Glee Gum is Aspartame Free

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Product Review: Glee Gum

Glee Gum is all-natural, gluten-free chewing gum with no artificial coloring, flavoring, sweeteners, or preservatives. Glee Gum is the only gum in North America made the old fashioned way, with chicle! Chicle is a natural tree sap harvested sustainably from the rainforests of Central America. Once all chewing gum was made with chicle, but today most gum is made entirely from synthetic stuff. Not Glee Gum! Glee Gum uses chicle because it is an eco-friendly way to help conserve the rainforest. Chicle is also what gives the gum such great, long-lasting chewing texture! Glee Gum is a “green” gum right down to the packaging, which is made from biodegradable, recycled cardboard. Glee Gum is made in the USA by Verve, inc., an independent, family-owned business dedicated to linking world communities and creating environmentally and socially responsible products. To learn more about Verve, inc. or Glee Gum, please feel free to contact info@gleegum.com. And remember: when you give yourself a Glee-ful treat, helping the rainforest tastes so sweet!

A lot of people I know chew sugar-free gum. People chew it to help prevent cavities and to prevent bad breath. People chew it to help prevent weight gain. No matter why you chew sugar free gum, you should know that almost all major brands of sugar free gum contain aspartame.

In case you don’t know much about aspartame, let me give you some background. Aspartame is a food additive, approved by the FDA that makes foods tastes sweet without adding calories. The NBC television show The Biggest Loser promotes the use of Extra Sugarfree gum as a snack substitute. Which is kind of scary considering that Extra contains aspartame, and aspartame is poison.

What? Yeah, you heard me right. Aspartame is poison. Federal government approved poison. Our friends at Monsanto are eye-brow deep in aspartame, well they do produce almost all of the food we eat – but that is a horror story for another day.

Glee Gum is Aspartame Free!

Background on Aspartame

from www.dorway.com, Poison for the Masses:

Aspartame is the technical name for the brand names, NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure. Aspartame was discovered by accident in 1965, when James Schlatter, a chemist of G.D. Searle Company was testing an anti-ulcer drug.

Aspartame was approved for dry goods in 1981 and for carbonated beverages in 1983. It was originally approved for dry goods on July 26, 1974, but objections filed by neuroscience researcher Dr John W. Olney and Consumer attorney James Turner in August 1974 as well as investigations of G.D. Searle’s research practices caused the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to put approval of aspartame on hold (December 5, 1974). In 1985, Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle and made Searle Pharmaceuticals and The NutraSweet Company separate subsidiaries.

Aspartame is, by far, the most dangerous substance on the market that is added to foods. Aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Many of these reactions are very serious including seizures and death as recently disclosed in a February 1994 Department of Health and Human Services report.(1) A few of the 90 different documented symptoms listed in the report as being caused by aspartame include:

Headaches/migraines, dizziness, seizures, nausea, numbness, muscle spasms, weight gain, rashes, depression, fatigue, irritability, tachycardia, insomnia, vision problems, hearing loss, heart palpitations, breathing difficulties, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, loss of taste, tinnitus, vertigo, memory loss, and joint pain.

According to researchers and physicians studying the adverse effects of aspartame, the following chronic illnesses can be triggered or worsened by ingesting of aspartame:(2)

Brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, parkinson’s disease, alzheimer’s, mental retardation, lymphoma, birth defects, fibromyalgia, and diabetes.

Aspartame is made up of three chemicals: Aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol.

You don’t have to look far to find information about aspartame. Do a search on Google and thousands of sites pop up. Aspartame and its poisonous side effects are no secret. So why do so many people just mindless consume it?

Well this post started out as a product review for Glee Gum. Like a good deed in a naughty world, Glee Gum offers an all natural chew. In all honesty, the flavor does not last as long as many other gums. But how long can you chew a piece of gum? I like Glee because I chew it just long enough to freshen my breath and I’m good to go.

Glee comes in several delicious flavors and is available at most health food stores and health food chains. Don’t look for it at Stop N Shop, Publix or Kroger – Monsanto won’t allow it.

If you can’t find it locally and want to give it a try, here is a link to buy Glee Gum from Amazon: Buy Glee Gum from Amazon.com

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