{"id":3418,"date":"2011-12-05T20:45:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T10:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2011-12-05T20:45:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T10:45:42","slug":"health-basics-what-is-aspartame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=3418","title":{"rendered":"Health Basics: What is Aspartame?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=justify>Or, why you should not use artificial sweeteners. This is from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/034320_aspartame_sweetener_side_effects.html\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/034320_aspartame_sweetener_side_effects.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=justify>Over a billion people consume aspartame in their foods and beverages across the world, believing it to be a safe ingredient, but what they probably don&#8217;t know is that aspartame currently accounts for over 75% of all side effects complaints received by the FDA&#8217;s Adverse Reaction Monitoring System (ARMS) for the past 4 years. It is banned by health-conscious countries all over the world, especially where there is a national healthcare system in place.<\/p>\n<p align=justify>If you need to sweeten something, try stevia. It is a natural product, 30 times sweeter than sugar and has NO calories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, why you should not use artificial sweeteners. This is from: http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/034320_aspartame_sweetener_side_effects.html Over a billion people consume aspartame in their foods and beverages across the world, believing it to be a safe ingredient, but what they probably don&#8217;t know is that aspartame currently accounts for over 75% of all side effects complaints received by the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=3418\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Health Basics: What is Aspartame?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}