Effects of Aspartame

Nutrition
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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Cigarettes have been proven to be attributed to numerous cancers.
Sure, a pack-a-day smoking habit is a sure way to bring on poor health, but how many of us would even smoke ONE cigarette a day?

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millions upon millions of people have died from cancer that is proven to be caused by cigarettes beyond a doubt. Im not finding any examples that specifically cover a person getting cancer as a direct cause of aspartame.

Facile argument. [/quote]

Not quite the context I was shooting for.

My point, more directly had to do with taking in elements essential for health. Tobacco plays zero role in a healthy lifestyle. It adds nothing, and no experts prescribe it as such.

Aspartame is like that when compared to water - which of course is essential. [/quote]

I see. My defense of aspartame would basically be simply for the fact that as a dieting tool, 0 calorie soda can be a huge asset. In moderation, a coke zero a day to help you cope with a strict diet or healthy lifestyle will likely have no negative impact, or at least a negligible one, while aiding you to actually make yourself healthier.

I think it at least serves a better purpose than cigarettes. lol

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[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Cigarettes have been proven to be attributed to numerous cancers.
Sure, a pack-a-day smoking habit is a sure way to bring on poor health, but how many of us would even smoke ONE cigarette a day?

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millions upon millions of people have died from cancer that is proven to be caused by cigarettes beyond a doubt. Im not finding any examples that specifically cover a person getting cancer as a direct cause of aspartame.

Facile argument. [/quote]

Not quite the context I was shooting for.

My point, more directly had to do with taking in elements essential for health. Tobacco plays zero role in a healthy lifestyle. It adds nothing, and no experts prescribe it as such.

Aspartame is like that when compared to water - which of course is essential. [/quote]

I see. My defense of aspartame would basically be simply for the fact that as a dieting tool, 0 calorie soda can be a huge asset. In moderation, a coke zero a day to help you cope with a strict diet or healthy lifestyle will likely have no negative impact, or at least a negligible one, while aiding you to actually make yourself healthier.

I think it at least serves a better purpose than cigarettes. lol[/quote]

Amen on your last sentence!

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Get informed. Calculate the benefits and risks. Make your own choices.

Related article. WSJ Coke and the Calorie Wars … It does make reference to the safety research on aspartame, indicating that many of the claims are based on “junk science”.

"…Aspartame, the sweetener in Diet Coke, has been relentlessly assaulted since it debuted in the early 1980s. Just this month, in an exhaustive investigation, the European Food Safety Authority not only declared aspartame safe. Its report noted that rebutting junk-science claims against aspartame has been a full-time job since the agency was created in 2002.

This explains why, with a perfectly good no-cal sweetener in hand, Coke, Pepsi and others are spending millions in a hunt for a no-cal sweetener to which they can affix the label “natural.” A promising candidate, the Paraguayan plant stevia, is already being test-marketed as a cosweetener in Pepsi, Sprite and Fanta versions. No less an anti-corporate campaigner than Michael Jacobson, founder of Washington’s venerable Center for Science in the Public Interest, predicts that within a decade the soft-drink industry will have been completely transformed by “natural” calorie-free sweeteners.

Then we’ll have reached a sugar-free Shangri-La that we might have reached decades earlier if not for the unreasoning opposition to artificial sweeteners."

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[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
Get informed. Calculate the benefits and risks. Make your own choices.

Related article. WSJ Coke and the Calorie Wars … It does make reference to the safety research on aspartame, indicating that many of the claims are based on “junk science”.

"…Aspartame, the sweetener in Diet Coke, has been relentlessly assaulted since it debuted in the early 1980s. Just this month, in an exhaustive investigation, the European Food Safety Authority not only declared aspartame safe. Its report noted that rebutting junk-science claims against aspartame has been a full-time job since the agency was created in 2002.

This explains why, with a perfectly good no-cal sweetener in hand, Coke, Pepsi and others are spending millions in a hunt for a no-cal sweetener to which they can affix the label “natural.” A promising candidate, the Paraguayan plant stevia, is already being test-marketed as a cosweetener in Pepsi, Sprite and Fanta versions. No less an anti-corporate campaigner than Michael Jacobson, founder of Washington’s venerable Center for Science in the Public Interest, predicts that within a decade the soft-drink industry will have been completely transformed by “natural” calorie-free sweeteners.

Then we’ll have reached a sugar-free Shangri-La that we might have reached decades earlier if not for the unreasoning opposition to artificial sweeteners."[/quote]

Its like i said, if you give a rat enough of pretty much anything apparently itll get cancer.

But people in this thread (as with all the “junk scientists”) are absolutely blowing aspartame’s effects out of proportion.

Last time ill beat the horse, but unless you are a serious fucking soda addict, you should not worry about drinking a diet coke with dinner.

Im sure half the people in this thread that are panning aspartame consume an amount of alcohol on a weekly basis that is FAR more unhealthy.

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if you need sugary drinks, or artificially sweetened drinks to stay sane while dieting then you should probably learn how to cook.

Its not that hard to make awesome tasting food that isnt super high in calories when trying to lose weight.

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[quote]tork94 wrote:
if you need sugary drinks, or artificially sweetened drinks to stay sane while dieting then you should probably learn how to cook.

Its not that hard to make awesome tasting food that isnt super high in calories when trying to lose weight.[/quote]

Not everybody has the time to invest in preparing “awesome” meals every day. I love how people try to spin the use of diet soda on a diet as a sign of weakness lol. Get over yourselves.