JUNE 30TH...... EVENTFUL DAY - DAD DIES - VICTORY FOR CHRISTIANS!!

ABOUT  5:30  CALGARY,  ALBERTA  TIME,  I  RECEIVED  THE  PHONE  CALL  TO  TELL  ME  MY  DAD  HAD  DIED  PEACEFULLY  IN  HIS  SLEEP.

IT'S  THE  WAY  ALL OF  US  WOULD  LIKE  TO  SEE  EVERYONE  SLEEP  IN  DEATH.... NO  PAIN,  JUST  CLOSE  YOUR  EYES  AND  NOT  WAKE  UP.

HE  WAS  TWO  MONTHS  SHORT  OF  BEING  94.  HE  HAD  A  LONG  LIFE,  AND  BE  THE  FIRST  TO  SAY  A  WONDERFUL  BLESSED  AND  HAPPY  LIFE.  MET  MY  MOM  IS  SCHOOL  AT  AGE  12 [BOTH OF THEM] AND  WERE  SCHOOL-SWEET-HEARTS.  THEY  WERE  MARRIED  FOR  53  YEARS [MOM  DYING  IN  1994].  DAD  WAS  NOT  INTERESTED  IN  TRYING  TO  FIND  ANOTHER  WIFE  AT  AGE  73 [OF  COURSE  NOT  WRONG  TO  DO  SO,  AND  MOST  WOULD]   AND  MANY  WOMEN  IN  THE  10  PIN  BOWLING  CLUB  WISHED  HE  WAS.

DAD  WAS  A  VIVACIOUS  MAN,  AND  WAS  ALWAYS  THE  LEADER  IN  WHATEVER  GROUP  OR  WORK  HE  WAS  IN.  HE  WAS  FOREMAN  FOR  MACKINTOSH [REMEMBER  THEIR  "TOFFEE"?]  AND  WAS  WITH  THEM  FOR  36  YEARS  BEFORE  RETIRING.  LOVED  BY  ALL  UNDER  HIM;  TREATED  EVERYONE  FAIRLY;  THE  LADIES  ALL  CRIED  WHEN  HE  RETIRED;  ALL  SAID,  "IT  WILL  NEVER  BE  THE  SAME  WITHOUT  YOU."

MOM  AND  DAD  SENT  ME  TO  A  "CHURCH  OF  ENGLAND"  SCHOOL,  AT  AGE  5.  WHAT  A  BLESSING  THAT  WAS.  INTRODUCED  TO  THE  BIBLE  ON  DAY  ONE.  READING  GENESIS  1,  AND  I  REMEMBER  SAYING  TO  MYSELF,  "WOW  YES,  ALL  THIS  WONDERFUL  CREATION  I  LOVE....THERE  HAS  TO  BE  A  GOD  WHO  MADE  IT!"  I  BELIEVED  IN  GOD  RIGHT  FROM  THAT  DAY  FORWARD.

I  WAS  AN  ONLY  CHILD  BUT  NEVER  SPOILT  BY  MY  PARENTS.  THEY  TAUGHT  ME  GOOD  MANNER,  RESPECT  FOR  MY  ELDERS,  AND  THOUGH  I  HAD  MOST  THINGS  A  CHILD  LIKES,  I  HAD  TO  WAIT  FOR  SOME  THINGS,  OR SAVE  FOR  IT;  LIKE  WHEN  I  WANTED  A  GUITAR  AT  AGE  11,  DAD  SAYING,  "WELL  YOU  GET  POCKET  MONEY,  SO  SAVE  FOR  IT."  THEY  TAUGHT  ME  TO  DO  CHORES  AROUND  THE  HOUSE,  AND  YARD,  HENCE  POCKET  MONEY.  I  DID  SAVE  AND  I  DID  BUY  THAT  GUITAR  IN  THE  STORE  WINDOW [THAT  WAS  1953  WHEN  THE  GUITAR  WAS  HARDLY  KNOWN,  EXCEPT  FOR  PEOPLE  STRUMMING  ON  IT  LIKE  ROY  ROGERS  WHEN  HE  SANG  IN  HIS  COWBOY  MOVIES].

