Aspartame was discovered in 1965 and is also known as NutraSweet and Equal. Equal is more easily recognized as the ‘little blue packets’ found on nearly every restaurant table in the U.S. Aspartame is sold around the world, found in thousands of products and consumed by millions of people.
Aspartame has 3 components: phenylalanine (50%), aspartic acid (40%), and methanol (aka wood alcohol)(10%). Why would you want to drink “wood alcohol”? It can be very poisonous to the body!
Under warm temperature conditions, even while the product is on the shelf, methanol can spontaneously break down to formaldehyde! According to the EPA, formaldehyde can cause cancer in laboratory animals and likely causes cancer in humans.
Aspartame is found in most ‘diet sodas’ and ‘chewing gum’, as well as many other food products. Don’t delay – start now and avoid aspartame where ever you find it!
READ YOUR FOOD LABELS !!
There have been more reports to the FDA for aspartame reactions than almost all other food additives combined. The product never should have been approved by the FDA. (It was a political power play)
It is very important that people who have any interest in their health to NOT use the highly toxic sweetener aspartame and other questionable chemical sweeteners such as Splenda (yellow packets containing sucralose), and Sweet’N Low (pink packets with a mixture of saccharin and dextrose).
Aspartame can be found in thousands of products. Listed below are just a few items commonly purchased and consumed:
* instant breakfasts
* juice beverages
* milk drinks
* yogurts
* soft drinks
* wine coolers
* tea beverages
* gelatin desserts
* breath mints
* cereals
* sugar-free chewing gum
* cocoa mixes
* frozen desserts
Big business will tell you that they’re “sugar-free” and an alternative to ‘sugar’. What they don’t tell you is that “artificial sweeteners such as aspartame and other sugar substitutes are tragically NOT HEALTHY or
SAFE !! BIG business does not care about your health! It is all about ‘company greed’ and profits!
Here is another posting about aspartame: aspartame-aminosweet-danger
Aspartame Side Effects
Several health disorders resulting from aspartame are listed below. Some of the conditions can occur immediately with acute reactions or with some people, problems will develop over time.
* Headaches (including migraines)
* Seizures
* Vision problems
* Hives or Rash
* Heart problems
* Insomnia
* Birth defects
* Cancer
* Diabetes
* Mood Disorders
If you have any of the above symptoms or other health problems that you can not seem to overcome, then I strongly recommend that you give up all artificial sweeteners (for at least 30 days) and see if your health improves.
At this point, you would probably ask if the U.S. Congress is doing anything to protect the U.S. consumer from the dangers of aspartame and the answer is a definite “NO”. So it is up to the general consumer to educate him/herself and boycott these substitute sugars that are a danger to everyone’s health!
Stevia is an alternative to artificial sugars. See stevia sweetener
If you have any doubt about artificial sugars, educate yourself and learn more about the ‘deception of sugar substitutes’, order Dr. Joseph Mercola’s book at Amazon – Sweet Deception:
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Thank you! I have stayed away from aspartame my whole life because I have Phenylketonuria. Recently I have tried to help others understand the dangers of aspartame, but some just won’t listen to me no matter what facts I give them, and say I use “scare tactics.” I’ll never understand why some people think their diet soda or sugarless gum is more valuable than their own health. I’ll never understand why the hearts of some people are so hard, that they refuse to listen to reason and instead villify the messenger.
I use SweetLeaf Sweetener stevia! It’s good!