Saturday, July 11, 2009

Diet coke danger

Quite recently a study was published where Diet Coke has been described as detrimental to a diet regime, because the fake sugar seems to cause food cravings, leading to excessive binging, thereby rendering all the dieting efforts useless. Interestingly enough, the release of enzymes, which is required when real sugar is ingested, does not take place, rendering this observation borderline unbelievable and bogus. But on the internet, regular people have started to post their own experiences with Diet Coke and dieting regimes and suddenly it is obvious that something must be fishy in the Diet Coke land.Aspartame, the artificial sweetener used in Diet Coke, is blamed for the most of the problems. Some blame caffeine as well, but caffeine is found in dozens of other products, from coffee and tea to some nuts, beans, leaves and energy drinks. Caffeine should not be blamed for anything else but the psychoactive stimulation of the central nervous system. On the other hand, aspartame breaks down in several toxic elements upon ingestion, like methanol, formaldehyde and formic acid. Formic acid is the same acid which is in the bee sting and if someone is allergic to bee stings, then Diet Coke is not supposed to be drunk. Methanol and formaldehyde, with help of the formic acid, are known to wreck havoc on the optic nerve, whereby methanol is widely known as causing blindness already in small doses; just some more of it causes instant death. Formaldehyde is a known to cause cancer and although liver may be able to manage the daily dosage imbibed with Diet Coke, long term effects cannot be evaluated as of yet. Aspartame is in use barely over twenty years and no study has been done to evaluate the long term effect of aspartame when regularly ingested for a prolonged amount of time.Phenylalanine, which is another element that breaks off aspartame, is a known natural anti depressant, closely related to adrenaline and in large amounts is known to be interfering with the serotonin production. The effects have not yet been scientifically evaluated, but people who are professional dietitians have observed that diets which are accompanied by Diet Coke intake have an adverse effect on weight loss, in some cases weight gain was observed. Although scientists dispute these findings, independent sources in privately held community forums and dietitians not affiliated with some scheme have reported the same phenomenon. The danger of Diet Coke is yet to be scientifically proven, but the evidence available condemns the use of aspartame as the artificial sweetener. Perhaps the Diet Coke sweetened with Splenda should be made available everywhere instead of this potentially hazardous beverage.
Linus Orakles
http://www.authorclub.info/

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