What Makes Us Sick

I've decided to start blogging about all that things that makes us sick. I'm going to blog about everything I find that leads to cancer, birth defects, headaches, joint pain and anything else that affects our health. I'll provide as many links as I can and I welcome your input.



The reason is because in my lifetime I've seen such a rise in the incidents of cancer, asthma, conception problems, birth defects, behavior issues in children, joint issues and a number of other health issues. I've wondered why and couldn't help but feel it has to have something to do with our environment since it affects so many. So I've been reading, listening and researching everything I can find that might help us know the reasons why we're getting sick and what if anything we can do about it.



I've emailed a couple of companies. Mrs Baird's about HFCS and Wrigley about Aspartame. I only got one of the autoresponder's from Mrs. Bairds. Wrigley responded with a very short list of products that didn't contain aspartame. The thing I found most ironic on the Wrigley site is the toxicity warming of xylitol to dogs. Interesting that they warn you of an ingredient that is toxic to your animal but nothing about how bad aspartame is for you. Then again why would they it is in nearly EVERY GUM they make.



My husband in his endeavor to fight the urge to smoke took to chewing gum and mints. He swore after aspartame years ago when he discovered that while trading water for diet soda his knee pain went away. He went back to drinking some diet soda just to see if he just needed to add some water to his diet and despite the fact that he was still drinking the same amount of water the knee pain returned. Gave up the sodas and knee pain was gone. So when he started suffering from knee pain again he realized the mints and gum he was ingesting had aspartame. He asked me to get him some that didn't and you know what the only kind I found looking at a WALL of gum was Dentyne Fire. Some of the sugarless gum had sucralose but still had aspartame, some had xylitol but still had aspartame. LETS GET ASPARTAME OUT OF OUR FOODS. Want to know more just type in Aspartame in http://www.youtube.com/.