Posted on 06/27/2010 5:00:24 PM PDT by Vision
I'm curious to what Freepers think of Aspartame. Aspartame is an artificial sweetener used in diet products like diet coke.
Many websites, albeit possibly kooky websites, say Aspartame produces side effects like anxiety, blurred vision, depression, etc. The medical establishment and Feds say its heavily tested and safe.
Anyone with an opinion or experience?
It gives me a headache...I avoid it completely.
It tastes horrible, not “sweet” to my taste buds.
Anyway, I don’t consume anything that needs to be artificially sweetened.
I used to use Equal, but did notice that I was feeling more down & sluggish than usual. Now I use Sweet-and-Low exclusively w/no issues.
It’s garbage. Not part of a healthy diet.
yup, same here — instant headache, and I think it tastes horrid.
I never liked that taste of it, so I never ingested enough to get a reaction. I do like Splenda. I even use it when I bake.
It turns into formaldehyde in your gut and causes neurological damage.
I can’t do Splenda, but I do like Stevia and/or Agave
It leaves an after taste and makes me want to eat MORE.
I avoid it.
I can’t handle any of the artifical sweetners. None of them even come close in taste to plain old sugar which I go very light on.
If you use Sweet and Low, be aware that it contains maltodextrin and sometimes other things besides pure saccharin.
If you want pure sacccharin, you might check out the little tablets (NectaSweet?) which are still available. I can use those with no problem, but most of the time I use stevia.
Yup. Headaches. Used to drink a ton of diet coke, that was my morning coffee. Got headaches when I didn’t drink it, got headaches weaning myself off it.
It can make you blind if you use enough of it. Part of it breakes down to methanol, which even in microscopic quantities is very hazardous to your retinas.
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Upsets my stomach.
As a diabetic, I need an artificial sweetener. I use Splenda, which has the least after taste and gives me the “sweetness” that I like. Aspartame has a bad taste.
I went on a very strict low-fat diet back in 1995 starting in March of that year and lost some 48 pounds. During that time, I drank a lot of the powdered Slim-Fast, as well as diet drinks, both of which include Aspartame on their list of ingredients. I experienced seizures November 1995 and May 1996. I haven’t had any seizure activity since, as I was put on Dilantin, never went back to that type of diet, and never had a seizure since.
I went on a very strict low-fat diet back in 1995 starting in March of that year and lost some 48 pounds. During that time, I drank a lot of the powdered Slim-Fast, as well as diet drinks, both of which include Aspartame on their list of ingredients. I experienced seizures November 1995 and May 1996. I haven’t had any seizure activity since, as I was put on Dilantin, never went back to that type of diet, and never had a seizure since.
“It turns into formaldehyde in your gut and causes neurological damage.”
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The ‘aldehyde’ part depends on the presence of copper in your intestines, but without it it remains as methanol, which is worse.
***** “produces side effects like anxiety, blurred vision, depression, etc” ******
Those are exactly the same symptoms I had from finding out my Ex was cheating on me... don’t think the diet coke had much to do with it.
TT
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