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What are the dangers of drinking diet soda with aspartame or splenda?

Is one safer than the other? Can I drink one diet soda a day and be safe??

Public Comments

1. Some say that they can cause cancer! but who knows...now days...everything causes cancer!
2. i think you will be fine drinking 1 diet soada a day, but don't drink to much aspartame or splenda, because it gives you really bad headaches and to much is bad for you.
3. Absolutely NO aspartame or any artifical sweeteners Aspartame, which goes by the name NutraSweet, will make you fat. All other artificial sweeteners including saccharin, Splenda, or anything else, should be avoided. If you want the full story read two books, Aspartame: Is it Safe? And Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills. Absolutely NO diet sodas or diet food Diet sodas have been called the “new crack” because they appear to be so physically addicting. They actually make you fat. The reason they are promoted so heavily is because people become physically addicted to them and they are cheaper to make than regular sodas. I did an interesting experiment with people who drank diet sodas on a regular basis. For two weeks they replaced their diet soda with regular high-calorie sugar sweetened soda. Amazingly, no one gained any weight. Even more shocking was 80 percent of the people actually lost weight. One person lost seven pounds! This was stunning to me. Diet foods fall into the same category. Do not eat anything that is being presented as a diet food. They are loaded with ingredients that will actually make you fatter, and make you physically addicted. For more tips on how to lose weight go to my site there is a link to it in my profile.
4. Well, as far as aspartame goes, one of the things it breaks down to when heat is applied is formaldehyde. So if you have a thing about heating up your diet soda before drinking it, I'm guessing Splenda would be better. Unless that is aspartame, in which case you're going to have to try a different hot caffeinated beverage. But I can't think of any off the top of my head...
5. I just find it a bit creepy that the only reason they are zero calories is because they're not 'real' and cannot be digested by the body. That always made me a bit wary....
6. well, if your a man it turns you into a woman, because you are on a really crappy attempt to loose weight. If your a girl, It just makes you into a retarded retard, who likes to try stupid dieting techniques in a crappy attempt to loose weight. If you want to diet just don't drink soda. Put down the can, and then the fork.
7. I used to drink ALOT of Diet Coke with Aspartame ...upwards of 12 cans per day, until I noticed I was forgetting things I always knew. Things like the word, "monitor" when looking at a computer monitor. I thought at fiirst I was just going "stoopid!", but someone told me that it's memory loss caused by Nutrasweet/Aspartame. When I cut out the Diet Coke and went back to regular Coke, within 30 days, my memory returned again and I've been fine ever since.
8. splenda might be okay but aspartame might cause some cancers
9. I'm pretty sure splenda = aspartame. aspartame, can be digested to produce phenylalanine. The naturally-occurring essential amino acid phenylalanine is a health hazard to those born with phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare inherited disease that prevents phenylalanine from being properly metabolized. Since individuals with PKU must consider aspartame as an additional source of phenylalanine, foods containing aspartame sold in the United States must state "Phenylketonurics: Contains Phenylalanine" on their product labels.