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I was very much surprised to learn that some well qualified physicians believe that the popular sugar substitute, aspartame, brand name Nutrasweet is really hazardous to your health, specifically to your vision. Here is a URL about it: http://www.321recipes.com/aspartame.html
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Hi Dr. Bill.  All I know is that the stuff gives me horrifying headaches... and I hardly *ever* get headaches (unassisted, that is). Tastes like %@#& besides.
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In sjmax's URL site I noticed an article about aspartame.
I did not see mention of credentials of the author, but did
see one place in which he made a serious mis-statement, that
the opponents of aspartame reported "anecdotal" cases
The US opponents include thirty qualified physicians.
There was one statement in the article that I would like
to see verified, is that a serving of fruit may produce
a slightly greater amount of methyl alcohol.
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I have gone to "Splenda" which is sugar with calories removed. Can even cook with it, put it on morning oatmeal etc etc. Tastes like regular sugar. Recommended by Atkins which is where I found it. http://www.splenda.com
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Dear wow: I went to the site, but there were agitated popups
that prevented my reading anything. The only way I can see
that sucrose could "have calories removed" would be to block
place on the molecule where digestive enzymes attack it. I probably couldn't underestand the changes if they described it, it's been so many since I had organic chemistry. But my
daugher-in-law is a dietitian, so I'll ask her.
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Here's what Snopes.com has to say about aspartame, as of September 2003: http://www.snopes.com/toxins/aspartame.aspDoesn't make it any more true than the source you cite. Unless maybe you think Snopes is usually non-biased, acccurate, authoritative. Thirty qualified physicians speak out against aspartame; most (unquantified) others don't feel it's dangerous. Many I am sure have no-data-therefore-no-opinion, and some of us just avoid the stuff anyway on general principles. There. That settles the issue once and for all, doesn't it.
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Snopes is quite correct about brain tumors,etc. But the article I cited spoke specifically about optic nerve damage.
It bothers me that if is a hazard why there has not been
a thousands of cases, since it is so widely used.
But remember how long it took to convince physicians
that smoking was hazardous to health.
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Here is a URL to a site with information about some of the
sugar substitutes not covered in previous siteS:
http://66.218.71.225/search/cache?p=Diet+sugar+substitutes&ei=UTF-8&cop=mss&url=85TScYomOFQJ:www.dietlowcarb.com/resources/sugarsub.php
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The symptoms are being attributed to something else? [not a doctor, just a conspiracy theorist-e]
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It is easy to get a bit paranoid, when you read about how
Monsanto was able to get a couple top-notch reporters fired for exposing errors and omissions in the testing procedures.
Money talks - and I don't like some of the things it says.
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