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1 posted on 05/07/2025 7:38:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
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On the few times I accidentally take a sip, I taste metal and get a headache. No thanks.


2 posted on 05/07/2025 7:42:03 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Cyclamates are the safest artificial sweetener. So they banned them.

Just like J&J had the safest (or only real) Covid vaccine, so they banned it.


3 posted on 05/07/2025 7:44:28 AM PDT by PAR35
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Tried it once and had ringing in the ears for hours on end.

I carefully read labels to avoid aspartame.

Apparently it turns into formaldehyde in the brain.


4 posted on 05/07/2025 7:45:00 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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It’s on the no drink list for epilepsy.


5 posted on 05/07/2025 7:48:50 AM PDT by luckystarmom
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All of the sugar alternatives give me tummy troubles. No thanks. It’s easier to cut back on sugar than to use the other kinds, for me anyway.


8 posted on 05/07/2025 7:50:23 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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Who knows? Medicine is corrupt and only cares about money and left-wing politics. The tree-hugger supplement vegan crowd all sorts of nutjob claims.


10 posted on 05/07/2025 8:02:09 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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SINCE WHEN ARE THERE “ADDITIVES” TO HONEY????


11 posted on 05/07/2025 8:03:37 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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As you probably know, the late Donald Rumsfeld was involved in the development and approval process of aspartame.
Rumsfeld was CEO of G.D. Serle & Co., a company that developed and sought FDA approval for the artificial sweetener.

Rumsfeld used his government contacts at the FDA to suppress about potential dangers of aspartame. He was later involved in negotiations to sell Serle to Monsanto in 1985. The FDA ultimately approved it after further review and disagreement with claims of potential brain damage and tumors.

Rumsfeld served as Secretary of Defense first under Ford, later under George W. Bush. I appreciated his leadership under W., but all things considered, I suppose that means what? Nobody is perfect.


13 posted on 05/07/2025 8:06:04 AM PDT by lee martell
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may, suggests, possibly, could etc. All conclusive data.

I wonder who financed this crusade against something?


14 posted on 05/07/2025 8:07:03 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
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Been using it since the 80s
Still a conservative
Still alive.
No headaches
No cancer
No zombie-like reactions whatsoever.

YMMV


19 posted on 05/07/2025 8:19:04 AM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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Brought to you by the people who make sugar.


24 posted on 05/07/2025 8:43:22 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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I’ve switched to xylitol at home and stevia whenever possible when I eat out.


25 posted on 05/07/2025 8:48:05 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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Stevia can be dangerous, just ask Heisenberg


26 posted on 05/07/2025 8:48:26 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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Just stop eating sweets and you’ll lose the taste for them.


27 posted on 05/07/2025 8:51:01 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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TDS


29 posted on 05/07/2025 8:51:43 AM PDT by sopo
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bkmk


34 posted on 05/07/2025 9:47:45 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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If people ate real food, their tastes would change and sweet stuff would be far less appetizing to them.

Our tastes are corrupted by a high salt and high sugar diet from a very young age.


35 posted on 05/07/2025 9:50:41 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesu)
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Did the makers of aspartame finance the research?


39 posted on 05/07/2025 11:15:23 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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I hear you can buy Coke with sugar to sweeten it at Oriental supermarkets. They might be bringing in Mexican coca cola


42 posted on 05/07/2025 11:32:49 AM PDT by dennisw (💯🇺🇸 Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth. 🇺🇸💯)
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We’re all different and react differently to many things. I have been using aspartame sweetened soft drinks since they first came out - my mom was diabetic and we didn’t have sugary drinks in the house, so I got used to sugar free. I always hated saccharine, though - tastes bitter to me. Aspartame was such a relief when it came out - tastes fine to me and no apparent problems from it. Splenda also tastes good to me, and I can use it in cooking where aspartame doesn’t work. I’ve tried stevia but it tastes metallic to me. Haven’t tried Swerve yet - my doc says it is the best one health wise, but it’s really expensive.


43 posted on 05/07/2025 7:56:31 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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