I started my Aspartame loaded diet as a test, consuming colas, yogurts, gelatins and ice creams. It was with a mixture of happiness and sadness that I woke up the very next day with the familiar throbbing pain, this time in my shoulder. These events took place several years ago. The pains are all gone, yet I know that my joints have suffered permanent damage. All damaged joints, through accidents, sports or arthritic processes, attract calcium and fibrin to the tissues that in the long run may cause permanent arthritic changes.
All arthritic process liberates the so-called free radicals, toxic substances that erode the tissue.
I now take extra dosages of antioxidants and try to apply the lesions that I learned with my arthritis experience. Never again will I touch artificial sweeteners and I will try to educate my patients as to the very important reasons why. The FDA is intimately related to the pharmaceutical industry. It is important to let the consumers know that many retired FDA officials go to work as special counselors to the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Robert Liz put it more directly.