http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090611/...h-3fd0ae9.html

At long last a country with sense to ban these nasty, evil diet drinks. Stopped drinking anything with artificial sweetners in 2 years ago.

Evil?? really?? A little OTT isn't it?

Taste damn good to me.

Maybe you could have started this thread in the 'Broadcasting' section.

You forgot to put "...in a place that has no relevance to 99.9% of people reading this". Do you work for a tabloid by any chance?

So what's the advice being looked for here? I'd advise changing your opinion and stop being led by sensationalist scaremongering.

If you dont like it, dont drink it, why get soo worked up over it?

Actually I have to agree with the OP. I try to avoid artificial sweetners because they taste vile and they are made from chemicals. Also Venezuela is a sugar producing country and they would want to encourage the increased use of sugar.

I found this on the interweb:

Not chemicals.. OMG!!11!!! NOT CHEMICALS!!!
Next they will be pumping artificially produced poison gas through the stuff just to make it taste better.

What is so dangerous about them? Go on, enlighten us.

Anything other than proper Coke out of the proper glass bottles is evil.

Having read Mark Thomas's Belching out the Devil I would disagree with the above comment.

phew, crisis averted

I think the issue the OP is/was raising is that Aspartame is said to be a carcinogenic, but I think (IIRC) its is very much dependant on the level of intake.

The evidence for Aspartame being dangerous is very circumstantial, it has been declared safe by most countries, including the American FDA.

Yes, I'm aware of that, but there are still a lot of sceptics out there, that's all. I assume the OP is amongst them.

It's the same as with MMR, someone said it was dangerous then loads of other people proved it wasn't, but people still believe the hype.

They worry about coke zero being evil when 71% of the planet is covered with dihydrogen monoxide - and I turned on the tap last week and a load of hydrogen hydroxide came out. We're all doomed I tells ya

Good for you OP, Aspartame the silent killer. More people need to know about this. Ignore the sheelp people taking the pi$$ on here its a hopeless battle.

http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects.html

I think i'll believe all the food agencies that say it is perfectly safe over that woman. Who is she?

Some alternative health quack.

Her Ph.D is from Clayton College of Natural Health

Incidentally the same place Gillian McKeith got her 'qualification' from.

corrected:

Her Ph.D is from the internet.

Well I avoid aspartame because the after taste is absolutely awful. I would prefer saccharin if I had to choose.

Plenty of us diabetics enjoy the flavour of colas but must limit our sugar intake. I hope the Venezualan economy doesn't collapse because we choose diet/zero/max varieties

But Coke Zero tastes so good i love it.

Nothing is never actually 'proved' in such cases... we can only give a best guess with the technology and evidence at the time.

Look at medication, all of it goes through endless tests and trials before it is declared/proved safe, then either years or sometimes months later they discover it has side effects that harm or worse.