Alex T writes: “A lot of time is spent these days talking about eating locally produced food for a variety of reasons: to cut down your carbon footprint, to support your community and farmer, to live a healthier life. All of these are excellent idealogical, communal and nutritional reasons to make a switch.

But sometimes, people need to be hit over the head with the realities that our mechanized food system ‘brings to the table.’ I offer the following link with a serious caveat: Do not click it unless you are prepared for extremely graphic reasons to change certain food habits. The link goes to a personal account of a woman trying to convince her family to stop drinking Diet Coke. What follows is her descriptions and photos of a controlled group of rats fed weight-equivalent amounts of Diet Coke and the extraordinary physical damage that they suffered as a direct result.  Here is the link to myaspartameexperiment.com

The Internet appears to be full of people against aspartame (the sweetener in many ‘Diet’ products).  The FDA continues to stand by their approval of Aspartame as a food additive despite a public outcry including 10,000 complaints to the Dept. of Health detailing nearly 100 different health issues.  Other studies have demonstrated Aspartame’s carcinogenic nature while The University of Wisconsin, among others, have found it to be safe for human consumption.

It’s tough not to feel like a fear-monger when sharing information of this nature.  Not being a scientist, I can’t confirm or deny any of the findings presented here.  But if an additive is documented to cause brain damage, is bioaccumulative and breaks down into formaldehyde in the body, all points specifically mentioned by the University of Wisconsin study, I think that I’m going to keep Diet-anything-that-contains-aspartame out of my body.”

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