Sweet Misery

Sweet Misery: The Horrors of Aspartame Revealed in Documentary


The new documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, thoroughly examines a hot-button subject many consider to be imaginary: the toxicity of aspartame. This man-made sweetener is certainly a fact of life and hard to avoid. Aspartame is found in more than 5,000 food products, including diet soft drinks and snacks like puddings.

Sweet Misery starts with filmmaker and narrator Cori Brackett's moving story about how she discovered aspartame's effect on her health was affecting her fight with multiple sclerosis. Once she stopped using aspartame-sweetened products, her symptoms went away almost by magic.

But that's just the beginning of Brackett's journey across the United States to learn more about the devastating effects of aspartame from a laundry list of well-known medical experts, including Dr. Russell Blaylock and Dr. Betty Martini.

Martini is the director of Mission Possible, an Atlanta-based non-profit group that works to spread the word about the dangers of aspartame as a toxic poison, unfit for human consumption and a slow neurotoxin that's especially bad for diabetics.

In addition to the experts, the filmmakers use archival footage from G.D. Searle and federal officials to describe the amount of propaganda and "dirty tricks" big business used to get aspartame on the market.

Some of the most moving moments were heartfelt interviews sprinkled in between the scientific data with some of the victims of aspartame. One victim Brackett interviewed suffers in a different and more excruciating way than most: This middle-aged mother and spouse is serving a 50-year sentence for allegedly poisoning her late spouse, although many of the health signs point to her late husband's bad reaction to aspartame.

Another key interview is Brackett's fireside chat with Arthur Evangelista, a former Food and Drug Administration investigator, who exposes how far major conglomerates went to legalize the use of aspartame in the United States, and the resulting domino effect on its use in other countries.

News with Views July 6, 2004




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Dr. Mercola's Comments:

If you aren't familiar with all the diseases associated with this artificial sweetener--diseases like multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease--this movie will indeed open your eyes to a problem that has been covered up for far too long.

For the record, aspartame is about 200 times sweeter than the refined sugar it is meant to replace, but it is known to erode intelligence and affect short-term memory. Once upon a time, aspartame was on a Pentagon list of biowarfare chemicals submitted to Congress, which just goes to show you how lethal a chemical it really is.

Although seizures are common among aspartame users, headaches are the most common complaint. According to a nutrition consultant, diet could be one of the reasons 18 million Americans suffer from migraines, with aspartame listed as a possible culprit.

Because more than 5,000 products contain aspartame, it's in your best interests as well as your family's health to read the labels of any processed food you're concerned about.

Your life may depend on it.

For more information about this important documentary, visit Sound and Fury Productions.

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Community Comments ( 2 )


Novice User
Does Monsanto continue the $200,000/annum "stipend" to Mr. Donald Rumsfeld for his aspartame debacle, that was started by Searle Chemical twenty-five years ago? Do all the M.D. physicians who support aspartame for human consumption hold board certification from the NAZI Dr. Joseph Mengele institute? Does that gain them membership in the "Skull and Bones" fraternity? What does Mr. Rumsfeld do with all the money? Wasn´t the over $5,000,000 profit from the "harmful placebo" tamiflu, and additional profits from "flu shot" producers, resulting from his "bird flu fraud," enough? Is the fiction information that supports aspartame and related neuro-toxins, which is provided by the USFDA, Monsanto, and international profiteers, part of a larger US Administration plan to reduce population? Is this also an element of "ONCOLOGY"? Are the pesticide and harmful bacteria-populated, jet-streams of some military and civilian aircraft also part of the population-reduction plan of the US administrations since 1981? What has been Mr. Rumsfeld´s "cut" from the weapons manufacturers for his "support" in the abortive, basically-unnecessary, unprovoked attack on Irak? HOW MANY BILLION DOLLARS? How does Mr. Rumsfeld protect his own offspring from the effects of these "killer substances"? How do his over-rich "buddies" protect their offspring from these "killer substances"? Is a less than normal, or inadequate heterosexual adjustment, one basic requirement for membership in the "Skull and Bones" fraternity? It is interesting to me how well the Austrian "strong man", Arnold Schwarzeneger has become just another, good-little, mimicking monkey. What happened to the American Dream, Arnnie ? dr.b_helthi

[Novice User
I can attest to the severe headaches (actually debilitating)...of this substance. I was ready to see a doctor when I thought I would first try to stop my addictive drinking of Diet Pepsi. Bingo! Headache's were gone. Then I had heard from a couple of people "you don't see doctors using aspartame, DO YOU???" Just call me terminally naive. I always thought the FDA, etc. would make sure that nothing that dangerous would find it's way to the store shelves. Silly me!

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