The danger behind consumption of diet colas and artificial sweeteners. Most of us especially women are scared to gain weight, so when Diet cola's came out of the market, most of us prefer that than the regular one. Diabetics started using the artificial sweeteners. During the time a lot of people became happy with this product, because in a way it will give then reason to drink their favorite colas without worrying about gaining more weight.

But consumers should ask themselves what ingredient this diet colas and artificial sweetener has? well its Aspartame.

Aspartame is one of the most dangerous chemicals that is commonly used to make diet colas and artificial sweetener. Aspartame is more toxic than some of the narcotic drugs, yet this is legal. The consumption of product with aspartame has been linked to some serious diseases and other minor one. Thousands of food and pharmaceutical now contain aspartame but they never even mention it on the label.

Some Illnesses that is linked on the consumption of Aspartame :

ASPARTAME is dangerous for diabetics. It drives the blood sugar out of control, so diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are neurotoxic. Thus it passes the blood brain barrier and deteriorates the neurons of the brain, causing in diabetics (as well as in patients not suffering from diabetes) various kinds of brain damage, seizures, depression, manic depression, panic attacks, rage, violence.

Other Illnesses : Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Impotence, Asthma, Depression, Brain Tumor, Birth defect, Alzheimers (even as early as 30 years old), Cancer, etc.

Why is Aspartame Dangerous?

Aspartame is a member of excitoxins, a group of chemical that stimulates the neurons and nervous systems, this chemical makes the nervous system and neurons work excessively, thus causing it fatigue and in severe case can kill the nervous system.

Aspartame is made up of ingredients like methyl ester, aspartic acid and phenylaline. These ingredients are very dangerous, once this gets into the body the methanol is always converted to formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is the chemical used to embalm and preserve dead bodies.

Aspartic acid and phenylalanine when you split this two , you will get neurotoxin. Phenylalanine can cause some damage like the depletion of serotonin and changes of mood.

Dangerous effect of Aspartame depends on the person health condition, but even if the person who consume it is healthy, it is still toxic at some level, and prolonged use increases the chance of a person contacting degenerative disease.

If aspartame is dangerous why is it a multibillion dollar business? Diet drinks are one of the highest revenue producers for food and beverage companies around the world. Since a huge amount of money and power is involved here, the government protects the companies that produces these toxins.

I heard stories before about a woman who used to drink diet cola during her lunch at the office, after a few weeks of drinking the diet cola, she experienced a stomach pain that is becoming severe as days past, then when she went to the doctor, it was found out that it's the diet softdrink that is causing it.

Another story was that most airlines don't allow their Pilots to consume foods and beverages that contains aspartame, because it increases the risk of ; Dizziness, Memory loss and other ailment.