Kids using Aspartame To Get "High"

Using Aspartame To Get "High"
Can you imagine discovering that your 12-year-old child is using dry, powdered forms of aspartame to get high? I recently received an email from a woman who discovered her daughter had been eating dry aspartame to get "high."

"I learned months ago," she wrote, "that a friend of my 12-year-old daughter had turned her on to ingesting Crystal Lite® (with aspartame) without water to get "hyper." I consulted with our doctors, called Poison Control, and met with school administrators to see if they were aware of this.

"The message I received," she continued, "was 'Crystal Lite is perfectly safe and the problem was most likely in their heads.'"

As a concerned parent, this mother has been researching aspartame ever since. "With the listed symptoms/side affects of aspartame on your website," she continued, "it is apparent to me that the children are getting some type of 'altered' sensation. I know my daughter experiences a rapid heart beat, dizziness, headaches and nausea, to name a few reactions she has described to me."
http://www.janethull.com/newsletter/0606/using_aspartame_to_get_high.php

Some new shit like this comes rolling downhill.

readi-whip. (Back in my day we called them 'whip its'.) Needless to say it is now banned from my house. Only cool whip in a tub here.

the can come out fluffy. Or if you have a whip cream dispenser (like an old-fashioned seltzer bottle), you get these little canisters of nitrous oxide and fill the thing with cream and zzzzzzzip! Whipped cream! Only folks would leave out the cream and just huff the nitrous oxide, which is laughing gas.

You can get to nitrous oxide by inhaling the gas that comes out of your can of whipped cream. I guess you need to squirt out alot of the cream to get to the gas. Not sure, as I'm just a drinker.

off the top.

My crazy fundie sister doubles as a mobile drug experimentation Lab.

If it's doable, she's done it. If it's not doable, chances are she has tried it, anyway.

Myself, I kicked heroin so I could spend the rest of my life drinking way too much.

I'll bet the alcohol kills me before the dope would have.

Damn. A novel in one sentence. Fabulous!

You would just not believe.

Same effect? I sure got weird. My cousin was there and I ended up hunched up in bed with the quilt over my back, giggling, "Look...I'm a turtle!"

You buy the cannisters of NO2 at the head shop, along with an opener and a balloon, and fill the balloon with the NO2 before you inhale it.

At least that's what my neighbor told me.

I worked in a restaurant, they had dozens of them. 3-4 of us got together after closing and pounced upon the cans that were out of cream, but not "empty". Enevitably, one of us got a can where them cream had turned bad. ghack!

in a little head shop downtown. We'd buy a 6 pack of little cartridges and some balloons, and...wheeeee....

This drug was a big deal around that time. You could buy balloons in the parking lot at Dead show for $1. The big score was finding someone who could get a tank of it; we did that once, and had a party.

What I liked about it was that you got really high but only for about 5 seconds, then it was over. Of course if you did balloons all night long you tended to get pretty messed up.

Glad I'm still alive... :)

then made millions on?

after they were given a free ride from FDA.

That shit is horrible.

Look it up on google--aspartame, nutrasweet, whatever. There are websites that claim it turns to methyl alcohol in one's body. My husband used to drink gallons of diet Coke. No more. After I read the googled information, I realized that he would get sort of "tipsy" after a weekend day of drinking the stuff. I showed him the website and now there is no nutrasweet in our house. I think it's very dangerous that people don't know this, particularly alcoholics. Heaven knows what else it is doing to internal organs, etc.

I also eat processed foods and (god forbid!) plenty of meat. Did I mention that I feel fine?

If I develop cancer and die from all these "toxins" then the organic vegan uber-purists will have the last laugh. Frankly, it doesn't worry me a bit. At 22, I've got better things to think about than dying.

Fortunately, formaldehyde is water soluble, so drinking lots of water helps get rid of it. Aspartame is the combination of 2 amino acids - phenylalanine and aspartic acid. Also, taking an amino acid supplement (with all the amino acids) helps to balance out the concentration of aspartame, if you drink diet soda or consume any other form of aspartame on a regular basis.
Many people are able to consume aspartame without realizing the side effects, however, most people have side effects and have no idea they're caused by aspartame.
I gave up aspartame the day I gave up smoking, personally, but it helps to know that, if you do inadvertently consume aspartame, you can undo some of the damage by drinking lots of water and taking an amino acid supplement.

in fact, I'm one of those people who REALLY shouldn't drink it (you know, the little warning on the cans) - anyway, to my knowledge, there is no scientific evidence that aspartame is harmful (except to that select few with PKU) - and many of the anti-aspartame websites are sponsored by sugar companies.

