But the report provides a welcome reminder that calorie-free diet pop is preferable to sugar-laden regular pop, although that is a bit of a false equation because, truth be told, water is better still, as every dietician and probably your Mom will tell you. Yet, the reality is that many people opt for flavoured and fizzy drinks for a variety of reasons — chief among them taste and habit. At a time of the year when many people make weight-loss resolutions, it is worth remembering that one of the most effective ways to remove calories from a diet is to eschew sugary drinks.
Replace four cans of Pepsi with four cans of diet Pepsi, for example, and you drop calories. Calories aside, excessive consumption of sugar causes far more health problems than aspartame. Largely from a lack of understanding and sometimes wilful misrepresentation of chemistry. First and foremost, there is the naturalistic fallacy, the common belief that what is "natural" is inherently good, and that anything man-made is inherently bad.
Practically, that leads us to think that "natural" substances like sugar are always better than "chemicals" like aspartame. We tend to forget that all foodstuffs have chemical components, whether they are fruits or artificial sweeteners. Aspartame, which can also be identified as E on food labels, has three constituent parts: phenylalanine, methanol and aspartic acid. Aside from sounding unappetizing, they can all be toxic at high doses. This has led some so-called natural health practitioners such as Dr.
Joseph Mercola, the high priest of quackery, to describe aspartame as "by far the most dangerous substance added to most food today. Mercola and his ilk, the food additive causes a dizzying array of health problems, including brain tumours, epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease and birth defects, none of which is demonstrated in credible research.
Anti-aspartame crusaders point principally to methanol, which is essentially wood alcohol — both poisonous and a carcinogen at high doses. The popular soda contained saccharin, which had actually been around for decades. But in , rat studies suggested that saccharin could increase the risk of bladder cancer. The problem was that the rats were given an amount of saccharin that in humans would equal hundreds of cans of diet soda per day over an entire lifetime.
And while a large human study did not show an overall increased risk of cancer in humans, there is a slightly higher risk of bladder cancer in heavy smokers who use saccharin. Acceptable Daily Intake : 5 milligrams for each kilogram of body weight. Divide your weight by 2. So for a pound person, milligrams of saccharin a day would be in the safe range.
One packet of Sweet n' Low contains 36 milligrams of saccharin. Aspartame Aspartame also known as Equal is one of the most popular artificial sweeteners, adding sweetness to diet sodas, desserts, cereals, and many other foods and beverages.
While hundreds of studies support the safety of aspartame, one new animal study questions the long-held view that aspartame does not cause cancer. The new study was done on rats over their entire lifetime, unlike past studies that ended earlier.
Acceptable Daily Intake : 50 milligrams for each kilogram of body weight. Somewhere in the Middle Aspartame is the go-to sweetener in most diet sodas, so regular drinkers might think twice about what they're guzzling.
Keep in mind that all of them—except Sprite Zero—also contain caramel color and thus the potential for 4-MI. And unless they're labeled as "caffeine-free," the caffeine in these sodas can be a problem for children, pregnant women, and people sensitive to caffeine.
The Worst Diet Mountain Dew may well be the riskiest diet soda because it has the greatest number of questionable additives. Not only does it contain aspartame, ace-K, and sucralose, but it also has more caffeine than most diet sodas, and it gets its color from yellow 5, which has been shown to cause hyperactivity in some children.
As a kicker, Diet Mountain Dew also contains the emulsifier brominated vegetable oil BVO , which has been shown to leave residues in body fat and the fat in the brain, liver, and other organs. More and more people are simply making healthier choices, including drinking low- and no-calorie beverages made without the worst of the sweeteners like these delicious Sassy water recipes.
A handful of examples: Steaz sweetened with stevia and erythritol, a sugar alcohol that CSPI considers safe , DrinkMaple Pure Maple Water with no added sugars, and half the natural sugar in coconut water , Reed's Ginger Brews the "light" version is sweetened with stevia leaf extract and honey , Hot Lips Pear Soda with no added sugar , and Zevia Cola made with erythritol, stevia extract, and monk fruit extract.
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