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Originally Posted by PostScript
Really? I'll need some convincing. It's nutritionally dead, artificial crap that takes more from the body than it provides (chromium leeching for example). It perpetuates consumption of false idol "low fat" artificial products which are a patch on the problem in society. It fucks with the satiety loop in the body by being sweet yet having no nutrition hence we crave more and more. It's been suggested as a neurotoxin causing excitement and degradation in the brain. It's had a profound number of public complaints against it leading to implications in everything from MS to Cancer. I gather the research supporting it is paid for by those who produce it, unsurprisingly.
Now I am biased against anything artificial and suspect we don't fully understand the implications of any of these products yet.
However, you sound confident, I'm open to being educated if you can give me some good sources I might find credible.
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I share the same bias against anything processed so no worries. But Aspartame (I'm going to spell it right this time) has been demonized to the point where it's blamed for more bad than smoking. Quite a stretch for something that's essentially a combination of 2 amino acids.
Most of this has been done in chain emails as part of Cokelore and either misprepresent the facts or just outright make things up.
The truth is that it hasn't been linked to any adverse affects whatsoever and this was confirmed in a 2007 US Study (FDA commissioned, and impartial):
Aspartame: a safety evaluation based on current us... [Crit Rev Toxicol. 2007] - PubMed result
The Food Standards Agency has a good summary of it here:
Food Standards Agency - Aspartame
Also Snopes has a good summary of the campaign against it here:
snopes.com: Aspartame -- Sweet Poison?
I drink a lot of Diet Coke, so have done my homework on it. The thing is most of the sites attacking it don't actually have much proof and a lot the panic around it is political, rather than scientific.