Aspartame Controversy

It’s common knowledge that losing unhealthy weight by reducing caloric intake is a good idea, but a way to make the process easier isn’t clear. One of the suggested ways to lose unhealthy pounds is to substitute sugar (which is rich in calories) with artificial sweeteners, which have almost no calories. The idea became so popular, that even traditional makers of sweet soft drinks like Coca-Cola and Pepsi decided to introduce drinks with artificial sweeteners. The idea worked, people liked artificial sweeteners so much that they are now in more than 6000 food products and beverages worldwide, including (but not limited to) soft drinks, juices, cereals, chewing gum, etc. The yearly production of artificial sweeteners is in the thousands of tons, bringing their manufacturers millions of dollars in revenue. When I decided to lose weight myself, I started using artificial sweeteners instead of sugar. I was using aspartame with my tea, and drinking diet soda instead of regular, but I didn’t get what I had hoped for: I did not shed even a single pound! Instead, I had an unwanted problem: I was going to the bathroom too much. I was puzzled: there were no water pills in diet soda, and there was no other health condition that made me go to the bathroom. There was just one explanation left; I was drinking too much diet soda! I felt like I became addicted to it, but I couldn’t understand why. At that time the only thing was clear: it was the food companies that were benefiting fr...
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