Saturday, January 31, 2015

Aspartame: By Far the Most Dangerous Substance Added to Most Foods Today


Aspartame is the technical name for the brand names NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure. It was discovered by accident in 1965 when James Schlatter, a chemist of G.D. Searle Company, was testing an anti-ulcer drug.
Aspartame was approved for dry goods in 1981 and for carbonated beverages in 1983. 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 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to put approval of aspartame on hold (December 5, 1974). In 1985, Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle and made Searle Pharmaceuticals and The NutraSweet Company separate subsidiaries.
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Aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the FDA. Many of these reactions are very serious, including seizures and death. A few of the 90 different documented symptoms listed in the report as part of aspartame dangers are:

Read the full report here
http://www.healthfreedoms.org/aspartame-by-far-the-most-dangerous-substance-added-to-most-foods-today/


Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Statins should not offer the illusion of protection

‘Statins should not offer the illusion of protection that will enable many individuals to engage in unhealthy lifestyle behaviours’ says the editorial in Prescriber, the UK’s leading journal focusing on prescribing in medicines management.

‘Indeed 80 per cent of cardiovascular disease is attributable to lifestyle factors including an unhealthy diet, smoking and lack of physical activity.

‘For those individuals at low risk it is clear that the benefits of statins are modest at best’ it says.

Alternatives to statins for those at low risk in effectively preventing heart attacks and strokes include eating an apple a day, a handful of nuts or four table spoons of extra virgin olive oil daily.

Tree nuts such as almonds, hazelnuts, pecans, some pine nuts, pistachios, and walnuts contain high levels of ‘good’ fats that can lower harmful fats in the bloodstream

Full story here

high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) ...your daily dose of death

Dr. Robert Lustig, Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, has been a pioneer in decoding sugar metabolism.

He’s become quite well-known in recent years for stating that excessive amounts of sugar in your diet has toxic effects. He’s also pointed out that processed fructose is far worse, from a metabolic standpoint, than refined sugar.

Now, new research1,2 from the University of Utah confirms Dr. Lustig’s stance, showing that corn syrup is more toxic to female mice than table sugar. Not only did corn syrup adversely impact the animals’ rate of reproduction, it also caused premature death.

From a chemical standpoint, high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is similar to table sugar, but it does contain higher levels of fructose.

Full report here.