The biggest reason is it is unnatural material that your body is not used to.
Irrelevant, our bodies are capable of handling quite a lot.
These people who study the effects are mere scientists.
And the only people qualified to study these effects are then... what? High priests? Quacks? Astrologers?
They have no way to know how your genetically evolved body processes things at a detailed level, they can only look at it at one tiny narrow perspective.
Uh, science has mapped the biochemical pathways of a lot of substances, and science learns more each day.
To be safe its generally best to avoid unnatural food and drinks completely.
How about perfectly natural toxins, then? Should we avoid those? Or are they safe because they are "natural"?
To argue that something is natural or unnatural is a sure sign that you don't really know what you're talking about.
You are missing my point. I specifically said food and drinks. Lets define natural if you find it vague. I call it natural when it is within the normal diet of humans throughout their evolution. I am not talking about natural mercury being good to your health, for example. That was pretty clear.
You can simply answer this, is it in human's natural diet to have lots of aspartame intake each day?
Furthermore, you are overestimating the power of science. If you think humans have the power of understanding human body so well in a mere 200 - 300 years of scientific past, in comparison to the millions of years of evolution complexity, and the complexity of living organism, you are disillusioned by a great magnitude - that would be a godly power if it was true. I am all with science, and great scientists know to value their experiments humbly.
All I am saying is avoid irregular diets for full safety since humans can't know for sure with narrow angled experiments.
I call it natural when it is within the normal diet of humans throughout their evolution.
Most of the food we eat every day today has not been part of the normal diet of humans throughout our evolution.The vegetables, the fruits, and the animals we eat have been bred and refined and genetically modified, and most are less than a few hundred years old.
You can simply answer this, is it in human's natural diet to have lots of aspartame intake each day?
No, but so what? If scientific consensus says that aspartame is perfectly safe to eat, I'll trust that. I avoid aspartame because I think it tastes like crap. That's a perfectly valid reason not to eat it.
"Because it's not natural and I don't trust those so-called scientists that say it's safe" is right up there with astrology and homeopathy.
Irrelevant, our bodies are capable of handling quite a lot.
These people who study the effects are mere scientists.
And the only people qualified to study these effects are then... what? High priests? Quacks? Astrologers?
They have no way to know how your genetically evolved body processes things at a detailed level, they can only look at it at one tiny narrow perspective.
Uh, science has mapped the biochemical pathways of a lot of substances, and science learns more each day.
To be safe its generally best to avoid unnatural food and drinks completely.
How about perfectly natural toxins, then? Should we avoid those? Or are they safe because they are "natural"?
To argue that something is natural or unnatural is a sure sign that you don't really know what you're talking about.