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health advisory Diet Diet 2007-11-11 21:04:15

Answer:

Who said diet drinks/soda are bad for you? For people that are diabetic and have weight issues, artificial sweeteners can be beneficial. Both saccharin and aspartame have been extensively tested for safely issues. Yet you still hear scores of anecdotal reports claiming all sort of bizarre tales - like dissolving aluminum.

Drinking a diet soda or two a day isn't harmful and saves calories - drinking 6 or 8 or 10 is another story. Just make sure you drink plenty of water as well. The potential harm from refined sugars is greater than a couple of diet sodas a day.

Be well.

Rick the Pharmacist

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Somewhere I read that your body does not know how to break down the artificial sweeteners so they just pocket themselves in your body and just build up.

(of course I can't find the article now)

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Chemicals. Try the APPLE PATCH diet. Its worked well for a couple of people i know. Its all-natural unlike the diet pills, and is ideal for loosing like 10-40 lbs. If you wanna check out their site, its

http://www.applepatchdiet.com/ap16179/in...

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Even nurses drink diet drinks with no caffeine I can't see that they are all bad!

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I once drank diet sodas. I found out why they are bad;

I left a pack of Diet Coke on a shelf and forgot about them for about a month or so. When I saw something dripping from the cabinet, I opened it up and found the Cokes; it turns out, the bottom of the coke cans were all corroded; and a HUGE hole was under most of the cans; in some parts, a very thin layer of aluminum; Further inspection revealed that the aspartame ATE through the aluminum throughout all of those years. Think about it...what if your stomach lining was the aluminum can? and the aspartame ate through it; you'd have ulcers, internal bleeding all that bad internal stuff; which may lead to death.