Aspartame

Aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA).  Many of these reactions are very serious including seizures and death as recently disclosed in a February 1994 Department of Health and Human Services report.  A few of the 90 different documented symptoms listed in the report as being caused by aspartame include:

Headaches/migraines, dizziness, seizures, nausea, numbness, muscle spasms, weight gain, rashes, depression, fatigue, irritability, tachycardia, insomnia, vision problems, hearing loss, heart palpitations, breathing difficulties, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, loss of taste, tinnitus, vertigo, memory loss, and joint pain.

According to the researchers and physicians studying the adverse effects of aspartame, the following chronic illnesses can be triggered or worsened by the ingestion of aspartame:

Brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, mental retardation, lymphoma, birth defects, fibromyalgia, and diabetes.

Aspartame is made up of three chemicals: Aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol.

ASPARTIC ACID (40%OF ASPARTAME)

Dr. Russell L. Blaylock, a professor of Neurosurgery at the Medical University of Mississippi, recently published a book thoroughly detailing the damage that is caused by the ingestion of excessive aspartic acid from aspartame.  (Ninety nine percent of monosodium glutamate (MSG) is glutamic acid.

 The damage it causes is also documented in Blaylock’s book).  Blaylock makes use of almost 500 scientific references to show how excess free excitatory amino acids such as aspartic acid and glutamic acid in our food supply are causing serious chronic neurological disorders and a myriad of other acute symptoms.

PHENYLALANINE is a hidden danger to anyone consuming aspartame.  Most consumers don’t know that too much Phenylalanine is a neurotoxin and excites the neurons in the brain to the point of cellular death.  ADD/ADHD, emotional and behavioral disorders can all be triggered by too much Phenylalanine in the daily diet.

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Aspartame...Is by far, the most dangerous substance on the market that is added to foods

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