Diet Pepsi

In case anybody was wondering, I only had a can of Diet Pepsi at the blogger get-together.

Speaking of Diet Pepsi, many of the arguments used by Catholics and Fundamentalist Protestants against artificial contraception should also apply to artificial weight loss (e.g., saccharin, nutrasweet, sucralose, etc.). The purpose of sex is procreation and the purpose of food is nourishment. There's even a clear Biblical quote (Isaiah 55:2) against diet foods:

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

If cannibalism were a way to lose weight, we would have an analogy to abortion.

I once made a similar point in the other direction.