Aspartame

by **Riot** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:14 am

What do you guys think about this sweetner? Do you think it is safe and effective? Do you think it's danergous and deadly? I personally love it because I'm addicted to Diet Dr Pepper.

What do you guys think about Aspartame?

by **cyanide** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:25 am

It's an artificial substitution for sugar for the purposes of saying, "Look, it's sugar free and it's still sweet, but with less calories!" Sounds good to be true, but it leaves out that it is potentially harmful in long term usage.

If you simply Google it, you'll see "it's dangerous" all over the first page.

Here's a short documentary: http://www.aspartame.com/

It doesn't seem like anything's proven yet, but I've heard bad things about it way back.

by **Riot** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:29 am

I did google it, but I found good things about it, too. Apparently, all the fuss is about the Methanol in it, which apparently is a poision and attacks your central nervous system. However, you need tens or hundreds of grams of Methanol for that to happen and in diet soda or whatever it's in there is only like .5 grams of it in the actual soda. You'd have to drink a lot of soda for it to attack your liver and other organs. I think.

by **cyanide** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:35 am

I don't know much about the pros and cons of aspartame, but I don't see how it's "good" for us either. If you said there's .5 grams in a soda, and if you drank say, 10 pop cans in a day, that's 5 grams. Drink it consistently for a week, then it's 35 grams. I don't know if that would do anything, or if that would "build up" but either way, it don't see anything beneficial.

by **Riot** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:38 am

cyanide wrote:I don't know much about the pros and cons of aspartame, but I don't see how it's "good" for us either. If you said there's .5 grams in a soda, and if you drank say, 10 pop cans in a day, that's 5 grams. Drink it consistently for a week, then it's 35 grams. I don't know if that would do anything, or if that would "build up" but either way, it don't see anything beneficial.

It's better for the teeth and it has no calories! Yay!

Your liver can break down small amount of methanol...it's when it gets a shit load that you have a problem.

by **trecenters** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:06 am

Any carbs in it? I started eating no carbs because I been gaining some weight. Sugar has alot in it.

by **Tuomas** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:18 am

how about exercise? people (especially women) overlook exercise and concentrate too much on dieting when trying to loose weight

by **cyanide** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:31 am

Riot wrote:It's better for the teeth and it has no calories! Yay!

Good point, but personally, I think we'd all be better off avoiding sugar and aspartame anyway

by **Steve [The Spiderman]** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:41 am

Yeah, most artificial things are bad, even in small doses.

by **Jackal** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:50 pm

No wonder you don't get laid that often. As you said, artificial things are bad, even if they are small.

by **Fitzy** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:20 pm

my dad knows a bit about it, its in coke and stuff

by **The_Flying_Tomato** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:23 pm

10 cans a day? who the hell can stomach 10 cans a day? 120 ounces? dayuuuuuum. I can take maybe 64 on a good day, but 120?

by **Laxation** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:47 pm

like the psychiatrist from scrubs said, "I dont care if it gives me cancer, it just tastes so dam good"
in other words eat it. even if it does rub a few years off your life.

who ever wanted to be 90 anyway?

hmm 2 tv references in the one post... i need to watch less tv

by **Steve [The Spiderman]** on Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:53 am

Jackal, you truly are good at turning any situation into somethin sexual. Too bad it isn't true. See the Truth topic in the General Talk section.

by **Jackal** on Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:23 am

See the Truth topic in the General Talk section.

I didn't get to see a picture with the size of your penis...so I don't comprehend why you are referring me to that thread.

by **Sac-1** on Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:28 am

The_Answer wrote:how about exercise? people (especially women) overlook exercise and concentrate too much on dieting when trying to loose weight

Isn't excercise a way to diet?

by **cyanide** on Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:06 am

I think he meant "diet" as in depriving themselves of calories.

by **Riot** on Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:59 am

I don't drink diet because I'm fat, I drink it because it tastes good and it's better for my teeth! The no calories is a bonus.

by **J@3** on Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:04 am

I'm with Riot, I drink Pepsi Max all the time and I am willing to sacrifice being a decrepit old man who needs someone to change his clothes for him in exchange for that sweet sweet black gold 8-)

by **Riot** on Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:29 pm

Diet Dr Pepper is the way to go, Jae.

I've never tried Pepsi Max.

by **Jugs** on Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:15 pm

Pepsi Max is the greatest thing to walk the planet in a can.

Fuck I love that shit, everytime i get 2 litres, its gone by the end of the night. :drool:

by **Steve [The Spiderman]** on Fri Mar 31, 2006 3:25 am

I'm sure you would enjoy seeing a picture of my penis...

by **Jackal** on Fri Mar 31, 2006 3:32 am

Now that you've got the chance to respond to what makes you seem cool, I go back to my previous statement of...given you haven't proved otherwise. :wink:

No wonder you don't get laid that often. As you said, artificial things are bad, even if they are small.

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