Green | April 29, 2008 | 38 comments

How does aspartame damage your brain?

source: http://www.enn.com/sci-tech/article/35410

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Do you use this artificial sweetener? Consuming a lot of aspartame may inhibit the ability of enzymes in your brain to function normally. Despite concerns neither the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) or the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have changed their guidelines regarding the safe use of this product.
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38 comments // How does aspartame damage your brain?

  • HellaDelicious
  • TouchArt
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      TouchArt  

    • They tested aspartame on the U.S. and world population. The evidence is already in with drastic increases in neurological diseases that are now epidemic in much of America.

      The fact that one of the three neurotoxins in Aspartame turns into formaldehyde in the intestines is particularly troubling because Americans are already exposed and in many cases allergic to formaldehyde because of exposure to the outgassing of building materials pressurized wood products, carpets and other sources of formaldehyde in the environment, including, through embalming our loved ones after death and burying them in the earth.
      Formaldehyde was one of the more dangerous culprits in the toxic mobile homes they sent to the homeless after Katrina, then sent onto several Indian reservations until the toxic problem was exposed.
      We need to clean up our act worldwide.
      Speak out against chemical companies that advertise they are green or part of the equation of being human. They spend millions on propaganda to tell us they are helping, when they are earning billions poisoning us, our children, grandchildren and our earth.
      One Earth. Think About It/Act Like It

    • 5 years ago
  • SilvaForever
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      SilvaForever  

    • Did they do any real studies on people? Or did they just use rats? Actual real studies conducted on hundreds of adults and children show that moderate consumption of aspartame has no effect on cognitive function, behavior or mood.

      Anything that is consumed in very high doses is harmful including vitamins and minerals. So unless you're consuming those 5 pounds of aspartame a day (or thousands of sodas) you really have nothing to worry about. Stop buying into all the hype people

    • 5 years ago
  • iknew
  • senistar
  • Humdrum
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      Humdrum  

    • I don't drink soda, and artificial sweeteners always seemed like having sex with maniquins (just not quite as creepy). Yay for pure cane!

    • 5 years ago
  • 24French
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      24French  

    • Sugar regains its rightful primal place! Formaldehyde in the intestines vs. true sweetness? No contest. I would like to see the mock-up of the brain on sugar, too, though...expressed through a tinkertoys display or whatever.

    • 5 years ago
  • Ashe
  • TouchArt
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  • TouchArt
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      TouchArt  
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    • Here it is again.
      phoenix_fire999 thankfully saved it and sent it to me.
      Thanks phoenix_fire999.

      Aspartame combines 3 neurotoxins, one of which becomes formaldyhyde in the intestines. It was designed to initially quench thirst, then makes the user thirsty and leads to drinking more and addiction. Consumers drink more, use more aspartame, companies make more money. Aspartame also makes the consumer crave carbohydrates. Marketed to people as a diet product, it ensures its consumers keep coming back because instead of losing weight, they get fatter, therefore need more diet soda and other food products sweetened with aspartame thinking it will make them loose weight. Donald Rumsfeld forced the FDA to allow this poison into the 1,000s of items in the food supply and in 800 plus medicines including baby tylenol. The most sinister effect of the flooding of aspartame into the world food and medicine supply is that research showed years before the FDA refused to allow aspartame that it caused brain lesions, brain tumors, diabetes, parkinson's disease, ms, and other neurological diseases that have become epidemic in the U.S. Citizens in New Mexico have been trying to get aspartame outlawed in our state, but the multinational that owns aspartame now hired a big law firm and they haven't been able to get the legislature to pass the bill. This is a serious public health issue with huge impact on our communities and the overburdened health care system. Sacharin has long been proven to be a carcinogen. There is a new sweetener where they chemists flipped the chemical structure of sugar around. Think about this and see it probably isn't a good idea. Stevia is natural, sweet and an excellent substitute. You can grow it easily in your herb garden, a coffee can on the window sill or your kitchen garden. My 25 year old son grew it in his tiny back yard in the middle of the city in Albuquerque.

    • 5 years ago
  • TouchArt
  • TouchArt
  • phoenix_fire999
  • TouchArt
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    • Newest painting by young Jicarilla Apache artist Philip Vigil from Dulce, New Mexico sums up the motivation of Rumsfeld, Searle and aspartame pushers worldwide.

    • 5 years ago
  • rmforall
  • DefenderOfPants
  • coffeebreak8
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      coffeebreak8  

    • My boyfriend & I have been trying to spread the word about Aspartame for a while.
      We are finding it VERY difficult to get people to care enough to stop consuming it.
      I hope a lot of people are moved to research on their own, and see how damaging Aspartame can be.

    • 5 years ago
  • Thargor19
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      Thargor19  

    • not to mention a common additive, phenylketonurics, which is often found with asparatame, causes problems especially in women with a condition called LKU. Why not switch to alternatives to sugar such as agave syrup and honey?

    • 5 years ago
  • phoenix_fire999
  • pigmonkey
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      pigmonkey  

    • stevia is a natural sweetener, 0 calories, and is found at whole foods and earthfare. this stuff is a natural extract from a plant and makes great to cook with. a must for all who can't have sugar and want to stay heathy

    • 5 years ago
  • Vierotchka
  • marcozarco
  • diode
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      diode  

    • it takes a good 5 pounds of aspartame in one sitting before you'll get any negative results from it. notice how they don't say how much their "high doses" actually were? in either of the three articles?

      i don't eat/drink anything with aspartame in it anyway, not by conscious choice just by eating habits

    • 5 years ago
  • derk
  • Scott_Bromley
  • Vierotchka
  • aBeaUtifulSavAge
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      aBeaUtifulSavAge  

    • isn't it fantastic that rather than make americans give up their "diet food", the government would rather let our brains fail? of course, americans themselves hold most of the blame for believing anything made in a lab can beat what mother earth made herself.

    • 5 years ago
  • taniaelle
  • lucmedina
  • Elligirl
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      Elligirl  

    • Stevia ftw!

      Beware of those "aspartame free" diet sodas. They still contain acesulfame k/potassium, which is a component of aspartame. It's just a bait and switch.

    • 5 years ago
  • BooksBrown
  • mirimysweet
  • NcSchu
  • Pwdrskir
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      Pwdrskir  
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    • Sucrulose, ie Splenda, is by far the best and safest sugar substitute on the market.

      They have combine a sugar molecule with a chlorine (derived from celery) molecule.

      I don't need any more things messing with my brain chemistry.

    • 5 years ago
  • yonie
  • digitrash
  • 96thdayofrage
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      96thdayofrage  

    • Worse than brain damage, aspartame breaks down into lethally toxic components, like formaldehyde. Stick with sugar, which hasn't changed its chemical composition for centuries.

    • 5 years ago
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