Right away, I saw the flaw in this experiment: saccharine tastes like crap! I don’t know how they even get away with calling it a “sweetener.”
The “dangers” of aspartame are a hoax. But it does taste bad to some people. If you are one of them, use Splenda.
Splenda is great stuff.
Sugar is basically poison.
If you don’t carry a diet soda around all day—sip, sip, sip, nonstop—you won’t have a problem. Drink or eat something that artificially sweetened—along with some real food—and you won’t have a problem with insulin resistance.
These experiments with rats and couch potatoes are ludicrous. All such an experiment can possibly show is how a rat or a couch potato might be able to lose a little weight. And at the end of the experiment, the rat is still a rat and the couch potato is still a couch potato.
Raw sugar in moderation won’t kill you (unless you’re diabetic.)
I’ll stick with nature’s sugar.
Why do you say that? Because you want to believe it? I see no “hoax” in the fact that GD Searle politically manipulated FDA approval for it to be used in carbonated beverages.
Once aspartame is heated to over 85 degrees, it breaks down into formaldehyde and woodgrain alcohol. Searle tried to cover this up in addition to the adverse side effects (tumors, MS-like symptoms, neurological seizures) experienced by test animals.
No it's not. Aspartame gives a certain amount of people awful migraine headaches and I am one of them. The stuff turns to some wierd chemical in the body that the body just does not know what to do with, so a lot of it end up resting in the tissues. It would be about as healthy to drink some chemicals, diluted slightly, from out in your garage or under your sink. It's really a scandal that the FDA approved the poison aspartame, but it isn't the first time (nor the last) a federal agency has screwed up.