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Title: Diet soda


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Diet soda
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What is in diet soda?
  • Artificial sweeteners
  • Sucralose (or splenda)
  • Neotame
  • Sugar alcohols (sorbitol, manitol)
  • Tagatose (nutralose)
  • Aspartame (equal, nutraSweet)
  • Saccharin (Sweet N Low)

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Aspartame
  • What is Aspartame?
  • 2 amino acids
  • Aspartic acid and phenylalanine

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History of aspartame
  • Discovered in 1965
  • 200 times sweeter than sugar
  • Completely broken down by the body
  • Deemed safe by many leading health authorities

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Is aspartame safe?
  • Some people say aspartame will
  • Multiple sclerosis, cancer, lupus, brain tumours,
    seizures etc
  • Most claims come from studies performed in
    animals
  • Some people cant metabolise phenylalanine

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Is Aspartame safe?
  • Scientists and health agencies say
  • The amino acids occur naturally in foods
  • No scientific link between disease and aspartame
  • Most tested food additive ever

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Aspartame and obesity
  • Can aspartame help to avoid obesity ?
  • 2000 tonnes consumed annually
  • 50g added sugar daily
  • Eat 5g aspartame annually
  • Diets high in sugar are low in fat

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Other considerations
  • Promote a sweet tooth
  • Replace water and milk
  • Not good for teeth
  • Phosphoric acid can leach calcium
  • Drive for diet drinks comes from soft drink
    companies

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What do you think?
  • Should we promote diet soda?
  • Do you think they can be used to help weight
    loss?
  • What are the other issues for diet soda?
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