Klebrig, süß und widerlich

December 5, 2008 in Indispensable?, So-called Life | 1 comment

Ich war ja schon vor geraumer Zeit der Ansicht, dass Mentos reinzuwerfen das beste ist, das man mit Diät Cola tun kann.

Eigentlich hauptsächlich, weil ich den Geschmack einfach nicht mag. Allerdings habe ich neulich diesen Film entdeckt: “Sweet Misery”

Sicher, keiner von uns trinkt 6 Liter davon am Tag und Gift ist immer eine Frage der Dosis, trotzdem vergeht einem da doch der Appetit oder?

Aspartame was discovered in l965 by Searle chemist, Jim Schlatter. He was developing this drug for another use and after accidentally licking his finger found that aspartame was sweet. Today aspartame is consumed by more than 100 million people in the United States. This chemical (aspartame) has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who said that an individual can safely consume 97 packets of aspartame every day. Aspartame is in many products including some that children use such as diet soda, light yogurt, Flintstone Vitamins, baked goods, puddings, and Winterfresh gum. It has been known to cause headaches, nausea, vision problems, seizures and cancer in its users.

The ingredients in aspartame are aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methyl alcohol. Methyl alcohol is a chemical that breaks down in high temperatures and turns into formaldehyde and DKP (diketopiperazine), two chemicals known to cause problems in the nervous system. Aspartame’s life is 262 days at 77 degrees Fahrenheit, or 25 degrees Celsius. The FDA gets more complaints about aspartame than any other food or drink. The symptoms of aspartame are a lot like the symptoms of multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease. Ever since aspartame was approved in l985, there has been an increase in brain tumors. There is no direct proof that aspartame caused the brain tumors, but there is enough reason to suspect that, and the television show, “60 Minutes” recently did a report linking the increase in brain cancer to aspartame use.

The FDA reviewed Searle’s studies of this artificial sweetener in which rats were fed aspartame daily with their meals for one year. There were 12 brain tumors in the 320 rats that were fed aspartame and no brain tumors in the 120 rats that were not fed aspartame.

There was also a study done at the University of Wisconsin on rhesus monkeys. they were fed aspartame daily. After day 200 of a one year study the monkeys developed epileptic seizures. After the study ended, the aspartame was discontinued and the monkeys were fully watched for 60 days. The monkeys had no more seizures.

So how did this deadly stuff get into our environment? Donald Rumsfeld, while he was president of Searle, called in his markers to get aspartame, a deadly chemical poison approved when the FDA said no.

*Quelle*

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