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Aspartame - The Fire Ant Killer
I learned some years ago that Aspartame (Equal in the blue packets) kills fire ants very quickly. I was plagued by huge hills at times and they spread all over quickly. I open a few of these packets and sprinkle the contents over the ant hill and in 24 hours all the ants are gone. It also kills all other ants as well. I use it with Boric Acid to control pests in Florida without dangerous pesticides.
If it's that toxic to ants, how toxic is it to us?
There's a building body of evidence about the bad side-effects of diet drinks containing Aspartame (Nutrisweet and Equal). Several years ago, Dr. H. J Roberts (of West Palm Beach FL) wrote the first book (I think) about the dangers of Aspartame. He detailed several side effects, particularly chronic headaches that he had seen in his MD practice. That book "Aspartame (Nutrasweet) : Is It Safe?" is available in both hard and soft cover.
Another book about Aspartame is: "Story of Aspartame : Shocking Expose of the World's Most Controversial Sweetener" by Mary Nash Stoddard is also available from Amazon.com.
Since the Nutrisweet patent has now expired, Aspartame is coming out in lots of other forms.
It has been reported in several papers that the Aspartame in diet soda breaks down into formaldehyde if stored in "hot" temperatures. Formaldehyde is a very toxic chemical that can cause cancer, birth defects and it has been suggested that it may be a causative factor in the Gulf War Syndrome, as well as Alzheimers and senility.
A 12 year old schoolchild Jennifer Cohen of New Jersey did a science experiment for school involving Diet Coke. She tested three sets of Diet Coke for two months:
- Refrigerated in home refrigerator.
- Stored at room temperature in home.
- Stored in an incubator at 104 degrees.
The results were interesting to say the least. The independent lab that did the actual testing found that the soda at room temperature had the highest level of formaldehyde, four times that of refrigerated soda and three times more than the incubated soda. This would seem to indicate that the extreme heat of the Persian Gulf in which huge amounts of diet (and other) soda was stored was not the problem, as has been theorized. However, the storage of the diet soda at many varying temperatures from the manufacturer, to a warehouse, to a military warehouse, to a freighter or other transport to the Gulf certainly had to take relatively long periods at various temperatures. So, Aspartame may still be considered a suspect for GWS.
In my own case, when I started reading about Aspartame, my wife and I talked about diet drinks and we decided to stop drinking them. There were two effects immediately that were noticeable:
- Sunny (my wife) immediately felt better overall, had less headaches, although she has to be careful about corn products - she has a sensitivity to corn and it's found in different forms in all sodas, including diet types.
- I found that my short-term memory and my over-all memory improved quite a bit within a week of quitting. I can tell by watching Jeopardy. If I know that I know the answer, but can't remember it, my memory is not so good. If my mind comes up with the answer right away, it's improved. That's the way I tested Ginko and the results there taught me that I should be taking it (but I'm lazy and don't regularly).
Both Sunny and I are diabetic. She's insulin dependent and has been for many years, I'm type 2, on an enzyme. Both of us do not particularly like water, so cutting out diet drinks was just a bit of a trial for us.
Fortunately, while we were sailing around the Caribbean, we couldn't afford diet drinks, so we made our own. Squeeze out about 4-5 key limes (available in almost every island cheap) and put that into a gallon of water along with saccarine tablets (about 15 1/2 grain). This makes a very weak limeade drink that is not only delicious, but it satisfies thirst better than any other drink except water.
Unfortunately few people are aware of the dangers of Aspartame, but many people still believe that saccarine is "dangerous" because of the "cancer warning" that is still on some saccarine bottles. This "scare" was because some stupid researcher tested rats on saccarine in dosages 1000 times more than would be "normal" for a human in the same weight/size ratio. Further testing by many laboratories has since blown this "cancer scare" right out of the water. Saccarine is much safer than any other sweetener. It can leave an slight aftertaste which many people don't like, but in limeade, it doesn't seem to.
Aspartame has only been around for a few years and the evidence is growing more and more of toxicity. Saccarine has been around for nearly a century and the evidence is growing less and less of any toxicity. Few researchers of any stature think that saccarine is at all dangerous now.
There is another confusion factor in all this. In the packets of dry sugar like sweeteners, both Equal and Sweet & Low use dextrin as a filler. This is corn starch and since many people have an unknown allergy/sensitivity to corn products, this can cause headaches as well. So, there may be a double whammy for those few persons who are allergic/sensitive to corn and Aspartame. If you are allergic to lots of things, I would certainly advise you get off diet drinks.
By the way, there's even growing evidence that most people DONT lose weight by switching to diet drinks from regular sodas. To lose weight that way, switching to the seltzers and other no calorie drinks like our limeade may be a help.
The latest information as of February 2010 is that the FDA (controlled completely by Big Pharma) has actually allowed Aspartame to be re-labeled as a "food supplement" placing it as "harmless". Money talks again over health!
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