>From: "Peter McWilliams" >Subject: Diet Coke? Sure! >Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 19:57:16 -0800 >X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 >X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > >Boy, do I have a wonderful list of friends or what? > >Here's a response to the Diet Coke e-mail I got. > >Enjoy, > >Peter > >----------- > > > >Wow, these warnings have been going around at least >since I got online in '95. Back then, I researched >several university and health sites, and learned that >real research does not support the hoax claims. > >I've never heard of the Green Earth Foundation, or the >other sites listed. Try checking: > >http://vance.ces.state.nc.us/fcs/releases/990226column.html > >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/7228/aspart.html > >http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blasp.htm > >http://www.acsh.org/press/editorials/HealthHoax012899.html > >http://www.junkscience.com/jun99/aspart.htm > >http://ificinfo.health.org/insight/aspcons.htm > >http://ificinfo.health.org/brochure/aspartam.htm > >http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/%7Elrd/tpaspart.html > >http://www.junkscience.com/news/nutrasweet.html > >Here's a really biased source, but it's >well-documented (science journals, etc.) and >informative: > >http://www.aspartamefacts.com/nutrasweet_company.html > >If you search the web, you'll see a million pages >about the dangers of Nutrasweet. Amazing how many >amateur scientists are so devoted to saving our >lives!!!! Ha ha! Nutrasweet somehow has made the big >time - right there among white supremacy, gay bashing, >and the Y2K bug - as a favorite of extremist crazy >people who know how to type html tags. > >I try not to believe too much that is aimed to scare >me. It's a good rule of thumb for Internet >"information" > >PS You know an e-mail is a hoax when it starts out by >saying Coca Cola sales are down!!!! (Sales were up 6% >in 1999.) That's like the one I got last week saying >KFC isn't allowed to say the word "chicken" in its ads >any more, because it is using genetically engineered >creatures hooked to tubes as its primary ingredient, >not real chickens. Apparently that author never turns >the TV on - "We do chicken right!" Go Colonel... go >Colonel... > > > > >================================================================ > >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: