awhile back there was a talk show on a christian station...they were talking about the artificial sweetners and diet pops....

I can't remember the gentleman's name speaking, but he was a doctor and a researcher...They did a research on the artifical sugar and regular sugar.. they placed a pile of each into an area covered with ants....the ants literally ran from the artifical sugar...What he was trying to get across was that the artifical sugars have a drop of siniade in them...it is sooo small that it is permissible to use...The doctor said that over time and using sooo much of it (because peopple have been given the wrong impression) that it causes cancer... some Diet pops also have this aspariton in it........

we had a friend that developed cancer down his throat lining...He also drank diet coke very heavely and was told by his doctor to quit drinking diet pops...

When my brother in law was sick and diagnosed with cancer the first thing the doctor said was do you drink Diet pop? Randy drank 3-5 diet cokes a day....

My DH smokes...when he went in for a check up his doctor (a different one) said he would rather my hubby smoke a pack a day than drink 1 diet pop a day....It was afterwards that my hubby told him about his brother.

Too many doctors are realizing that the sugar-free products are more harmful than we the public has been taught....especially the ones with asparitume (however that is spelled)...those really big words on the packages for ingredients are not what you think and should be put in terms we understand and spelled out for the common folks to understand

If you ever look at people who drink diet pop, you will notice that they slow down more and more as time goes by and that the so called diet
product in all actuality does the very opposite of why people started drinking them for...We get the impression that because it says diet, we won't take in the calories therefore helping not to gain weight....what it really does is slow down our metabolism so much we cannot burn the calories of the food we ingest....

I am not a doctor or nurse, I just thought you might like this bit of food for thought. that was publicised on tv...and hopefully someone will look more into it and change their outlook on it....