We all know that drinking soda in’t good for you. It’s full of sugar, caffeine, and artificial whatevers. The average 12 ounce can of soda has about 100 calories in it. Drink 5 or 6 a day and you might as well have gone to McDonald’s for lunch. So in an effort to make soda “better” for us, companies came out with diet soda – replacing that evil sugar with aspartame. Although aspartame has been billed as “safe” by our government, I believe it to be far from true.

Dr. Janet Hull, author of Sweet Poison, says “The dangers of aspartame poisoning have been a well guarded secret since the 1980s. The research and history of aspartame is conclusive as a cause of illness and toxic reactions in the human body. Aspartame is a dangerous chemical food additive, and its use during pregnancy and by children is one of the greatest modern tragedies of all.

Why haven’t you heard about aspartame poisoning before? Partly because the diet industry is worth trillions of American dollars to corporations, and they want to protect their profits by keeping the truth behind aspartame’s dangers hidden from the public. When NutraSweet® was introduced for the ’second’ time in 1981, a diet craze revolutionized America’s eating protocols and a well-oiled money machine was set into motion changing modern lifestyles.

After more than twenty years of aspartame use, the number of its victims is rapidly piling up, and people are figuring out for themselves that aspartame is at the root of their health problems. Patients are teaching their doctors about this nutritional peril, and they are healing themselves with little to no support from traditional medicine.”

Read more about the side effects of aspartame.

Further, Hull points out the following nutrition fact about Phenylalanine in aspartame:

“The 1976 Groliers encyclopedia states cancer cannot live without phenylalanine. Aspartame contains 50% phenylalanine.

“Phenylalanine is one of the essential amino acids found in proteins, but I am one of the believers that amino acids should be eaten in combination, not in isolated form. Nature provides amino acids in combination; only man isolates them for processing purposes.

“Phenylalanine is found naturally in foods such as eggs, milk, bananas, and meat. If you are PKU (Phenylketonuric) or sensitive to phenylalanine, you will react to the phenylalanine in aspartame. You may want to get a blood test to check for this condition. Over the past 20 years, humans have become more aware of PKU reactions because human beings began using isolated phenylalanine to the degree it is harmful to some individuals, many as aspartame side effects. My suggestion would be to research PKU and phenylalanine extensively. Phenylalanine can be very harmful to diabetics.

“Read all food labels and avoid anything with isolated amino acids. You want to buy products with at least eight amino acids in combination.”

There is also an increasing argument to be made that artificial sweeteners, in addition to causing chemical side effects, cause metabolic ones as well. It is possible that one’s body can be fooled into believing that an artificial sweetener is a real one and so produces the same amount of insulin to counter the sweetener as it would regular sugar. Could diet sodas, then, actually be a cause for obesity – instead of a cure? I’ve stopped drinking diet soda completely, and have only one sugar-filled one occasionally and I’ve already seen my weight drop (I have about 40 pounds to lose).

A study on the obesity – diet soda link was recently released and is available for your perusal here:
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.716159v1

So – not only is getting diet soda out of your diet, and drinking water – or say, iced tea – instead, the healthier thing to do, it’s also the frugal thing to do…

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