by footprintzinthesand » Sun Jul 09, 2006 2:46 pm
Like I said, i'm far from a health freak. I eat pizza (the kind with weird ass chemicals in it) too often, I could eat it every day of my life, and sometimes I do. I eat too much junk, and I only eat fruit n vegetables once a month, if that. I don't buy special health products besides vitamins n sometimes a few other things, I rarely go to health food stores. I went recently only to get some fucking baklava if that tells you anything. I realize we're all going to die no matter what, and i'm not anxious about government conspiracies, but i'm not going to lie to myself about their existence. Whether they are deliberately putting shit in our food or not (and if they're not up to anything, could someone tell me WHY they put such harmful shit in food that doesn't NEED to be in it? Don't tell me it's to "save money".), i'd rather know about it than be completely oblivious to the fact that i'm fucking poisoning myself. I'm sure everyone would rather die of natural causes than slowly poison themselves their whole lives (ok, I admit to binge drinking at times, being an ex-chain-smoker etc, but uh, that's off the subject...) I read that snopes link, and really I find it hard to believe that aspartame isn't dangerous. I'm pretty sensitive to what I put into my body, and I have actually felt ill while drinking Diet Coke compared to any other regular drinks, and felt better when I stopped (no, i'm NOT just saying that to prove a point, and this was before watching that shit yesterday) My stepmom's a Diet Coke junkie, all she drinks, and I wouldn't say she's the healthiest person around. Also, having 2 aunts that use products containing aspartame, Donna with MS and Dorothy with fibromyalgia, I think they would be alarmed to know that it's a possibility that that's one of the reasons that shit is going on. Yeah, that link said MS isn't a "death sentence", but it would sure fucking blow to have it, and from Donna's condition I don't think there's much she can do about it besides suffer. Back to the main topic, Whether the aspartame video is 100% on the mark or not, i'd rather believe that than believe anything else about the chemical. It was just introduced in what, 1984? It's 2006, and it usually takes quite a while for everyone to find out the REAL side effects of what we're being given... we ARE "just" fucking labrats you know?