Aspartame - another silent killer

Aspartame is a sugar substitute used in many foods and beverages and it is amazing how harmful it is for your body.

Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi are the biggest culprits, but even Crystal Light uses it.
(note: Pepsi One uses Splenda)

I first was warned about Aspartame 4 years ago. A friend of mine told me that she was addicted to Diet Coke. She drank two or three a day. She told me that she stopped drinking Diet Coke for two weeks and the first thing she noticed was her joints. Every day her joints would ache and hurt. As soon as she stopped drinking her diet drinks, the pain went away.

So I decided not to drink or eat anything with Aspartame. I couldn't prove the dangers related to Aspartame, but after the scare with Sweet & Low's saccharine, I wanted to be safe.

I have finally found what I believe is a reliable support that Aspartame is dangerous. This is a test that someone did with rats and Aspartame. The results are disturbing and so are some of the pictures.

The website report is 7 web pages long and well worth the read.
Go to myaspartameexperiment.com

Thankfully there is Splenda. At least until they tell us that Splenda is bad for you. It's funny how the food world works. It's kinda like the software industry. Put out a bad product and do damage control later.

INDIANA JONES IS BACK!

It was as painful as waiting for the video game Duke Nukem Forever.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is launching on May 22nd (memorial weekend).

This is probably one of my favorite film series. I just introduced my 8 year old to the Indy movies and he is hooked. We will be there in the theater on the first showing even if it's a school day. If my wife behaves, she can go, too.


Here is the trailer:



I love the fact that they don't pretend that Harrison Ford is young. They even wrote some humorous lines to support that he is much much older.

As for Shia Labeouf (Character name in movie: Mutt Williams), he is Steven Spielberg's new project. Speilberg loved Shia in Disturbia, which then landed Shia in Transformers. And now he is in this move and will probably become the heir to the Indiana Jones dynasty.

I don't mind Shia as an actor. I just wonder what was going on when the parents named him Shia Labeouf.

Anyway, mark your calendar for May 22nd and good luck to any movie coming out on that same weekend.

Whole Foods - paper or nothing?

Whole Foods Market just announced that they will not be using plastic bags for groceries. It will be paper or nothing. This industry changing decision will launch on Earth Day, April 22nd.

I am so cool with that. I really never understood why they went to plastic in the first place. I guess when petroleum was inexpensive, so was plastic.

Funny how times have changed. It's one of the rare times in the world that progress takes us back in time. It's like going to 1978 when all you had was paper bags.

I remember my mom always made me fold the bags up after we emptied them of groceries. That was my big job. I was only 11 at the time. Not like she was going to trust me to put away the eggs and light bulbs.

Let me warn you about something else that is coming. The day is coming quickly when we will need to bring our own cloth bags. Many stores are already selling their own cloth bags for $2 - $5 each. It's their way of telling us that we will need our own bags soon.

This also is okay with me. I don't mind bringing my own bags to the store and I will even bag my own groceries. I just want them to pass the savings on to me. Because if not, I will go somewhere else. Fresh & Easy here in Southern California is one place that asks you to bag your own groceries and then passes the savings on to you.

One last predicition. I also am going to predict that Walmart grocery is finaly going to bust into Southern California. Right now we have Walmart stores, but they won't allow these locations to sell full grocery. It totally sucks. You gotta love unions. Working nice and hard to keep the money flowing to their memebers and not caring about the public. Of course, this is another post.

You can only keep the biggest company in the world down for so long.

Get ready for change.