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Dear Vickie ~ I don't use any sugar but about a month ago I started chewing sugarlessTrident gum after lunch--only because it said on the front of the wrapper that it was sweetened with xylitol which I know is ok. This last week my salivary glands have been swollen, I felt weak and my color was not good. I went to a throat doctor yesterday who said the glands were swollen but there was no infection. I couldn't understand what was causing my condition, but it was scary. I took another look at the gum wrapper and there in the ingredients it listed aspartame. I discovered the article below last nite by chance! What do I do now? I really need your help on this. I take such good care to do what's right because I know what it is not to feel healthy -- and now to be brought down by chewing gum!! It can't happen. I hope too much damage hasn't been done already. Please help me with your knowledge. Thanks so much Vickie. ~ Pat/Los Angeles

Article by James Bowen, MD: "Aspartame in Chewing Gum" 27 May 2005 Aspartame in chewing gum is absorbed directly though the buccal mucosa of the tongue, mouth, and gums, making it a far worse poisoning than even if it were given intravenously. The nerves serving this area and their vascular supply derive directly from the brain, so the Aspartame absorbed through them goes directly into the brain, by passing the spinal cord and blood brain barrier. The intact Aspartame molecule and its diketopiperazine form are vastly worse poisonings than any of the other poisonings which arise from it during digestion, and liver processing of the digestive blood, which is delivered directly to the liver via the portal vein.

The other poisonings, as mentioned, are indeed horrendous but Aspartame from gum is far worse, making even the smaller amounts contained in chewing gum strikingly dangerous and damaging. This is doubtless why Wrigley placed it in all their products! Aspartame, via ingestion into the digestive tract, is made into some ten other poisonings by the digestive processes, and then excepting that which is delivered directly to the pancreas, they are transported straight to the liver via the portal vein, where they then are very partially dealt with, and partially reprocessed. Afterwards, they are sent in somewhat lesser concentration to the entire body, lessening the amount which eventually goes to the brain. The amount getting to the brain from either source is devastating to it in many ways. Aspartame is most certainly devastatingly toxic when ingested, but a like amount is immensely worse when obtained from chewing gum.

When the CBS Evening News crew visited my Ridgefield Washington clinic, mid January of 1984, and Dan rather forbade them to make a program of what they learned there, one of them reported that she got a roaring headache if she chewed even a half stick of Aspartame gum! This devastation of the human brain is the primary reason why this brain washing agent, designed to keep us from questioning or objecting to what they are doing to our country and our world, is being slipped into us in spite of its horribly failing the toxicity studies, which revealed it to be a very strong carcinogen, indeed the number one brain carcinogen ever discovered by science! (The US brain cancer rate jumped 10% the first six months after Aspartame was added to diet pop!) Three cans of pop per day for only sixty days also caused an immediate 250% increase in visible human illness! Right up front!

Dear Pat ~ It certainly pays to read labels before purchasing anything or putting anything into your body! There are many products that can be used to "chelate" or bind and detoxify chemicals from the body. Wobenzym is excellent for this, as is Kroeger Chem-X and Rosemary Plus or Extreme Health's Oral Chelation/Ageless Remedy. People need to be very careful using chemically altered sugar substitutes (those sweeteners that come in the pretty little pastel packets). In my opinion, it will be found years from now that the new latest/greatest craze over Sucralose (in the little yellow packet), which is advertised as being made from sugar, will be among the leading causes of emotional and gastrointestinal trouble...maybe even worse. Although derived from sugar, it is chemically altered using two chlorine carbons (basically...bleach). Like Aspartame, this product was not well studied before its release.

We believe the best choices for sugar substitutes include SlimSweet (from LoHan fruit), Stevia, Molasses, Raw Honey and Agave Syrup or Nectar. Satisfy your sweet tooth with natural fruits instead of unnatural chemicals. Also, read labels because Aspartame, Sucralose, Saccharine and other chemical sugar substitutes are commonly used in your favorite processed foods!~ Vicki

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