Is Diet Soda Bad For You?Effect of Unhealthy Ingredients

Do You Drink Diet Soda To Avoid Sugar?•Sugar Causes

▫Weight Gain▫Obesity▫Inflammation▫Leads to degenerative disease like

Diabetes Heart Disease

Weight: Not The Only Factor To Health

•You can be the ideal weight and still be very unhealthy

Many Turn To Diet Soda To Limit Sugar

•Concern about

▫Weight gain▫Obesity

DiabetesHeart disease

What Are Ingredients in Diet Soda?•Artificial sweeteners to replace sugar

▫Aspartame▫Splenda (Sucralose)

Aspartame Safety

•Breaks down into

▫Methanol▫Formaldehyde▫Formate

Aspartame Safety

•These three components are “byproducts” because the aspartame is artificially created.

•These elements would not exist in natural, whole foods, or would be accompanied by “protectants” in their natural state.

▫The methanol would be accompanied by ethanol.

Aspartame Safety

•Illnesses associated with Aspartame

▫Seizures▫Breathing problems▫Memory loss▫Nausea▫Headaches

Aspartame Saftey

•Disease potential increases with Aspartame

▫Parkinson’s disease▫Epilepsy▫Diabetes▫Brain tumors▫Cancer▫Thyroid disease

Aspartame Safety

•Originally banned by FDA, then approved at a later date.

•Banned by European Food Safety Authority

Aspartame Safety

•Studies determine Aspartame safety

▫100 % of industry funded studies find Aspartame safe.

▫92 % of non-industry funded studies find Aspartame harmful.

Sucralose (Splenda) Safety

•No long term studies done yet

•Short term studies show shrunken thymus glands and other organ damage on rats

Other Harmful Ingredients

•High acidity – pH of about 3.4

•Healthy pH is about 7.5

•If you drink diet soda to quench your thirst, you may not have enough saliva to break down the acid in diet soda

•Cancer can only live in acidic environment

Other Harmful Ingredients

Artificial colors and preservatives

Proven allergenic link to hyperactive behavior in children and the artificial colors and preservatives in diet soda

More Bad News

•Diet soda actually causes weight gain

•Brain receptors detect sweetness

•Not associated with “proper” amount of calories

•Actually increases hunger and cravings

•Causes you to eat more

Is Diet Soda Bad For You?

•Yes!

•Health problems from toxic ingredients far outweighs decrease in sugar consumption

•For better health choose non-sugary beverages with healthier ingredients