[Sca-cooks] sugar substitutes (Mostly Aspartame, but not totally)

[Patricia Collum]

Barq's rootbeer contains caffeine also, which will cause afternoon
headaches, depending on your drinking habits.

Cecily
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirsten Houseknecht" <kirsten at fabricdragon.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] sugar substitutes (Mostly Aspartame, but not
totally)


> actually the BIg problem with Aspartame is that if it is *heated* (not
> ingested) too much... it breaks down into some nasty toxics........ and it
> is very easy to heat the stuff too much by accident, including leaving a
> diet soda in your car.  this is backed by solid research.. although i dont
> undertsnd all the big words in it.  this is one of the reasons you dont
want
> to cook with it.
>
> many, many asthmatics react to it as an asthma trigger.. and many people
> react to it as a migraine trigger.       even if they didnt know it was
> there.  after one or two instances you start getting *really* intent on
> label reading.
>
> my husband LOVED nutra sweet when he first tried it. He drank Barks root
> beer as a diet drink when he went on his diet.. after about two weeks he
got
> migraines. bad. every day.. right after lunch.  he had never had migraines
> (as opposed to me, i get them all the time)  he thought it was from the
low
> calorie diet.
> one day he skipped lunch entirely. no migraine.
> but it was a similar lunch to what he ate before the diet...... and
> obviously it *wasnt* from the lack of food...
> so we tried one item from his typical lunch menu at a time.... (adding one
> item from his typical lunch back every day..)
> low fat dressing? nothing
> chicken sandwhich? nothing
> within an hour of drinking a diet soda he was on the floor whimpering.
> now, even if he accidentally eats anything with nutra sweet in it, he gets
a
> migraine, because now he is sensitised to it
>
> (and no, he had never had it before that diet. as we didnt eat "low cal"
> foods.......)
>
>
>
> as to the brain problems. . Aspartame breaks down into various neuro
toxins.
> usually if it is overheated. i understand it does so in the body to a much
> lesser extent... and YES so do some other things... but a lot of folks
dont
> really want tto *eat* neurotoxins.  i know a lot of folks with nervous
> system problems... and their symptoms improved dramatically when they cut
> all Nutra sweet from their diet.  purley anecdotal.. yes.  but you still
> couldnt pay me to eat it, especially when so many people react so badly to
> it.
> Kirsten
> kirsten at fabricdragon.com
> http://www.fabricdragon.com
>
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