Anyone want diet coke?

**LimeSlice** · March 16th, 2008, 12:10 PM

After deciding to find out exactly what was in a packet of "Juicy Fruit" This is only some of what I found...

April 10th, 2006Health

ARTIFICAL SWEETENERS 950 AND 951

Hello Folks,
These sweeteners 950 and 951 are now used in the new Coca Cola Zero Sugar beverage.

The marketing decision of giving consumers ? A Great Taste? without the sugar input. There has been a lot of anti around sugar lately and the bottlers of Coca Cola have been under the spot light in NZ for the amount of Sugar in Coca Cola.

951 Aspartame is not new and is used world wide in approx 5000 to 6000 products. It is also used in Diet Coke. Generally used in products that are sugar free. There is a lot of negative press re this 951 eg literature that I have, published 2002, says that 951 accounts for over 75% of adverse reactions to food additives reported to the FDA ( US Food and Drug Administration )
In addition this literature lists under Potential Health Effects : Cancer, asthma, MS like symptons, headache, hyperactivity, fatigue,anxiety, dizziness, migraine, memory loss, depression, insomnia, irritability, impotence, epilepsy, blindness,diabetes, neuralgia, seizures,plus many others.

950 Acesulphame Potassium Acesulphame K is also used as an artificial sweetener, doesn?t seem to have as much negative press as Aspartame but Potential Heath Effects advise: May increase levels of cholestrol in blood, caused cancer and tumours in animals.

There are at least 4 US Court Cases lodged in 2004 fighting against Aspartame.
Search Google for Aspartame - there is no shortage of adverse publicity.

August 5th, 2007 at 6:13 pm

?Curiosity about the safety of Aspartame need go no further than the indisputable fact that each molecule of the sweetener turns into a molecule of Formaldehyde when metabolized in the human body. Enough said!?
Dr. Woodrow Monte Ph.D. ,University of Arizona, professor of Food Science, early investigator of aspartame, now residing in New Zealand.

Anyone for a Diet Coke?....
What is actually in the food we eat - more importantly - why dont most of us care to find out?

**Bathsheba** · March 16th, 2008, 01:20 PM

I agree, I think we all need to question what a life-time's ingestion of all these chemicals is doing to us. We often think the diets of our grandparents were 'unhealthy" but I personally feel they are often healthier simply because they didn't have the additives.

I don't touch fake foods if i can avoid it. I don't buy 'diet' products. It's the real deal for me and in moderation.