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Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:53 PM
Subject: [piml] Aspartame
Addictive personalities breed addicts, who do you know who is strung out on
"Diet" and "Sugar Free"? Not a pretty picture when you figure these self same
individuals will be relied on to supply you a future, when they can`t make
change without a cash-registers aid...
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ARTIFICIAL
SWEETENERS
by Jim
Lynn
Aspartame, NutraSweet, Equal...
If the label says
sugar-free, don't even think about it.
Diet Cola Drinkers Take
Notice...
Aspartame is an unstable drug that
turns to formaldehyde
(embalming fluid) in liquids
above freezing temperature.
If you are a daily consumer of artificial
sweeteners and suffer
from headaches, joint pain, memory loss, numbness,
tinnitus,
hearing loss, vision problems, weight gain, rashes,
seizures,
fatigue, muscle spasms or dizziness, asthma or chest
tightness,
you might want to discontinue artificial sweetener
consumption
and see if you notice an improvement. Many people
do.
The culprit, according to many scientists and researchers,
could
be aspartame, the artificial sweetener that is found in
carbonated
soft drinks and more than 5000 other food/drug items.
Cereals, instant
breakfasts, breath mints, sugar-free chewing
gum, cocoa mixes, coffee
beverages, frozen deserts, juice
beverages, laxatives, multi-vitamins, milk
drinks,
pharmaceuticals, shake mixes, nutritional supplements,
tabletop
sweeteners, tea beverages, instant tea and coffees, topping
mixes
and yogurt are just a few of the food items that list aspartame
as
an ingredient.
NOTE:
Aspartame Vitamins for Kids...See the end of
this article on how
to obtain a list of pharmaceutical companies, brand
names and
companies offering aspartame laced vitamins...many of which
are
made for children. This list will amaze you at the impact
aspartame
is had on the vitamin market.
What is Aspartame?
Aspartame is
the technical name for the brand names of artificial
sweeteners,
NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful and Equal-Measure. The
substance was discovered
by accident in 1965 by James Schlatter,
a chemist working for the G.D.
Searle Company. Monsanto
Corporation bought out Searle in 1985, and made
Searle
Pharmaceuticals and NutraSweet Company separate
subsidiaries.
Studies show that long-term use of aspartame can
trigger,
aggravate or even mimic chronic illnesses like brain
tumors,
epilepsy, parkinson's disease, birth defects, multiple
sclerosis,
chronic fatigue syndrome, lupus and fibromyalgia.
Lupus,
multiple sclerosis, fybromyalgia, brain tumors and
Alzheimer's disease have
become almost epidemic, especially
among heavy users of diet cola's. Most
licensed physicians are
not aware of the aspartame connection, and so
mis-diagnosis is
common and the illness remains aggravated. If you are
using
aspartame regularly, or are a heavy user of diet cola's and
have
any symptoms displayed by these diseases...stop consuming
diet
drinks and sugar substitutes to see if your symptoms
improve.
Very briefly, aspartame is composed of three
drugs,
phenylalanine, aspartic acid, and methanol. In fluid
form,
Methanol (wood alcohol) breaks down into formic acid (ant
sting
poison) and formaldehyde (embalming fluid). An
Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) assessment of methanol states
that
methanol "is considered a cumulative poison due to the low rate
of
excretion once it is absorbed." (1) Formic acid is used in
industry as an
activator to strip epoxy and urethane coatings.
Formaldehyde is a deadly
neurotoxin, used for embalming corpses
in the funeral industry.
As
an aside...
Police departments and morticians are aware that human
corpses
(they find) do not quickly corrupt (decompose) like they once
did
20 years ago. Nowadays, corpses tend to remain intact. Could this
be
due to high concentrations of formaldehyde stored in body fat
caused from
heavy and regular consumption of diet drinks?
A one liter aspartame
sweetened beverage contains about 56 mg of
methanol. Heavy users consume as
much as 250 mg of methanol daily
or 32 times the EPA limit (2).
In
1985 the National Soft Drink Association (NSDA) noted that
aspartame
converts to formaldehyde even while stored in the can
or bottle, and made a
recommendation to the FDA that aspartame
NOT be approved for use by people
in soda. The higher the storage
temperature (especially above 86 degrees),
the greater the loss
of aspartame and the greater the increase of
formaldehyde.
NSDA's reasoning was that the longer diet drinks are
stored, the
more conversion of aspartame to formaldehyde occurs,
which
affects the taste of their products. This account is published
in
the 1985 congressional record. Later, NSDA must have seen the
hand
writing on the wall, because they did a complete turn around
and lobbied
for the use of aspartame in soft drinks on Monsanto's
behalf.
The
components of aspartame can lead to a wide variety of
ailments. Some of
these problems occur gradually, others more
immediate, There are millions
of people who are suffering from
symptoms contributed to aspartame, yet are
wondering why herbs or
drugs are not helping relieve their problems. Some
people seem
not affected by using aspartame. However, research indicates
long
term continued use makes these individuals just as
suseptible.
The reasons the general populace has not heard about
serious
reactions to aspartame are;
1. Lack of awareness by the
general public. Aspartame-caused
diseases are not
reported in the newspapers like plane
crashes. This is
because these incidents occur one at a
time in thousands
of different locations across the world.
2. Most people do not
associate their symptoms with long-term
use of
aspartame. The assumption is whatever is in food must
be
safe, since all that "stuff" is regulated by the gov't.
Birth
Defects:
Dr. Diana Edwards, a researcher was funded by Monsanto
to
study possible birth defects caused by ingestion of aspartame.
