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Aspartame in Milk?

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  • Posts: 8,218 Member
    I'm not gonna read this whole thread, but I hope you know that dairy cows are fed copious amounts of jelly beans to sweeten their milk.

    That is all.

    Not just jelly beans...STALE jelly beans. :sick:

    AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
  • Posts: 1,245 Member
    Oh, they don't gots to know about it. It could be our milk.

    BWAHHAHAHA love that movie!
  • Posts: 10,473 Member



    An article published in the journal "Hormone and Metabolic Research" in 1987 reported that the artificial sweetener acesulfame-K increases the release of insulin. Until more is known about the long-term effects, I would give them a wide berth.

    That's nice. Here's a more recent study in 2005

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16280432
    Functional magnetic resonance imaging of human hypothalamic responses to sweet taste and calories.
    RESULTS:

    Glucose ingestion resulted in a prolonged and significant signal decrease in the upper hypothalamus (P < 0.05). Water, aspartame, and maltodextrin had no such effect. Glucose and maltodextrin ingestions resulted in similar increases in blood glucose and insulin concentrations. However, only glucose triggered an early rise in insulin concentrations. Aspartame did not trigger any insulin response.
    CONCLUSIONS:

    Our findings suggest that both sweet taste and energy content are required for a hypothalamic response. The combination of sweet taste and energy content could be crucial in triggering adaptive responses to sweetened beverages.
  • Posts: 79 Member
    I sure hope they don't. I'm not much of a milk drinker, but I do use it for cereal and cooking and stuff, and I am allergic to aspartame.
  • Posts: 182 Member
    Great, with the antibiotics and growth hormones, why not add more crap to milk? Why not just add chalk and water to fill it out as well
  • Posts: 28,072 Member
    I sure hope they don't. I'm not much of a milk drinker, but I do use it for cereal and cooking and stuff, and I am allergic to aspartame.

    They are not talking about plain milk.
  • Posts: 191 Member

    I'm guessing you didn't actually read through it :ohwell:


    And why would you assume that? I read the whole thing. Did you?
  • Posts: 191 Member
    To quote from that study:

    "Collectively, the findings imply that typical Western diets are likely to be significantly more insulinogenic than more traditional diets based on less refined foods.

    As observed in previous studies, consumption of protein or fat with carbohydrate in creases insulin secretion compared with the insulinogenic ef fect of these nutrients alone"

    Therefore despite protein causing an insulin response (like all foods) it is still recognised that when consumed with a carbohydrate source that the insulin response is increased. A person wishing to reduce blood sugar levels & insulin response will be more successful if they lower their carbohydrate intake. This study in its conclusion also states that further research is required and note that the purpose of this study was to challenge GI which has already been considered to be inferior to GL.

    With all due respect I consider this study to be somewhat out of context in relation to whether a diabetic should be consuming aspartame containing products. Would you really advise a diabetic client to continue consuming these products rather than encouraging a protein rich diet?
  • Posts: 191 Member
    Quote from original reference from OP

    " The groups also say they would help with programs that aim to improve nutrition in school meals and argue that the proposed amendments would promote "honesty and fair dealing in the marketplace," the FDA wrote.

    As long as they are promoting their own products as healthy! Of course they want to be involved in school nutrition- they need to make sure their milk is still being consumed. A finger in all pies!! Never will they step up and declare their own products "flavoured milk" as unhealthy for children. All flavoured milk should be pulled out of schools to promote healthy nutrition!

    If you won't consume it then neither should your children
  • Posts: 10,473 Member
    So have you guys decided who is right and who is wrong yet? Will there be pie and punch served at the end?
    Aspartame has many people by the gonads and gondola's, just look around in this thread, some can't even think straight.......it was bound to happen when the conspiracy for world domination was uncovered over the internet.:happy: Damn that artificial sweetner.
  • Posts: 12,142 Member
    To quote from that study:

    "Collectively, the findings imply that typical Western diets are likely to be significantly more insulinogenic than more traditional diets based on less refined foods.

    As observed in previous studies, consumption of protein or fat with carbohydrate in creases insulin secretion compared with the insulinogenic ef fect of these nutrients alone"

    Therefore despite protein causing an insulin response (like all foods) it is still recognised that when consumed with a carbohydrate source that the insulin response is increased. A person wishing to reduce blood sugar levels & insulin response will be more successful if they lower their carbohydrate intake. This study in its conclusion also states that further research is required and note that the purpose of this study was to challenge GI which has already been considered to be inferior to GL.

