ASPARTAME doesn't effect everyone the same, but has been known to
cause "stalls".
not me, but YMMV!

It's not on the approved list for Atkins induction. It won't, however,
kill you if you eat some. I am staying away from it this time. When I
was doing Atkins a year or so ago, I ate it several times a week. It
didn't appear to affect my weight loss, but it did keep my sweet tooth
alive.

--  
Jean M.
New food of the week: black olives.

Do away with flipfloping to e-mail.

Elizabeth Beckel  burbled across the ether:

If you want to avoid the aspartame, but still want some jello, use Knox
unflavored gelatine, splenda and a bit of unsweetened koolaid to make
your own.

Major objections to apartame can revolve around the fact that its
approval by the FDA was questionable. Supposedly far more complaints
of reactions to Nutrasweet were filed with the FDA than they had ever
received on a single product. Something like 10,000 people reported
reactions--and supposedly only a fraction of those with reactions will
actually contact the FDA. The company that tested Aspartame for FDA
approval did a lot of questionable work, including obvious errors like
reporting that lab rats died, came back to life weeks later then died
again. All the rodents died of brain tumors, whether they were labeled
as consuming nutrasweet or not--and which ones were given it was
tracked inconsistently. Outside of Nutrasweet-paid companies and the
FDA, every(92) independent tests found problems with consuming
Aspartame. One round of FDA approval had the commitee refuse to
approve it. The commisioner veto'd the board and approved it anyway.
Three months later the COmmissioner quit and went to work for a
Nutrasweet company. Similar things occur with government lawyers
buidling fraud suit against the labs that test nutrasweet. They
suddenly quit and got jobs at the opposing counsel.

Just reading some of the discussion on nutrasweet makes me want as
little as possible in my diet. Hopefully the human consumption level
is so low that the effect is negliable. But who knows what that level
is. Lots of people consume aspartame without concern or apparent
effect. Unfortunately I've known two people who has gotten suddenly
sick and passed out within minutes of the first time they drank a diet
soda with nutrasweet.

I haven't found such negative press against Splenda although I would
be very interested in reading anything people come across. ALl the
same I'm limiting how much I have. I've used as much more natural
lower carb stuff--like a BBQ sauce that is 3g/tbs instead of a
splenda/nutrasweet one that is 1g/tbs.

DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email)
350/318/Mar-315/200
Atkins since Jan 12, 2004

There is nothing at all wrong with Aspartame. There are a few who get
headaches, but there are people allergic to peanuts.

Sleepy

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