"...and if you think sushi tastes a lot like bait, you're hopelessly midwestern..." -- Joel MabusI resemble that remark.
...people who drank one or more soft drinks a day, including diet soda, were 48% more likely to have conditions that lead to heart disease. The thousands of participants of the study had a 31% increased likelihood of becoming obese, a 25% increased risk of high blood sugar, and a higher risk for low levels of "good" cholesterol, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times.I've been trying to switch to Splenda diet soft drinks, which is not easy, because the only thing left on the market around here is Diet Rite, which I like just fine, but I miss Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi and some other things. I've read that aspertame metabolizes as formaldehyde in the body, which can't be good.
The methanol in aspartame is converted by the body into formaldehyde, but the amount is so small that the liver easily eliminates it. You get more than three times the amount of methanol (and therefore more formaldehyde) from a 12 oz. apple juice than you do from a 12 oz. soft drink using aspartame. I knew guys who enjoyed drinking straight methanol martinis and lived to be old men. There are better things to worry about.