As I said, I'm not a fan of the stuff, and anything Rumsfeld had a hand in is suspect, IMO, but so far, I haven't heard anything but rumor against it.

has as part of its structure the amino acid aspartic acid. This is a neurotransmitter that is excitatory and also can be excitotoxic. Glutamate also acts on the NMDA receptors and both can stimulate the nervous system.

Aspartame is a lab accident posing as a sweetener, table sugar is far and away safer for you.

I wish the price would come down a little though. And when we find the huge 5-10 pound honey on sale, we stock up. And for anyone who has not used turbino sugar in their morning coffee, it is a delight!

Stevia contains estrogenic hormones - posted by: phillysuse 1/05

Back when I was in college in the late 1960's, I did research on
Stevia rebaudiana. This is a plant used by the Indians in Paraguayan
to brew tea and the plant from which the "health food" compound Stevia is extracted. The Paraguayan Indians have found that women who drink tea with Stevia have decreased fertility and drinking this tea allows them to space births. That is because Stevia rebaudiana contains estrogenic compounds similar to those in the birth control pills.

So just be carefulwhen you use Stevia - you may be taking estrogenic supplementation - it may help your hot flashes but it may contribute to increased breast cancer. And if you are male, it's probably not a great thing to ingest extra estrogen.

Natural products don't necessarily mean safe.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2995270#2995345


I have wacky hormone unbalances and noticed Stevia wasn't helping the problem, but making it worse.

Nothing on Snopes though.

Leg jerks while I'm sleeping and RLS.

Diet pop with some Top Ramen. And say to Bye bye to a few brain cells.

When I lived in OH, that's what we called it. Here at the West Coast, it's called a "soda".

Aspartame metabolizes in the brain into something closely related to formaldehyde (used in embalming corpses).

unless it's sprite.

http://www.popvssoda.com/
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(:spank: me for hotlinking )

I'm from NC which as you can see is quite the patchwork.
I honestly don't know what term I use. "soft drink" maybe.

but they would be wrong. ;)

I'm from Ohio :hi:

it is:

"warsh"
"crick"

Other than the 5 years I spent in LA (lower Alabama, specifically the Panhandle of FLA) I am an Ohio lifer, and pop, warsh and crick are so identifiably Ohio dialect traits or slang.

In the panhandle, when I tried to get a pop, the clerk looked at me like I had two heads. BUT, it is also where I learned to love grits and gizzards (NOT something an Ohio gal would normally claim to love)

When my hubby and I went to New Orleans, I had warned him grits come with ALL breakfasts...I watched him tell a woman at Mother's 3 TIMES to please not give him grits, and they did anyway...he did not even want them touching his food. I was meantime shoveling mine down.

Now, an Ohio gal CAN lay claim to cornmeal mush..fried, with syrup.

My mom says she's going to warsh and wrench the dishes.

as in...we are going to tour ("tur") the countryside

Also"pitcher"..as in let me take your picture (pitcher)

A story from my youth. My mom sent my dad out to get
some all. He, of course, came back with All detergent.
"No!" she said. "I wanted cooking all!"

I love this country's diversity...in ALL ways...dialect, people, food...EVERYTHING

TV has made everything so homogeneous, but there are
still pockets of diversity to be had. In my anthropology
class, the professor told of an isolated group of people
on an island in the northeast.

They were called the "hoity toidies" because they
pronounced "high tide" as "hoi toid". That's one thing
I love about living in such a large country.

ohio actually has several dialects. I'm from southeastern ohio, but "warsh" and "woof" (instead of wolf) drive me insane. Of course, crick is still ok ;)

listening to Bob White (before the massive mid 70's blizzard kills from which they have NEVER recovered)

My father is having quail reintroduced to his land this summer...he was approached by wildlife officials and said yes. The good reintroduction quail, not birds who have been in pens....these ones have learned about predation and how to scratch and catch bugs and things.

I have not hear a Bob White call in decades. It ALWAYS meant summer.

on our property. It's pretty cool to hear them calling to each other

for a couple of minutes (something I VERY rarely do) I realized I was having heart palpitations. sure enough, it was a sugar-free gum loaded with this toxin. it is scary stuff, and I cannot believe the parents who give their kids foods with this in them.

So far, I am still in excellent health. :)

I also happen to be highly sensitive to salt, with some of the strangest reactions (which automatically precludes everything from fast "food" joints to all the prepared and processed and packaged junk that the manufacturers and advertisers try to pass off as "food".
also allergic to anything NON-Dairy, and all the fake stuff. makes life interesting.

disgusting healthy for my age. :D

all gnarly..It is a banned substance here as well.

Gives me headaches. :(

I'm not saying anyone is right or wrong, But I am not convinced that the whole aspartame scare has any merit.

Just in case anyone wants to look up information from the other side, Snopes.com has some good links below.

