Thanks GLP, because of an article here, my wife is not sick anymore - Aspartame Poisoning

I am fully gob smacked...I knew that aspartame was not good for you and will not have it in the house...I didnt realise the extent of this poison tho'
My sister in law has fibromyalgia and drinks about a litre of diet coke a day, she is also quite overweight, I just rang her and read a few facts out to her , she said "I know its poison, but I cant stop"
after a bit more of a chat she has changed her mind and we are both going to clean up our diets, I also suffer some health issues but dont take any sweetners, how ever I drink about two gins and tonic a day, I eat white bread and love my cheesy corn chips...I will be eliminating these from my diet and looking at other things I consume like canned foods and sauces
Thank you so much for this thread.

Come to think about it, whenever I see a bag of Cheetos I get that same feeling.


You love the cheesy chips because they are loaded with monosodium glutamate in one form or another. That's why they are soooo addictive. My kids go insane if they see a bag of Cheetos in the store. I will either just say no, or buy them an all-natural cheeto not made with MSG or torula yeast. My mouth waters thinking about Cheetos or Doritos, they are like cocaine, once you have a taste of them you never stop craving them. At least that's true for many people.

I remember in the 80's Nutrasweet sent out gumballs made with it so people could see how it tasted. Must have cost them a lot to send those out to everybody but they did. Friggin drug pushers, which to me that's what it is since I have met some serious Diet Coke addicts. They drink it when they wake up even. Disgusting. How about the people who go into gas stations every morning and fill up a 64 ounce cup with Diet Coke? Wth are they thinking.

WIKI-PEDIA is MANIPULATED daily by anyone and everyone.

As you thankfully realize....
It is NOT valid reference for ANYTHING.

When you blog, link it back here if threads live that long, I would love to see the results.



Just as a neat little experiment for your own information.
Make a list of all the food commonly eaten by your family on a regular basis and then cut out all the processed stuff for about a month or 2 and see what results you experience.
Soda pop, white bread, margarine, canola oil, white sugar, condiments and sauces, fast foods, snack foods, deli meats and sausages, etc, that kind of stuff.
You can find good lists on the internet.
Replace with whole, fresh, made from scratch foods that are definitely good (and there are many lists available with a little searching around)
You have heard all the claims and nay-sayers, so the only way to really "know" is to do the experiment for yourself and see the results.
You found out that the aspartame was a real detriment to the health and now you "know"...you have only just started to take back your health.

Going to do this and blog it. Thanks for a GREAT idea!!!!

Ice Princess,

The way my wife was feeling I would drop that gum like a bad habit. Interested to see what the poster below can add.

Hi, can I ask what these health issues caused by gum were? My kids chew sugarless gum all the time. Maybe it's time to spring for the more expensive all-natural gum. I do like the black licorice one. They just don't hold their flavors for long, but better than brain damage!

Soldiers who drank diet sodas that were left out in the sun got very sick.

Yes, its nasty stuff. Stay away from that chemical.

When you blog, link it back here if threads live that long, I would love to see the results.



Just as a neat little experiment for your own information.
Make a list of all the food commonly eaten by your family on a regular basis and then cut out all the processed stuff for about a month or 2 and see what results you experience.
Soda pop, white bread, margarine, canola oil, white sugar, condiments and sauces, fast foods, snack foods, deli meats and sausages, etc, that kind of stuff.
You can find good lists on the internet.
Replace with whole, fresh, made from scratch foods that are definitely good (and there are many lists available with a little searching around)
You have heard all the claims and nay-sayers, so the only way to really "know" is to do the experiment for yourself and see the results.
You found out that the aspartame was a real detriment to the health and now you "know"...you have only just started to take back your health.

Going to do this and blog it. Thanks for a GREAT idea!!!!



I'm 4 days into a juice fast and I'm dying. I have up alcohol, coffee and all food and drink only 4 cups of fresh vegetable and fruit juice. I have been praying to get through each day without giving up. I'm going for 5 days. I did this because of digestive issues. I just wanted to give my body a chance to heal. I would suggest everyone think about fasting. It's a trip. All kinds of old emotions and traumas are coming to the surface and at time I feel so agitated and others times so at peace, like nothing I have felt in ages.

My digestive problems seem to have started right about when I started smoking a couple cigarettes a day. I also gave those up.

on top of poisoning herself, you said she lost weight after finally eliminating equal from her diet. how could a person continue using a so called diet aid, when they are gaining weight?


Scientist have proven that diet drinks still act on the brain the exact same as sugar and so therefore impact your HORMONES.

Although you are not ingesting the calories, it makes you more insulin resistant because your body over produces hormones related to the SENSE of sugar in the body.

It's complicated but it has been proven.

Diet drinks cause you to gain weight by resetting your metabolism. They make you hungrier and you consume larger quantities of food.

HFCS or corn sugar gives you essentially twice the calories of the same amount of cane sugar. HFCS has fructose floating around freely and you body can use it directly. With cane sugar your body has to use energy to break the sugar down into usable form. With cane sugar you get effectively half the calories, since you use energy to break the sugare down. With HFCS you get twice the amount of calories since you do not have to break the HFCS down.

Mexican coke, jones sodas, and hanson sodas all use real cane sugar. The latest sugar products from coke and pepsi use gmo sugar beets not cane sugar.

Yeah, thanks Rumsfield. That's about when this shit started if I remember correctly?


Soldiers who drank diet sodas that were left out in the sun got very sick.

Yes, its nasty stuff. Stay away from that chemical.

Ice Princess,

The way my wife was feeling I would drop that gum like a bad habit. Interested to see what the poster below can add.

Hi, can I ask what these health issues caused by gum were? My kids chew sugarless gum all the time. Maybe it's time to spring for the more expensive all-natural gum. I do like the black licorice one. They just don't hold their flavors for long, but better than brain damage!




Theres a popular young Australian actress that eventually got hospitalized from panic attacks after being a sugarless gum chewer..she stopped the sugarless gum and made a full recovery,

She said she thought she would die when they didnt know that the gum was causing her symptoms.

Theres a popular young Australian actress that eventually got hospitalized from panic attacks after being a sugarless gum chewer..she stopped the sugarless gum and made a full recovery,

She said she thought she would die when they didnt know that the gum was causing her symptoms.


I had NO idea about gum. I always figured the amount of aspartame in the gum was so tiny that it wouldn't affect anyone's health. I am really glad to know this because I always have a pack in my purse and my kids have a piece a day usually. Another thing to learn to live without, which is fine by me.

Heres a qoute from it:

THE ABBY CORMACK ASPARTAME STORY

By Abby Cormack


Posted: 13 August 2007


Would you believe Sugar Free chewing gum could destroy you? That it could bring anxiety, insomnia, depression, mind-fog, abdominal pain, unbearable leg and arm cramps, blurred vision, endless trips to the doctors, hysteria, suicidal thoughts and paranoia?

Next thing your wife should give up is sugar in the coffee, she will feel even better.

Wow your wife never thought of changing her diet, lol at 20 packs of that crap a day. That is basically 20 spoon fulls of sugar, no reason to be sick lol.

maybe raw honey or blackstrap molasses -- both are great in coffee.

Wow your wife never thought of changing her diet, lol at 20 packs of that crap a day. That is basically 20 spoon fulls of sugar, no reason to be sick lol.


Its also addictive too.like an illegal drug,

Azoth thanks for fielding that. I have little empathy for folks who think my wife wanted to poison herself, thanks!



Wow your wife never thought of changing her diet, lol at 20 packs of that crap a day. That is basically 20 spoon fulls of sugar, no reason to be sick lol.


Its also addictive too.like an illegal drug,