No. It has been a myth for many years. There are plenty of studies that show current artificial sweetners are perfectly safe. And taste is a matter of , well, taste.
I prefer diet soda...regular tastes like drinking syrup to me.
I drink a lot of the stuff, and contrary to this new scare mongering, my bad cholesterol is low, good cholesterol is high, blood sugar is right where it should be, blood pressure is low normal and resting heart rate is low. Guess what? I am also 250 Lbs at 6'. That makes me "obese".
Tell me again how diet soda or any other artificial sweetener is bad for me? It seems if the stuff was going to kill somebody it would kill a fat guy like me, yet despite being fat, I am healthier than most middle aged guys who are in the "normal" weight range.
Maybe all that diet pop is good for me??? LOL
It’s not things like cholesterol or blood pressure that people worry about with Aspartame, that’s never really been an issue. Aspartame has been shown to increase your risk for certain cancers like lymphoma, brain lesions and brain cancer, and it generally has toxic properties and in large amounts can cause things like your hair falling out and anemia. It is broken down and forms things like formaldehyde and methanol, and does a lot of other weird things.
All this is still controversial of course and I don’t like to be the health nazi when I do a lot of bad stuff myself, but I figure why risk it when it tastes bad anyway thats all I was saying, your ingesting an unnatural chemical. Why not just drink iced tea or coffee if you need caffeine.