Stick a few grapes on a toothpick and freeze them for the kiddos and you have a healthy popsicle. Be sure to choose red or black grapes and eat the skin and seeds to get the most health benefits. Another awesome thing about grapes is that the seeds contain laetrile (vitamin B₁₇) which selectively targets cancer cells. I will be talking about this amazing vitamin in my next newsletter.

Don't be fooled by "AminoSweet"

Aspartame producer Ajinomoto is launching a new initiative that will rebrand the toxic sweetener as “AminoSweet,” to remind us that it is made from amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Oh, isn’t that special? People will feel all warm and fuzzy and believe that it must be healthy. After all, amino acids are good, aren’t they?

Don’t fall for the slick marketing ploy. This is deception at its finest: Begin with a shred of truth, and then “spin it” to fit your own agenda, which in this case appears to be to convince us that this is just a “healthy sweetener” made from amino acids which are already present in our bodies. But whether you call it NutraSweet or Equal or AminoSweet, the aspartic acid in aspartame is a well-documented “excitotoxin.”

Excitotoxins are usually amino acids, such as glutamate (in MSG) and aspartate (in aspartame), which cause particular brain cells to become excessively excited to the point that they die. Dr Russell L. Blaylock, a professor of neurosurgery at the Medical University of Mississippi, published a book (Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills) which thoroughly details the damage that is caused by the ingestion of excessive aspartate from aspartame. He utilizes almost five hundred scientific references to show how aspartate and glutamate are causing serious chronic neurological disorders and a myriad of other health problems.

Believe it or not, aspartame was once on a Pentagon list of biowarfare chemicals submitted to Congress! Although test studies showed that it is extremely toxic to the brain, the government suppressed this fact and it was officially approved as a food additive for use in soft drinks in 1983.  The FDA ignored complaints of headaches, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, seizures, convulsions, blurred vision, and a multitude of other negative reactions to aspartame.  The truth of the matter is that the FDA has always known aspartame is a carcinogen and the FDA’s own toxicologist (the late Dr. Adrian Gross) told Congress without a shadow of a doubt aspartame can trigger brain tumors and brain cancers and violates the Delaney Amendment which forbids putting anything in food you know will cause cancer. 

Beware of a wolf dressed up in sheep’s clothing. In this case, it’s aspartame dressed up as AminoSweet. Changing aspartame’s name may fool some folks, but hopefully most of us will reject this deceptive (yet clever) marketing tactic as a desperate attempt to preserve Ajinomoto’s multi-billion dollar cash cow. To learn more about the dangers of aspartame, I highly recommend that you watch an excellent video entitled “Sweet Misery.”

Want to Get Healthy? Lay off the Sodas!

I remember in college one of my buddies told me that he had quit drinking sodas back in high school. At that time, knowing virtually nothing about nutrition or health, I thought “Big deal - what’s wrong with sodas?” 

For years, advocates of natural health have been hammering away at the message that soda causes diabetes and obesity along with a plethora of other health problems. Recent research presented at the American Heart Association’s Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention annual conference in San Francisco reveals that since the year 2000, soda consumption has conservatively caused over 130,000 new cases of diabetes!

One of the main concerns with soda is the fact that it has a very low pH, typically around 2.0, thus it is 100,000 (10⁵) times more acidic than water with a pH of around 7.0.  People that consume huge amounts of sodas (as well as coffee and alcohol) are typically very acidic and are “cancer magnets.”  One can of soda pop also reduces the immune response by 50% for a period of six hours!

And if that’s not enough, one can of soda has almost thirteen teaspoons of sugar, most of which is fructose from high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Despite the fact that the corn industry wants you to believe that HFCS is “natural,” the truth is that HFCS doesn’t actually exist anywhere in nature. It is a manufactured product created by using enzymes to increase the fructose content of corn syrup to about 90%.

This super HFCS is then blended “down” with a 100% glucose corn syrup to be added to our foods and drinks. When HFCS is ingested, it travels straight to the liver which turns the sugary liquid into fat. According to the USDA, HFCS also depletes the body of chromium, which is important in helping glucose pass from the bloodstream into the cells. This depletion of chromium in combination with an overworked pancreas frequently results in diabetes.

Due to the extremely high acidity of the HFCS combined with the phosphoric acid used in sodas, people who drink sodas often lose bone minerals and end up being diagnosed with osteoporosis, since their bodies seek out the minerals in their bones to be used as “buffers” in their blood. In other words, to prevent the soda from killing them, their bodies must buffer the acid, so they forfeit their bone minerals in order to stay alive!

In 1951, Dr. Clive McCay (a Navy nutritionist at the Naval Medical Research Institute) found that human teeth softened and started to dissolve in a short period of time after sitting in a cup of Coca Cola. He stated the acidity of cola beverages is about the same as vinegar, only it is masked by the sugar content. Maybe this is why sodas are also referred to as “soft drinks” – because they soften your teeth and bones!! And if you think diet sodas are better, think again. Diet sodas typically have a lower pH than normal soda, and they also contain harmful artificial sweeteners like aspartame, or should I say “AminoSweet”?

If you are thirsty, it means your cells are already dehydrated. A dry mouth should be regarded as the last outward sign of dehydration. That’s because thirst does not develop until body fluids are depleted well bellow levels required for optimal functioning.

Some statistics show that as much as 90% of us are walking around in a chronic state of dehydration. One way to tell if you’re dehydrated is to check the color of the urine. If it’s dark all the time, you’re probably dehydrated. 

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