Another fine mutation made by Monsanto.  Become aware of the hidden ingredients in packaged foods or better yet, avoid them at all costs (stay out of the middle aisles)!

Guns don’t Kill people and pencils don’t write mistakes, get educated folks!  Labels do not always tell the truth anymore and the law does not enforce correct labeling!

Aspartame Dangers The dangers of aspartame poisoning have been a well-guarded secret since the 1980s. The research and history of aspartame is conclusive as a cause of illness and toxic reactions in the human body. Aspartame is a dangerous chemical food additive, and its use during pregnancy and by children is one of the greatest modern tragedies of all.

Why haven’t you heard about this before? Partly because the diet industry is worth trillions of American dollars to corporations, and they want to protect their profits by keeping the truth behind aspartame’s dangers hidden from the public. When NutraSweet® was introduced for the ‘second’ time in 1981, a diet craze revolutionized America’s eating protocols and a well-oiled money machine was set into motion changing modern lifestyles. After more than twenty years of aspartame use, the number of its victims is rapidly piling up, and people are figuring out for themselves that aspartame is at the root of their health problems. Patients are teaching their doctors about this nutritional peril, and they are healing themselves with little to no support from traditional medicine.

Symptoms

It has also been suggested that Aspartame may trigger or mimic the following conditions:

• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Epstein-Barr Syndrome
• Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
• Hypothyroidism
• Post-Polio Syndrome
• Alzheimer’s Disease
• Fibromyalgia
• Lyme Disease
• Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
• Meniere’s Disease
• Grave’s Disease
• Mercury sensitivity from amalgam fillings
• Epilepsy
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) (Lou Gehrig’s Disease)
• Systemic Lupus
• Erythematosis (SLE)

Adverse reactions and side effects of aspartame include:

Eye

• blindness in one or both eyes
• decreased vision and/or other eye problems such as: blurring, bright flashes, squiggly lines, tunnel vision, decreased night vision
• pain in one or both eyes
• decreased tears
• trouble with contact lenses
• bulging eyes

Ear

• tinnitus – ringing or buzzing sound
• severe intolerance of noise
• marked hearing impairment

Neurologic

• epileptic seizures
• headaches, migraines and (some severe)
• dizziness, unsteadiness, both
• confusion, memory loss, both
• severe drowsiness and sleepiness
• paresthesia or numbness of the limbs
• severe slurring of speech
• severe hyperactivity and restless legs
• atypical facial pain
• severe tremors

Psychological/Psychiatric

• severe depression
• irritability
• aggression
• anxiety
• personality changes
• insomnia
• phobias

Chest

• palpitations, tachycardia
• shortness of breath
• recent high blood pressure

Gastrointestinal

• nausea
• diarrhea, sometimes with blood in stools
• abdominal pain
• pain when swallowing

Skin and Allergies

• itching without a rash
• lip and mouth reactions
• hives
• aggravated respiratory allergies such as asthma

Endocrine and Metabolic

• loss of control of diabetes
• menstrual changes
• marked thinning or loss of hair
• marked weight loss
• gradual weight gain
• aggravated low blood sugar (hypoglycemia)
• severe PMS

Other

• frequency of voiding and burning during urination
• excessive thirst, fluid retention, leg swelling, and bloating
• increased susceptibility to infection
• spasms

Additional Symptoms of Aspartame Toxicity include the most critical symptoms of all

• death
• irreversible brain damage
• birth defects, including mental retardation
• peptic ulcers
• aspartame addiction and increased craving for sweets
• hyperactivity in children
• severe depression
• aggressive behavior
• suicidal tendencies

These are not allergies or sensitivities, but diseases and disease syndromes. Aspartame poisoning is commonly misdiagnosed because aspartame symptoms mock textbook ‘disease’ symptoms, such as Grave’s Disease.

Aspartame changes the ratio of amino acids in the blood, blocking or lowering the levels of serotonin, tyrosine, dopamine, norepinephrine, and adrenaline. Therefore, it is typical that aspartame symptoms cannot be detected in lab tests and on x-rays. Textbook disorders and diseases may actually be a toxic load as a result of aspartame poisoning.

