Showing posts with label Neuroscientist Dr. John Olney. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 7, 2022

The shocking story of how Aspartame Became Legal

From I Am Awake

If you want to gauge the quality of a society or culture, no better place to look than the food supply.  "Spring 1971– Neuroscientist Dr. John Olney (whose pioneering work with monosodium glutamate was responsible for having it removed from baby foods) informs Searle that his studies show that aspartic acid (one of the ingredients of aspartame) caused holes in the brains of infant mice. One of Searle’s own researchers confirmed Dr. Olney’s findings in a similar study."

Aspartame is 200 times sweeter than table sugar.  

From MadeHow

Aspartame is an artificial sweetener used in reduced calorie foods. It is derived primarily from two naturally occurring amino acids chemically combined and designated by the chemical name N-L-aaspartyl-L-phenylalanine-l-methyl ester (APM). Discovered inadvertently in 1965, it was later patented and is currently the most utilized artificial sweetener in the United States.
Read more:  http://www.madehow.com/Volume-3/Aspartame.html#ixzz7PoGPzDqr

A list of products containing aspartame.