[Closed] aspartame ?

Yes.

Won't last long though.

Blower - Member
been taking sweeteners in mi tea for years,3 in each brew 6-8 times a day
been told they aint good for you?

Claim:  

The artificial sweetener aspartame has been proved responsible for an epidemic of cancer, brain tumors, and multiple sclerosis.

FALSE

That's "slightly" different from what he was asking though eh ?

He didn't say what he'd been told about them not being good for him.

Fair enough.

Despite Internet idiots claiming aspartame is responsible for all illness since the dawn of man, and all that being debunked by snopes etc.

I'm still fairly happy to accept that it's not particularly good for you, and I'm better off avoiding it in general.

Even though it probably won't give me Cancer, Cat Aids or Dutch Elm Disease 😉

I dont like using sweetners but for me its the lesser of 2 evils when i am trying to stop using sugar.

Fortunatly i only drink 1 to 2 cup of coffee a day at most so im not taking loads of them.

Don't use it as I don't like the taste in coffee.

Using sweeteners instead of sugar is possibly counterproductive though.

A study by scientists in the US suggests that eating artificial sweeteners could make people put on weight because experiments on laboratory rats showed that those eating food sweetened with artificial sweeteners ate more calories than their counterparts whose food was sweetened with normal sugar.

The study is the work of Drs Susan Swithers and Terry Davidson, two psychologists based at the Ingestive Behavior Research Center at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, and is to be published in the February 2008 issue of Behavioral Neuroscience, a journal of the American Psychological Association (APA).

The authors suggest that a sweet taste may cause animals to anticipate the calorie content of food, and eating artificial sweeteners with little or no calories undermines this connection, leading to energy imbalance by increasing food intake or reducing energy expenditure.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/96849.php

Using sweeteners instead of sugar is possibly counterproductive though.

Another reason not to use it then.

But it is better for your teeth than sugar I suppose.

(unless it gives you tooth cancer maybe !?)

Lots of things in the world bad for you but in moderation okay! 3 in 8 brews a day though!! Jeepers do you eat spoonfuls of sugar at night 😉

experiments on laboratory rats showed that those eating food sweetened with artificial sweeteners ate more calories than their counterparts whose food was sweetened with normal sugar.

seen the same thing demonstrated with humans too two groups were given either regular or diet drinks then offered a buffet - the people who'd had the diet drink ate more- even if your tastebuds are fooled by the sweetener your brain isn't - taste the sugar- expect the calories, so people who use sweeteners will graze more and serve themselves larger portions.

Just stop using sugar, it's a bit shit for a week but after that your brews taste miles better ! 🙂

Yes but you have ovoided the calories in the soft drinks, which are much easier to consume than food and hence easier to over endulge.

Good to see people are reading up on these things, but no of it is clear cut and i have my own data going back 13 months now which shows that moving to sweetners works.

Cutting sugar and sweetners may be the ideal but for me i needed some kind of substitute. But its sugar that is the critical thing to reduce.