The Art of Losing

I am slowly breaking my addiction to reading Newsweek. With your help I can overcome this burden. :)

#1, this woman blaming her outrageous diet coke drinking to "addiction" is ridiculous. Just trying to write another story. Also, ngy460 is impossible to take seriously. Nobody writes like that even if they do talk like that. Think about it. He's playing with you. Get real people!

ngy460 can't POSSIBLY be for real. Nobody writes like that even if they do talk like that. Get real people, don't be fooled by somebody that's obviously playing with you.

some of you are just lame brains. obviously the woman is adding "color" to her writing. WHICH KEPT YOUR ATTENTION.
and understand the point of the article. is too much intake of soda. theres just too many chemicals in a carbonated soft drink. and JYBYER do some research. excessive carbonation can deplete your natural acids and yes cause acid reflux most people are clueless when it comes to acid reflux. its very simple. your gi tract is devoid of the natural stomach acids used for digestion. therefore your body overacts.
if u take a teaspoon of apple cider vingar daily. acid reflux will subside.

Do you think the U.S. Olympic Team who's sponsered by Coca-cola actually drink it? Must be tough to promote a product that actually discourages good health when you represent the epitome of perfect health. I, too, drink way too much of Diet Coke and I would never claim to be in perfect health and can attest for the addictive quality of it. The sodium makes you feel bloated, the carbonation reaks havoc on your teeth and bones, and I wonder if we should really eat anything that's questionabley unhealthy that warns: Contains Phenylalanine boldly on the can. In my experience (about a decade), the effects of feeling hydrated is minimal and yet, if there is a sale on the refridgerator packs of diet coke, I buy, oh, four. Nice article, inspiring, but when my boyfriend first told me about it, I wanted to cover my ears and sing, la-la-la, can't hear you. I also wonder about drinking anything from an aluminum can rather than glass. You never hear of particles of glass getting into your food or drink after cooking with it but can't the chemicals in aluminum be released in food or drink if it's heated...like, say, leaving a six pack of coke on the beach or in your hot car? This is all speculative, of course.

Wow. She gave up everything fun. That's really sad.

Thirty years ago I was worried that tea would one day erode my esophagus, so I quit drinking tea for a few months only later to pick up the habit again with alot of guilt. Five years later I learned tea had many health benefits. Around the same time I read that saccharine caused cancer, so I gave up my Sweet N Low artificial sweetener,only years later, to find out that saccharine had been removed from the FDA's list of carcinogens. My point is, just eat, drink, and be merry; for tomorrow we die. Ten years from now we might find out that all the hoopla about aspartame was just that; hoopla.

Scarier than y'all think:
From the wiki article on Aspartame:
Searle's Chief Operating Officer, **DONALD RUMSFELD**, reapplied for FDA certification immediately after U.S. President Ronald Reagan took office.[8] In 1981, Reagan appointed Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA commissioner. Citing data from a Japanese study that had not been available to the members of the PBOI[citation needed], Hayes approved aspartame for use in dry goods.[9] In 1983 FDA further approved aspartame for use in carbonated beverages, and for use in other beverages, baked goods, and confections in 1993. In 1996, the FDA removed all restrictions from aspartame allowing it to be used in all foods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame#Discovery_and_approval

The Addiction addiction strikes again.

There is far more to the story than just outlined here. Diet soda leaches calcuim from the bones, excites neurons in the brain to death, and has been suggested to be a trigger for a host of neurological diseases. Splenda was released on the public with very few studies- the largest only had 67 participants. We are the guinea pigs folks, and if you don't believe it yet, start paying attention.

Like anything else--MODERATION is key. Try one or two cans of Diet Coke a day as I do--and enjoy!

Ummmm how about your list your sources in a coherant fashion to support your opinion rather than the
rambling fashion in which you attempt to articulate your opinion? I apologize for my inability to understand the dialect in which you attempt to communicate. OK.....one more time now? What are you trying to say? Where do you get the facts on which you base this postulation of yours?