Wikileaks didn’t just release emails that exposed government corruption, the emails also revealed concerns about NutraSweet, an artificial sweetener primarily comprised of aspartame.
In the emails, a person identified as Wendy Abrams forwarded an email about NutraSweet to John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager. Abrams had been emailing a man identified as Don Kennedy and in those messages expressed her concern about chocolate milk used in school lunches that contained aspartame. Abram writes, “The current proposal from the Dairy lobby is to put NutraSweet in the chocolate milk we serve to school children.” She then says that this should be stopped immediately.
In another email with Kennedy, Abrams writes about her own negative affects from aspartame. She said that when she was in college, she drank so many beverages sweetened with NutraSweet that she developed asthma and headaches. Abrams also shared disturbing information she had obtained from a medical researcher.
“I also have a friend who worked for the researchers at University of Chicago (which has a top rated neurology dept) and the doctors there said when they gave nutrasweet to lab mice, it literally blew holes in their brains. They said they will tell a pregnant woman to drink any amount of alcohol before touching a sip of nutrasweet, it is that bad.”
Kennedy responds by noting that he too has had great concerns over artificial sweeteners.