Loading ...As public awareness about the dangers of sugar has increased, many people now use artificial sweeteners to satisfy their sweet tooth. By far the most popular artificial sweetener found in restaurants, groceries, supermarkets and in our own kitchens and on our dining tables is aspartame. It is marketed under trade names like NutraSweet, Equal or AminoSweet.
In fact, you can hardly buy a stick of gum or a box of candy without being offered a dose of aspartame. Even worse, without carefully reading the label, you would not even suspect that a product contains aspartame. On most restaurant tables right alongside the packets of white sugar (unhealthy in their own right) are pretty pink and blue packets of the chemical aspartame, a well-known poison technically called an excitotoxin.
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