DAD  ENCOURAGED  ME  AT  AGE  14,  TO  SEND  FOR  THE  CHARLES  ATLAS  HEALTH  AND  STRENGTH  COURSE.  WHAT  A  BLESSING  ALSO.  I  ATTRIBUTE  MY  SUPER  GOOD  HEALTH  AND  YOUTHFULNESS  TODAY  TO  THAT  COURSE,  STILL  FOLLOWING  MANY  OF  ITS   TEACHINGS.

DAD  WROTE  HIS  AUTOBIOGRAPHY  SOME  YEARS  AGO.

I  WILL  NOW  START  TO  UPLOAD  IT  TO  MY  WEBSITE,  AND  ADD  SOME  STORIES  MY  DAD  TOLD  ME,  THAT'S  NOT  IN  HIS  AUTOBIOGRAPHY;  STORIES I  TOLD  HIM  HE  SHOULD  HAVE  PUT  IN.  YOU'LL  FIND  IT  VERY  INTERESTING.

DAD  WAS  ORGANIZED.  HE  BOUGHT  THE  HEADSTONE  AND  GRAVE  SPOT  IN  OUR  SMALL  VILLAGE  IN  SOUTH  WALES,  MANY   YEARS  AGO.  ALL  THE  WORDS [HIM  AND  I  FIGURED  OUT]  ARE  THERE,  ALL  EXCEPT  THE  MONTH  AND  YEAR  OF  HIS  DEATH.  I  AM  TO  HAVE  THAT  ADDED,  WHEN  I  GO  THERE  WITH  THE  MINGLED  ASHES  OF  MY  MOM  AND  DAD,  TO  PLACE  THE  URN  ON  THE  GRAVE.

NO  RUSH  IS  NEEDED,  SO  WILL  PICK  THE  TIME  THAT  IS  BEST  FOR  ME  AND  OTHERS  OVER  IN  BRITAIN,  TO  DO  THAT.

I  HAD  A  VERY  FINE  MOTHER  AND  FATHER.  VERY  BLESSED  INDEED  TO  HAVE  HAD  THEM  AS  MY  MOTHER  AND  FATHER.
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A  VICTORY  OF  SORTS  TODAY  FOR  USA  CHRISTIANS.  THE  SUPREME  COURT  VOTED  IN  FAVOR,   THAT  FAMILY  RUN  CHRISTIAN  FOUNDATION  BUSINESSES  DO  NOT  HAVE  TO  PAY  FOR  THEIR  EMPLOYEES  "BIRTH  CONTROL"  PILLS  ETC.  IN  SOME  COMPANY  "HEALTH  PLAN"  OR  WHATEVER.  A  VICTORY  FOR  US  WHO  BELIEVE  LIFE  BEGINS  AT  CONCEPTION.

SO  SOME  GOOD  NEWS  FOR  A  CHANGE  FOR  CHRISTIANS  IN  THE  USA.
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THE  SITUATION  IN  IRAQ.  THE  ISIS  PEOPLE  ARE  MAKING  GAINS  TO  THE  NERVOUSNESS  OF  THE  REST  OF  IRAQ  AND  MANY  COUNTRIES  OF  THE  WORLD.  SO  MUCH  SO  THAT  COUNTRIES  USUALLY  NOT  WORKING  TOGETHER,  LIKE  IRAN  AND  THE  USA [AND  OTHERS]  ARE  NOW  WILLING  TO  WORK  TOGETHER  TO  TRY  AND  STOP  THE  GAINS  OF  ISIS.

WHAT  MOST  PEOPLE  DO  NOT  KNOW,  AND  ARE  NOT  BEING  TOLD  BY  MANY,  I  HAPPENED  TO  CATCH  IT  ON  BBC  NEWS,  IS  THE  HISTORY  OF  THIS PART  OF  THE  WORLD.

VERY  RECENTLY  IT  WAS  THE  ANNIVERSARY  OF  100  YEARS  SINCE  THE  FIRST  WORLD  WAR.  

WHAT  THE  BBC  NEWS  TOLD  US  WAS  THAT  AT  THE  END  OF  THAT  FIRST  WORLD  WAR,  THE  ALLIES [BRITAIN ETC.]  CARVED  UP  THE  BORDERS  OF  IRAQ,  SYRIA,  AND  OTHER  SECTIONS,  IN  A  VERY  POOR  WAY,  NOT  AT  ALL  THE  WAY  IT  WAS  BEFORE  THAT  WORLD  WAR,  WITH  BORDERS  BASED  ON  "RELIGIOUS"  ETHNIC  PEOPLES.

