• Question: Is it true that Diet Coke can give multiple sclerosis? If so why?

    Asked by pandaboy to MarkF, Mark, Michael, Panos, Sarah on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Sarah Burl answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      I don’t believe there is any real evidence for this, don’t believe everything that papers say or scientists in papers for that matter. You only have to look at the NMR scare and what that did for child deahs from measles because mothers were too scared to give their children measles vaccine!

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      Mark Fogg answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      No, it’s not true at all. It has been ‘rumoured’ the sweetener in Diet Coke, aspartame, can cause MS. No such link between aspartame and MS has been demonstrated.

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      Mark Travis answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Never heard of that, and they would never be allowed to sell it if there was even a hint that it would.

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      Panos Soultanas answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      No it’s not true. I drink lots of coke and feel quite healthy.

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      Michael Loughlin answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      some deit drinks contain aspartame a sweetner that is amde up not of sugars but of 2 amino acids. A small number of people with a genetic deficiencey in an enzyme have to watch how much amino acids they consume Pop is an unlikey souirce of these amino acids so cwertain diet drinks have to contain awarning contains source of phenylalanine . The result of too many amino acids to these sdmall group would be neurological.. perhapos thats where this idea came from…

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