Aspartame side effects
March 10, 2010 by Lena
Filed under Sweeteners
Some people eat a lot of artificial sweeteners when they start a low carb diet to replace sugar. I try to avoid all artificial sweeteners as much as possible, however in the past days I have been tempted to drink some of my partner’s diet soda and chew lots of sugarfree gum. Although I am very aware of the negative side effects of aspartame, I needed the reminder I just got in an e-mail from Dr. Mercola with the subject: “America’s Deadliest Sweetener Betrays Millions…”
Aspartame is marketed under a number of different names, some of them including Equal, NutraSweet and Candarel. Due to the bad reputation of aspartame, the producer is planning to rebrand it to “AminoSweet”.
Even though Aspartame was previously listed by the Pentagon as a biochemical warfare agent it has been allowed into food because of financial pressure.
Some of the side effects aspartame can cause is headache, changes in vision, convulsions and seizures, hallucination, nausea and vomiting, joint pain, sleep problems, anxiety, depression, as well as many other problems.
It also contribute to many chronical illnesses such as AIDS, ALS, alzheimer’s, brain lesions, dementia, epilepsy, hearing loss, hormonal imbalances, hypoglycemia, memory loss, multiple sclerosis (MS), neuroendocrine disorders and parkinson’s.
Source: Aspartame: What you don’t know can hurt you
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