Bitter Sweet Aspartame A Diet Delusion
Bitter Sweet Aspartame: A Diet Delusion
I have always been a health and weight conscious individual. Because my thyroid does not work, I am automatically prone to weight gain. At the office, I have found my click amongst those sitting around the lunch table with their salads and and diet sodas, rather than leaving the office for a burger and fries. Inspite of my efforts to eat healthy diet and exercise every day, a couple of years ago I began to experience migranes, dizziness, and symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome. Of course I visited several internists and finally received a diagnosis of “Nutra Sweet poisoning” I laid down my diet Pepsi for tea and water, and the ...
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The average diet pop drinker doesn’t realize how much of this chemical he or she is consuming on a daily basis, or the possible effects aspartame toxicity could have on the body.
What is it? In 1879, while developing new food preservatives, a young Johns Hopkins chemistry research assistant accidentally discovered that one of the organic compounds he was testing was intensely sweet. Saccharin he called it, after sakcharon, the Greek word for sugar. He further learned that it passed through the body unchanged and was thus a safe artificial sweetener for diabetics. Food processors, noting that it was 500 to 700 times sweeter than sugar, were able to cut costs by using it. Even Theodore Roosevelt, a diabetic, championed saccharin early on. When, in 1907, the chief of the USDA's Bureau of Chemistry fretted about the safety of saccharin and wanted it banned from canned foods, Roosevelt was bombastic. "My doctor gives it to me every day. Anybody who says saccharin ...
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Already Britain has banned saccharin (except as an at-table sugar substitute) and France permits its use only by prescription. In the United States, saccharin was deleted from the FDA's generally recognized as safe list in 1972. Since 1977, hazardous-to-your-health warnings not only have had to be posted on every item containing saccharin but must also point out that saccharin "has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals" (specifically bladder cancers). Those believed to be at greatest risk in general are young children, pregnant women, white men who are heavy smokers and nonwhite women. As for the current legal status of saccharin, it is classified by the FDA as a ...
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