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Lawsuits - Aspartame For Immediate Release

 

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ASPARTAME... LAWSUITS ACCUSE MANY COMPANIES OF POISONING THE

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>From Dr Betty Martini

USA

 

NATIONAL JUSTICE LEAGUE

2205 Hilltop Dr. Ste. 2022

Redding, Ca 96002

Phone 208-246-1171

Cell 208-890-0034

Email Info

 

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 "

(<file://outbind://7/www.russellblaylockmd.com>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.

 

If you would like to schedule someone from the National Justice League for

an interview, please call or fax us at 208-246-1171.

 

 

 

Sincerely,

Roberta Bellon,

Public Relations

Dr. Martini, more info on aspartame on www.dorway.com and

www.wnho.net

 

 

 

 

 

 

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