Aspartame - What Is The Biggest Lie For Him?
Author: Karen Lennox
Time for reading: ~1
minutes
Last Updated:
August 08, 2022
The study that started the hysteria over aspartame gave huge amounts of doses of the sweetener that cannot be applied to the human body.
The Internet is full of opposing information about the popular sweetener aspartame. Many succumb to widespread fears that taking aspartame leads to obesity, insulin disorders and many cancers.
Aspartame is a popular artificial sweetener used in over 6,000 foods and especially: calorie-free carbonated beverages. Contrary to popular belief, aspartame contains calories - as much as 4 per gram. However, being 200 sweeter than sugar means that microscopic amounts of negligible energy are used in foods.
In 2005, a scientific study found that cancers such as lymphoma and leukemia were much more common in laboratory rats receiving aspartame. The ambiguity and sensationalism in the coverage of the news in the mass media leads to hysteria among the community, which has not subsided to this day - aspartame causes cancer 100%! This untruth, which has become a popular myth in health circles, owes its existence to the fact that no distinction is made between humans and rats.
Few have reviewed the 2005 study, which found that laboratory rats were given systemically huge doses of aspartame: from 4 milligrams per kilogram of body weight to 5,000 mg / kg. For information - a rat weighs an average of 0.4 kg. Simple mathematics show that the amounts administered to animals ranged from 1.6 mg to 2,000 mg of aspartame - as much as aspartame in between 1 and 10,330 ml cans of diet cola.
Relative to the average human weight (80 kg), to obtain the equivalent amount of aspartame cited in the studies, a person should ingest between 2 and 2139 cans of diet cola.
In addition, more than 200 scientific studies have concluded that taking aspartame does not lead to spikes in blood insulin, but to lead - they are absolutely normal function of insulin, observed even after protein intake.
Aspartame has been on the world market for more than 35 years and there is still no research showing the harm of taking it.
Aspartame has been on the world market for more than 35 years and there is still no research showing the harm of taking it.