A few weeks ago, an email was found on the table in the team room at work. The address has been scribbled out, so I am not sure of the source, but am pretty sure of the hand writing that stated, "Please read". One of my fellow nurses must have left it there. Anyway, it was a lengthy notice on the danger of consuming aspartame. The letter stated that once aspartame reached a temperature above 86 degrees, (obviously, once it is ingested) it became literally toxic. Also that the huge consumption of "suger-free" products, primarily diet soda was to blame for M.S. symptoms and many other debilitating disorders. This letter stated that people were actually being mistakenly diagnosed. Have any of you read this also, or heard of this? I have paid more attention lately to the foods my family and I consume, but I have to wonder if this could just be another "scare" out there. And because it was an email, and not something from a journal to speak of.
that's interesting.... the neuro. has suggested caffiene as a trigger, but not this. They have tried everything to relieve these, every drug imaginable... but I kept drinking diet pop, and using equal in my decaf coffee. Nowadays I find that I get HA if I don't satisfy the caffiene need. Can't win, can I? Who knows... to say it's an urban legend... I think is brushing it off too easily. It's a CHEMICAL, that isn't naturally found in anything, therefor it should be monitored in my opinion. As the saying goes.... "everything in moderation" right?
Did you read the article on urban legends or snopes? It clearly states that this story is untrue.
These internet legends drive me bonkers (not aspartame) . .
Was working out at Curves recently and there was a table with a bunch of "urban legends" health concerns copied and laid out for people to read and take home. I had a little chat with the owner and pointed her to the "urban legends" site and told her that it was a tad bit unethical to put out unproven information to her clients since she was merely an owner of a franchise and not a medical expert. Sort of like practicing medicine without a licence. She had also disseminated that old "urban legend" about "Arm and Hammer" being run by Satanists. Sheesh!!
My own doctor recently told me about the aspartame hooey . . .seems even docs can be hoodwinked.
Be careful when someone sends you something that attributes every illness in the world to a substance.
And just because something is a chemical and not natural doesn't mean it is bad . . . lots of natural stuff will kill ya!!
jadednurse
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LOL! And we all know what a wonderful job the FDAs been doing!