PepsiCo to Drop Aspartame From Diet Pepsi

[icyfroth]

PepsiCo said it would switch to sucralose, a less controversial but still artificial sweetener. The beverage giant said the change—the boldest soda reformulation since Coca-Cola's New Coke fiasco—was in response to consumer surveys showing aspartame as the No. 1 reason Americans are shunning diet colas.

The new sweetener is a blend of sucralose and acesulfame potassium that will be used in Diet Pepsi, Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi and Wild Cherry Diet Pepsi in the U.S. beginning in August. The new sweetener formulation “was developed after extensive research and testing with U.S. diet cola drinkers,” the company said.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a public health group and soft drink critic, said Friday that, while consumers should still avoid acesulfame potassium, more commonly known as Ace K, sucralose is “likely’’ a safer sweetener than aspartame. It cited past studies suggesting aspartame had caused tumors in rats, and said tests in the 1970s flagged Ace K as a potential cancer risk.

Coke and Pepsi have both been trying to solve the diet sweetener problem for years. Pepsi tweaked Diet Pepsi a couple of years ago to a blend that retained aspartame but mixed it with acesulfame potassium.

They have both spent heavily in recent years trying to develop zero-calorie sweeteners that can be marketed as natural, not artificial. Each has placed bets on stevia, which is derived from a plant but can leave a bitter aftertaste.

Coke and Pepsi rolled out cola variations sweetened with stevia in the U.S. last year, but mixed in sugar, turning them into mid-calorie colas instead of diet colas.

Entire Article Here

Again the aluminium connection:

Artificial Chemical Sweeteners - Grocery Warning

Making matters worse, soft drink companies put their liquid products containing aspartame in containers made of aluminum.

When this aluminum - a known neurotoxin - is combined with aspartame, the results are multiplied:

In the case of diet drinks in aluminum cans, the very brain-toxic aluminum fluoride compound co-exists with multiple toxins found in aspartame, thus creating the most powerful government-approved toxic soup imaginable. With the strong association between aluminum, excitotoxins, aluminum fluoride complexes and Alzheimer’s disease, it would be completely irresponsible to encourage people to consume this toxic mixture.

Yet, this is done literally billions of times every year in advertising. It is important to remember that the aluminum can has been around for only about three decades, and most toxin-related diseases take years of accumulation to produce the full clinical expression of the disorder.
-Russell Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life

[karliandjacko]

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@harley_babes_hoard wrote:
here's a novel idea, drink water instead. then you don't have to worry about it

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unless the water contains traces of giardia, cryptosporidium or any other nasties.

[zanadoo_56]

I don't know what the replacement chemicals will be like or their effects on people, but I know my system cannot tolerate aspartame or sorbitol so I avoid anything that contains those ingredients.

If I wanted to have anything sweet it seems sugar is a safer option. Who knew?

[icyfroth]

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@harley_babes_hoard wrote:
here's a novel idea, drink water instead. then you don't have to worry about it

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I don't think water can quench a hard- earned- thirst quite the way a VB can, Harley, lol

[softail-joanie]

Pepsi is the choice of the next generation, didn't it make Michael Jackson's hair catch fire?

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

"Besides his anti-vaccination rants, Dr. Blaylock has been active in promoting the unsupported notion that aspartame is a neurotoxin."

[icyfroth]

I think I've spotted a few astroturfers:

"Does it scare off genuine community members who have an opposing point of view through violent and aggressive behaviour? Astroturfers incite the irrational and volatile in our community (sometimes using psychosocial tactics) for one reason: to make a lot of noise and drown out opposition."

How To Spot An Astroturfer

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@curmu-curmu wrote:

"So not only a nutter - a conspiracy theorist to boot!" and "retards"

@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

The Dr quoted in the OP is a nutter.

@am*3 wrote:

"Not surprising these 'quacks' always have their own products to sell to prevent/cure what ever they are going on about.

They aren't informing people for the good of  the people, just to make money for themselves.

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[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17828671&ordinalpos=1&i...

An extensive review of the research on aspartame was published in 2007 and concluded:

The data from the extensive investigations into the possibility of neurotoxic effects of aspartame, in general, do not support the

hypothesis that aspartame in the human diet will affect nervous system function, learning or behavior. Epidemiological studies on

aspartame include several case-control studies and one well-conducted prospective epidemiological study with a large cohort, in

which the consumption of aspartame was measured. The studies provide no evidence to support an association between aspartame

and cancer in any tissue. The weight of existing evidence is that aspartame is safe at current levels of consumption as a nonnutritive

sweetener."

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

Sometimes people just use appropriate adjectives/nouns......

[icyfroth]

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17828671&ordinalpos=1&i...

An extensive review of the research on aspartame was published in 2007 and concluded:

The data from the extensive investigations into the possibility of neurotoxic effects of aspartame, in general, do not support the

hypothesis that aspartame in the human diet will affect nervous system function, learning or behavior. Epidemiological studies on

aspartame include several case-control studies and one well-conducted prospective epidemiological study with a large cohort, in

which the consumption of aspartame was measured. The studies provide no evidence to support an association between aspartame

and cancer in any tissue. The weight of existing evidence is that aspartame is safe at current levels of consumption as a nonnutritive

sweetener."

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Yeah right. So why do you think Pepsi are dropping it for "public health concerns".

Oh that's right. Because ppl are voting with their wallets and not buying their product sweetened with toxic substances.

They're actually switching to BOTTLED WATER.

Argggghhhh!

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17828671&ordinalpos=1&i...

An extensive review of the research on aspartame was published in 2007 and concluded:

The data from the extensive investigations into the possibility of neurotoxic effects of aspartame, in general, do not support the

hypothesis that aspartame in the human diet will affect nervous system function, learning or behavior. Epidemiological studies on

aspartame include several case-control studies and one well-conducted prospective epidemiological study with a large cohort, in

which the consumption of aspartame was measured. The studies provide no evidence to support an association between aspartame

and cancer in any tissue. The weight of existing evidence is that aspartame is safe at current levels of consumption as a nonnutritive

sweetener."

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Yeah right. So why do you think Pepsi are dropping it for "public health concerns".

Oh that's right. Because ppl are voting with their wallets and not buying their product sweetened with toxic substances.

They're actually switching to BOTTLED WATER.

Argggghhhh!

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   What people believe, and what is real, are usually two different things.......lol.