Aspertame

[got fina?]

Found this interesting read while reading on diet soda. Do u think its all true?

Aspartame/Nutrasweet is not very sweet in itself, that may be why Equal puts Dextrose (sugar) and maltodextrin as the first ingredients, so that it tastes sweet.
Aspartame/Nutrasweet is a brain drug that stimulates your brain so you think that the food you're eating tastes sweet. If you pay attention you'll notice that when using Aspartame/Nutrasweet, everything you eat at the same time also tastes sweet! This may be why Aspartame/Nutrasweet causes you to crave carbohydrates. Hence, you won't lose weight using it.
BTW, cyclamates got pulled off the market in the 70's in the US (but not Canada or the rest of the world) because the sugar industry saw too much of their market disappear.
Aspartame/Nutrasweet (aspartylphenylalanine-methyl-ester) breaks down to its poison constituents at 86 degrees (Aspartic Acid 40%, Phenylalanine 50%, and Methanol 10%). Remember your stomach is at 98.6 degrees! Therefore you should never use Aspartame/Nutrasweet in hot beverages or cooked foods such as Jello. How the FDA allows this remains a mystery. There is mounting evidence that the "Burning Mouth Syndrome" experienced by the Desert Storm troops was actually Methanol poisoning from the Diet Coke they drank lots of, after being exposed to desert temperatures.
Aspartame/Nutrasweet's 10% Methanol appears in the body quickly and is the same alcohol (wood alcohol also in lacquer thinner), that your mother correctly warned you could make you blind. Many skid-row alcoholics had major problems with this cheap but deadly form of alcohol.
Aspartame/Nutrasweet's 40% Aspartic Acid is an "excitotoxin" in the brain and excites neurons to death, i.e. it kills brain cells and causes other nerve damage.
Aspartame/Nutrasweet triggers Migraine Headaches This even happened to me!. The Usenet is filled with posts by people who have pinned their migraines down to aspartame/Nutrasweet consumption.
Aspartame/Nutrasweet's breakdown products attack the bodies tissues and create Formaldehyde which builds up in the tissues forever. Remember the smelly, eye watering fumes from the frogs you dissected in school? They were preserved with Formaldehyde! Formaldehyde is thought to cause cancer.
The American Bottlers Association did not want the FDA to approve Aspartame/Nutrasweet because of what the test report showed. But the FDA approved it anyway!
Airline pilots stay away from Aspartame/Nutrasweet because they are well aware of the documented dangers.
Aspartame/Nutrasweet also breaks down to diketopiperazine [DKP] which is proven to cause Brain Tumors! Brain Tumors used to be rare. Several of the rats in the original study formed brain tumors during their Aspartame/Nutrasweet exposure. The researchers surgically removed the tumors and returned the rats to the study and discounted the tumors.

[l2elapse]

cool stuff

[need2Bbig]

Yeah I did a report back in my college days on that shit, its hella bad.

[bigsd67]

mmmmmmmmmm....love my diet soda

[brutesinme]

there are a lot of people on this board who love their aspartame; i've read that before and have long since cut it out. I never touch the stuff anymore.

[svarturer]

i hate people that say they can smell aspartame

if i could inject it - i would do it

[svarturer]

YOO!!

Got_fina i remember your before & after pic thread, good stuff
how you doin

[usualsuspect]

I am not a chemist so can't break it down to a molecular structure level but it come downs to this for me. Anything that is not natural and is made in a lab to add to food....I don't want it. There is plenty of info on the internet about the negative side affects of aspartae and how people have gotten off it and cleared up so many issues. Any neurotoxin is going to play havick in the body and do some damage. How everyone reacts to one poison is going to be person to person...some worse than others. But the body works as a complete unit when it comes to health. The more toxins you put in with it to deal with, the more it gets overworked, the more your general health goes down. For me health is eating as natural as possible, keeping my immune system strong and not putting in any extra chemicals that in the long run will only cause problems. We are too quick a society to say "hey if it didn't kill lab rats in 30 days it must have no long term affects on humans..so let's put it in everything to maximize a low carb market trend". Yeah....and Olestra was approved by the FDA too....where's that?

