(Splenda) ASPARTAME SUPRESSES THE LEVELS OF SEROTONIN IN THE BRAIN

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Aspartame Suppresses the Levels of Serotonin in the Brain. "

" According to one recent report, 5 suicides have been linked to aspartame

ingestion. "

 

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Text of Stephen Fox's speech to Senate Public Affairs Committee Stephen Fox

February 3, 2006

New Mexico is at the most serious crossroads in its history, as the strongest

pro consumer protection bill ever to be presented to the New Mexico Senate and

House is now before your Committee.

 

Senate Bill 654 would ban an incontrovertibly proven neurotoxin and carcinogen,

the artificial sweetener Aspartame, which is metabolized as several toxins,

particularly methanol which is then assimilated as formaldehyde.

 

This product should never have been approved by the FDA, and to the FDA's

credit, approval was turned down from 1966 to 1981, when the approval process

was usurped by the President of G.D. Searle at that time, Donald Rumsfeld. He

got his own crony, Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, appointed by President Reagan as FDA

Commissioner and within a few days, the 16 years of FDA refusal to approve

aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde was overturned, and approval was granted.

 

You will hear complaints from corporate lobbyists, some speaking before you,

some outside in the hall under the assumption that their work has been done,

particularly Ajinomoto's lobbyists, former House Majority Leader, Richard

Minzner, and Michael Stratton of Colorado, Ken Salazar's campaign manager,

currently on the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) Presidential Nomination

and Scheduling Commission.

 

In order to protect New Mexican's health from further neurodegenerative

damages done by aspartame and its resultant formaldehyde, the only way to

correct this egregious manipulation of one of the most vital of Federal

agencies is through legislative measures at the state level. The obstructionists

say this will create a " balkanization " of 50 mini- FDA's, yet that is precisely

what is needed, given the increasing subversion of the FDA by the industries it

is supposed to regulate.

 

This bill has been carefully crafted by the Legislative Council service,

completely free from corporate manipulation. A Federal judge wrote its

legislative findings about the state having powers to protect its citizens'

health when Federal authorities did not specifically preempt such powers, to

thus clarify legislative intent, and thus: this new statute could never be

successfully challenged down the long legal road on any viable legal grounds.

 

Despite the predictable corporate legal boilerplate you are about to hear from

the Ajinomoto lawyer used to defend this neurotoxic poison in every state, you

most certainly have the power under the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution

to enact such legislation.

 

Aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde violates numerous Federal statutes against

adulterants in food as well as the 1958 Delaney Amendment to the FDCA, the act

of Congress that created the FDA, so you are on very good grounds to do so in

terms of the Federal law.

 

Note that it is not the FDA that is here complaining about this bill: it is

corporate interests that to date, have been able to hide behind the FDA

approval of their poisonous products!

The U.S. Supreme Court and many many U.S. Court of Appeals decisions have

upheld the right of states to protect their citizen's health, and remember,

again, that it is not the FDA or the U.S. Attorney standing before you objecting

to this bill: it is corporate lobbyists, just one of whom is a lawyer.

 

Pepsi Cola, Coca Cola, Dannon Yogurt, Wrigley's Gum, Merisant, (the

manufacturer of those little blue packs of poison people dump in their

coffee)------and lots of pharmaceutical companies which add

aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde to children's vitamins, aspirin, and pediatric

medications----------it is a wonder they are not all represented here objecting

to this bill, by 50 or 60 Lobbyists.

 

They have done this sort of thing in every state and in every nation, over and

over, usually successfully, but their thin veneer of credibility has

disappeared and their toxic mythologies are crumbling badly. We need to stop

them here, in New Mexico.

 

Thanks to Senator Ortiz y Pino, Pro Tem Senate President Ben Altamirano, and a

majority of the members of the Senate Committees' Committee, New Mexico is

ahead of every other state in the medically and legally well-founded necessity

of getting rid of aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde forever, despite the

overwhelming fact that it is found in 6000 food products and over 600

children's medications.

 

The corporate objectors' comments are quite predictable. With deep pockets and

so much to lose if their neurotoxic carcinogenic poison is exposed for what it

truly is, these companies might even be sued for damages. This bill doesn't say

sue the corporations. It just prohibits aspartame/methanol/formaldehye from

being added to food in New Mexico, and it gives $100,000 to the office of the

Attorney General to enforce the ban.

