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The Toxic Truth About Diet Coke and Slimline Tonic!

Health conscious individuals are usually very particular about their diet and what they prefer to eat and drink. Low fat or sugar free food and drink is the order of the day. Likewise, those who have difficulty controlling their weight and waistline also opt for “slimline” foodstuffs and “diet” drinks in an attempt to rein in blubbery bellies and bulging bums. Those that prefer a good old fashioned cuppa instead of soda will most likely dump the sugar in favour of artificial sweeteners, in an endeavour to lose a few pounds and keep their weight in check. If you are one of the many thousands of people that prefer to drink ‘diet’ or “light” soda over their sugar filled counterparts, or pop sweeteners into your […] Read More

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2004: Diet’ Soft Drinks – Suicide On An Installment Plan

Crumpled Coke Can Poetic Justice 12-14-4 The photo of a crumpled can of Diet Coke told the story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, 30-1-2000, Coke’s hometown paper. Fitting, poetic, just, but tragic for the company once rated “The Most Admired Business in the World”. Today Coke wouldn’t even make the list. Sales are down, profits collapsing, and 6,000 employees soon will be gone. (To make room for 6,000 defence attorneys?) The tragedy is stupendously larger than 6,000 jobs; it affects hundreds of millions of unwarned, innocent, afflicted consumers across the broad face of planet earth. * This crisis can’t be solved by belt tightening, greater efficiency, more advertising, etc. It’s so bad Coke can’t say the word; to pronounce it will bring instant cataclysm. That […] Read More

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Aspartame – The World’s Best Ant Poison

From the June 2006 Idaho Observer: Aspartame – The World’s Best Ant Poison contributed byJan Jensen of WELLthy Choices. We live in the woods and carpenter ants are a huge problem. We have spent thousands of dollars with Orkin and on ant poisons trying to keep them under control but nothing has helped. So when I read somewhere that aspartame (Nutrasweet, Diet Coke, etc.) was actually developed as an ant poison and only changed to being considered non-poisonous after it was realized that a lot more money could be made on it as a sweetener than as an ant poison, I decided to give it a try. I opened two packets of aspartame sweetener, and dumped one in a corner of each of our bathrooms. […] Read More