Aspartame

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

Diet Dr Pepper is the way to go, Jae.

I've never tried Pepsi Max.

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.

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

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.

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