A recent essay in Esquire described the careers of Cheney and Rummy. In passing, the author mentioned that Rumsfield himself successfully influened the FDA to approve aspartame, over the FDA's strong reluctance. In short, this article says, the FDA did NOT want to permit aspartame to be approved as a sweetner. Rummy pulled strings for friends he had in the manufacturing company (Searle?) I'd need to double check this story to make sure I have the details right -- maybe Rummy was working for the company, I do not recall -- but the main point is clear: that the FDA, everyone's favorite evildoer, seems to have had the right inclinations in this case, but was bullied or wheedled into going along with the application. This is quite different from the usual spin about the FDA being in bed with the pharms.
As for the health risks of aspartame, both my wife and I noticed that the stuff caused headaches, and once I quit using it -- switching to Stevia -- I became convinced that aspartame is no good. I would like to subject it to some muscle testing in future. JBB Marshall Dudley wrote: > > I isn't a ridiculous statement. The proof is everywhere. Aspartame was > originally > developed as an ant poison, and it is the best there is. But they decided > they > could make more money selling it as an artificial sweetener, so that is the > way the > label it. But it is still the best ant poison around. Even though Orkin was > unable to get rid of my ants I got rid of them in 2 days with 2 packets of > Equal. > Every experiment I have done has kill 100% of the ants anywhere when I have > fed > them aspartame. See: http://execonn.com/poison.html > > If you got about 3 days of time for reading all the articles about this > poison go > to dorway.com for a huge amount of information and documentation on this > poison. > > I have warned all my relatives about it, but two ignored me. Even though I > had > told them it causes brain tumors and fibromynalsa (sp?), they continued > taking it. > One of them just got out of the hospital for brain surgery to remove the > tumors, > and the other one has been in the hospital several times over the last few > months > with the fibro. And they still take the stuff, even though warned and the > warning > came out true. > > Marshall > > Jack Dayton wrote: > > > > From: Marshall Dudley <[email protected]> > > > > > > Reputable company means nothing. Check the labes for ingredients. Some > > > vitamins > > > from reputable companies have ant poison in them that can cause severe > > > health > > > problems, even brain tumors. Avoid any that have aspertame in them. > > > > That is a ridiculous statement, "ant poison"? > > The burden of proof is in your lap! > > > > Jack > > > > -- > > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > > > Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > > > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
