Thanks everyone!
Aspartame apparently makes my guts ache...
by TD 18 Replies latest social physical
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darthfader
Ah... a Futurama fan... Love that show!
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Band on the Run
I'm a diabetic. Even when I was underweight, I consumed diet sodas (God, Tab was worse than extreme thirst) b/c of the calorie laden sodas. I am a carb fiend. Carbs will slowly kill me. My doctors have repeated warned me about using aspartame. It causes a host of acute side effects and some troubling long term effects. I've found it almost impossible to stop. The diabetes has me so deprived and I hate plain water. Military people go ballistic about soda and diet soda in particular. I've vowed so many times to cut it from my diet.
Recently, I tried Stevia diet tea. I prefer the taste. The Stevia is very dilute. It has a cleaner taste on the palate. All the package crap is aspartame. Equal tastes one trillion times better than the earlier artificial sweeteners. Diet Coke is slightly different from Coke. Tab was atrocious. Lemon lime wasn't too bad. I've read aspartame is addictive. And I wholeheartedly believe it from my experience. Maybe it needs to be tapered. I became physically addicted to opiates during a pain siege. You can cut back slowly and feel almost no withdrawal until the last little bit or you can face sheer hell for months. Cold turkey has you on the run.
B/c of my OA and diabetes discussions, I've repeatedly heard actual people say they spent 2-3 weeks of utter agony with cravings and withdrawal. Once you pass that period, they say the cravings are minimal, if at all.
How does the FDA sllow tco he sale of such products? We don't have informed consent. Americans pay the salary of the Surgeon General. The tobacco program worked. Maybe removing it from shelves if authoritarian but print warnings on the cans and other containers.
Good luck and feel better.
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snowbird
Porcine fat!
What I wouldn't give for a handful of cracklins right now.
Syl
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baltar447
Stevia! Use it instead of all the artificial crap. And as for sodas, stay away from them entirely. If you do have one occasionally, have one of the ones with Sugar not HFCS or diet.
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mrsjones5
If I take in aspartame on an empty stomache I will get a headache. But I stay from all artifical sweeteners (and so called natural ones like Truvia and Stevia) anyway because they all taste extremely bitter to me. I can drink diet sodas but I can't use use those sweeteners for anything else. Coffee tastes horrible with that stuff.
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TD
...you might want to look in to the FDA approval of Aspartame, and Donald Rumsfeld?
What a sordid mess....
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Deputy Dog
It makes my eyes twitch.
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Berengaria
It makes my eyes twitch.
Are you serious?