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Aspartame: Is Aspartame Making Young People More Violent?
By Michael Goodspeed

Over the past 15 years, dozens of independent researchers have compiled anecdotal evidence linking aspartame (ASP) to a variety of devastating physical ailments -- tinnitus, glaucoma, migraines, short-term memory loss, even brain tumors are thought by many doctors to be directly caused by NutraSweet consumption. This has been a matter of public record for three decades. Less widely-known, however, are the data suggesting that ASP may have caused an exponential increase in both mental illness and violence, particularly in young people.


Aspartame: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

If a product is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and composed of natural ingredients, would you assume it is safe to consume?

If the same product is an artificial sweetener, would you assume it helps control your weight?

However, aspartame's tainted history of approval and potentially toxic ingredients cast serious doubt on the safety of this sugar substitute. Furthermore, aspartame may actually increase your appetite


Aspartame is, by far, the most dangerous substance on the market that is added to foods.
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.(1) A few of the 90 different documented symptoms listed in the report as being caused by aspartame include: Headaches/migraines, dizziness, seizures, nausea, numbness, muscle spasms, weight gain, rashes, depression, fatigue, irritability, tachycardia, insomnia, vision problems, hearing loss, heart palpitations, breathing difficulties, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, loss of taste, tinnitus, vertigo, memory loss, and joint pain.


Nutrasweet Lowers Sperm Counts

Artificial sweeteners used in a variety of foods may lower sperm count, according to Japanese researchers.

Male infertility is often due to disabled sperm, including low sperm count syndrome, which is likely caused by environmental changes or changes in lifestyle and eating habits that have occurred over the past 30 years, according to one researcher.


Mary Nash Stoddard Reseach Findings on Dangers of Aspartame

...the tests were falsified to get it approved and get it on the market in the first place. The tests were submitted ... the lab animals in those tests had seizures. They had brain tumors. They had pancreatic tumors. They had mammary tumors, and they had uterine tumors. But, all this was covered up and erased when the tests were submitted.

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