Aspartame Lawsuits Accuse Many Companies of Poisoning the Public

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Aspartame Lawsuits Accuse

Many Companies of Poisoning the Public

 

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) and

WalMart, and others.

 

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 1996. 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, 1980 the Board of Inquiry of the FDA concurred and denied the petition for

approval. In 1981, 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 5,000 foods, drinks and medicines.

 

Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, MD, author of " Excitotoxins: The Taste That

Kills " (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.

 

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.

World Natural Health Organization, www.wnho.net

 

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: Remember, folks. There is no such thing as a sugar

substitute. If you are addicted to sugar, you are not solving the problem

especially by switching to aspartame and saccharin, any more than you solve a

drink problem by switching to vodka. YOU HAVE A SUGAR ADDICTION! Ask yourself a

simple question: Can I go without sugar, biscuits, cakes, bread (contains

sugar), alcohol and soft drinks for the next four weeks and not have a serious

problem with that? If the answer's no, and you also have a history of antibiotic

use and bowel/fungal problems, we know who it is within you that wants all the

sugar.

 

For information on Candidiasis, fungal infections and related diseases, please

see the resource below.

 

Further Resources

The ABC's of Disease by Phillip Day

 

 

 

 

 

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