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pnwest

(3,265 posts)
2. Quit Aspartame 10 years ago. Got rid of so many weird, unexplained physical
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 03:42 PM
Feb 2019

ailments: crashing headache every morning, (i mean every. damn. morning.) muscle stiffness, especially my neck. Joint pain and stiffness, my right hip so bad that I truly believed I needed a hip replacement! Dizziness / vertigo - and this weird electrical buzzing in my head when I turned my head to the left.

ALL symptoms disappeared. Headache gone in two days, day three I shocked my myself when I bounded out of bed with no stiffness or dizziness. Two weeks all the rest gone.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
4. Crap....another thing I do that is going to kill me...
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 03:46 PM
Feb 2019

I am starting to get the idea that I may not live forever.


I hate to say it, but the majority of these studies are so flawed and badly structured that any conclusions coming from them at all are specious at best and outright prevarications at worst. And the "women over 50" part is surely controlled in double blind experiments with adequate control populations too, right?

What is one of the top 5 causes of death in ALL women and men over 50? Heart attack / Stroke / heart disease...draw your own conclusions from there are the quality of the study suggesting a causal link to one of many behavioral patterns.

Of course, that doesn't mean drinking soda is harmless, but I see so many "studies" that are baseless like this that it boils my blood because it is nonsense and woo that makes it possible for people to look at things like climate change and dispute the science there because of things like this...arrgggghhhh.

I feel like Charlie Brown trying to kick a football at times...

Sophiegirl

(2,338 posts)
5. I gave up Diet Soda
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 03:48 PM
Feb 2019

Over a year ago, i quit all caffeine and sodas. I had flu like symptoms for a week while my body adjusted. Being over 50, now i am doubly glad I did.

appalachiablue

(41,056 posts)
7. Diet soda also has high fructose corn syrup thst contains glyphosate
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:00 PM
Feb 2019

the toxin in herbicides linked to cancer and maybe more.

BigmanPigman

(51,432 posts)
9. Nope, I don't like any soda
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:34 PM
Feb 2019

unless it is flat and room temp and only if there is nothing else to drink. I am odd.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
10. No soda of any kind, ever. But thanks for the hope that this means Dump will die any day now!
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:38 PM
Feb 2019

Heard he's a diet soda freak.

hlthe2b

(101,730 posts)
14. I once did but not in nearly 10 years... Virtually none...
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:52 PM
Feb 2019

It is addictive and I still sometimes crave one. But unsweetened iced tea, coffee, and water for me.

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