The Aspertame Lawsuit (Equal Sugar Sweetener Is Toxic!)

“The conclusions presented by the Ramazzini Foundation are simply wrong,” said Dr. Richard H. Adamson, scientific consultant to the American Beverage Association. “The first Ramazzini report was widely discredited worldwide for poor scientific methodology and there is no reason to think this report will fare any better. Furthermore, presenting data in such an unethical and unusual way—by going around the widely accepted practices of scientific peer review and releasing information directly to the media—does nothing but cause unnecessary alarm among consumers about an ingredient that has repeatedly been confirmed as safe by regulatory agencies around the world.”

“The bottom line is Ramazzini’s studies are flawed and are conducted on rats that are not pathogen free, while the National Cancer Institute study focuses on humans,” Adamson said. “It is the extensive human studies—as well as the breadth of research on aspartame—that should give consumers complete confidence in aspartame.”

The data presented by Dr. Mirando Soffritti of the Ramazzini Foundation, and its lack of support from the scientific community, stands in stark contrast to the study by the National Cancer Institute – a highly reputable institution that carried out a long-term, peer-reviewed study. And it stands in contrast to hundreds of other peer-reviewed studies affirming aspartame.

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Sugar is without question one of the most dangerous substances on the food market today.

What we are talking about here is sucrose, the white crystalline sugar refined from cane or beet juice by stripping away all its vitamins, minerals, protein, fiber, water, and other synergists.

White sugar is an industrially processed chemical not found in nature, and it is not fit for human consumption.

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In a recent study conducted by Dr. C. Keith Connors of the Children's Hospital in Washington, DC, a 'deadly' link was established between the consumption of sugar with carbohydrates (such as breakfast cereal, cake, and biscuits) and violent behaviour, hypertension, and learning impediments.

In other studies, chronic violence in prisons was remarkably reduced simply by eliminating refined sugar and starch from prison diets. Singapore in 1991 banned sugary soft drink sales from all schools and youth center's, citing the danger that sugar poses to the mental and physical health of children.

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