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Originally posted by Dottore
Aspartame is a terrible thing to ingest with any regularity. Google it and read - and you will find lots of horror stories from reputable sources.
Why drink that **** when there are so many healthy alternatives?
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As a diabetic, my choice of sweet drinks is very limited.
There's:
1. saccarin - which has been proven to cause cancer in lab rats.
2. Nutri-sweet (aspartane) - which is dangerous to people suffering from PKU, due to the possibility of the amio acids in aspartane breaking down when the substance is heated up and cooled down too much. (People with PKU can get brain damage is too much of this amio acid gets in their system).
3. Splenda - which has been proven to cause diahrrea in persons such as me.
4. Stevia - a natural root extract which so far, doesn't have any adverse side effects, and is a natural sugar substittute and works very effectively. So why isn't this product out in more Sugar free products? I suspect the chemical companies don't want this alternative out there. (Greedy idiots..)
5. Drink water.
Most of the stuff I drink has Nutri-sweet in it (ie: aspartane). I don't suffer from PKU, so that minimizes any adverse effects on me. At least it keeps the voices in my head quiet.
-Z-man.