 

What a great investment in improved health for New Mexico, and what a great

return this allocation will bring in terms of prevention of a host of entirely

preventable illnesses! Their product impugned, and unable to hide behind the

crumbling FDA approval of aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde, they have hired a

legion of lobbyists.

 

Have you noticed that the New Mexico Grocer's Association is not among these

objectors? Grocers don't want unhealthy customers, and they recognize what a

pleasure it will be to switch to products with healthy sweeteners. For grocers,

a legislative ban of aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde is no big deal; in fact,

it will rapidly and vastly boost their profits.

 

Esteemed Senators, you could easily listen to these lobbyists and decide to

vote against this bill.

But if you were to do that, God forbid, do realize that you are thereby giving

a green light and a carte blanche to every toxic food manufacturer in the

world, especially those cranking out the poisonous additives, telling them that

they are safe, that all is well, and that regulatory boards and legislatures all

over the world are in their pocket, under their control. The growing mountain

of evidence about aspartame's effects cannot be swept under the rug any longer.

 

Don't wait till the European Union prohibits it or until you watch that long

overdue speech on the House or Senate floor, to formally ask the FDA to

immediately rescind its approval of this product, by Tom Udall or Jeff Bingaman

or Chairman of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, Republican Charles Grassley,

the best of the FDA critics in the Senate. 1.8 million New Mexicans have given

you have the power and the holiest of obligations to do this today, in this

committee, to give a do-pass to the strongest consumer protection bill that has

ever been before the New Mexico Legislature.

 

If you as a committee do not pass the bill, you have failed the people of New

Mexico, and have doomed them to yet another year of neurodegenerative

illnesses, new instances of cancer, and especially for small children, illnesses

they should never have been given, all of which could have been easily

prevented by your giving this bill a do-pass.

 

I have mailed and emailed the best of the definitive medical articles to you

already, and have placed more of such articles in your hands about

aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde written by the top physicians in the United

States documenting its effects, Dr. H.J. Roberts, Internist, and Dr. Russell

Blaylock, Neurosurgeon. The first lives in Florida, and the latter lives in

Mississippi. They cannot be here today, but they are concerned about what how

you are about to vote, like millions of Americans who have suffered from

aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde poisoning all over our nation are closely

watching this decision today.

 

Legislatures in every state and parliaments in every nation are watching your

decision, like Roger Williams, Member of the UK Parliament from Wales. He is

the MP who on December 14 of last year called for a total ban on

aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde for the entire UK! If you vote for a do-pass,

you will have done the supremely right thing. You will be telling every citizen

in New Mexico, particularly those who voted you into your seat in the New

Mexico Senate, that you care more about protecting their health and that of

their children, than you do about capitulating to several corporations' profit

making on their poisonous food additive.

Just because they can hire the kind of legal power in the folks you are about

to hear, doesn't mean you too have to capitulate to their demands, nor vote in

a partisan block against this bill, just because the present Republican

Secretary of Defense got this horrible stuff approved in 1981, not by medical

or scientific means, but by a sordid political fiat.

What a wretched legacy Mr. Rumsfeld leaves, far worse than former Secretary of

Defense Robert McNamara left with 55,000 dead Americans in Vietnam, for which

he later asked us a nation to allow him to apologize!

 

McNamara at least apologized; Rumsfeld has inflicted much more medical damage

on those afflicted with aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde poisoning, and has yet

apologized for nothing.. Perhaps in due time, Rumsfeld will apologize, but it

will be too late for those billions of victims of his fiat, his regulatory coup

at the FDA in 1981. Good government is not about the apologies of old men for

their decisions and errors in the past; it is about doing the right thing,

whether in a Parliament or General Assembly or a Congress or in the New Mexico

Senate Public Affairs Committee.

 

Donald Rumsfeld recently had a whole set of aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde

poisoning symptoms named after him: Rumsfeld's disease.

 

Aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde's approval was generally in 1981. That was 25

years ago, and billions of people from all states and all nations have suffered

from that ramrodded FDA approval, but that doesn't mean WE cannot correct it.

WE must correct it, or it will cause more damage, more damaged fetuses, more

overmedicated hyperactive children taking Ritalin every day, more adult

illnesses like Lou Gehrig's disease, Multiple Sclerosis, seizures, convulsions,

and so on----all of the 92 symptoms of aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde poisoning

listed by the FDA.

I am surprised the lobbyists haven't brought out some diabetics whom they have

somehow convinced to believe that formaldehyde and methanol are going to be

helpful to their under producing pancreas. What a bad deal the aspartame

manufactures give to diabetics: a drug, not an additive, that is metabolized

into formaldehyde!

