Most people begin consuming diet products not because they love the taste or want to gain extra nutrition but because they believe doing so will help them lose weight. Those sweetened with aspartame make up a large part of the “diet” products market to this day, despite plentiful research showing they likely promote weight gain, not loss.
The nonprofit consumer education group U.S. Right to Know (US RTK) released a fact sheet highlighting “decades of science” linking aspartame to serious health risks. “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said aspartame is “safe for the general population under certain conditions.” The agency first approved aspartame for some uses in 1981. Many scientists, then and now, have said the approval was based on suspect data and should be reconsidered,” they say, adding:
“Aspartame is a synthetic chemical composed of the amino acids phenylalanine and aspartic acid, with a methyl ester. When consumed, the methyl ester breaks down into methanol, which may be converted into formaldehyde.”
Found in more than 6,000 products, from diet soda to sugar-free gum, children’s medicines and no-sugar ketchup, some of the health risks linked to aspartame include:
A study led by Dr. Morando Soffritti, a cancer researcher from Italy, found that even in low doses, animals were developing several different forms of cancer when fed aspartame.
Sofritti is the head of the European Ramazzini Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences, a well-respected, independent and nonprofit institution that has been dedicated to cancer prevention for more than 35 years. “An exceedingly high incidence of brain tumors” has also been identified in aspartame-fed rats, compared to rats fed no aspartame. Further, US RTK reported:
“Harvard researchers in 2012 reported a positive association between aspartame intake and increased risk of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and multiple myeloma in men, and for leukemia in men and women.
In a 2014 commentary in American Journal of Industrial Medicine, the Maltoni Center researchers wrote that the studies submitted by G. D. Searle for market approval ‘do not provide adequate scientific support for [aspartame’s] safety. In contrast, recent results … provide consistent evidence of [aspartame’s] carcinogenic potential.'”
A study of nearly 60,000 post-menopausal women who were followed for about 10 years found that drinking just two diet drinks a day can dramatically increase your risk of an early death from heart disease.
The 2017 Canadian Medical Association Journal study also found artificial sweeteners are associated with a higher incidence of cardiovascular events and hypertension, as did a 2016 Physiology & Behavior study, which cited artificial sweeteners’ link to cardiometabolic and other risks as “troubling.”
Drinking diet soda daily may increase your risk of stroke and dementia threefold. Even drinking artificially sweetened beverages one to six times a week was linked to a 2.6 times greater risk of stroke. For a bit of background, when aspartame is in liquid form, as it is in diet soda, it breaks down into methyl alcohol, or methanol, which is then converted into formaldehyde and represents the root of the problem with aspartame.
Research has even found that the administration of aspartame to rats resulted in detectable methanol even after 24 hours, which might be responsible for inducing oxidative stress in the brain. Chronic methanol exposure has been linked to memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease in animal studies.
In addition, US RTK points out, “While many studies, some of them industry sponsored, have reported no problems with aspartame, dozens of independent studies conducted over decades have linked aspartame to a long list of health problems … including … seizures … intestinal dysbiosis, mood disorders, headaches and migraines.”
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PROPHECY 39
Anointed Holy Eagles, Come Forth!
August 10, 2000
Learn to be grateful in small things now and take nothing I give you for granted. Even your fruit and vegetables have not the nutrients that I created in them. The water and air has polluted them and the soil is depleted of minerals needed. You don’t even know what a fruit or vegetable should taste like anymore. It is rare if you do. As for meats, again I say you do not understand that which you have eaten the unholy vultures have poisoned in so many ways. The water you drink you don’t even know why your body doesn’t crave water the way I created it to thirst. It is because even the water is not the way I created it. That is why you must pray blessings on all you partake in MY Son YAHUSHUA’s Name. Ask ME to bless the food and beverages so it will be a blessing to your body and not a curse to it.
PROPHECY 47
To Be Forewarned Is To Be Forearmed For Such A Time As This!
April 21, 2001
TO BE FOREWARNED IS TO BE FOREARMED FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS! Ask MY Blessings on everything you eat or drink. For nothing is uncontaminated anymore, but it is the blessings said in the NAME of YAHUSHUA that will make what is unclean clean, and make what is a curse into a blessing.
PROPHECY 65
GET READY! GET READY! GET READY! BE PREPARED, FOR THE EVIL DAYS ARE UPON YOU!
November 29, 2002
For what is coming MY Children, while you’re in this mortal body of flesh and blood you must be prepared, you must be strengthened, you must be healed, for sicknesses has come upon you that you know not. The air is poisoned and you know not. The food is poisoned and you know not. Because you have asked a blessing on the food that you eat and the drink that you drink I am faithful to show you what to do. Sometimes MY Children protection is not by MY supernatural hands but you must also partake of it in the physical realm. So cleanse your bodies MY Children just as you cleanse your spirit and your soul, prepare your bodies MY Children for there is yet a war coming untold.
PROPHECY 136
“The HOLY TRINITY Needs to be Comforted Also!”
May 29, 2017
I give you a beautiful world. Now the skies are poison. The water is poison. The food is poison. You must pray over everything. Take nothing for granted. Even the very clothes you wear—you know not—chemicals have been placed there to kill you!
Now the rulers of this evil world of satan (Eph 6:12 etc)—when Adam fell this world fell into the hand of satan, and the satanic elite, the illuminati rose up and now all they say, “We must kill. There’s too great of a population.” And so they poison the skies and it’s called “chemtrails” and it’s meant so plagues will walk in.