Can Aspartame be so dangerous?

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Friends I am told that the artificial sweetener ‘Aspartame’ may be source of joint pain, memory loss, severe dizziness and depression. I am told a lady was suffering from joint pain, expensive tests could not find any reason behind this, so her doctor finally asked to keep a food and activity journal to see if it could provide any clues. On a hunch, he asked her to stop drinking a powdered tea mix she had recently purchased to see if that helped. Amazingly the pain was completely gone within a week of stopping use of the aspartame-containing product. To confirm the diagnosis, her doctor instructed her to begin adding aspartame back into her diet for a challenge test. After each of three challenges, her whole body ached from my toes to the neck. So it was the artificial sweetener aspartame, consumed by most diabetics around the world may be the cause behind any number of painful and life-altering conditions, including joint pain, headaches, severe drowsiness, extreme irritability, depression, and weight gain. It doesn’t take a tremendous amount of aspartame to cause trouble. In fact, just three or four 12-ounce diet drinks per day contain enough aspartame to harm us. Aspartame is found in over 6,000 processed foods – from powdered drinks, gelatin, tea, coffee, cocoa, juices, frozen desserts, to chewing gums. It’s even in vitamins (including children’s) and medications. This means the very source of your chronic pain could be in your kitchen cabinet or refrigerator right now. How it was discovered Chemist James Schlatter accidentally tasted the new anti-ulcer drug he was developing in 1965, not realizing he had discovered a goldmine. What he discovered was a product 200 times sweeter than sugar. And by the early 70s, aspartame spread quickly to tables in restaurants, diners, and the homes of Americans under the brand names Nutrasweet, Equal, Equal-Measure and Spoonful. Aspartame gained popularity quickly because it didn’t have the aftertaste that its predecessor, saccharine did. Aspartame has three components: phenylalanine (50 percent), aspartic acid (40 percent) and methanol, also termed wood alcohol (10 percent). It’s classified as an excitotoxic amino acid. What that means for you is it reacts with specialized receptors in your brain in a way that causes the destruction of certain types of brain cells. Each is a poison in itself. Friends do you not consume this poison directly or indirectly? I was and am consuming this in tea, coffee and homemade Indian sweet dishes. The product ‘sugar free’ hear says, ‘upto 28 tablets per day is safe’; I am alarmed now. There are safe alternatives to Aspartame , like honey, maple syrup, and even raw sugar. There is a south American shrub called ‘stevia’, t The leaves themselves are at least 30 times sweeter than table sugar. Extracts can be ten times sweeter than the raw leaf, yet still have virtually no effect on blood glucose levels. [b]References: Olney JW, et al. Increasing brain tumor rates: is there a link to aspartame? Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology. 1996 Nov;55(11):1115-23. Roberts HJ. Aspartame as a cause of allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis. Archives of internal medicine. 1996 May 13;156(9):1027-8. Soffritti M, et al. First experimental demonstration of the multipotential carcinogenic effects of aspartame administered in the feed to Sprague-Dawley rats. Environmental health perspectives. 2006 Mar;114(3):379-85. Trocho C, et al. Formaldehyde derived from dietary aspartame binds to tissue components in vivo. Life sciences. 1998;63(5):337-49.[/b]So goodbye to this poison, from today I will use honey and ‘ gud’ , prepared by boiling sugarcane juice in my country, it costs about 15 rupees to a kilogram. Friends, what is your view on this, please comment. Professor