Aspartame

[In58men]

Is this scientifically proven to be bad for you? I drink flavored water and my peers flip shit over aspartame. I have done my research and I can not find anything factual. There are sites stating its bad and sites stating that it's not.


Do you guys have any other sources or factual evidence stating its not healthy?

[Fish]

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

I thought I would google your name. You certainly do get around the internet on this issue. I read quite a bit of libertarian literature, and I happen to be an acquaintance of Karen de Coster, a major libertarian who is published, who's site you appeared on. She's very into natural health. This was just one of the links that came up with your name.

Just thought it was interesting to read the exchange between you two on her "Another New Spin on Aspartame." So am posting it for others to see.

http://karendecoster.com/another-new...aspartame.html

Her response is a perfect example of your flawed reasoning approach..

John – your comment, “aspartame is approved by the regulatory agencies of 90+ nations worldwide” will have no meaning to libertarians, here, who understand the depravity and coercive attributes of politics. In fact, that statement works against you. All of you so-called “experts” claim the other “experts” are wrong. But when you use government approval for legitimacy and support, I garner that you have been misinformed and fooled by the politics of science your whole career.

Your expertise may be chem/pharma/toxicology, but my specialty is free markets/politics of food/Big Pharma/Industrial Food Machine politics.

The Dr. listed the number of independent regulatory agencies that have approved it worldwide. But she simply ignored all of that. Completely dismissed it. Why? Because of government mistrust. Not any rebuttal of the data or studies or the consensus of those studies. Not any mention of any study at all. She even goes on to say the Dr. may be an expert in this specific field, but her specialty is free market/politics of food/etc. Why on earth would she completely dismiss everything the expert says, on the basis that her expertise is something different? Does that seriously make sense to you?

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

I recommend weaning yourself off of aspertame, and in to some quality coconut water.

[srvy]

Originally Posted by Numbah One

What is "dextrose with maltodextrin?" I put this in my tea every day. Also has calcium saccharin.

Rat poison?

Might go good on that bug your supposed to eat.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by srvy

Rat poison?

Might go good on that bug your supposed to eat.

Rat poison is Coumadin, which was originally discovered when a farmer in Wisconsin showed up to the University with a bucket of cow's blood and some moldy hay and wanted to know why when his cows scraped up against a barbed wire fence they bled out.

It tuns out that coumarin, which is a chemical that gives clover its sweet smell, can be metabolized by certain bacteria, and when done undergoes a 1,4 alpha addition, linking two molecules together.

Thus, a sweet smelling chemical becomes rat poison, and the best anticoagulant we have.

[srvy]

Aspertame is probably safe in moderation but who could for told Americans would guzzle the equivalent of a 16 gallon keg a day of the stuff. I can remember when on a hot day a survey party of 3 could drain a Gott water keg by mid afternoon. We would take the lid off to let ice melt to water just to have more liquid. Then 7/11 started selling a 48 oz insulated drinking cup that came with refills discounted if you had that cup. Quiktrip followed suit with a 64 ounce. Younger pups would fill one those in morning and instead water drink that and refill at lunch. Soon the water keg was hardly touched. We would pour off 3/4 every morning and fill it up. I asked guys doesnt all that sugar make you sick on a hot humid day and get the no man its diet. I remember one the young guys in his 20s was down with kidney stones. That brought him to his senses hardly ever seen him not drinking water after that.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Numbah One

What is "dextrose with maltodextrin?" I put this in my tea every day. Also has calcium saccharin.

Sugar substitute with a packing agent so that it doesn't break down before consumption.