Any good advice on books and sites about aspartame and nutrition? (no junk science please)

tame

[tame]

There are soooooo many nutrition books, and diet books on the market. It can be a bit overwhelming and confusing for a beginner like me to sort out the junk science, and voodoo gimmicks, from the well respected books, and web sites.

In the last couple of years I've been extremely tired, sleepy and fatigued for some reason. I've never really been into the nutrition thing, so I would appreciate any of your recommendations on good nutrition, and advice on the following:

1) Sodium. What's the story? How much is too much. How little is too little. Is it true that sodium causes water retention, and too much water retention is bad?

2) Aspartame. I love it in sweeteners (nutrasweek, etc.). I probably use between 100 and 200 packets a day. No joke. But I hear so many bad things about it. Is this junk science or not?

3) Water. I heard someone say you can actually drink too much water. Is this true? If so, how much is too much?

4) yams and sweet potatoes. I love them. I usually have a yam or sweet potato along with one broiled chicken breast for a meal. What are the draw backs on yams and sweet potatoes?

5) Body For Life Diet. I've lost a bit of weight on this diet, but I still lack energy. Any draw backs to this diet?

Please steer me away from the junk science and recommmend some healthy books and websites.

I appreciate it. tame.

[tame]

If you care for me, Please offer your advice:-)

[tame]

Solution?

[tame]

ping

[tame]

What-works-ping?

[tame]

Have you heard of "diet rite" cola? Is this a better alternative to regulat diet soda

[tame]

I still owe you those tapes on Aquinas by Geisler. I saw your name on someone's ping list today and it reminded me. Forgive me for the delay?

[tame]

MG, you seem to know a bit about biology. How about nutrition?

[annyokie]

Don't drink anything carbonated. It's bad news.

[restornu]

Natural Sweetners

The Story of Stevia

SomerSweet

Splenda

[bgierhart]

I am a personal Trainer, how much exercise are you getting?
This is an important part to any diet. (maybe your energy problem)

[restornu]

The Glass bottle Diet Rite has Splenda

[chicagolady]

The photo of a crumpled can of Diet Coke told the story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Coke's hometown paper. Fitting, poetic, just, but tragic for the company once rated "The Most Admired Business in the World". Today Coke wouldn't even make the list. Sales are down, profits collapsing, and 6,000 employees soon will be gone. To make room for 6,000 defense attorneys? The tragedy is stupendously larger than 6,000 jobs; it affects hundreds of millions of unwarned, innocent, afflicted consumers across the broad face of planet earth.

This crisis can't be solved by belt tightening, greater efficiency, more advertising, etc. It's so bad Coke can't say the word; to pronounce it will bring instant cataclysm. That word is aspartame, and their only recourse is denial, denial, denial, though every ad and commercial builds higher the scaffold upon which Coke shall surely hang.

Reality is in that twisted Diet coke can. It's poison. It's killing the unborn, raining tumors and seizures on the population, destroying children, incapacitating workers, mimicking MS, erasing memory and blinding. Inexorably Diet Coke visits a plague of 92 symptoms listed by our FDA on a secret report they'll never show which names diet soda as the first source of aspartame disease. And yes, Death was one of the 92.

Diet Coke is poison. And it's addictive, some victims drink several liters a day and keep it on their nightstands. If Coke changes the formula to remove aspartame the world will heal and the surge of hatred and vengeance by the disabled and bereaved shall certainly destroy Coca Cola.

The poison in Diet Coke is aspartame. As a member of the National Soft Drink Association Coke opposed FDA approval of aspartame for beverages. their objections, running to several pages published in the Congressional Record of 5/7/85, said aspartame is uniquely and inherently unstable and breaks down in the can. It decomposes into formaldehyde, methyl alcohol, formic acid, diketopiperazine and other toxins. In a study on 7 monkeys 5 had grand mal seizures and one died, a casualty rate of 86%.

Coke knew; and knowing, broke their good faith contract with customers, a breach exhibited by the recent plot to program vending machines to raise the price with the temperature. Dissatisfied with selling flavored sugar water plus phosphoric acid, they switched to pushing an addictive formula called "Diet". Addictive substances multiply markets, so Diet Coke soared off the sales charts, spreading obesity in its flight.. We're fatter because aspartame suppresses seratonin and makes us crave carbohydrates.

So why is aspartame/NutraSweet/Equal/Diet Coke/Diet Pepsi/etc on the market and in thousands of foods? Can you say CORRUPTION? One FDA Commissioner and one acting Commissioner have changed sides to work in the NutraSweet industry, plus 6 underlings and two federal attorneys assigned to prosecute NutraSweet for submitting fraudulent tests to get it approved. "It's like a script for Abbott & Costello." lamented an honest FDA scientist writing to Senator Metzenbaum. It works like this: "Approve our poison, and when you stop being a bureaucrat we'll make you a plutocrat! After its licensed we'll pay off the American Dietetics, the American Diabetes Association, the AMA and anyone we need who's for sale."

The jig's up! Worldwide consumer action has exposed aspartame, and millions have kicked the habit. Coke's profits are down 37% and for a year Monsanto's been trying to sell The NutraSweet Company. Finally they sold NSC, producer of the phenylalanine in NutraSweet for $125 million. Now Monsanto faces a $71 million lawsuit for exaggerating profits. Monsanto stock is in the toilet, but they may have found a buyer in the Swiss firm Pharmacia-Upjohn. P.U. for short! The deal won't finalize for a year. the plans are to ditch the Monsanto name as its stench is unendurable. CEO Bob Shapiro may soon be history, like Doug Ivester of Coke who just resigned. Will the last one out please turn out the lights!

Betty Martini, Mission Possible International, 5950 H State Bridge Road, PMB 215, Duluth, Georgia 30097 ( 770) 242-2599

References:

http://www.dorway.com (Empty email to help@dorway.com for map)
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
http://www.aspartamekills.com
http://www.presidiotex.com/aspartame (in Spanish asparspan)
http://www.dorway.com (Approval process fiasco exposed by Fox News, on audio)
http://www.aspartamekills.com ( Townsend Letter for Doctors, Jan 2000,
http://www.icanect.net/sunpress ( Aspartame Disease a world epidemic)
Two support groups online:
Aspartame Support Group and Aspartame Survivors
International Congressional Record, Senate 5/7/85

[Plutarch]

FWIW. I eat tons of aspartame. Just tons. Put six packets in my coffee. Gallons of Diet Coke. Am in perfect health, have been for years.

Doctors aren't too impressed with aspartame risks. I know, because the Diet Cokes are in short supply at the conferences, and the sugar sweetened cans go begging.

[michigander]

Please steer me away from the junk science and recommmend some healthy books and websites.

JunkScience.com - "All the junk that's fit to debunk"

Make good use of the "Site Search" link at the top of the page. Good luck.

[bgierhart]

I also suggest Splenda

[tame]

Don't drink anything carbonated. It's bad news.

I'm interested in why you say that. Is carbonation in itself bad (outside of the apparent gas problem)?

[supercat]

I've had good luck with Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution". He does not like Asparame, and prefers sucralose.

[tame]

I am a personal Trainer, how much exercise are you getting?

Well, that's the intersting thing. I need to start exercising again (I've not done that lately). But when I was exercising om a regular basis, it did not seem to help my energy level. That's why I'm puzzled.

[tame]

what is the main difference between splenda and aspartame?