In many ways its sad
to be a child
in this here world,
Corporations rule the roost
We all feel, we’re hurled
into this fearful maelstrom
children one by one
fed on all these processed foods
with sugar by the tonne
Hydrogenated fats
and, E Numbers galore
The Corporates make
their killing
And we want more and more
White rice and white sugar
All the rotten stuff
Coloured sweets and
carbonated drinks
Can’t get enough!
Big machines in schools
flogging all this shit
so we become obese,
it just don’t cease
yea we’re not fit
Its everywhere you see it
In A & E loads there
Packed with that aspartame
it makes me fat, I swear
The teachers in the school
don’t care
my mum and dad don’t know
They watch Eastenders
every night and the
cola drinks just flow
We have bags of crisps
and puddings and dairy
products, we
Have childrens vitamins
every day and aspartame you can see
its on the label, on the bottle mum says that we should
if it is in the vitamins
mum says it is good
Advertising everywhere
its given out at school,
and when I said I thought
it made me fat
I was called a fool
The stuff comes from America
and so it must be good
I thought I’d check the internet
because I thought I should
And there I saw some
stories that the
artificial stuff
was horrible, was evil
and did make people rough
Articles on brain tumours
a big boil in your head
I thought that don’t sound healthy and looked some more
which led
Me further down the road
and I discovered that this stuff
was a biochemical warfare agent
Christ I’d had enough
Why was it in my vitamins
Why was it my drink
Why were they selling it at school
And in hospital, the link
Was clear a little research on the internet
and I knew
That aspartame was a shocker and it wasn’t good for you
But the big boys spent their money
they advertised it well
The Cola drinks and the cakes and sweets
Its what the shops then sell
And mum bought it in Tesco’s every time she went
They even sold it in the garage pounds and pounds we’ve spent
Buying what may turn out
to soon affect my brain
Its funny Dad is always
moaning that his head. aches again
He’s got Tinnitus
and he’s still so young
and he gets a shooting pain
Up is legs and up his back and it could be aspartame
So now I will not
drink the stuff,
I will not eat the cakes
I told mum
there are better vitamins
more expensive makes
I read that monkleys given it
had died and some went mad
With epilepsy or something
and I did, I did feel sad
And mice babies developed
holes inside their brain
and all this stuff had not come out
which I thought was a pain
I printed off the pages
and took them into school
My teacher told me clearly
this was written by some fool
Its a minefield and there
are minefields, for kid’s like me you know
Its in our magazines, on telly and in the cinema where I go
Its everywhere aspartame and real hard to avoid
But I don’t want a tumour in my brain, and I’m annoyed
That nobody can help me
nobody at all
Even the nurse who looks
for lice, she drinks it at school
So if Teachers do it, and Nurses do it, and parents do it, then we
Kid’s who don’t know nothing what chance can there be?
Phenylalanine/DKP/Aspartic acid/Methanol/Formaldehyde/Formic acid
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.
Woodrow C. Monte, PhD, a food scientist, researcher, and Professor Emeritus of Food Science and Nutrition at Arizona State University, has just published a comprehensive book, “While Science Sleeps, a Sweetener Kills,” which is now available on Amazon.com.
The book presents Dr. Monte’s lifetime of research into the nutritional causes of the major diseases of civilization. His own research, along with the research of hundreds of other scientists, is presented in language the average reader can understand and apply to very easily avoid many of the worst diseases that currently kill the majority of people in the civilized world. Dr. Monte has carefully and thoughtfully pieced together the scientific evidence found in hundreds of scientific studies to show convincingly that the single culprit is methanol – a molecule found primarily in canned fruits and vegetables, tomatoes, cigarette smoke, smoked foods, and the artificial sweetener aspartame. Methanol is converted by the enzyme known as Alcohol Dehydrogenase Class 1 (ADH1) into formaldehyde inside the body’s most sensitive tissues.
It is methanol that makes the aspartame taste sweet, and within ten minutes of consuming it, the methanol is released from its chemical bond. Each liter of diet soda contains the amount of methanol found in a pack of cigarettes, and evidence is mounting that diseases traditionally associated with smoking – most recently, heart disease and stroke – are now being associated specifically with aspartame consumption.
The human body converts dietary methanol into formaldehyde in the stomach, liver, veins and arteries, lungs, pancreas, skin, breast, and brain. Dr. Monte makes a compelling case that it is this process, and the disease that results, that is responsible for the epidemics of a variety of cancers, heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune diseases like Lupus and Multiple Sclerosis, autism, and Alzheimer’s disease that have exploded over the past thirty years since the introduction of aspartame in the summer of 1981.
The book also contains information and documentation showing that the product’s manufacturers and their friends in the Food & Drug Administration knew the dangers posed by aspartame, yet buried the evidence and released it for public consumption despite the risk. Furthermore, they knowingly marketed it to those research had demonstrated were particularly vulnerable to its harmful effects – diabetics and pregnant mothers. Since that time, adult onset diabetes has more than doubled worldwide, with diabetics dying from the major diseases of civilization at a much higher rate than the average population.
Deaths from Alzheimer’s disease, in which formaldehyde inside the brain destroys memory function, have increased 10,000% since 1981. Neural tube birth defects are up around 70% in the same period of time despite efforts to compensate with recommended folic acid.
Dr. Monte has decades of experience in food science and nutrition as a researcher, teacher, inventor, industry consultant and consumer advocate who is committed to food additive safety and the prevention of food borne diseases. He is a dedicated scientist with both a Ph.D. and M.S. in Food Science and Nutrition and a B.S. in Biology. He has been a Registered Dietician, Certified Nutrition Specialist AIN, professional member of the American Chemical Society and emeritus member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1985, he was chosen by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars as a Senior Fulbright Scholar. His testimony before Congress was instrumental in the prevention of Sulfites from receiving status of US FDA GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe) and the implementation of mandatory labeling for most foods that contain this dangerous additive. More information about Dr. Monte and his work can be found on his website: http://www.WhileScienceSleeps.com.
Thank you so much for your information regarding Dr Monte. I so appreciate you taking the time and trouble to enumerate all this for my readers and of course myself.I trust you found my website interesting.