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January 18th 2006 at 2:22 pm in Last year, I stopped using Aspartame (link is a Google search) because of the fact that I read that it affects ones health.
To be more precise, aspartame breaks up into various compounds that are dangerous to ones body. The most important one being the following one (and this fact probably messed up the research whether smoking causes cancer or not):
The 1976 Groliers encyclopedia states cancer cannot live without phenylalanine. Aspartame contains 50% phenylalanine.
It is safe to conclude that, as fuel does with fire, using aspartame increases the chance of cancer developing.
Now, since it is over a year ago that me and the girlfriend stopped using products that contain that neurotoxin, I am in a position to note the physical and mental changes.
For instance, my natural high has gone up. It’s hard to put it to words that one, but somehow I feel better, more comfortable and more conscious. Also I noticed I can remember my dreams better when I wake up.
Some lemonade we used to drink a lot also contained the stuff, so we had to choose an alternative. And one notices that one doesn’t have this feeling to drink another one, and another one (that’s most probable the aspartame addiction that crept in).
So, is quiting aspartame worth the hassle of dropping some of your favourite products and carefully reading the ingredients before buying one? Most definitely!
But this is not the only ’suspect’ and controversial additive…
And, if you live in a region where fluoride is still added to the drinking water, you probably won’t even mind as, and I quote:
“Repeated doses of infinitesimal amounts of fluoride will in time reduce an individual`s power to resist domination, by slowly poisoning and narcotizing a certain area of the brain, thus making him submissive to the will of those who wish to govern him.
You probably didn’t know that fluoride is one of the effective ingredients in the Prozac ‘medicine’?
Then you probably also did not know the Nazi’s added fluoride to drinking water to ‘numb‘ the prisoners and eventually sterilise them?
Don’t just take my word for it — school yourself on the bad effects of fluoride.
Investigate and spread the truth!
On that note, I initially thought that fluoride was added to Netherlands’ water supplies. (See, in school we were taught that scientists discovered small amounts of fluoride in local drink water in Africa and they correlated that with the fact that the teeth of local people were in relative better condition.)
Although no actual scientific proof exists of fluoride preventing tooth-decay, fluoride was added to our drinking water for a few years.
Note that a fraction of fluoride is present in water, by nature — about 0.1 milligrammes per liter (in contrast to 1.1 milligrammes per liter which is the ‘unhealthy’ limit). Also note that those numbers are for calcium fluoride, not the by-product sodium fluoride that is mainly used, also in some tooth-pastes.
Luckily, after some years, there was a lot of criticism, the main one being that people would have no choice, and they stopped doing this in The Netherlands.
For the history of Aspartame, check out The Ecologist Aspartame Report.
For the history of Fluoride, check out The History of Fluorine, Fluoride and Fluoridation.