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Aspartame, yay or nay?
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walterwhite
28-08-2015
Originally Posted by epicurian:
“I drink Diet Coke, so you can say I actively seek aspartame.

It's made by joining together the amino acids (the building blocks of life) aspartic acid and phenylalanine. An 8-oz glass of milk has six times more phenylalanine and thirteen times more aspartic acid than an equivalent amount of pop sweetened with aspartame.

And an 8-oz glass of fruit juice or tomato juice contains three to five times more methanol than an equivalent amount of soda sweetened with aspartame. http://www.joslin.org/info/correctin...aspartame.html

People with the rare genetic disease, phenylketonuria know they have to avoid anything with phenylalanine, not just aspartame, but other than that, I do wonder what it is about this sweetener (and not milk or fruit juice) that has so many people declaring it poison, especially when so many controlled studies have been done which have not shown a correlation of aspartame use with any of the adverse reactions people claim.”

Careful, those are facts, something the anti-Aspartame brigade don't believe in.
RubyNyx
06-09-2015
Originally Posted by walterwhite:
“Why don't you point us in the direction of this research? Bet you can't find anything reputable.”

Why don't you do your own research hey?

Or even better, keep consuming it, no skin off my nose.

Originally Posted by Hotgossip:
“Rubbish! If The World Health Organisation, the European Food Standards authority and the NHS all say it's safe why would you listen to some cranky scaremongering site. you are about 20 years out of date.”

If you trust anything that the WHO dishes out then carry on.

For me it's a no, and that's my business.
walterwhite
06-09-2015
Originally Posted by RubyNyx:
“Why don't you do your own research hey?

Or even better, keep consuming it, no skin off my nose.



If you trust anything that the WHO dishes out then carry on.

For me it's a no, and that's my business.”

I have done my research. It's completely harmless unless you can prove otherwise, which you can't.:
JulesF
06-09-2015
Originally Posted by RubyNyx:
“Why don't you do your own research hey?

Or even better, keep consuming it, no skin off my nose.



If you trust anything that the WHO dishes out then carry on.

For me it's a no, and that's my business.”

I trust the WHO, European Food Standards and the NHS more than weirdly aggressive randomers on the internet who can't point to any actual evidence to back up their ill-informed opinions.
walterwhite
06-09-2015
Originally Posted by JulesF:
“I trust the WHO, European Food Standards and the NHS more than weirdly aggressive randomers on the internet who can't point to any actual evidence to back up their ill-informed opinions.”

Well said.
RubyNyx
07-09-2015
Originally Posted by walterwhite:
“I have done my research. It's completely harmless unless you can prove otherwise, which you can't.:”

Originally Posted by JulesF:
“I trust the WHO, European Food Standards and the NHS more than weirdly aggressive randomers on the internet who can't point to any actual evidence to back up their ill-informed opinions.”

'Wierdly agressive'? Let me remind you who has attacked whos opinion here.

As I said, carry on, no skin off my nose, but for me it's a nay, and I'm entitled to my opinion whether you like it or not.
walterwhite
07-09-2015
Originally Posted by RubyNyx:
“'Wierdly agressive'? Let me remind you who has attacked whos opinion here.

As I said, carry on, no skin off my nose, but for me it's a nay, and I'm entitled to my opinion whether you like it or not.”

Of course you're entitled to your opinion. But we are just questioning why you would have that opinion when there is zero credible evidence to support it and lots and lots of credible evidence that opposes it.
Mountain_Runner
12-09-2015
Originally Posted by earthling13:
“I'm sure we're all aware of the controversy around this so what's your opinion. Do you avoid it, actively search it out or just not bothered one way or the other? Personally, I avoid it, not because of the scare stories, but because, like chocolate, it leaves me feeling really thirsty.”

Aspartame is possibly carcinogenic
walterwhite
13-09-2015
Originally Posted by Mountain_Runner:
“Aspartame is possibly carcinogenic ”

According to who?
TelevisionUser
15-09-2015
Originally Posted by walterwhite:
“What controversy? Some people have an allergy to it like some people have an allergy to seafood or nuts. There are scores of reputable studies out there that say it's completely safe and then there's all the nutters who say it isn't.”

Anyone with the inherited metabolic disorder Phenylketonuria ought to stay clear of Aspartame given that one of its constituents is the amino acid phenylalanine.
TelevisionUser
15-09-2015
Originally Posted by Mountain_Runner:
“Aspartame is possibly carcinogenic ”

...but only if you feed rats about 500 tonnes of the stuff and that much of anything would probably cause unwellness. Verdict = unproven.
oncemore
16-09-2015
I don't really like the taste of aspartame, but in small amounts it's no big deal. I do consume a lot of sucralose because I try to limit my sugar calories.
walterwhite
16-09-2015
Originally Posted by TelevisionUser:
“Anyone with the inherited metabolic disorder Phenylketonuria ought to stay clear of Aspartame given that one of its constituents is the amino acid phenylalanine.”

Yes i'm aware of that. Perhaps allergy is not the right medical word, but I think it's clear what I meant.
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