Bloody aspartame poisoning...

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Is not real and has been disproved time and time again. Aibu to get cross every time someone says its toxic blah blah blah! There is one group of people who should avoid it if they have a certain rare condition otherwise it's completely safe.
Rant over!

It's like people who go around advising to use fluoride free toothpaste on your kids.

But Fanjo, don't forget that .

I just opened the thread to see if someone linked to Mercola's "research" ... and they did!

OP, yanbu.

LOl at OP it is frustrating trying to talk to any of these people and the concept of risk while they are smoking worried about air pollution, metal in vaccines, autism vaccines, completely disregarding the risk you happily take getting into a car every day.

The unnatural and chemicals talks are often top notch I mean this isn't dodgy chinese farmers adding melamine, its first world foil hattery.

FatherReboola

Aspartame tastes like shit and is only found in cheap, nasty processed food and drinks so have idea OP why you are so proud of ingesting it. Just because some choose not to give their kids artificially sweetened drinks doesn't mean that the only alternative is giving them diabetes from sugar. Most parents moderate their kids sugar intake. You would have to be a fool to think that a glass of squash with a load of artificial ingredients in it is better for you than a freshly squeezed fruit/ veg juice.
You carry on with your cheap and nasty aspartame, there is no way I'll be drinking it or giving it to my Dd, really couldn't care less if anyone else wants to

randomsabreuse lidl sell a good blackcurrant. Ribena do sugar version. You could also try vimto squash - both sugar and sugar free versions. Those are the only ones that I know of atm but tend to make my own cordials at home. We're drinking elderberry right now.

Where does it say that the OP is proud of ingesting it, Xi? Or that the OP consumes it at all, proudly or otherwise?

Pipistrella you need a french butter dish Try etsy for one from a local potter, might have to commission it . Not cheap but you wont care when you can spread butter properly!

wow Xi all that natural sugar has made you quiet cross - have a diet Pepsi

I second a butter dish btw - I love mine

XiCi I think you need to read the OP again. The OP says it tastes horrid and is no way an aspartame champion. She is simply saying it doesn't cause cancer and it's not toxic.

This has been explained at least 20 times on this thread though so if you missed all those explanations you'll undoubtedly miss this too.

Yes but why is margarine not safe any more? Did it murder someone?

Why can I still buy it in the supermarket if it's going to kill us all

/runs screaming

Lemon "no added sugar" squash gives me a dry cough when I drink it, so weird!

My first ever mumsnet thread was about butter dishes. On the strength of it I bought a lovely Pyrex one with a cow on it. I like it very much indeed,

Margarine isn't safe? What does it do then?

Threatens the institution of marriage (courtesy of the spurious correlations website)

I find its repulsive taste and the promise of a laxative effect in large doses is more than sufficient to encourage me to avoid aspartame! There is no evidence that a small quantity of sugar in your diet is likely to kill you, either - everything in moderation and all that. But why you would choose to ingest something that is neither good for you (not the same thing as bad for you...), nor tastes nice, I don't know.

Margarine is illegal. You can buy spread at the supermarket. Butter is much nicer though and I so want a French butter dish.

with Marge for me it's taste Micah also the idea that butter is bad or worse - fat is fat it all tends to not much good in large doses

There have been some issues with Trans fats but they and minimal in marge - and one study showed some margarine may increase the risk or heart disease

but it's mainly taste!

fuck - are not and and of not or - sorry my laptop is randomly cutting and pasting and being a twat making typing harder than usual

It might not be poisonous but I don't have it in the house. It comes under fake food, like margarine. Butter and sugar all the way in this house.

I was told that aspartame is a carcinogenic substance if eaten/absorbed in sufficient quantity. If there is the slightest possibility that this may be true I prefer to avoid it.

Ah, Mercola. He's such a nice AIDS denialist, too. Raking in the millions by targeting the foil hatters and simultaneously decrying Big Pharma for being in it for the profit. Yep, that's the guy I want to get my medical advice from!

I was told that aspartame is a carcinogenic substance if eaten/absorbed in sufficient quantity.

So is just about everything, if consumed in sufficient quantity. Even broccoli, I imagine. So yeah, if you're going to drink 100 litres of diet coke a day you might just get cancer.

"I was told that aspartame is a carcinogenic substance if eaten/absorbed in sufficient quantity. If there is the slightest possibility that this may be true I prefer to avoid it."

So, you won't eat anything that might have adverse effects if you eat lots of it?

but the sun is carcinogenic in large doses - damn it

micah margarine has the fats treated in such a way that they can cross membranes in a way that the fats in butter can't.
You don't want fat accumulating in your body where it shouldn't. Not in a 'you'll get fat way' but in a 'you don't want clots and thrombosis' way.
BTW you can't buy margarine in the UK...