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  • "Diet Cherry Coke" is the "low pop" in this world.
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  • pcpc Posts: 743
    i was pleased to find caffeine free diet coke with lime in bottles!
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  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭


    << <i>i was pleased to find caffeine free diet coke with lime in bottles! >>



    i have a rare 1980's caffeine free diet NEW COKE with lime in bottles.. it was a regionally distributed test issue.. less than 1 is known to exist..
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  • i just popped open a 1 of 6 diet pepsi can
  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭


    << <i>i just popped open a 1 of 6 diet pepsi can >>



    when you're done, will you update the pop report to show only 5? i think if you drink the diet pepsi, its the equivalent of cracking a card out of a slab..

    actually, i think this post is a sign that its getting late.. so i'm going to bed..
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  • Diet "pop" has gotten out of hand.

    ASPARTAME is a poison - it is converted to METHANOL :

    Aspartame conversion to Methanol

    Methanol (wood alcohol) is a deadly poison. It is converted to FORMALDEHYDE in the body:

    Methanol conversion to Formaldehyde

    Corporate influence (big $) has kept this out of the mainstream news, and out of congress. The FDA refuses to act on clinical data.

    I know this thread was started in jest, but this is a very serious topic in the medical community.

    Sorry for the downer..........DRINK MILK!!!!

    Dal
  • jrdolanjrdolan Posts: 2,549 ✭✭
    I think there's a 1/1 Diet Vanilla Cherry Lemon Lime Caffeine-Free Coke signed by Lebron James and Michael Jordan that's selling for $300K on eBay.
  • AknotAknot Posts: 1,196 ✭✭


    << <i>Diet "pop" has gotten out of hand.

    ASPARTAME is a poison - it is converted to METHANOL :

    Aspartame conversion to Methanol

    Methanol (wood alcohol) is a deadly poison. It is converted to FORMALDEHYDE in the body:

    Methanol conversion to Formaldehyde

    Corporate influence (big $) has kept this out of the mainstream news, and out of congress. The FDA refuses to act on clinical data.

    I know this thread was started in jest, but this is a very serious topic in the medical community.

    Sorry for the downer..........DRINK MILK!!!!

    Dal >>



    Please tell me you are kidding:
    http://hoaxinfo.com/aspartame.htm
    http://www.urbanlegends.com/legends/Aspartame_Hoax.html
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  • mikeschmidtmikeschmidt Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭
    I think this CS and Pepsi Edge phenomenon is quite funny, actually. It's soda for those people who are too "carb conscious", but for whom Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi is too girly.

    Man - some people are too worried about image! I figure that we, as baseball card collectors, have already established ourselves as much cooler than the average guy.
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  • theBobstheBobs Posts: 1,136 ✭✭


    << <i>Man - some people are too worried about image! I figure that we, as baseball card collectors, have already established ourselves as much cooler than the average guy. >>



    Yeah, kinda like a guy needed a 10 when an 8 would suffice... Ok, bad analogy...
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  • AknotAknot Posts: 1,196 ✭✭
    But you state :

    "Corporate influence (big $) has kept this out of the mainstream news, and out of congress. The FDA refuses to act on clinical data."

    and

    "Again, those that argue on the siade of Aspartame toxicity use basic BIOCHEMISTRY to show that these chemical conversions do occur. I don't think we understand the extent, yet, on what we are doing to our bodies."

    Yet from the FDA (statement below) we find that YES it happens but there are other foods (even ones "good for you") that introduce these "chemicals" into our bodies in a higher degree.


    Second, the claim that aspartame ingestion results in the production of methanol, formaldehyde and formate. These claims are factual. In the gastrointestinal tract aspartame is hydrolyzed to one of its component materials, methanol, as well as the two amino acids, phenylalanine and aspartic acid. This methanol is taken up by the cells of the body and metabolized first to formaldhyde and then to formate. The key information that is missing in the description by Ms. Markle is that the levels of ingestion are very modest. In fact, there are other foodstuffs that we ingest that supply as much and sometimes even more methanol; e.g., citrus fruits and juices, and tomatoes or tomato juice. There are even higher quantities of methanol ingested when ethanol is consumed. Thus, in the final analysis this methanol is the same as from other sources of food and in the quantities consumed from aspartame, it is readily and naturally metabolized via the one-carbon biochemical cycle to entirely innocuous and natural body components.

