One Woman's Astonishing Experiment With Aspartame

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wrwzd — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:34:58 GMT

I see a problem with this particular study. Rats are prone to tumors with or without aspartame. We have had rats for pets for several years and the majority of the females have developed tumors. In the past we have fed them nugget style rat food in addition to seeds, fruits and vegetables. I will be looking closely at the ingredient list on the store bought product we used. This doesn't make me any less certain that artificial sweeteners are a hazard - just that tumors in rats may not prove the case to doubters.

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Corridorz — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:56:57 GMT

I've been against aspartame and other artificial sweeteners for some time. My research started when I realized my chronic headaches were due to my daily splenda use in coffee.

Fastfoward a couple of years: we've always given our children popular over the counter vitamins thinking it was good for their health. Last week, after reading some information on the harmful effects of food dyes I picked up my children's multi-vitamins to examine the ingredient list. What I found shocked me to my core; not only were half a dozen food dyes listed, but ASPARTAME! Of course, I threw them away immediately. On my next shopping visit I reviewed the ingredient list of every children's multi-vitamin offered on the shelves and they ALL contained aspartame! I was devestated that I had been unknowingly serving my kids aspartame for half a decade! I cannot believe they are serving this product to children, and in a vitamin, no less! Can you say, "counter productive"? And some of these (like the generationally popular Flinstones) are labeled "pediatrician recommended". I urge all parents to write to these companies and take a stand against this blatant poisoning of our children.

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robertfeldtkeller — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:44:45 GMT

I think the article about the rats fed aspartame may not be a viable example of it's effects on rats. Throughout my life I've had pet rats who were fed rodent food from the pet store and veggies. When they died, on average after about two years, it was invariably from gross tumors. I think rats are susceptible to cancer.

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Pattydi — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:21:23 GMT

I was hooked on the diet soda years back and ran out and switched back to tea and a headache I had for over 2 years 24/7, I thought was from MS just disappeared also had benign fibroids in breast and female organs for many years, after about 6 months and free of the aspartame, they just disappeared so YES have been trying to get friends and relatives to listen that this aspartame is really bad stuff. All the substitutes are dangerous. and this was over 10 years ago.

just my experience

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Robin Lee — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:43:07 GMT

Rats are not a very good animal to be using for a cancer/tumor experiment.

They pretty much die from cancer/tumors. They are laboratory animals.

It's not saying much that these rats she used had these issues.

I'm sure aspartame isn't good for you but she needs to pick something else to prove her point.

Robin Lee

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Timbear — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:51:14 GMT

To ratlady and swarmling: I will give up on animal experimentation when you give up on abortion.

As to the asparatame thing, thanks SO MUCH for bringing those to our attention and my PROFUSE thanks to the persons who conducted this research. It has finally given me the incentive to try to get off of these substances. Oddly, switching back to sugar based drinks is UNSATISFYING. I do not like the taste of sugar any better than I like the taste of water preferring the taste of aspartame which is interesting.

This newsletter is about human health and we are by design meat eaters. We have canines.We have forward mounted eyes like most mammal predators. If humans were not supposed to eat meat we could mangfactur our own B12, could we not?

I have watched the woman who funded PETA in many interviews. In my opinion, she is clearly mentally ill and the number of people who follow her is a clear indicator of the sorry state of the average person's mental state in the west.

Animals are not children. Perhaps if you filled your empty lives with helping an orphan CHILD or a homeless PERSON instead of trying to fill the void in your lives by anthropomorphizing a creature that you can control totally, you would not spend your time screaming at people trying to make human life better.

Again, my thanks to Victoria Inness-Brown for conducting this research.

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mkirkwold — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:44:26 GMT

I've known for a long time that aspartame is dangerous, but those who use it do not read these articles. Is there a way to get this poison out of our food supply? Is there a way to get this information into the public square so that people who frequently use this stuff will become aware? They would never read this information.

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Markgunit5 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:05:06 GMT

I don't know if I am going to trust the opinion from a doctor Mercola? who spells shocked as chocked.

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PlushCat — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:48:02 GMT

Astonishing is right - ASTONISHINGLY STUPID & CRUEL!!!!!! While being highly unethical, this "experiment" by a "citizen" proves only the extreme arrogance and lack of compassion that sadly so many human animals possess. The results of this absurd "study" on rats cannot possibly be extrapolated to humans for a wide variety of reasons. Yes, Aspartame is most likely is a dangerous and carcinogenic substance for any living entity. Eat natural foods people and leave the animals alone.

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SmtmsAlwys — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:39:38 GMT

I've believed for some time now that there is something very bad about aspartame. My mother gets very ill if she consumes it - extreme dizziness, nausea, etc. For me, I just get monstrous headaches. My oldest sister has effects similar to my mother.

I have been convinced for a number of years now. The bad thing is, it seems that such drastic allergic reactions are not so common - or at least undocumented.

I'd love to be able to obtain a list of the meds that contain aspartame. It would help us know what to avoid.

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Julia Owens — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:22:53 GMT

Zulaski and ThoughtMaker, you forgot about the control group. Zulaski- did any of your rats fur fall out and skin peel off? Absolutely disgusting. I have had my own bad experience with aspartame 15 years ago. I immediately quit ingesting "diet" anything and never looked back. Strangely enough, my husband had had a similar experience at around the same age. He independantly came to the same conclusion. Though my experience was unpleasant, I am thankful that it came in my mid-20s or I might have been consuming that garbage regularly for the past 15 years. I'm only sorry I didn't realize it as a Diet Pepsi guzzling teen-ager.

Love,

Julia

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Lanes — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:49:17 GMT

How would I find if Coumadin (prescrip) has Aspartame? A close relative has taken 8 yrs for artificial heart valve and has said it tastes sweet. Recent 2 years started having monthly seizures and short term memory loss.

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Adeline — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:23:17 GMT

I never touch aspartame, and I cringe when I see the amount some of my friends consume daily. Regarding Mrs. Inness-Brown's experiment, however, you didn't mention the control group results for the experiment. Rats are very tumor-prone, especially unspayed female rats that don't follow a careful diet. The percentage of rats that developed tumors in her experiment appears to be near the percentage you would expect to develop tumors in any group of unspayed female rats. It's actually a little lower than what I've seen in some studies.

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Mom of Twin Girls — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:37:05 GMT

Do you think the makers of aspertame use this product for themselves and their family members?

Probably not.

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nutritionpower — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:09:32 GMT

It is not really about legislating morality or about people being totally stupid. People believe that our government would not allow all these diet sodas if they were really that bad for you. One guy tried to tell a pregnant woman not to drink diet sodas (and she follows a healthy diet) and she clearly thought he was a nut case. She works as a physical therapist. I am a nutritionist We both work in the "traditional medical community" and we are conditioned to think of alternative medicine as "scary" and "dangerous." Doctors are conditioned by drug companies, and even those who do things like refuse 'toys" and "dinners" (and you would be surprised at how many do), are being manipulated by the very data that is in the medical journals that they trust. The same with other professionals in health care. . People trust their doctors. They simply cannot believe that their doctors would give them vaccines if they are bad or give bad diet recommendations or drugs if they were harmful or whatever. Yes there are people out there that live on sausage and biscuits with budlight for breakfast, or a lunch of diet sodas and cigarettes, and honestly don't care. But many people who truly think they are doing the right thing for themselves and their children, sadly just have too much faith in the people who are supposed to be protecting them.