WHAT  THE  BBC  NEWS  ADMITTED  WAS  THAT  ISIS  IS  NOW  WANTING  TO  RESTORE  THOSE  BORDERS  AS  IT  WAS  BEFORE  THE  FIRST  WORLD  WAR.

IN  OTHERS  WORDS  THE  MESS  CREATED  BY  BRITAIN  AND  ALLIES,  WITH  BORDERS,  AFTER  THE  FIRST  WORLD  WAR,  HAS  NOW  FINALLY  LED  TO  THE  PRESENT  ISIS  SITUATION  IN  IRAQ  AND  SYRIA.

THIS  JUST  PUTS  THE  PICTURE  CLEAR  AS  TO  WHY  I  SAID,  WHEN  BUSH  AND  BLAIR  DECLARED  WAR  ON  IRAQ,  IT  WAS  A  GRAVE  MISTAKE,  AND  THAT  AFTER  BRITAIN  AND   THE  USA  AND  OTHER  ALLIES  LEFT  IRAQ,  IT  WOULD  GO  BACK  TO  "RELIGIOUS"  SECT  WARFARE.  I  KNEW  IT  WOULD,  BUT  DID  NOT  AT  THAT  TIME  KNOW  HOW  THE  BORDERS  WERE  FOOLISHLY DRAWN  UP  OVER  THERE,  AFTER  THE  FIRST  WORLD  WAR.

NOW  IT  ALL  FITS  TOGETHER,  WITH  WHAT  THE  BBC  NEWS  BROUGHT  OUT,  AS  TO  WHY  WE  ARE  IN  THE  ISIS  MESS  OF  TODAY.

IT'S  LIKE  YOUR  LACK  OF  WISDOM  AND  MISTAKES  OF  YESTERDAY  WILL  COME  BACK  TO  HAUNT  YOU  TOMORROW.

THERE  IS  MUCH  YET  TO  TAKE  SHAPE  IN  THE  MIDDLE  EAST  AND  THE  ARAB  NATIONS,  BEFORE  THE  END  TIME  PROPHECIES,  LEADING  UP  TO  THE LAST  3  AND  1/2  YEARS  OF  THIS  AGE,  COMES  TO  PASS.

AND  ALL  THAT  I'VE  FULLY  EXPOUNDED  TO  YOU  ON  MY  WEBSITE  UNDER  "PROPHECY."
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MAYBE MY DAD'S....LAST WEEK!!

RECEIVED  THE  PHONE  CALL I  WAS  HOPING  WOULD  BE  SOME  YEARS  AWAY  YET.

THE  NURSING  CARE  FACILITY  WHERE  MY  DAD  LIVES,  IN  KELOWNA,  B.C.  CALLED  AT  4:30  PM  TODAY,  TO  SAY  MY  DAD  IS  TAKING  A  DOWN  TURN..... VOMITING  AND  A  HIGH  TEMPERATURE,  AND  AS  THE  NURSE  PUT  IT,  "NOT  DOING  WELL."

I  TOLD  THEM  TO  MAKE  HIM  AS  COMFORTABLE  AS  POSSIBLE;  THEY  AGREED  THAT  WAS  THE  BEST.  

AT  TWO  MONTHS  SHORT  OF  BEING  94..... WELL....YOU  KNOW,  THEY  KNOW,  I  KNOW.

SO  MY  STOMACH  IS  IN  KNOTS  RIGHT  NOW;  MY  MIND  IS  PREPARING  FOR  WHAT  COULD  BE  HIS  LAST  DAYS  IN  THIS  LIFE.

BEING  AN  ONLY  CHILD,  IT  WILL  FEEL  VERY  STRANGE  FOR  ME,  IF  MY  DAD  PASSES  AWAY  THIS  COMING  WEEK.

