Why do people keep insisting that aspartame causes such horrible diseases in humans?
I wish I could give this question 10 stars. You are absolutely on target with this one. But I think I might be able to answer that one. Aspartame was discovered in 1965, but it wasn’t until 1983 it was finally sold to the public, after nearly 20 years of controversy stirred up by fearmongers such as Jeremy Rifkin and conflict of interest in the FDA protecting the older saccharide market. It has created a massive hysteria that persists even to this day, while newer sugar substitutes have enjoyed entry into the market after the way was paved by Aspartame. Once fears and rumors have spread in the public, it’s very difficult to quell them, they tend to have a life of their own in spite of the best evidence against them. People die every day from reactions to eating common food, such as peanut allergy, and yet Aspartame continues to be singled out because of exotic cases of bad reactions to it.