    As you have "science" on your side all I can do is rely on what little "research" I can do. But it seems to me that yes it does what you say it does BUT it is not as "bad" as some make it out to be. I mean I can remember when fat was bad, eggs were bad, dont drink, drink for your heart, etc. and so fourth.
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  • Um, I was kinda waiting for the "other food" arguement.

    other "methanol" foods

    Hope this helps you rethink your theories about the "other foods" producing methanol. It just ain't the same thing my friend.

    BTW - if you reply on the FDA to base an arguement, you will be about 3-4 years behind the curve. The FDA is notoriously late on releasing research.

    BTW - fats (and eggs) that you mention in your previous posting are natural. The body KNOWS what to do with them.

    Also, you cannot compare fats to Aspartame. Like comparing apples to oranges.

    Just providing some info.

    Dal
  • Also this:

    another link

  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭
    my diet consists of Crisco grease, coke (no diet crap), Li'l Debbie snacks, Wendy's, Beanie Weanies, taters, Chef Boyardee, iced tea, french fries, pot, pizza, beer, sprite, chicken wings, any kind of chicken, anything BBQ, any fruit..

    and anything else if it looks good..
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  • AknotAknot Posts: 1,196 ✭✭
    "they're talking about the CUMULATIVE effects of regular aspartame consumption and that some people are more affected than others (but everyone is affected) due to a few factors including the condition of their protective blood-brain barrier."

    What is meant by "regular" consumption? 2mgs a day? 2mgs a second?

    Is "that some people are more affected than others" mean that some people are "less effected"?, not effected?

    Its like anything else by the sounds of it. It "MAY" kill/be bad for you, then it might not.

    "over 50 doctors & nutritionists" Are the "thousands" of other Doctors and Nutritionists being "paid off"?

    Again Im just looking and reading off the internet. Maybe you have reason to believe it is more harmful then it appears to be. I can not remember the last time I had anything with Aspartame in it of course this may be the Aspartame talking... hmmmmmmmmm image (joke dont take that serious please)

    I made the "Egg" comment and others because it seems "every year" someone is telling us not to eat this and not to eat that. Then in another year they say o wait its good for you, but this (insert other item) is not.
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  • "over 50 doctors & nutritionists" Are the "thousands" of other Doctors and Nutritionists being "paid off"?

    I am unsure what "thousands" you are referring to.

    You can believe what you like. It's your life.

    I made the "Egg" comment and others because it seems "every year" someone is telling us not to eat this and not to eat that. Then in another year they say o wait its good for you, but this (insert other item) is not.

    You are correct - there is quite a bit of misinformation out there. That's what makes it difficult to weed-out the facts from the BS.

    I just wanted to enlighten some readers that Aspartame is a poison. it breaks down, in our bodies, to toxic substances that are NOT the same things found in other foods.

    You may want to read, in my second link above, the HISTORY of the FDA and aspartame. It is quite enlightening.

    DRINK MILK!!!!

    Dal
  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭


    << <i>DRINK MILK!!!!

    Dal >>



    oh yeah.. i drink milk too.. with the red cap..
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  • AknotAknot Posts: 1,196 ✭✭
    NP, I agree in the sense that "SOME" people may be effected by this. But hell some people are effected by Milk.

    As for the "thousands of other Doctors and Nutritionists" I read some of the "sites" and the most I can come up with is "over 50 doctors & nutritionists" not that many compared with the "total" amount of over doctors & nutritionists out there.

    Again I agree if you are having problems/symptoms as listed and are drinking EXCESSIVE amounts of diet soads and the such cut it out. I mean here are what some people were doing:

    "I used to go the 7/11 every day and get the giant size (32 oz) Diet Coke"

    "Now I consumed about 6-8 diet sodas a day, put it in my several coffees, drank crystal light, dumped heaping tablespoons of nutra on my yogurt, in baking, on my fruit and virtually all that I ate"

    " I was buying 12 packs of Diet Coke now. I would grab a 12 pack every other day. Hey had pop at home when ever I wanted. I drank up"

    Theres more:
    "After she discovered Crystal Lite, she raved about how yummy it was and drank it by the gallon. "

    "I would get diet drinks on sale, I would only bring one or two up to my apartment. Also, I had a system of buying the canned diet drinks when the 12 paks sold for 2 for $5.00. I would take one 12 pack in to my office at work and leave the other one in the car."

