Posted on 02/12/2006 7:22:02 PM PST by neverdem
Like I needed a reason not to drink diet soda(other than the fact it tastes horrible).
Artificial sweeteners make me feel depressed. I've given it several attempts -- and without exception, I get depressed.
You oughta try chatting!
My husband loves the stuff. I do the wifely nag thing every now and then, what's wrong with water, or tea, or selzer, if you don't want the calories?
These are probably cancer-prone rats, but still the amounts of aspartame consumed are only 5 to 10 times what a normal person might drink.
Mrs VS
I drink way too much Diet Coke. Three liters per day is not too uncommon. For anything artificial that is just too much. Guess I should cut it out...cold turkey.
I can drink black coffee but it just doesn't have fizz!
If they phase out Diet Coke for Coke Zero it will cure my diet drink addiction fast. I can't abide Coke Zero.
I gave up any kind of sugar or sweetener, including corn syrup, years ago.
I drink plain seltzer water now.
The other day I was at the supermarket looking at what the person ahead of me was buying:
Bottles filled with bright colored liquids--bright reds, pelican-puke greens, etc.--sugar water masquerading as a harmless drink.
Salted dried chips, processed garbage of every description.
Ugh!
Not to mention all the chemicals and crap in the bread and other sturff he was buying.
No wonder supermarkets have so many pills and remedies in their over-the-counter medicine aisle.
Aspartame gives me an instant headache. I avoid it like the plague.
I use Splenda. It is indistinguishable from sugar.
Guess I'll stick with seltzer. I don't like regular soda has high fruitose corn sweetner. What about splenda?
I miss the Coca-colas from my childhood, when they used cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. It used to burn going down - man was it good!
Now that at least one study has demonstrated that aspatame may cause cancer, California regulations will mandated food items containing aspartame no carry the "may cause cancer" label. Anyone who now gets cancer in California can now sue the heck out of the soft drink companies. It could be the next 'asbestos' in trial litigation.
Diet Rite with Splenda is awesome.
I switched to flavored seltzers some years back, I just didn't like the taste of diet and sugar was out of the question.
Some folks think they're an acquired taste.
Adirondack
Citrus, Lemon-Lime, Mandarin-Orange, Raspberry-Lime, and Wildberry
1-liter bottles
2-liters bottles (no citrus)
Boylans Lemon Seltzer 12 oz Bottle
Boylans Orange Seltzer 12 oz Bottle
Canada Dry Mandarin-Orange
Lemon-Lime Raspberry Black Cherry
1-liter bottles, 2 liter and cans
White Rock Lemon-Lime
Faygo in Orange
Lemon-Lime Raspberry Black Cherry
1 and 2 -liter bottles
Cap-10 in orange, wild berry, cherry, lemon, lime, and cranberry raspberry liter and half liter six paks
Cheers!
Thanks for the ideas and alternatives.
Feed rat batch #2 the same quantity of refined sugar.
Let's see which rats die first.
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