.............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: Alex Constantine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FW: Aspartame Toxicity 6.2.00: Trocho 6.26.98 Date: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 4:50 PM ---------- From: Rich Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 08:44:24 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Aspartame Toxicity 6.2.00: Trocho 6.26.98 Aspartame Toxicity 6.2.00: Trocho 6.26.98 Rich Murray Room For All 1943 Otowi Drive, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 505-986-9103 505-920-6130 cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [B.A., M.I.T. 1964, M.A., Boston U. 1967: a layman committed to facilitating civil debate on aspartame toxicity] Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal, Canderel, Benevia) is reported by many scientific studies and case histories to be toxic: headaches, all kinds of body and joint pain (or burning, tingling, tremors, twitching, spasms, cramps, or numbness); "mind fog", "feel unreal", poor memory, confusion, anxiety, irritability, depression, mania, insomnia, dizziness, slurred speech, ringing in ears, sexual problems, nausea, seizures, poor vision, hearing, or taste; fever, fatigue; red face, itching, rashes, burning eyes or throat, dry mouth or eyes, mouth sores; hair loss; obesity, bloating, edema, poor or excessive hunger or thirst, anorexia; coldness; diarrhea or constipation; breathing problems; racing heart, high blood pressure, erratic blood sugar levels; birth defects; brain cancers. Users who quit often experience much immediate healing, but some symptoms may last for weeks. Heavy users may suffer weeks of painful withdrawal symptoms. Also avoid all forms of MSG (glutamate), legally mislabeled as "hydrolyzed vegetable protein" or even "natural flavoring". Some versions of RC Diet Rite Cola use Splenda (sucralose) and Acesulfame-K, far less hazardous than asp., but so far available only in a few areas. It's fun to mix club soda with juices. A long-used herbal sweetener, stevia, is entirely safe and widely available. A corrupt FDA has refused to attest its safety: www.holisticmed.com/sweet/stv-alert.txt Read all labels!-- aspartame is in almost all diet sodas; many drink mixes, instant breakfasts, cereals, cake mixes, yogurts, puddings, jellos, chewing gums, breath mints, candies, toothpastes, laxatives, cough syrups, even vitamins and medicines. Absorption through the skin in the mouth may be especially strong. Three careful double-blind experimental studies prove aspartame causes headaches: Koehler SM et al, 1988, Headache, 28(1), 10-14. Shirley Koehler, PhD 904-858-7651 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Walton RG et al, 1993, Biological Psychiatry, 34(1), 13-17. Prof. Ralph G. Walton 330-740-3621 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Van Den Eeden SK et al, 1994, Neurology, 44, 1787-93. Steven K. Van Den Eeden, PhD 550-450-2202 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woodrow C. Monte, Director, Food Science and Nutrition Laboratory 602-965-6938 Arizona State University, [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Health," 1984, J. Applied Nutrition, 36(1), 42-54 (62 references): The methanol from 2 L of diet soda, 5.6 12-oz cans, 20 mg/can, is 112 mg, 10% of the asp. The EPA limit for water is 7.8 mg daily for methanol (wood alcohol), a deadly cumulative poison. Many users drink 1-2 L daily. The reported symptoms are entirely consistent with chronic methanol toxicity. (Fresh orange juice has 34 mg/L, but, like all juices, has 16 times more ethanol, which strongly protects against methanol.) www.dorway.com/wmonte.txt A radioactive tracer study proves that the methanol from a low dose of of aspartame binds formaldehyde, a deadly cumulative poison, into tissues: Trocho C et al, June 26 1998, Life Sci, 63(5), 337-349. www.PRESIDIOTEX.COM/barcelona/index.html Lennart Hardell, M.D., PhD, in 1999 reported in Sweden that both cell phone use and heavy aspartame use correlate with increased brain cancers: www.medscape.com/MedGenMed/braintumors Who pays the piper, calls the tune. Ralph G. Walton, Prof. of Clinical Psychology, Northeastern Ohio Universities, Youngstown, OH 44501, 330-740-3621 [EMAIL PROTECTED] , in an unpublished 66-page study (1998), listed 166 studies about asp. and health. All 74 studies funded by the industry were favorable, whereas 84 of the 92 non-industry studies identified a problem. Moreover, many industry studies were published repeatedly with slight changes, from 2 to 6 times each, violating scientific ethics. www.dorway.com/peerrev.html Al Raetz has justly criticized bias in both sides of the debate: www.aspartametruth.freeservers.com/personal.html Asp. Victims Support Group Home Page www.presidiotex.com/aspartame/ Aspartame Toxicity Information Center Mark D. Gold www.HolisticMed.com/aspartame 603-225-2100 "Scientific Abuse in Aspartame Research" www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/methanol.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12 East Side Drive #2-18 Concord, NH 03301 Mission-Possible-USA Betty Martini 770-242-2599 www.dorway.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aspartame Consumer Safety Network 800-969-6050 214-352-4268 Mary Nash Stoddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Deadly Deception" http://web2.airmail.net/marystod/index.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] United Kingdom Mission Possible Intern. 63 Downlands Road DEVIZES SN10 5EF Tel: 01380 728059 www.connectotel.com/missionpossible/ H.J. Roberts, M.