Sweet Poison

What if someone were to tell you that a chemical added to food could cause brain damage in your children and that this chemical could affect the nervous system.

how your children‟s nervous systems formed during development, so in later years, they may have learning or emotional difficulties? What if there was scientific evidence that these chemicals could damage a critical part of the brain known to control hormones so that later in life, your child might have endocrine problems? How would you feel?Suppose evidence was presented to you strongly suggesting that the artificial sweetener in your diet soft drink may cause brain tumors to develop, and that the number of brain tumors reported since the widespread introduction of this artificial sweetener has risen dramatically? Would that affect your decision to drink these products and especially to allow your children to drink them? What if you could be shown overwhelming evidence that one of the main ingredients in this sweetener(aspartate) could cause the same brain lesions as MSG? Would that affect your buying decisions?And finally, what if it could be demonstrated that all of these types of chemicals (called excitotoxins) possibly aggravate or even precipitate

many of the neurodegenerative brain diseases, such as Parkinson‟sdisease, Huntington‟s disease, ALS, and Alzheimer‟s disease?would you be concerned if you knew that these excitotoxin food additives are a particular risk if you have ever had a stroke, brain injury, brain tumor,seizure, or have suffered from hypertension, diabetes, meningitis, or viralencephalitis?I would think that all of us would more than just concerned to learnthat well known powerful brain toxins were being added to our food and drink to boost sales. We would be especially upset to learn that these additives have no other purpose than to enhance the taste of food and the sweetness of various diet products.