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?

[Dave Lane]

Google is your friend

[BillSelfsTrophycase]

Everything is bad for you

Never eat or drink anything for the rest of your life and you'll be fine

[BigMeatballDave]

Moderation.

Stay away from sugar. Thats the REAL killer.

[Fish]

The studies provide no evidence to support an association between aspartame and cancer in any tissue. The weight of existing evidence is that aspartame is safe at current levels of consumption as a nonnutritive sweetener.
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A separate question is whether or not aspartame causes headaches in some people. While there is not a lot of specific data on this, there are case reports of aspartame triggering migraines in susceptible people. Migraineurs frequently have multiple food triggers, and there is a long list of foods known to be potential migraine triggers. This is not evidence for toxicity. So while evidence is lacking to demonstrate aspartame is a headache trigger, this is not implausible and not particularly worrisome.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/en...ubmed_RVDocSum

[Demonpenz]

I drink a 2 liter of diet coke a day. I am going to die of cancer, but it is a quality of life thing for me. I love the shit!

[aturnis]

I can ****ing taste it. It's terrible. The only thing I can't taste it in is 0 cal Kool aid.

[Chiefshrink]

I've always heard that when consumed it turns into a mild form of formaldehyde.

But like you, I have heard both sides and really don't know what to believe. So I will error on the side of caution. It sucked giving up Diet Dr.Pepper. I love that stuff

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by aturnis

I can ****ing taste it. It's terrible. The only thing I can't taste it in is 0 cal Kool aid.

If its mixed with other artificial sweeteners, its not bad.

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

I died of aspartame poisoning last night. This post is just a nerve twitch.

[Shaid]

Here's my opinion on it. Aspertame was not approved by the FDA and I beleive the head of the FDA even said something along the lines of you may as well feed people poison. Then Reagan ran for office and had one major supporter - the manufacturer of aspartame. The day after he was in office he installed a new FDA head who immediately reopened the aspartame discussion. There was a 5 person panel to approve it. Once it was obvious it was going to be denied, he installed a 6th person. It was a tie vote and the head of the FDA was the tiebreaker. I'm sorry, but when you need to resort to political games to get your product approved, I'm gonna bet you aren't all that safe.

[DeezNutz]

Your peers are women.

[Lumpy]

I don't drink that much soda, but Gonzo does.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...r-in-rats.aspx

Private Study Finds Aspartame Leads to Huge Tumors...

Over a 2.5-year period, Innes-Brown performed a set of meticulous and detailed animal experiments, documenting the horrific effects of using aspartame liquid comparable to diet soda. She has done us all a great favor by publishing the findings of her private experiments, as she provides visual documentation of the detrimental health effects of aspartame.

Victoria first raised a total of 108 rats. Sixty of them, 30 males and 30 females, were used as the experimental group. The remaining 48 rats, 24 males and 24 females, were used as controls. Since she's not a food manufacturer, she wasn't able to purchase pure aspartame, which is typically what researchers would use for their studies. Instead, she put NutraSweet, in a daily dose comparable to 14 cans of diet soda per day for the females, and 13 cans for the males, directly into the water of the aspartame group.

Although that sounds like an awful lot, this amount is within the acceptable daily intake (ADI), which was set at 50 mg per kilogram by the FDA. It's also within the range of what some people actually consume daily.

After feeding the rats NutraSweet daily for 30 months, a whopping 67 percent of the female rats developed tumors the size of golf balls or larger! Some of the tumors were the size of the palm of her hand. Twenty-one percent of the males on aspartame developed tumors.

You can view the photos for yourself here … http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...xperiment.aspx

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

twitch....... twwwwitch....... could maybe use some CPR here............

[Shaid]

Here you go. Tons of info on how aspertame became legal. People making money. Apparently it was causing brain tumors, etc. Crazy that people get away with this stuff.

http://www.rense.com/general33/legal.htm