Likewise. I like to hold a suspicions mind about chemicals introduced into diets until proved safe, and sometimes their dangers can take decades to manifest. However, from aspartame's structure and its metabolites (phenylalanine, aspartic acid and methanol) it's difficult to see how it could be dangerous except in huge amounts. The worst being methanol and no doubt it's very nasty but the body is well adapted to metabolizing small amounts of methanol from the breakdown of normal foods. It seems unlikely anyone could consume enough aspartame to be harmful.
I'm a lot more suspicious about sucralose (chlorinated sucrose), it seems to me we ought to be much more concerned with what its three Cl atoms do during its metabolism.
Edit: seems to me WHO ought to concentrate time on reducing the population's 'bliss point' from its all-time high. Over the last 50/60 years corporations have forced up the bliss point by making drinks etc. sweeter and sweeter. We desperately need to wean the population from this high point back to more normal levels. Then we wouldn't need as much sweeteners whether natural or artificial.
Likewise. I like to hold a suspicions mind about chemicals introduced into diets until proved safe, and sometimes their dangers can take decades to manifest. However, from aspartame's structure and its metabolites (phenylalanine, aspartic acid and methanol) it's difficult to see how it could be dangerous except in huge amounts. The worst being methanol and no doubt it's very nasty but the body is well adapted to metabolizing small amounts of methanol from the breakdown of normal foods. It seems unlikely anyone could consume enough aspartame to be harmful.
I'm a lot more suspicious about sucralose (chlorinated sucrose), it seems to me we ought to be much more concerned with what its three Cl atoms do during its metabolism.
Edit: seems to me WHO ought to concentrate time on reducing the population's 'bliss point' from its all-time high. Over the last 50/60 years corporations have forced up the bliss point by making drinks etc. sweeter and sweeter. We desperately need to wean the population from this high point back to more normal levels. Then we wouldn't need as much sweeteners whether natural or artificial.