THE TRUTH ABOUT ASPARTAME!

Millions of people around the world use Aspartame without realizing the amount of poison they are ingesting into their bodies. Aspartame is the Technical name for the brand names NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful and Equal- Measure. It is also found in thousands of products (especially those that are designed for the health conscious individual!) including Diet soft drinks, sugar free chewing gum, breath mints, instant breakfast, cocoa mixes, cereals, and almost every coffee shop that you step into, and (note this!): Multivitamins plus pharmaceuticals and other over the counter supplements and drugs!  The list is huge! The horrible thing about it is that they place it these products with the view that if you want to take care of your health and take care of your weight this is the product you should use! And consumers are falling for it every day! Make sure that you are not one of them. [Make sure   that you stay away from those diet drinks!!]

According to physicians and other researchers who are studying the negative effects of Aspartame, these are the chronic diseases which can be either triggered or worsened by ingesting Aspartame: Brain tumors (including brain cancer), multiple sclerosis (MS), epilepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, parkinson's disease, alzheimer's, mental retardation, lymphoma, birth defects, fibromyalgia, and diabetes (the very disease that it is supposedly targeted to assist!).

Aspartame is made up of three chemicals: aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol. The book "Prescription for Nutritional Healing," by James and Phyllis Balch, lists aspartame under the category of "chemical poison." (http://aspartame.mercola.com)

Why have we not heard much more about this?

This is mainly because there is a lack of awareness of the general population and also because a lot of persons do not associate their symptoms with the long term use of aspartame. There are many persons who have killed a significant portion of their brain cells and have thus brought on some form of chronic illness on themselves, but there is no way that they would have associated this illness with the use of aspartame without any knowledge of its harmful effects.

Why was it approved for use?

The approval of aspartame by the FDA is a very tainted process, which included falsified documents and botched tests and which ended up with the Commissioner of the FDA being hired by the public relations firm for the manufacturer of the product (G.D. Searle) after he granted the approval! After his departure, four other FDA officials who were also connected with the approval of aspartame, likewise left the organization for lucrative positions connected with the NutraSweet industry between 1979 and 1982.

Aspartame was approved for use in dry goods in 1981 and for carbonated beverages in 1983 by the FDA. The FDA further went on to approve it for use in malt beverages breakfast cereals and refrigerated puddings and fillings in 1992. Then in 1993 they approved it for use in soft candies, non-alcoholic flavoured beverages, tea beverages, fruit juices, concentrates, baked goods and baking mixes, frostings, toppings and fillings for baked goods. It can therefore be in just about anything you purchase so check labels carefully for it. You might see it referred to by one of its scientific names mentioned above such as ‘Aspartic Acid’.

What I find to be even more interesting is that in 1991 the FDA banned the importation of Stevia. This is a natural product (powder derived from the leaf of a plant) that has been in use for hundreds of years in countries such as Japan as an alternative sweetener, with no adverse side effects, yet it was banned! This is despite the facts that Scientists involved in reviewing Stevia had declared it to be safe for human consumption (something that was already widely known in many regions around the world, where it has not been banned).  Some people are of the belief that Stevia was banned to keep the product from taking hold in the USA and cutting into sales of aspartame…what do you believe? Anyhow, they could not do it forever, so Stevia is now very available in almost any health food store that I have gone to in Canada.

You have now been armed with the truth, what you do with it is totally up to you, but if I were you I would clear out my cupboards of any of these substances if they are currently there and I would be picking up a pack of Stevia on my next visit to the health food store!

Be Blessed and Stay Healthy!
sharbs

Sources:

Read more about this at the following address if you have the time:

http://www.mercola.com/article/aspartame/hidden_dangers.htm

http://www.healthy-holistic-living.com/aspartame-poison.html

http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-information.html