Aspartame, is it dangerous?

i stopped consuming anything that contains aspartame 3 months ago.

i never take aspirin anyway

Interesting question. Of course, evidence against aspartame and saccrin is weak at best. However, for a diabetic (or anyone really) it can cause hypoglycemia, which will make you hungry, which will defeat the purpose. I still hold that nothing beats good ol' sugar. If you're worried about calories then stop being a pansy and control your intake.

>>1
dangerous for some people who cannot break it down (metabolize it). My reason to stop drinking soft drinks is because it contain preservatives (Sodium benzoate, commonly)

>>3
diabets use them as a substitute for sugar. They should know how to control their diets.

bleh. Aspartame has always gotten to me, I mean, it doesn't taste anything like sugar, I don't even know why it's considered a suger substitute.

>>5
Because most people perceive it as tasting sweet and it works fairly well in things like soft drinks and yogurt.

>:P gross

What about sucralose (Splenda)?

aspartame makes you very thirsty, so it kinda defeats the purpose of gettign a drink in the first place.

>>9

And thus the conspiracy is revealed

Aspartame and Splenda and all of those "safe" artificial sweeteners will fucking give you cancer.

But hey, this is the 21st century, folks. Everything else is killing us, so why not our food too?

Aspartame is harmless.Unless you don't mind being slowly poisoned.

>>11
So, is that why people are now living longer than ever before in our history?

p.s.  SCIIIIEEEEEENNNNNCNCCCCCE!

>>13

Take your own advice and do some fucking research. There's a lot of controversial science regarding ancient humans' lifespans being a hell of a lot longer than current humans'.

Regardless, we might be living longer than, say, 100 years ago, but have you're neglecting the fact that we're much SICKER than 100 years ago. Sure, medical technology is rapidly advancing, but no one can afford it.

>>14
Who's much sicker?  Speak for yourself.

And who were these ancient humans who had no modern medicine but lived longer than the 85+ years average for the First World in the present day?  Source, please?

p.s.  15GET

Long Post is long.
>>1
Use Splenda. They say the stuff in the pink packs(sacharine) gives you cancer, and equal(aspartame, in blue packs) makes you hungrier, but they haven't found out what's wrong with splenda yet. ^__^
>>3
>.> Using sugar substitutes can't cause hypoglycemia... unless it's the only thing you eat is pure sugar substitute. Hypoglycemia is low blood sugar, and all carbs become bloodsugar. For diabetics it's best to have only complex carbs that become blood sugar slowly and more evenly than sugar which shoots straight into your system and puts you in a coma.
>>11
Sacharine is the stuff they say causes cancer. They don't say it about the other stuff yet.
>>13
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