Is drinking too much diet coke bad?
Actually, it can be worse for you than drinking ordinary Coke. Both ordinary and Diet Coke will do the following: -weaken teeth due to the leaching effect of the carbon dioxide fizz on the minerals in the enamel, the acid in the flavouring, and the sweeteners; -increase likelihood of stomach ulcers and digestion problems; -encourage caffeine dependency and not give you sufficient liquid intake – any caffeiated drinks you consume should be offset by a glass of water to avoid mild dehydration. In addition to the above, Diet Coke, in fact, diet drinks in general, also contain sweeteners. Some contain sorbitol, which will merely give you the runs. Diet Coke however, contains aspartame – a derivative of phenylanaline (other names for this group of sweteners include Sweetex, Nutrasweet and Acesculfame K). These sweeteners are all mild neurotoxins, which means that in large quantities in certian people they can affect the brain and nervous system leading to MS- or Parkinson’s-like symptoms in
