Husband M asked me to pick up a case of diet ginger ale while I was at the supermarket. At the cashier this lady behind me politely asked if I knew how they made the aspartame in the diet soda. She said it was from rat poison, that stevia was no better even though it is a natural product. Her advice was to drink green tea instead. I appreciated her advice but I still bought the diet soda. Do you drink diet sodas?
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I do have a diet coke here and there, but I'm not going to be scared off! Hugs, Valerie
Hello Christine, thank for visiting my blog and leaving a lovely comment on the hydrangea. Answer to your question - No I don't drink soda's, just water and lots of herbal teas. Have a lovely day.
sandra
If I am going to have a soda, I will have the full sweetness version of it. Having said that, I try not to drink soda as much as possible. I have a soda stream and I drink plain soda water - I get the bubbles but not the extra calories.
I think the rat poison thing is an urban legend - check snopes dot com for all that kind of thing. There are other rumours about it too, none of which are likely real.
However I personally would steer clear of it just because I like the things I put into my body to be as natural as possible.
Could early man have ingested aspartame? No, because it does not occur naturally in our environment. It is an artificially produced chemical.
Could early man have ingested refined white sugar? Unlikely. They would have been able to eat sugarcane if they found it and figured out how to peel it.
Stevia is a natural product but I do not like it, it is quite bitter.
But I'd like to know what business any of that is of the lady at the checkout. You get to make your own decisions about what to put into your body, and she gets to make hers. She doesn't get to spread urban legends as fact.
Always, always, always check snopes. If you can do it on the spot on your mobile phone with the person there, all the better. And anything you see on Facebook where you are not sure, google it with snopes at the end, chances are it will appear there. :)
Also I think she got her urban legend wrong. :)
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-worlds-best-ant-poison/
I certainly don't trust diet drinks.
I think the lady was trying to be helpful. I met her in the supermarket and she saw I had bought a packet of corn flakes. She told me corn flakes are empty calories. You eat them and get no nutritional value at all except sugars. She suggested I eat wood shavings instead. She said the local furniture manufacturer had a variety of wood shavings from different trees. A good source of fibre apparently.
Early man, our ancestors, never ate corn flakes because it had not been invented yet. But they ate wood shavings and bark from nearby trees. But they did not drink sodas either. So they got constipated with all those wood shavings and died.
God bless.
Haha
Thanks for sharing this!
I wasn't offended by her, but you make great points here thanks.
I like this answer Valerie!
I do not drink diet soda. I hardly ever drink soda. I don’t take anything into my body that says, diet, fat free, low fat....NO..I am not a health nut but I have Fibromyalgia and those things cause issues like PAIN to be worse. I drink buy Kroger tea, I get a gallon sweet and a gallon unsweetened....then I drink 1/2 and 1/2. I do this cause I love tea and I was tired of drinking unsweetened with lemon. I was raised on sweet tea and it is hard for me to change that since I don’t do the sweetners. When I had gastric by pass I had to eat all that “no fat, low fat” and I think that is why last winter my pain was worse.
There’s probably things in most of our food that would scare us, I’m getting to the point with all the conflicting information I just eat as healthy as I can but still enjoy life. Yes I drink diet soda, I drink diet root beer, my husband drinks diet ginger ale, not everyday but quite often, more in summer than winter , I suppose we must pick our poison,
Any carbonated beverage is not good for you, but if you only have a few each year, it will be okay. However, if you drink the stuff every day, and especially the diet version, you are damaging your health. Hopefully your husband just has an occasional glass of the diet ginger ale.
No, my doctor told me not to touch it.
Yes.
I don't drink diet drinks - I nearly just drink teas and water - I cannot stomach carbonated drinks.
I have pretty much stopped drinking all sodas. I have a 7up once in a while, but everything else hurts my stomach. I mostly eat only whole food, by that I mean, no diet or non-fat anything...well, you know from my blog photos lol...
No sodas, but I do consume a lot of Stevia. I use it to sweeten my coffee and as a sugar and honey replacement in recipes. It's plant-based so I'd like to know how the woman came up with it being the equivalent rat poison. Nevertheless, I'm sticking with stevia.
Aside from an occasional diet ginger ale, we don't drink soda. I never buy it at the supermarket.
Well, I didn't know that story about the rat poison and not sure if it is true as it seems so out there. I do stay away from sodas, and when I break down and have that rare one it is never a diet soda as I just don't trust the ingredients. Bad enough for me to ingest all that sugar but what the hey, doesn't happen but once in a blue moon.
yep i drink diet or sugar free pop all the time
I tell people like that to bugger off, i didnt ask for advice from an idiot and dont ask for health advice from some random person i dont know. I've had enough people tell me that this and that caused the MS when nothing I could have drunk or eaten caused it. I dont think people are trying to be helpful when they say things like that, they are trying to be nosy or trying to act smart when that is the last thing they are doing
I used to be a diet soda drinker, but I've pretty much cut it from my diet. I also started drinking my coffee black to avoid artificial sweeteners.
No - I hate soda as it's full of bad things (just like the lady said).
i never liked the taste of diet - not that regular soda is any better for a body however, i was a big sodaholic in my early 30's and then discovered coffee.
I don't drink it, but I sure wouldn't appreciate rumours, disguised as advice! Some people are ignorant!
I can only liken this to a gin and tonic that I enjoyed in the summer …
I was asked would I like slim-line tonic? My reply was no thanks …
All the best Jan
I never took such drink Christine though i am on some supplements
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