Aspartame or "Nutrasweet" which is in all diet sodas and other diet products is very deadly and dangerous. It causes, among other things:

Brain cancer, uterine polyps, seizures and convulsions, arthritic and joint pain, chronic fatigue, depression, memory loss, vision damage and loss, tingling in the extremities, slurring of speech, irritability, severe anxiety attacks, menstrual problems, blood sugar control problems, symptoms similar to multiple sclerosis, worsening of fibromyalgia, parkinson's tremors, etc., etc.

The scientific facts are that aspartame produces methanol in the system of the person ingesting it. In addition, the methanol from aspartame is converted to the extremely toxic formaldehyde and formic acid in the body. An avid aspartame consumer will be getting the equivalent amount of methanol as a person working part-time and inhaling methanol fumes in a methanol-laden chemical plant. Other aspartame breakdown products may potentiate the methanol/formaldehyde toxicity.

What mega-corporation produces this poinson? MONSANTO!! And how much money did they need to pay off the FDA to get this poison approved? Plus, when mixed mith nitrates, which are in products such as bacon, cold cuts, sausage, and other porcessed foods, it becomes many times more toxic!

Please provide some links to scientific studies to back up your claims.

i was under the opinion that it caused the problems of which you speak in lab rats. They were given mass quanities and all sorts of problems appeared. The problem came in, where we realized that if you put the amount they ingested on a comparitive level, a human would have to ingest something like 24 cases of diet pop a day for "X" amount of years or something...

mattison...right on! And GASKET...excellent post!....and as far as the recent post regarding "debunking" the ill-effects, I'm sure Monsanto has a lot of material that would attempt to "debunk" the ill-effects....just like the tobacco industry used to deny that smoking cigarettes was bad for your health.

I'll tell you what, aspartame makes my mind cloudy. I haven't had a can of diet pop in MONTHS--not with aspartame. And I feel better, especially since I'm cutting carbs. Even Dr. Atkins said avoid the stuff.

I also read that aspartame can cause the symptoms of ADHD, and that aspartame and monosodium glutamate together is pretty toxic.

I'm too lazy to hunt for those sites. Y'all can run a Google search.

Try just posting a paragraph or two (at least your main points) from the source so that way it makes the thread a bit easier to read.

This has been done unto death many times.

Try a little experiment. Take a look around you at all the people who are 40 or over. Most of them have been drinking diet sodas for at least 10 years and probably longer. Ask how many of them have the so-called symptoms that aspartane is supposed to bring on.

The answer will be "none" (or they wouldn't still be drinking the stuff.)

If that report was right, we'd have a health crisis beyond imagining right now; something that couldn't be explained by overeating and lack of exercise.

Will some people have some of those problems? Yes. But they're very few and far between. Your chances of getting hurt in a car accident are much higher than your chances are of getting hurt by drinking diet sodas.

My mom has been having headaches for some time, had part of her reproductive organs removed, pains in her side, but still drinks diet pop like water, despite my warning. She won't quit drinking long enough to see if this is the problem. Seems like this stuff could be addictive too. I don't know what she drinks it for, she had only gained weight in her years of drinking it.

Food additives are a definite problem. If you are going to eat food, then try to eat "real" food as much as possible. Bottom line.

I'm disgusted that comapanies, even big name companies put garbage like MSG in their foods. Check out a bag of Nacho flavored chips and see if you don't see MSG in the label. Saving money at the consumer's expense.

Troy

On a jar of "Planters" sunflower seeds at my house today, MSG is listed as an ingredient! Disgusting.

Troy

I would also be interested in your scientific evidence for it causing blood sugar level control problems. Being a diabetic myself and having dieticians recommend this as a sugar substitute, I am amazed that you say it can actually affect blood sugar levels. So please provide some evidence for your claims

Originally posted by Byrd
Will some people have some of those problems? Yes. But they're very few and far between. Your chances of getting hurt in a car accident are much higher than your chances are of getting hurt by drinking diet sodas.

While I don't think aspartame will necessarily make you sick, it does have health consequences, esp. causing some diffuculties in weight loss. I know many people, including myself, who stall out due to asparatame use. Maybe it causes bloat, dunno. But, I do know that quitting diet sodas and replacing it with water jump-started losing weight for me.