Originally posted by RogerT
Are you inferring that to really LIVE, one must drink diet soda?
Um, no. Is sarcasm a language you don't speak? I was being sarcastic, basically saying that LIFE kills us. Everybody spending all this time and
energy trying to find little pieces of our lives here and there that will contribute to our death is just silly and a waste. There are some things
that are very unhealthy, smoking, drinking, regularly eating unhealthy (and that doesn't mean EVERYTHING at the store), not excercising, etc.
Avoiding those types of things, as well as too much stress is about all we can do to live as long as we can.
And no, I NEVER implied that to live one must drink diet soda. Read it again, this time bear in mind I was being sarcastic.
yes, you are right about margerine and other hydogen treated fats - trans fatty acids - being detrimental to health, but just because x may be more
dangerous than y, doesn't make it sensible to consume y.
I was ALSO being sarcastic about margarine. It was another subject of an internet email scare hoax. Sure, margarine has unhealthy points, so does
butter, but the key is moderation either way. Or don't eat any of it, doesn't matter to me. It's just retarded when people picture a tub of
margarine and a diet pepsi next to Bin Laden and grizzly bears in their minds when they are shivering in their beds at night thinking about what is
out to kill them.
re the life expectancy question, why WOULD someone bring that up regarding a discussion on aspartame?
Um, because so many on this thread are freaking out about how we're being exposed to ALL these horrible chemicals that are causing diseases that
people have died from LONG before diet soda. The problem back then was you usually died from the flu long before you got old enough to die of cancer.
The aspartame scare was based on a study of rats that were given LARGE amounts of aspartame their whole lives and developed tumors. I've had several
rats as pets, and they pretty much ALL developed tumors when they got old.
You can thank the majority of increased life expectancy on the engineers (sewage and fresh water) and the availablility of natural nutrition, not food
chemicals (or medicine for that matter, which is usually falsely credited for this fact).
Um, no again. We can thank modern medicine, which is NOT falsely credited by any means, and the vaccines that you guys all rail against. People used
to live off the land, didn't sleep in their feces, and they usually died of common viruses long before they got old enough to have a heart attack or
get cancer. Eating healthy is a good thing, don't get me wrong, but that in conjunction with modern medicine and excercise is the key.
You go ahead and continue to consume your synthetic chemical based diet, we'll enjoy our apples and bananas and fresh juices. Judging from the
irrelevance and bizarre reasoning in the majority of your post, it looks like the neuro-toxins are doing their job nicely.
That's a good one. Yup, the neurotoxins are coursing through my veins and I love it. You go ahead and continue to assume you know my health status
and what I eat. If you saw me in the gym you'd probably feel pretty silly. But judging from the pompous nature of you post, I doubt you are ever
wrong. How do your farts smell? Do you drive a hybrid? Thaaaanks.
If that's the best argument you can put forward for defending aspartame and given your convenient ignoring of the multiple links to scientific
studies already posted, then I won't be taking you up on your challenge.
I figured as much.
ezinearticles.com...
extension.oregonstate.edu...
www.snopes.com...
[edit on 16-10-2007 by 27jd]