BUT  I  KNOW  HE  WOULD  BE  THE  FIRST  TO  SAY  HE'S  LIVED  A  "CHARMED"  LIFE...... OH  WHEN  I  THINK  ABOUT  HIS  AUTOBIOGRAPHY  HE  WROTE,  INDEED  HE  DID  HAVE  A  CHARMED  LIFE  FROM  BEGINNING  TO  END.

I  WILL  POST  UP  HIS  AUTOBIOGRAPHY [UP  TO  HIS  RETIREMENT  YEARS]  ON  MY  WEBSITE,  WHEN  DAD DOES  SLEEP  IN  DEATH.  BUT  ONE  VERY  INTERESTING  THING  I  WILL  SHARE  WITH  YOU  NOW.  WHEN  HE  WAS  A  SMALL  CHILD  IN  SOUTH  WALES,  A  GYPSY  LADY  CAME  TO  HIS  HOUSE.  HIS  MOTHER  WAS  KIND  TO  ANYONE.  AS  SHE  TALKED  TO  THE  GYPSY  LADY  WITH  MY  DAD  HANGING  ON TO  HIS  MOTHER'S  LEG;  THIS  IS  WHAT  THE  GYPSY  LADY  SAID  TO  HER,  "YOUR  SON  WILL  LIVE  A  LONG  LIFE,  BUT  HE'LL  HAVE  STOMACH  PROBLEMS."

WOW..... SHE  WAS  RIGHT  ON  THE  BULLS-EYE!!

DAD  HAD  STOMACH  PROBLEMS  MOST  OF  HIS  ADULT  LIFE  TILL  INTO  HIS  70s.

DID  THE  SPIRIT  OF  GOD  SPEAK  TO  THAT  GYPSY  LADY  AND  TELL  HER  THOSE  TWO  THING  ABOUT  THIS  LITTLE  BOY  SHE  WAS  LOOKING  AT?  WAS  IT  JUST  A  GUESS  ON  HER  PART?  WAS  IT  JUST  A  LUCKY  STRIKE?  

THE  LORD  WORKS  IN  MYSTERIOUS  WAYS  HIS  WONDERS  TO  PERFORM.  I'M  KINDA  THINKING  IT  WAS THE  FIRST  ONE  I  MENTIONED.

SO  NOW  I  LEAVE  IT  IN  GOD'S  HANDS  CONCERNING  MY  DAD'S  SITUATION  AT  PRESENT.  AND  IF  THIS  IS TO  BE  MY  DAD'S  LAST  WEEK,  I'LL  SURE  HAVE  LOTS  TO  SAY  ABOUT  THIS  VERY  FINE  WELSHMAN  ON  MY  WEBSITE.

Keith Hunt

CANADA FAR FROM INNOCENT .... IN HAVING SLAVES!!!

CAUGHT  AN  INTERVIEW  A  MONTH  OR  SO  BACK  ON  CBC  RADIO.

WOW!  IT  SHOCKED  ME!

MOST  IN  CANADA  HAVE  NEVER  BEEN  TAUGHT,  MOST  IN  THE  ANGLO-SAXON  WORLD  PROBABLY  DO  NOT  KNOW...... BUT  CANADA  DOES  INDEED  HAVE  A  HISTORY  OF  BEING  IN  THE  "SLAVE  TRADE" !!

A  BOOK  BY  A  CANADIAN  FRENCH  AUTHOR  HAS  NOW  BEEN  TRANSLATED  INTO  ENGLISH.

I  SENT  FOR  IT,  BOUGHT  IT,  AND  NOW  A  LITTLE  OF  THE  FIRST  PAGES  IS  ENTERED  ON  MY  WEBSITE,  UNDER  "HISTORY"

ONE  DAY,  WHEN  THE   COPYRIGHT  RUNS  OUT,  WHEN  THE  BOOK  IS  ANCIENT  HISTORY [WHICH  TODAY  DOES  NOT  TAKE  LONG  FOR  BOOKS  TO  BE ANCIENT  HISTORY,  SO  MANY  KEEP  COMING  OFF  THE  PRESS  EVERY  MONTH],  I  WILL  POST  UP  THE  ENTIRE  BOOK......  IT  IS  REALLY  A  SHOCKING  EYE  OPENER!
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THE Scourge of ASPARTAME AND ARTIFICIAL Sweeteners.... Dr. Mercola

Supporting Evidence for Aspartame-Alzheimer’s Link Emerges

June 26, 2014 | 106,711 views

         By Dr. Mercola

Most public health agencies and nutritionists in the United States still recommend no- or low-calorie artificial sweeteners as an acceptable, and even preferred, alternative to sugar. This flawed advice can have very serious repercussions for those who follow it.

