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Rbneader · 12-07-2013, 11:43 AM

Aspartame gave a good friend seizures. Sucralose has such an impact on another friend that she can only eat a single piece of candy with it unless she wants to be stuck in the bathroom for hours. That other one with the laxative effect, olesia or something like that, was so bad that even I had problems with it.

There are just as many serious downsides to artificial sweeteners as there are to regular sugar, with the added anti-bonus of the mechanisms and physical impact not being nearly as well known as sugar because they're new products. It's a pick-your-poison situation.

The CANCER!! people are super-annoying. My response to them is 'So does oxygen. Are you going to stop breathing?'

12-07-2013, 11:43 AM	#10
Rbneader Fanatic Posts: 503 Karma: 2661351 Join Date: Mar 2012 Device: None	Food has no moral agency, can't be evil Aspartame gave a good friend seizures. Sucralose has such an impact on another friend that she can only eat a single piece of candy with it unless she wants to be stuck in the bathroom for hours. That other one with the laxative effect, olesia or something like that, was so bad that even I had problems with it. There are just as many serious downsides to artificial sweeteners as there are to regular sugar, with the added anti-bonus of the mechanisms and physical impact not being nearly as well known as sugar because they're new products. It's a pick-your-poison situation. The CANCER!! people are super-annoying. My response to them is 'So does oxygen. Are you going to stop breathing?' Last edited by Rbneader; 12-07-2013 at 11:45 AM.