NEWS: Aspartame: Sweet Taste of Cancer?

Of course, this study was based on feeding aspartame to pre-natal rats. I'm not saying that aspartame isn't something to worry about, but I'm pretty sure that most fetuses would develop serious problems when fed a bunch of crazy shit (that's a scientific term). The media has way over-hyped this story, but it clearly warrants further research.

When asked for comment, neither Bush nor Rumsfeld could say whether they enjoyed the new taste of Diet Coke. Mouth cancer is suspected for the silence...

I ♥ sugar.

http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/bwinx.asp

Oops, bottled water ain't safe either.

You're not looking hard enough. Try aquamaestro.com.

fuck it all diet coke taste good and there's not one fact in this article. how much would you have to drink in order to get cancer. whatever happen to doin stuff cuz it feels good fuck the consequences.

The cancer doesn't bother me as much as the hypertension. Blood pressure while I drank diet pop: 180/128. Two weeks after I stopped: 127/86. The five or seven extra pounds I put on from switching back to normal pop, waaay worth it. And now I'm even cutting normal pop off.

If I remember correctly there was speculation about the aspertame that was used in soldiers MRE's during the first gulf war, and an increase in occurence of mini strokes.

This shit is also used in a some diet/health products such as protein bars, energy bars, diet bars, and protein shakes.

Forget aspartame...this is the real dangerous shit:
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

Can someone just give me a simple breakdown by brand on that?

Have fun dying at 40. Maybe Heaven won't have an essay test.

I knew that years ago... diet drinks are often far less healthy than the original product and it's often the aspartame that they put in that fucks the whole thing up.

I'm glad I drink more tea than soda (:

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I was drinking Diet Pepsi for a while after I was first diagnosed with IBS. My vision started going to shit and I was getting mysterious headaches. I quit drinking it, and voila, no more vision problems or headaches. Then I started doing some research and found out how toxic most artifical sweeteners are. I can only hope that the rest of the world catches on before they all get poisoned so that someone else can get rich..

iirc... aspartame was originally created as an insecticide. I've used it successfully to kill whole mounds of fire ants (liquid nutra-sweet and powdered equal).

+1 lol

I have a feeling this has more to do with the notion "If I drink diet soda, I can gorge myself on this greasy, deep-fried bacon-cheeseburger" than anything actually in the soda.

Great! I'm diabetic and drink lots, I mean LOTS of diet sodas. That's alright, I really didn't want to live a long time anyway...

now that's a huge surprise, isn't it?

How is this news ?

I know, right?

I kind of wish there were "Not For Me" voting buttons on news stories.

Ask the gay population of southern California in the early eighties.