Artificial sweeteners of all kinds have been found to wreak havoc with your health in a number of different ways. Aspartame, which is perhaps the worst of the bunch, has a long list of studies indicating its harmful effects, ranging from brain damage to pre-term delivery.

Aspartame is also the number one source of side effect complaints to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), with over 10,000 complaints filed and over 91 documented symptoms related to its consumption.

Most recently, studies are also starting to confirm lingering suspicions that artificial sweeteners like aspartame may play a role in the development ofAlzheimer's disease, a serious form of dementia that is now thought to kill over half a million Americans each year.

The key mechanism of harm appears to be methanol toxicity—a much-ignored problem associated with aspartame in particular.

In a previous interview, toxicology expert Dr. Woodrow Monte (author of the book While Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills¹), explained the links between aspartame and methanol toxicity and the formation of formaldehyde. In light of the latest research, this interview is more relevant than ever, which is why I included it again.

Methanol Toxicity Leads to Persistent Alzheimer's Symptoms

A recently published two-part paper^2, 3 highlights what Dr. Monte has been saying for many years now—that methanol acts differently in animals and humans. In this case, the researchers also discovered changes in effect between mice and rhesus monkeys.

Methanol-fed mice presented with partial "Alzheimer's disease-like symptoms," while rhesus monkeys fed a 3% methanol solution developed persistent pathological changes related to the development of Alzheimer's. According to the authors:

"A recently established link between formaldehyde, a methanol metabolite, and Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology has provided a new impetus to investigate the chronic effects of methanol exposure.

This paper expands this investigation to the non-human primate, rhesus macaque... [M]ethanol feeding led to persistent memory decline in the monkeys that lasted 6 months beyond the feeding regimen...

Most notably, the presence of amyloid plaque formations in the monkeys highlighted a marked difference in animal systems used in AD investigations, suggesting that the innate defenses in mice against methanol toxicity may have limited previous investigations into AD pathology.

Nonetheless, these findings support a growing body of evidence that links methanol and its metabolite formaldehyde to AD pathology." [Emphasis mine]

The Link Between Aspartame and Methanol Toxicity

The artificial sweetener industry (and makers of artificially sweetened products) has fervently claimed that aspartame is harmless, and that there's "no biological explanation" for the health problems reported by so many after consuming aspartame.

But as explained by Dr. Monte, there is indeed a biological and scientific explanation for aspartame's pathway of harm, and as the latest research suggests, it's related to the effects of methanol and formaldehyde, both of which are extremely toxic.

Aspartame is primarily made up of aspartic acid and phenylalanine—the latter of which has been synthetically modified to carry a methyl group. This is what provides the majority of the sweetness. That phenylalanine methyl bond, called a methyl ester, is very weak, allowing the methyl group on the phenylalanine to easily break off and form methanol.

You may have heard the claim that aspartame is harmless because methanol is also found in fruits and vegetables. However, in these whole foods the methanol is firmly bonded to pectin, which allows it to be safely passed through your digestive tract. This is not the case for the methanol created by aspartame. There, it's not bonded to anything that can help eliminate it from your body. That's problem number one...

Problem number two relates to the fact that humans are the only mammals who are NOT equipped with a protective biological mechanism that breaks down methanol into harmless formic acid. This is why animal testing of aspartame does not fully apply to humans.

According to Dr. Monte, the fact that methyl alcohol is metabolized differently in humans compared to other animals has been known since 1940. And according to the featured paper, rhesus monkeys do not appear to have the same defenses against methanol toxicity as mice do. This basically negates much of the animal research that has been used to "prove" aspartame's safety.

Methanol Acts as a Trojan Horse in Your Body

As explained by Dr. Monte, in humans, methanol ends up acting as a Trojan horse, allowing toxic formaldehyde to wreak havoc in some of your most sensitive areas, such as your brain. Here's how it works: both animals and humans have small structures called peroxisomes in each cell. There are a couple of hundred in every cell of your body, which are designed to detoxify a variety of chemicals. Peroxisome contains catalase, which help detoxify methanol.

