Soda, Sweet Drinks Are Main Calorie Source In US Diet/American Diabetes Society Has Been Bought Off By Junk Food & Soft Drink Lobby/UK Sweetener Co Admits Sucralose (Splenda) Is Synthetic

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Soda, Sweet Drinks Are

Main Calorie

Source In US Diet

5-27-5

 

Preliminary data suggest that soda and sweet drinks are the main

source of calories in American diet.

 

Tufts researchers recently reported that while the leading source of

calories in the average American diet used to be from white bread, that may

have changed. Now, according to preliminary research conducted by scientists

at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts

University, Americans are drinking these calories instead. The research was

presented in abstract form at the Experimental Biology Conference in April

of this year and a more comprehensive paper is being developed.

 

Odilia Bermudez, PhD, MPH, studied the reported diets of a large

nationwide sample of American adults. Among respondents to the 1999-2000

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), more than two

thirds reported drinking enough soda and/or sweet drinks to provide them

with a greater proportion of daily calories than any other food. In

addition, obesity rates were higher among these sweet drink consumers.

Consumers of 100% orange juice and low fat milk, on the other hand, tended

to be less overweight, on average.

 

Bermudez, who is also an assistant professor at Tufts University's

Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, is hopeful that, " by

helping to identify the main sources of excess energy in the American diet,

this work may contribute to the development of much-needed strategies to

combat obesity in the American public. "

 

" These results are startling, " she continued, " and indicate that we

need a much better understanding of how the American diet has changed. Our

paper will look more closely at the issue of sweet drink consumption and its

relation to obesity factors among three of the main ethnic groups included

in the national surveys: African Americans, Hispanics and non-Hispanic

whites. "

 

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Experimental Biology 2005, San Diego. Abstract # 839.5 Bermudez, O.,

" Consumption of sweet drinks among American adults from the NHANES

1999-2000. "

 

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-05/tu-pds052605.php

 

 

 

 

 

American Diabetes Society Has Been Bought Off By Junk Food & Soft Drink

Lobby

 

 

http://www.organicconsumers.org/school/diabetes051705.cfm

 

 

 

Commercial Alert <http://www.commercialalert.org

 

PRESS RELEASE MAY 16, 2005

 

CONTACT: Commercial Alert: Gary Ruskin, 503-235-8012

 

After Sweet Industry Gift, Am. Diabetes Assn. Claims Sugar Has Nothing to Do

With Diabetes

 

WASHINGTON -- May 16 -- After the American Diabetes Association received a

large gift from major manufacturer of sugar-sweetened beverages, its top

medical official is claiming that sugar has nothing to do with diabetes. In

an interview published in today¹s Corporate Crime Reporter, Richard Kahn,

the chief scientific and medical officer with the American Diabetes

Association said " What is the evidence that sugar itself has anything to do

with diabetes? There is no evidence, " On April 21, the ADA announced a

" three-year, multi-million dollar alliance " with Cadbury Schweppes Americas

Beverages, which produces sweetened soft drinks that are implicated in the

epidemic of obesity and diabetes in the United States. Its parent company is

Cadbury Schweppes, which is the third largest soft-drink manufacturer in the

world, after Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. " Saying that sugar has nothing to do

with diabetes is like saying that tobacco has nothing to do with emphysema, "

said Gary Ruskin, executive director of Commercial Alert. " The American

Diabetes Association has been so corrupted that they have sunk to the

mentality of tobacco scientists' who denied the link between tobacco and

lung cancer. " Incredibly, when Kahn was asked whether sugary drinks have

anything to do with diabetes, he responded " No one has a clue of whether

they do or don't. " There is ample evidence linking diets high in sugar, and

sugary drinks, with obesity. For example, a study in the Lancet, titled

" Relation Between Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Drinks and Childhood

Obesity: a Prospective, Observational Analysis " found that the likelihood of

obesity in children " increased 1.6 times for each additional can of

sugar-sweetened drink that they consumed every day. "

 

Today's Corporate Crime Reporter interview is posted at:

http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/diabetes051605.htm More information

about the American Diabetes Association-Cadbury Schweppes " alliance " is

available at: http://biz./prnews/050421/dcth002.html?.v=7

Commercial Alert is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to keep the

commercial culture within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from

exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community,

environmental integrity and democracy. For more information, see our website

at: http://www.commercialalert.org.

