On Jul 8, 12:42 pm, (Richard Schultz) wrote:
In misc.health.alternative The One True Zhen Jue wrote:
: When will all those horrific side effects of Aspartame finally
: manifest?
If you consume enough Aspartame, the acid in your stomach will convert
enough of the methyl ester to methanol for it to be a problem. I once
calculated how much that would be (assuming that the "do not take more than
X mg/kg body weight per day" warning on the bottle was due to the possibility
of methanol poisoning) and it came out to something on the order of
tens of liters a day of Aspartame-sweetened drinks. As for me, I drink
mostly water and fruit juice.
Exactly. Its not going to be a problem unless consumed in mass
quantities....Conehead style! Splenda is even less likely to be a
problem, a person would have to consume ridiculous amounts to be
harmful, 5000+ packets a day!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splenda
Concerns have been raised about the effect of sucralose on the thymus,
an organ that is important to the immune system. A report from NICNAS
cites two studies on rats, both of which found "a significant decrease
in mean thymus weight" at a certain dose.[12] The sucralose dosages
which caused the thymus gland effects referenced in the NICNAS report
was 3000 mg/kg bw/day for 28 days. For an 80 kg (176 lb) human, this
would mean a 28-day intake of 240 grams of sucralose, which is
equivalent to more than 20,000 individual Splenda packets/day for
approximately one month. The dose required to provoke any
immunological response was 750 mg/kg bw/day,[13] or 60 grams of
sucralose per day, which is more than 5,000 Splenda packets/day (there
are 11.9 mg of sucralose in a 1g retail packet of Splenda). These and
other studies were considered by regulators before concluding that
sucralose was safe. However, because some ingested sucralose is broken
down and absorbed by the body there is concern that chronic
consumption may lead to thymus shrinkage or other side-effects.
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Richard Schultz
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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"Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad."