Hi, Folks –
My sister drank Diet Coke all day long. When she finally began to think there might be reason to get off the stuff, she found that she couldn’t. From the linked article: “You have to remember that aspartame is a seriously addictive drug with the methanol component being classified as a narcotic.”
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On October 16, 2017, three class-action lawsuits were filed in New York Federal court against the Coca Cola Company, Pepsi Cola, and Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Inc., and three were filed in California regarding aspartame use, which is widely recognized as linked to weight gain, several chronic diseases, and addiction. Class action lawsuits, as you may know, are a type of lawsuit where the plaintiffs are a group of individuals represented collectively by a single or few typical members of that group.
Deception and Misrepresentation
The lawsuits allege violations of laws barring false advertising and deceptive business practices as well as negligent and intentional misrepresentations made to the public such as labeling aspartame-containing drinks as “diet” drinks. This misled the public into believing that these drinks are preferable and safe for one’s health when in fact the exact opposite is true.
The meaning of the word “diet” to which these advertising claims refer is “to restrict oneself to small amounts or special kinds of food in order to lose weight.” Many people switch to diet drinks to avoid sugar with the understandable assumption and trust that a diet food is safer and healthier than a sugar-laden one.
Abraham Melamed, one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys, was quoted as saying, “In our opinion, it’s one of the biggest consumer scams in the last 50 years …. There’s a strong sense of urgency because there are hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of consumers out there that are being deceived on a daily basis.”
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I’m in. I drank diet Pepsi for years before I was diagnosed with Type Two diabetes. I have no family history of diabetes but my sister, who also consumed aspartame-infested soda for years, also contracted the disease.