'ASPARTAME' Artificial Sweetener is it a cause for concern?

[ABONJUK]

I have read severel articles about Aspartame the artificial sweetener found in varoius food products especially in Sugar free drinks like Soda/Pop.etc. This is just a snippet that I found on the internet just recently.
Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. http://rhondagessner.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/a-killer-in-your-fridge-sweet-poison-a-must-read/
I am a Type 2 Diabetic and have been so for the past 15 years and am Insulin controlled.
Would it not be prudent to aviod ASPARTAME due to the differing opinions as to it's possible relationship to causes of illness/cancers that is suggested by severel so called experts?

 

[collectingrocks]

Aspartame is a known excitotoxin and it would be wise to avoid it or limit its consumption

 

[hale710]

This was discussed at DAFNE. Apparently in order to have a "dangerous" level of aspartame in your body you would need to drink around 32 cans of diet pop a day (for an adult, I believe it is 3 for a child). This was from the dieticians

Personally, I've chosen to cut down my diet soda intake this year (previously about 1 can a day) to only at the weekends. But that's about maintaining my teeth rather than other side effects


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[ABONJUK]

This was discussed at DAFNE. Apparently in order to have a "dangerous" level of aspartame in your body you would need to drink around 32 cans of diet pop a day (for an adult, I believe it is 3 for a child). This was from the dieticians

Personally, I've chosen to cut down my diet soda intake this year (previously about 1 can a day) to only at the weekends. But that's about maintaining my teeth rather than other side effects


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If you follow the link that I put up. You will see that obviously the person who wrote this article. With ref. made as to Asparteme. Those who were affected were not drinking 32 cans of soda a day., but still displayed symptoms of illness associated with Asparteme.

 

[Daibell]

Just remember that when you eat rhubarb, horse-radish or green'ish potatoes they are highly poisonous but we never eat much at a time. The Aspartame thing is just one of many scare articles. Just not advisable to have litres of drinks with it in each day

 

[phoenix]

If you read the article through you will note that the article says that she was 'just sharing the Aspartame article from another blog…i’m not the author'
Well, versions of this article have been going the rounds for many years. It is usually attributed to a Nancy Markle but is thought to have originated from a Betty Martinii
see
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blasp2.htm
edit to add this link
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/aspartame-truth-vs-fiction/
(reviews evidence as of 2010)