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4 days ago there were tons of little ants in my garden box and I could see the hill forming on the side of my box......I did not have in the house any of that kind of sugar but when I went to a fast food I remembered to grab 3 little packages to give it a try....not all brands have the aspartame in the list of ingredients on the package....the one that actually say aspartame is Equal.........today all the ants were gone....I am on my way to the store to buy some more =]

--- In MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com, B Sinclair <gardenfarts@...> wrote:
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> Here is what snopes has to say on the aspartame/ant killer idea: http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/antpoison.asp
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> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:10:55 -0500
> Subject: RE: [MittleiderMethodGardening] Re: GOT AN ANT PROBLEM?
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> Aspartame is a killer....read this thoroughly. Nothing bogus about it!
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> http://www.alsearsmd.com/aspartame-ant-poison-fda-complaints/
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> Dear Health Concious Reader,
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> When you reach for a packet of NutraSweet or Splenda, you feel relieved that
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> I just read a story from a lady who had a problem with carpenter ants. After
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> It's perhaps less of a surprise if you know that aspartame - the active
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> ingredient in NutraSweet - was classified as a neurotoxin before it was
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> approved by the FDA as a sugar substitute in the early 1980s.
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> But what does that mean when you eat ice cream, candy, or a diet soda that's
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> sweetened with NutraSweet? Or any of the other 5,000 products that use
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> Aspartame accounts for 75% of all side effects reported to the FDA's Adverse
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> Reaction Monitoring System (ARMS), with 10,000 complaints in 1994 alone. By
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> The FDA is so defensive about their stance on aspartame; it took a Freedom
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> Anxiety Attacks
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> Asthma
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> Death
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> Diarrhea
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> Insomnia
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> Memory Loss
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> Nausea or Vomiting
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> Seizures or Convulsions
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> Vertigo
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> Weight Gain
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> The threat of seizures and vertigo is so strong; pilots are routinely warned
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> About 12 years ago, a hotline was setup for pilots suffering from acute
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> What's worse, most people have no idea that aspartame is causing their
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> A recent study published by the Cancer Research Center in Italy found that,
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> once inside your body, aspartame breaks down into very dangerous components.
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> A alarming number of rats fed NutraSweet died from various cancers including
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> leukemia. The increase in cancer rates was 62%. Aside from cancer and the
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> symptoms listed above, aspartame they discovered, can also lead to sudden
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> death.3 How does this experiment relate to the amount of aspartame you
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> The FDA set the Acceptable Daily Intake, (ADI) for aspartame at 50mg per
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> kilogram of bodyweight (mg/kg). Lawyers for the FDA said in court that the
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> What's disturbing is that the Italian scientists noticed markedly increased
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> cancer rates in rats that consumed only 40% of this ADI. Rats eating only 8%
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> Russell Blaylock, MD is a well-known neurosurgeon and one of the leading
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> If you suffer from any of these symptoms and consume any aspartame, stop
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> consuming products that have aspartame for at least 60 days. Instead of
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> relying on sodas, drink liquids that occur naturally:
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> Water - Filter purified or spring water. (This is your best bet when
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> Milk - If you can find a good local source, raw is your best choice.
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> Tea - Real tea, green or black, with no artificial additives.
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> To Your Good Health,
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> Al Sears, MD
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> Jensen J. Aspartame - The World's Best Ant Poison. The Idaho Observer.
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> Gold M. The Bitter Truth about Artificial Sweeteners. NEXUS Magazine.
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> Soffritti M. Aspartame induces lymphomas and leukemias in rats. Eur. J.
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> Oncol., vol. 10, n. 2, 2005
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> Martini B. Aspartame proven to cause cancer. Mission Possible, Jul 21,
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> 2005. www.wnho.net
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com
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> [mailto:MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul
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> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 3:43 PM
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> To: MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com
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> Subject: [MittleiderMethodGardening] Re: GOT AN ANT PROBLEM?
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> --- In MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com, "Michael" <thegarden@>
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> > Sweet n low and Equal contain aspartame. Aspartame was originally
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> an ant poison. Since it is sweet, the ants carry it back to nest and it
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> This is complete nonsense, spread by anti-artificial sweetener maniacs on
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> the web. It was NEVER an ant poison, is one of the most tested consumer
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> products of all time--won't hurt you. And won't kill ants! I prefer
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> nature's sugar, myself, but I hate these bogus stories.
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