P1: Explain Three Different Approaches To Health Education

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P1 Explain three different approaches to health education

For my health education campaign I have chosen to teach my listeners about sweeteners that are replacing sugar, such as Aspartame.

Aspartame is made up of three chemicals: Aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol.
NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure, all of these are brand names for aspartame, the most popular low-calorie sugar substitute used in more than 90 countries to sweeten foods and beverages. According to aspartame information its use can substantially lower the number of calories in food and beverage products by taking the place of sugar. It is used in many foods and beverages because it is about 200 times sweeter than sugar so you
Mercola found that Coca-Cola Co had launched an ad campaign, this time to assure its consumers that it has no or low-calorie beverages containing the artificial sweetener aspartame, a ‘safe’ alternative. According to the ad, aspartame is a “safe, high-quality alternative to sugar." Clearly they’ve not reviewed the hundreds of studies on this artificial sweetener demonstrating its harmful effects.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest’s (CSPI) Executive Director Michael F. Jacobson issued the following statement in response to Coca-Cola’s new ad:
“Aspartame has been found to cause cancer5, leukemia, lymphoma, and other tumors in laboratory animals, and it shouldn’t be in the food supply.”
Phosphoric Acid in Coca-Cola and Diet Coke has been shown to destroy bones by contributing to osteoporosis and destroying teeth. Aspartame, also known as Amino Sweet, has been linked to numerous diseases and health problems. Due to the mass marketing and consumption of Coke products, millions are addicted to these products due to the caffeine, sugar and aspartame.
Perhaps there should be a warning similar to the one on cigarette packages: "Coke Products May Be Hazardous to Your Health."
It would be so much better if companies like Coca Cola would phase out its use of aspartame and accelerating its research into safer, natural sweeteners such as those extracted from the stevia
Searle, the chemical company that held the patent to aspartame, the active ingredient in NutraSweet. Monsanto was apparently untroubled by aspartame 's clouded past, including a 1980 FDA Board of Inquiry, comprised of three independent scientists, which confirmed that it might induce brain tumours. The FDA had actually banned aspartame based on this finding, only to have Searle Chairman Donald Rumsfeld, currently the Secretary of Defence, vow to "call in his markers," to somehow get it approved. On January 21, 1981, Searle re-applied to the FDA for approval to use aspartame in food sweetener, and Reagan 's new FDA commissioner, Arthur Hayes Hull Jr, appointed a 5-person Scientific Commission to review the board of inquiry 's decision. Hull personally broke the tie in aspartame 's favour. Hull later left the FDA under allegations of impropriety, served briefly as Provost at New York Medical College, and then took a position with Burston-Marsteller, the chief public relations firm for both Monsanto and GD Searle. Since that time he has never spoken publicly about