Artificial sweeteners, have they been proven safe yet?

Glaucus said:
Yet every double blind test done so far has found that it doesnt give people headaches.
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Not true, every hypochondriac i know suffers from terrible headaches when they take artificial sweeteners. It seems contagious because after a few minutes of their moaning, i also get headaches.
 
Bunka said:
Could be something else then - drinking coke zero is pretty much a guaranteed headache for me.
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Do you get that with the full fat stuff too? I get nasty headaches if I have a decent amount of sugar in one go (transient hypoglycaemia due to insulin spike) but it soon sorts itself out once my blood sugar stabilizes. Some people are sensitive enough to artificial sweeteners that they cause an insulin spike despite the absence of sugar. If a sip of something with real sugar in it fixes the headache then that's probably it.
 
Sugar / Honey > artificial anytime for me, I just hate the taste of aspartame and acesulfate (or w/e it's called) in my mouth, leaves it all sticky and gooey. My gf is quite sensitive to artificial sweeteners too, can't drink more than half glass of anything with them.
 
Actually my girlfriend is diagnosed with anxiety and depression. You wouldn't know it because she's on citalopram which work fine, but if she has more than 2 cans of diet softdrink with aspartame, after a few days it really starts to bring her down.
 
How in the world would aspartame affect celexa after a few days?

Are you sure it is not just variations in mental attitude caused by depression and the celexa she takes for it?
 
Glaucus said:
Yet every double blind test done so far has found that it doesnt give people headaches.
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Got links for that? last time I looked into it there were 3 major blind studies done and 2 of those were random people (in which case it is entirely possible with stuff like that to have an entire group that doesn't actually contain a single person who does suffer sensitivity) and the other entirely used people who self claimed sensitivity but the results were judged inconclusive despite being slightly in favour of there being an effect.
 
Bunka said:
Could be something else then - drinking coke zero is pretty much a guaranteed headache for me.
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I bet it has nothing to do with the caffeine, which is a diuretic - i.e. it dehydrates you.
 
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I hate all these artificial sweeteners to be honest. My workplace took an open vote on what to put in the drinks vending machines and lo and behold we ended up with diet everything. Diet coke, Diet Dr. Pepper, Diet Fanta :mad: I rarely drink fizzy drinks but if I do, I want it to be the real thing dammit!
 
There's some evidence they interfere with gut microbiota, which can effect the immune system and the brain. Google "gut-brain axis".
 
lowrider007 said:
I just wondering whether I'm imagining it or not but every time I drink something with Aspertame or Acesulfame K in it is seems to give me a mild head ache, what with the weather being so hot recently a couple of days ago I must have got through about half a litre of double strength squash in a day and it left me with quite a bad migraine for two days, only just recovering, now I'm wondering am I just imaging a link to sweeteners here or is this a classic case of "don't be silly they are perfectly fine" etc?
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You most likely have a headache because it's hot and muggy and you're dehydrated.
 
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