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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I knew someone who was a lawyer for one of the artifical sweetners who refused to drink or eat anything with artifical sweetners. I asked him why he wouldn't use his compaies product, or anything similar, and he said he had a good idea about what law suits were coming down the pike. After that I decided that it would be better to work out a bit more and take in the extra calories from natural sugar or just avoid the products using that crap all together.
Give me the extra calories in a Coke over whatever the hell they put in the Zero, Max, and diet products. I don't trust that crap. Then again, I try and limit my soft drink consumption to a few helpings a week.
Tea is a wonderful replacement for me.
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I'm kind of the same way -- leftover from my college days when my chemistry professor scared us to death about artificial sweeteners and wouldn't touch them himself. Things have changed a lot since then -- he was specifically alarmed about aspertame, and there are a lot of new choices now, but I still prefer to take my chances with good old sugar or honey. I don't really care for soft drinks so that's not a big problem for me anyway. Artificial sweeteners have added to the quality of life for plenty of diabetics, I think, so far be it from me to say that they shouldn't be available. I don't need them myself, though, so I try to stay away.