URGENT: NutraSweet/MENTHANOL/TRUTH

[Jim Devenport]

At LAST.... some rational non-hysterical comments.  We all
agree on Methanol toxicity above some level, but if 
Nutrasweet caused even a small sample of the problems 
Martini et al rant and rave about I'd be dead by now!  
Every sweetness substitute seems to have to be attacked.  
Saccharine is so far as I know the only alternative and it 
tastes like raw battery acid to me.  I drink diet Pepsi by 
the 6-pack almost daily and have ever since Nutrasweet hit 
the market.  If it produced any definable methanol in my 
body I'd be blind and dead by now.
I would feel safer not consuming ANY commercial food 
product and recently had been considering ice water with 
lemon slice for flavor (I seem to have an oral fixation, 
gotta chew on or drink something much of the time, 
especially while driving) but shucks, the methanol in the 
LEMON is worse than nasty ole nutrasweet....
You can rant and rave all you want but my personal 
background scoffs at these horror stories!  I've never 
heard of anyone I know having ANY problem they didn't have 
BEFORE consuming nutrasweet.  I DO know people who are 
irrationally afraid of Nutrasweet because of all the uproar 
being tossed about in the health food community.
How about an unofficial poll?  How many have been 
nutrasweet pigs like myself with no known ill effects?
How many think you've proved Nutrasweet has caused problems 
for you?

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