Re: Aspartame warning --[ my experiences with Asp.]

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> Dear Cronies:

>

> One reason I passed on the Aspartame email is that my

ex-girlfriend--who sent it to me--has suffered from some disturbing

symptoms shortly after consuming some aspartame. I've asked her what

her doctor said, and haven't heard back from her yet (she's a nurse,

for what that's worth). I've chosen to stop using all artificial

sweeteners for the foreseeable future.

>

> yours,

>

Hi all.

Yes i went to the urban ledgend site. " pro and con " .

I have also seen, on the net, referals to sites that really make this

stuff sound dangerious: i read many of these site's info.

But the best " info " was my own body!!

There was a time, about 15 years ago, when i took care of my

sister's estate, and i had to sort out her stuff in a warehouse. This

project took me all summer. For a break in the afternoon, I would

walk down to the soda machine and buy a can of Nutrasweetened soda and

take it back to the warehouse and drink most of it: about four to six

cans a week. I never did like the taste, but i soldered on, thinking

that the lack of 'sugar', for health reasons, overrode the taste.

It was that period that i would get, at times, " spacey " and dizzy!

Flouresent lights often triggered this. I thought, at the time, that

this might have been the altitiude of the city, or the coffee i drunk.

Interesting: this went away soon after i stopped drinking Aspertainic

drinks---omeniously, this did not cease RIGHT AWAY! Took months to

go away!

now....I am in the belief that Aspertame caused this dizzyness: some

affect on my brain/nervious system!

There is added danger, i feel, to " cronies " with this stuff!!

even then, back 15 years ago, i only weighed about 140 on a six foot

two frame. What i am saying....is that for someone who weighs less,

one can of soda, for ME, would be " worth " about FOUR CANS

of soda for a person who weighs, say, 220 lbs!!

I can only comfortably drink about a little over half of one can, now!

More than that...the sugar affects me a bit, at my 135 lbs. Thus

anyone who weighs less than the " norm " ......*any* medication, drug,

or " herbal compound " will have a much much greater affect for that

reason alone: less body-mass compared to doseage. Thus anyone who is

underweight would have to compensate for dose-size, as these dose

sizes might have been optimized for a " normal weighted " person!

Imagine a cat eating just ONE asprin?! or a baby!

Today, if i want sugar i eat sugar! no Aspertame or other artifical

sweetener! Even a little bit of this stuff, for me, would be

equivalent to a large dose to someone who weighs, say, 190 lbs!

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