Aspartame Is Not Evil!

[Glaucus]

We are all aware fizzy drinks aren't good for you, but for me it's sugar over diet drinks.

I know what sugar is and what it does. Drinks that claim to taste the same but without sugar always makes me wonder exactly what chemicals they are using that I know little or nothing about. Hence why I avoid them

Rather than saying and doing that, why not learn. It's not like sweeteners are some secret thing, unknown or haven't been used for many decades, with thousands of research papers behind them.
Your stance makes little sense.

 

[spoffle]

We are all aware fizzy drinks aren't good for you, but for me it's sugar over diet drinks.

I know what sugar is and what it does. Drinks that claim to taste the same but without sugar always makes me wonder exactly what chemicals they are using that I know little or nothing about. Hence why I avoid them

More importantly, I've found that they just don't taste the same at all.

 

[AHarvey]

Rather than saying and doing that, why not learn. It's not like sweeteners are some secret thing, unknown or haven't been used for many decades, with thousands of research papers behind them.
Your stance makes little sense.

Because I have more important things in life than reading thousands of scientific papers on the pro's and con's of artificial sweetners and all the other chemicals.

As I said, I know what sugar is, where it come from and how it is used, I am happy to accept that it's in my drinks. It also tastes nicer, and it's lovely on my weetabix or readybrek

 

[Threepwood]

Stupid humans.

 

[fatiain]

A FOAF posted a picture on BookFace of two "brain scans" (I'm guessing they were MRI scans) one labelled "Sugar" and the other "cocaine", the areas showing activity were similar in both pics.

She commented underneath "See I always said sugar was a drug".

 

[Tefal]

Bunk, there have been several studies of aspartame and affects on insulin. All off them have come back negative.

Everything people say is bad is anecdotal. Study do not agree.
Even intolerance to it has been disproved time and time again in studies. I get a headache when I consume it, funny you dont when in a double blind trial.

Much like msg.

Ah cool. I always wondered but never enough to bother looking

 

[Tefal]

I guy I work with had a health problem and got messed around by the NHS who couldn't figure out what it was, so he became full on obsessed with Ayruvedic medicine and now thinks that dairy and gluten are poisonous and everything has chemicals in it.

He doesn't eat anything except vegetables he cooks at home since he doesn't trust any food now. Doesn't eat pizza, chips, chocolate or anything else tasty. Pretty bleak existance IMO, but he thinks it will stop him getting cancer (or lower the risk significantly).

Don't vegetables especially leafy greens contain chemicals designed to make you ill if you eat too much to stop animals basically eating the whole plant.

I refer when I started making some smoothies being told to rotate the types of leafy green ie don't always have kale every man day cause the I wanna say alkaloids but not sure build up and cause mild but irritating symptoms

 

[Xordium]

A FOAF posted a picture on BookFace of two "brain scans" (I'm guessing they were MRI scans) one labelled "Sugar" and the other "cocaine", the areas showing activity were similar in both pics.

She commented underneath "See I always said sugar was a drug".

Why the she has a good point even if there is a quantitative difference between the two.

 

[FutileBreadMachine]

Don't vegetables especially leafy greens contain chemicals designed to make you ill if you eat too much to stop animals basically eating the whole plant.

I refer when I started making some smoothies being told to rotate the types of leafy green ie don't always have kale every man day cause the I wanna say alkaloids but not sure build up and cause mild but irritating symptoms

Yeah there is something in spinach and kale which should not be consumed in large amounts, but you would have to have a whole lot every day to have any effect. I read some article about that and learned the word "cruciferous".

Another good one this guy says is never drink cold water since it puts out the "fire" in your stomache and stops digestion. And certain foods make your blood acidic which will cause cancer...

 

[covenantuk]

Uhh, isn't the main problem with Sugar "replacements" that they trick insulin response and cause Hypoglycemia regardless?

Thus utterly useless. (Sucralose is just as awkward as Aspartame)

This

 

[BunnyKillBot]

Yeah there is something in spinach and kale which should not be consumed in large amounts, but you would have to have a whole lot every day to have any effect. I read some article about that and learned the word "cruciferous".

Another good one this guy says is never drink cold water since it puts out the "fire" in your stomache and stops digestion. And certain foods make your blood acidic which will cause cancer...

Bananas are radioactive because they contain potassium. I'm surprised the conspiracy health nuts aren't more anti-banana.

 

[FutileBreadMachine]

Bananas are radioactive because they contain potassium. I'm surprised the conspiracy health nuts aren't more anti-banana.

The funny thing is you will find loads of websites making these crazy claims, so every time this guy spouts some nonsense he tells me to Google it and I find all these nutters with things like:
Top 10 Reasons You Shouldn't Drink Milk
Top 5 Reasons You Shouldn't Eat Peanut Butter

People just accept it too, there is no requirement for any scientific evidence.

 

[FTM]

might not be evil...but tastes rank!

all the best quality tonic waters avoid using artificial sweeteners.

 

[FTM]

Yeah, you wouldn't believe the stuff this guy comes up with. He thinks even if you aren't intolerant, gluten provides no benefit to the body, so he doesn't eat it. He says he doesn't eat for enjoyment now, he just eats whatever gives him nutrients...

what a miserable existence

one of lifes great joys is eating out and trying new things

 

[ubersonic]

ahh medical "science"

1950's: 'smoke, its good for you' and 'put this raduim in your water, the radiation will kill the germs and make it safe to drink'

and since then pretty much everything has at some stage been "proved" to give you cancer/lung problems/heart disease to being "proved" that they reduce all of the above.

To be fair they did start adding filters to cigarettes to reassure people, thank god for asbestos, it makes everything safer!

Used to get recurrent headaches in my teens. Someone suggested it might be 'NutraSweet' so I stopped drinking the copious amounts of Diet Coke I was putting away. The headaches stopped and have never recurred. Good enough for me.

If it's of any interest to you they completely remade Diet Coke a few years back, new recipe uses natural stuff (compared to the almost 100% E number recipe of the past).

 

[Glaucus]

This

Not this at all. Complete bunk for aspartame and most other sweeteners.

 

[oulton]

Usually when you see a fat person with a can of coke in their hand, it is diet or zero.

I only drink the full fat stuff, and usually only as a mixer with my whiskey.

 

[Glaucus]

Yep people think all e numbers are bad, but they aren't very much depends what it is and even then they've been deemed safe.

 

[ubersonic]

You say that as though E numbers are dodgy things. For us it just means they've been okayed by the EU as food additives.

Those damned E numbers . E948 and E949 are particularly evil . HOW DARE THEY ADD THINGS SUCH AS OXYGEN AND HYDROGEN .

The common use of E numbers when talking about food/drink stuff is usually to refer to the artificial ingredients (and the context is usually that they are bad things). Usually when somebody wants to refer to something like caramel they just say caramel not E-150, likewise when somebody wants to refer to Sodium Benzoate they usually use E-211.

 

[CREATIVE!11]

I personallly would stay farrr away from any fizzy drinks in general.

However eating a healthy diet and having the odd "cheat" meal now n again every few weeks is hardly going to kill you. I hadn't touched chocolate in a couple months but decided I wanted some the other day, and oh man did it taste good.