Diet Beverages and the Demise of Your Health and Brain Function

Let me sum this one up the best I can. I'll do it bullet-point style

• There's a certain opportunity cost associated with diet beverages in that you could be drinking water.
• Diet beverages for some reason make people feel like they're doing something healthy for themselves and psychologically causes them to balance that with additional unhealthy activity. eg: chasing a diet coke with a cupcake. This isn't my notion. Its actually been proven with studies.
• Artificial sweeteners in general are a huge issue and can be connected to a myriad of problems. All I'm saying is that Diabetes and Alzheimers are both at epidemic proportions right now and both barely existed 35 years ago. The attention deficit issues have exploded as well. MAN-MADE FOODS AND INGREDIENTS CAUSE MAN-MADE DISEASES. Remember that! How much that can be attributed from artificial sweeteners, obviously is not known, and I doubt that Monsanto and company would want it known. Monsanto also invented Mustard Gas, by the way.
• Although the idea is still a little up in the air, some explain the brain's effects of artificial sweeteners like this: The artificial sweetener stimulates the brain in the same way that real sugar would, and certain hormones are produced as if real sugar were ingested causing a response similar to that of real sugar, which in turn causes any ancillary nutrients ingested to be treated like sugar and carried to the fats cells even though those calories would not normally respond that way.
• The overstimulation of your brain will ask you for more of the stimulant, so you end up either giving it more artificial sweetener, giving it some sugary calories, or giving it caffeine. And of course caffeine causes a similar situation to all this in its own right, so limiting to strictly caffeine is not the way around this.

Just limit your caffeine and artificial sweeteners. For starters try using a little raw honey with the artifical sweetener, so that you're actually satisfied and don't have to walk around with a Diet Coke I.V. all day. You absolutely wouldn't believe the corruption that took place getting aspartame approved by the FDA. Just Google Donald Rumsfeld aspartame.