To My Friends who eat chewing gum, diet soda/pop, and artificial sweetener (Nutrasweet): Watch this
Unfortunately, i can't embed the video player here as i can on myspace, so here is the link to the video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1871783678882092937
"Phenylketonurics: contains phenylalanine"
(Nate Helm and Greg Polard, I hope you are reading this... LOVE YOU GUYS!)
If you've ever drank a diet beverage or used other products sweetened with the artificial sweetener ASPARTAME you've undoubtedly seen those words, but what does it mean?!?!
Phenylketonurics suffer from an inherited metabolic disease known as PKU or phenylketonuria. In short, this disease makes it impossible for their bodies to process phenylalanine (a component of aspartame), which in high amounts is extremely toxic causing massive damage to the brain among other things.
Should only phenylketonurics stay away from aspartame? Is this the only concern with the sweetener? What else is aspartame comprised of? Is it true DONALD H. RUMSFELD was CEO of Searle, the creator of aspartame, at the time it was finally approved by the FDA?! Should you even be concerned when {insert your favorite show} is on?
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After 7000 miles, and 25 hours of footage, "Sweet Misery" will reveal one of the most pervasive, insidious forms of corporate negligence in the history of the industrial revolution.
The toxic long-term effects of aspartame are often dismissed as a "hoax" by the sweetener industry and at least five internet websites. The real footwork, however, unravels something less comforting than a mere "Hoax."
A close examination of the process for approving aspartame by the FDA leads to earlier examples of revolving door activity and how powerful corporations are influencing once trusted institutions.
Anthony