Ever gone to the doctor with real, physical symptoms, but he/she can’t find the cause? Well, it’s probably your diet, your environment, or both.

Aspartame is the common denominator for over 92 different health symptoms at the root of modern disease.

Aspartame Products

Aspartame is a sugar substitute widely used in sugar-free drinks, candies and desserts and in tabletop sweeteners. It is made of two amino acids – aspartic acid and phenylalanine – and breaks down into these two components and methanol upon digestion.

Aspartame has been controversial since its approval as a food additive by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1981. The FDA maintains that aspartame is one of the most thoroughly studied food additives the agency has ever approved and is safe. However, some consumers have reported symptoms ranging from headaches to gastrointestinal problems from aspartame.

Aspartame is marketed under the names Equal® and Nutrasweet®. Some children’s sugar-free snacks and beverages may contain aspartame. It is now estimated that over 6,000 food and drink products worldwide containing this popular artificial sweetener.

Aspartame’s components separate when heated over time, resulting in a loss of sweetness. If a food containing aspartame were inadvertently heated, it would still be safe, but would simply not provide the desired sweetness. Aspartame is a very popular and permitted non-nutritive sweetener used in some carbonated diet soft drinks and other beverages.

You might be surprised to learn about some of the foods you consume that contain aspartame. Besides the obvious products like diet sodas, there are many brands of chewing gum that contain aspartame. Most non-fat diet foods contain an amount of aspartame and the same goes for most sugar-free candy.

 

READ YOUR LABELS FOLKS!

Following is a general list of products that usually contain aspartame. Specific brand names are left out. Again, you just might be surprised, many are under “inactive ingredients”:

• Alka Seltzer
• Breath Mints
• Candy
• Carbonated Soft Drinks
• Cereals
• Chewing Gum
• Children’s Tylenol
• Children’s Vitamins
• Cocoa Mix
• Flavored Syrups for Coffee
• Flavored Water Products
• Frozen Ice
• Frozen Desserts
• Frozen Ice Cream Novelties
• Fruit Spreads
• Gelatin, Sugar Free
• Hard Candies
• Herb Supplements
• Ice cream Toppings
• Ice Creams, No Sugar Added or Sugar Free
• Iced Tea, Powder
• Iced Tea, Ready to Drink
• Instant Breakfasts
• Instant Coffee
• Jams & Jellies
• Juice Blends
• Juice Drinks
• Laxatives
• Maple Syrups
• Meal Replacements
• Medications
• Metamucil
• Milk Drinks
• Mousse
• No Sugar Added Pies
• Non-Carbonated Diet Soft drinks
• Nutritional Bars
• Over the Counter drugs
• Powdered Soft Drinks
• Prescription Drugs
• Protein Nutritional Drinks
• Pudding
• Shake Mixes
• Soft Candy Chews
• Sugar Free Chocolate Syrup
• Sugar Free Cookies
• Sugar Free Ketchup
• Table Top Sweeteners
• Toothpaste
• Topping Mixes
• Vegetable Drinks
• Wine Coolers
• Yogurt, Drinkable
• Yogurt, Fat Free
• Yogurt, Sugar Free

Components

More Death Please!

Aspartame is marketed as NutraSweet, Equal Spoonful, Benevia, NatraTaste and since the patent on it has now expired it likely will come on the market under many different names.

Aspartame is made of 3 components, 50% phenylalanine, 40% aspartic acid and 10% methanol (wood alcohol). In the body methanol breaks down into formaldehyde (embalming fluid) and formic acid

NutraSweet (Aspartame) is composed of linkages of aspartic acid, phenylalanine and methanol. The aspartic acid acts as a neuroexcitatory agent. When NutraSweet is digested, it yields 10% methanol (wood alcohol). The wood alcohol (methanol) is widely distributed throughout the body including brain, muscle, fat and nervous tissue. It is then metabolized to FORMALDEHYDE which enters the cells and binds to the proteins and DNA (the genetic material).

Cytogenetic effects (changes in DNA) have been shown to result from FORMALDEHYDE exposure and DNA damage occurs from FORMALDEHYDE. The nature of the injury generally involves breaking and then creation of cross linking within the genetic material which alters the cells.

