Sweeteners (was Re: Guilt, satiety, calorie restriction...)

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What about Sucralose? Does anybody know of any harmful

effects from eating Sucralose? Stevia? Erythritol?

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> You might be right, it looks possibly overblown. I did a little

looking, and

> it looks like potential dangerous stuff-- aspartame DOES raise

methanol and

> fermaldehyde blood levels, but it might be true that exposure to

these are even

> greater from non-aspartame sources, in which case it might be

insignificant.

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> Also I'd taken the claims of neurotoxicity of phenylalinine at face

value

> which I've read from a variety of sources, but it looks like this

might primarily

> be a problem with people that have an inborn problem with

metabolising

> phenylalynine.

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> So what is probably the case is that in normal humans under normal

> circumstances aspartame is not signficantly neurotoxic, but that if

it is stored at high

> temperatures including those reached during summer heat waves it

could be

> very, very neurotoxic, and for people with problems metabolising

phenylalinine or

> aspartic acid, it could be neurotoxic.

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> This might explain the discrepancy between the anecdotal evidence

and the

> experimental evidence.

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> In which case severe caution should still be exercised with using

it, but

> chances might be that it's safe rather than not safe.

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> Chris