Sweet Misery: The Horrors of Aspartame Revealed in Documentary

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Sweet Misery: The Horrors of Aspartame Revealed in

Documentary

 

 

The new documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World,

thoroughly examines a hot-button subject many consider

to be imaginary: the toxicity of aspartame. This

man-made sweetener is certainly a fact of life and

hard to avoid. Aspartame is found in more than 5,000

food products, including diet soft drinks and snacks

like puddings.

 

Sweet Misery starts with filmmaker and narrator Cory

Brackett's moving story about how she discovered

aspartame's effect on her health was affecting her

fight with multiple sclerosis. Once she stopped using

aspartame-sweetened products, her symptoms went away

almost by magic.

 

But that's just the beginning of Brackett's journey

across the United States to learn more about the

devastating effects of aspartame from a laundry list

of well-known medical experts, including Dr. Russell

Blaylock and Dr. Betty Martini.

 

Martini is the director of Mission Possible, an

Atlanta-based non-profit group that works to spread

the word about the dangers of aspartame as a toxic

poison, unfit for human consumption and a slow

neurotoxin that's especially bad for diabetics.

 

In addition to the experts, the filmmakers use

archival footage from G.D. Searle and federal

officials to describe the amount of propaganda and

" dirty tricks " big business used to get aspartame on

the market.

 

Some of the most moving moments were heartfelt

interviews sprinkled in between the scientific data

with some of the victims of aspartame. One victim

Brackett interviewed suffers in a different and more

excruciating way than most: This middle-aged mother

and spouse is serving a life sentence for allegedly

poisoning her late spouse, although many of the health

signs point to her late husband's bad reaction to

aspartame.

 

Another key interview is Brackett's fireside chat with

Arthur Evangelista, a former Food and Drug

Administration investigator, who exposes how far major

conglomerates went to legalize the use of aspartame in

the United States, and the resulting domino effect on

its use in other countries.

 

News with Views July 6, 2004

 

Dr. Mercola's Comment:

 

If you aren't familiar with all the diseases

associated with this artificial sweetener--diseases

like multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease--this

movie will indeed open your eyes to a problem that has

been covered up for far too long.

 

For the record, aspartame is about 200 times sweeter

than the refined sugar it is meant to replace, but it

is known to erode intelligence and affect short-term

memory. Once upon a time, aspartame was on a Pentagon

list of biowarfare chemicals submitted to Congress,

which just goes to show you how lethal a chemical it

really is.

 

Although seizures are common among aspartame users,

headaches are the most common complaint. According to

a nutrition consultant, diet could be one of the

reasons 18 million Americans suffer from migraines,

with aspartame listed as a possible culprit.

 

Because more than 5,000 products contain aspartame,

it's in your best interests as well as your family's

health to read the labels of any processed food you're

concerned about.

 

Your life may depend on it.

 

For more information about this important documentary,

visit Sound and Fury Productions.

 

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Aspartame is By Far, the Most Dangerous Substance

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