Aspartame is broken down to two amino acids (protein) and methanol. Unless you are born with the rare disease PKU, which means you cannot break down certain amino acids, the amino acids are no issue.
The methanol, however, is where the aspartame fear propaganda comes from. Once again, THE DOSE...
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Although most common, aspartame isn’t the only artificial sweetener on the market. Stevia is a relatively new sweetener and marketed as a “natural” calorie-free sweetener as it comes from a South American plant, but the fact is that it isn’t nearly as well studied as aspartame, and we thus can’t...
The reason why we present the evidence for the safety of aspartame as an artificial sweetener is because the alternative usually is to consume foods/drinks sweetened with refined sugars. Sugar sweetened beverage is hands down the worst grocery in terms of avoiding weight gain.
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