FDA Approved?

Can we trust the seal of approval? The FDA is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Their slogan is, 'Protecting and Promoting Your Health.' I am not very confident that we can trust those words. I believe that they do testing to see how much harm the product will do; instead of ruling the product out if it is harmful at all. One of the most well-known controversies is aspartame. Aspartame is a substitute sweetener that has been researched many times and they always find something that is linked to the use of it. According to Mark Gold, a researcher and writer, for over 80 years the FDA would not approve aspartame because of its harmful ingredients, but it was finally approved in 1981. This product has been tested on animals and it produced brain tumors and caused seizures. Also there is a list of complaints and the number of times that complaint was made after ingesting aspartame. I for one am a testimony of one of these complaints. I have eaten gelatin, yogurt, and drank drinks that were sweetened with aspartame. I immediately received a headache. Aspartame contains methanol which is also known as wood alcohol, a deadly poison. It also consists of formaldehyde which is found in vehicle exhaust and tobacco smoke.
Author of Fight for Your Health, Byron Richards has found many curiosities in our food and drugs that is very harmful to our bodies. Richards wrote an article in 2006 about the FDA's decision to approve a viral cocktail to be sprayed on foods such as cold cuts, sausages, hot dogs, sliced turkey and chicken. This virus is supposed to fight the bacteria found in sick animals so that it is "safe" for us to eat it. Unfortunately, it also fights the friendly bacterias in out bodies that make up the lining of our digestive systems. Richards made a good point in saying,"Rather than address the source of the problem, the FDA wants to add another adulteration into our food supply."
Since the FDA is approving these harmful products, I would assume their only concern is that the product does not instantly kill. If it can pass that test, then it is approved. The moral of this blog is that we Americans need to become more nutritionally smart. We need to start reading the fine print on the back of the box and read all the ingredients and understand what those ingredients are. Food companies in conjunction with the FDA are deceiving us by putting things on the front of the box telling us what the product does not have in it, but what about what it does have in it? What we don't know won't kill us? I disagree.