For those still convinced a Diet Coke a day is ok...

[G-Mom]

Re: For those still convinced a Diet Coke a day is ok...

I am not going to live my life in fear of pop for god sakes! Every five seconds something else is going to kill me. I see nothing wrong with drinking mostly water and one or two cans of pop a day. I am just not going to stress out about that.

[bigdave]

Re: For those still convinced a Diet Coke a day is ok...

I don't think you should drink loads of any sort of carbonated drinks, but this article is such blatant, sensationalist, bleeding-heart, scaremongering propaganda that I almost couldn't bring myself to read it - these articles make me so cross. No offense to you Maribelle, it is an interesting read, and I intend to look at some more articles at a later time.

This 'true story' is not based on any scientific studies, though I am sure if the author took 5 seconds to read a few articles on the internet they probably could have found some.
The western world today is controlled by fear - I have come to believe that the authorities realise that they remain in power by inventing an invisible enemy that they can protect us from: keeping us in a ready state of low-level fear, anxiety and general worry.

It seems that as soon as someone publishes a study saying that something is good for you, the next week, another study will say it's bad for you: look at omega fish oils - they were lauded as being extremely beneficial to your health, but then a few weeks ago, I saw a few programmes saying that they weren't as great as everyone first thought, and may not have any beneficial effect on health. There is the ongoing debate about whether or not we should take vitamins. Swordfish, marlin and tuna contain high levels of mercury apparently, though we used to be quite happy to put it into our dental cavities.

You can never tell what's round the corner, so I reckon you should just try to eat as much fresh, organic, locally produced foods as possible - when was the last scare story you heard about spinach?

Carboholic - almost as if to validate your theory about the government trying to make us live in fear, the spinach e. coli craze comes out like 2 months after this post! Too crazy/funny/depressing!

Let's just all stuff ourselves up in a cave

dave

[presidentholmes]

Re: For those still convinced a Diet Coke a day is ok...

Wow.
If the worst you do is drink a Pepsi Max, I think you're doin ok.
Live a little!