Healthy Choices - Think Not
Healthy Choices?
Yes, that’s the name of the product we purchased at Berkley & Jensens (BJs) and here’s the story.
I know you’re all trying hard to avoid foods that destroy your immune system, trigger major diseases, and add plaque to your already plugged-up, arteries. However, the question is: "To be or not to be?" Can you really avoid the consequences when the truth is so ably clouded with lies, half truths and misleading adjectives that lead you astray? My wife and I take pride in identifying the ingredients most harmful and even contact food manufacturers to try to get to the heart of the story.
Recently, we contacted the makers of "Healthy Choice"®. The company has an 800 number and a website. ConAgra Foods, Inc P.O. Box 3768, Dept. H; Omaha,NE 68103-0768 at 1-800-212-9980. www.healthychoice.com The product was a dessert my wife and I shared each night as opposed to high sugar, sodium and fat-laden desserts. They clearly state: "NO ADDED SUGAR." 100 CALORIES PER FUDGE BAR AND A GOOD SOURCE OF CALCIUM; 5 grams of fiber and Low Fat." Sounds good and even appears to be a "healthy choice." But, wait a minute. Would you agree that, "What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You?"
Knowledge is power and a key to living a longer, healthier and happier life. So I called their office and asked them if they knew that the Healthy Choice food product they were selling contained a poison? No, they didn’t know and what could it be? Well, try searching http://aspartame.mercola.com/ That research contains the names of the products the poison within and the brand names. Do you think that the FDA could do that much for us? Well maybe Chief Justice John Roberts expects you to practice caveat emptor or "Let the buyer beware." We are not doing the job of protecting ourselves against the corporate greed that emphasizes semantics to convince you of the words you want to hear.
ASPARTAME, an ingredient in Healthy Choice fudge bars and most soda pop, including yogurt and such brand names as NutraSweet (blue package), Equal, Spoonful and Equal Measure, are much more dangerous to you than saccharin or Sweet N Low(pink package).
What You don’t Know Can Hurt You. Aspartame is, by far, the most dangerous substance on the market that is added to foods.
Aspartame was discovered by accident in 1965 when James Schlatter, a chemist of G.D. Searle Company, was testing an anti-ulcer-drug.
Aspartame was approved by dry goods in 1981 and for carbonated beverages in 1983. It was originally approved for dry goods on July 16th, 1974, but objections filed by neuroscience researcher Dr. John W. Olney and Consumer attorney James Turner in August 1974 as well as investigations of G.D. Searle’s research practices caused the U.S.Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to put approval of aspartame on hold (December 5, 1974). In 1985, Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle and made Searle Pharmaceuticals and the NutraSweet Company separate subsidiaries.
Aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the FDA Many of these reactions are very serious, including seizures and death. (1) A few of the 90 different documented symptoms listed in the report as being caused by aspartame include: Headaches/migraines, dizziness, seizures, nausea, numbness, muscle spasms, weight gain, rashes, depression, fatigue, irritability, tachycardia, insomnia, vision problems, hearing loss, heart palpitations, breathing difficulties, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, loss of taste, tinnitus, vertigo, memory loss and joint pain.
According to researchers and physicians studying the adverse effects of aspartame, the following chronic illnesses can be triggered or worsened by ingesting of aspartame: (2) Brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, mental retardation, lymphoma, birth defects, fibromyalgia, and diabetes.
What is Aspartame Made Of?
Dr. Russell L. Blaylock, a professor of neurosurgery at the Medical University of Mississippi, recently published a book thoroughly detailing the damage that is caused by the ingestion of excessive aspartic acid from aspartame. Blaylock makes use of almost 500 scientific references to show how excess free excitatory amino acids such as aspartic acid and glutamic acid (about 99 percent if monosodium glutamate (MSG) is glutamic acid in our food supply are causing serious chronic neurological disorders and a myriad of other acute symptoms.
How Aspartate (and Glutamate) Cause Damage
Aspartate and glutamate act as neurotransmitters in the brain by facilitating the transmission of information from neuron to neuron. Too much aspartate or glutamate in the brain kills certain neurons by allowing the influx of too much calcium into the cells. The neural cell damage that can be caused by excessive aspartate and glutamate is why they are referred to as "excitotoxins." They "excite" or stimulate the neural cells to death.
Aspartic acid is an amino acid. Taken in its free form (unbound to proteins) it significantly raises the blood plasma level of aspartate and glutamate. The excess in the blood plasma shortly after ingesting aspartame or products with free glutamic acid (glutamate precursor) leads to a high level of those neurotransmitters in certain areas of the brain.
We stopped in Julie’s favorite "THE DOLLAR TREE" and there we came across a soda called Stars & Stripes Forever - a lemon-lime soda pop with lemon-lime and other "natural flavors." We read the ingredients carefully and found Aspartame and high fructose corn syrup and many others we did not like. The green bottle, the patriotic name, the use of the words "natural flavors" and everything imaginable to lure the buyer into placing this product in their cart is unconscionable. NO! we will not subject our fuel tank to the POISON we find in foods approved by the FDA!
