I listened to an interview between Dr Joseph Mercola, M.D., of
Mercola.com and Victoria Inness-Brown. Victoria self-funded a 2-1/2 year study on Aspartame, more commmonly known as Nutrasweet, to verify findings found in clinical trials.
Victoria found that rats did indeed, develop tumors, at a rate of 67%. In other words, 2 out of every 3 rats developed tumors, some larger than golf ball size, by consuming aspartame. Victoria attempted to make the rats diet with aspartame equivelant to what the average human would consume, on a day to day basis. She found on the FDA's website, that women who consume aspartame develop tumors three times more frequently than males do. Which indicates aspartame may have some type of estrogen activity.
In todays food supply in many countries, especially the U.S.A., finding packaged foods without aspartame can be challenging, to say the least. If you would like to listen to that interview you can
click this link. The interview is a little over an hour long.
You may not be aware of this, as most people simply have no idea; but the FDA is paid by the drug companies to appove each drug. And get this..... the FDA, as required by U.S. law, is paid to APPROVE each drug, not test it. Which can give very little incentive to actually pay much attention to whether or not the drug is even remotely safe. I haven't seen a drug yet which fits into any kind of 'safe' category. All drugs have adverse side effects. Same for genetically modified food products.
The FDA apparently has done zero testing on anything genetically modified that's in the food supply. And Monsanto right now, is working on having human DNA put into rice. Makes one feel all warm and fuzzy all over, doesn't it, knowing that you may never again find anything in foods, in its natural state; and in the meantime, wondering just what Monsanto has put into the human DNA they are putting into this food? I have zero respect for Monsanto, and do everything possible to avoid anything they have their hands in. Because anthing they have their hands in, is detrimental to your health.
Monsanto is a chemical company. Not a health company. They have no business putting anything into the food supply. After all, how would you like it if I paid off the top members of the FDA, and decided I wanted to put coal tar into your Cream Of Wheat cereal, or rat genes into your infant formula? Monsanto is doing just that, although not necessarily in those particular foods, although it may well be in those foods. But you can bet, if they can find a way to hurt it, they will. Kinda makes one believe they too, are paid off by the drug companies and or/and Congressional members. Genetic foods are supposedly manufactured to help prevent starvation, and yet all world evidence shows they do nothing at all to help the food supply in quantity nor quality. It is simply a ruse.
Monsanto is largely responsible for the FDA raiding with armed agents, natural food co-ops in the U.S.A., and destroying the good foods provided. You see, those co-ops are just too much competition for Monsanto. People buy good foods from co-ops, and Monsanto loses lots of money. Vote with your dollars. Wisely. Avoid Monsanto like the plague it is. Monsanto, and this is my opinion, is far worse than the black plague, AIDS, cancer, and diabetes combined. It is my opinion, because I've done the research. Monsanto is insanely corrupt.
Your best bet to avoid any artificial sweeteners is to do your own cooking. Buy no packaged products without reading the labels, and understanding what those labels are telling you. Unfortunately, it appears either the FDA or Congress, or both, has deemed it unlawful to allow the labeling of genetically modified foods in the U.S.A. The FDA should have no capacity at all to dictate how we eat. Nor should any part of the U.S. dictatorship.
My book I recently published, on causing type ll diabetes to go away, gives in some detail, ways to eat so the body will appreciate you, and show you the appreciation. It's not rocket science, but much of the human race in civilized countries has forgotten that healthy foods are necessary for their health.
