Fuckin hell. Just watched that documentary Sweet Misery about Aspartame, the artificial sweetner. Not possessing a comical wacky edge or fancy production like Supersize Me and the recent glut of sexy documentaries, it focuses on low key interviews with nuerologists , brain nerds and of course victims of this crazy chemical and really is interesting.
Aspartame is the artificial sweetner branded as Canderel and found in thousands of products.
Even before seeing it, It annoyed the shit out of me how Diet Coke is seen as a healthy alternative to the real deal. Like idiots who smoke Silk Cut or my current pet hate, Fairtrade coffee (I know it’s not a health thing but it kills me, pack of saps thinking they’re Bob Geldof because they buy this coffee while wearing clothes made by Malaysian orphans and generally just being right on wankers).
The long term effects of modern vices always interests me. Mobile phones are a good one, the whole planet uses them but we have no idea what the lifetime cumulative effects of sticking a microwave transponder to our thin skulls is. Guaranteed to be not good. The victims in Sweet Misery share the common trait of suffering terrible side effects but as soon as they cut out the Nutra Sweet their symptoms dramatically dipped or just disappeared. My degree in nuerospunkology hasn’t come through yet but even a U2 fan can make the connection. Shit, there’s this poor woman in the film who got sentenced to 50 years for poisoning her husband with metahanol, the very chemical that Aspartame produces but your body can’t metabolise, he was strung out on soft drinks and was using that creotin stuff for body building. The whole Aspartame thing was never brought up in her trial. 50 years. Four walls till doomsday.
The wholesale cover up and selective research by the manufacturers is terrible but not really surprising. They gave 7 monkeys Aspartame in milk (which slows absorption) and 1 died while 5 had seizures but this didn’t strike them as something which should be submitted. The human trials by an outside investigator are worse. The story then takes a political angle with serious wrangling to get the drug approved and silence the critics and the cunt himself, Donald Rumsfeld , played a massive part in this.
While I’m at it let me digress and pour scorn and derision with laser precision on that recent fatal chemical trials in the UK. Why were people outraged and how the fuck is it a news worthy story that willing volunteers of a drug trial lucked out? Is it remarkable that experimental drugs have dangerous unkown side effects?
The whole thing has all the element s of a Dead Kennedys song. The thought blocking sugar that kills people and gets covered up and approved by crooked politicians. People are buying more and more pharamcueticals to keep a handle on the side effects of other drugs. I know, I know, there are a hundred other issues worth talking about but this one gets me. So ease off the Diet Coke. Stick to Aldi beer, cheap processed meat and John Player Blue like this walking health farm. Interestingly though, snopes files these all claims under false.
You’re not going to find this film anywhere other than an illegal download so go steal it. Also got a long winded one about ITN falsifying/cleverly editing footage from Bosnia in order to wangle support for UN intervention. So there.
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12 Comments:
great article bob. Fair play. I'm a big diet coke drinker and any soft drinks my kids get are always diet - not anymore though. The link to the Muslim prisoner of war site is great too. Nice one. Don't tell me you wrote that in work man - my head will explode with jealousy.
Bob sez: I also watched the documenrary in work. The stuff on snopes is heavy going and still not convincing. Hayley drinks Diet Coke nearly everyday and protests ;but's it diet' every time I say it can't be good.
leave Fairtrade alone, it's a very worthwhile cause. What do you do?
Bob sez: I ask twits like you to suck my dick, that's what.
ah the suck my dick retort always wins - its like the steelie of blogging
fuck, i'm afraid to wtach this doc, even though i still eat mcdonalds after super size me.
I can't afford diet coke so go for two for 1.25 budget diet cola or tescos nifty 39p 2 litre diet shite, god knows what that's doing to me guts, it is very addictive runs to the local shop for diet coke are similar to those for booze and maber leaf and those late nite ebay flarn-searches god help us all....
Bob sez: Neh, I can take or leave coke, not mad about it. But sometimes I just crave a can of coke, hate the bottles. All those fake cokes are great.39p for a 2litre?
I think aspartame is okay in moderation. I've read the snopes stuff and some other articles and really believe that unless you're not one that has an allergic reaction to the stuff, if you don't overdo it, it's okay.
You have to reckon that putting a chemical into your body is not going to be a-ok just because a multinational or a biased government says it is. Really now, if a guy came up to you with a homemade diet drink in a bottle, would you trust him? If not, then why would you trust a company that fucks over all and sundry worldwide? It's pretty naive to think that just because a product is allowed on supermarket shelves, that it's not bad for you! And not just bad in a bag of chips way; really bad like you'll end up on a hospital trolley. Research any of the chemicals found on your favourite snack ingredient list and it's gauranteed that you'll find some horror stories out there about them. That's my tuppence worth anywho. Oh yeah, fairtrade coffee does make a difference to the coffee growers so if you can put up with a few right on wankers, it's worth buying the shit over regular Nescafe.
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Bob sez: yep, definitely agree that just about everything will kill you if used in excess or at least have some knock on effect.Neh, being getting a bollicking over the fairtrade, I should have specified that it's just ONE wanker I know who seems think the world owes him a medal for buying it
i think i deserve a medal for never ever ever buyin fairtrade - cause coffee is piss. THE END!
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