Mt Whitney Zone Forums General Discussion Other recent SAR help neurologically impaired hikers

Hi Yury,

I do not drink soda pop, but your point is very valid. You need calories when doing a big hike. I was using cough drops to wet my mouth at high altitude/exertion. Started getting cavities from sugar ones, switched to sugarless ones (which ended up being Aspartame) that is when problem started. BTW CVS sugar-free do not use Aspartame and I do use them for same reason now.

I tend to eat nuts and dried fruit when hiking and filter water.

As mentioned in prior post the bottom line for me is this:

Out of the thousands of ingredients in food, the FDA admits just one (Aspartame) causes 75% of all FDA complaints and 100% of health studies with a conflict on interest on Aspartame say its safe and 92% of studies without a conflict of interest say it causes health problems. Until this thread started I did not know either of those two facts, so this has been very educational for me, and I hope others.


Cheers