Aspartame Free Gum

I remember a few months back while chewing my favourite piece of gum I was reading the back and noticed a WARNING!…I couldnt believe it…a warning on gum. I figured, maybe it’s time to find some Aspartame free gum?

So I did a little research and found some pretty scary results about what I was putting into my mouth every single day. All the gum I chewed contained aspartame in it….and I mean ALL of it. I couldn find anything in local stores that was sugar free gum and didn’t have this sugar substitute in it.

Aspartame can have some pretty nasty side effects from what Ive been reading. Here’s a run down. The list of the side effects related to consumption of aspartame is very long. Moreover, according to the Headache review of November 1997, particularly sensitive people can feel effects with very low dose: chewing gum, for example, can cause an headache. In 1994, the FDA had already accumulated nearly 7000 complaints of side effects connected to aspartame. Most frequent are: headaches (what was confirmed by several studies), giddiness, blurred vision, changes of mood, pains to the belly and cramps.

Among the other symptoms that have appeared are depression, the losses of memory, pains at the joints, menstrual disorders, epileptic fits and even some deaths! And that is only one fraction of the effects currently associated to the consumption of aspartame, since the majority of people have not yet establish the link between their health issues and this product. Even if they do it, only a small percentage of people and health professionals take time to bring it back to the governmental authorities.

In 1991, the National Institute off Health published a bibliography, Adverse Effects off Aspartame, giving over 167 reasons to avoid the aspartame. A recent study also showed that aspartame, just like sugar, promotes calcium loss.