Does aspartame, the sugar ingredient in gum and diet sodas, cause brain cancer and make you fat?

Allegedly. But allegedly so do millions of other things. Just live your life. A little soda isn’t going to kill you (touch wood).

I don’t know, but I just imagined the advert…

“Chew Wriggelees Gum !! Don’t die wasting away of brain cancer, you’ll look nice and plump at your funeral !!”

LOL !! Jeeeze I nearly fell off my stool…

No but I heard it affects your memory …

no, bus aspartame is one of the active ingredients in splenda, and splenda has been causing allergic reactions with it’s users (not all), causing them to break out in blisters, and almost burn like marks. this is because splenda uses a bond in it that binds it with chlorine molecules so that it bypasses your digestive system

The biggest known problem with asparatame is it stimulates insulin just like sugar does.

There has been an increase in the amount of brain cancer since asparatame was introduced in 1985 but that does not prove it is the cause; the increase could be due to any number of other factors.

Personally I have a bias against anything that isn’t natural and that hasn’t been in the human diet for centuries. Since asparatame is relatively new it could take decades to find long term health problems. This is one of those areas where I’d rather be safe than sorry. Give me good old sugar instead of chemicals.