The good old FDA has allowed the food industry to change the name of ASPARTAME.

Yes, you read that right.

Aspartame can now be called “AMINO SWEET.”

Same deadly symptoms, just a different name.

Here’s what I want you to do this coming week.

Teach your friends to READ LABELS. Once they’ve been informed, you’ve done your job.

To help you spread the word, I’ve included a flyer you can share with all your friends.

Well it’s almost the big day, December 25th. Thanksgiving leftovers are history, you may have eaten too much, but now you’re concentrating on Christmas and gifts. Even Black Friday has left its mark on another year. Homes and businesses look a lot like Christmas, even before December.

You have to wonder just what the most important part of the Christmas season will be for you and your family. Is it those brightly lit ornaments and displays? Is it the singing of favorite carols? Is it sitting on Santa’s accommodating lap, and enjoying a hearty “ho, ho, ho”? Is it the exchange of gifts on Christmas Eve or Christmas Morning? Is it the festive holiday table with aromas that entice even the most dedicated of dieters? Is it seeing a small child’s face beam in opening a special gift? Is it the worship service(s) that recall how the holiday came to be? I consider you a part of my family.

Be safe, and make sure you stop by and say hello.

On the fourth Thursday in November, families across the U.S. gather to feast on turkey, watch football, and gear up for Christmas by looking for Santa during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, but did you ever wonder why these Thanksgiving traditions started?

Impress your children with these Thanksgiving Day facts:

• The first Thanksgiving was held in the autumn of 1621 and included 50 Pilgrims and 90 Wampanoag Indians and lasted three days. Many historians believe that only five women were present at that first Thanksgiving, as many women settlers – didn’t survive their first difficult year in the U.S.

• Thanksgiving didn’t become a national holiday until over 200 years later! Sarah Josepha Hale, the woman who actually wrote the classic song “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” convinced President Lincoln in 1863 to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, after writing letters for 17 years campaigning for this to happen.

• No turkey on the menu at the first Thanksgiving: Historians say that no turkey was served at the first Thanksgiving! What was on the menu? Deer or venison, ducks, geese, oysters, lobster, eel and fish. They probably ate pumpkins, but no pumpkin pies. They also didn’t eat mashed potatoes or cranberry relish, but they probably ate cranberries. And no, Turduckens (a turkey stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken) were nowhere to be found during that first Thanksgiving.

• No forks at the first Thanksgiving! The first Thanksgiving was eaten with spoons and knives — but no forks! That’s right, forks weren’t even introduced to the Pilgrims until 10 years later and weren’t a popular utensil until the 18th century.

• Thanksgiving is the reason for TV dinners! Surprise: In 1953, Swanson had so much extra turkey (260 tons) that a salesman told them they should package it onto aluminum trays with other sides like sweet potatoes — and the first TV dinner was born!

• Thanksgiving was almost a fast — not a feast! The early settlers gave thanks by praying and abstaining from food, which is what they planned on doing to celebrate their first harvest, that is, until the Wampanoag Indians joined them and (lucky for us!) turned their fast into a three-day feast!