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Chewing gum and diet drinks

Samara · 2003-03-25 12:40:24

Has anybody heard anything on the claim that Aspartame, an ingredient in chewing gum and diet drinks is potentially dangerous and destroys brain cells?? Apparantly the body actually converts Aspartame to formaldehyde in the body. There are campaigns going on to get Nutra Sweet products banned from the markets. Anybody…

25-03-2003 1:40pm

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Samara

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Has anybody heard anything on the claim that Aspartame, an ingredient in chewing gum and diet drinks is potentially dangerous and destroys brain cells?? Apparantly the body actually converts Aspartame to formaldehyde in the body. There are campaigns going on to get Nutra Sweet products banned from the markets.

Anybody heard anything about this???

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#2 26-03-2003 2:33pm

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Nutra Sweet etc should sue the pants of people who start these anti-business rumours.

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