The Aspartame Thread

I was looking for a protein powder without any artificial sweetener( I try to avoid them as they give me severe migraines, not just aspartame but suclarose as well) . I went to GNC and the guy working there said that because of all the problems people have been experiencing with aspartame most of the companies have switched over to suclarose or stevia in their products, so there must be a lot of problems with aspartame for the companies to have switched.

I very much appreciate that you TRIED to keep this to actual scientific study only. So long as you do you'll continue to find that aspartame is harmless.

Some people don't like that answer. So they say "it has chemicals!!" as if everything doesn't have chemicals. Let me say that again so everyone understands. EVERYTHING IS MADE OF CHEMICALS.

Or they pretend that companies that make food are evil. Sorry, I don't have the time to grow everything I eat just now.

They pretend it kills people with zero evidence to back up their claim. The height of ignorance.

Anecdotal evidence = pretty much nothing.

Lol, Brett..................people are going to hit the "ignore" button on you. I've actually had people PM telling me that when science proves statements correct.

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I posted a question about this topic earlier this week and here is a copy, just an intro into what information I have discovered.

"I have been reading lately about the harm artificial sweeteners can do to your body. For example, the chemical aspartame is used in diet coke, Snapple, and other diet/healthy drinks and I have discovered several articles about, when consumed for a long period of time, the substitute builds up inside your system and begins to poison it. In one of the articles, a women had gained exessive weight, though already beinging heavy, and lost the ability of mobility. She was exhausted all of the time and was unable to accomplish simple things like walking or sitting up. She became an awake vegetable. She went to plenty of doctors and stumped them all concerning what was causing her illness. One day her sister called her after reading an article about aspartame and diet drinks like diet coke, dr. pepper, etc. The sister told her to immediatly stop drinking diet cokes. In less than 32 hours the immobile woman could walk again. What had happened was that her body had been slowly poisoned with aspartame.

Aspartame is also known to cause:
blindness in one or both eyes
dizziness
depression
virtigo
seizures
slurring of speech
high blood pressure
hives
gradual weight gain
loss of control of diabetes
exessive thirst
irreversible brain damage
birth defects
lupus
chronic fatigue syndrome
cancer
etc
the list goes on and on

So I was wondering, since I would wish and encourage others to avoid these problems, what artificial sweeteners are "okay" to
use as substitutions for sugar. Is Splenda okay? Sweet n' Low?

Here is a link to one of the websites that confronts and informs readers about aspartame, for credibility purposes.

http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects.html "

l love apartame! It goes great with MSG.

birth defects

If you're drinking over 20 12 ounce cans of diet soda a day, there's an issue and will be an issue. However a couple of cans a day is fine AS LONG AS you're also supplying an efficient amount of water too and not letting diet soda be your main fluid intake.

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A. I forget that this forum is stone age
B. Is that your best attempt at humor?

History is usually a good place to look for indicators of future outcomes.

A. I forget that this forum is stone age
B. Is that your best attempt at humor?

History is usually a good place to look for indicators of future outcomes.

It's funny you post that. Actually in hindsight they're recommending going back to using DDT. The problem was overuse. They were hosing kids down with it back in the day. It would actually be rather effective at fighting malaria in certain parts of the world at proper dosages. But fear mongering will prevent that from ever being a reality.

Here's an article backing up my statements. Because that's what people are looking for here. Facts. Not fear.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ddt-use-to-combat-malaria

Oh and
B. I was a professional comedian for 9 years. My sense of humor is just fine.

Food scolds have been abuzz lately, promoting the scientifically questionable idea that drinking diet soda boosts the risk of heart attack and stroke. And the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has kept the heart-health-focused story alive by injecting it with a fresh dose of cancer fears.

Seemingly unable to control his urge to play on the public's fear of the dreaded "C-word," CSPI Fear-Monger-in-Chief Michael Jacobson told USA Today this week that he thinks diet drinks are better than sugar-sweetened soda—and then promptly changed the subject to begin perpetuating cancer fears both new and old:

Animal studies have raised cancer concerns about some of the artificial sweeteners in [diet] drinks, including aspartame and acesulfame potassium, he says. And the caramel coloring in colas contains two cancer-causing chemicals and should be banned, Jacobson says. There is "clear evidence of toxicity in animals."

The cancer risks in diet soda are probably small, Jacobson says,"but there is no reason to accept any cancer risk in a worthless junk food, whether it's diet soda or regular soda."

Jacobson's most recent cancer scare—over caramel coloring—was based on rodents being subjected to ultra-high doses of "chemical by-products" assured to cause "lung, liver, and thyroid tumors in laboratory rats and mice." But how risky is the coloring? It turns out that you'd have to drink 1,000 sodas a day to consume the levels that caused cancer in lab rats. That's about one soda every minute if you stayed awake for 16 hours a day. We're going to go out on a limb and say that the risk of getting cancer from caramel coloring in soda is effectively nil for people who aren't hooked up to a soda IV.

And Jacobson couldn't resist digging up two old cancer scares—aspartame and acesulfame potassium—that continue to haunt CSPI because it just can't convince the federal government to fear them. According to the National Cancer Institute, neither of these artificial sweeteners is associated with increases in cancer risks. And aspartame scaremongering has also been shot down by other "science in the public interest" entities, including the Food and Drug Administration, Food Standards Australia New Zealand, and Health Canada.

Just for fun, we decided to see what else Americans shouldn't spend their precious time here on Earth needlessly worrying about. The odds of dying from an air- or space-transport accident are 1 in 7,032. By Jacobson's logic, every plane should be grounded. Thankfully, consumers who need to get somewhere have decided it's worth the minuscule risk.