just had to share-Aspartame

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WOW...very interesting. If you had any trust left for the FDA, I would think not any more.

~ married to DH Mark, and sharing the lives of nine busy children. <3 <3

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The World's Best Ant Poisonby Jan Jensen of WELLthy Choices We live in the woods and carpenter ants are a huge problem. We havespent thousands of dollars with Orkin and on ant poisons trying to keepthem under control but nothing has helped. So when I read somewherethat Aspartame (Nutrasweet) was actually developed as an ant poison andonly changed to being considered non-poisonous after it was realized thata lot more money could be made on it as a sweetener than as an antpoison, I decided to give it a try. I opened two packets of aspartamesweetener, and dumped one in a corner of each of our bathrooms. That was 2 yrs ago and I have not seen any carpenter ants for about 9 - 12 months.It works better than the most deadly poisons I have tried. Any timethey show up again, I simply dump another package of Nutrasweet in a corner, and they will be gone for a year or so again. Since posting thisinformation I have had many people tell me of their success solving antproblems with this substance, when nothing else worked. We found later that small black ants would not eat the aspartame. It was determined that if you mixed it with apple juice, they would quicklytake it back to the nest, and all would be dead within 24 hours,usually. I have found that sometimes it will kill them, and sometimes it doesnot. Not sure why, may be slightly different species of ants or something. Fire Ants: We got our first fire ant hill about 2 weeks ago. Poison didnot work. We tried aspartame and the ants ignored it until we got a light rain. It was just a sprinkle, enough to moisten the Nutrasweet andground, but not enough to wash it away. They went crazy, hundreds of them grabbing it and taking it back into the mound. When I checked themound 2 days later, there was no sign of the fire ants. I even dug themound up some, and still saw none of them. How does it Work: Aspartame is a neuropoison. It most likely kills the ants by interfering with theirnervous system. It could be direct, like stopping their heart, or something more subtle like killing their sense of taste so they can't figureout what is eatable, or smell, so they can't follow their trails, or mis-identify their colonies members, so they start fighting each other. Not sure what causes them to end up dying, just know that for manyspecies of ants it will kill them quickly and effectively. As with anypoison I recommend wearing gloves and washing any skin areas that come in contact with this poison, and avoid getting it in your mouth, despiteanything the labeling may indicate. More information on this fantastic poison can be found at: http://www.dorway.com( this is an excellent website on the subject - - Martha )The Truth About Aspartame...Aspartame is NOT a natural substance!Aspartame is NOT a Diet Enhancement product!Aspartame is NOT safe - for ANYONE!Aspartame is NOT a food "additive"Aspartame is an UNREGULATED and UNSAFE DRUG! (It was originally slated to be a peptic ulcer drug!)Aspartame in liquids turns to FORMALDEHYDE above freezing!Aspartame is even worse for DIABETICS!Aspartame poisoning is cumulative (it adds up IN YOUR BODY!)Aspartame byproducts get stored in your FAT!Aspartame has 92 "Official" Side Effects (the worst is DEATH!)Aspartame MIMICS a wide range of problemsAspartame side effects are USUALLY MISDIAGNOSED! (By 21 doctors, in MyCase!)Aspartame is unfit for human consumption!Aspartame's approval by the FDA is a SHAMELESS tragedy!Aspartame's approval for use in EVERYTHING is far worse!Who are the culprits? FDA, Searle, Monsanto, NutraSweet and more!The ONLY "CURE" is total exclusion from the diet!TOTAL recovery may not be possible!Only an irate and active PUBLIC can rid the world of this POISON!If YOU have been affected, REPORT IT! GET INVOLVED!FDA Audit - The Bressler ReportJerome Bressler is now retired from the FDA but he was an employee whenall the shenanigans were going on. In a conversation with Dr. Bettyi, Dr. H. J. and Dr. Blaylock, he admitted thestudies on aspartame were so bad that when his report was retyped, the FDAremoved the worst 20 percent. So, as bad as this report is, it wasoriginally worse. Dr. wrote his congressman demanding the FDArelease the other 20 percent, but they refused saying it was confidential.Read the FDA report.ABSTRACT: The level of aspartame in a can of Diet Coke was found to be 0.06% by a food testing laboratory. The remaining cans from one caseof Diet coke were stored under three different heat conditions for 10 weeks.Seven cans were stored in an incubator (104 degrees Fahrenheit), sevencans were stored at room temperature (68-70 degrees Fahrenheit). At the end of 70 days samples were tested for levels of aspartame,formaldehydeand DKP (diketopiperazine). The refrigerated sample contained 0.058percent aspartame, 0.001 percent DKP and 53.5 parts per billion of formaldehyde. The room temperature sample contained 0.051 percent aspartame,0.002 percent DKP and 231 parts per billion of formaldehyde. Theincubator sample contained 0.026 percent aspartame, 0.010 percent DKP and76.2 parts per billion of formaldehyde. In addition 10 human subjectstasted each soda sample plus a new can of Diet Coke and rated each samplefor taste on a 1-4 scale with 1 being the best and 4 being the worst. The new can of Diet Coke received an average rating of 2.0. The samplestored in the refrigerator received an average rating of 2.6. Thesample stored at room temperature received an average rating of 2.5. Thesample stored in the incubator received an average rating of 3.8. Theeffects of heat on Diet coke produced the worst taste and the highestamount of loss of aspartame as well as the greatest increase in levels of DKP. The most pleasing taste was for the new can of Diet Coke. Theroom temperature sample and the refrigerated sample scored almost thesame in the taste test. All samples revealed a presence of formaldehyde. However, the highest level of formaldehyde occurred in the roomtemperature can. There was also formaldehyde present in the refrigeratedsample.BACKGROUND: Aspartame was discovered in l965 by Searle chemist, JimSchlatter. He was developing this drug for another use and afteraccidentally licking his finger found that aspartame was sweet. Todayaspartame is consumed by more than 100 million people in the United States. This chemical (aspartame) has been approved by the Food and DrugAdministration (FDA) who said that an individual can safely consume 97 packetsof aspartame every day. Aspartame is in many products including somethat children use such as diet soda, light yogurt, Flintstone Vitamins,baked goods, puddings, and Winterfresh gum. It has been knownto cause headaches, nausea, vision problems, seizures and cancer in its users.The ingredients in aspartame are aspartic acid, phenylalanine, andmethyl alcohol. Methyl alcohol is a chemical that breaks down in hightemperatures and turns into formaldehyde and DKP (diketopiperazine), twochemicals known to cause problems in the nervous system. Aspartame'slife is 262 days at 77 degrees Fahrenheit, or 25 degrees Celsius. The FDAgets more complaints about aspartame than any other food or drink. The symptoms of aspartame are a lot like the symptoms of multiplesclerosis and Alzheimer's disease. Ever since aspartame was approved in l985, there has been an increase in brain tumors. There is no directproof that aspartame caused the brain tumors, but there is enough reason to suspect that, and the television show, "60 Minutes" recently did a report linking the increase in brain cancer to aspartame use.The FDA reviewed Searle's studies of this artificial sweetener in whichrats were fed aspartame daily with their meals for one year. Therewere 12 brain tumors in the 320 rats that were fed aspartame and no braintumors in the 120 rats that were not fed aspartame.There was also a study done at the University of Wisconsin on rhesusmonkeys. they were fed aspartame daily. After day 200 of a one yearstudy the monkeys developed epileptic seizures. After the study ended,the aspartame was discontinued and the monkeys were fully watched for 60 days. The monkeys had no more seizures.~ & a Byron