Sunday, October 10, 2010

Aspartame is EVIL

For years I've avoided Aspartame. It's in all sorts of diet foods and soda.  I've said it for years, avoid it.

If something is not natural, we shouldn't be putting it into our body. When I say "natural" I define it as something directly from nature, unadulterated. Anything we put into our bodies that isn't natural, our body has to work extra hard to process it, if it can process it at all.

When trying to be healthy to lose weight, the least distractions you give your body the better.  I'm an advocate to keeping your diet simple and eating real foods.

Some disturbing info about aspartame I got from this article. This information also matches what I read back  when I was working on my Holistic Nutrition degree in: "Excitotoxins:The Taste That Kills.


It's a nasty substance, please avoid it for your own health.
  • According to the Department of Health and Human Services, aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the FDA.
  • The maker of aspartame, Monsanto, uses genetically engineered bacteria to produce the “sweetener.”
  • linked to blindness
  • migraine headaches
  • dizziness
  • seizures
  • nausea
  • numbness 
  • muscle spasms
  • weight gain
  • rashes
  • depression
  • fatigue
  • irritability
  • tachycardia
  • insomnia
  • vision problems
  • hearing loss
  • heart palpitations
  • breathing difficulties
  • anxiety attacks
  • slurred speech 
  • loss of taste
  • vertigo
  • memory loss
  • joint pain. 
The following chronic illnesses are triggered or worsened by ingesting aspartame: 
  • brain tumors
  • multiple sclerosis
  • epilepsy
  • chronic fatigue syndrome
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Alzheimer’s
  • mental retardation
  • lymphoma
  • birth defects
  • fibromyalgia
  • diabetes.

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