Don't forget the Ramazzini report proving aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde's

carcinogenicity, which has been posted at the website for the National Institute

of Health since mid-November of 2005.

 

Senators: for God's sake! Aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde turns into methanol

then formaldehyde. What kind of no-brainer is it for us to recognize that it is

a poisonous and deleterious food additive, and as such falls under the statutes

in the New Mexico Food Act that prohibit poisonous and deleterious food

additives.

 

The Environmental Improvement Board would have been the correct regulatory

board with the power to promulgate rules to ban aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde,

but they too capitulated on January 3, and postponing the 5- day EIB hearings

scheduled in July indefinitely, until at least January 2007.

 

Your do-pass recommendation on this bill will lead to a New Mexico ban on this

poisonous and deleterious food additive, which will take effect July 1, 2006.

This is the Year of the Child for New Mexico, and if you want to be real about

Healthful Kids legislation and preventing entirely preventable illnesses in New

Mexico, please give this bill a do-pass recommendation!

 

Finally, 2006 is the 100th Anniversary of the United States Pure Food Act. How

far we have tumbled as a nation to 29th in longevity statistics. Senate Bill

654 contains a major protective solution for the most egregiously carcinogenic

and neurotoxic of all food additives.

 

Senator Ortiz y Pino, Pediatric Cardiologist Grant La Farge, Pediatrician Ken

Stoller, and Leland Lehrman, Founder of Mother Media spoke to the Public

Affairs Committee for a half an hour to counter the half hour of lobbyists'

comments. What the lobbyists said was mindless drivel and more toxic corporate

trash, not worth repeating in the context of these good ideas: Whom they

represent is more interesting, just so you can see where the influences are

coming from:

 

Altria Corporate Services, the parent company of Kraft and Philip Morris Coca

Cola Pepsi Cola New Mexico Soft Drink Association Calorie Control Council And of

course, the biggest food polluter in the entire world: AJINOMOTO, the

Japan-based world's largest manufacturer of both aspartame and monosodium

glutamate.

One Senator from Las Cruces, Mary Jane Papen, retired car dealer, expressed

great incredulity when I mentioned that some branches of the military disallow

pilots from drinking diet beverages because so many have had seizures in flight,

become incapacitated, and have crashed their planes.

 

Within one hour of leaving the hearing, I sent her an article on that very

subject!

The saddest Senatorial dialogue I felt was that of the Majority Whip, Mary Jane

Garcia, also from Las Cruces, who worried as a diabetic what she would do

without her diet sodas. I replied with the baffling fact that diabetics and

their injured pancreases are the last people in the world who should ingest

formaldehyde.

 

Ortiz y Pino brought up the fact that plenty of evidence shows that there has

been a huge upswing in statistics for diabetes since Donald Rumsfeld rammed

aspartame/formaldehyde's approval through the FDA in 1981.

 

Senator Garcia replied that her mother had diabetes, and that started before

diet sodas and artificial sweeteners came to be such a deep part of America

life and diet.

 

In his providential wisdom, Senator Steven Neville from Aztec, New Mexico (who

also drinks Diet Cokes) made a motion to table, and it was seconded by Senator

Stuart Ingle, the Republican Minority Leader from Portales, who also drinks

Diet cokes. Senator Gay Kernan from Hobbs, who also drinks Diet Cokes, and James

Taylor from Albuquerque's South Valley, who also drinks Diet Cokes, and Senator

Garcia, who also drinks Diet Cokes, all voted to Table.

 

Only Committee Chair Dede Feldman and Senator Ortiz y Pino voted to not table.

 

The only vote to table by someone who DOESN'T drink Diet Cokes was the only

physician in the Legislature, Steve Komadina, M.D, Republican from Corrales.

His comments were duplicitous, at best, to me: an obstetrician and gynecologist

who strongly advises his own patients not to drink Diet Cokes because of the

formaldehyde neurotoxicity and the abortifacient effects on the unborn, yet

speaks and votes against banning aspartame with adolescent nonsense about

amending the bill to include alcohol, smoking, and 6000 other toxic products

would then cause him to support it. He said that it didn't make sense to pick

out just one: that that just wasn't " fair. "

[in an earlier conversation with Komadina on the Senate floor, I reminded him

of the Hippocratic oath, TO DO NO HARM. " Is this not the same as to PREVENT

HARM? " I asked. He said no, they were two different things. It seems that Dr.

