Aspertame

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If you will go to our links page, there are a number of links there

that deal with aspertame.

 

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, Marian & Hounds

<vistadel@c...> wrote:

> Hi Nora,

>

> I've heard for years that aspertame is a nuerological problem for many,

> no telling

> how many are actually affected but don't recognize the symptoms as

> coming from

> aspertame - Nor do the MD's.

>

> Personally, I don''t take or drink anything with aspertame in it. I

> do believe it is

> a very bad thing. I didn't hear it on the lists/or internet, but

> happened to have

> a tv on, and when I walked by, heard Pat Robertson, a religious program

> I guess,

> do a whole hour's special on the bad effects of it. Caught my

> attention, and so I

> listened. Since then I've heard no good things about it.

>

> marian

>

>

> On Jul 2, 2004, at 10:36 PM,

> wrote:

>

> > Sat, 3 Jul 2004 00:43:15 -0400

> > " Nora Gottlieb " <nwgott@i...>

> > Urban Legends Reference Pages Toxin du jour (Kiss My

> > Aspartame)

> >

> > I sent fake sugar info to someone and they sent this back...what do

> > you all think? NG

> >

> > http://www.snopes.com/toxins/aspartame.asp

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THE SO-CALLED 'ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER,' RITALIN, ASPARTAME, AND CHILDRENBy Stephen FoxE-Mail: Stephen

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted: 04 May 2005 Governor Richardson's commendable recent efforts to rid New Mexico high school athletics of steroids are a vital step in the right direction. We must extend the Governor's idea with related bills in the 2006 legislative session to hopefully end the practice of drugging children at school who have been "diagnosed" with the so-called "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder."

According to both the office of the Attorney General and the New Mexico Supreme Court Law Library, there are no New Mexico statutes which govern or even begin to regulate prescription drugs being administered by schools; there are just two parts of the NM Administrative Code which regulate school nurses and medication aides. The only overarching authority seems to stem from the Americans With Disabilities Act, which is a monstrous and unacceptable "stretch" to include this so-called disorder as a disability!

Unfortunately for the children essentially forced to take these ADHD drugs, there is also no specific neuropathological description of this "disorder," and many pediatricians concede that perhaps it was invented by drug companies to market drugs like Ritalin and the newer, long-lasting drug, Concerta! All of the 4 groups of ADHD drugs are amphetamines or amphetamine derivatives.

About 1% of the students in New Mexico are administered Ritalin at the schools, but we add in the private prescriptions for Concerta, which students take at home before they come to school, the percentage increases.

ADHD often is a mask for poverty, domestic violence, and the child abuse at home. We should unravel the deeper underlying causes of this "disorder," rather than just treat symptoms by administering amphetamines to children whose brains and nervous systems are still developing. The history of American medicine is full of examples of products, pharmaceuticals, and compounds which later prove to have been very injurious: Vioxx, for example, with estimates already approaching 55,000 unnecessary deaths from this product, as of May 2, 2005!

I have ten precise questions:

 

 

What assessment has been made of the liability of the school districts and the Public Education department for any possible lawsuits which might materialize if down the road, Ritalin and Concerta turns out to have impaired thousands of New Mexico youth?

More important, how do the students' terrible diets [particularly those who are fed by fast food corporations with the school lunch contracts, like Mc Donalds, Pizza Hut, and Burger King]--- how do these diets in turn affect their psychological situations, particularly those who guzzle "diet" pop for breakfast, slam down a few Twinkies for a snack, then have a normal fast food lunch, like a hamburger, coke, and french fries for lunch? What percentage of their lunches are contracted out to fast food corporations? Could we not improve on this for our children in New Mexico?

Has UNM Medical School or the Department of Education ever done a thorough clinical study, or even a comprehensive search of the literature, about the whether aspartame, found in 7000 products and consumed by 40% of children today, a proven neurotoxin due to the end product of formaldehyde and a brain tumor causing agent, diketopiperazine, might also be one of the major causes of the so-called "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder"?

