Chapter 7/K:Aspartame So……… how’s that Diet Coke treating you these days? Or that piece of chewing gum? Or those Flintstone vitamins your kids are eating? Or that sugar-free Jell-O? Or that “diet anything” for that matter? Chances are better than not that that anything you are ingesting that is called “diet” or “sugar-free” is loaded with a poisonous compound called aspartame---better known as NutraSweet--and that’s just the stuff that is labeled to tip you off. Most chewing gums these days have aspartame in them and aren’t labeled as “sugar free”, so be vigilant for your kids’ sake. Aspartame is one of if not the most dangerous food additives in existence, and more and more products containing it are rolled out every year in the name of “health”. Aspartame pretty much scrambles your brain so you have to spend extra mental effort just to keep up with life—let alone question it. Mix up a batch of aspartame-loaded sugar free Jell-O with some fluoridated water; feed it to the kids after a trip to the doctor for some mercury-contaminated vaccines and you can see we are literally surrounded by poisons, all by design of the proponents of the Great Plan. Aspartame was actually discovered by accident in 1965 when James Schlatter, a chemist of G.D. Searle Company, was testing an anti-ulcer drug. Schlatter inadvertently smeared his hand with liquid aspartame from a flask. He licked his thumb clean and was surprised by how sweet it tasted. The compound ended up being 200 times sweeter than sugar per volume. It contained virtually no calories and tasted more like sugar than other sweeteners: ideal for the growing diet consumables market. Sales under the brand name NutraSweet would eventually go on to become worth more than $ 1 billion a year following approval by the good ol’ FDA. It took 16 years from Schlatter's discovery for his company, US drug giant Searle, to win FDA approval for the sweetener. Searle's safety research was one of the main sticking points that resulted in the 16 year time frame. Doubts over its reliability prompted a special investigation by the FDA, which discovered some of the tests were "seriously flawed". A senior FDA toxicologist told a Congressional committee: "At least one test has established beyond any reasonable doubt that aspartame is capable of producing brain tumors in animals." We’re talking about a substance so toxic that even the corrupt FDA was speaking up about it to Congress! In 1981 an internal memo from three FDA scientists advised against approval of NutraSweet. That year President Reagan fired the FDA commissioner and gave the job to Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes. Three months later aspartame was cleared for consumer use. It was originally approved for dry goods on July 26, 1974, but objections filed by neuroscience researcher Dr. John W. Olney and consumer attorney James Turner in August 1974 as well as investigations of G.D. Searle's research practices caused the FDA to put approval of aspartame on hold on December 5, 1974. Aspartame was finally approved for dry goods in 1981 and for carbonated beverages in 1983. In 1985, biofood engineering giant Monsanto (remember that name) purchased G.D. Searle. We’re going to discuss Monsanto again here in a couple of chapters.
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