Do you drink diet sodas?

I confess, I used to drink them frequently, but no more. As I stated in my last article, Why I No Longer Consume the Standard American Diet, I’ve finally become conscious to the dangers of impure manufactured substances intended for human consumption. (Can anyone honestly call diet soda a ‘food’?)

Yesterday the Daily Mail, a UK news source, published an article about premature births for mothers who consume what they call “fizzy drinks” – apparently the English term for what we call “sodas”. We’re talking about carbonated beverages – particularly those containing artificial sweeteners: diet sodas.

A new European Union (EU) study concluded that there’s a correlation between diet sodas and premature births. Apparently some of these moms-to-be switched from sugary sodas to diet, thinking that would be a better alternative while pregnant. How very sad, for the babies involved!

The article referenced a study done in America stating that methanol in artificial sweeteners may be the culprit. Once inside our bodies, methanol converts to formic acid (the poison in bee stings) and from that to a neurotoxin, formaldehyde (used to fill dead bodies and also used in cosmetics and soaps.)

Source: Do sweeteners bring on early birth? How fizzy drinks can harm an unborn child by Sean Poulter published July 10, 2010 in the Daily Mail.

After reading this I felt compelled to add a warning paragraph and quote from the article to my lens, Natural and Artificial Sweeteners… to let people know they’re drinking nerve toxins every time they consume an aspartame-laced carbonated beverage like Diet Coke (which contains Nutra Sweet brand aspartame).

I keep wondering why more people aren’t concerned about the lack of action on the part of the FDA (USA’s Food and Drug Administration) when the facts about our manufactured “food” supply being poisoned are so well documented. Does the government want us dead? (Yeah, I really think they do and that population destruction, control and decline are some of their big issues.)

Yes, diet sodas contain methanol, but with all the information on the web, people aren’t getting the information. When I worked at the pizza wreck downtown I saw lots of people drinking these sodas; I was constantly amazed at eating habits because 90% of what was sold there, I’d never be willing to consume.

The news about methanol isn’t new… I found an illuminating article on HolisticMed.Com… to quote:

“Clinically, chronic exposure to methanol has been seen to produce headaches, dizziness, nausea, ear buzzing, GI distiurbances, weakness, vertigo, chills, memory lapses, numbness & shooting pains, behavioral disturbances, neuritis, misty vision, vision tunneling, blurring of vision, conjunctivitis, insomnia, vision loss, depression, heart problems (including disease of the heart muscle), pancreatic inflammation (Kavet 1990, Monte 1984, Posner 1975).”

Source: Chronic Methanol/Formaldehyde Poisoning From Aspartame.

Doesn’t that sound like something you’d like to put into your body? Answer: Yes / No (circle one)

If your answer is ‘no’ then you might be concerned about giving aspertame to your kids in children’s pain relievers, or eating it unwittingly in a lot of other manufactured foods that contain aspertame.