aspartame

[kmehrzad]

Thanks for posting. I avoid diet sodas but just checked my chewing gum and saw aspartame as an ingredient. It's time to find a new brand of gum.

[KnottedYet]

Several years ago my mom's doc thought her autonomic nervous system was collapsing. Everything was falling apart and going wrong, and her prognosis was looking pretty grim. She had a check-up with her diabetes specialist, who immediately asked her how much diet pop she was drinking and told her to stop it entirely.

Her nervous system recovered.

Aspartame is bad stuff.

I can't stand it, I get a very upset stomach from it. So does my kid. And after her experience with it, believe me we avoid it!

[Blueberry]

Any known major issues with Splenda? I do try to avoid all artificial sweeteners (not sure how good it is to trick one's body into thinking it's consuming massive amounts of calories when it's not), but I do drink it in tea with some regularity and very occasionally coffee (have tried to train myself to unsweetened, and it hasn't worked). Otherwise, it's water except for the maybe once a month small glass of fruit juice or an occasional small glass of soy milk if I'm running out of the house without breakfast.

[blackhillsbiker]

Aspartame gives me a wicked headache. I'm pretty good at spotting and avoiding it. Soda is easy, since I rarely drink it. I had some jello that tasted too sweet at a church potluck, forgetting about sugarless jello. Shortly thereafter, WHAM! I asked the woman who brought it and sure enough... aspartame.

Deb

[tulip]

Any known major issues with Splenda? I do try to avoid all artificial sweeteners (not sure how good it is to trick one's body into thinking it's consuming massive amounts of calories when it's not), but I do drink it in tea with some regularity and very occasionally coffee (have tried to train myself to unsweetened, and it hasn't worked). Otherwise, it's water except for the maybe once a month small glass of fruit juice or an occasional small glass of soy milk if I'm running out of the house without breakfast.

I prefer sugar in my tea (16 calories), but stevia is a runner up. You can find it in packets (Stevia in the Raw)

[papaver]

Stevia is illegal here. I don't know why.

[badger]

I'd imagine Splenda's under the radar now but something will pop up. I think if you're using just small quantities of sweetner in your tea/coffee, you're just better off to using sugar, or my favourite, honey.

I've tried stevia, and I just can't get over that bitter undernote.

I usually have raw cane sugar in my house, but that usually gets used in cooking and baking. Luckily I don't like sweetened hot drinks so I get away with not using sugar much in my daily life (if I don't eat out or eat processed foods, that is).

[solobiker]

Thanks for the post. I have been in the process of decreasing my consumption of it. After reading this..no more for me. Yikes.

[Owlie]

Stevia is illegal here. I don't know why.

There was a study done in the '80s that showed that one of the breakdown products was mutagenic in rats. It's disputed, though.

[Aggie_Ama]

I developed neurological tremors after changing to Diet Dr Pepper in 2003. There is no family history of them, I wonder if my DDP addiction might be a key? I stopped seeing a neurologist because I didn't feel like the were attentive and I was sick of being doped up on Primidone. I have been trying to cut down on my soda intake for other reasons, if I can kick the habit it would be nice to stop shaking too. Caffeine limitation alone should help some.