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800-814-9800 Sunshine Sentinel Press http://members.icanect.net/~sunpress/index.htm 6708 Pamela Lane West Palm Beach, Florida 33405 561-588-7628 561-547-8008 fax See detailed 5-page review: "Aspartame (NutraSweet) Addiction" Townsend Letters Jan 2000, www.dorway.com/tldaddic.html Search medical reports: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed "The Dangers of Aspartame" discussion forum with many long reports with references: www.bevnet.com/bevboard/ The eminent British journal: The Lancet Interactive Discussion Group: Aspartame Toxicity: fact or fiction? www.thelancet.com/ For a searchable archive: www.eScribe.com/health/aspartameNM/ or www.eGroups.com/community/aspartameNM/ www.truthinlabeling.org/ Truth in Labeling Campaign [MSG] Adrienne and Jack Samuels P.O. Box 2532 Darien, Illinois 60561 858-481-9333 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Toxicity/Safety of Processed Free Glutamic Acid (MSG): A Study in Suppression of Information." Health Press [EMAIL PROTECTED] 505-474-0303 www.healthpress.com/in-bad-taste.html George R. Schwartz, M.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In Bad Taste: The MSG Symptom Complex" www.healingresearch.org/ Healing Research Institute ******************************************************* April 21, 1999 Richard T. Murray, M.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is research in 1998 at a very low level of aspartame ingestion, 10 mg/kg, for rats, which have a much greater tolerance for aspartame than humans. The same level for humans would be about 1 or 2 mg/kg. Many headache studies in humans used doses of about 30 mg/kg daily. A daily dose of 2100mg aspartame, about 4 L diet soda, used in many experimental tests on humans, supplies 210mg methanol into the body. Many cases report a typical serious symptom syndrome at this level. This report shows that aspartame causes binding of methanol's product, formaldehyde, a potent, cumulative toxin, into tissues. Life Sci June 26 1998; 63(5): 337-49 From PubMed Formaldehyde derived from dietary aspartame binds to tissue components in vivo. Trocho C, Pardo R, Rafecas I, Virgili J, Remesar X, Fernandez-Lopez JA, Alemany M, Departament de Bioquimica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. Sra. Carme Trocho, Sra. Rosario Pardo, Dra. Immaculada Rafecas, Sr. Jordi Virgili, X. Remesar, Dr. Jose Antonio Fernandez-Lopez, Dr. Marià Alemany Fac. Biologia Tel.: (93)4021521, FAX: (93)4021559 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This report is available in full at: http://www.PRESIDIOTEX.COM/barcelona/index.html Abstract: Adult male rats were given an oral dose of 10 mg/kg aspartame, 14C-labelled in the methanol carbon. At timed intervals of up to 6 hours, the radioactivity in plasma and several organs was investigated. Most of the radioactivity found (>98% in plasma, >75% in liver) was bound to protein. Label present in liver, plasma and kidney was in the range of 1-2% of total radioactivity administered per g or mL, changing little with time. Other organs (brown and white adipose tissues, muscle, brain, cornea and retina) contained levels of label in the range of 1/12th to 1/10th of that of liver. In all, the rat retained, 6 hours after administration, about 5% of the label, half of it in the liver. The specific radioactivity of tissue protein, RNA and DNA was quite uniform. The protein label was concentrated in amino acids, different from methionine, and largely coincident with the result of protein exposure to labelled formaldehyde. DNA radioactivity was essentially in a single different adduct base, different from the normal bases present in DNA. The nature of the tissue label accumulated was, thus, a direct consequence of formaldehyde binding to tissue structures. The administration of labelled aspartame to a group of cirrhotic rats resulted in comparable label retention by tissue components, which suggests that liver function(or its defect) has little effect on formaldehyde formation from aspartame and binding to biological components. The chronic treatment of a series of rats with 200 mg/kg of non-labelled aspartame during 10 days results in the accumulation of even more label when given the radioactive bolus, suggesting that the amount of formaldehyde adducts coming from aspartame in tissue proteins and nucleic acids may be cumulative. It is concluded that aspartame consumption may constitute a hazard because of its contribution to the formation of formaldehyde adducts. PMID: 9714421, UI: 98378223 Mark D. Gold has an excellent, detailed analysis, "Scientific Abuse in Methanol / Formaldehyde Research Related to Aspartame" at: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/methanol.html#discussion In short, biochemical evidence exists to motivate us to seriously and respectfully consider anecdotal evidence of aspartame toxicity. Mark D. Gold gives another detailed review, "Scientific Abuse in Seizure Research Related to Aspartame", at: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/seizures.html . "If the seizures from aspartame are caused by the combination of methanol/formaldehyde and the excitotoxic amino acid from aspartame, as I believe may be the case, it is important to note that methanol is 10 times more acutely toxic in humans than in rodents (Roe 1982), and it takes five times more excitotoxins given to rodents to simulate human ingestion (Olney 1988, Stegink 1979, page 90)." *************************************************************** Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List, not necessarily endorsed by: *********************************** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** Explore Our Archive: <http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.html> <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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