The fact is that it was approved by the FDA despite the documented side effects. Today a lot of people don’t know about the circumstances of aspartame’s approving, what it is made from and the negative impact on organism which it can have. They believe that it is natural and safe sweetener. Here we want to show the truth about artificial sweeteners like aspartame and the harm they cause to health.
The history of aspartame.
Aspartame was accidentally discovered by James Schlatter, a chemist who had been trying to produce an anti-ulcer pharmaceutical drug for G.D. Searle & Company in 1965. He mixed aspartic acid and phenylalanine and discovered that the mixture has sweet taste. G.D.Searle & Company presented it to the US Food and Drug Administration, despite the fact that the first safety studies found that it causes death in monkeys. Only through corruption (a new FDA commissioner has been already paid off) aspartame got the approval in 1974 though there were a lot of objections even from G.D. Searle & Company’s scientists.
Actually it was not the first time when the product was approved by the FDA not because science had shown that they had been safe but because companies essentially lobbied the FDA with monetary payoffs.
Consequences of the aspartame usage.
In 2013 The Journal Appetite published a study which showed that in comparison to sugar, aspartame is worse for promoting weight gain. Later in the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine (YJBM) a new research was published. It confirmed that aspartame alters the body’s natural production of hormones, increases appetite and sugar cravings.
So the conclusion can be made that instead of helping people to lose weight and avoid the diabetes it causes weight gain and metabolic disorders especially if consumed in excess. We think that it’s not what people suppose as a healthy sugar alternative.
Aspartame’s components and the harm they cause to health
Aspartame has three components - phenylalanine, aspartic acid, and methanol. Each of these components is toxic in its own. The most toxic is methanol, converting first into formaldehyde and then into formic acid after consumption. It can damage DNA and cause leukemia, lymphoma, and other cancers. And this is really a problem, because methanol produced by aspartame is not accompanied by ethanol, which protects against methanol poisoning.Furthermore such component of aspartame as the phenylalanine is produced from the feces of genetically-modified (GM) E. coli bacteria.
The third component of aspartame is aspartic acid - a free-form amino acid that can cross between the blood-brain tissues. If consumed in excess it can cause neural cell damage and even cell death. The result of that is serious brain damage. Moreover in some cases it can cause such neurological conditions as epilepsy and Alzheimer’s or multiple sclerosis (MS) and dementia.
We published this information because we don’t want people to be deceived. Unfortunately the logic that everything that was approved by the FDA is natural and safe, otherwise it wouldn’t be on the market today is not absolute. Despite the evidence showing that aspartame is a dangerous toxin, it has remained on the global market. But now you know the truth about it and can make your own choices.
