Aspartame

Why the heck is aspartame an ingredient in nearly every soft or diluted drink available in large shopping centres like tescos and dunnes stores etc, even lidl and aldi drinks are riddled with the stuff. It's actually really hard to find a concentrated drink without it, you know the ones where you just add water? Well I think out of about 10 different types in lidl only one type didn't have aspartame, it had the other one Sacharin. And don't get me started on tescos, I don't think they have any concentrated drinks in the whole place without it, even their own brand... Actually scrap that.. Especially their own brand. The thing is aspartame is supposed to be incredibly harmful if consumed, especially for children. So that has me thinking why, for something so harmful do they add it to children's drinks. Let's face it the only real people to drink those types of drinks are children. 

History

Apparently aspartame was a drug invented in a lab to chemically lobotomise patients who were severely mentally ill. Just do some research and you will see streams of information on it. And before you think I should have a tin hat on just look at other drugs which were releases to make the world a better place and make you healthier, thalidomide comes to mind. That's an example of not enough research being done before taking the substance. Now money and capitalism can be partly to blame for drugs being rushed through without proper studies. When a company has a eureka moment and feels they can make a few million in the process along comes with trail of destruction in the wake to get them what they want, which is money and success at any costs. This is also part of the whole capitalism system we live in today. If it makes the big guys money then get it out there quick and pay off enough people to make it happen as fast as possible. If the right people are handed the right brown envelope anything can happen, even speedily pushing through new drugs.

Before you think I'm losing my own point aspartame was originally a drug as outlined for lobotomising patients until a really clever scientist decided to taste it and eureka it tasted sweet, like sugar. So with that the guys above decided to roll it out as a sugar substitute, something today that's requested by so many 'clinically obese' people the media keep telling us about.

In the last 10 years sugar has been enemy no 1 for anyone going on a diet at any point in their lives, if only there was a sugar substitute which you can consume without any of the ill effects of sugar, none, absolutely no ill effects... Could this be correct? Absolutely no ill effects? Well considering it was originally invented to lobotomise people by melting away a piece of their brain then maybe that's just HOGWASH! Of course it damages your health but unfortunately for us some corrupt gits in America are after rolling it out all over the world with very little obstacles except having to pay out more money. 

Alternative

Well the good news is that we as a people have a choice about what we consume but just make sure you read the label to ensure it hasn't got the dreaded aspartame included. Actually you should keep sweeteners down to a minimum until you do research on it. 

Again for all the people saying I should have a tin hat on I say this: Anything with even then slightest amount of controversy shouldn't be an ingredient in any of the foods we eat until proper independent research is carried out. 

I tend to go for the real sugar products but just try and keep it to a small daily dose. 

After I wrote this I looked for an image on aspartame and found one on a very good link that I'll post now: http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-foods/aspartame-saccharine/

There's tonnes more all you have to do is write aspartame on a search engine and you'll find it. Also I found a really good search engine that won't spy on you www.duckduckgo.com and by the way I'm not affiliated with any of the above, if you know of a way to make money posting links please let me know because it just doesn't work as far as I'm concerned, I'm just a left minded idealist that feels like posting blogs that might make the world wake up a little bit and start asking questions.