Aspartame Dangers
🧘Mental/Physical Health 🏋🏼♂️
When heated to 86 degrees F (body temp is 98.6) it releases free methanol that breaks down to formic acid and formaldehyde - a deadly neurotoxin.
The FDA refused to approve its use as it causes cancer and diabetes.
Donald Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle, the conglomerate that manufactured Aspartame. For 16 years approval was refused - until Rumsfeld got into the WH.
Starting to think sugar was demonised to get people to use artificial sweeteners.
Got this info from "The Fourth Reich" by Jim Marrs.
Sugar can definitely be bad for you, but the answer is to adapt your palate to not crave so much sweetness rather than lean on stuff like aspartame.
Stevia is the one non-sugar sweetener that's naturally occuring, but it's also commonly mixed with erythritol so it's tricky to find in its pure form.
My nursery had stevia plants. The leaves are very sweet and taste good. Can probably grow that and throw in chopped freah leaves. Also, coconut palm sugar has a much lower glycemic index of 35 vs sugars 60.
Good info! I'm going to remember this. Do you happen to know if it can be directly substituted in cooking?
I picked some up at walmart. Very good taste, not as sharply sweet as goyslop white sugar. Makes sense since white sugar is pure sweetness with eveything else removed. Havent cooked with it yet but id imagine its a great substute, may need to add a little more. Price is much higher. Organic coconut palm sugar 24oz 7.44. 64oz goyslop sugar 3.22. Also palm sugar is nutrient dense.
Nothing wrong with erythritol IMO, it's made from fermented molasses so is quite natural.