[svarturer]

these things like diet soda drinks can make a real big difference in a strict diet
so.... drinking pepsi max or whatever with a spot on diet is much healthier then eating burgers and pizza, thats where everyone is killing them selfs

[taiboxa]

ROFL so stupid
please in laboratory studies u have to eat ur weight in aspartame to see a dam thing from it

ASPARTAMEis only bad if u have that phenyleukinetics shit otherwise its absolutly safe and in fact it is composed of two very sexy amino acids
L-alpha-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester

anyways to ease ur lifes here is the true shit from a .org

The overwhelming body of scientific evidence clearly demonstrates that aspartame, even in amounts many times what people typically consume, is safe and not associated with adverse health effects. However, over the years, some consumers have reported symptoms, which they believed were associated with aspartame. The FDA has investigated these allegations and concluded that there is no "reasonable evidence of possible public health harm" and "no consistent or unique patterns of symptoms reported with respect to aspartame that can be causally linked to its use." In 1984, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reviewed 517 of these anecdotal reports and stated, "the majority of frequently reported symptoms were mild and are symptoms that are common in the general populace" and that “focused” clinical studies would be the best way to evaluate these complaints.

As a result, numerous scientific studies “focused” on the allegations were conducted by expert researchers at major academic institutions. The results of these studies overwhelmingly demonstrated that aspartame is not associated with adverse health effects, including headaches, seizures, changes in mood, cognition, or behavior, or allergic reactions.

Despite the overwhelming documentation of aspartame’s safety, unfounded allegations that aspartame is associated with a myriad of ailments, including multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and lupus, have continued to be spread via the Internet and the media by a few individuals who have no documented scientific or medical expertise. Recently, several governments and expert scientific committees (including the Scientific Committee on Food of the European Commission, the United Kingdom’s Food Standards Agency, the French Food Safety Agency and Health Canada) carefully evaluated the Internet allegations and found them to be false, reconfirming the safety of aspartame. In addition, leading health authorities, such as the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, The National Parkinson Foundation, Inc., the Alzheimer’s Association, and the Lupus Foundation of America, have reviewed the claims on the Internet and also concluded that they are false.

Citation
http://www.aspartame.org/aspartame_facts.html

[*Narkissos*]

ROFL so stupid
please in laboratory studies u have to eat ur weight in aspartame to see a dam thing from it

ASPARTAMEis only bad if u have that phenyleukinetics shit otherwise its absolutly safe and in fact it is composed of two very sexy amino acids
L-alpha-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester

anyways to ease ur lifes here is the true shit from a .org


Citation
http://www.aspartame.org/aspartame_facts.html

bump.. this thread keeps getting reborn under a different poster.

Good post Tai

[taiboxa]

bump.. this thread keeps getting reborn under a different poster.

Good post Tai

****ing DIETsoda only thing keeping me sane! and from becomming a diabetic!

[usualsuspect]

Got ants? Sounds like you need some Equal...

http://www.thecompounder.com/newsletter20060927.php

Neurotoxins are neurotoxins, whether the creature is large or small. It just takes more time and more build-up in larger creatures...

I personally don't get why people argue for this substance. Ditch it. Really.

[usualsuspect]

Let me also add that I think the discussion would be well-served if peer-reviewed articles were debated, e.g. links to PubMed abstracts.

On that note here are a few case reports to support my argument (taken from MEDLINE reports:

"Migraine triggered by sucralose"--a case report.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_docsum

"The study indicated that aspartame exerted analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects on its own and have a synergistic analgesic response with conventional analgesics of opioid and non-opioid type, respectively."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_DocSum

"Aspartame and its effects on health: independently funded studies have found potential for adverse effects."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_DocSum

"Aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Many of these reactions are very serious including seizures and death as recently disclosed in a February 1994 Department of Health and Human Services report.(1)"
http://www.mercola.com/article/aspar...et_scandal.htm

more research:
http://www.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/....research.html

"Since the FDA approved aspartame for consumption, some researchers have suggested that a rise in brain tumor rates in the United States may be at least partially related to the increasing availability and consumption of aspartame."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetener

Please let me sum it with this classic McGrease ordering line (Aspartame only benefit is to help the averge human justrify his behavior). Worth a laugh:

"I'll get the Double Big Mac meal, Super Size the fries, Exrta sauce, cheese and bacon on the burger, and because I need to watch what I eat a super size Diet Coke Please."

One final note (I swear). And perhaps the bigger picture: Perhaps folks tend to crave sweets because the typical (unhealthy) diet artificially amplifies the innate desire for healthier treats (fruits)? After following the an evolutionary/paleo/NHE approach, I no longer crave sweets in the first place, and therefore the need to allay a craving for sweets, through the use of an artificial sweeter, is a null point.