it_is_the_light wrote on Aug 16
th, 2013 at 5:03pm:
thats not even a good guess,
here are some facts for you
The Truth About Aspartame
Not much truth in that article. The fact is that sugar is a lot more harmful than Aspartame, unless you are the one of the very few people who have the genetic disorder known as phenylketonuria.
If Aspartame was a probable or known carcinogen, it would appear on the IARC Group 1 or Group 2A list. It doesn't.
There is also the Group 2B list of possible carcinogens. It doesn't appear there either, but you will find things like bracken fern, isoprene rubber, phenolphthalein (so avoid Agarol), Mobile phones, talcum powder (when applied to the perineum), but no mention of Aspartame.
I wonder why people write these urban legends. If you can find any one of these studies, I'd be amazed. The probability of dying from cancer from all causes is about 1 in 4. How can you be sure that a person who consumed aspartame wasn't also exposed to a real carcinogen such as wood dust or accidentally catching a whiff of petrol while refueling, or inhaling diesel fumes from a passing bus for that matter?
One last place to look. That's IARC Group 3 Carcinogens. These substances are not classified. As there is no mention of Aspartame there, it's pretty conclusive that there was no such study.
I've sussed out your source, and it's suss.
Quote:A study out of Arizona State University that was published in the Journal of Applied Nutrition determined that Aspartame causes brain damage by leaving traces of Methanol in the blood
Damn. Don't drink any drinks with alcohol in it. They all contain some methanol, and several hundred times more than what you could possibly get from aspartame.
Methanol does cause brain damage, as does ethanol at much larger doses, but neither cause cancer.