Hello all,
A student of mine forwarded the following to me. It looks like a
myth to me - but no evidence on the various 'skeptics' pages. A
Medline search turned up information on seizures & aspartame -
basically, there is no evidence of an effect below 1,000 mg (50 mg per
day is the 'recommended' human dosage). But that's the most that this
lowly social psychologist can come up with....
Has anyone else seen this info - or have specific 'debunks' to
offer?
Dr. Scott Bradshaw
Elizabeth City State University
Elizabeth City, North Carolina [USA]
THE MESSAGE FOLLOWS:
>This was brought to me by one of my customer's just
>before I left to address a breast cancer survivors
>group at the hospital last night. Please, please,
>please read it and think about what impact it could
>have on those you love or care about. Jane
>SUBJECT: ASPARTAME (Nutrasweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc.)
>WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE and the MULTIPLE
>SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION F.D.A. ISSUING FOR COLLUSION WITH
>MONSANTO
>Article written by Betty Martini, Founder of Mission
>Possible (website www.dorway.com <http://www.dorway.com> )
>> >>
>I spent several days lecturing at the WORLD
>ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE in 1995 on ASPARTAME marketed
>as NutraSweet, Equal, and Spoonful. In the keynote
>adress by the EPA, they announced that there was an
>epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus, and
>they did not understand what toxin was causing this to
>be rampant across the United States. I explained that
>I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.
>When the temperature of Aspartame exceeds 86 degrees
>F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to
>formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn
>causes metabolic acidosis. (Formic acid is the poison
>found in the sting of fire ants). The methanol
>toxicity mimics
>multiple sclerosis; thus people were being diagnosed
>with having multiple sclerosis in error. The multiple sclerosis
is not a death sentence, where methanol toxicity is.
>> >>
>In the case of systemic lupus, we are finding it has
>become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis,
>especially for Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers.
>Also, with methanol toxicity, the victims usually
>drink three to four 12 oz. cans of soda per day, some even more.
>In the cases of systemic lupus, which is triggered by
>ASPARTAME, the victim usually does not know that the
>aspartame is the culprit. The victim continues its
>use, aggravating the lupus to such a degree that
>sometimes it becomes life threatening. When we get
>people off the aspartame, those with systemic lupus
>usually become asymptomatic. Unfortunately, we cannot
>reverse this disease.
>> >>
>On the other hand, in the case of those diagnosed with
>Multiple Sclerosis, (when in reality, the disease is
>methanol toxicity), most of the symptoms disappear.
>We have seen cases where their vision has returned and
>even their hearing has returned. This also applies to cases of
tinnitus.
>During a lecture, I said "If you are using ASPARTAME
>(NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, et.) and you suffer from
>fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting pains,
>numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness,
>headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, depression, anxiety attacks,
>slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss-you
>probably have ASPARTAME DISEASE. People were jumping
>up during the lecture saying, "I've got this, is it reversible?"
>It is rampant. Even some of the speakers at my
>lecture were suffering from these symptoms. In one
>lecture, attended by the Ambassador of Uganda, he told
>us that their sugar industry is adding aspartame! He
>continued by saying that one of the industry leader's
>son could no longer walk - due in part by product usage!
>> >>
>We have a very serious problem. Even a stranger came
>up to Dr. Espisto (one of my speakers) and myself and
>said, 'Could you tell me why so many people seem to be
>coming down with MS?' During a visit to a hospice, a
>nurse said that six of her friends, who were heavy
>Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS.
>This is beyond coincidence.
>> >>
>Here is the problem. There were Congressional
>Hearings when aspartame was included in the 100
>different products. Since this initial hearing, there
>have been two subsequent hearings, but to no avail.
>Nothing has been done.
>The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets.
>Now there are over 5,000 products containing this
>chemical, and the PATENT HAS EXPIRED!!!!!!
>At the time of this first hearing, people were going
>blind. The methanol in the aspartame converts to
>formaldehyde in the retina of the eye. Formaldehyde
>is grouped in the same class of dmgs as cyanide and
>arsenic---DEADLY POISONS!!! Unfortunately, it just
>takes longer to quietly kill, but it is killing people
>and causing all kinds of neurological problems.
>> >>
>Aspartame changes the brain's chemistry. It is the
>reason for severe seizures. This drug changes the
>dopamine level in the brain. Imagine what this drug
>does to patients suffering from Parkinson's Disease.
>This drug also causes birth defects.
>There is absolutely no reason to take this product.
>It is NOT A DIET PRODUCT!!! The Congressional Record
>said, "It makes you crave carbohydrates and will make
>you FAT." Dr. Roberts stated that when he got
>patients off aspartame, their average weight loss was
>19 pounds per person. The formaldehyde stores in the fat calls,
>particularly in the hips and thighs.
>> >>
>Aspartame is especialy deadly for diabetics. All
>physicians know what wood alcohol will do to a
>diabetic. We find that physicians believe that they
>have patients with retinopathy, when in fact, it is
>caused by the aspartame. The aspartame keeps the
>blood sugar level out of control, causing many
>patients to go into a coma. Unfortunately, many have
>died. People were telling us at the Conference of the
>American College of Physicians, that they had relatives that
>switched from saccharin to an aspartame product and
>how that relative had eventually gone into a coma.
