This Common Food Ingredient Is 'Scary as Hell'

By Dr. Mercola Up to 180 million Americans use artificial sweeteners, including aspartame, routinely.1 But the idea that they're a safe alternative to sugar, even one that promotes weight loss, is a deceiving myth. In fact, the story of aspartame has been deceitful from the beginning. Drug company G.D. Searle & Company first discovered aspartame in the 1960s. It was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1974 based on studies submitted by the drug maker. An FDA scientist pointed out "serious shortcomings" with all the studies the FDA used to make their approval decision. Tonic, which described the story of aspartame's approval as "scary as hell," reported: "For example, some rats in the studies died but were not autopsied after to discern the cause; in other cases, the aspartame was not mixed well enough into the feed and the rats were eating around it. There was also evidence of brain tumors in the rats in several studies," they said.2 The FDA's next move was to s
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