Posted on 04/18/2011 11:49:59 AM PDT by Perdogg
If the adverts are to be believed there are a number of benefits to a Diet Coke break. And now research has discovered one more. Diet fizzy drinks and other artificially-sweetened beverages do not cause diabetes as previously thought, a study has shown.
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OK, what don’t you like about the way chickens are grown?
Huh? Phenylalanine used in aspartame is not the same phenylalanine found in just about every protein? Aspartic acid used in aspartame is different than the aspartic acid found in chicken? Methanol from apple juice is not the same as the methanol used in aspartame? What in the world have you been reading?
yes after all a little formaldehyde never hurt anyone, right?
Do you realize that every fermented beverage contains methanol? Do you believe that apple juice and apple cider are bad for you too? If so, then you'd also have to believe that orange juice, tomato juice and a glass of red wine or a beer every now and then is also toxic. That's not rational. Your liver readily and easily deals with all sorts of toxins and has no problem eliminating the very small amount of methanol found in a Diet Coke...or a glass of fruit juice.....or a glass of red wine.....or a beer.
The effects of those chemicals in the body is not hysteria, its quite well documented.
Why do you fight so hard to consume a chemical? What is wrong with eating natural foods?
“OK, what don’t you like about the way chickens are grown?”
Other than the fact the factory chickens can’t walk because their breast meat is so heavy and legs under developed?
The fact they are grown in cages just large enough for their body, but not big enough for them to move around.
Or that they are fed so many hormones?
Take turkeys for example. The mass produced ones have such distorted bodies they cannot physically mate. So people have jobs to harvest the semen and artificially inseminate the female. yeah thats the way God intended it.
Are you sure you want to argue that methanol isn’t a poison?
You probably like MSG on your food too.
Yes, that’s very nice. But your apparent sympathy for the social life of chickens has very little do do with their imagined ill effects from consuming the little creatures.
You do realize, don't you, that all foods, natural or otherwise, are made up of chemicals? Natural foods contain phenylalanine, aspartic acid and methanol. You consume aspartame every day and don't realize it. And you'll probably live a long and healthy life in spite of it.
The effects of those chemicals in the body is not hysteria, its quite well documented.
You can find information on the interent that will adhere to any preconceived notion or fixed point of view you wish to hold. The charlatans are everywhere and far too many folks believe what they write. Fear of aspartame serves as just another example.
Are you aware that you cannot survive without glutamate? Did you know that the average human body has about 4lbs. of glutamate in it at any given time? Your central nervous system cannot develop or function without it. Mother's milk is loaded with glutamate (someone save the babies!!) and tomatoes, chicken, shrimp, corn, parmesan cheese, mushrooms and eggs are all examples of foods that contain glutamate naturally.
You get about 10 times more glutamate from naturally occurring sources than you do from added sources.
There are people (some even on this forum) who swear they are allergic to glutamate even though they can't sustain life without it. Silly people are everywhere and they believe the most ridiculous things.
Are you sure you want to argue that the dosage doesn't make the poison?
Do you realize that water has an LD50?
“Why do you fight so hard to consume a chemical? What is wrong with eating natural foods?”
Do you have no response to the fact that these chemicals and many others are present in greater numbers in ‘natural foods?’
I don’t know that I fight so hard. I am just making some comments on a thread. It’s not my life goal or anything.
I enjoy my Diet Coke!
Cheers!
Don’t you want to die healthy?
LOL!
It also effects the taste. Perhaps you don’t mind rubber chicken but I do.
Yes there are charlatans everywhere. Many of them are selling laboratory experiments as food.
“Are you sure you want to argue that the dosage doesn’t make the poison?”
Sure and there is a difference in how those chemicals are introduced to the body and whether they are metabolized or not.
“You get about 10 times more glutamate from naturally occurring sources than you do from added sources.”
Depends on the natural source. I know what happens when I eat foods which have MSG in them, or when I use any one of the many products. Its not good and its effects are real. MSG is used to make crappy food taste better, if ya eat real food you don’t need MSG.
Your actions to minimize its effects mark you as someone who profits from it.
I have no idea what this means. The dosage making the poison is a fact that has been understood by scientists for a long, long time. There are toxic chemicals in many of the foods you eat every day (and that includes natural foods).
Potatoes contain arsenic. Benzene is found in butter, coffee and roasted meats. Cooking bacon crispy will create one of the most carcinogenic compounds known. Carrots contain aniline and caffeic acid. Acetaldehyde is found in apples and tomatoes. Nuts are loaded with aflatoxin. Lima beans contain cyanide and the list goes on. Even so, these trace chemicals are easily cleared by the liver. I hope you never eat any of these things.
Better not eat any beef, fish or poultry. Whatever you do don't eat any fruits or vegetables. And please stay away from wine, beer and all fruit juices. Eating those things means you're eating lots of aspartame, and a whole bunch of other dangerous chemicals. Those foods ain't natural either, right?
And whatever you do don't drink the water. It's got chlorine and fluoride in it. You could always live on air....except that even the air has benzene in it. How have you managed to survive all this time?
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