Top Document: diabetes FAQ: research (part 5 of 5) Previous Document: DCCT philosophy: what did it really show? Next Document: Who did this? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge In short, no, except for phenylketonurics. Aspartame is one of the most intensively studied food additives ever, and the overwhelming scientific evidence is that it poses no danger. The many claims of harm are all either anecdotal and not supported by adequate observation, or are based on serious lack of understanding of how to demonstrate facts scientifically. One of the most egregious is the claim that studies with aspartame in capsules are invalid and that it's only dangerous in solution. But d'oh -- if you administer aspartame in solution, the patient will know whether he/she is getting aspartame or not. This unblinds the experiment. Refer to Reid's Third Law: Never Underestimate the Power of Suggestion. An good set of links to web pages on aspartame is at http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blasp3.htm. (Unfortunately the links open framed by about.com's heading, an unfair practice eschewed by the vast majority of web sites. Ten demerits for about.com.) The well known low-calorie sweeteners are pretty much all safe: cyclamates, saccharin, aspartame, acesulfame, sucralose. Yes, even cyclamates and saccharin -- the studies which resulted in their banning turned out to be non-reproducible. I don't list stevia because it has not been adequately studied, but I know of no significant indications of danger. If you don't like a given sweetener, try another. If you think you respond badly in some way to a sweetener, try another. But unless you have at least a heterozygous gene for phenylketonuria, it's unlikely that you'll have a verifiable response to aspartame. User Contributions:Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic:Top Document: diabetes FAQ: research (part 5 of 5) Previous Document: DCCT philosophy: what did it really show? Next Document: Who did this? Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: edward@paleo.org
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