Monday, January 19, 2009

What's really in our food?! Aspartame!

Aspartame is the name for an artificial, non-saccharide sweetener. Aspartame is otherwise known as Candarel, Equal and NutraSweet. These days it is commonly used in diet sodas and sugar-free products in the United States and in many other countries. Nevertheless, the usage of Aspartame is highly alarming since brain tumor and various other diseases are closely linked to it.
This matter of fact is displayed by the following movie. Furthermore it provides insight in the dubious approval of Aspartame by the FDA.

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