After
preliminary data showed damaging information about
aspartame, funding for
the study was cut off. (3) Today we hear
of babies being born without
brains and 30 year old women
suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
In
1994, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
released the listing
of adverse reactions reported to the FDA.
Aspartame accounted for more than
75% of ALL adverse reactions
reported to the FDA's Adverse Reaction
Monitoring System (ARMS).
This makes aspartame, by far, the most dangerous
substance on the
market that is added to foods. Many of these reactions are
very
serious, including seizures and death. (4)
Is Aspartame a Diet
Product?
No, it is not! Consuming aspartame makes the consumer
actually
crave carbohydrates and get fat. Those who stop using
aspartame
typically lose weight. the words, "diet cola" was a hoax
designed
to create a market on a nation of overweight people. Did it
work?
You decide.
There is no reason for consuming aspartame. It is
not a safe food
additive but a deadly drug. It is a poison like arsenic
or
cyanide..it just takes longer to harm or kill you.
Monsanto and
the FDA:
How aspartame was approved as a food additive should serve as
a
lesson in how the drug industry manipulates, infiltrates, and
uses
government agencies and non-profit organizations like the
American Dietetic
Association to serve their own agenda. (6)
The FDA and Monsanto have
had a revolving door employment policy
for years. So much so, Monsanto
employees jokingly refer to the
FDA as a Monsanto branch office. The
Townsend Letter for doctors
(11/92) reported on a study that showed 37 of
49 top FDA
officials who left the FDA took positions offered by
the
companies they regulated. They also reported that over 150
FDA
officials owned stock in drug companies they were assigned
to
manage.
Many large organizations and universities receive large
sums of
money from companies connected to the NutraSweet Association,
a
group of companies promoting the use of aspartame. The
American
Dietetic Association (ADA) who received a $75,000 grant from
the
NutraSweet Company (a Monsanto Corporation), has stated
the
NutraSweet company writes their "facts" sheets. (5) By taking
money
from NutraSweet, the ADA loses its neutral position by
endorsing a Monsanto
product.
Ralph G. Walton, MD, Chairman, The Center for
Behavioral
Medicine, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine,
did
a peer review analysis on aspartame. Dr. Walton used MEDLINE
and
other databases to analyze 164 studies which he felt had a
relevance
to human safety questions. Of these studies, 74 had
aspartame related
sponsorship and 90 were funded without any
industry money.
Of the 90
non-industry sponsored studies, 83 (92%) identified one
or more problems
with aspartame. Of the 7 studies which did not
find a problem, 6 of those
studies were conducted by the FDA.
Given that a number of FDA officials
went to work for the
aspartame industry immediately following approval
(including the
former FDA Commissioner), many consider these studies to be
the
equivalent to industry-sponsored research. (7)
Due to space
requirements in EOO, this report does not address
all the dangers
associated with aspartame. If this report has not
convinced you to stop
using aspartame laced products, my hope is
that you will at least
investigate the subject further. Please
take advantage of the resource and
reference material following
this report.
Take the 60 day no
aspartame test...
If you are a user of aspartame products experiencing
chronic
illness symptoms, take the 60 day no aspartame test. This is
the
length of time to go without aspartame most people experience
to
notice health improvement. But there is a catch...you must check
all
food labels very carefully for the word "aspartame,"
including vitamins and
pharmaceuticals, and avoid them.
Show this report to friends and loved
ones...
With over 100 million people consuming aspartame products,
the
likelihood is that someone you know or love is slowly being
poisoned
by this hideous toxic drug. Please pass this report on
to them as someone
did for you. Makes copies and pass it on to
church groups, clubs, grocery
stores, and to your family doctor.
P.S.
Monsanto will soon offer a
new sugar substitute product called
Neotame. For all intent and purposes,
neotame is an aspartame
look-alike. Please do not switch from one toxic
sweetener to
another...Avoiding chemical sugar substitute products is not
only
wise, it might even save your life.
References:
1.
Woodrow C. Monte, pH.D., "Aspartame: Methanol and the
Public
Health" Journal of Applied nutrition, 36 (1):
42-53
2. Ibid.
3. Hearing before the Committee on Labor and
Human Resources
United States Senate, First Session on
Examining the Health
and Safety Concerns of NutraSweet
(Aspartame), Nov. 3, 97
4. Department of Health and Human Services,
"Report on All
Adverse Reactions in the Adverse Reaction
Monitoring System,"
Feb 25 and 28, 1994
5. ADA
Courier, Jan 25, 1993, Vol. 32, #1
6. History Behind how Aspartame was
Approved by FDA
http://www.dorway.com/enclosur.html
7.
Analysis of Peer Reviewed Medical Literature
http://www.dorway.com/whotest.html
Resources:
1.
ASPARTAME IN CHILDRENS VITAMINS
Leading Edge
Research has compiled a listing of
pharmaceutical
companies and brand names of products listing
aspartame
as an ingredient in vitamins. Many of these
vitamins are
made for children. To obtain a copy of this
list, send a
request
to;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the SUBJECT line of your mailer, copy and paste the
following;
Aspartame for Kids
2. Aspartame Consumer Safety
network
http://web2.airmail.net/marystod/
3.
Aspartame Toxicity Information Center
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/
4.
Links to hundreds of Aspartame sites
http://www.dorway.com/
5. Supporting
Authors on Aspartame Articles
Concerned citizens and
victims
http://www.dorway.com/support.html
6.
Aspartame and Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
http://www.braintherapy.com/aspartame-msg/index.htm
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