Your cells also contain alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), which converts methanol to formaldehyde. Other chemicals in the peroxisome in turn convert the formaldehyde to formic acid, which is harmless—but this last step occurs only in animals. Human peroxisomes cannot convert the toxic formaldehyde into harmless formic acid.

Certain locations in your body, particularly in the lining of your blood vessels, and in your brain, are loaded with ADH that converts methanol to formaldehyde. But since there's no catalase present, the formaldehyde does not get converted into harmless formic acid. As a result, the formaldehyde is free to do enormous amounts of damage in your tissues.

Symptoms of methanol poisoning include: headaches, ear buzzing, dizziness, nausea, gastrointestinal disturbances, weakness, vertigo, chills, memory lapses, numbness, and shooting pains in the extremities, behavioral disturbances, and neuritis. The most well known problems from methanol poisoning are vision problems including misty vision, progressive contraction of visual fields, blurring of vision, obscuration of vision, retinal damage, and blindness. Formaldehyde, in turn, is a known carcinogen that causes retinal damage, interferes with DNA replication, and may cause birth defects.

Processed Foods Are Also High in Methanol

As I've discussed in previous articles, processed foods should be avoided as a proactive Alzheimer's prevention strategy. In his book, Grain Brain, neurologist Dr. Perlmutter reveals how the toxic activity of sugar and carbohydrates in your diet promote Alzheimer's disease. But we can also add methanol to the list of reasons for avoiding processed foods. Not only do many processed foods contain artificial sweeteners, but when fruits and vegetables are canned, for example, the methanol becomes liberated from the pectin.

At room temperature, it only takes one month for 10 percent of the methanol to be released. After about six months, virtually all of the methanol is liberated. Dr. Monte is convinced that methanol and the subsequent conversion to formaldehyde from certain processed foods (see listing below), as well as all foods containing aspartame, are a major culprit in a variety of diseases, especially multiple sclerosis (MS).

Again, methanol can slip through your blood brain barrier, and your brain is one of the areas where you find alcohol dehydrogenase, which converts methyl alcohol to formaldehyde. This causes the destruction of myelin basic protein, which is one of the triggers for MS. Demyelination also plays a role in the development of Alzheimer's and several other brain-related diseases. According to Dr. Monte:

"We know that methyl alcohol is known to be a demyelinating agent... [T]he symptoms associated with the demyelination... are identical between multiple sclerosis, and methanol poisoning, and people who consume aspartame."

He believes many diseases can be prevented if we start avoiding methanol from all sources, and he even offers a methanol-free diet on his website.⁴ Items to avoid include:

Cigarettes	Tomato sauces, unless first simmered at least 3 hours, no lid on pan
Diet foods and drinks with aspartame	Smoked food of any kind, particularly fish and meat
Fruit and vegetable products and their juices in bottles, cans, or pouches	Chewing gum, as most chewing gum in the USA contains aspartame
Jellies, jams, and marmalades not made fresh and kept refrigerated	Slivovitz and other fruit schnapps
Black currant and tomato juice products, fresh or processed	Overly ripe or near rotting fruits or vegetables

The Neurotoxic Properties of Splenda

Another popular artificial sweetener is sucralose, sold under the brand name Splenda. Sucralose is a synthetic chemical created in a five-step patented process, in which three chlorine molecules are added to one sucrose (sugar) molecule. Some will argue that natural foods also contain chloride, which is true. However, in natural foods, the chloride is connected with ionic bonds that easily dissociate when ingested. In Splenda, they're in a covalent bond that does not dissociate.

And, since your body has no enzymes to break down this covalently bound chloride, harm can ensue... The reason why your body has no enzymes for this task is because, in nature, there are NO covalent chloride bonds to organic compounds—they only exist in synthetic, man-made form. Aside from Splenda, other examples of synthetic covalently bound chloride compounds include DDT, PCBs, and Agent Orange.

