In My Aspartame Experiment: Report from a Private Citizen, author
Victoria Inness-Brown recounts her controversial 2-1/2 year study
of the effects of the artificial sweetener aspartame. Found in
packets of NutraSweet or Equal, the sweetener is ingested by an
estimated 200 million people and found in over 6,000 consumables,
including sodas, candies, coffees, pharmaceuticals, vitamins, and
dairy products. Though approved by the FDA, Inness-Brown claims the
approval was based on studies cut off before the true effects of
the additive could be seen. In addition, human studies use
aspartame in capsules, which is not assimilated as fully as its
liquid form, thereby minimizing adverse effects. Concerned about
the health of family members addicted to diet soda, Inness-Brown
raised 108 rats, giving 60 NutraSweet-laced water for 2 1/2 years.
As her rats on aspartame began manifesting tumors, paralysis,
infected and bleeding eyes, and obesity, Inness-Brown made digital
videos of the results, culminating in a disturbing visual record of
the dangers of the additive. When leaked on the net in 2008, her
findings became a hot news topic on popular blogs. Carefully
researched, laced with photos and quotes from aspartame sufferers,
scientists, and doctors, her book shows that a citizen can go up
against a drug conglomerate and provide the public with important
new information about a dangerous substance. Not since Rachel
Carson's Silent Spring, has a book held such potential for social
change. Her analysis of the environment she provided her rats
brings up frightening issues about pesticides, herbicides,
genetically modified foods, animal products, water and air quality.
She believes that we are the rats of the companies that liberally
spread their synthetic chemicals worldwide. No one fully
understands the long-term effects-especially the complex
interactions from intermixing thousands of toxic chemicals within
the plant and animal kingdoms sustaining our plane
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