Komadina has different standards for quality in medicine and quality in

legislation].

 

We are working towards an aspartame ban because it is the most egregious of

food additives. We won't stop until it is banned in New Mexico, but other

states may perhaps come first..

 

Thus, we cordially invite you to a press conference about Aspartame in the

Rotunda of the New Mexico Capitol on Monday, February 6, at 2 PM, convened by

Senator Ortiz y Pino and me. Our special guest will be Cori Brackett, Founder

of Sound and Fury Productions, a Tucson documentary filmmaker who was diagnosed

with Advanced Multiple Sclerosis by four physicians. She then recognized that

the Diet Cokes she was drinking might be the problem; she stopped them

entirely, and the lesion healed. She made the film, Sweet Misery, which

interviews aspartame poisoning victims, the leading physicians, and several

activists and plaintiff's lawyers.

 

We are giving over 100 copies of her film to the legislators, with the sincerest

and most urgent of hopes that fewer will be so abysmally ignorant and almost

belligerent in their right to choose to drink Diet Cokes, whether they contain

formaldehyde or not, which is really quite a matter of rudimentary chemistry!

Maybe next year, there will be less aspartame- logged legislator in the

legislature.

 

I really hope so, or we will never get rid of this neurotoxic carcinogen.

Stay tuned for more updates from time to time.

 

Stephen Fox New Millennium Fine Art New Mexico Nutrition Council

Comments

 

By joe sonneman (Submitted: 02/06/2006 9:06 am) I'm told that pilots are banned

from drinking CARBONATED beverages, no matter what the sweetener. ??? Maybe

pilots can chime in and say more; it's a retired pilot who told me, though.

 

By Johnny Mata (Submitted: 02/06/2006 7:56 am) Maybe Diet Coke and aspartame

causes mental illness too, and clouds the judgement of these Senators who

regularly drink it and it is even in vending machines in the roundhouse and

included in their box lunches!!!. Why don't you nuts sue Diet Coke for

disabling New Mexico's legislature with chemical side effects of this satanic

substance and rendering our government into a useless condition?

 

By David Lopez (Submitted: 02/06/2006 7:40 am) I, personally, have seen what

Aspartame can do to members of my family and to friends. I am not " mistaken " or

" over-reacting. "

 

Barbara, please provide details about how aspartame has affected your family.

That is the weakness with this argument. The negative health effects are too

vague.

The comparison of drinking a diet soda to drinking a bottle of formaldehyde are

too unbelieveable.

If you want to convince a receptive, though unbelieving public, documented,

peer reviewed case studies might do it.

 

By Barbara Metzler (Submitted: 02/06/2006 7:07 am) All Aspartame victims have

busy lives. They wouldn't take their own valuable time to fight to have

Aspartame banned from our food supply if they didn't think it was crucial to

the health of the American people and to others all over the world. Thousands

and thousands of victims of Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc,)

 

poisoning have been trying for nearly two decades to have this artificial

sweetener banned from the market. They have banded together in a group, and

have tried very diligently to get the FDA to take a serious look at the

dangerous consequences - for many people - of Aspartame use. They have had no

luck. All they ever get from the FDA are packages of information claiming that

Aspartame is " safe " and that the victims are " mistaken " or " over-reacting. " I,

personally, have seen what Aspartame can do to members of my family and to

friends. I am not " mistaken " or " over-reacting. " The FDA's approval of

NutraSweet was very murky in the first place.

 

I think that's why the FDA ignores the issue now. Apparently, the manufacturer

had enough money and political influence to convince everyone of the safety of

aspartame. In fact, The Golden Rule is that " He who has the gold makes the

rules. " And, this is evident in the way in which the FDA approved aspartame in

the first place.

 

What it all boils down to is that it's too much of a hassle for anyone in

Washington to care. BUT, THAT ISN'T RIGHT! What's done should be Undone! It was

the United States that put the poison on the market, and it should be the

United States that stops it. I hope that New Mexico is a leader in banning it

from sale! It is idiotic to speak against the ban. Those who do, don't realize

how dangerous it is.

 

 

By Donna Voetee (Submitted: 02/05/2006 2:33 pm)

It's not so surprising that seven New Mexico state senators voted to table

Senate Bill 654, which would ban the poisonous chemical aspartame from all food

and beverages in the state.