    With all due respect I consider this study to be somewhat out of context in relation to whether a diabetic should be consuming aspartame containing products. Would you really advise a diabetic client to continue consuming these products rather than encouraging a protein rich diet?

    You left out a portion of that quote that goes directly against what you've been claiming

    "Although some of the protein-rich foods may normally be eaten in smaller quantities, fish, beef, cheese, and eggs still had larger insulin responses per gram than did many of the foods consist ing predominantly of carbohydrate."
    With all due respect I consider this study to be somewhat out of context in relation to whether a diabetic should be consuming aspartame containing products. Would you really advise a diabetic client to continue consuming these products rather than encouraging a protein rich diet?

    Claim: Avoid aspartame because it spikes insulin

    Listed other things that spike insulin and much much higher than aspartame and am waiting on the claim maker to say if they should be avoided as well.
  • Posts: 10,473 Member

    You left out a portion of that quote that goes directly against what you've been claiming

    "Although some of the protein-rich foods may normally be eaten in smaller quantities, fish, beef, cheese, and eggs still had larger insulin responses per gram than did many of the foods consist ing predominantly of carbohydrate."

    Claim: Avoid aspartame because it spikes insulin

    Listed other things that spike insulin and much much higher than aspartame and am waiting on the claim maker to say if they should be avoided as well.
    Confirmation bias is thankless taskmaster.....some feel being right is more important than learning something new. Kinda reminds me of the quote "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."
  • Posts: 12,142 Member
    Relationship Between Aspartame, Methanol and Formaldehyde Explained

    http://andevidencelibrary.com/topic.cfm?cat=4089&highlight=aspartame&home=1
  • Posts: 2,272 Member
    Sometimes it's hard to hear when the tinfoil hat slips over your ears...
  • Thats why I avoid Weight Watchers products as there is loads of Aspartame in them and since avoiding it I have had no more migraines and my so called Fibromyalgie has just about disapeared. I have a code checker Ap that lets me scan everything that might be dodgy and lets me know if there are any nastys in it :laugh:
  • Posts: 2,016 Member

    Unless I'm missing something major, no one said anything about putting aspartame into anything without putting it on the label.

    Instead of adding sugar or HFCS to "chocolate milk" they would add aspartame or sucralose or whatever. It would still be on the label.

    No, it wouldn't...

    "Dairy industry groups have asked the Food and Drug Administration to be able to put artificial sweeteners in milk, and not change the label, claiming that it is so consumers can "more easily identify its overall nutritional value".

    The request is to be allowed to use artificial sweeteners in milk products without indicating what they are on the label. Major problem for anyone who avoids artificial sweeteners for whatever reason, like me. As I don't particularly enjoy incapacitating headaches, temporary blindness, loss of sensation in my arm and hand, the shakes...and I'd really rather not develop neurological diseases if I can avoid it, I need to know what's in a product, specifically what sweeteners have been used. A generic 'sweetener' ingredient listing gives me no clue what's actually in there. This proposal takes away my ability to make an informed choice, based on my personal needs.
  • Posts: 191 Member
    Confirmation bias is thankless taskmaster.....some feel being right is more important than learning something new. Kinda reminds me of the quote "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."


    It's not learning something new if the very people who did the study claimed that further investigation needs to be done. I am plenty educated in the matter thank you and do not argue a point "to be right" maybe you should be more open to learning something new? At least ACG argues his point with some respect for other people's opinions rather than making wide sweeping accusations.


    Also I will never change my mind about consuming products that contain these ingredients. Dangerous or not they certainly don't rank as healthy. The foods I eat grew or lived, they did not come from a can or carton. My choice, my health.
  • Posts: 5,320 Member

    No, it wouldn't...

    "Dairy industry groups have asked the Food and Drug Administration to be able to put artificial sweeteners in milk, and not change the label, claiming that it is so consumers can "more easily identify its overall nutritional value".

