ASPARTAME CONCERNS - JUNK SCIENCE, QUACK DOCTORS?

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ASPARTAME CONCERNS - JUNK SCIENCE, QUACK DOCTORS?

PART 1

 

 

 

By: Devvy

 

May 16, 2004

 

NewsWithViews.com

 

 

 

Quack Doctors?

 

NewsWithView.com recently ran a news piece on Donald Rumseld and Aspartame which

brought a sizable amount of mail to their editor's desk. The bulk of it was from

people thanking NewsWithViews for getting this important information out to the

general public. However, there were a few knee jerk reactions ( " Are you for

real...pure horses__t. " ) which prompted me to write this piece. Aspartame is a

very serious health issue and those who ignore the warnings may deeply regret it

someday.

 

Before we begin, I am compelled to point out the difference between a news item,

a column or op-ed commentary. A news item is just that. It's not a research

paper nor a dissertation on any subject. Certain facts are presented without

commentary. One whiner complained the news piece was full of political bias. In

my opinion, it was not. Everyone should be accountable for their actions

regardless of who they are or what political party they belong to because no one

is above the law.

 

Quack doctors

One whiner screeched that the doctors in the news article were a bunch of quacks

and kooks. Below is factual information on some of the doctors referenced in the

news piece:

 

John W. Olney, M.D., professor of psychiatry and neuropathology at Washington

University in St. Louis and the first occupant of the John P. Feighner Chair in

Neuropsychopharmacology. Olney received a bachelor's degree in 1956 and a

medical degree in 1963 from the University of Iowa. Olney arrived at Washington

University as a resident in psychiatry in 1964. He joined the faculty as an

instructor of psychiatry and became a full professor of psychiatry and

neuropathology in 1977.

 

Olney was a recipient of the Wakeman Award for Research in Neuroscience in 1992,

the Society for Biological Psychiatry Lifetime Achievement Award and the St.

Louis Academy of Science Peter H. Raven Lifetime Award in 1996. That same year,

he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Olney is recognized as a pioneering neuroscientist who helped establish

glutamate as a major excitatory transmitter in the brain. Stemming largely from

Olney's research over the past 30 years, glutamate now is recognized as a

neurotoxin that contributes to the degeneration of brain cells in a number of

neurological disorders.

 

Ralph G. Walton, M.D. Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio

University College of Medicine. Currently Acting Chair of the Department of

Psychiatry, is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry for NEOUCOM and Psychiatry

Clerkship Director for Forum Health. He is Chairman of The Center for Behavioral

Medicine, Forum Health. Under his leadership, programs include ECHO (Enhancing

and Creating Healthy Opportunities), adult and youth services, Discovery House,

adolescent recovery services and CHAMPS (Challenge and Mutual Problem-Solving).

 

Woodrow C. Monte, Ph.D., R.D. Associate Professor of Family Resources and Human

Development; B.S., New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; M.S., Ph.D.,

Colorado State University. Current: Director of the Food Science and Nutrition

Laboratory Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287.

Russell Blaylock, MD is a board certified neurosurgeon engaged in a private

neurosurgical practice for the past 21 years. Dr. Blaylock's interests of

research and treatment include nutritional treatment of neurological disorders

and in the biochemical basis of diseases of the nervous system. In 1994 he

documented his work on this subject, Excitotoxins, The Taste That Kills, which

was revised and updated it in 1998. Blaylock has written and illustrated three

chapters in medical textbooks and a patient care booklet on multiple sclerosis

and published several papers in peer reviewed journals on a variety of subjects

from the pathology and treatment of pituitary tumors to immunotherapy of brain

tumors.

 

H. J. Roberts, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.C.C.P., is a Board-certified internist in West

Palm Beach, and an internationally respected medical consultant and researcher.

He is on the Staff of Good Samaritan Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital, Director

of the Palm Beach Institute for Medical Research (since l964), and a member of

prestigious medical and scientific organizations including The Endocrine Society

and the American Academy of Neurology.

His publications include ten acclaimed texts and more than 220 original articles

and letters; many deal with research in challenging neurological disorders.

Twenty years into his long career he voluntarily re-certified with American

Board of Internal Medicine: his high marks helped to insure he remained as

current as his peers. He is listed in every Who's Who Medical list one can

imagine.

 

One doctor not listed in the news item who is also blowing the whistle on

aspartame is Dr. Leonard Horowitz. He received his doctorate in medical

dentistry from Tufts University in Boston in 1989, then his master's of public

health degree from Harvard University. Horowitz became the nations leading

author of dental self care books and audiotapes. Titles such as Your Mouth is

Your Business: The Dentist's Guide to Better Health (Appleton, 1980), Freedom

from Dental Anxiety (Tetrahedron, LLC Press, 1986), and Freedom From Headaches

and TMJ Pain Syndrome (Tetrahedron, LLC Press, 1987) graced dental offices and

lending libraries throughout North America.

 

Horowitz also authored Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola. His recorded and now

published admissions are horrific, and frighteningly similar to the conclusion

Horowitz reached by examining the scientific evidence that a Dr. Hilleman, along

with CDC and FDA officials, developed the 1974 contaminated chimpanzee-linked

hepatitis B vaccine that was the likeliest AIDS pandemic trigger. Major General

Gwambo, Director of the Department of Defense in Kenya has given copies of

Horowitz's books to all heads of state and their government has now stopped the

World Health Organization's experimental vaccine program in that nation.

All these doctors certainly look like a bunch of kooks and quacks to me. I feel

confident in saying that if these doctors all came out in favor of aspartame,

those who think they're kooks for exposing the dangers, would accept their

assessment and findings in a NY second. Betcha.

 

Go to Part II: Junk Science

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