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Aspartame (Nutrasweet)

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
in Health & Wellbeing
What do you think?

Safe or not?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,2763,1667734,00.html?79%3A+Uk+latest

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ive been avoiding it for years, although i do have some stuff that it is in - its harder to avoid than bloody nestle!
    I wont give it to my son, although im less strict about having it in my own stuff.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    On the basis that stuff that taste bad is good for you and stuff that is sweet is bad then there's gotta be something dodgey about it - it's like 200 times sweeter then sugar
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Avoid it, it's fucking lethal, breaking down cells and causing headaches, eyesight problems and cancer.

    It's also as addictive as fuck, not because it does anything for you, but because it causes withdrawal when you stop taking it.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I've not been feeling great lately - only thng I've really done differently recently though is drink two 2 Litre bottles of Pepsi Max

    Wondering if the Nutrasweet in it is to blame .. Oh and had some at the gym in my coffee.

    Beginning to think water is the only thing safe to drink these days

    BTW see this below:



    http://www.dorway.com/badnews.html
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    klintock wrote:
    Avoid it, it's fucking lethal, breaking down cells and causing headaches, eyesight problems and cancer.

    Exactly. Definitely not safe. I had retrobulbar neuritis when i was 8 or 9 (inflammation of the optic nerve meaning that in the space of a week I went from seeing fine to being almost completely blind). Doctors reckon it was caused by a build up of sweeteners like Aspartame in my system. Now I avoid it like the plague.

    Just to add: Thankfully I was put on a dose of steroids which reduced the inflammation and my sight was returned to it's normal state. It was still a seriously scary experience, and for a few days the doctors thought that my sight may never return.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I avoid it too. Although it's hard to steer completely clear of it sometimes! I can taste it though, whenever I have something with aspartame in it I can always tell and think it tastes gross.

    My flatmate is a health/diet freak and she insists on buying everything lite/low fat/reduced sugar etc and I hate it, it's full of chemicals and I refuse to eat it.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Is this the chemical in sweetners?
    My boyfriend is diabetic so he cant have sugar but he goes through a hell of a lot of sweetner!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    PRETTYgreenEYES wrote:
    Is this the chemical in sweetners?
    My boyfriend is diabetic so he cant have sugar but he goes through a hell of a lot of sweetner!

    Yes the stuff they make those little tablets in the pink packets with.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Bad seed?
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