Mmm. Poison. Stop ingesting this crap NOW. Anyone who thinks they are doing their bodies a favour by substituting Aspartame for sugar is foolish.
Aspartame breaks down into poisonous constituents, the most being methyl alcohol. Yes, wood alcohol. Go to the drug or hardware store and read the warning label on a jug of wood alcohol. Yes, blindness. Read on.
Personally, I have seen the effects of persons ingesting too much Aspartame, particularly in the form of diet soft-drinks. Having researched Aspartame in my spare time, I can see one particular case of Aspartame poisoning (no, that word is NOT too harsh) in hindsight.
My Grade 13 Calculus teacher was a self-professed Diet-Coke-aholic. I dropped by his house once to help him out with his computer, and confirmed his self-confession by the cases and cases of it in his fridge. He often had one or two during class, especially in the summer.
He seemed fine in the colder months of the year since, as I suspect, he was drinking less fluids.
When, in the final months of the school year, when summer came about, he started having these terrible lapses while lecturing. He would start copying down an equation to the board, and then completely lose his train of thought and not be able to finish it. Relatively simple textbook homework questions would sometimes baffle him.
Many times he had to dismiss us, he had become either so flustered and frustrated, or just disoriented. My first thought was that it was the heat, and his slightly overweight condition. The classrooms, however, were air-conditioned.
Something else, he constantly complained about having to update his glasses prescription. Most likely, he was drinking more diet colas in the summer months, and hence, the symptoms manifested much more severely.
Go and look up some of the confirmed and most notorious effects of Aspartame. What are they?
Memory loss and vision impairment. The cases of Alzheimer’s have increased since the approval and mass usage of Aspartame as a sweetener in the late 70s. Aspartame does NOT cause Alzheimer’s syndrome, but is sure as hell produces some similar symptoms.
My own mother, for heaven’s sake, was big into those “Free and Clear” fruity sparkling drinks in a big way until I faxed her some papers on the subject of their magic ingredient. NOW she can actually remember my phone number. NOW she no longer complains about eyestrain and blurred vision. She doesn’t forget where she put things minutes ago.
In other words, take heart. Her symptoms seemed to turn around when she got off the Aspartame / NutraSweet products. The effects may not be permanent.
ASPARTAME IS NOT A DIET PRODUCT. It was not discovered out of efforts to produce alternative sweeteners. Some chemist just HAPPENED to taste this stuff one day, and got excited $$$ when he noticed how damned sweet it was.
If you’re already smart enough to be here, in this discussion forum, you’re smart enough to go off and research this poison for yourself. Please do it, and tell all your friends.
ASPARTAME IS POISON. (And no, I am not at all into any conspiracy theories)