aspartame is an excitotoxin. it excites brain cells to death, eventually causing a measurable reduction in brain matter, and brain tumours. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitotoxicity http://www.amazon.com/Excitotoxins-...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235256283&sr=8-1 brain tumors have been increasing worldwide in the last 20 years, especially in young people. aspartame was introduced in the 1980's pushed through the FDA by that well know truth creationist Donald Rumsfeld. I won't touch it.
I'm not certain but I think methanol is used to reduce the hydrophobicity of aspartame and render it soluble. About 10% of aspartame in diet soda is methanol. So 2 liters would give you about 100 mgs of methanol at current doses. Unfortunately I don't know enough about methanol toxicity to tell you about safe limits (since it's not a food item) but I assume that's way below toxic levels (amounts are approx and based on memory)
for what it's worth, i have no idea on how to interpret it though. http://avogadro.chem.iastate.edu/MSDS/methanol.htm another source. http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/M2015.htm the above links are to material safety data sheets for methonal industrial use. i have no idea if they can be applied to the arguement or not. additional sources. http://epa.gov/chemfact/s_methan.txt in depth. http://www.inchem.org/documents/pims/chemical/pim335.htm
Exposure limits are given as 250 ppm(parts per million) or 260 mgs. Also it seems that a 12 ounce can of aspartame sweetened soda contains 200 mgs of aspartame which would amount to 20 mgs of methanol after digestion. An additional peculiarity of methanol is that 30% of it is retained in the body and is not broken down to formaldehyde -> formic acid -> water and carbon dioxide. But this is info from alcoholics, where ethanol is preferentially metabolised. Don't know if anyone has looked at it in pregnant women.
Sugar is a food additive as well. I read many of the web sites that were regurgitated here. It is mostly the same pages copied over and over with same info. The problem is that people are always looking for answers to things that have been happening from when first humans walked the planet. These things were just not diagnosed.
the E-33 and E-34 studies on lab rats show a correlation between brain tumors and apartame, increasing the risk by 25 times. studies also showed brain tumors risk increased cumulatively with dosage. other study using 59,000 rats showed the risk increased 47 times. even using Searle's (manufacturer of aspartame) inflated normal incidence of tumor figure, the risk increase was shown to increase by 25 times. I also recall reading that rats were less susceptible to effects of aspartame than humans, so any effects of studies are likely to be amplified in humans.
You can find anything on the internet. http://www.ghchealth.com/refined-sugar-the-sweetest-poison-of-all.html Why is this legal?
just so you know, i am well aware of Aspartame and these studies. tbh, i dont use it. Speculating about what? That most people a few decades ago, let alone centuries ago, where not autopsied or that these tests were not even available and many diseases were unknown? NO
just rechecked my facts (from a book in my personal library - nudge to John99) Neuroscientist Dr. John Olney used 59,000 ratsm, from 7 different studies, to show a total of 0.08% normal incidence of brain tumors. so these rats were probably from other studies (not asaprtame studies) and the data used as control data to compare with the aspartame studies....showing 47 times increased risk.
You know I could swear I remember seeing a warning on fake sugar packets YEARS ago which said something along the lines of it heightening cancer risk in lab rats. I wish I would have saved the packet. That is the main reason I never touched the stuff.
