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The Scandal of Aspartame
Thu, 11/26/2009 - 10:38For 16 years, the FDA refused to approve aspartame. In fact, the FDA’s own toxicologist told Congress that: “Without a shadow of a doubt, aspartame can cause brain tumors and brain cancer and violated the Delaney Amendment, which forbids putting anything in food that is known to cause cancer.” — FDA Toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross
It was finally accepted (for political reasons that are too scandalous to write about here) and here are the results:
For starters, medical authorities estimate that aspartame has brought more complaints to the FDA than any other additive. Specifically, over the years, various reports have implicated aspartame in headaches, memory loss, seizures, vision loss, coma, and cancer. It also appears to worsen or mimic the symptoms of such conditions as fibromyalgia, MS, lupus, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, chronic fatigue, and depression…
In fact, aspartame is responsible for 75 percent of such complaints to that agency. And, after receiving some 10,000 consumer complaints, the FDA compiled a list of 92 symptoms linked to aspartame — including death.
WHY? Because aspartame attacks your body at the cellular level so it can negate all kinds of medications Americans take, including antidepressants, Coumadin, cardiac drugs, hormones, insulin, vaccines, and many others.
In short, it is a deadly neurotoxic drug masquerading as a harmless additive.
Comments
Re: The Scandal of Aspartame
Submitted by Shakey Mom on Thu, 2010-09-09 - 14:55
My dad was a type 2 diabetic so diet was the only way to go. He drank several liters of diet coke every day.
He died in 1992 of a heart attack, but I later found a medical journal that he kept for himself. He noted that after he became insulin dependant (started drinking diet coke) he started having spells of disorientation and confusion followed by severe headaches and fatigue.
That describes one of my partial seizures to a tee.
I don't think it is a coincidence that these spells just happen to start after he started consuming aspertame in mass quantities!! I refuse to let me kids have anything with aspertame or any kind or UN natural sweetner.
It is some bad stuff!!
My dad was a type 2 diabetic so diet was the only way to go. He drank several liters of diet coke every day.
He died in 1992 of a heart attack, but I later found a medical journal that he kept for himself. He noted that after he became insulin dependant (started drinking diet coke) he started having spells of disorientation and confusion followed by severe headaches and fatigue.
That describes one of my partial seizures to a tee.
I don't think it is a coincidence that these spells just happen to start after he started consuming aspertame in mass quantities!! I refuse to let me kids have anything with aspertame or any kind or UN natural sweetner.
It is some bad stuff!!
Re: The Scandal of Aspartame
Submitted by phylisfjohnson on Mon, 2010-09-06 - 15:10
I think a class action suit is a terrific idea, but unfortunately, it's all politcis. Phylis Feiner Johnson www.epilepsytalk.com
I think a class action suit is a terrific idea, but unfortunately, it's all politcis. Phylis Feiner Johnson www.epilepsytalk.com