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Date Posted: 11:31:45 08/12/02 Mon
Author: LS
Subject: On the other hand...
In reply to: LS 's message, "A Killer Diet product." on 10:21:46 08/12/02 Mon

If you go to WWW.SNOPES.COM and use the search word ASPARTAME, you'll find out a lot more plus the following:

Origins: Once again, if you can't trust an anonymous e-mail message filled with words rendered in all CAPITAL LETTERS and containing liberal doses of exclamation points, warning you about some widespread and imminent danger, what can you trust?

>From whence comes this information? For one thing, it's not new -- this text was written by one Betty Martini back in 1995. (Follow this link to view the original text.) And who is this Betty Martini? Well, she's not a doctor, biologist, chemist, or any other type of scientist -- she is the founder of Mission Possible International, an organization dedicated to "spreading the word that aspartame is a toxic poison unfit for human consumption."

Now, Ms. Martini may be earnest and sincere, but her screed is full of flawed logic, scientific errors, and outright misinformation. We're not going to attempt to go through it point by point, nor are we going to claim that aspartame is either a health hazard or absolutely 100% non-harmful in any amount. What we will assert is that there is simply nothing remotely approaching a consensus in the medical/scientific community that aspartame is (or even could be) responsible for an "epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus" or many of the other evils attributed to it above. We invite you to explore some of the resources listed below and make up your own mind whether or not you should be concerned about aspartame:

On the pro-aspartame side, we have a rebuttal to this document from the folks at NutraSweet (Monsanto's brand name for aspartame).

For the opposition, we have a collection of articles at the web site of Aspartame Toxicity Information Center. (Keep in mind that most of the material available through this site contains no information about its source and/or does not derive from peer-reviewed scientific journals.)

And finally, you can reference scholarly, peer-reviewed articles about aspartame through Medline.
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