mom2denj Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 OK, so I love ice cold water and I drink it all day. However lately, I am on a crystal light peach tea kick. I have been drinking it all day long. Do you think that it is just as good for you if you are adding crystal light to your water??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ourjourneys Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 I think the benefit of at least getting the water into your body is as good. You are just adding those long chemical names into your system when you add crystal light, koolaid, or any other kind of powder. Have you tried making raspberry or lemon tea with sugar and then making it iced? Extremely healthy (if you can leave out the sugar - better) and cheap too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melinda in VT Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Uh, no. :D For me, Crystal Light falls in the Fake Food category. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2cents Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 I used to drink a lot of Crystal Light but noticed I was getting horrible headaches and felt like I was dragging and foggy. One of the threads here at WTM made me wonder if it might be the Aspertame. I cut it all out and within days I felt a lot better and no more headaches. I think there was a connection. Now I'm just doing water and if I want a little sugar, I'll just add some honey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amy g. Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 No. Drink water instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medieval Mom Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 I remembeer my doc telling me to NEVER drink more than two servings of a diet drink per day. I didn't pay much attention, because I never eat or drink DIET anything;) ; but, no, don't do this to your body. The verdict is still out on the carcinogenic effects of fake sweeteners. Try adding peach nectar to iced tea instead:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6packofun Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Same here. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Uh, no. :D For me, Crystal Light falls in the Fake Food category. :iagree: Besides artificial sweetener and flavour, it contains BHA and sodium benzoate. I wouldn't drink it at all, not one glass. If you want a little flavouring in your water, a bit of lemon or lime juice is nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paintedlady Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 (edited) Last year I started drinking Crystal Light a lot and I began having horrible hot flashes, so bad that I went to the Dr. to find out what was wrong. He ran a whole panel of tests and everything came back normal except he said I may be on the cusp of menopause. Thing is, I suspected it might be the Crystal Light, so I stopped drinking it. Within about a week the hot flashes started to lessen in severity and after a few weeks stopped completely. I haven't had any since and have had no reoccurence of the hot flashes. Edited July 11, 2010 by Paintedlady Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen in PA Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 I would try to ditch the Crystal Light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Yep. Fake food. Artificial sweeteners, colors, flavors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1bassoon Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Say bye-bye to it. Really. I'm recovering from a 7 year long addiction to Diet Coke and other drinks sweetened with aspartame. Hot flashes, fog, mood swings, anger issues, tunnel vision, exhaustion. . . . . it has all caught up with me. I've been "clean" now for about 3 weeks. I can't believe how much better I feel. I still drink my "sweet" tea made with stevia - I like it that way - and am having none of those effects. Although - I'm in the process of drinking less of that and more water. Baby steps. At any rate - I'd be cautious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyej Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 No, I'm a former diet soda addict and I avoid aspartame like the plague. Water, iced herbal tea, whatever -- but no artificial sweeteners for me or my family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phathui5 Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 I think it's like drinking diet soda all day long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny_Weatherwax Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 For me -- NO! I began drinking Crystal Light in Jan. and was ill by March. I am still paying the price (see my detox note in my siggy). That stuff is poison for me. Please be careful if you choose to drink it. Ice water with a little lemon or lime juice is the way to go. I have also found that placing frozen raspberries in the water adds a little flavor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crissy Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Besides artificial sweetener and flavour, it contains BHA and sodium benzoate. I wouldn't drink it at all, not one glass. If you want a little flavouring in your water, a bit of lemon or lime juice is nice. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edithcrawley Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 OK, so I love ice cold water and I drink it all day. However lately, I am on a crystal light peach tea kick. I have been drinking it all day long. Do you think that it is just as good for you if you are adding crystal light to your water??? If Crystal Light makes you drink more water than you would otherwise, I say stick with it. I can't drink plain water, it needs to be flavored, and lime/lemon slices just don't work for me-I need more flavor than that. Yeah aspartame causes problems in some people (seems like a significant number on this board, wonder why?), but if you aren't one of those people, I see no harm in consuming it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizzyBee Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 I will occasionally make some Crystal Light peach tea and mix it with regular tea. But I don't do it often because aspartame is a neurotoxin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2cents Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 My symptoms (migraine level headache, foggy etc.) didn't start right away. It happened after several days of drinking the Crystal Light. I also ate other artificially flavored foods at the same time because I thought they were 'free' (no calorie) for my diet. It was only after I eliminated the sweetners that I started feeling better. It was a big surprise to me because I didn't realize up until then that something as little as that could make me feel so awful. To the OP-if you don't have any side effects then no harm done but just keep an eye out for some of the problems that the posters brought up because it can take time for them to develop. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizzyBee Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Yeah aspartame causes problems in some people (seems like a significant number on this board, wonder why?), but if you aren't one of those people, I see no harm in consuming it. For most people, the damage is done slowly over time, and they wouldn't realize the damage being done until it's too late to completely un-do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josie Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Water is definitely best. Aspartame is in Crystal Light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asta Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 If Crystal Light makes you drink more water than you would otherwise, I say stick with it. I can't drink plain water, it needs to be flavored, and lime/lemon slices just don't work for me-I need more flavor than that. Yeah aspartame causes problems in some people (seems like a significant number on this board, wonder why?), but if you aren't one of those people, I see no harm in consuming it. Because I will occasionally make some Crystal Light peach tea and mix it with regular tea. But I don't do it often because aspartame is a neurotoxin. Wanna know what those are? Well, botulism and tetanus are two that most people have heard of right off the bat. They work by blocking the release of neurotransmitters. eg: by not allowing your brain to send signals properly. There is a pretty famous neurotoxin called MPTP that is known because it destroys certain neurons in the brain and leads to permanent Parkinson's disease symptoms. The thing about neurotoxins is that all of them either degenerate or destroy neurons. The mechanisms of some of them are well known, and some of them are simply guessed at. The other difficulty is that, well, diet stuff is big business. BIG. No one wants to do research for peer reviewed journals that says "hey! this is all a sham and it's slowly killing people!" If you know what you're looking for, you can periodically find something. There is this article (abstract): Amino acids as dietary excitotoxins: A contribution to understanding neurodegenerative disorders that points out the process of how certain amino acids are excitotoxins -> which causes problems in the central nervous system (neural toxicity). We, as a society, get snowed by advertisements saying "it's natural - it is made from things found in nature". Well, no sh!t, buddy! Did you think it was made from something found on Mars? Amino acids are the building blocks of life. It just so happens that there are safe ways to combine them in the kitchen or lab, and there are phenomenally stupid ways to combine them. No person in their right mind would drink formaldehyde (hello? preserved fetal pigs in anatomy and physiology?), yet they're willing to drink a diet Coke that has sat in a 115 degree warehouse (fyi - heat degrades nutrasweet into its primary components, one of which is formaldehyde). <sigh> a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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