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Has Southwest Airlines banned aspartame from the cockpit?
A friend of mine who is on a bit of an anti aspartame crusade, tells
me that SWA no longer allows pilots to be served diet coke for fear of some dire medical consequences. Let's keep out of the debate over aspartame's safety. This is an exercise in getting some primary source evidence. I just want to find out if SWA does indeed have such a policy. Are there any crew out there who can confirm or deny? thanks paul |
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Has Southwest Airlines banned aspartame from the cockpit?
In article , Paul G wrote:
Let's keep out of the debate over aspartame's safety. This is an exercise in getting some primary source evidence. I just want to find out if SWA does indeed have such a policy. Are there any crew out there who can confirm or deny? It sounds pretty silly on the face of it. Aspartame is consumed in vast quantities - if it was dangerous, it'd have shown up by now. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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In article , Paul G wrote:
Let's keep out of the debate over aspartame's safety. This is an exercise in getting some primary source evidence. I just want to find out if SWA does indeed have such a policy. Are there any crew out there who can confirm or deny? It sounds pretty silly on the face of it. Aspartame is consumed in vast quantities - if it was dangerous, it'd have shown up by now. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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In article , Paul G wrote:
Let's keep out of the debate over aspartame's safety. This is an exercise in getting some primary source evidence. I just want to find out if SWA does indeed have such a policy. Are there any crew out there who can confirm or deny? It sounds pretty silly on the face of it. Aspartame is consumed in vast quantities - if it was dangerous, it'd have shown up by now. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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Has Southwest Airlines banned aspartame from the cockpit?
"Shawn Hearn" wrote in message
A friend of mine who is on a bit of an anti aspartame crusade, tells me that SWA no longer allows pilots to be served diet coke for fear of some dire medical consequences. It sounds like an attempt to start an urban legend. Others have come befo http://www.snopes.com/toxins/aspartame.asp -- John T http://tknowlogy.com/TknoFlyer http://www.pocketgear.com/products_s...veloperid=4415 ____________________ |
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Has Southwest Airlines banned aspartame from the cockpit?
Dylan Smith wrote in message ...
In article , Paul G wrote: Let's keep out of the debate over aspartame's safety. This is an exercise in getting some primary source evidence. I just want to find out if SWA does indeed have such a policy. Are there any crew out there who can confirm or deny? It sounds pretty silly on the face of it. Aspartame is consumed in vast quantities - if it was dangerous, it'd have shown up by now. Peanuts have been consumed in vast quantities for a long time too. I've *never* personally known or even heard of anyone having having any peanut allergy problems, yet we see all kinds of warnings labels on products containing peanuts these days. Aspartame metabolizes into 10% methyl alchohol, a potent neurotoxin, in the human body. Methanol, as we know, then metabolizes into formaldehyde. Nice stuff. Here's just one of thousands of references: TI: Neuropsychological and biochemical investigations in heterozygotes for phenylketonuria during ingestion of high dose aspartame (a sweetener containing phenylalanine). AU: Trefz-F; de-Sonneville-L; Matthis-P; Benninger-C; Lanz-Englert-B; Bickel- H SO: Hum-Genet. 1994 Apr; 93(4): 369-74 JN: HUMAN-GENETICS "Upon ingestion, aspartame is completely metabolized to two amino acids and methanol (approximately 50% phenylalanine, 40% aspartic acid, and 10% methanol)." In the body, virtually all of the Aspartame gets metabolized thru the liver too, it doesn't pass thru and get excreted unmetabolized like many other chemical substances. When Aspartame-sweetened diet sodas first became popular in the mid-late 1980's, I drank them like crazy, until I began getting bad "eye socket" headaches with a strange toxic feeling to them, a hangover-like feeling a lot like after breathing lacquer thinner fumes in a paint booth, then the bad news stories about aspartame started emerging and I began reading all I could about it. Sure enough, I drink two cans of diet soda, and within an hour or two... bad headache with that characteristic toxic feeling to it. I ceased drinking these diet sodas after learning about the methanol problem and never had that kind of headache again, and it's been almost 15 years since I ceased drinking diet sodas. However, I can still consume small amounts of candy or chewing gum sweetened with aspartame and it doesn't bother me, but I dare not drink a can of diet soda. |
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Dylan Smith wrote in message ...
In article , Paul G wrote: Let's keep out of the debate over aspartame's safety. This is an exercise in getting some primary source evidence. I just want to find out if SWA does indeed have such a policy. Are there any crew out there who can confirm or deny? It sounds pretty silly on the face of it. Aspartame is consumed in vast quantities - if it was dangerous, it'd have shown up by now. Peanuts have been consumed in vast quantities for a long time too. I've *never* personally known or even heard of anyone having having any peanut allergy problems, yet we see all kinds of warnings labels on products containing peanuts these days. Aspartame metabolizes into 10% methyl alchohol, a potent neurotoxin, in the human body. Methanol, as we know, then metabolizes into formaldehyde. Nice stuff. Here's just one of thousands of references: TI: Neuropsychological and biochemical investigations in heterozygotes for phenylketonuria during ingestion of high dose aspartame (a sweetener containing phenylalanine). AU: Trefz-F; de-Sonneville-L; Matthis-P; Benninger-C; Lanz-Englert-B; Bickel- H SO: Hum-Genet. 1994 Apr; 93(4): 369-74 JN: HUMAN-GENETICS "Upon ingestion, aspartame is completely metabolized to two amino acids and methanol (approximately 50% phenylalanine, 40% aspartic acid, and 10% methanol)." In the body, virtually all of the Aspartame gets metabolized thru the liver too, it doesn't pass thru and get excreted unmetabolized like many other chemical substances. When Aspartame-sweetened diet sodas first became popular in the mid-late 1980's, I drank them like crazy, until I began getting bad "eye socket" headaches with a strange toxic feeling to them, a hangover-like feeling a lot like after breathing lacquer thinner fumes in a paint booth, then the bad news stories about aspartame started emerging and I began reading all I could about it. Sure enough, I drink two cans of diet soda, and within an hour or two... bad headache with that characteristic toxic feeling to it. I ceased drinking these diet sodas after learning about the methanol problem and never had that kind of headache again, and it's been almost 15 years since I ceased drinking diet sodas. However, I can still consume small amounts of candy or chewing gum sweetened with aspartame and it doesn't bother me, but I dare not drink a can of diet soda. |
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