my sister… being eaten by diet coke! aaaaah!
My sister drinks LOADS of diet coke. What is there loads of in diet coke? Aspartame.
Consuming a lot of aspartame may inhibit the ability of enzymes in your brain to function normally, according to a new review by scientists from the University of Pretoria and the University of Limpopo.
The review found that high doses of the sweetener may lead to neurodegeneration. It has also previously been found that aspartame consumption can cause neurological and behavioral disturbances in sensitive individuals.
This one time my sister called us up and asked if it would be alright for her to do her own electrical work.
Another time she told me that picking a salad dressing wasn’t “rocket scientists”.
About a month before that she called us to inform us that she had no idea how to hang her clothes on the rack in her closet.
Maybe I should also point out that her favorite singers are Britney Spears and Hilary Duff.
I think it’s time to cut back on the diet coke, sis.
But in all seriousness you’d think that a product with such a controversy surrounding it wouldn’t remain so widely used. Since my last coke uprising I haven’t really drank that much - but I haven’t cut it out of my liquid diet either. Gordo had good points in saying
1) Anytime you find yourself drinking soda, remind yourself that you would have been better off drinking water. It’s hard to see why anyone would deprive themselves of calcium, just to prove some kind of point about cancer.
2) Coca-cola has an appalling human rights and labor record.
3) Coke causes worms to form in pork. See this video, and see the experiment repeated.
Despite what Alon wants to put into his body and tell me isn’t bad for you - it is. And coke DOES have a horrible human rights record… and aspartame isn’t GOOD for you.
