Is aspartame really bad for health?

I was reading a book about asthma and it mentions that aspartame can cause health problems as breathing difficulties, heart problems, losing sight, hairloss, insomnia, stomach problems, headaches, among others. They say this information hasn't spread much because big companies are using aspartame in many of their products because of the boom of light products and they would lose money. Asked by AMMI 55 months ago Similar questions: aspartame health Health.

Its VERY bad... At around 100 degrees aspartame is transformed into the substance formaldehyde ... which is commonly used in the preservation of bodies used in dissection. Formaldehyde is KNOWN to be very harmful to the body for many different reasons. Throughout the digestive tract, temperatures can often rise above 100 degrees, and it has been shown that aspartame does in fact turn into formaldehyde in the body.

Aspartame is a VERY sweet substance, and can be found in just about ANYTHING that is "sugar free". I personally refuse to eat anything with aspartame in it...and I recommend the same advice to everybody that I know. Hope that this information helps!

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Makes my stomach hurt I personaly have found that I react badly to ANY products with aspartame in them. It makes my abdomin hurt for hours and had to give up all products with it in it years ago. There have been some studies that connect aspartame and brain tumors... WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Several consumer groups renewed their criticism of aspartame Monday, citing a new study suggesting a possible link between the artificial sweetener and brain tumors... cnn.com/HEALTH/9611/18/aspartame/" rel="nofollow">cnn.com/HEALTH/9611/18/aspartame/ I personaly think that aspartame will end up like Ephedra (what used to be in most diet pills) some day.

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Right. Millions of people are suffering and nobody knows about it. Many studies have been done and published in peer-reviewed journals; these have found no links between aspartame and serious diseases.

This is hardly surprising: a lot of people drink aspartame and no suspicious patterns of deaths have shown up. There was only one study that contradicted it. It was done in rats, and there were serious control issues with the study, pointed out by both the FDA and its European equivalent.

The anti-aspartame groups have backpedaled and tried to blame chronic diseases on it. Stuff that's nearly impossible to test for in a controlled fashion. All sorts of things cause chronic diseases, and it's hard to separate them out.It takes enormous studies to determine that something causes hair loss, for example, because so many things cause hair loss.

The sheer variety of symptoms is also suspicious. It's talking about affecting many different systems in the body, all at once, but none of them strongly enough to cause death. There are so many of them that people figure, "Well, it may no cause insomnia, but hey, it's gotta be guilty of ONE of them, right?

" And if the studies go the other way, you can always blame the companies for interfering with the results. Large corporations can always be accused of being populated solely by people with no conscience. Not just the executives, but all of the scientists in the study as well as their assistants.

Each and every one of them, because any one of them is capable of spilling the beans. Aspartame get a suspicious look because there are people who are in fact harmed by it: people with phenylketonuria, a rare genetic disorder. Soda cans warn those people against drinking it.

But it's a long way from a rare genetic disorder to widespread (but ill documented) chronic disease and cancer. See Cecil Adams' take on another, earlier version of this story. People seem to have it in their head that the stuff is toxic and will keep blaming things on it, despite any evidence.

People seem to like to blame modern life in general for a vast array of ills. It seems to be a kind of hypochondria brought on by the comfort of modern life. Plus, people get a lot more chronic diseases than they used to.

Why? Because they used to die in their 30s of something acute instead. Personally, I don't drink the stuff.

I drink water. I just hate the way NutraSweet tastes..

There is absolutely no credible evidence that aspartame, saccarine or sucralose cause any health problems. Just think about it logically. How many millions of people every day drink sodas or eat food sweetened with aspartame?

If it were truly dangerous, wouldn't there be an epidemic of the symptoms you describe? Couple that with the fact that symptoms like headaches, breathing difficulties and such are quite vague. You could develop symptoms like that with just about anything you eat or drink.

Having said that, aspartame does have an ingredient many people are sensitive to and can cause allergic reactions (phenylketoneurics sp? ). But other than the know allergic reactions, there has been no study published in a peer-reviewed journal that confirms any untoward reactions to aspartame..

1 PamPerdue, regarding your answer "Right. Millions of people are suffering and nobody knows about it. ": I wish I had seen your answer before I posted mine!

Excellently phrased! There is so much misinformation out there. I don't like the taste of it either, but I don't think it's killing anyone.

I liked the Cecil Adams reference too! .

PamPerdue, regarding your answer "Right. Millions of people are suffering and nobody knows about it. ": I wish I had seen your answer before I posted mine!

Excellently phrased! There is so much misinformation out there. I don't like the taste of it either, but I don't think it's killing anyone.

I liked the Cecil Adams reference too!

Can't Wait for Obama's Health Plan - - or - - health insurance hell.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.