Say if you go into a restaurant and you order a cheeseburger, fries, onion rings, a piece of chocolate cake and a diet coke. Are you trying to kill yourself? Which one of these do you think has the potential to kill you?? While obviously none of these are very healthy choices. If you said cheeseburger --- you are wrong. If you said fries or onion rings --- still wrong. It must be the chocolate cake --- wrong again. The fact is that diet coke has the potential to be the most harmful to your health. Today in my speech I would like to explain why diet coke is actually worse for you than regular coke.
How can diet coke possibly be bad for you? I mean just look at the can of diet Coke and you will read --- no calories, no sugar, and no caffeine. What could possibly be in a can of diet coke that is bad for you? The harmful ingredient is called aspartame. Some people even refer to aspartame as a kind of poison.
Aspartame is the ingredient added to diet Coke to replace the sugar that you would find in a regular Coke. Aspartame is kind of like a brain drug --- it tricks your mind into thinking food or drink tastes sweeter. We all know people on diets will drink a lot of diet Coke --- as it's advertised as having no calories --- makes sense?? / Actually research shows that the aspartame in diet Coke causes your body to crave carbohydrates which causes you to eat more - not less. Diet Coke will not help you lose weight. In fact, it will make you gain weight.
Aspartame has been lined to many other health problems. There are approximately 92 symptoms according to FDA reports. Aspartame can cause tumors, seizures, MS like symptoms, effects memory loss, blinding, harmful to the unborn, especially bad for children, has harmful effects on workers, and yes, even death.
Can we get all this from one can of Diet Coke? Of course not! However, I must mention that another trait of aspartame is that it is highly addictive. It is similar to how people get addicted to cigarettes. People know it may be bad for you but have the urge to keep using it. Some people even drink several litres a day! That is a potential health problem.
So, if aspartame is suspected to be dangerous to your health --- should someone tell Coke? Wait a minute --- they already know. Coke, which is a member of the National Soft Drink Association, opposed FDA approval of aspartame in drinks in 1985 saying it is unstable and breaks down in cans which causes many harmful toxins. So once the FDA approved, why would they make Diet Coke??
MONEY --- MONEY ----- MONEY
The addictive substance increases sales and profits. Coke was once the most admired business in the world. Now customers are finding out about the harmful effects related to Diet Coke and aspartame. Profits are down because sales are down and Coke may be facing law suits in the future which would have a huge impact on the company.
In conclusion, it is up to you to determine what could be harmful to your health. I hope my speech will make you think before you drink.
