Public Service Announcement

Today is a great day for another public service announcement post. Something happened over the last couple of months that was very eye opening for me and for some people I know.

While my husband was having his surgery - his half brother came to sit with us at the hospital. While we were visiting he told us about some problems his girlfriend had been having for the past year. Lots of pain in her hands. Although she didn't have insurance, she had been going to different specialist trying to figure out what was wrong with her hands. Several different specialist had test run and just could not figure out what the problem was.

The conversation moved on to some anger issues this same girl was having. This sparked a memory for my sister. A friend of hers had had some major issues and had found out that it was diet sodas that were causing the problems. Aspertame is the main offender. It is very bad for people. So my sister and I advised him to have his girlfriend take a break from the diet sodas and see if there was any improvements.

About a month or so later - I got a message from the girl friend asking me to pass along a big "Thank you" to my sister. The girlfriend had stopped drinking diet drinks and her hands were not hurting her any more. She was so relieved!

We don't know if it has helped with the anger outbursts- but I am going to guess that it has.

I heard on a health program this morning that in a big study - and they said who did the study - I just don't remember - they said that it was found a link between diet drinks and strokes.

So my advice to anyone who drinks diet drinks - try to stop drinking them. Once you get past the withdrawal period - and especially if you are drinking water in place of diet drinks - you will be happily rewarded by feeling a lot better. They really are dangerous. I think if there wasn't such big bucks behind the soda industry that this information would be widely known instead of suppressed.

That is it for today- diet drinks can cause all sorts of health issues and you may never realize that it is the diet drinks causing the problems unless you take a break from them and give your body a chance to recoup from the damage done. Be aware that you may go through some withdrawals, this is normal - but just hold out after a few days you would be feeling better. :O)