Artificial Sweeteners Side Effects: What You Need To Know

Editor: Johnathan Meyers | Tactical Investor

Artificial Sweeteners Side Effects

Artificial Sweeteners Side Effects and Dangerous

By offering the taste of sweetness without any calories, artificial sweeteners seem like they could be one answer to effective weight loss. The average 12-ounce can of sugar-sweetened soda delivers about 150 calories, almost all of them from sugar. The same amount of diet soda—zero calories. The choice seems like a no-brainer.

The American Heart Association (AHA) and American Diabetes Association (ADA) have given a cautious nod to the use of artificial sweeteners in place of sugar to combat obesity, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes, all risk factors for heart disease. (You can read the full statement here.)

“While they are not magic bullets, smart use of non-nutritive sweeteners could help you reduce added sugars in your diet, therefore lowering the number of calories you eat. Reducing calories could help you attain and maintain healthy body weight, and thereby lower your risk of heart disease and diabetes,” said Dr. Christopher Gardner, an associate professor of medicine at Stanford University in California, in a press release accompanying the scientific statement. Full Story

FDA Approves Aspartame when it should not have

Discovered by chemist James M. Schlatter in 1965 by pure accident, aspartame and its intrigue-laced approval tells many a tale about corporate America, the contingent blessings brought by the cyclamate and saccharin bans, and the arbiters of government power. This report will enable you to shun the myths on aspartame’s approval and to know the dirty political and regulatory tricks in the whole approval process.

For 20 years, the FDA gave aspartame products the thumbs down mainly for the following safety issues and reasons:

Flawed data
High cholesterol levels
Fluid loss in your body

But pharmaceutical giant G.D. Searle – the makers of the NutraSweet and Equal
brands – did not back down and knew that all it took was flexing political muscle. Read about how Donald Rumsfeld, the same powerful political figure in the Bush administration, proved instrumental in the FDA approval of aspartame in 1981 and the political appointments leading to it.

But more than these, the deceptive studies on aspartame safety are already a distressing truth in themselves.

Yes, there are alarming animal lab testing results (and lack of testimony for safe human use) that you are yet to know about aspartame… Full Story