When the aspartame was stopped, the seizures stopped. Searle Pharmaceuticals, discoverers of NutraSweet, hid this study to gain FDA approval. Pilots were having grand mal seizures in the cockpit just like the monkeys in the lab. Phenylalanine also breaks down into DKP, a tumor-causing agent. Results from a two-year test on experimental rats produced disastrous results for Searle brain tumors, gross mammary tumors, atrophied testes, birth defects.
Experimental animals predict human results.
Since the 1981 approval of NutraSweet, breast cancer has doubled from 90,000 to 180,000 and 300,000 cases of prostate cancer are expected in 1999. Aspartic acid is an excitotoxin . So, for lunch a diet coke and a bowl of Campbell Soup is definitely, Hmm, hmm, bad. The NutraSweet Company circulates misinformation about aspartame, asserting that the methanol in aspartame is less than in a glass of tomato juice. However, in NutraSweet, the methanol is free , appearing without ethanol, the antidote for methanol toxicity always present in natural food such as tomato juice.