Artificial Sweeteners

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Artificial Sweetener May Disrupt Body's Ability To Count Calories, According To New Study"Incidence of overweight and obesity has also increased markedly during this period," she said. "Our hypothesis is that experience with these foods interferes with the natural ability of the body to use sweet taste and viscosity to gauge caloric content of

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[anathema666]

Hi. You don't know me, but I used to drink a 2L bottle of Diet Coke a day. So did my dad, as he was giving up cigarettes, and he wanted something that he could drink incessantly but that wouldn't cause him to gain weight. Soon after he stopped smoking, he started getting tingling and numbness in the outer aspects of his limbs (the smallest two fingers and toes, plus the outsides of his legs and arms leading up to those digits). He became quiet concerned, and so he went to his doctor. His doctor heard his symptoms and asked, "Are you drinking a lot of diet pop or chewing a lot of sugar-free gum?" My father was floored. He stopped drinking diet pop immediately and regained full feeling in his arms and legs within a few weeks.

Needless to say, I stopped drinking diet pop entirely when I found out.

The two things I find scariest are 1) the doctor KNEW just from talking to my dad and 2) this was in the early 1990s, and as a society, we're still guzzling the shite.

Now I understand that this is a case study. There is only one patient in this "experiment". But that shouldn't detract from the fact that the doctor f*cking KNEW the possible side effects, and that my dad got immediately better after he stopped consuming aspartame.

[concorde]

Hi, thanks to :::grrrr::: LJ, I didn't get this comment until yesterday. Anyway, welcome!

Your story is stunning and unnerving. Thanks for sharing it. I've done my best to cut artificial sweetners out of my diet because I didn't like the taste. Somehow, I just couldn't get myself to believe that something with that odd a taste should be something I should regularly ingest. It's my feeling that we developed our sense of taste for a reason, and that we shouldn't try to eat things that taste so *wrong.*