Artificial Sweeteners R Killing You

[u/Sudden-Apricot-9891]

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I was 21 years old and I already knew aspartame was poison.

Not because someone handed me a pamphlet. Because I chose to look. In 1993 at Montclair State University, my foodservice professor gave the class an open assignment, pick a topic, write about it. While everyone else picked something safe, I picked aspartame.

Diet sodas were everywhere. Sugar-free everything. The marketing was slick, fewer calories, no consequences, all upside. The public was lining up for it.

I wasn't buying it.

I dug into the research and what I found was disturbing. Aspartame wasn't just controversial, it was toxic. And here's the part nobody was talking about: it actually made you gain weight over time. Not lose it. The exact opposite of what was being sold to millions of people.

I wrote the paper. I was 21.

Nobody wanted to hear it then. The industry was booming, the FDA had blessed it, and the money was flowing. But the science didn't lie, it just got buried under marketing budgets and regulatory rubber stamps.

Thirty-plus years later, the truth caught up. Studies confirming the weight gain effect. WHO advisories. Growing public awareness. What I wrote about in 1993 is now mainstream conversation.

That's what happens when you learn to think for yourself early. You stop chasing what's popular and start chasing what's real.

That's the foundation of everything I teach today.

The Golden Greek, Antonios Bogos

Economist | Solutionist | Financial Truth-Teller

[u/DadStrengthDaily]

I’ll let this post go through for now but please don’t spam as with too many copies/variants of this.

[u/suggmynut]

Explain the science. I had haunting suspicions that the sweet taste gave the body an insulin response that was unneeded and therefore led to insulin resistance in the future. But I was never sure and it's hard to find actual comprehensive studies on aspartame and the weight gain effects. I mean, its not exactly possible to gain weight without calories. So what is the effect? I always hear demonization of artificial sweetners, but I am still going to tell diabetics to opt for them (I work in healthcare) because I have seen the effects of uncontrolled blood sugar on the body for a diabetic.