 

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UK Sweetener Co Admits

Sucralose (Splenda) Is Synthetic

 

 

http://www.rense.com/general65/admot.htm

 

By Dr. Betty Martini

Mission Possible International

5-27-5

 

From NUSCAAN

http://www.scaansweet.com/news_letter.htm -

 

" Aspartame has come under a lot of pressure in recent times of

having a negative image in health circles even though it has undergone many

studies supporting its safe use in foods. There will be more pressure on it

as the new sweetener sucralose makes in roads. Its saving grace will be

economic as it is much more cost effective. Marketing strategies may be

looking to move it out in favour of Sucralose. "

 

About Sucralose they say: " The new sweetener gaining much news and

interest from the market. It is PROMOTED AS BEING MADE FROM SUGAR, and taste

like sugar. It is really a SYNTHETIC SWEETENER, LET'S BE HONEST HERE.

However, despite its high price it is gaining popularity in marketing

circles who want to be seen taking steps TO MOVE ASPARTAME OUT OF PRODUCTS. "

 

Indeed, confession is good for the soul. What they don't say is

sucralose has a chlorinated base like DDT and can cause autoimmune disease.

The research is on http://www.dorway.com,

http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame, and http://www.wnho.net.

 

We are already getting complaints on health problems from sucralose.

Also, you have to remember that aspartame being a chemical

hypersensitization agent, as well as a neurotoxic drug, not only interacts

with other drugs, especially those used to treat the problems it causes, but

also with toxins which is all some of these so-called other sweeteners are.

Don't forget they outlawed DDT.

 

Aspartame, of course, has been shown to be a deadly neurotoxic drug

with 92% of scientific peer reviewed studies showing the problems. If you

eliminated one pro-industry summary and 6 studies the FDA had something to

do with because of their loyalty to industry, 100% of independent scientific

peer reviewed studies show the problems. This research is on

http://www.dorway.com by Ralph Walton, M.D.

 

There is already a medical text on the global plague, Aspartame

Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, by H. J. Roberts, M.D.,

http://www.sunsentpess.com or 1 800 827 7991.

 

Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., wrote about aspartame, and MSG,

Excitootxins: The Taste That Kills, http://www.russellblaylockmd.com

 

These physicians also have other books on the subject. Original

studies by the manufacturer of aspartame were the target of an indictment

for fraud, rather than showing safety. Both U.S. Prosecutors hired on with

the defense team of the manufacturer and the statute of limitations expired.

For 16 years no FDA Commissioner would approve aspartame because it was

never proven safe and in original studies triggered brain, mammary, uterine,

ovarian, testicular,pancreatic and thyroid tumors - for starters, as well as

grand mal seizures. CEO Don Rumsfeld, now Secretary of Defense, said he

would call in his markers and get it approved anyway, as documented in the 8

month investigation of aspartame by United Press International

(http://www.dorway.com) and in the congressional record.

 

Unfortunately, Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team

and the day after he took office appointed an FDA Commissioner who would

approve this toxin. The FDA set up a Board of Inquiry and said to revoke the

petition for approval that aspartame had not been proven safe and had caused

brain tumors. Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes over-ruled the Board of Inquiry and then

went to work for the PR Agency of the manufacturer, and has refused to talk

to the press ever since. You can get a copy of the entire Board of Inquiry

report on www.greatfallspro.com on CD. The summation is on

http://www.dorway.com along with industry's flawed research.

 

Along with these confessions from Scaansweet is: " It can be shown

that all intense sweeteners have problems when trying to emulate the gold

standard of sweetness, sugar. At least God made sugar. Chemical sweeteners

are good for nobody. Diabetics can use Stevia which is a safe herb and has

been used in Brazil for thousands of years as a sweetener, especially for

diabetics because it helps in the metabolism of sugar.

 

Aspartame (Canderel,E951,Equal, Spoonful,NutraSweet, etc.) actually

can precipitate diabetes, aggravates and simulates diabetic retinopathy and

neuropathy, keeps blood sugar out of control, can cause diabetics to go into

convulsions and interacts with insulin. Aspartame not only has caused an

epidemic of diabetes but also of obesity since it is a drug that makes you

crave carbohydrates so you gain weight. (See protest of National Soft Drink

Assn on DORway, very end) Also the formaldehyde converted from the methanol

has been shown to accumulate in the cells and damage DNA with most toxicity

in the liver but substantial amounts in the kidneys, adipose tissue (fat

cells), brain and retina, on the Trocho Study. So when you see somebody with

heavy hips and thighs they just may be on aspartame. If you want to get fat

NutraSweet is where it's at.

 

As the epidemics of obesity and diabetes rage the word is out that

aspartame is the cause. The negative publicity showing the real facts about

aspartame is, indeed, out, as confessed by Scaansweet. The manufacturers

cannot put out the fire no matter how much they lie. And because of the

depletion of serotonin it is triggering manic depression (bipolar),

insomnia, suicidal tendencies, mood swings, panic attacks, anxiety,

hallucinations, etc., and interacts with all anti-depressants. Aspartame

triggers behavioral and psychiatric problems. Look what they've done to our

kids.

 

Dr. Betty Martini

Founder, Mission Possible International

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097

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