You made a decision some time ago to take the easy way out when it came to control of what happens to your body and what diseases you could prevent by not taking the easy way. Maybe you didn't consciously take it, like..."I think I'll only eat junk food from now on."...but that's exactly what has happened.
How many times have you assaulted your system with unhealthy foods, additives, and chemicals? If someone were to offer you a shot of formaldehyde, would you take it?
Because you haven't done your research, that's exactly what you are doing every time you drink a diet soda, or anything for that matter that contains aspartame.
Aspartame exposed to warm temperatures (86 degrees) breaks down into formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is a nerve toxin that affects the brain, damages vision and the entire nervous system. Think about it---they embalm people with this after death! Do you really what to take in even a small amount of this substance?
Coke and Pepsi were both banned in India last year due to the high levels of aspartame, chemicals, and other pesticides. New Mexico, at the beginning of this year, also had proposed legislation on the table to ban these products or at least put a warning label on them.
A report in February 2006 by the Ramazzini Foundation in Italy showed that (reprinted):
a) a significant dose-related increase of malignant tumor-bearing animals in males, in particular in the group treated at 2000 ppm;
b) a significant increase of the incidence in lymphomas/leukemias in males treated at 2000 ppm and a significant dose-related increase of the incidence of lymphomas/leukemias in females, in particular in the group treated at 2000 ppm;
c) a significant dose-related increase of the incidence of mammary cancer in females, in particular in the group treated at 2000 ppm.
Conclusions. The results of this carcinogenicity bioassay not only confirm, but also reinforce the first experimental demonstration of [aspartame's] multipotential carcinogenicity at a dose level close to the acceptable daily intake (ADI) for humans. Furthermore, the study demonstrates that when lifespan exposure to [aspartame] begins during fetal life, its carcinogenic effects are increased.
A lengthy New York Times article reports the controversy that was created by the results of this study. Apparently, an increase in cancer in mice is okay to remove some products but not ones that were backed by high-visibility people and companies such as Donald Rumsfeld and Searle (the manufacturer of aspartame). Mr. Rumsfeld was the head of Searle at the time.
It should also be noted that when aspartame is broken down in the digesting process, a by-poduct called DKP forms. When your stomach processes the DKP, it produces a compound similar to N-nitrosourea, a chemical known to cause brain tumors.
So here you have an artificial sweetener that is made up of chemicals that play a major part in our digestive systems to produce brain tumors, breast cancer, lymphomas, leukemias, and a host of other ailments.
Dr. Samuel Epstein, MD stated that:
"More than a dozen animal tests over the last thirty years have demonstrated the carcinogenic effects of saccharin in the bladder and other sites, particularly female reproductive organs, and in some instances at doses as low as the equivalent of one to two bottles of diet pop daily."
The FDA's own audit, called The Bressler Report, concluded that aspartame triggered brain tumors, ovarian tumors, breast tumors, uterine tumors, pancreatic tumors, etc. So what did the FDA do? They audited the audit!
Since the FDA approved aspartame as safe, we now have more than 5000 products that contain this artificial sweetener/chemical. One of the name brands that you often see in numerous products is NutraSweet.
Start reading labels when you go grocery shopping and stop buying products that can cumulatively do this much damage.
If this report doesn't give you pause to stop and think about what you are consuming and how it's going to affect you, then continue to take the easy way out and blame someone else for your ailments.
When the unexpected diagnosis is given, you will still have to look at yourself in the mirror and know ultimately, that you were the one who didn't take the time to educate yourself. Instead you listened to all the hype and media coverage--which is just that--hype and media coverage.
Jackie Martin writes from a perspective of her own self-education after three siblings (in the last five years), her mother and several other extended family members were diagnosed with cancer. Her blog: WhenCancerHitsHome deals with the personal side of each siblings diagnosis as well as her self-education resources and findings.
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