aspartame

OMG Aspartame! Is this the End of Diet Soda? Huge Study links Aspartame to Major Problems, Sales Drop... I can see quite a few problems with this article, so I thought I'd let it loose here for the skeptics to play with. How many fallacies can you spot? Go!

http://www.dorway.com/tldaddic.html While surfing through the web, I came across this article about aspartame addiciton. What are your opinions about this article? Thanks in advance for any replies and comments.

Just watched some of this: Aspartame: Sweet Misery A Poisoned World http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6551291488524526735# My BS meter didn't go completely off the scale, but I'd rather ask the opinion of some more informed minds here than wasting an hour watching what could turn out...

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/HeartHealth/diet-soda-linked-heart-attack-stroke-risk/story?id=12868269 Just want to let the folks at the JREF forums know about this.

http://www.infowars.com/warning-to-glenn-beck-dont-drink-diet-coke/ I just glanced over this article sent to me via email. I'm too tired to even comment on this...

My daughter has been told at school that diet coke causes multiple sclerosis. Googling has produced only crank opinion pieces - help! Also she says it's my fault that she is unable to believe all these things that her friends tell her - it's tough having a sceptic dad - sorry Charlotte! Yuri

I had my third ever migraine attack yesterday. But it was the first time I realised it was a migraine attack. My vision went fuzzy (strange illuminous lines in vision) and quite soon after that suffered from bad headache and nausea. I had to go to bed and sleep. Just a few months ago I had...

I was just wondering what the general consensus here is about aspartame... Is it safe like the FDA says, or is it deadly and to be avoided at all costs??

i use 1mg risperdal/respiradone daily. i recently read on the mayo clinic site that it contained aspartame, and if you had a problem with aspartame it was available without. does anyone know a) if aspartame is a problem, and why. and b) where i can find out about medications without aspartame...

Lately my friends keep commenting on how I will die a quick yet somewhat painless death of Cancer because I happen to enjoy my Diet Pepsi. Instead of canned sugar, I drink a canned artificial sweetner. They even sent me to a few websites and articles on the subject, talking about how it breaks...

Is Aspartame dangerous? I say no, and so does Snopes. However, does anyone know of any other studies I can pull up to gain more credibility? Let me put this in context. My mom is one of those people that believes aspartame is responsible for serious health risks. Today I got forwarded the...

So I'm trying to lose weight, and to help with this, switching to Diet sodas. All the sodas I've found use Aspartame as an artificial sweetener. Then a friend of mine starts freaking out about it, saying that Aspartame is dangerous etc, ect.. I look into it online and find the usual...