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Old May 12th, 2010, 07:37 PM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb
Doug Freyburger
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Default I was put to test today and I...

Billy wrote:
"Cheri" wrote:

I eat LC treats once in awhile. They don't cause me to binge or anything,
but can't speak for others.


With the furor over aspartame who'd think the majority of people have
some issue with it. No, only a small minority.

I find the claim of addiction silly for aspartame,


You have not yet encountered someone who gets a couple of weeks of
headaches worse than caffeine withdrawal when they stop taking
aspartame. That happens with my wife. She's in the small minority who
have problems with aspartame.

With all the other problems in the world, this would seem to be minor.


It happens enough that Dr A included it in the Q-n-A section of his 1999
edition. It occurs often enough to consider it a suspect when there are
problems. I have no idea what percentage that is, probably closer to 1%
than to any higher number.