Aspartame
Aspartame
“Diet Coke does not contain nasty chemicals. It contains lovely and delicious carbonation, caffeine, and aspartame. What's unnatural about that?” Meg Cabot. This chapter was based on Power and Wealth. The article that I did my paper was about Aspartame. These two subjects connect because the individuals who drink the Diet Coke are getting fooled by the big companies that are selling it to them. The power elite are selling false hopes and false products, so people will buy their inventory, which in turn only profits the companies, and give them more substantial power. People in this country have strayed from what Mother Nature provides as sweet and delightful. The consumption of fruits was once gratifying enough to quench the curiosity of the sweet tooth without consequence. Nowadays people don’t have the time to eat organic foods and instead opted for the convenience of mass-produced, heavily processed and nutrient deprived fast foods and beverages. Most of these factory produced food products today are extremely sugary. That sugariness is a contributing factor to metabolic syndrome, diabetes, obesity and tooth decay. This all leads to one ingredient and that ingredient is artificial sweeteners.
Artificial sweeteners are a food additive that attempts to duplicate the taste of sugar while using less food energy. In the article, “Fat Chance: Diet Coke Fights Obesity”, by Katherine Paul and Ronnie Cummins they discuss that it was an odd kind of humor when Coca Cola launched their campaign to fight obesity, and all pointed out that a lack of exercise and laziness were the key cause of obesity. Due to the fact that aspartame does in fact cause weight gain and interlinked with brain tumors, it is a very harmful so called “drug”. Paul and Ronnie state: “The link between aspartame and increased weight gain is old news. So is the fact that aspartame, far from being a “healthy alternative” to sugar or anything else, has for years been the focus of
“Diet Coke does not contain nasty chemicals. It contains lovely and delicious carbonation, caffeine, and aspartame. What's unnatural about that?” Meg Cabot. This chapter was based on Power and Wealth. The article that I did my paper was about Aspartame. These two subjects connect because the individuals who drink the Diet Coke are getting fooled by the big companies that are selling it to them. The power elite are selling false hopes and false products, so people will buy their inventory, which in turn only profits the companies, and give them more substantial power. People in this country have strayed from what Mother Nature provides as sweet and delightful. The consumption of fruits was once gratifying enough to quench the curiosity of the sweet tooth without consequence. Nowadays people don’t have the time to eat organic foods and instead opted for the convenience of mass-produced, heavily processed and nutrient deprived fast foods and beverages. Most of these factory produced food products today are extremely sugary. That sugariness is a contributing factor to metabolic syndrome, diabetes, obesity and tooth decay. This all leads to one ingredient and that ingredient is artificial sweeteners.
Artificial sweeteners are a food additive that attempts to duplicate the taste of sugar while using less food energy. In the article, “Fat Chance: Diet Coke Fights Obesity”, by Katherine Paul and Ronnie Cummins they discuss that it was an odd kind of humor when Coca Cola launched their campaign to fight obesity, and all pointed out that a lack of exercise and laziness were the key cause of obesity. Due to the fact that aspartame does in fact cause weight gain and interlinked with brain tumors, it is a very harmful so called “drug”. Paul and Ronnie state: “The link between aspartame and increased weight gain is old news. So is the fact that aspartame, far from being a “healthy alternative” to sugar or anything else, has for years been the focus of