Dangers of Aspartame‏

On Jul 29, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Eric trauntvein wrote:

A guy was talking to me at work telling me how dangerous my soda was, I told him his diet was worse because the body treats Aspartame the same as sugar. I was wrong! the following attachments I am sending will tell you why I was wrong. there are just a few but there is a lot of solid proof send it around . Yes, I was wrong about the body treating Aspartame the same as sugar, how can one confuse poison with sugar, love eric

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David wrote: Your first statement was right in some regards. I heard this on the radio asone of the latest medical discoveries.

http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20050613/drink-more-diet-soda-gain-more-weigh

Eric wrote: I just wish that, someday, something I decide to do will be right. Sugar became the enemy in the '80s and now aspartame is the bad guy. I should have stayed with water.


Aspartame, a high intensity sweetener marketed under brands such as Equal, NutraSweet and Canderel, was first discovered in 1965. But because of initial cancer concerns, it was not approved for use in dry goods until the early 1980s. Over the next score of years, its use slowly expanded to beverages and other food products, until all restrictions for its use were removed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1996.


Although industry now keenly points to over 200 studies that prove its safety, aspartame has not fully rid itself of the black spot tainting its image.


Two years after one of the world's few comprehensive cancer-testing programs, the European Ramazzini Foundation (ERF), published its first study linking aspartame to cancer, the foundation last month (July 2007) again flagged up the dreaded link. And this second study has - again - resulted in a whirlwind of comment and controversy.


The Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that there is a link between sugar sweetened sodas and diabetes. Analysis of the eight year Nurses' Health Study II shows that women who increased their sugar sweetened soft drink consumption from one soda per week to one or more sugar sweetened soft drinks per day gained weight and had a higher risk of type II diabetes. Women who decreased their consumption of sugar sweetened sodas tended to lose weight and had a lower frequency of type II diabetes.


The best solution is to drink water. Drink at least half of your body weight in ounces of pure water every day.