 

Six of those senators are imbibers of diet Coke. These senators should have

recused themselves from voting, as their self-serving interest in aspartame

most likely kept them from making a reasonable, prudent decision. It is a

well-known medical fact that methanol is addictive, and that methanol is part

of the aspartame molecule. One cannot expect addicts to cut off their supply

with their own hand.

 

The seventh senator, Steve Komadina, a medical doctor who warns his own

patients against the use of aspartame, perplexingly also voted to table the

bill. Although Mr. Fox, aspartame foe extraordinaire, had previously discussed

with this senator the Hippocratic Oath, " First do no harm " that all doctors

purportedly adhere to, the senator disagreed that this time-revered maxim

applied in this case. His reasoning was that it is not " fair " to pick on

aspartame while not addressing the health pitfalls of smoking, alcohol, etc. By

this logic, I suppose he would see the " fairness " of letting rattlesnakes

wander freely amongst us until all stray dogs have been locked up.

 

Senator Komadina is in the most pitiable position of all: knowing the truth,

yet refusing to come to the rescue of those still bound by deadly lies. He,

too, should recuse himself, as this kind of twisted thinking bears the

imprimatur of a conscience-less, ambitious pharmaceutical complex that has been

transforming the ancient sage's Golden Rule of Medicine into the Rule of Gold

for several decades.

 

If there weren't over 25 years of solid scientific evidence against aspartame,

these senators would have had reason to vote as they did. As it is, these seven

people are without excuse. Their own lusts prevented them from having the moral

courage necessary to carry out their duty to the people of New Mexico.

 

Sincerely, Donna Voetee Teacher of Supermarket Survival, Victorville, California

By christena parisoff (Submitted: 02/04/2006 11:00 pm) I have gone through drug

withdrawal -

very exhaustive painful and agonizing tremors

All because Schwarz pharma - added a neurotoxin to my Parkinsons disease

medication - called - Parcopa I was not informed by my doctor or pharmacy -

if I had PKU - I would not be alive at all. this is a matter of life or death...

aspartame needs to be removed - it is poison.

please read - this article...

 

sincerely,

christena

 

http://www.newstarget.com/011804.html

 

By Rich Murray (Submitted: 02/04/2006 6:51 am) letter from Dana K. Day on

aspartame harm in kids 11-14 in Farmington, NM: Murray 2006.01.23

 

Below, please also find a letter from a Farmington, NM middle school counselor,

disclosing the damage done to schoolchildren by the toxic effects of aspartame.

 

Farmington middle school teacher discusses direct experience of aspartame

damage in students Dana K. Day Please Help Ban Aspartame from

New Mexico's Foods dave.contarino January 23, 2006

 

Dear Respected Person, I am a 42 year old Middle School Counselor that works

with youth ages 11-14 here in Farmington, New Mexico. I see an average of 30

students a week in individual counseling sessions dealing with issues ranging

from peer conflict, effects of family's drug use (methamphetamines in

particular), all the way to suicidal ideation and clinical depression. The last

two issues are the ones I would like to emphasize in this letter, as they deal

directly with the effects of aspartame ingestion. Aspartame Suppresses the

Levels of Serotonin in the Brain. Serotonin is a naturally produced brain

chemical that is necessary for healthy functioning and emotional well-being. We

know that low levels of seratonin correlate with depression.

 

When interviewing students on the circumstances surrounding their depressive

symptons, I inquire about the ingestion of sugar-free gum and diet sodas, both

of which contain aspartame. 9 times out of 10 the students indicate regular

aspartame ingestion... I inform them on the effects of aspartame ingestion, and

ask for them to discontinue use of products containing aspartame. During

follow-up, all complying students report a significant reduction in depressive

symptoms.

 

According to one recent report, 5 suicides have been linked to aspartame

ingestion. Please do all you can to pave the path to ban aspartame from our

food, drinks, candy, and gum. We must look out for the well-being of our

unsuspecting youth (as well as others). It is our moral, ethical and legal

obligation to do so.

 

As a person of power within our govenmental structure of our great state,

please do your part to protect our citizens. Thank you, Dana K. Day Mid-School

Counselor Farmington, New Mexico

[ http://fc.fms.k12.nm.us/directory/ Dana Day 6229,1104 dday

 

http://www.fms.k12.nm.us/heights/staff.htm Heights Middle School, 3700 College

Blvd., Farmington, NM 87402 (505) 599-8611 Day, Dana Counselor-SSC 6000 ]

 

 

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