Comments on: Sugar Substitutes: How Sweet It’s Not http://www.circleoffood.com/blog/2008/09/08/sugar-substitutes-how-sweet-its-not/ Pull Up a Seat and Join the Conversation at Circle of Food Blog. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:12:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Patricia Wooster http://www.circleoffood.com/blog/2008/09/08/sugar-substitutes-how-sweet-its-not/comment-page-1/#comment-144566 Patricia Wooster Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:50:25 +0000 http://www.circleoffood.com/blog/?p=817#comment-144566 Aspartame is not a chemical you want to mess with. My neurologist made me quit consuming anything with aspartame, because it often causes symptoms similar to Multiple Sclerosis, and studies are being done to see what contributions it makes to dementia. I wrote about the effects of aspartame on adults and children on my site, and provided a link to 50 articles on the subject. http://www.projectorganiceating.com/2008/07/30/kids-healthwatch-aspartame/ Aspartame is not a chemical you want to mess with. My neurologist made me quit consuming anything with aspartame, because it often causes symptoms similar to Multiple Sclerosis, and studies are being done to see what contributions it makes to dementia.

I wrote about the effects of aspartame on adults and children on my site, and provided a link to 50 articles on the subject.

http://www.projectorganiceating.com/2008/07/30/kids-healthwatch-aspartame/

]]> By: almost vegetarian http://www.circleoffood.com/blog/2008/09/08/sugar-substitutes-how-sweet-its-not/comment-page-1/#comment-144565 almost vegetarian Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:09:10 +0000 http://www.circleoffood.com/blog/?p=817#comment-144565 The one argument you can always summon up for processed, manufactured foods and the synthetic chemicals they contain is that they have not been around as long as, say, an apple. After all these centuries, it is probably a pretty safe guess that an apple does, in fact, do the body good. But the synthetic stuff? Some of it isn't even a generation old. Who knows what long-term effects there are on us, our children, our homes. I'll stick with the apple any day. Cheers! The one argument you can always summon up for processed, manufactured foods and the synthetic chemicals they contain is that they have not been around as long as, say, an apple.

After all these centuries, it is probably a pretty safe guess that an apple does, in fact, do the body good. But the synthetic stuff? Some of it isn’t even a generation old. Who knows what long-term effects there are on us, our children, our homes.

I’ll stick with the apple any day.

Cheers!

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