Public Service Announcement: Aspartame is...

SAFE!! Oh yes. Safe AND effective.

Because I always see ZEALOUS lists of the EXTREME illnesses that are allegedly stemming from the use of aspartame I decided to keep my eye out for anyone with sense to finally say something about it or elude to any further-documented research on the artificial sweetener. And lo-and-behold, someone has. If I were in a position to do my own research in a lab I would have, believe me. Because as I've stated before all of the demonization of aspartame I've seen sounds more to me like people with illnesses looking for something to blame, and half-reading research concerning the nature of various items. Like how for a month or two a lot of people were returning their bottles of Vitamin E, because they read a sentence in an article that said Vitamin E WILL kill you, neverminding that they've already been taking it for YEARS with no viable health-concerns that can be linked to it.

So here's the scoop on Aspartame:

According to the August 2005 issue of Discover Magazine (mind-you, Discover makes no money from either the continued use or halted use of aspartame, thus they have no vested interest or motive to falsify information), research has confirmed that when Aspartame is digested, the methyl-ester bond does indeed break down into methanol (or wood alcohol), which then further degrades into formaldehyde. Both of these substances can be toxic in high doses.

HOWEVER...if you read the WHOLE article it tells you that you'd have to drink 600...let me spell that out for you. S-I-X H-U-N-D-R-E-D cans of diet soda to get as much of either substance as is contained in a single ORANGE.

That's right. Oranges will kill you faster than aspartame will. DAMN! Never trust citrus I tell you.

Bottom-line is Aspartame is the single-most studied and clinically tested sweetener available. And not one study has linked it to any harmful effects. Sugar, now that's another story.

DIET SODA FOR ALL!!

 

^There are plenty of things "Mother Nature" produces that can kill you instantly. Perhaps you should trust gathered data, that's WHY we have brains.

 

lol Chad I don't much care for aspartame use myself. I just don't like when something is witch-hunted and people believe it. You know? Your decision to not ingest aspartame, or Oranges is to me, a bit more realistic because I understand your perspective and personality. In-fact, I myself often detour people from the use of any artificial sweeteners...and encourage them to get used to the REAL taste of food as it's supposed to taste. This post was more to say if you're going to hate on Aspartame at-least hate on it for a legitimate reason. "I don't like it" is far more credible than "it will kill you!!!" Because it just won't.

Bye the way, I wonder how many people are now going to be pissed at oranges. lol

 

lol Oh yes! Don't look behind you, they know your plans and there is an orange with a knife behind your back AS YOU READ THIS! DUCK!

 

I heard an update stating that when the methanol degraded into formaldehyde, it immediately turned him into the Undead, and an epidemic was started of undead who also have diabetes, high blood-pressure, AIDS, and enlarged brain abscesses.

Don't question it.

 

Good point on the fruits, but still, 600 cans of diet coke = 1 orange. And that's 600 at a time, which need to be multiplied by the amount of methanol to be toxic. You'd die of a million other things drinking 600 cans of diet coke at a time before the aspartame toxicity sets in.

I'd rather use none of them. I hate the idea of sweeteners in-general because I don't understand why people can't just taste the way food tastes. But that's just my own personal Nazi view.

 

*suspects Urban has an excess of formaldehyde in the brain from one-too-many Oranges*

 

lol No. Oranges have methanol, wood-alcohol. Which makes sense seeing as it grows in trees and what have you.

But man I'm just entirely dis-illusioned about society's general lack of sense nowadays. You don't know how many times a day I hear a parent tell a child:

"Honey you don't need that. Protein is no good for you. I'll buy you a Snicker bar on the way home."

ARGH.