I hate to break it to you, but virtually everything your body uses is broken down into “chemicals” in order for it to become biologically useful. That’s the biochemistry of the entire plant and animal kingdom.

Unless you’re chewing on the stevia plant’s leaves, some chemistry had to be used to process it into the powder you use as a sweetener. Being closer to a plant is in no way safer or healthier. Why would a plant be interested in helping out the organism eating it? Humans love caffeine, but the plant doesn’t make it to help us get out of bed in the morning. Caffeine is an insecticide. The plant is literally making the substance in an attempt to kill something getting in its way.

Wild conjecture in no way helps rationale discussion. Yes aspartame is a migraine trigger for some people, but that doesn’t mean the general public should be terrified of it. Some children have a bad reaction to the polio vaccine, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be given to people. No one who has seen what polio can do to a child would be in their right mind to speak against the vaccine. After decades of research attempting to vilify aspartame, don’t you think that if it actually were the root of all evil there would be hard evidence for something other that ‘it gives some people migraines, so if you get migraines, stop drinking diet soda.’

Until there is actual data, you can’t make statements like that. There is just as little evidence to support the statement “soy beans and flax seed help develope telekinetic abilities.”

We don’t “know” any of what you are claiming, unless you provide some scientific fact for it.

Yes, you are. We Germans put so much cream and sugar in the coffee, you can hardly tell it’s coffee 😉

And I like black coffee much better 🙂 Am I fortunate???

I hope it cleared things up a bit 🙂

Bedankt voor de vriendelijke woorden en een gelukkig nieuw jaar aan u! 🙂

I hope you won’t turn green! 😉

Groet,
Bruce Banner

Only thing aspartame is really easy to taste from soda.