    "In the mornings, I would make a gallon of KoolAid and that is what we drank, all day long"

    Moderation people. Im sure if MOST people did this in MODERATION there would be no "problems". The body would/could probably burn it off. Hell take the "McDonalds" people for example. O McDonalds made me fat..... yeah......
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  • AknotAknot Posts: 1,196 ✭✭
    Here is one of my favorites:

    "i would drink large amounts of coffee with a aspertame sweetner along with chewing large amounts of gum containing aspertame, usually 8 to ten packs a night. i believe my accident was a result of aspertame"

    8 to 10 packs of gum in a day!!!! I mean come on. Chew on a stick or something for crying out loud.

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  • You know, carbon dioxide can kill you very quickly. Now, what is it that the body produces during respiration???
  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭


    << <i>"i would drink large amounts of coffee with a aspertame sweetner along with chewing large amounts of gum containing aspertame, usually 8 to ten packs a night. i believe my accident was a result of aspertame"

    8 to 10 packs of gum in a day!!!! I mean come on. Chew on a stick or something for crying out loud. >>



    i smoke a pack a day because its safer than chewing gum..
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  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Carbon MONOXIDE will kill you quick. Carbon DIOXIDE is found in the atmosphere, and is used by plants for photosynthesis.
    >>



    lol.. thats what inspired my smoking post..
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  • Dallas.

    Before you call others a moron, get your facts straight.

    Carbon Dioxide link for those who think it is totally safe.


    By the way Dallas, I have majors in math and science, so please get a clue before you decide to go after someone because you THINK you are right.
  • AknotAknot Posts: 1,196 ✭✭
    This is better then the Spanish soaps my wife watches.......
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  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭


    << <i>This is better then the Spanish soaps my wife watches....... >>



    yup.. like spanish soaps, i dont understand this stuff either..
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  • way before ANYONE else did the "fashionable diet soda" thing,
    Pepsi introduced PEPSI LIGHT (diet pepsi with lemon in it...)

    it came out in 1975! (7 years before diet coke even appeared!)

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    BUT
    Let's not forget that Coke had this one out first (1963)...
    it just tasted like crap!
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  • And then in the 70's TAB went fruity as all he!!

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    THEN it even went CLEAR

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  • you must collect these. They are actually like pop art now and very cool. I have a TAB cola shirt from around 1976. A promo as they gave out sample Dixie cups of the drink long before COSTCO thought about it. Remeber JOLT Cola.the triple caffine triple sugar smack Atkins in the face drink? Do they still make that? You could drink it and then stay up all night speed reading books.
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  • schr1stschr1st Posts: 1,677 ✭✭
    TAB is still available (at least it was the last time I went to my local supermarket), but only in 6 pack cans. As the old joke goes, there are so many chemicals in that stuff that under ingredients, it says "see other can". THAT stuff will kill you.
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  • AknotAknot Posts: 1,196 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>This is better then the Spanish soaps my wife watches....... >>



    yup.. like spanish soaps, i dont understand this stuff either.. >>



    Yeah but you ever watch one...... image
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  • I should have let it drop. However, if you are going to say

    << <i>You are a f$$king moron >>

    to me, you had better be able to back up your point. I can't stand people who not only think they are right all the time, but have to try to show off and put someone else down. I was hoping he would respond but I guess he can't think of a way to refute the facts.
  • AknotAknot Posts: 1,196 ✭✭
    Maybe the aspertame got to him.




    JUST KIDDING.
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  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Yeah but you ever watch one...... image >>



    heh.. not the soaps, but i've watched "Caliente" on saturday mornings/afternoons.. it rules..
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  • AknotAknot Posts: 1,196 ✭✭
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

    Hell when I was "single" my roommate and I culd figure out why a "childrens" show had blondes in thigh high boots. It took us all of 2 seconds to figure out we didnt care..... image

    Some of the soaps are almost as bad.
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  • << <i>I think this CS and Pepsi Edge phenomenon is quite funny, actually. It's soda for those people who are too "carb conscious", but for whom Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi is too girly.

    Man - some people are too worried about image! I figure that we, as baseball card collectors, have already established ourselves as much cooler than the average guy. >>



    Carbs.are your enemy if you want to be in the 5% catagory! 95% of asll men look better with their clothes on! You just don't wanna hear nothing bout those Philly Cheese Steak sandwiches we all love..........................except for the bread Marc,except for the bread.
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