Aspartame

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From: "Claiborne D., SumOfUs.org" <us@sumofus.org>
Date: Mar 4, 2013 9:01 AM
Subject: Aspartame
To: "Daniel A. Stafford" <aquarianm@gmail.com>
Cc:

A powerful industry lobby wants to redefine "milk" to include artificial sweeteners like aspartame as ingredients. Tell the FDA to say no to aspartame in milk. Share on Facebook.

Daniel,

Big food companies have a new secret weapon aimed right at your kid's sweet tooth: milk.

Yes, milk. The powerful dairy lobby is pushing the FDA to redefine "milk" to include artificial sweeteners like aspartame. The goal is to turn the wholesome drink into another artificial flavor-laden sweet snack.

Hyper-sweet additives like aspartame rewire children's brains so that they constantly crave sugary foods, turning the kids into tiny consumption machines.1 This sweet-trained brain fattens up the food companies' bottom lines as it fattens up their customers, and has led to our current obesity epidemic.

Tell the FDA to say no to artificial sweeteners in natural food. Stop aspartame from entering our milk.

For decades, food companies have poured millions into research into creating foods that trick our brain into over-consuming. As obesity has surged and the country has become more health-conscious, the industry has moved into formerly healthy foods, pumping them up with sugar, salt, and fat until they, too become part of the problem.

Aspartame has a particularly sketchy history as an artificial substance. It has long been linked to a host of health issues, and was banned by the FDA before a Reagan appointee rigged a committee to approve it. The food industry claims that aspartame helps fight obesity by offering up a low-calorie alternative, but by training the brain to crave sweets, aspartame's been having the opposite effect. Putting it into milk and serving it up to kids is the last straw. Join us today in telling the FDA no way on aspartame in milk.

Don't let the dairy lobby redefine milk. Sign our petition today.

Thank you for being one of us, 

Claiborne, Melanie and the team at SumOfUs.org

 

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More reading:

[1] The New York Times: The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food, 20 February, 2013
Federal Register: Flavored Milk; Petition to Amend the Standard of Identity for Milk and 17 Additional Dairy Products, 20 February, 2013

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