are bullshit, with or without Aspartame.

Anyway, all you really did was feed that slowly growing brain tumor. Oh, what's that? Lymphoma? Now how did that happen.

Die nao, pl0x.
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Brianhjh · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject:

nothing cures everything, and nothing causes everything. If you read further, you'd have found out that all the links to diseases from aspartame is exaggerated and forced.

Chemically speaking, aspartame breaks down into handful of chemicals THAT ARE ALL COMMON WASTES THAT YOUR BODY METABOLISM MAKES ANYWAY. meaning that unless you have a metabolism deficiency, like being unable to break down phenylalanine (or something in the ballpark, I'm too tired to check), you're A-OK.

Aspartame has an extremely short half-life when the pH is above 5, it's only stable in cola or acidic beverages, once in the body, it breaks down. Also, because it's several hundred times sweeter than sugar, minuscule amount of aspartame is used anyway.

I think horgh is a pretty cool guy, eh is retarded as hell and doesn't afraid of anything.

also: Germany bans buddhist swastikas because looking similar means you are a nazi. Krauts don't know shit about banning stuff, they will probably ban insulin next.

Oh my god, that would totally kick ass.
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aquaeevee · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject:

congratulations you just proved to me that you have no sense of morals.
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Brianhjh · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:42 pm Post subject:

congratulations you are a dumbfuck.
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ThomYorke · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:23 pm Post subject:

If I wanted to live forever I wouldn't be a smoker
So, you know, fuck it. Diet coke tastes better than regular
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Brianhjh · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:32 pm Post subject:

They served regular pepsi at QSI today (Queen's Secularist and Inquirers club, yay atheists) it pissed me off so much, I biked to my dorm and drank two more cans of diet pepsi.
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