CSPI Warns of Aspartame – But Advocates Sucralose/Splenda May 28, 2007

Sweet Poison

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has warned that aspartame, the artificial sugar substitute in most diet drinks, may cause cancer as reported in a three-year Italian study that found links tolymphomas and leukemias . But the CSPI communication goes on to advocate use of another doubtful sweetener – sucralose – to get off aspartame. Sucralose, also sold under the Splenda brand name, has its own problems of toxicity and is by no means an innocuous replacement for aspartame.

Although the CSPI has – with a delay of several years – come out now with a warning against the use of aspartame, Betty Martini charges that its executive director, Michael Jacobson, should have had the courage to do so long ago. She says the information was available since the time of the aspartame approval through political pressure called in by Donald Rumsfeld, former CEO of aspartame manufacturer Searle and now defense secretary.

Diet soda, which generally is sweetened with aspartame, has been shown to be linked to an increased incidence of obesity by Sharon P. Fowler, MPH, and colleagues at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio in a recent study. While Fowler is quick to point out that the link does not prove causation, the facts showed that the more diet drinks a person consumed, the higher was the likelihood of being obese.

Why can’t we encourage people to just overcome their sweet tooth?

Child Obesity on the Rise

Perhaps it would help, but of course there is no money in that. We have the sugar industry, the chemical sweetener manufacturers and the processed foods and drinks industry making sure that does not happen.But people do pay the bill – some with their lives, others with suffering and illness, others simply with obesity, and all of them with their weekly grocery bills, not to talk about hospital costs that hit every one of us. Great system and real great advice by CSPI, which says it is defending consumers…”

Aspartame, MSG, GMOs, Flouride oh my!!!

Not only are we death ridden with Aspartame but other faulty products have made their way into our food supply like MSG and GMOS…Get hip to the knowledge! _______________________________________________________

Sweeteners to Avoid

• Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal, Canderel)
• Neotame
• Sucralose (Splenda, Altern)
• Acesulfame-K (Sunette, Sweet & Safe, Sweet One)
• Cyclamates
• Saccharin
• Refined Sugar
• High Fructose Sweeteners

They want the minds of parents too!

A Place to Learn or a Place to Dumb Down?

What are your children being fed?

Our schools are loaded with junk foods and aspartame filled sodas and

when parents hear their child has ADD or are hyperactive they are then shuffled off to the special learning room or put on more drugs.  Has the world gone insane?  Or perhaps everyone’s health is degrading because of lack of knowledge.

Say it ain't so?!!!

Children are more susceptible to damage than adults.  Hardcore chemical drugs like aspartame and children’s food and drinks should never be in the same sentence!

Find out the links with sudden deaths of very small children and even school athletes here:

http://www.wnho.net/toxicwater.htm

Snorting Aspartame: http://www.rense.com/general71/snort.htm

Baby Formula???  No, say it ain’t so!!!

Unfortunately, yes there are huge dangers lurking in baby formula!

Baby Formula Contains Neurotoxins!

by Grace Marcinkoski

Reading an article in Alive Magazine, lead me on to do some research on infant formula. The results of this research are scary! I fed formula to 2 of my children naively thinking it was healthy and totally safe.
Alive Magazine (#195) did an article on the connection between glutamate-heavy foods and Alzheimers disease. It is thought that the role of a family’s eating pattern can be as important as a family’s genes in the occurence of this disease. The consumption of glutamate may also be a factor in other neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s, MS, fibromyalgia, and Huntington’s.
This article interested me as my mother-in-law has Alzheimer’s, and her mother also had it. Thinking about what the hospital is feeding her and other Alzheimer’s patients, I checked out the label on Boost, and realized that it contained glutamate! Boost is one of the drinks marketed to adults who are not eating balanced meals**. It occured to me that the ingredients in Boost seemed to be the same as baby formula, and I realized that formula would also contain glutamate! Knowing that this damages the brain, infants should not be exposed to it!
In laboratory experiments, MSG has been found to cause brain lesions, vomiting, stunted growth, endocrine disorders, and more. Some effects such as learning disabilities and obesity do not show up until later in life.
For years, consumers have complained that MSG causes migraine headaches, asthma, rapid heartbeat, seizures, depression, and other side effects.
MSG was supposed to be removed from baby food (unfortunately manufacturers have managed to sneak it back into some baby foods under other names) so it definitely should not be in formula since that is fed to infants younger than those who eat solid baby food!
Checking cans of infant formula, I found MANY ingredients on the label lists that indicated that free glutamic acid (msg-containing substances) were present: carrageenan, maltodextrin, soy protein isolate, whey protein concentrate, whey hydrolysate, milk protein isolate, skim milk powder, corn syrup solids, whey powder, citric acid, hydrolyzed casein, casein hydrolysate, corn starch, modified cornstarch, modified tapioca starch,
Some formulas also contain L-cystine, which is also an excitotoxin*** like MSG and Aspartame.

