Sam's choice soda

[otctrader]

Preferred by trailer trash across the country! Am I the only cheapass who drinks this stuff? It's overcarbonated, but frankly I don't mind the taste vs. Coke or Pepsi and save myself 10 bucks a week with my diet soda addiction.

[Filet O' Fish]

What you should really be concerned about besides the money you're saving, is the poisons they put in diet soda. I am dead serious about this. Also, the so called "diet" ingredients actually have the opposite effect. If you were to stop drinking all diet sodas and replace them with regular soda, you would in fact lose weight. Remember, artificial sweeteners are man made chemicals and cause all kinds of health problems including damage to the brain and nervous system.

If you want to learn more I recommend two books: Aspartame, Is it Safe? and Excitotoxins, The Taste That Kills both written by medical doctors. Word is born.

[rusellmj]

Aspartame, in the artificial sweetner, is known to cause brain swelling. Which is why I get severe headaches when I drink or even eat products with nutrasweet. I have no idea how my friend drinks so much of it. Avoid.


Russ

[Caruso329]

*Sigh* silly conspiracy theorists...

Aspartame is safe.

[pshreck]

Wanna try something truly awful? Diet sodas without aspartame. Its basically soda that you can easily tell has no calories.

[PoBoy321]

I love generic sodas. I currently have a refrigerator filled with Safeway Select Cola and it is delicious.

[rusellmj]

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*Sigh* silly conspiracy theorists...

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*Sigh* silly lambs eating whatever you give them...


Russ

[Caruso329]

A lamb? Please you can be more original than that. I don't drink diet soda, but without substantial proof, why should I believe something I read on the internet that wasn't published by a credible source? Also, just because something is written in a book doesn't mean it's true.

[rusellmj]

This is from the link you provided.

Carefully controlled clinical studies show that aspartame is not an allergen. However, certain people with the genetic disease phenylketonuria (PKU), and pregnant women with hyperphenylalanine (high levels of phenylalanine in blood) have a problem with aspartame because they do not effectively metabolize the amino acid phenylalanine, one of aspartame's components. High levels of this amino acid in body fluids can cause brain damage. Therefore, FDA has ruled that all products containing aspartame must include a warning to phenylketonurics that the sweetener contains phenylalanine.

Do I really need to post a greatest hits list of drugs confirmed safe by the FDA and then recalled years later?

If you're so comfortable with it, drink up.

Russ

[Caruso329]

Personally I think that the taste of diet soda is one of the most disgusting things I've tasted (that was meant to be edible), so I don't drink it unless there's nothing else to drink.

I concede.