    The request is to be allowed to use artificial sweeteners in milk products without indicating what they are on the label. Major problem for anyone who avoids artificial sweeteners for whatever reason, like me. As I don't particularly enjoy incapacitating headaches, temporary blindness, loss of sensation in my arm and hand, the shakes...and I'd really rather not develop neurological diseases if I can avoid it, I need to know what's in a product, specifically what sweeteners have been used. A generic 'sweetener' ingredient listing gives me no clue what's actually in there. This proposal takes away my ability to make an informed choice, based on my personal needs.

    That article is poorly written - the actual ingredients would still be listed with the nutrition facts, but there would not be anything on the *front* of the package indicating that you might want to take a closer look at the ingredients. You would have to always read the ingredients list, never assuming that regular meant no artificial sweeteners.
  • Posts: 291 Member

    Also I will never change my mind about consuming products that contain these ingredients.


    LOL.
  • Posts: 10,161 Member


    LOL.

    It's funny when you take it out of context that way. But she didn't say that she will never change her mind about whether they're safe - she said she'll never change her mind about eating them.

    Whether they prove to be safe or not, these artificial ingredients are, in her opinion, not necessary and serve no nutritional purpose. Therefore she will avoid them. Which seems like a perfectly reasonable route to me. I consume aspartame and other zero-calorie sweeteners, but I can respect the idea that someone would want to avoid artificial ingredients that serve no nutritive purpose.
  • Posts: 2,016 Member

    That article is poorly written - the actual ingredients would still be listed with the nutrition facts, but there would not be anything on the *front* of the package indicating that you might want to take a closer look at the ingredients. You would have to always read the ingredients list, never assuming that regular meant no artificial sweeteners.

    Ah - I had understood it differently, from this and other sources ie. that the plan was to simply list 'sweetener' in the ingredients.

    As it happens I'm already a compulsive label-reader. That stuff turns up in all sorts of unexpected places!
  • Posts: 191 Member

    It's funny when you take it out of context that way. But she didn't say that she will never change her mind about whether they're safe - she said she'll never change her mind about eating them.

    Whether they prove to be safe or not, these artificial ingredients are, in her opinion, not necessary and serve no nutritional purpose. Therefore she will avoid them. Which seems like a perfectly reasonable route to me. I consume aspartame and other zero-calorie sweeteners, but I can respect the idea that someone would want to avoid artificial ingredients that serve no nutritive purpose.


    Thank you, as I respect your choice to consume them. :)
  • Posts: 291 Member


    Thank you, as I respect your choice to consume them. :)

    Then why are you constantly spouting off with tinfoil-hat nonsense about their dangers?
  • Posts: 5,320 Member

    Ah - I had understood it differently, from this and other sources ie. that the plan was to simply list 'sweetener' in the ingredients.

    As it happens I'm already a compulsive label-reader. That stuff turns up in all sorts of unexpected places!

    I found the articles so contradictory that I went to the FDA site to read it directly.
  • Posts: 191 Member

    Then why are you constantly spouting off with tinfoil-hat nonsense about their dangers?

    I don't consider that I have, maybe you should reread my posts :) I don't consider them to be conductive to a healthy diet and no I don't consider it to be safe but not have I "spouted off" about their dangers. I have a right to my opinion on what's good information just as you do too. At least I have respect for that, all I ask is the same back. Do you have anything to say aside from critising other people's discussions?
  • Posts: 1,225 Member
    Jesus wept.

    NOT PLAIN MILK, FLAVOURED MILK DRINKS!

    And yes, it will be on the ingredients list - its just about whether or not they can call it 'chocolate milk' if it contains aspartame.
  • I just read this and was appalled. I am extremely sensitive to aspartame. What's next, I have to buy my own cow? Okay, just read something totally different on SNOPES. I'll have to do more research. It certainly gets tiresome sometimes having to do so much research just to protect one's self.
  • Posts: 3,202 Member
    It certainly gets tiresome sometimes having to do so much research just to protect one's self.


    I totally agree. If our government watchdogs (at all levels) would actually decide to do their jobs (protecting the people) we wouldn't have to work so hard at protecting our health.
  • Posts: 182 Member
    I understand a lot of people are pointing out that this applies to flavoured milk. But based on the way the food industry works this could include "Healthy Milk Drinks" they would package and sell for children or as a healthy alternative to all those calories in milk. If they can sell something that is 50% water, 45% dairy and 5% crap, if it costs less to produce than milk and has a higher profit margin they will find any way to push it.
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