<http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp>

http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/235/1/

Direct quote from the writers at snopes
"The moral of the story is that you should never take anyone's word for anything, including ours. That is why we list our references at the bottom of our pages, so that you can independently verify our work.

We are the Urban Legends Reference Pages -- we provide references so that people can do their own research. We do not claim to be the ultimate arbiters of fact."

vs. people simply providing a resource.

Read that story again. Its sounds like every fakeroo teen scandal that scares the crap out of parents in the last five years.

been wrong many times. Some urban legends are a given but much of their debunking has been proved not totally accurate. Like THEY say basically, do your homework. They are only one source. I never take snopes at their word, I read what they have to say as a starting point. As far as aspartame is concerned, I have had my own bad experiences with the stuff along with MSG. I would be concerned if kids were consuming large amounts of anything to try and get high.

The caffeine wasn't something she was used to.

note to self....read the previous posts before posting

he was an investigator in 1972 (back when the FDA actually PROTECTED us, or at least tried). he was involved in reviewing searle's data about several drugs (ovulen contraceptive and aspartame included).

he found that they were cutting tumors out of mice and returning them to studies, replacing dead mice with live ones and not noting it in the clinical data, and generally up to no good. when he asked to review materials, the company said they "misplaced" them. so dr. gross opened drawers and started to throw things around until they gave him the data. those were the days, huh?

i worked in pharma at the time and have made it a point to avoid nutrasweet to this day. i wouldn't give it to my kid for any amount of money.

and be forwarned, they're putting it in sugared gums also. you have to read every package anymore if you want to avoid it.

ah, i googled dr. gross myself. seems he had quite a bit to say about aspartame, too. dr. gross was an american hero, along the lines of frances kelsey (who saved many american children from thalidomide).

OUT of our diets, including diet pop. We went back to organic, real sugar.

Hubby and I both dropped 15 pounds in a jiffy, and for the first time in decades, I am not plagued with weekly or daily headaches. I am actually surprised when I get a headache now, and when I do, I can tell you the exact cause (a mighty high pressure system, which produces a very specific ache in my sinuses, but still more rarely than before) and the usual "hormonal" headache, which even that one is more rare than a given.

No, we did not cut out caffeine, we both drink coffee and tea, so that is not the explanation...hubby commented also his headaches are way down.

I am a firm believer this stuff is more nasty than we are all being lead to believe..I won't go into some of the theories...you can discover and believe on your own.

... and you aren't the first to suggest that artificial sweeteners actually cause weight gain.

I have no choice, I cannot eat sugar at all and I do enjoy the occassional popsicle or soda, splenda messes with me but I detect no problems with nutrasweet.

On the other hand, a business partner of mine cannot eat nutrasweet at all, he says it makes him feel "spacey" sorta like what some allergy medicines (pseudoephidrine?) do.

My preferred sweetener is calcium sacharine, which I am convinced is safe but the FDA isn't. Probably no patent on that, so no way to make money.

We have tried this..it takes some time to get used to how much you need to use to get the effect you expect. If you use too much for whatever application you are doing (i.e. sweetening coffee) it can get bitter....I grew some last year and was surprised by how sweet the leaves were. Most Stevia product is in liquid or powder form...the one you have to watch for bitterness is the liquid...it is easy to use too much in the beginning.

everyone should really see this documentary about aspartame...

Sweet Misery(download in 3 parts)
http://www.question911.com/linkout.php?filename=Sweet%20Misery%20-%20A%20Poisoned%20World%201of3.wmv
http://www.question911.com/linkout.php?filename=Sweet%20Misery%20-%20A%20Poisoned%20World%202of3.wmv
http://www.question911.com/linkout.php?filename=Sweet%20Misery%20-%20A%20Poisoned%20World%203of3.wmv

from this great site
http://www.question911.com/links.php

He could care less whether they're destroyed by bombs or by nerve toxins.

There was a post here about benzene levels in various soft drinks.
Municipal water supplies can only have 5 ppb benzene, but Crystal
Lite® has something like 80 ppb. So, this 12 year old is getting a
whopper dose of benzene.

"As a concerned parent, this mother has been researching aspartame ever since. "With the listed symptoms/side affects of aspartame on your website," she continued, "it is apparent to me that the children are getting some type of 'altered' sensation. I know my daughter experiences a rapid heart beat, dizziness, headaches and nausea, to name a few reactions she has described to me."

Sounds like the oral sex craze in jr high, the famous sex contract via the pop top of a soda can or whatever scary story that usually frightens parents and dominates local news.

Good to see Drug War propaganda tactics of overblown anecdotes used to sell alternative medicine and books.

Why would anyone would find this "fun?"