Ban diet coke! aspartame – harmful ingredient used in diet coke … should be banned!
Diet coke was released in the month of July in 1982. What the consumers were not made aware of was that it contains many different ingredients that are a health hazard. Diet Coke contains Aspartame/NutraSweet, Saccharin, Carbonated Water and Phosphoric Acid. The main ingredient in diet coke is aspartame, making up 50% of the diet coke product, which infact does not help lose weight at all! Diet coke has falsely informed the consumers that it is a healthy alternative to Coca-Cola although this isn’t the case. Diet Coke is the 4th most-popular carbonated soft drink in the world making the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and Brazil the top five markets for the product. Other than these countries, diet coke is also sold in 144 other countries. It is also predicted that diet coke will eventually over take Pepsi and Coca Cola as the number 1 selling soft drink in USA.
Aspartame/Nutrasweet which has more of any other ingredient in a single serving, is supposedly the ingredient that makes diet coke sweet. This is theoretically wrong as aspartame isn’t a sweet ingredient at all, it actually sends messages to your brain which makes you think that it is sweet. This then triggers your brain to crave for high calorie foods making the product non-diet. Surveys and tests show that more than half of everyday overweight people put on weight after the first 2 weeks of a “diet coke” program which required participants to consume 1 can of diet coke a day, for 2 weeks. Although artificial sweeteners have always been known to make you crave things high in calories, it is also known that aspartame is a type of artificial sweetener.
After a few complaints the coca-cola company changed the main ingredient aspartame to sucralose (splenda) which is a type of sugar. Diet coke was supposedly not to involve the ingredient sugar, as it has a high calorie intake and should go by the name (diet coke). Aspartame (which breaks down into a substance called diketopiperazine has also been argued at whether is has been the cause of many brain tumors as diketopiperazin is proven to cause many brain tumors. The FDA (food and drug administration) also stated that diet coke has a plague of 92 symptoms (death playing part of the 92). They even have a name for these symptoms which are lead from aspartame consumption; aspartame disease.
To explain these symptoms further we can analyze just how aspartame can kill/harm you. Blindness, headaches, dizziness, seizures, Cancer, Dental problems, Liver/kidney problems and stomach pains are just some of these symptoms. There is still one more problem though, aspartame isn’t just used in diet coke, but yogurt and sugarless gum to name a few. Ever thought this may be the reason why people now days find it so hard to lose weight? The diet coke, coca-cola company states (on the official website) that aspartame is a safe ingredient but after FDA research and tests it is almost physically proven that diet coke is bad one way or another. E.g. If aspartame was a good ingredient then the evidence that it harms dental health can be used against the fact that it can still be of harm for human consumption.
Many websites support the fact that aspartame is banned in all European countries… wouldn’t surprise me!!