Phenyalanine
I'm tired of people telling me how bad diet drinks are for you when I consume one based on the fact that it contains phenylalanine. Facts about Phenylalanine
1.) Phenyl is found naturally in the world, we consume it everyday (unless we have PKU) in foods such as fish, meat, cheese, yogurt, and milk.
2.) Phenyl is an essential amino acid (protein) so that we can process it into tyrosine (unless we have PKU) useful in the signal transformation of nerve cells, essentially without it nerve cells aren't as effective and therefore a deficiency in tyrosine (sometimes caused by a deficiency of phenylalanine, though most often caused by the lack of the enzyme that breaks down phenylalanine into tyrosine resulting in PKU) leads to mental retardation.
3.) Phenyl has a tendancy to increase hunger cravings when not served in conjunction with food. (if drinking a soda with phenylalanine in it, the craving can be curbed by a meal with products that do not contain phenylalanine) These cravings do not need to be appeased however.
4.) be mindful when consuming anything in mass quantities the ill effects. a serving of a diet drink containing phenylalanine contains just as much as a serving of meat or fish or yogurt, a 20 oz. bottle is 2.5 servings the human body doesn't need that much. To those of you who complain the Phenylalanine gives you headaches (and I'm not saying it doesn't) maybe your just consuming too much at one time.
5.) Phenylalanine does not turn to FORMALDEHYDE in your system and whoever told you that needs to go back to school and not listen to holistic medical sites that attempt to propagate the idea of "natural" foods.
6.)warnings of Phenylalanine on products containing Phenyl are there for the purposes of individuals suffering from PKU (an inherited genetic (therefor non acquirable) disease), and not for any general public health issues ... compare it to packages warning about peanuts and tree-nuts for those who are allergic to such oils coming from peanuts and tree nuts.
Don't tell me the bad stuff in a diet drink (at least not by citing the one thing that I know to not be bad for you), I'm an adult and I know what I'm doing.
1.) Phenyl is found naturally in the world, we consume it everyday (unless we have PKU) in foods such as fish, meat, cheese, yogurt, and milk.
2.) Phenyl is an essential amino acid (protein) so that we can process it into tyrosine (unless we have PKU) useful in the signal transformation of nerve cells, essentially without it nerve cells aren't as effective and therefore a deficiency in tyrosine (sometimes caused by a deficiency of phenylalanine, though most often caused by the lack of the enzyme that breaks down phenylalanine into tyrosine resulting in PKU) leads to mental retardation.
3.) Phenyl has a tendancy to increase hunger cravings when not served in conjunction with food. (if drinking a soda with phenylalanine in it, the craving can be curbed by a meal with products that do not contain phenylalanine) These cravings do not need to be appeased however.
4.) be mindful when consuming anything in mass quantities the ill effects. a serving of a diet drink containing phenylalanine contains just as much as a serving of meat or fish or yogurt, a 20 oz. bottle is 2.5 servings the human body doesn't need that much. To those of you who complain the Phenylalanine gives you headaches (and I'm not saying it doesn't) maybe your just consuming too much at one time.
5.) Phenylalanine does not turn to FORMALDEHYDE in your system and whoever told you that needs to go back to school and not listen to holistic medical sites that attempt to propagate the idea of "natural" foods.
6.)warnings of Phenylalanine on products containing Phenyl are there for the purposes of individuals suffering from PKU (an inherited genetic (therefor non acquirable) disease), and not for any general public health issues ... compare it to packages warning about peanuts and tree-nuts for those who are allergic to such oils coming from peanuts and tree nuts.
Don't tell me the bad stuff in a diet drink (at least not by citing the one thing that I know to not be bad for you), I'm an adult and I know what I'm doing.