Aspartame - The Hidden Poison for Society

Aspartame (E951) is an artificial sweetener, present in over 6000 products. The food industry says it helps you to lose weight. Internally, aspartame breaks down into not only its constituent amino acids, but into methanol as well, a poisonous liquid alcohol that degrades into formaldehyde. The FDA announced in 1984 that no evidence has been found to establish that aspartame's methanol by-product reaches toxic levels, claiming that "many fruit juices contain higher levels of the natural compound." However, the Medical World News reported in 1978 that the methanol content of aspartame is 1,000 times greater than most foods under FDA control.
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