> I don’t use artificial sweeteners. If I drink soda, I prefer to cut it with roughly an equal volume of seltzer or club soda. I don’t have diabetes. Thank You, God.
I have read somewhere that Aspartame is difficult for the body to break down, and converts to formaldehyde on its way out of the system. If true, this would explain why Aspartame makes me feel ill. Formaldehyde isn’t one bit good for you.
I have read elsewhere that those wee white pills that alcoholics take to make themselves ill if they consume alcohol work because they convert alcohol into an -aldehyde, which makes them feel violently ill, too.
That’s what Aspartame does to me: I get a wicked headache right between the eyes followed by a crook-in-the-guts, and after 30 minutes max I’m Captain Cook for 5 to 6 hours at least. Crook as a chook, and I’ve got my head in the toilet and the room is spinning. Not funny! Not funny at all!
(lucky thing they don’t make beer out of Aspartame else I’d have a real ethical dilemma!)
Re: Aspartame, if an ingredient requires a warning label, it’s probably wise to avoid it.
Me it just makes hellishly depressed. Like I need help being more depressed.
The components of aspartame are phenylalanine, one of the most common amino acids found in just about every protein; aspartic acid, another amino acid common in fruits and vegetables, and methanol, which is found in any fermented beverage. Your body easily breaks these chemicals down. If you eat a steak with baked potato and a glass of red wine you'll be ingesting a heck of a lot more of these three chemicals than you will from a can of diet coke.
...and converts to formaldehyde on its way out of the system. If true, this would explain why Aspartame makes me feel ill. Formaldehyde isn’t one bit good for you.
It's true that your body converts methanol into formaldehyde but the amount is so minute that your liver easily clears it. As a matter of fact, you get several times more methanol from a glass of apple juice, or from a glass of red wine, than you do from a diet coke. Of course, you consume arsenic when you eat a baked potato and limonene (paint stripper) when you drink a glass of orange juice. Eat lima beans and you'll be giving your body a dose of cyanide. The list goes on and on but the old adage about the dosage making the poison still applies.
You have nothing to fear from these chemicals but fear itself.