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ORIGINAL: FelinePersuasion

Sia the whole point is for the snack to be good for you lol. Diet soda's the fake sugar in it has been prooven to cause cancer with some of the sugar brands. There's also no medical proof diet aids in weight loss, so all the people drinking it thinking it won't affect weight gain are operating on false belifes mostly

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ORIGINAL: Shymissa
As far as the claim that aspartame causes cancer this is in lab rats which ahve ben injected with incomprehensible levels of the chemical..these labratory studies are not indicitive of effects on humans. Now , i will say there is a link between aspartame and frequency of migraine headache but only a small precent of the population actually suffers from legitimate migraines.

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ORIGINAL: FelinePersuasion

I don't drink soda much. In the last year I've had like 5 soda's We just don't buy them. I prefere snapple and 100 percent juice's

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The reason I won't use cyclamates dates back to some discussions I had years ago with a friend of mine who was a neurosurgeon and he had described some of the lab results/photos/etc. that he had seen with his own eyes regarding the long term use of the stuff. That was enough to turn me off of it...

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ORIGINAL: MistressJadeMTL

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ORIGINAL: Shymissa
As far as the claim that aspartame causes cancer this is in lab rats which ahve ben injected with incomprehensible levels of the chemical..these labratory studies are not indicitive of effects on humans. Now , i will say there is a link between aspartame and frequency of migraine headache but only a small precent of the population actually suffers from legitimate migraines.

Actually, what I *said* was that I will not use *cyclamates* as sweeteners -- I do use aspartame as that is the main ingredient in Equal. As to the "pink" comment, I don't know about all of the States, but here in Canada, all of the pink or yellow fake sweetener packets contain cyclamates, only the blue (Equal) have aspartame, so I stick with the blue and/or carry my own when dining out.

The reason I won't use cyclamates dates back to some discussions I had years ago with a friend of mine who was a neurosurgeon and he had described some of the lab results/photos/etc. that he had seen with his own eyes regarding the long term use of the stuff. That was enough to turn me off of it...

(Just needed to clear up what I think was a misunderstanding of what I had written...)

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ORIGINAL: siamsa24

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The reason I won't use cyclamates dates back to some discussions I had years ago with a friend of mine who was a neurosurgeon and he had described some of the lab results/photos/etc. that he had seen with his own eyes regarding the long term use of the stuff. That was enough to turn me off of it...

I have seen similar photographs when dipping a little into neuroscience. The only reason I still use the stuff is beccause I can either be sick, fainty, shakey, etc from the sugar all the time, or I can suffer the long-term consequences (and don't even think about telling me to just cut out all sugar, I would die ). I prefer the long-term.

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Hmm yeah as far as brain scan photos...anyone here drink? Yeah, the long term effects of alcohol on brain tissue are far greater than the effects of artificial sweetners.

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Oh well, die young, make a pretty corpse (I forget who said that, but it's a quote from somewhere)

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or maybe just some nut butter eaten either directly from the jar or else on some low-carb bread or cracker.