Diet soft drinks can be dangerous to your health!

Hi Dien!

> Personally, I'm going to play it safe, and
> cut artificial sweeteners from my diet....

Good call!!! And while you're at it, what other "artificial" things can you remove?

Heck, even sugar is artificial. It's "processed" and "refined" beyond all recognition. And then put into EVERY food there is.

I can't even buy a can of peas that doesn't have sugar added.

WHY?

What is being hidden here?

Do they add sugar to mask the fact they are putting "off" food into cans? With that little bit of sugar I won't taste the mold that's started to form on the food.

And why can't I buy a loaf of bread without sugar and soy-flour???

The Chinese new the dangers of the Soy bean which is why they only used it to fix nitrogen back into the ground... before they figured out the only SAFE way to get at the goodness of soy was to ferment it.

And now I have to triple check the soy sauce I buy to make sure it's fermented soy sauce and not made from pulverizing soy beans and reconstituting them, or some other non-fermentation extraction method.

Here's an experiment to try: buy (if you can) and consume only foods that do not contain numbers as part of their ingredients.

After one month buy a pizza (pizza hut, or whatever brand you want) and eat it... if you can without throwing up of feeling ill.

Or just try and eat something with numbers in it?

Or get a can of coke and drink it?

After one month of this little experiment in uncontaminated food you will INSTANTLY taste the foulness of the food you'd previously consumed without a second thought.

Coke will "feel" like syrup in your mouth and taste extra extra sweet. Food with additives will taste "wrong" and other things will be "heavy" and sickening.

I look at food like this... if I have to add a whole bunch of stuff to it to make it palatable I shouldn't be consuming it.

Have you ever wondered why little kids HATE vegetables?

It's because they taste disgusting! They, the little kids, can taste its yuckiness because their tastebuds haven't been conditioned yet.

And consider this other fact about vegetables... to harvest the vegetable the plant was killed. Making vegetables a non-renewable food supply.

The fact they taste yucky is also an indication we shouldn't eat them. They are designed NOT to be eaten and to help discourage it they taste yucky.

Fruit on the other hand is different. The very survival and renewal of a fruit plant depends on the fruit being eaten. And to assist that process, the fruit tastes good to us.

We then eat it and toss the inedible seed, which becomes another fruit plant later on. All in perfect harmony.

And we don't have to kill a fruit plant to partake of its offering.

This is how nature intended things... we eat what tastes good and don't eat what doesn't taste good or only tastes good after intense cooking and a truck load of additives have been added.

Imagine man 200,000 years ago. He walks over to a white thing sticking up out of the ground, yanks it out (killing it) and bites into it. He makes a funny face, spits out the bite and throws the thing away. Why? Because it was an onion!

Now imagine he sees an interesting thing hanging from a tree. He picks it (leaving the tree alive to make more for later) and takes a bite. He smiles, eats the rest and tosses the seed away which will grow into another tree later. Why? Because it was a peach, or orange, or apple (notice how apple seeds taste yucky? it's so you don't eat them).

Anyway. Try the no-number test and see what things taste like after a month. It's a real eye-opener.

Michael (I don't consume sugar and it makes it darn hard to buy things at the supermarket) Ross.