Re: Re: Diet Pepsi and Diet Coke

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This was a 60 minutes topic and it was very convincing that the use of

Aspertame was approved too readily by the FDA.

>Please read this information that I found on www.snopes.com regarding this

>e-mail that you forwarded. Snopes is a good reference check for checking

>truth for any forwarded e-mails to check for urban legend an propaganda and

>such. I'm just forwarding the information that I found. I will, however,

>TOTALLY agree that us folks with epilepsy should live aspertame free.....it

>has been proven to lower seizure threshold (at least that's what my

>neurologist suggests of course). Snopes does suggest going to Medline to

>review peer reviewed articles about nutrasweet and it's effects that does

>have scientifically accurate information.

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>Claim: The artificial sweetener aspartame is responsible for an epidemic

>of diseases such as multiple sclerosis and lupus.

>Status: False.

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>Example: [Collected on the Internet, 1998]

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>Origins: Once again, if you can't trust an anonymous e-mail message filled

>with words rendered in all CAPITAL LETTERS and containing liberal doses of

>exclamation points, warning you about some widespread and imminent danger,

>what can you trust?

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>>From whence comes this information? For one thing, it's not new -- this text

>was written by one Betty i back in 1995. (Follow this link to view the

>original text.) And who is this Betty i? Well, she's not a doctor,

>biologist, chemist, or any other type of scientist -- she is the founder of

>Mission Possible International, an organization dedicated to " spreading the

>word that aspartame is a toxic poison unfit for human consumption. "

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>Now, Ms. i may be earnest and sincere, but her screed is full of

>flawed logic, scientific errors, and outright misinformation. We're not

>going to attempt to go through it point by point, nor are we going to claim

>that aspartame is either a health hazard or absolutely 100% non-harmful in

>any amount. What we will assert is that there is simply nothing remotely

>approaching a consensus in the medical/scientific community that aspartame

>is (or even could be) responsible for an " epidemic of multiple sclerosis and

>systemic lupus " or many of the other evils attributed to it above. We invite

>you to explore some of the resources listed below and make up your own mind

>whether or not you should be concerned about aspartame:

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>On the pro-aspartame side, we have a rebuttal to this document from the

>folks at NutraSweet (Monsanto's brand name for aspartame).

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>For the opposition, we have a collection of articles at the web site of

>Aspartame Toxicity Information Center. (Keep in mind that most of the

>material available through this site contains no information about its

>source and/or does not derive from peer-reviewed scientific journals.)

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>And finally, you can reference scholarly, peer-reviewed articles about

>aspartame through Medline.

>Last updated: 6 January 1999

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[Guest guest]

I'm on the same page that Aspertame is not good for you. I am just always wary of forwarded e-mails that are meant to scare people. I think it's better that we get our information from more reliable sources is all that I was pointing out. Let's face it, there is alot of great and helpful information on the internet for us and we get alot of it from these lists. However, there is alot of misinformation out there too and a great deal of it is sent through those forwarded e-mails. I am always urging people to really check out the things that they receive before forwarding it on. I would like to see the information from the 60 minutes show ).

Jeanne

*not an aspertame user because of her epilepsy )

>>>This was a 60 minutes topic and it was very convincing that the use of >>>Aspertame was approved too readily by the FDA. >>>