Previous research indicates that about 15 percent of sucralose is absorbed into your digestive system, and ultimately stored in your body fat. A 2008 animal study⁵ found that Splenda reduced the amount of beneficial intestinal bacteria by 50 percent, increased the intestinal pH level, and affected a glycoprotein that can have crucial health effects, particularly if you're on certain medications.

More recent research⁶ detailing Splenda's oxidative effects, suggests the sweetener may have neurotoxic properties, which doesn't surprise me in the least. The researchers, who assessed the effects of sucralose on water fleas, concluded that: "exposure to sucralose may induce neurological and oxidative mechanisms with potentially important consequences for animal behavior and physiology." As reported by GreenMedInfo.com:⁷

"Like so many novel patented chemicals released onto the market without adequate pre-approval safety studies, we do not know if this preliminary toxicological research will be applicable to human exposures. In fact, there are only 318 study citations on this chemical in existence since it first began to be researched in the 70's. This most recent study is the first in existence to look at its effect on the enzyme acetylcholinesterase, which is found in all animals.

This information deficit is all the more remarkable when you consider there are over 7,000 published studies in existence on either turmeric or its primary polyphenol curcumin, which is still not readily administered by the conventional medical establishment mostly due to 'safety concerns,' despite what the voluminous positive data on its relevance to over 600 health conditions indicates."

FDA Approval Means Little When It Comes to Ascertaining Safety

As previously noted by Dr. Janet Hull,⁸ many tend to excuse the negative health effects of aspartame simply because it has received the stamp of approval by the FDA. But as discussed in her article, "Abusing the FDA Approval Process,"⁹ the FDA requires that the industry do its own research, and actually places the burden of proof on the company making the product. Rarely is the industry research reviewed by independent researchers. Should you still be confused on this issue, thinking that the buck somehow stops at the FDA, FDA spokesman Theresa Eisenman recently clarified who is ultimately responsible for making sure a food product is safe, stating that:¹⁰ "Manufacturers are responsible for ensuring that their food products are safe and lawful..."

But what company would really make a serious effort to find problems with the very products they want to capitalize on? Despite this illogical premise, the FDA trusts corporations to be honest in their research and evaluations. How likely do you think it is that this "honor system" will actually ensure that each product released to market is safe?

When it comes to artificial sweeteners, aspartame in particular, there's no doubt in my mind that the system has protected industry profits at consumers' expense. And we've not seen the last of it. Despite mounting evidence showing that artificial sweeteners as a group have adverse health effects, the FDA has just approved yet another artificial sweetener called Advantame,^11, 12, 13 concocted from a combination of aspartame and vanillin, an artificial vanilla flavor.

Being 20,000 times sweeter than refined sugar, Advantame is the sweetest artificial sweetener so far. To put this into perspective, aspartame, sucralose, and saccharine range from 200 to 700 times sweeter than sugar. Also, as reported by theLA Times:¹⁴

"Like aspartame, advantame contains phenylalanine, which is metabolized with difficulty by people with a rare genetic disorder, phenylketonuria. But because of its intense sweetness, advantame would be used at much lower volumes than is asparatame. As a result, the FDA has declared that it can be safely consumed by those with phenylketonuria."

Having a Hard Time Giving Up Artificial Sweeteners?

When you consume artificial sweeteners, your brain actually craves more calories because your body receives no satisfaction on a cellular level by the sugar imposter. This can contribute to not only overeating and weight gain, but also an addiction to artificial sweeteners. To break free, I recommend addressing any emotional component of your food cravings using a tool such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). A version of EFT specifically geared toward combating sugar cravings is called Turbo Tapping. The video below with EFT practitioner Julie Schiffman also demonstrates how to use EFT to fight food cravings of all kinds.

If you still have cravings after trying EFT or Turbo Tapping, you may need to make some changes to your diet. My free nutrition plan can help you do this in a step-by-step fashion. As for safer sweetener options, you could use stevia or Luo Han, both of which are safe natural sweeteners. That said, if you struggle with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes or extra weight, then you have insulin sensitivity issues and would likely benefit from avoiding ALL sweeteners.

Last but not least, if you experience side effects from aspartame or any other artificial sweetener, please report it to the FDA (if you live in the United States) without delay. It's easy to make a report — just go to the FDA Consumer Complaint Coordinator page, find the phone number for your state, and make a call reporting your reaction.

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