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I was surprised not to see a rant here yet about aspartame.
I drank diet coke for ten years, and I'll never touch the stuff again.
When a liquid diet beverage containing aspartame comes into contact with any kind of warmth the methanol in the sweetener breaks down into formaldehyde... including the warmth of the inside of a car, a truck, a house, and... YES, the warmth of your own BODY as the drink enters your esophagus! Formaldehyde is well-known to be a powerful carcinogen.
So, how much of this formaldehyde is safe to drink? I hope the only reason you would ask that question is because you are repenting from aspartame and want to see how much damage you've already done. Other than that, would any of us in our right mind choose a quarter-teaspoon of formaldehyde to drink? Or even a drop of it? Formaldehyde (ahem, EMBALMING FLUID) is stored by the body and it accumulates over time.
Oh, and by the way, yes, I did also say methanol up there. That's WOOD ALCOHOL, which in VERY small amounts causes blindness and death. Now I don't know about you, but when I look in the mirror, and I'm only in my early thirties... my eyes seem just a bit too glassy and the color in my retina a bit too cloudy for my young-ish age. Could it be all the aspartame I used to drink? I do wonder.
Aspartame is also responsible for exacerbating and causing a HORRIBLE list of COUNTLESS ailments. You name the problem, aspartame is likely to somehow have the possibilty to have a hand in it. Especially neurological problems which include but are not limited to mood problems, seizures and brain tumors.
I don't want to tell you things you already know, like the enormity of the diet products industry here in the US, and the fact that anything with the promise to make us thinner... or keep us skinny... is going to sell, and sell well. And our good buddy NutraSweet still does, amazingly, sell... even in the face of this evidence of risk.
If I'm correct, I believe that I also read that aspartame slid by FDA approval by being approved in solid (like powdered) form because its harmful effects are more prevalent when in liquid form. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
No amount of research that I do here on the internet will ever take back the decade of damage I most likely did to myself drinking diet sodas. I can only hope to do whatever I can do detoxify my body now.
Aspartame is a killer my friends.