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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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