Thank you for this, Tel! I`m printing it off for my MS sister to read, as she guzzles Crystal Light all day long, thinking it is good for her diabetes. I think it is addictive. I can see her deterioration since I moved in with her last December. She flies into rages over nothing, and is getting really forgetful. She blames me for taking her purse, the box of her medications, and other stuff she has lost. Then she finds them and won`t apologize. I`m trying to move away, but don`t have enough income from SSI to do so, and can`t work. Sigh... I`m getting quite suicidal myself over it all. Nothing really to live for. Marshalee
> from > Tel Tofflemire > Dewey, AZ > > April 6, 2004 > > LAWSUITS ACCUSE MANY COMPANIES OF > POISONING THE PUBLIC WITH ASPARTAME > > SACRAMENTO -- April 6th, Lawsuits were filed in three separate California > courts against twelve companies who either produce or use the artificial > sweetener aspartame as a sugar substitute in their products. The suits > were filed in > Shasta, Sonoma and Butte County, California. > > The suits allege that the food companies committed fraud and breach of > warranty by marketing products to the public such as diet Coke, diet > Pepsi, sugar > free gum, Flintstone's vitamins, yogurt and children's aspirin with the > full > knowledge that aspartame, the sweetener in them, is neurotoxic. > > Aspartame is a drug masquerading as an additive. It interacts with other > drugs, has a synergistic and additive effect with MSG, and is a chemical > hyper-sensitization agent. As far back as 1970, Dr. John Olney founded > the field of > neuroscience called excitotoxicity when he did studies on aspartic acid, > which > makes up 40% of aspartame, and found it caused lesions in the brains of > mice. He > made world news on the aspartame/brain tumor connection in l996. Dr. Ralph > Walton, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, > Northeastern > Ohio Universities College of Medicine has written of the behavioral and > psychiatric problems triggered by aspartame-caused depletion of serotonin. > > Aspartame causes headache, memory loss, seizures, vision loss, coma and > cancer. It worsens or mimics the symptoms of such diseases and > conditions as > fibromyalgia, MS, lupus, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue and > depression. > > Aspartame liberates free methyl alcohol. The resulting chronic methanol > poisoning affects the dopamine system of the brain causing addiction. > Methanol, or > wood alcohol, constitutes one-third of the aspartame molecule and is > classified as a severe metabolic poison and narcotic. Recent news is > full of reports of > world-class athletes and other healthy consumers of aspartame suddenly > dropping dead. Sudden death can occur from aspartame use because it > damages the > cardiac conduction system. > > Dr. Woodrow Monte in the peer reviewed journal, Aspartame: Methanol and the > Public Health, wrote: "When diet sodas and soft drinks, sweetened with > aspartame, are used to replace fluid loss during exercise and physical > exertion in hot > climates, the intake of methanol can exceed 250 mg/day or 32 times the > Environmental Protection Agency's recommended limit of consumption for this > cumulative poison." > > The effects of aspartame are documented by the FDA's own data. In 1995 the > agency was forced, under the Freedom Of Information Act, to release a > list of > ninety-two aspartame symptoms reported by thousands of victims. This is > only the > tip of the iceberg. H. J. Roberts, MD, published the medical text > "Aspartame > Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" -- 1,000 pages of symptoms and diseases > triggered by this neurotoxin including the sordid history of its approval. > > Since its discovery in 1965, controversy has raged over the health risks > associated with the sugar substitute. From laboratory testing of the > chemical on > rats, researchers have discovered that the drug induces brain tumors. On > Sept > 30, l980 the Board of Inquiry of the FDA concurred and denied the > petition for > approval. In l981, the newly appointed FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull Hayes, > ignored the negative ruling and approved aspartame for dry goods. As > recorded in > the Congressional Record of 1985, then CEO of Searle Laboratories Donald > Rumsfeld said that he would call in his markers to get aspartame approved. > Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and a day after > taking office > appointed Hayes. No FDA Commissioner in the previous sixteen years had > allowed > Aspartame on the market. > > In 1983, aspartame was approved for use in carbonated beverages. Today > it is > found in over 5000 foods, drinks and medicines. > > Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, MD, author of "Excitotoxins: The Taste That > Kills" (www.russellblaylockmd.com <http://www.russellblaylockmd.com>) > wrote about the relationship between > aspartame and macular degeneration, diabetic blindness and glaucoma (all > known to > result from excitotoxin accumulation in the retina). > > All of these neurodegenerative diseases are worsened by aspartame. In > addition, we now have evidence that excitotoxins play a major role in > exacerbation of > MS and other demyelinating disorders including trigeminal neuraliga. > Blaylock > says that new studies show excitotoxins trigger significant elevation of > free > radicals in the lining (endothelial cells) of arteries, which means that > aspartame will increase the incidence of heart attacks and strokes > (atherosclerosis). > > In original studies, aspartame has triggered brain, mammary, uterine, > ovarian, testicular, thyroid and pancreatic tumors. > > Defendants in the lawsuits include Coca-cola, PepsiCo, Bayer Corp., the > Dannon Company, William Wrigley Jr. Company, ConAgra Foods, Wyeth, Inc., > The > NutraSweet Company, and Altria Corp. (parent company of Kraft Foods and > Philip > Morris). > > Plaintiffs have asked for an injunction to stop companies from producing, > manufacturing, processing, selling or using aspartame. > > Plaintiffs in all three cases are seeking a jury trial. > > FOR MORE INFORMATION: > NATIONAL JUSTICE LEAGUE (530) 248-3483 > http://www.nationaljusticeleague.com/ > > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > >
