Coca Cola Causes Cancer?!

The CSPI believes that your favorite soda will kill you.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/cspi-caramel-coloring-cola-cancer-soft-drink-industry/story?id=12932008

I've been drinking Cola for more than ten years and not once at my doctor's was I ever told of having cancer so what's CSPI talking about?

You're doctor has probably been paid off/blackmailed by the Cola companies to keep your cancer secret.

I'll remember you fondly.

Can =/= will

Originally posted by Nemesis X
I've been drinking Cola for more than ten years and not once at my doctor's was I ever told of having cancer so what's CSPI talking about?

Increased risk means increased risk, not instant death.

Also look at the rest of the article. Fred Guengerich, who looks reputable, points out that the mice were give massive doses of the chemical. This is sort of like CSPI saying that chocolate has health risks because if a car sized brick of it fell on you it would splatter your brains across the street like delicious jelly filling.

Well aspartame isn't any better for us but we don't about its' affects.

Everything is bad for you.

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
Well aspartame isn't any better for us but we don't about its' affects.

Alot of people have believed this but I am not sure if I do.

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
Well aspartame isn't any better for us but we don't about its' affects.

the dangers of sweeteners are exaggerated

unless you drink a case and a half of diet pop a day

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Increased risk means increased risk, not instant death.

Also look at the rest of the article. Fred Guengerich, who looks reputable, points out that the mice were give massive doses of the chemical. This is sort of like CSPI saying that chocolate has health risks because if a car sized brick of it fell on you it would splatter your brains across the street like delicious jelly filling.

most "X causes cancer" headlines are like this

then again, there was a bunch of stuff I saw a few years ago about how previously thought "safe" or "trace" amounts of some things (namely pharmaceuticals) can in fact have major impacts on the body

I drink a whole bottle of diet coke a day.

you should be more concerned about your tooth enamel than cancer, but I don't think anyone would say that is healthy (I do the same with diet rootbeer frequently too though, so I'm hardly one to give advice)

diet coke is less healthy than normal one.. 😖
I mean aspartame increases risk of cancer... and generally all the sweeteners are the same.. as far as I'm concerned xylitol (the thing in chewing gum) is safer a bit.. but still nothing great.

and of course, normal coke has a lot of sugar.. and phosphoric acid... and is making bones weaker and tooth enamel and so on.. blah.

and you know.. smoking causes cancer lady so quit smoke

Originally posted by Clovie
diet coke is less healthy than normal one.. 😖

that totally depends on a number of variables, actually

like what?

well, for instance, I'm a diabetic

I thought that we are discussing generally healthy people..

and btw normal coke is used by diabetics in case of hypoglycaemia, because it quickly increases bloody sugar 🙂

Originally posted by Clovie
I thought that we are discussing generally healthy people..

Type 1 diabetics are hardly a clinical population, and with proper diet (ie, avoiding excess sugar) there are few health problems...

also, no, we weren't. you made a blanket statement that does not apply to all conditions (my point being, it is very difficult to say one thing is more or less healthy than another, because people are very different in their metabolism)

Originally posted by Clovie
and btw normal coke is used by diabetics in case of hypoglycaemia, because it quickly increases bloody sugar 🙂

it is?!?!

lol, yes, but when correcting for a low, glucose units are very important. You don't just down a bottle of coke when you have a low, because that is dangerous, you need to know how much sugar your body needs and administer it in doses. Coke or sugar become a medicinal product in this case. It would be like you saying heroin is healthy because they give morphine to people to kill pain.

😑 actually diabetics type1 is a serious illness. and it has a lot of complications. and yeah..not in the first year of the illness, but in 10 or 15.. kidneys failure, eye problems, heart problems.. there is bigger risk of heart attack or a stroke .. but it goes to both types..
and diabetics type2 is more common and connected with obesity..

and I'm not saying that coke is healthy. what I'm saying is that basically sugar is less dangerous (=healthier=less unhealthy) than artificial sweeteners.

AND OF COURSE you DO dawn a bottle of coke when you have a low. and you eat some bread.
low sugar level is more dangerous (when it is rapid, and usually it is) than a high one. when diabetics patient is unconscious you first give them glucose and not insulin. 😬

thank you for explaining how diabetes works to me

I sense sarcasm 😐 but you're welcome.