Equal, Nutrasweet , Aspartame DEADLY?!?!

Chemophobia is a bitch to deal with in people you know

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.

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".

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.

H20 is a chemical. WATER. Hello?

http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

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.

"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

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.

http://gizmodo.com/pepsi-is-ditching-aspartame-so-what-1700025911

Aspartame out, sucralose in.

Sell outs.

Asparwild sucrawin