Health and Diet - The Lethality of Artificial Sweeteners

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Article posted 24/01/05

 

Health and Diet - The Lethality of Artificial Sweeteners

by David Webb

 

Today, the sweeteners sucrose and saccharin remain as controversial

as ever, and the debate over whether or not they represent a cancer

hazard to the public continues to rage.

 

Saccharin has long been a traditional alternative for those on diets,

but it has been dogged from the outset with its own health concerns.

Saccharin is a synthetic, white crystalline powder, which, in its

commercial state is 350 times as sweet as sucrose. It has no

nutritional value and is not easily digested by the body.

 

Saccharin officially assumed the 'carcinogen' title in March 1977,

when a rodent study in Canada produced an excess of bladder tumours

in the male animal. The US National Toxicology Program elected to put

saccharin on its 'cancer causing' list - formally declaring it an

'anticipated human carcinogen.' Cyclamate, an earlier version, had

been banned in 1970 for similar reasons.

 

The American Food and Drug Administration, relented in the face of

public pressure, but mandated that saccharin should carry a warning label.

 

Aspartame can be found the world over under the brand names

Nutrasweet, Equal, Spoonful and Equal-Measure. Aspartame was

discovered by accident in 1965, by a chemist working for the GD Serle

Company. The original approval as a sweetener for public consumption

was blocked over concerns about both aspartame's safety and GD

Serle's research practices. Aspartame received approval for dry goods

in 1981 and as a sweetener for carbonated beverages was granted in

1983, despite growing concerns over its neurological effects. In

1985, GD Serle was purchased by pharmaceutical giant Monsanto. Since

then, Serle Pharmaceuticals and The NutraSweet Company were created

as separate corporate identities.

 

According to researcher Alex Constantine in his essay entitled " Sweet

Poison " , aspartame may account for up to 75% of the adverse food

reactions reported to the US FDA, due primarily to its reported

ability to affect neurological processes in humans. Dr Olney, a

prominant neuroscientist, found that an excess of aspartate and

glutamate, two chemicals used by the body as neurotransmitters to

transmit information between brain neurons, could kill neurons in the

brain by allowing too much calcium to collect in the neuron cells to

neutralise acid. This neurological damage led Dr Olney to label

aspartate and glutamate 'excitotoxins', in that they 'excite' or

stimulate the neural cells to death.

 

 

Symptoms

 

Side-effects laid at the door of aspartame poisoning include fits,

convulsions, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, ALS, memory

loss, hormonal problems, hearing loss, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease,

AIDS dementia, brain lesions and neuro-endocrine disorders.

Aspartame comprises two chief trouble-makers:

 

Phenylalanine is an amino acid used by the brain, that comprises 50%

of aspartame. People suffering from the genetic disorder

phenylketonuria (PKU) cannot metabolise phenylalanine and an excess

of this amino acid builds up in the brain, leading to a decrease of

serotonin levels, bringing on emotional disorders and depression.

 

Menthanol, also known as wood alcohol. The poison methanol is a 10%

ingredient of aspartame, which is created when aspartame is heated

above 30'C, for example in the preparation of processed foods.

Methanol oxidises in the body to produce formic acid and the deadly

neurotoxin, formaldehyde. Methanol is considered by America's

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as " .a cumulative poison, due

to the low rate of excretion once it is absorbed. In the body,

methanol is oxidised to formaldehyde and formic acid; both of these

metabolites are toxic. "

 

A one litre carbonated beverage, sweetened with aspartame, contains

around 56mg of methanol. Heavy consumers of soft drinks sweetened

with aspartame can ingest up to 250 mg of methanol daily, especially

in the summer, amounting to 32 times the EPA warning limit.

 

Dr Joseph Mercola, nutrition and health researcher, is no lover of

aspartame: " In 1991, the National Institutes of Health listed 167

symptoms and reasons to avoid the use of aspartame, but today it is a

multi-million dollar business that contributes to the degeneration of

the human population, as well as the deliberate suppression of

overall intelligence, short-term memory and the added contribution as

a carcinogenic environmental co-factor. "

 

In the final analysis, your body just wants to ask one question about

what you feed it. " Can I use this material to build cells to

replenish my systems? " Sucrose, saccharin and aspartame are

incompatible with this process and have been shown to work against

the body. Thus, these materials are incompatible with life.

 

Knowing about what we put into our bodies is just as important as

knowing about the chemicals we don't want to put onto our bodies

through our personal care products.

Author: David Webb

Aromatherapist/Massage Therapist, author of Athletic Man, and company

director of <http://www.scentualnrg.com.au>Scentualnrg.com.au

 

 

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