Avoid aspartame to increase your energy and to feel healthy and full of life.
Never heard of it? Aspartame an artificial sweetener that’s in processed foods to sweeten them up.
It’s probably the most toxic food additive being totally legal to use.
It’s been associated with a whole raft of health problems from brain tumors to birth defects. Less serious but still wreaking havoc with your desire to have great energy can be reactions such as fatigue, depression and insomnia.
You have to avoid aspartame to increase energy.
If you’ve been trying to make healthy diet choices and reduce your sugar intake, you might be particularly at risk to consume aspartame. Have you been buying the “healthy” diet yogurt, diet soft drinks and calorie-reduced foods? Thinking that it’ll give you the nutrients you need without the sugar? And therefore being the healthy option?
Not so as that’s where you often can find aspartame. But the good news is that it’s actually not that hard to avoid it.
How to avoid aspartame:
- Familiarize yourself with the names of aspartame that can be found on food labels: It’s either aspartame, one of its brand names including “Nutrasweet”, “Equal” or “Sugar Twin”, or “E951”
- Clear your pantry of anything with aspartame in it.
- Read the labels when doing your groceries, and don’t buy anything with aspartame in it.
The easiest way to avoid aspartame to increase energy is by sticking with fresh whole foods and using natural ingredients for additional flavor. That’s the fuel that’s natural for our bodies. And it’s by far superior to anything man made to stay healthy and give you great energy.
But let’s get real, sometimes you just need to fall back on processed foods.
If you have to fall back on processed foods, buy those with the shortest number of ingredients on the label.
And that don’t have aspartame on it of course.
P.S. Aspartame isn’t the only nasty chemical out there to avoid. MSG (monosodium glutamate) is another one to watch out for. It’s a tricky one to stay clear of as it’s not always on the label if it has formed as part of food processing. So best cut back on processed foods to be on the safe side.