how do people feel about aspartame?

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  • leigh0416
    leigh0416 Posts: 29
    Gives me a headache and I absolutely refuse to eat anything that contains it. I generally do not like any artificial sweetener and stay as far away from them as I possibly can!
  • aguethler
    aguethler Posts: 26 Member
    Changing the way that your body perceives real food is every bit as dangerous as an physical disease. These chemical sweeteners are designed to help people to live healthier lives, to help them fight obesity, and to allow people with diabetes to eat sweet tasting food. If they are not doing that, if they are actually increasing diabetes and obesity by changing the way we taste food then they have no place in the diet of people who are not already diabetic except in things like chewing gum where it is important for other reasons like not bathing your teeth in sugars that bacteria use to cause tooth decay. Do you take medicine that doesn't work too??
  • TKRV
    TKRV Posts: 165 Member
    I tell myself that I don't mind aspartame, but sometimes, if I am craving diet coke or something, I will google aspartame and will be so disgusted by what I find. Usually, I decide that the conclusion aspartame "probably" won't cause cancer is not good enough and ditch the unhealthy drink.

    But, over consumption of sugar is also linked to cancer and many other illnesses. So, If I'm going to have something unhealthy, I feel like something unhealthy made with aspartame is just as unhealthy as something made without it. So, I will choose the option with less calories.
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Changing the way that your body perceives real food is every bit as dangerous as an physical disease. These chemical sweeteners are designed to help people to live healthier lives, to help them fight obesity, and to allow people with diabetes to eat sweet tasting food. If they are not doing that, if they are actually increasing diabetes and obesity by changing the way we taste food then they have no place in the diet of people who are not already diabetic except in things like chewing gum where it is important for other reasons like not bathing your teeth in sugars that bacteria use to cause tooth decay. Do you take medicine that doesn't work too??

    It's not dangerous if you exercise control over your diet.

    I don't think artificial sweeteners were designed "to help people live healthier lives" etc. I think they were designed to taste like sugar but without calories. And they do. So that's a win. :)

    Artificial sweeteners aren't bad for you if they're not making you consume other unhealthy food.

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