I just read Henry Kliebenstein’s article (“Steer clear of those artificial sweeteners” Sierra Sun page B2 Feb. 17) on artificial sweeteners and thank you for getting the word out.
Just Google Aspartame and poison and you will have a lot to write about. A year ago I thought I was going to die. I put everything in my wife’s name and I had been feeling sick for a few years. I was getting allergies I never had before and highly sensitive to formaldehyde, which is in plywood and I work around. I could smell it across the street and had to stay away from it or have allergy symptoms.
Last November I was starting to have debilitating pains in my hands. I thought I would have to stop working all together. I had poisoning symptoms so I Goggled formaldehyde to see how bad it was in the products I work around and Aspartame came up. I had been using Aspartame in my coffee and everything you would put sugar on for four years and I was floored to find out it metabolizes into formaldehyde.
I also saw stories that paralleled mine. I stopped taking this drug (Aspartame) and all the symptoms went away – thank goodness.
But I still couldn’t get away from it. I was chewing gum with it and I found out we were giving chewable vitamins to our child that also contained the poison. Do you know there are about 500 products that have this in them?
So do some reading online and get the word out please.