Diet Coke Turns 30! Do You Drink the Stuff?

actually your information is incorrect. there has been ZERO cases which link sweetners and cancer. the reports that are sighted in the studies you have likely read even state that the cancers reported are found in people OVER the age of 70 in 98% of teh people and the other 2% have other factors.

I am a type 1 diabetic so I have a entire team of Nutritionists and Endrocronilgists who I see regularly and every one of them are good with soda (they ragg on my caffine habbit but admit I would have the same issue drinking tea or coffee)

You should read up on the articles writen for the AMA and other health orginizations and stop believeing what you read in a post by a site that is paid to have a negitive spin

Believe what you want. I have done far more research then the average person is capable of completing in their lifetime. I have reviewed the scientific finding on this topic from all aspects, including the AMA and mainstream health organizations. Better yet, I have also researched the influences behind these organizations and who controls the flow of money for research and the release or coverup of specific findings. They are not to be trusted. Your nutritionists likely dont have a clue what they are doing. Most dont because they have been trained in medical schools dominated by Rockefeller Foundation funding and other organizations who profit from illness. I know doctors who would drastically reverse the complications of diabetes within a years time.

And the first studies using apartame created brain tumors in almost all test subjects, even when given in combination with milk, which is known to lower the absorption rate of the chemicals in aspartame. They had to redo the study three different times and cut out the tumors from the brains of the subjects to cover up the development of tumors.

OMG do you really think I could believe anything you say... You are so out of your league... you can NOT reverse type 1 diabetes its an autoimmune issue. You should at least have googled it before you started your little I know more than you rant. Type 1 is NOT curible because the medical world has yet to be able to replace the "organ" which controls insulin secreation and production in the body and until then no one with type 1 is going to get cured in a year... go away now and dont come back until you can lie better about what you pretend you know

Never have! Never will!

Used to,until I saw diet soda give my Sister's ex kidney stones multiple times and it gave my grandma bladder cancer. So I switched to regular soda in moderation.

Do not drink any soda sweetened with G.M.O. corn syrup. Which is MOST soda/sugar drinks bottled in America. Buy Mexican coke as it has real cane sugars in it. Jarritos is another soda with no cornsyrup. ALL of these products are no longer sweetened with sugar, they are sweetened with CornSyrup which comes from G.M.O. corn. G.M.O. Corn causes organ failure, cancers, major reproductive harm and causes sterility in lab subjects.

I would avoid soda altogether. Josh Robinson is correct. GM High Fructose Corn Syrup is extremely damaging, linked to cancer, organ failure etc, and known to contain high levels or mercury. I suggest only drinking water (not containing fluoride and filtered through reserve osmosis or another form of water purification).

Never have. Never will.

i dont like. plus its worst then regular soda pop ...

I can't stand the taste of Diet Sodas.. any of them!

Just tastes like bad coke, and contains harmful additives.

But I prefer it to be fresher than 30 years old.

No, but I get a kick out of a lot of the folks who do lol.

Exactly! The old... i'll have a double quarterpounder meal supersized... oh yeah and a diet coke. I'm watching my girlish figure.

Fake sugar is disgusting.

I hate any type diet soda

For some reason prefer coke zero though

Even though they are basically the same thing, I only have it as a treat though, it's not healthy for regular use, but I'd say once every two weeks I buy a can.

Tastes good be it will rot your brain

better than regular coca cola

though I prefer diet pepsi

Tried it once, and threw up

WOW I'm 2 years older than Diet Coke and 1 year older than MTV. Thanks for making me feel over the hill.

Yes

Sometimes

diet pop is worse for you then the sugared kind

I LOVE THE TASTE OF IT

No!Leaves a bad taste in my mouth~~~

Aspartame is a neural toxin/poison. Thus,:

ummm maybe you should read up.... Aspartame is the combination of two naturally occuring amino acids which you find in most every food you eat (yeah even ORGANIC). the claims about artificial sweetners causing cancers and working as toxins has proven faulse over the last few decade and no related case of cancer has been reported linked directly to sweetners...

http://health.usnews.com/heal...

http://www.medicinenet.com/sc...

I am not saying drink or eat the stuff I am just saying that being afraid too is not rational. In fact the sugar alcohols (aka polyol, polyhydric alcohol, polyalcohol, or glycitol) used in "sugar free" foods are actually WORSE for you as they are very hard on the digestive system and cause gas, bloating and painful cramps as well as other even worse symptoms.

I have been going through this post and you are the first one to report the truth that i have known for many years.
Yes, Aspartame was found accidentally when a researcher mixed two amino acids together and tasted them and they were sweet.
I like the info about stevia and the fact that it might alter your genes.

I know what I am saying because I am a type 1 diabetic and my food/drink condsumtion is can mean life or death for me. i work with many health proffessionals to stay well and while all of tehm give me crap about the amount of caffine i consume (which is why I drink soda, tea and coffee) all of them agree on the no so dangerous sweetners.

I've 'read-up' and my conclusion stands. There are some "amino-acids" that should never be combined. Rumsfeld re-wrote the "book" on 'tricks' getting this through the FDA.

okay your POLITICAL bias is showing so this is an dead end conversation as you can not seperate healtha nd politics tehre is no point but like I said I wasn't trying to convince you to consume the stuff just trying to give you MEDICAL/SCIENTIFIC facts and you rater just turn this intoa debate on which political side is trying to kill you.

The climate I live in makes me simply not want anything like it. So not very much, if at all.

Sure, diet coke is so much better tasting than diet pepsi.

Wow interesting its as old as me my top choice.
5 years today the only soda I drink quite often.

I don't drink diet pop

I don't usually drink Coke products but if I was drinking one, I would much rather have Coke Zero than Diet Coke.

oh god no. Horrible horrible stuff...

Almost every day.