Aspartame and Fat Loss

[Josh37]

I posted this in the sticky few days ago but got no response:

"I know a little bit won't hurt, but does Aspartame have any affect on fat loss? I know calories in vs calories out, but I've heard some studies before that stated Aspartame prevents lypolysis"

[antbrdwar]

I don't know about the lypolysis claim, but I know this much:

Aspartame provides 4 calories per gram. Its 200 times sweeter than sucrose, or table sugar. Its Acceptable Daily Intake, as per the FDA, is 3.5g/day, or roughly 9 servings of diet soda a day. PKU patients should avoid Aspartame because of their disordered metabolism, where they can't breakdown Aspartame, and it can lead to mental retardation in PKU patients.

[Xanatos]

Avoid aspartame.

Myoplex used to contain aspartame and now changed it. If a big corporation such as EAS is moving away from aspartame, there's got to be a reason why.

Reason: The scientist that discovered aspartame withheld negative information regarding it. Information such as it causing cancers in animals. Certain findings did however find that aspartame was safe (keep in mind that those findings were funded by the company responsible for creating aspartame). Usually with funding (for those who don't know how it works), if you get money from a corporation regarding their product, you try your best to make sure it's in the best interest of the money supplying corporation.

All other reports however were left with doubts regarding the safety of aspartame. My personal choice, I avoid it as much as I possibly can.

[gfletch]

Originally Posted by Xanatos

Avoid aspartame.

Myoplex used to contain aspartame and now changed it. If a big corporation such as EAS is moving away from aspartame, there's got to be a reason why.

Reason: The scientist that discovered aspartame withheld negative information regarding it. Information such as it causing cancers in animals. Certain findings did however find that aspartame was safe (keep in mind that those findings were funded by the company responsible for creating aspartame). Usually with funding (for those who don't know how it works), if you get money from a corporation regarding their product, you try your best to make sure it's in the best interest of the money supplying corporation.

All other reports however were left with doubts regarding the safety of aspartame. My personal choice, I avoid it as much as I possibly can.

Do you have a link to the source of your information?

[No0b]

Aspartme sucks. I know most people on low carb diets that hit plateaus usually end up losing again after they quit it. (seen tons of threads on that on other forums) And yeah on keto diets, it throws you out of lypolysis/ketosis.

[shazz]

Originally Posted by antbrdwar

I don't know about the lypolysis claim, but I know this much:

Aspartame provides 4 calories per gram. Its 200 times sweeter than sucrose, or table sugar. Its Acceptable Daily Intake, as per the FDA, is 3.5g/day, or roughly 9 servings of diet soda a day. PKU patients should avoid Aspartame because of their disordered metabolism, where they can't breakdown Aspartame, and it can lead to mental retardation in PKU patients.

Aspartame is broken down into smaller products, phenylalanine, aspartic acid and methanol. It is the phenylalanine which PKU patients cannot process as effeciently as non-sufferers because they lack vital enzymes, so if it accumulates it is toxic especially in the brain.
The Methanol IMO is the most dangerous property as it is []bsuspected[/b] to form formaldehydein the body which can bind to DNA/RNA adducts thus damaging cells and polypeptides.

You will find that aspartame is a very contraversial substance, with articles finding that it helps in weightloss and others which say it is a hindrance to weight loss.

Safety articles are numerous as are ones that advocate a danger.
Here's a safety one
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q..._uids=12180494

And weight loss ones: (helps in weightloss)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...t_uids=9022524

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...t_uids=3190220

[Xanatos]

Originally Posted by gfletch

Do you have a link to the source of your information?

FDA: http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/tpaspart.html

Summary: FDA believes that their extensive study reports it is safe to use as an additive, however, there are some doubts. The product is considered acceptably safe.

FDA Statement on Aspartame:
http://www.relfe.com/Aspartame_92.html


View on witholding of information:
http://www.mercola.com/article/aspartame/fda.htm