Diet fizzy drinks - risks?

Uriel said:
Personal experience - not peer reviewed obviously - but I used to get recurrent headaches. Someone suggested it might be all the diet coke I was drinking. Stopped drinking it and the headaches stopped (i.e went to several a week to not getting them regularly at all).

I'll occasionally have small quantities of aspartame and it doesn't effect me but on the occasions I have larger quantities, I still sometimes get unpleasant effects.

Never noticed a problem with other artificial sweeteners.
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And yet no evidence for this, yet plenty of evidence for caffeine induced headaches in some people.

Same as the anti msg brigade, study after study of double blind trials and msg "sensitive" people fail it.
 
Was about to say is it the aspartame that people are having issues with or the large amounts of caffeine in coke?

I get withdrawal headaches from coffee, i know this is the caffeine and not the water or sugar content so why to people assume its aspartame?
 
Boycey0211 said:
Was about to say is it the aspartame that people are having issues with or the large amounts of caffeine in coke?

I get withdrawal headaches from coffee, i know this is the caffeine and not the water or sugar content so why to people assume its aspartame?
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Because it's a chemical name that people assume is the cause of everything.

Chemicals are bad yo!
 
itchy said:
http://www.medicaldaily.com/4-dangerous-effects-artificial-sweeteners-your-health-247543

seems legit misquoting sources

http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-suppl...dientid=40&activeingredientname=sunflower oil

my beard itches. Webmd - beard cancer. Terrible website built for hypochondriacs

http://www.msgtruth.org/body.htm

seems rather unbiased

http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/msg-affect-health-1095.html

nothing more than clickbait no facts but lots of adverts

https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/how-high-fructose-corn-syrup-damages-your-body

fructose isn't what we're arguing here.

I could go on but its getting late. MSG is the hardest to eliminate as its in oxo and other tasty things. :(
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Especially when proper studies that directly compared aspartame to sucrose. Found sucrose slightly heightened blood pressure, while aspartame slightly lowered blood pressure. Yet his link says the opposite.
 
The honey badgers are out in force tonight I see. :D

If you know anything about chemistry or read about it, then you will know aspartame breaks down in the body to?

Methanol, aspartic acid (the stuff that hurts when bitten by an ant) and formaldehyde. :eek:
Great chemicals they are to ingest. :rolleyes:
 
Boycey0211 said:
Was about to say is it the aspartame that people are having issues with or the large amounts of caffeine in coke?

I get withdrawal headaches from coffee, i know this is the caffeine and not the water or sugar content so why to people assume its aspartame?
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for me personally, caffeine is fine in terms of headaches in my experience. I tried drinking coke life (the green one with stevia and no aspartame) which didn't bring headaches but that was disgusting to drink. I'm also fine with heavy caffeine drinks, not that I drink much of that anymore.

At the end of the day a balanced diet is likely better for everyone and some people will just react better after a change of diet.
 
Guess what meat breaks down to? Guess what other food breaks down to.

That's right those exact same things. So I hope you simply don't eat. You are easily mislead by such sites.

As a product of normal metabolism, formaldehyde has been documented to be naturally present in many common food items, including fruits and vegetables, meats, fish, crustacea and dried mushrooms etc., at a wide range of levels (
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It is worth noting that phenylalanine occurs naturally in many protein-rich foods, such as milk, eggs and meat.
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Foods high in aspartic acid
http://nutritiondata.self.com/foods...4,4,5,42,16,17,15,3,6,2,7,11,19,21,12,10,8,22


So yeah, you don't know chemistry.
 
Glaucus said:
Guess what meat breaks down to? Guess what other food breaks down to.

That's right those exact same things. So I hope you simply don't eat.





Foods high in aspartic acid
http://nutritiondata.self.com/foods...4,4,5,42,16,17,15,3,6,2,7,11,19,21,12,10,8,22


So yeah, you don't know chemistry.
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In what amounts? and what about methanol which the body cannot break down?

I know we eat radioactive bananas etc. I have looked under every stone over food and I just don't eat much as I know most of it is ****!
 
I'm not saying aspartame isnt bad, I'm saying people might be getting the withdrawal symptoms from caffiene mixed up with evil chemicals.

Could probably find 50 links or something for that but whats the point lol
 
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