Even soy can be damaging to your body when eaten in great abundance.
Vegetarians faced with the challenge of finding protein in other food sources are cautioned against too much daily intake of soy, because it’s found in so many vegetarian products. However, soy is a great nutritional source in smaller doses — unlike aspartame, which isn’t healthful at all. So what makes anyone think that, with the vast majority of our dietary products now containing aspartame, that aspartame can’t possibly be unsafe?
Dr. Gross protests the increase of Aspartame’s ADI
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We get quite a few emails asking about Splenda. While our focus is primarily on aspartame, we’re interested in answering your questions as best as we’re able. A new Duke University study that’s scheduled to be published in The Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health found that Splenda actually contributes to obesity. It also destroys beneficial intestinal bacteria and it may just interfere with the absorption of prescription drugs.
Take a look at an advance copy of the Journal on its Web site.
Need an alternate sweetener? The Feingold Association breaks down …

In 1965 a previously unknown chemical compound was haphazardly discovered in a pharmaceutical company’s laboratory. A subsequent discovery was made that the chemical, while not living up to the purpose for which it was intended, had an unintended effectiveness as a food-sweetening additive.
Meanwhile, in the consumer marketplace, a diet revolution was taking place. In this revolt, any food substance deemed to have some responsibility for undesired weight gains was targeted for elimination. Due to its high calorie content, common processed sugar was made a primary target in the effort to …

My own personal moment of doubt about the FDA came, surprisingly, not after my father told me about aspartame, because, well, he’s my father, after all, and his epiphany was his. Mine had to be earned, and so my disillusionment with the FDA came while while I was the managing editor at a local Dallas magazine, while I was writing an article about Domperidone, a drug that helps to produce breast milk in adoptive mothers. Despite that other countries have determined it to be safe, and even the FDA had …