Don't drink that diet Pepsi Coke!

[Bruce McAuley]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060213093019.htm
Link

Scientists have finally let some lab rats live long enough to show that aspartame has a greater statistical incidence of causing cancer in older humans.
I've stayed away from that crap for many years.
Wasn't it Rumsfeld who was the leading proponent of getting aspartame certified as "safe" when Reagan was first installed in power?
25 years later, it's finally shown the stuff is poison, and how many people have died from complications of their favorite diet Pepsi Coke?
AAAARRRgggghhh!

Bruce

[acmavm]

1. Isn't it amazing how Rummy has his bloody fingers in so

many pies? Tamiflu, aspartame, whatever.

[havocmom]

2. Heard Rumsfeld made a fortune on nudging it throush FDA

Add some more to his 'kill count'.

[Richard D]

3. Mantra for good health

Repeat after me: The drug companies are not your friend. The chemical companies are not your friend. Laboratory created chemicals are not food. These chemicals are not your friend.

Eat certified organic. Eat close to the source. The less processing, the better. The less packaging the better. The closer to the ground, the better.

Good for your body, good for the planet.

[Johonny]

4. Nor are they your enemy

WANT TO HURT PEOPLE! Most are honest hard working Americans. There is no difference in a chemical made in a lab and one made in a plant. Heck many of the most deadly toxins and carcinogens come from Natural sources not Joe the Chemist. It's almost like Mr. plant doesn't want you to eat him. I wonder why that is...

[zonmoy]

5. The difference being

that we have evolve to counter and survive most plant toxins. Not so the artificial chemicals.

[trotsky]

7. Like we've evolved to "counter" and "survive" these?

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/publications/poison/poison.html

[zonmoy]

8. I didnt say anything about all plants

just the ones that are used as food.

[depakid]

6. I'd be less worried about aspartame

and more concerned with keeping my teeth and bones intact. The acid in diet soda leaches calcium from from your bones (causing osteoporosis) and destroys enamel on your teeth- quite independently of whatever your take on aspartame is. Drink enough of it over time, and your DEXA scan will show decreased bone density. No fun, breaking bones when you're older.

Here's an experiment you can do at home. Take the nastiest, grease covered old bolt you can find and leave it in cup of soda for a day or two. See what happens.

That's the stuff your body has to neutalize.

[Desertrose]

9. The taste alone is nasty enough....

why not just drink water...0 calories :) ( but can't vouch its chemical free though :( ).