>Their physicians could not get the blood sugar levels
>under control. Thus, the patients suffered acute
>memory loss and eventually coma and death.
>Memory loss is due to the fact that aspartic acid and
>phenylalanine are neurotoxic without the other amino
>acids found in protein. Thus, it goes past the blood
>brain barrier and deteriorates the neurons of the
>brain. Dr. Russell Blaylock, neurosurgeon, said, "The
>ingredients stimulate the neurons of the brain to
>death, causing brain damage of varying degrees." Dr.
>Blaylock has written a book entitiled "EXCITOTOXINS:
>The Taste That Kills" (Health Press 1-800-643-2665).
>Dr. H.J. Roberts, diabetic specialist and world expert
>on aspartame poisoning, has also ritten a book entitled
>"Defense Against Alzheimer's Disease"
>(1-800-814-9800). Dr. Roberts tells how aspartame
>poisoning is escalating Alzhheimer's disease, and indeed it is. As
the
>hospice nurse told me, women are being admitted at 30 years of
>age with Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Blaylock and Dr.
>Roberts will be writing a position paper with some
>case histories and will post it on the Internet.
>According to the Conference of the American College of
>Physicians, "We are talking about a plague of
>nerological diseases caused by this deadly poison."
>> >>
>Dr. Roberts realized what was happening when aspartame
>was first marketed. He said 'his diabetic patients
>presented memory loss, confusion and severe vision
>loss.' At the Conference of the American College of
>Physicians, doctors admitted that they did not know
>why. They had wondered why seizures were rampant (the
>phenylalanine in aspartame breaks down the seizure
>threshold and depletes serotonin, which causes manic
>depression, panic attacks, rage and violence).
>Just before the Conference, I received a fax, from
>Norway, asking for a possible antidote for this poison
>because they are experiencing so many problems in
>their country. This "poison" is now available in 90
>PLUS countries worldwide. Fortunately, we had speakers and
>ambassadors at the Conference from different nations
>who have pledged their help. We ask that you help
>too. Print this article out and warn everyone you
>know. Take anything that contains aspartame back to
>the store. Take the "NO ASPARTAME TEST" and send us
>your case history.
>I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of aspartame,
>knows how deadly it is. They fund the American
>Diabetes Association, American Dietetic Association,
>Congress, and the Conference of the American College
>of Physicians. The New York Times, on November 15, 1996,
>ran an article on how the American Dietetic
>Association takes money from the food industry to
>endorse their products. Therefore, they cannot
>criticize any additives or tell about their link to
>Monsanto. How bad is this? We told a mother who had
>a child on NutraSweet to get off the product. The
>child was having grand mal seizures every day. The
>mother called her physician, who called the American Dietetic
>Association, who told the doctor not to take the child
>off the NutraSweet. We are still trying to convince
>the mother that the aspartame is causing the seizures.
>Every time we get someone off of aspartame, the
>seizures stop. If the baby dies, you know whose fault
>it is, and what we are up against. There are 92
>documented symptoms of aspartame, from coma to death.
>The majority of them are all neurological, because the
>aspartame destroys the nervous system.
>Aspartame Disease is partially the cause to what is
>behind some of the mystery of the Desert Storm health
>problems. The burning tongue and other problems
>discussed in over 60 cases can be directly related to
>the consumption of an aspartame product. Several
>thousand pallets of diet drinks were shipped to the
>Desert Storm troops. (Remember heat can liberate the
>methanol from the aspartame at 86 degrees F). Diet
>drinks sat in the 120 degree F. Arabian sun for weeks
>at a time on pallets. The servicemen and women drank
>them all day long. All of their symptoms are identical
>to aspartame poisoning. Dr. Roberts says "consuming
>aspartame at the time of conception can cause birth
>defects." The phenylalanine concentrates in the
>placenta, causing mental retardation, according to Dr.
>Louis Elsas, Pediatric Professor - Genetics, Emory
>University in his testimony before Congress.
>In the original lab tests, animals developed brain
>tumors (phenylalanine breaks down into DXP, a brain
>tumor agent). When Dr. Espisto was lecturing on
>aspartame, one physician in the audience, a
>neurosurgeon, said, "when they remove brain tumors,
>they have found high levels of aspartame in them."
>Stevia, a sweet food, NOT AN ADDITIVE which helps in
>the metabolism of sugar and would be ideal for
>diabetics, has now been approved as a dietary
>supplement by the FDA. For years, the FDA has
>outlawed this sweet food because of their loyalty to MONSANTO.
>If it says "SUGAR FREE" on the label---DO NOT EVEN
>THINK ABOUT CONSUMING IT!!!!!!!!! Senator Howard
>Metzenbaum wrote a bill that would have warned all
>infants, pregnant mothers and children of the dangers
>of aspartame. The bill would have also instituted
>independent studies on the problems existing in the
>population (seizures, changes in brain chemistry,
>changes in neurological and behavioral symptoms). It
>was killed by the powerful drug and chemical lobbies,
>letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an
>unsuspecting public. Since the Conference of the
>American College of Physicians, we hope to have the
>help of some world leaders.
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