Does Aspertame Cause Cancer?

Some group that gave low daily doses of aspartame to 4000 rats and followed them around seem to think so:

"Because aspartame is so widely consumed, it is urgent that the FDA evaluate whether aspartame still poses a 'reasonable certainty of no harm,' the standard used for gauging the safety of food additives," said CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson. "But consumers, particularly parents, shouldn't wait for the FDA to act. People shouldn't panic, but they should stop buying beverages and foods containing aspartame."

We shouldn't panic, but we should stop buying foods and drink that contain it? While you're at it, it might be a wise idea to scrub your colon with sulphuric acid.

While the CSPI seem pretty cock-sure that aspartame is about as healthy for you as sucking on the devils dick, the FDA doesn't see it that way:

"However, the conclusions from this second European Ramazzini Foundation are not consistent with those from the large number of studies on aspartame that have been evaluated by FDA, including five previously conducted negative chronic carcinogenicity studies,"

Who to believe, the FDA or some advocacy group? No one knows, maybe this CSPI crowd are bought and paid by the giant sugar conglomerates. You can never tell.

I can't tell you either way if aspartame is good or bad for you, but I do know one thing: Aspartame tastes like ass water. Anything with saccharin or aspartame gives the food or drink it is in a tinny taste, real metallic-like.

If you want to hang in there for a few more years, stop drinking diet drinks altogether and start drinking Coke. I know too many hippos that only drink diet pop, but they drink 10 of them a day, that's no way to live. The idea is to limit yourself. If you have a Coke a day you'll live to be 350 years old. If you drink 5 diet drinks a day, well, you'll be playing bacchi ball with Saddam Hussein and John Wayne in heaven in no time. Well, maybe not John Wayne, but definitely Saddam Hussein. John Wayne wouldn't hang out with a bunch of diet pop drinking homos.

Don't say I didn't warn you.