seriously, conflict of interest in the approval process doesnt mean you can just make up any old shit about it
― and what, Saturday, 24 May 2008 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
It's perfectly healthy for you, go right ahead. It's only dangerous to stupid paranoid commies like me.
― StanM, Saturday, 24 May 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
seriously this is on a level of like 'bush wanted war with iraq so he faked 9/11'
― and what, Saturday, 24 May 2008 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Enjoy your Aspartame Tacos, AMIGO
― Mackro Mackro, Saturday, 24 May 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought the revive wasn't so much about NutraSweet but more of a "hey, here's another instance of a Reagan/Rumsfield clusterfuck in action" typa thing.
the "no wonder this gives me headaches" line was a purposely dumb joke in my part.
― Mackro Mackro, Saturday, 24 May 2008 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
whats the difference between this and the vaccine/autism link everybody was agreeing was bullshit a couple weeks ago?
― and what, Saturday, 24 May 2008 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
lol (jenny) mccarthyism vs. rumsfeld
― tehresa, Saturday, 24 May 2008 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.aspartamekills.com/
http://www.aspartamekills.com/images/shaphit.gif Adolph Hitler's Third Reich killed my grandmother and aunt at Riga and Stuthoff and millions of innocent people throughout Europe. Robert Shapiro's NutraSweet® killed my mother and has killed and/or wounded millions of innocent people in the US and abroad. Dr. Roberts calls NutraSweet® molecular Auschwitz.
― and what, Saturday, 24 May 2008 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
http://rhondagessner.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/a-killer-in-your-fridge-sweet-poison-a-must-read/
my best friend from high school has gone so far off the deep end, and today this is her craziest Facebook post.
I had to complain to ILX about the non-scientific, non-peer reviewed nonsense in this article bc it is not worth going into it with her.
Aside to any other nursing or medical peeps who might be lurking on this revived thread, metabolic acidosis would be caught pretty damn fast on an ABG, correct? We do them frequently at our facility. "Metabolic acidosis" is not a f*cking mystery condition that can't be detected or treated!
(Not saying I am defending diet soda, which I think is disgusting in general, but OMG this kind of stupidity makes me crazy.)
― Sara R-C, Saturday, 7 September 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
lol it's actually on snopes
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp
― click here to start exploding (ledge), Saturday, 7 September 2013 23:01 (ten years ago) link
haha, I didn't even think to look there bc to me it was so obviously a bunch of nonsense
― Sara R-C, Sunday, 8 September 2013 01:33 (ten years ago) link
Chemophobia is a bitch to deal with in people you know
― Your Own Personal El Guapo (kingfish), Sunday, 8 September 2013 02:08 (ten years ago) link
I haaaaate it when people say they don't want to eat/use anything with chemicals in it. H20 is a chemical. WATER. Hello? Grade school chemistry basics apparently don't skin in for some.
For some reason it is more galling to me with the person who posted this than it would otherwise be because she didn't used to be a conspiracy theory kook.
― Sara R-C, Sunday, 8 September 2013 22:41 (ten years ago) link
We had this in Europe in the 80's with E numbers - most of which are from natural sources, making it really annoying when people would say things like "oh, we don't let our children eat anything containing E numbers".
― TO BE PLAYED AT MINIMUM VOLUME (snoball), Sunday, 8 September 2013 22:47 (ten years ago) link
Then there's the equally annoying flipside, people saying "oh, we only let our children eat things made from natural ingredients", as if everything natural is automatically safe.
― TO BE PLAYED AT MINIMUM VOLUME (snoball), Sunday, 8 September 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
H20 is a chemical. WATER. Hello?
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
― TO BE PLAYED AT MINIMUM VOLUME (snoball), Sunday, 8 September 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link
RE: the "natural" thing - YES.
There is a woman at the website where I write who calls herself the "3nlight3nm3nt 4dvis0r" - all about the evil chemicals, only buy natural, etc. And calling herself that is SO GRATING.
― Sara R-C, Sunday, 8 September 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
"oh, we only let our children eat things made from natural ingredients" <-- got some really delicious and attractively-coloured toadstools to sell you
though at one point I was drinking a lot of diet soda and did notice a correlation between diet drinks and my head/stomach hurting (which admittedly was happening a fair bit at the time for stress-related reasons, which is why I didn't notice immediately and why it may just be in my head), so I do have a slight soft spot for this particular conspiracy theory, but... there are limits
― the supreme personality of Godhead : a summary study (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 8 September 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
Well, yes - there certainly could be downsides or rxns to aspartame - there just isn't any peer reviewed evidence that it causes the particular things that have been studied.
That being said, my husband feels sick if he drinks milk; he's just sensitive to that substance. Probably every "natural" and every "synthetic" thing on the planet distresses someone in some way.
I've always kind of wanted them to prove that aspartame is bad for you... because it is so gross and somehow it seems like it *should* be. But that article is so blatantly nonsense that it just distresses me that people don't see through it immediately.
― Sara R-C, Monday, 9 September 2013 05:02 (ten years ago) link
http://gizmodo.com/pepsi-is-ditching-aspartame-so-what-1700025911
Aspartame out, sucralose in.
― Small Town Pizza Lawyer (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 26 April 2015 20:21 (nine years ago) link
Sell outs.
― Jeff, Sunday, 26 April 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
Asparwild sucrawin
― StanM, Monday, 27 April 2015 03:13 (nine years ago) link