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Diet coke causes MS?

I've always avoided artificial sweeteners for the simple reason that they taste like pee-pee.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
If coke had a pH of 2, I suspect that strong of an acid might hurt your mouth.

While there is hydrochloric acid in the stomach to break food down, most absorption takes place in the intestines where the stomach acids are neutralized. Only a few substances like alcohol are absorbed from the stomach.

Stomach acid does play a role in a number of digestive mechanisms like triggering the enzyme Pepsin and triggering other digestive processes. But unless you are anemic or have some other medical problem, most people do just fine on H2 blockers which decrease stomach acids and treat GERD. (GERD can lead to esophageal cancer.)

Excessive consumption of antacids is another matter. The calcium chloride and aluminum hydroxide that are in antacids bind with a number of substances and affect their absorption.

The phosphoric acid in some sodas, when taken in excess may result in decreased calcium absorption which can be bad for people with osteoporosis or kidney problems. (WebMD article) Note that just because something is an acid doesn't mean it is a strong acid. And the acid in your stomach is a very strong acid so I don't see how drinking more acid would matter (except in your mouth and esophagus which are not made to tolerate strong acid).


None of this has anything to do, however, with the false claims that the aspartame in diet soda causes any disease.
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Excess of everything is said to be bad. We do have good controlling mechanism but still some limit should be there when system cen weaken or compromised. Acid, base & water balance, being constitutions/environmental to us, should be first looked & attended.
 
Eos of the Eons said:
You still have no clue about stomach acid. Why not? Then, once the nutrients get broken down and end up in the blood, the blood pH is tightly controlled and not affected by what food was like before it was subjected to the acid bath of your stomach and crazy environment of the duodenum. I suggest you look up the digestive system for starters. Then learn about the blood.
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Tightly controlled does not mean this mechanism can't be compromised or weaken due to ecvessive insults. One should avoid excessive hammering to maintain the head & brain.

Simply, Diet coke is not natural to us, so certainly cause unnatural effects to us.
 
Probably, it may not cause unnatural effects when we shall be evolved to it after consistent use for prolonged time(genarations) then it can also be considered as natural to us,:)
 
Kumar said:
Tightly controlled does not mean this mechanism can't be compromised or weaken due to ecvessive insults. One should avoid excessive hammering to maintain the head & brain.

Simply, Diet coke is not natural to us, so certainly cause unnatural effects to us.
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Of course it can be compromised. But, normal consumption of Diet Coke has shown to not cause any effects. Whether or not something is naturally occurring has no bearing on its effects. Arsenic and cyanide are both natural - cyanide is produced in the pits of apples in very small quantities, for example - but they both produce extremely harmful effects on the human body.

On the other hand, there are natural things that can cause the same or sometimes worse damage to the body such as water intoxication or the sun's radiation in regards to skin cancer.
 
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Harpyja said:
Of course it can be compromised. But, normal consumption of Diet Coke has shown to not cause any effects. Whether or not something is naturally occurring has no bearing on its effects. Arsenic and cyanide are both natural - cyanide is produced in the pits of apples in very small quantities, for example - but they both produce extremely harmful effects on the human body.

On the other hand, there are natural things that can cause the same or sometimes worse damage to the body such as water intoxication or the sun's radiation in regards to skin cancer.
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Excess is bad when anything is in excess.I don't think that a single molecule of any substance can be toxic but it is quantity which matter. So in this sense, substances may not be toxic materials or ***sionous material but its degree & quantity matters. All things & being should be natural i.e. created by nature, but I mean "natural to us" i.e. to which we have inherant sense of wrong and right and to which our body can process & metabolize, pre-informed.
 
Kumar said:
Excess is bad when anything is in excess.I don't think that a single molecule of any substance can be toxic but it is quantity which matter. <snip gibberish>
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As opposed to the homeopathetic one molecule, which would be so toxic it would cause instant death.
 
Sledge said:
I'll take your word for it, I've never looked into them.
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"...recent study, which included more than 18,000 people, found healthy adults who consumed at least one diet drink a day could increase their chance for weight gain."

"A Purdue University study released Sunday in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience reported that rats on diets containing the artificial sweetener saccharin gained more weight than rats given sugary food"

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=4271246&page=1
 
Homeopathic thiotimoline. Homeopathic remedies beyond about 12C are guaranteed to contain no molecules of thiotimoline, which means that they have endochronic properties. For example, homeopathic remedies have been shown experimentally to be equally effective whether taken before, during, or after the course of the illness they are being used to treat.
 
Without Rights said:
Maybe not the cause but once you have fibromyalgia you should quit consuming aspartame as well as MSG.

This is cached from a deleted page by the Holtorf Medical Group that explains why.

http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=as...7&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=c0dd1232,808d3fa8
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This line says it all:
...there’s little scientific evidence to support any single eating plan as a way to deal with fibromyalgia. Nevertheless, a trip around the Internet will show...
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Superstition based medicine when you don't like the answers evidence based medicine gives.

Unfortunately there are many non-evidence based medical practices and this clinic appears to be one of them.
http://www.holtorfmed.com/

The thing is, if these anecdotally supported claims were valid, meaning people were correct in assuming X worked for their problem, then that would show up when you actually tested X for the problem is it supposed to treat. Instead the clinic providers imply each person responds to something different and they are able to find that individual thing.

This argument has been used repeatedly in the explanation why vaccines supposedly cause autism despite the fact the evidence of a connection does not show up in the data. Regardless of how rare or individual a connection is between a treatment and resolution of the problem, if you look at a large enough data base, you will see an effect.

Look at this another way. Unless one is claiming this group of doctors have an infinite number of treatments they prescribe, then their treatments must supposedly work on more than one individual. So you should be able to take any one of their remedies and test it on a large number of fibromyalgia (or other illness) patients. At least some of the patients should do better than the placebo and untreated groups of people with the same symptoms. But the evidence says these treatments are not doing anything. Placebo and untreated groups have the same results. The patients are paying for quack medicine.
 
PixyMisa said:
In fact, it's so powerful that if you don't take it, it goes back in time and kills your parents before you were born.
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Nearly spit my drink all over the keyboard on that one!

PS-Can you tell where I can find Sarah Conner?:D
 
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