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this last few weeks ive been reading up on aspartame.......omg......this is so scarey.
yet the big companys that use it ,deny theres any problems with it.xx

It should be banned it cause more problems with behaviour than some of the E colours Maz

I makes me very ill! I really do advise people to avoid it

Dee x

This question has been going on for 20 years that I know of Joy, but they still haven't changed anything........when I asked about it, I was told that the testing had been done on lab rats, and a human would have to take a ton of the stuff to cause the same effect........so that is how they explain it away.....

joy what would i find it in please xx

My kids think I'm mad because I do things like read the ingredients on every bottle of squash until I find one without it in - and I haven't found many!

Also check everything else for it too, unfortunately the kids have been denied some of their favourite things recently :-(

Shelli

We have to avoid the fizzy drinks with it on You really have to look for it on the label .My son used to go hyper on it . Maz

I buy ginger beer and they have no aspartame in it the manufacturers state they only use sugar.

Mostly all others soft drink has it though.

skwirrel

when I did diet training I was told to look in anything that might have sugar in because its in other produsts too eg cheap cakes with icing and some really cheap jams syrups that make drinks . Maz

7 years ago,one of my students came back from a lecture on aspartame.he emptied his fridge of diet drinks.swearing to read the labels from now on.if a university are pointing it out,thats good enough for me.i cant see a university making up stories.....can you

i only drink water and odd cup of tea used to drink voddy and lager but sadly no more :o( xx

aww puss join the club,im wary of putting owt in me gob.....[lol]

Years ago, one night I was at work, when I got back ex told me, never buy the kids anything sugar free or diet foods. He had been watching a program, Panarama or it might have been World in Action. All about artificial sweetners. They were banned in most states in USA as lab tests on rats had proved it gave them brain cancers. The same tests had taken place in Britan with no results in brain cancers. But it was leaked that in fact the rats had contracted these cancers,died and were replaced with new rats but given the same numbers of the dead rats so it looked as though they hadn't got the brain cancers. To this day I have never bought anything with reduced sugar in it or anything labelled diet. Another thing I read a good few years ago in a daily newspaper was a reader informing the editor that they had had their children's Smarties confiscated at the airport in the USA, as the food colouring for the red Smartie was not legal there. shirley.

Could you all calm down .....I do know that this is dangerous but this week on here everyone has gone mad about this ......

In the 1970 ,the food people brought in MSG or E621 into this country ......IT IS AS DANGEROUS AS ASPARTAME...but we all eat chinesse food and chrisps ready made meals and ......baby food without looking at whats in it ......

Some one told me if MSG was trying to get into England now it wouldnt get through the tests ....!

I tend to avoid aspartame too, because I have narrowed it down as one of the things that causes my migraines. Anyone who is prone to getting migraine take note!

My hubby thinks I'm strange because I won't buy any food without reading the labels.

Kemp, MSG is the other thing that causes my migraine and you won't believe the amount of food stuff that has that in!

Oh Maggie ....I would ....my son was so sick with migraines they wanted him on beta blockers ...AT 7 years old ........Thats how we learnt about all these things!

good luck Maggie

Hiya Joyous,


I avoid this at all costs, for myself and the family...its so bad...


Caz xxxx

Kemp, I just found out about aspartame and MSG being linked to migraine by reading a magazine article, and suddenly it clicked. My migraine problems solved!!

went to the nurse yesterday,and i explained to eat anything solid first thing in the morning gives me stomach cramps,she suggested low fat yougurts,i told her about aspartame,she agreed she said check the labels.i was in morrisons for 20 mins with son doing this.....guess what ...........all had aspartame in it

I agree, all the yogourts that are supposed to be healthy eating have aspartame in.
I have realised that it was after I started drinking at least a bottle a day of the fizzy fruit flavoured waters, a litre bottle, that the symptoms that were finally diagnosed as fibromyalgia started. All because instead of it helping me by flushing out my kidneys when I had a kidney stone, I was poisoning my body with aspartame!

I avoid it as much as I can, sometimes don't notice but try to check as much as I can.
Lizx