Aspartame

If you think you are making a healthier option because you chose to have diet soda over a regular soda drink, its time to think again. Crafty advertising may have given the term “sugar free” an impression of healthy alternative, but the truth of the matter is that chemical sweeteners are far from healthy.

Despite the dismissive stand of aspartame producers that aspartame is safe for human consumption, various studies over the years have shown that aspartame is actually linked to the development of several neurological disorders including migraines, seizures, infections, abnormal neural development, certain endocrine disorders, neuropsychiatric disorders, learning disorders in children, AIDS, dementia, episodic violence, lyme borreliosis, hepatic encephalopathy, specific types of obesity, and especially the neurodegenerative diseases, such as ALS, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and olivopontocerebellar degeneration.

Despite US FDA approval as a 'safe' food additive, aspartame is one of the most dangerous substances ever to be foisted upon an unsuspecting public. The U.S. FDA made public 92 symptoms attributed to aspartame from submitted complaints. Despite its questionable effect, aspartame was approved for use in 1981 and still continues to be so today. Ironically, aspartame was never tested in humans before its approval. Its use in over 6,000 products and by 250 million people has made the public its unwitting guinea pig in a grand experiment 40 years in the making.

Aspartame is now the most widely used artificial sweetener, and is the basis for a whole industry of diet desserts, low-calorie soft drinks, sugar-free chewing gum, flavored waters, etc. Upon absorption into the body, aspartame breaks down into phenylalanine, aspartate, and methanol (wood alcohol), a potent neurotoxin.

Although I am personally convinced that Aspartame is a killer, there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that aspartame is dangerous or safe for consumption. It would therefore be prudent on the part of Robinsons to suspend using this chemical until more studies with improved methodologies commence so as to ensure the safety of the public.

What Can You Do to Help?

Sign this petition and stop buying Robinsons products.

Reference Material

Blaylock, Russell L., Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills (Health Press, SantaFe, New Mexico, c1994). One of the best books available on excitotoxins.

H. J. Roberts, M.D., Aspartame (NutraSweet), Is it Safe? (Available from theAspartame Consumer Safety Network).

Sweet'ner Dearest (Available from the Aspartame Consumer Safety Network).

Mary Nash Stoddard, The Deadly Deception (Available from the AspartameConsumer Safety Network).

Barbara Mullarkey, Editor, Bittersweet Aspartame - A DietDelusion (Available from the Aspartame Consumer Safety Network).

Dennis Remington, M.D. and Barbara Higa, R.D., The Bitter Truth AboutArtificial Sweetners (Available from the Aspartame Consumer SafetyNetwork).