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| Thousands of popular diet and sugar-free foods and beverages contain an artificial sweetener that researchers say may cause cancer. | |
| The ingredient is aspartame, and it is by far the most dangerous substance on the market that is added to our foods. | |
| Aspartame is an artificial sweetener found in thousands of products worldwide. | |
| And chances are, you are consuming it. | |
| It's added to sugar-free gum, juice beverages, tabletop sweeteners like Equal and NutraSweet. | |
| It's in cereals, soft drinks, yogurt, breath mints, multivitamins, wine coolers, and even over-the-counter medicines. | |
| The toxic long-term effects of aspartame are often dismissed as a hoax by the sweetener industry. | |
| However, numerous independent controlled studies using human subjects have concluded that aspartame is deadly. | |
| Now there's a number of studies that claim that aspartame is completely safe to consume, but the vast majority of those studies were conducted by, well, you guessed it, the aspartame industry. | |
| In fact, groups like Monsanto, J.D. | |
| Searle, and ILSI concluded that aspartame posed no health risk. | |
| But that's about as credible as Marlboro Camel and Winston dismissing the link between cigarette smoking and cancer. | |
| Winston tastes good like a cigarette chew. | |
| Have you heard of aspartame? | |
| Yes, I've heard of it before. | |
| Have you heard good things or bad things? | |
| I hear mostly bad things about it. | |
| What kind of bad things? | |
| Just like it's an artificial sweetener and it's bad for your health and you should try to stay away. | |
| I've heard it's an artificial sweetener and I'm guilty of drinking beverages sweetened with it. | |
| However, it degenerates and it does harmful things. | |
| What do you think about aspartame? | |
| I don't like it. | |
| It gives me headaches. | |
| They did studies on rats. | |
| It supposedly causes cancer. | |
| Even Fox News recently reported in 2005 that artificial sweeteners had been linked to a wide range of cancers after studying involving rats. | |
| So these rats actually had tumors the size of golf balls. | |
| So does that concern you when you hear stuff like that? | |
| Greatly, yes. | |
| And the FDA is supposed to be protecting us from things like cancer, not giving it to us and telling us it's safe. | |
| You cannot go to the grocery store now and buy any type of even regular sugar gum that hasn't had aspartame added to it. | |
| In the 1970s, Searle tried to get it approved, and they couldn't. | |
| It took them three separate times. | |
| Because in their own studies with monkeys, large portions of them that were fed it died and contracted cancer. | |
| Now we have mainstream news articles, and the EU has done a major study, finding lower birth weights, early birth, and yes, miscarriages from women that drink aspartame-laden soft drinks like Coke Zero. | |
| Do you think that aspartame should be on the market today? | |
| No. | |
| Why not? | |
| Because it hasn't been demonstrated to be safe. | |
| The FDA looked at the research, and in 1975, put aspartame's approval on hold. | |
| It set up an independent panel of doctors to study aspartame. | |
| In 1980, that public board of inquiry unanimously ruled aspartame should not go on the market. | |
| Edith was drinking a cup of low-calorie hot chocolate that night. | |
| Aspartame made it sweet. | |
| And Johnson says aspartame made her sick. | |
| All of a sudden, I couldn't see. | |
| My eyes went out of focus and it was like my vision became quite blurred. | |
| And you think it's because of aspartame? | |
| I think it's very deliberately because of aspartame, yes. | |
| It was terrifying. | |
| Kate Randall thought she was going crazy. | |
| I started popping in my hands and twitching in my feet, my legs, my knees, my upper legs and shoulders and arms and everywhere. | |
| Many of these individuals have been aspartame reactors. | |
| Have tested themselves 5, 10, 20 times. | |
| Every time getting the same response. | |
| And then they realized that this was a legitimate cause and effect relationship. | |
| What is aspartame? | |
| It is the fecal matter of the E. coli bacteria. | |
| They took it and genetically engineered it. | |
| They can feed it toxic waste and then it defecates aspartame. | |
| And it has so many bad health effects, it's just unspeakable. | |
| How do you think a product like that was managed to be approved by the FDA? | |
| Oh, I think there's loopholes to everything. | |
| I say shut the FDA down. | |
| Shut down any government agency that's not doing its job. | |
| Would you think that possibly the FDA is corrupt? | |
| I'm gonna go ahead and say no. | |
| I trust the FDA with my health. | |
| Do you think there's a chance the FDA could be corrupt? | |
| About as big a chance as any other part of our government. | |
| Now the FDA approval of aspartame was highly contested and subject to multiple congressional hearings and scientific criticism. | |
| In fact, aspartame was continuously rejected by the FDA for over 15 years until it was finally approved in 1981. | |
| Since that time, the FDA has published a list of 92 symptoms of aspartame poisoning, which includes headaches, vision loss, including blindness, seizures, neurological problems, cardiovascular problems, and death. | |
| The FDA even admits adverse reactions to aspartame comprise about 80% of consumer complaints it receives each year. | |
| Yet the dangerous substance remains on the market and is consumed by millions of people every single day. |
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