Why do some people fear aspartame?

[HollywoodSwole]

Why do so many food products/supplements have ASPARTAME FREE plastered all over them? I know some people's bodies don't react well to some synthetic food stuff (i.e. Olestra), but what is/may be wrong with aspartame?

 

[meco24]

Didn't it cause cancer in lab rats years back?

 

[flexygrl]

If you are on a CKD or Atkins some people find that it knocks them out of ketosis.

 

[HollywoodSwole]

If you are on a CKD or Atkins some people find that it knocks them out of ketosis.

Yeah, I knew that, but I think 99% of the population has never heard the words CKD or ketosis. Is that the same stuff they label and it has a little asterisk and says like "contains phenylketonuretics" or something like that?

 

[flexygrl]

Bad:
http://www.mercola.com/article/aspartame/dangers.htm

Good:
http://www.caloriecontrol.org/aspartame.html

Take your pick?!?

 

[the_jarhead]

I read once that it can memory loss but i don't remember where?

It does give me killer migraines.

 

[flexygrl]

I'm having some right now! I feel fine.














I'm having some right now! I feel.....hey, didn't I just, oh.....

 

[ZKaudio]

here's a trick, don't think about it possibly giving you a headache. You'll lessen your chances of actually getting one. I myself am a lab rat, I take in so fking many artificial sweeteners in one way or another.. I'll be the first one to develop cancer as a result.. mark my words

 

[ffknight84]

isnt that just aspirin, if it is it thins out ur blood, easier to bruise, longer to clot if you cut yourself ( hmm almost the same thing ), etc.

 

[mike57]

No it's not aspirin!, it's nutra-sweet and it's in so many products that basic logic would tell you that if it was dangerous people would be dropping like flies. Love crystal lite in cutting cycles!!!