How safe is aspartame? Found in packets of NutraSweet(r) or Equal(r) in most restaurants, the artificial sweetener is ingested by an estimated 200 million worldwide. It is found in more than 6,000 consumables, including sodas, juices, candies, coffees, teas, pharmaceuticals, vitamins, and dairy products. Concerned about the health of family members drinking large quantities of diet soda, author Victoria Inness-Brown took a remarkable step. She raised 108 rats, giving 60 of them NutraSweet-laced water for 2 1/2 years. While the majority of her 48 controls stayed healthy, the aspartame-drinking group suffered grossly observable tumors, thinning fur, paralysis, and eye and skin disorders. Even more shocking, this addictive additive, meant to curb weight, actually caused weight gain in two of the rats The content of Are Your Diet Sodas Killing You: Results from My Aspartame Experiment are extracted from Inness-Brown's ground-breaking book: My Aspartame Experiment: Report from a Private Citizen, where she discusses and exhibits photos from her experiment that show the synthetic sweetener to be harmful. An astonishing 20 out of 30, or 67%, of her females on aspartame developed grossly observable tumors This provocative work contradicts everything the FDA and aspartame industry have been reporting regarding the safety of the sweetener. Power packed with personal stories from aspartame sufferers and supported by scientific research and painstaking documentation, My Aspartame Experiment: Report from a Private Citizen targets the scientific community. It provides full details about her protocol and how it compares to those of aspartame industry safety studies; a complete analysis of her rats' environment; exhaustive references; a comprehensive index; and all steps of her calculations. In comparison, Are Your Diet Sodas Killing You? Results from My Aspartame Experiment is a slimmed down, more affordable color version of Inness-Brown's report aimed at those most interested in her photographic results. If you or anyone you care about is addicted to aspartame, this book is for you. According to Inness-Brown, we are the rats of the pharmaceutical and chemical 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 p

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