Sweeteners Cause Obesity, Depression, Brain Damage, Etc | The Bitter Truth

Sugar is known to ‘improve’ moods for relatively short periods of time. With the help of insulin, sugar increases the secretion of serotonin in the brain. Serotonin is the neurotransmitter of happiness. If insulin secretion fails to occur, happiness remains low. The only way to get out of this situation, it seems, is to eat sugar so that the body can secrete insulin again.

You may believe that the fewer calories you eat, the more weight you’ll lose. But food manufactures know that the more artificially sweetened foods and beverages you consume, the more you’ll want their normal sugar-containing foods and beverages as well.

Diet foods and diet beverages haven’t only contributed to a massive increase in sugar consumption and obesity but also led to an epidemic of depression. I’ve seen numerous depressed people over the years, a large percentage of whom regularly used artificial sweeteners. By cutting out diet foods and ‘light’ products, they’ve returned to their normal moods, and they’ve lost excess weight, too.

The other insightful point regarding this field of study. Apart from causing obesity and depression, sweeteners have been linked to insomnia, headaches, giddiness, loss of memory, nausea, pre-menstrual syndrome, panic attacks, epileptic fits, and even overstimulation of breast glands leading to breast cancer. Aspartame in particular may cause extensive damage to the central nervous system. Once it has entered the intestinal tract, aspartame is converted into 2 highly excitatory neurotransmitter amino acids, aspartic acid and phenylalinine, as well as into methyl alcohol (wood-grain alcohol) and formaldehyde (embalming fluid). Wood alcohol is one of the most dangerous substances that result from eating artificial sweeteners.

It may directly enter the bloodstream and move through the brain barrier into the central nervous system where it can influence the neurotransmitters, alter brain function, and cause brain damage. Wood alcohol can cause blindness and formaldehyde can cause cancer. In some cases, aspartame may suppress appetite and ‘kill’ AGNI, the digestive fire, altogether. Both can lead to quick, excessive weight gain. According to Consumer Reports, aspartame has a shelf life of between 2 and 3 months. After that, it begins to break down and pose an increasing danger to the consumer. The same occurs when aspartame or an aspartame-containing food is heated.

Aspartame accounts for more than seventy-five percent of the total adverse reactions to food reported to the U.S. Federal Drug Administration. Hundreds of airline pilots have reported symptoms of memory loss and confusion, headaches, seizures, visual disturbances and gastrointestinal reactions as a result of consuming sweeteners. If pregnant women consume large quantities of diet sodas to avoid weight gain, their placenta may accumulate methyl alcohol, causing mental retardation in the fetus. They also risk maternal malnutrition because of the gastrointestinal problems and diarrhea associated with sweeteners.

Other sweeteners besides aspartame have similar effects. Added to soft drinks, they’re now even linked with testicular damage and other key areas of the body. Stimulating the brain of a child with these ‘pleasure-enhancing’ chemicals in beverages will, in some cases, program their senses to look for and use stronger addictive substances such as hard drugs or large amounts of alcohol later in life. The latest sweetener, acesulfame K, may also be carcinogenic, i.e., cause cancer, according a report published in the British Medical Journal in 1996. To avoid serious health problems, it’s best to stick to foods and beverages that come from purely natural sources.

A sugar called tagatose is one of the next sweeteners that will be appearing on products labeled under the pseudo-hygienic appellations of ‘Light’, ‘Lite’, ‘Low Calorie’, ‘Sugar Free’, ‘Sugarless’, ‘Low Fat’, or ‘Low Sodium,’ etc.

Hyperuricemia is an unhealthy and unacceptable result from ingesting tagatose. Some researchers believe hyperuricemia is a risk factor for ischemic heart disease, and it has been associated with lipid abnormalities, hypertension, stroke, and preeclampsia. It’s an especially hazardous effect with regards to diabetes because hyperuricemia is damaging to the pancreas as well as possibly causing major harm to other organs and systems in the body. Having too much uric acid in the blood predisposes you to developing gout, a painful joint condition.

If you wish to protect yourself and your family from the dreadful consequences of universal deceit and actually benefit from the foods you eat, start with fruit, vegetables, grains, nuts, seeds, and legumes. And be sure to prepare your foods from scratch.

[This is an extract from the book Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation by Andreas Moritz]Andreas Moritz is a writer and practitioner in the field of Integrative Medicine. He’s the author of thirteen books on various subjects pertaining to holistic health, including The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush, Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation and Cancer Is Not a Disease. His most recent book is titled Vaccine-Nation: Poisoning the Population, One Shot at a Time.Moritz is also the creator of Ener-Chi Art ( www.ener-chi.com ) and Sacred Santmony.Much of his life’s work has been dedicated to understanding and treating the root causes of illness, and helping the body, mind, spirit and heart to heal naturally.Connect with Andreas at: http://www.facebook.com/enerchi.wellnessCopyright 2011 by Andreas Moritz