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Posted by ThatGuyJohn on October 5, 2001, at 17:46:04
I read some scary stuff the other day about aspartame, or NutraSweet, the artificial sweetner found in Diet Coke.
Okay, I gotta admit, I was hitting the Diet Coke pretty hard. (I can get addicted to anything if I put my mind to it.) So maybe all that caffeine wasn't too good for me either. But I read this checklist of symptoms of "asparatme poisoning" and it seemed to describe me pretty accurately: mood trouble, muscle aches, skin problems... Gee, I sound like a real prize, huh?
I decided to stop using the stuff for about a month, to see if I feel any better. It's been a couple days now, and I feel like I've been run over by a truck.
I really doubt my mood troubles are caused ENTIRELY by aspartame, but if they're ameliorated even slightly by getting off the stuff I'll be satisfied. Anybody else had any experience with this?
Posted by Kristi on October 5, 2001, at 21:16:12
In reply to Aspartame and mood?, posted by ThatGuyJohn on October 5, 2001, at 17:46:04
Hi,
Could you keep me posted???? I use that in my coffee... and I drink ALOT of coffee... curious what you come up with.
Kristi
> I read some scary stuff the other day about aspartame, or NutraSweet, the artificial sweetner found in Diet Coke.
>
> Okay, I gotta admit, I was hitting the Diet Coke pretty hard. (I can get addicted to anything if I put my mind to it.) So maybe all that caffeine wasn't too good for me either. But I read this checklist of symptoms of "asparatme poisoning" and it seemed to describe me pretty accurately: mood trouble, muscle aches, skin problems... Gee, I sound like a real prize, huh?
>
> I decided to stop using the stuff for about a month, to see if I feel any better. It's been a couple days now, and I feel like I've been run over by a truck.
>
> I really doubt my mood troubles are caused ENTIRELY by aspartame, but if they're ameliorated even slightly by getting off the stuff I'll be satisfied. Anybody else had any experience with this?
Posted by kazoo on October 7, 2001, at 4:17:06
In reply to Aspartame and mood?, posted by ThatGuyJohn on October 5, 2001, at 17:46:04
> I decided to stop using the stuff for about a month, to see if I feel any better. It's been a couple days now, and I feel like I've been run over by a truck.
John, sweetheart, it's the CAFFEINE content in that stuff that's making you feel like ca-ca when you stop drinking it. It's called "withdrawal."
The aspartame baloney is a rumor started by the sugar industry to get people to use more of their product instead of the fake stuff.
Besides, contrary to popular belief, a little sugar won't hurt anybody ... but a lot will, so moderation is the key.
Addiction to the cola soft drinks is, however, a very real problem because of the caffeine that's included. I strongly suggest you taper yourself off of it slowly or you'll end up like my first wife who was so strung out on Pepsi that she had to be committed for a week at Yale Psychiatric Institute. She was drinking gallons of the stuff daily and I really wasn't aware of what was going on until I went grocery shopping with her one time. We had two baskets: food was in mine, Pepsi was in hers. It was then that I realized that there might be something dreadfully wrong with my darling-dearest. Please understand that I was young and stupid back then ... now I'm old and stupid. Little has changed.
Attend to that cola problem immediately.
kazoo
Posted by susan C on October 12, 2001, at 15:47:02
In reply to Re: Aspartame and mood? » ThatGuyJohn, posted by kazoo on October 7, 2001, at 4:17:06
plus the acid (phosphoric?) in coke and pepsi can rot your teeth...my carpenter hub used to buy coke on sale and clean his rusty tools with it...and then there is the thing about drinking TOO much fluid...oh my, oh, my, will we now get bumped TO the regular board?
mouse by the drinking fountain
susan C> > I decided to stop using the stuff for about a month, to see if I feel any better. It's been a couple days now, and I feel like I've been run over by a truck.
>
> John, sweetheart, it's the CAFFEINE content in that stuff that's making you feel like ca-ca when you stop drinking it. It's called "withdrawal."
>
> The aspartame baloney is a rumor started by the sugar industry to get people to use more of their product instead of the fake stuff.
>
> Besides, contrary to popular belief, a little sugar won't hurt anybody ... but a lot will, so moderation is the key.
>
> Addiction to the cola soft drinks is, however, a very real problem because of the caffeine that's included. I strongly suggest you taper yourself off of it slowly or you'll end up like my first wife who was so strung out on Pepsi that she had to be committed for a week at Yale Psychiatric Institute. She was drinking gallons of the stuff daily and I really wasn't aware of what was going on until I went grocery shopping with her one time. We had two baskets: food was in mine, Pepsi was in hers. It was then that I realized that there might be something dreadfully wrong with my darling-dearest. Please understand that I was young and stupid back then ... now I'm old and stupid. Little has changed.
>
> Attend to that cola problem immediately.
>
> kazoo
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