Diet coke health risk

Ever since it became public that Diet Coke may adversely influence dieting people and assist people in breaking their diets, more and more people voice their own experiences in regards to the Diet Coke phenomenon. The current awareness campaign regarding aspartame is really not helping. The Coca-Cola Company started with some damage control by providing Diet Coke sweetened with Splenda and the new Diet Coke Plus but the failure to abandon aspartame is keeping the rumor mill running and the reports on Diet Coke as a health risk are just increasing.Although Diet Coke, together with the available variations, remains the market leader, the aspartame controversy continues to rattle on the good name of the company. The problems started even before aspartame was approved by the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration, when the approval was issued in 1974, then again withdrawn in 1980 when a Public Board of Inquiry and surrounding concerns over some research data warranted a withdrawal. Despite this fact, the Commissioner revoked the decision by the Board and approved aspartame without serious basis. The fact that the very same Commissioner a short while later, after leaving office, joined the company Searle, the company where aspartame was invented and sold as NutraSweet, and got awarded a very lucrative public relation medical consultant job, just fueled corruption concerns and conspiracy theories.Ever wilder theories and assumptions are being propagated on the internet, some even started by the company itself, in order to ridicule any claims. A scientific fact is that aspartame upon ingestion depletes into formic acid, formaldehyde and methanol that are all highly toxic elements and can cause significant damages in higher dosages. Phenylalanine is another element which is a product of the aspartame breaking down; this amino acid is closely related to adrenaline and is used as analgesic and anti-depressant, which would explain to some extent how people can feel addicted to Diet Coke. To scientifically prove that Diet Coke is in fact a health hazard and that it causes any disease is not easy. Someone would need to finance a scientific study and evaluate a tremendous amount of data, in order to ban an artificial sweetener that is extremely cheap to produce. It is questionable how far such a research would be made available to the broad public and if the financing body would be impartial.Nevertheless, private citizen have reported various actual problems with Diet Coke and actual dieting, something that has been proven by scientific research, and besides that fact, it is everyone's own choice to drink or not to drink Diet Coke or consume any other potentially damaging product.

Linus Orakles
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