Diet Dessert A Success - Not to Mention Safe

I had a chance to try the Diet Soda Cake recipe earlier this week and it was suprisingly successful! I tried a white Funfetti cake mix with Diet Sprite. The cake was moist, tasty and reduced-calorie. I added Cool Whip on top for icing (the Lite kind of course) and it was really enjoyable. Although, I guess it's not so "reduced-calorie" if you eat most of it yourself. So upon feeling tempted, I just brought the rest to my brother's apartment so he and his roommates could dive in. Crisis averted.

After my reply earlier this week, I did a little more perusing of the web and found an additional source that affirmed the aspartame debacle is in fact an urban legend. This source prides themselves on stopping "junk mail and misinformation." A very respectable venture. The story notes that the arguments made against aspartame in a widely circulated Nancy Markle email "seem far-fetched, incomplete... and the fact that she tries to blame aspartame for virtually every disease known to man has many doubting the scientific fortitude of her claims. The bottom line is that none of her claims have been demonstrated in clinical study." I would have to agree that if there is no sound science backing certain claims, they are certainly not the source I would want to believe and listen to regarding my health. Because as the well-known adage goes, even if I lose money, friends, favorite dog, etc... "at least I have my health!"

The site closes it's aspartame comments by saying that "alarmist, anonymously authored and haphazardly forwarded information/emails are hardly the best place to get health advice."

Well there you have it. As for me and my diet soda... we're sticking to M.D.s with real credentials for diet advice.