Are children ever really "not ready to learn," one of the parameters forthe prescribing of Ritalin? How often is this a result of a teacher or even a parent despairing of their child ever calming down enough to learn, or to not be a class disruption, so just go ahead and arrange for this diagnosis of attention deficit disorder? Defenders of Ritalin use in schools often include "behavior conducive to the school environment,the medication does work, generally," and "the medication truly serves and benefits the child in question," all of which are seem to be specious logic to approve what may turn out to have been a very injurious long term deleterious problem.

Is this the same trend in other states and other nations? Some states have much higher statistics for Ritalin use, particularly inner city schools more than rural or suburban schools.

27 out 1000 New Mexico children take asthma medications, yet even the FDA statistics recognize that aspartame results in 92 different attributed symptoms, and one of the foremost of those is ASTHMA! Perhaps there is more etiology to unravel here? In New Mexico, 2 out of 1000 children are administered anti-convulsants and 3 out of 1000 are administered anti- depressants by the schools, and a few less (891 students in 2002-2003) are administered psychotropic medications; could these not also be partially related to aspartame, since convulsions, epilepsy, and depression are also among the 92 FDA-listed symptoms in the actual product complaints to the FDA and 80% of these product complaints are about Aspartame!

Could we get some independent research into these questions which was not even slightly funded by any drug company, particularly ones with obvious and strong vested interests, and examine the cumulative interactions between neurotoxic food additives, prescription drugs and other factors like air pollution and water pollution?

There are National Pediatric Association guidelines for attention deficit disorder; are they being carefully followed in New Mexico? The Academy mentions one ADHD drug, Pemoline, which has resulted in complete liver failure in numerous children, including 11 deaths! It is not acceptable to give amphetamines to 3-8 year old children, in my estimation.

Children---some of them---feel like failures for not learning and so do their parents, but is it at all appropriate to worsen their situation in the long run by drugging them? Have really long term studies been done on Ritalin and Concerta's effects by someone other than the manufacturers seeking the FDA's ready approval and "stamp for industry"? Most physicians with whom I have spoken reply NO. These meds have been around for about 20 years, and although there are no really long term predictions or assessments of them in a clinical setting, not just anecdotal commentaries, physicians sometimes just give in, and concede: "THERE ARE NO OTHER SOLUTIONS." There are always other solutions!

Often physicians are pressured to prescribe something right away. However, legislation could address these concerns in the 2006 Legislative session, and this new statute could require a sorely needed and long overdue dialog between parents, children, school, nurse, pediatricians, and the one or two pediatric neurotoxicologists in our state. These pediatric neurotoxicologists' conclusions should be at the heart of protocols required to administer prescription drugs to children in all New Mexico schools. This would help all of the 7% of our children who are administered drugs at their schools, by treating causes and not just slamming a drug to blanket the symptoms, which I submit are the result of the tidal wave of junk food and the rest of the chemical feast hitting our children worse than it hit us adults when we were children. I welcome all replies, ideas, case histories, participation, and questions.

Respectfully,

Stephen FoxE-Mail: Stephen

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ADDENDUM:

For a contrast, visit the "Safe Harbor" website and like to: Miracle in Wisconsin. Educators removed pop machines and vending machines from one of the worst schools in Wisconsin which had the most learning problems and behavioral problems. Thus, the kids got no aspartame at the school. At the end of the program, it has become one of the best schools in Wisconsin with few learning and behavioral problems. Today, many of our children are medicated instead of educated. Aspartame triggers behavioral problems, which lowers the sezure threshold and depletes serotonin, thus triggering manic depression, mood swings, suicidal tendencies, etc., and it reacts with all antidepressant and anticonvulsive drugs.

One of the best examples of children without aspartame are the documented studies by Dr. Miguel Baret Daniel in the Dominican Republic, who changed the diet of 360 children and gave them aspartme-laced juice. All but 3 or 4 became restless, hyperactive, confused---all well-documented aspartame symptoms. Once he took them off aspartame/fruit juice, they returned to normal within 4 days.