Some people diagnosed with lupus, MS, diabetes and other diseases have found that their symptoms have disappeared when they stopped consuming products containing the artificial sweetener aspartame.
However, avoiding aspartame may be difficult, as this sweetener can be found in approximately 6,000 products worldwide, including soft drinks, chewing gum, confections, gelatins, dessert mixes, puddings and fillings, frozen desserts, yogurt, tabletop sweeteners, pharmaceuticals and vitamin products.
Those who promote aspartame claim that it helps people achieve a more healthy diet by reducing or replacing the calories in foods and beverages while maintaining great taste. Its advocates point to the fact that simply substituting a can of diet soft drink for a regular soft drink can save 150 calories, and that substituting a packet of low-calorie tabletop sweetener for two teaspoons of sugar three times each day – in coffee and tea, and on cereal etc. – can save 100 calories a day.
But all this hype covers up a quite different reality and a very sorry tale of deliberate deception on the part of big business and government in both the US and Europe. The truth is that aspartame is an addictive, excitoneurotoxic, genetically engineered carcinogen that interacts with virtually all medications!
The story of aspartame is laid bare in the movie ‘Sweet Misery’ – the film that Pepsi and Coca Cola didn’t want us to see, but which is now available, in entirety, on the internet.
Those who decide to avoid aspartame after watching this film need to be aware that a new derivative of this sweetener has been introduced by NutraSweet. Called Neotame, the new product is already availiable in the US and has recently been approved for sale in Europe.
The makers of Neotame are promoting their product to manufacturers by pointing to such attributes as its great taste, zero calories and the fact that it’s 8,000 times sweeter than sucrose. They also draw attention to reduced handling charges, shipping and storage costs that will, they say, deliver commercial users significant savings on sweetener formulations. So Neotame is clearly going to sweeten the profits of Europe’s as well as America’s food and drink manufacturing companies, but what will it do you you and me?
Well, it may allow manufacturers to reduce the amount of high-fructose corn syrup in their products, which could be good news but, as Neotame is a modified version of aspartame, and has a very close chemical relationship to the original, this new, ‘improved’ version is likely to carry similar health risks.
Anyone wondering if there is an artificial sweetener which doesn’t carry the risks attached to aspartame and similar compounds should look at stevia, a completely natural, sweet substance that is grown in soil rather than being concocted in a laboratory.
