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<blockquote data-quote="skeeter" data-source="post: 143567" data-attributes="member: 439"><p>since formaldehyde has an oxygen (double bonded) to a carbon with two hydrogens, and aspartame is composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, I suppose it's possible that when aspartame breaks down, you could get a formaldehyde molecule.</p><p>But you could get that (taking into consideration that the double bonded oxygen to carbon is hard to produce) from anything that is composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, including vegetable oil.</p><p></p><p>And just as with anything that goes into your body, some people have no problems with aspartame, others react to it. My son is allergic to casein, so cannot have anything that has any milk, whey, casein or sodium caseinate in it.</p><p></p><p>But please keep in mind that MOST of these "reports" are taken from scientific journals that aren't saying these are facts. The point of publishing in scientific journals is to propose a theory and have peers either confirm or prove the theory, or to disprove the theory. But you never read about the follow up reports when the theory is disproven. Unless you have access to the original publication, you also cannot see how the research was conducted - was there a control and what was it, what was the dosage and does it in any way equate to "normal" consumption, etc.</p><p></p><p>What I'm basically saying is take these types of reports with a LARGE grain of salt (unless you have high blood pressure - oh - wait, now they are saying that doesn't matter!).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skeeter, post: 143567, member: 439"] since formaldehyde has an oxygen (double bonded) to a carbon with two hydrogens, and aspartame is composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, I suppose it's possible that when aspartame breaks down, you could get a formaldehyde molecule. But you could get that (taking into consideration that the double bonded oxygen to carbon is hard to produce) from anything that is composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, including vegetable oil. And just as with anything that goes into your body, some people have no problems with aspartame, others react to it. My son is allergic to casein, so cannot have anything that has any milk, whey, casein or sodium caseinate in it. But please keep in mind that MOST of these "reports" are taken from scientific journals that aren't saying these are facts. The point of publishing in scientific journals is to propose a theory and have peers either confirm or prove the theory, or to disprove the theory. But you never read about the follow up reports when the theory is disproven. Unless you have access to the original publication, you also cannot see how the research was conducted - was there a control and what was it, what was the dosage and does it in any way equate to "normal" consumption, etc. What I'm basically saying is take these types of reports with a LARGE grain of salt (unless you have high blood pressure - oh - wait, now they are saying that doesn't matter!). [/QUOTE]
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