I was shocked to see these ingredients in baby formula. I was even more shocked that it appears that NO studies exist about MSG/glutamates in formula!! The No MSG Organization says that there is NO “safe” level of glutamate! Since babies have a continuous intake of formula throughout the day, they are getting a continuous onslaught of glutamate, which will increase the effect on the brain.
Hypoallergenic formulas are hydrolyzed, so they have an extremely high level of free glutamic acid (glutamate). Yet there has been no long-term research on children fed this formula to see if they have a higher incidence of learning disabilities, behavior problems, endocrine problems, and fertility problems.

I decided to send several brands of baby formula to a scientific lab for testing, to get professional, unbiased results. The testing was done by the University of Alberta. The test results were forwarded to the No MSG organization, who were very interested and posted a report on their web site.

Because of the Alive article, I also checked out some of our family’s other favorite foods. Since some of our family members have a milk allergy, Rice Dream was a favorite beverage. With some time and persistence, I was able to gather enough information from the manufacturer to learn that it does contain glutamic acid! We were disappointed that veggie weiners also had to be eliminated! The consumer liason people at the food companies are not knowledgeable of the composition of the ingredients on the label. (I’m assuming that their lack of truthfulness is not deliberate and is merely because of ignorance.) They will reassure you that their product does not contain glutamate, but when you ask them specific questions (for example, if any of the ingredients are hydrolyzed), you find out that there is indeed glutamate in the product. (For example, glutamate is a by-product of hydrolyzing any protein!)
And unfortunately the sales people in natural food stores may have been told by their suppliers that their products do not contain “synthetic” MSG, only “natural” MSG, or they may not be aware of the many alternative names for MSG. Many health food stores sell “Spike” seasoning which contains “hydrolyzed protein” and “yeast”. If you wish to avoid MSG you will need to learn to read labels for yourself!

**there are also meal-replacement drinks with similar ingredients, marketed to people trying to lose weight.
***Excitotoxins: Amino acids such as cysteine, aspartate, and glutamate which, when applied to neurons will cause them to become overstimulated and die. Other names for these three amino acids include L-cystine (cysteine which has broken down), Aspartame, NutraSweet, Equal, and MSG. Note that MSG has dozens of aliases which are perfectly legal for food manufacturers to use on labels. When you consume something that says “natural flavors” you may not realize that is a term for MSG (glutamate)!
for more information, visit:
www.nomsg.com
www.msgmyth.com
www.holisticmed.com
For in depth information, purchase the book “Excitotoxins”. You may find answers to some of your health problems such as migraine headaches!

Related article: Infant Formula – The Canadian Study

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Selling the 'Cool'

Think You’re Off the Hook Yet?Think again!  Media will constantly have their relentless input into your eyes and

Lady Gaga -Ignorant Bliss

ears!  They are trying constantly to sell you the ‘cool’, wake up! Your mind is their cash cow.  Be extremely careful what you lend your ears and eyes to, either the seeds of good will be planted or evil…You are the only one that can water those seeds and allow them to have a stronghold in your life.  Read more about your ears and eyes and how to protect them here:  EARS & EYES

Selling the "Cool"

More info at:

http://mlovelife.com/wp/fda-approved

SplendaExposed

sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects.html

healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/aspartame.htm

aspartame.worldwidewarning.net/www/archives/39

hilary.com/features/msg.html

dorway.com

aspartamekills.com

infowars.com