“If Donald Rumsfeld had never been born think of how many millions of
people the world over would not suffer headaches and dizziness. Thousands
blind from the free methyl alcohol in aspartame would have sight,
and there would be much fewer cases of optic neuritis and macular
degeneration. Millions suffering seizures would live normal lives and
wouldn`t be taking anti-seizure medication that won’t work because
aspartame interacts with drugs and vaccines. Think of the runner, Flo
Jo, who drank Diet Coke and died of a grand mal seizure. She, no doubt,
would still be alive. Brain fog and memory loss, skyrocketing symptoms
of aspartame disease, would not be epidemic.”
What’s not opinion is that aspartame includes methyl acohol and other
toxic and carinogenic chemicals.
Update 2012-08-30: old graph links decayed; replaced with other graphs of same data.
Almost as many obese as healthy weight adults in the U.S., and the rest are overweight. Something changed starting about 1980.
Data source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2005) Health, United States, 2005.
Graph source: Wikipedia Blue Cross Blue Shield, with this accompanying text:
While the percentage of the U.S. population considered overweight has been stable since 1960-62, the percentage considered obese has more than doubled.