Yes, that’s the name of the product we purchased at Berkley & Jensens (BJs) and here’s the story.
I know you’re all trying hard to avoid foods that destroy your immune system, trigger major diseases, and add plaque to your already plugged-up, arteries. However, the question is: "To be or not to be?" Can you really avoid the consequences when the truth is so ably clouded with lies, half truths and misleading adjectives that lead you astray? My wife and I take pride in identifying the ingredients most harmful and even contact food manufacturers to try to get to the heart of the story.
Recently, we contacted the makers of "Healthy Choice"®. The company has an 800 number and a website. ConAgra Foods, Inc P.O. Box 3768, Dept. H; Omaha,NE 68103-0768 at 1-800-212-9980. www.healthychoice.com The product was a dessert my wife and I shared each night as opposed to high sugar, sodium and fat-laden desserts. They clearly state: "NO ADDED SUGAR." 100 CALORIES PER FUDGE BAR AND A GOOD SOURCE OF CALCIUM; 5 grams of fiber and Low Fat." Sounds good and even appears to be a "healthy choice." But, wait a minute. Would you agree that, "What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You?"
Knowledge is power and a key to living a longer, healthier and happier life. So I called their office and asked them if they knew that the Healthy Choice food product they were selling contained a poison? No, they didn’t know and what could it be? Well, try searching http://aspartame.mercola.com/ That research contains the names of the products the poison within and the brand names. Do you think that the FDA could do that much for us? Well maybe Chief Justice John Roberts expects you to practice caveat emptor or "Let the buyer beware." We are not doing the job of protecting ourselves against the corporate greed that emphasizes semantics to convince you of the words you want to hear.
ASPARTAME, an ingredient in Healthy Choice fudge bars and most soda pop, including yogurt and such brand names as NutraSweet (blue package), Equal, Spoonful and Equal Measure, are much more dangerous to you than saccharin or Sweet N Low(pink package).
What You don’t Know Can Hurt You. Aspartame is, by far, the most dangerous substance on the market that is added to foods.
Aspartame was discovered by accident in 1965 when James Schlatter, a chemist of G.D. Searle Company, was testing an anti-ulcer-drug.
Aspartame was approved by dry goods in 1981 and for carbonated beverages in 1983. It was originally approved for dry goods on July 16th, 1974, but objections filed by neuroscience researcher Dr. John W. Olney and Consumer attorney James Turner in August 1974 as well as investigations of G.D. Searle’s research practices caused the U.S.Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to put approval of aspartame on hold (December 5, 1974). In 1985, Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle and made Searle Pharmaceuticals and the NutraSweet Company separate subsidiaries.
Aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the FDA Many of these reactions are very serious, including seizures and death. (1) A few of the 90 different documented symptoms listed in the report as being caused by aspartame include: Headaches/migraines, dizziness, seizures, nausea, numbness, muscle spasms, weight gain, rashes, depression, fatigue, irritability, tachycardia, insomnia, vision problems, hearing loss, heart palpitations, breathing difficulties, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, loss of taste, tinnitus, vertigo, memory loss and joint pain.
According to researchers and physicians studying the adverse effects of aspartame, the following chronic illnesses can be triggered or worsened by ingesting of aspartame: (2) Brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, mental retardation, lymphoma, birth defects, fibromyalgia, and diabetes.
What is Aspartame Made Of?
Dr. Russell L. Blaylock, a professor of neurosurgery at the Medical University of Mississippi, recently published a book thoroughly detailing the damage that is caused by the ingestion of excessive aspartic acid from aspartame. Blaylock makes use of almost 500 scientific references to show how excess free excitatory amino acids such as aspartic acid and glutamic acid (about 99 percent if monosodium glutamate (MSG) is glutamic acid in our food supply are causing serious chronic neurological disorders and a myriad of other acute symptoms.
How Aspartate (and Glutamate) Cause Damage
Aspartate and glutamate act as neurotransmitters in the brain by facilitating the transmission of information from neuron to neuron. Too much aspartate or glutamate in the brain kills certain neurons by allowing the influx of too much calcium into the cells. The neural cell damage that can be caused by excessive aspartate and glutamate is why they are referred to as "excitotoxins." They "excite" or stimulate the neural cells to death.
Aspartic acid is an amino acid. Taken in its free form (unbound to proteins) it significantly raises the blood plasma level of aspartate and glutamate. The excess in the blood plasma shortly after ingesting aspartame or products with free glutamic acid (glutamate precursor) leads to a high level of those neurotransmitters in certain areas of the brain.
We stopped in Julie’s favorite "THE DOLLAR TREE" and there we came across a soda called Stars & Stripes Forever - a lemon-lime soda pop with lemon-lime and other "natural flavors." We read the ingredients carefully and found Aspartame and high fructose corn syrup and many others we did not like. The green bottle, the patriotic name, the use of the words "natural flavors" and everything imaginable to lure the buyer into placing this product in their cart is unconscionable. NO! we will not subject our fuel tank to the POISON we find in foods approved by the FDA!
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