Hi there ROBERT LePAGE...

I'm also very sorry to hear of your son's condition, and can only hope the Doctors are wrong and his tumour goes into remission.

I too consume large amounts of Diet Coke and Pepsi, which I'm sure does me no good either. However with respect you've made a bit of a reach to infer President TRUMP is addicted to the stuff, consequently it may be affecting him in some way? I sincerely hope your young bloke improves, I really do.

I am going to be harsh now but at times we have to be. Cheap shot it certainly was about Trump and Robert's whole silly business. I can understand your grief and blindly lashing out but having a shot at Trump?
Please Robert, get a grip and try and be rational.

If you look at the sweetener in Diet Coke and Coke Zero both have Aspartame which in the body turns into formaldehyde. However you would need to consume quantity to do harm. https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/aspartame-safe-sweetener-or-perilous-poison/

Aspartame is a horrible substance.

Sugar on the other hand is quite benign - better have the ordinary soft drinks than their "diet" counterparts.

Coke however contains so many other poisons - don't come near it!

ttbn:
how silly of me to warn you off aspartame. Please go for it and drink it by the gallon.
In fact if you are in the Hobart area I will donate some to you.
I bow to your obviously superior scientific knowledge and wish you well into the future.
As for Mr Trump, I do apologise for slandering such a caring intelligent person.
I mean who else but a man of his obvious talents would have been elected as president of the United States?

Robert,

I am honoured that you have singled me out even though others responded in much the same way I did to your cheap shot about Trump, your iffy 'reasearch', and the callous use of your son's illness for political reasons. But, perhaps you are not callous, and have cynically invented the whole thing.