NEW STUDY PROVES LOW DOSES OF ASPARTAME CAUSE CANCER

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NEW STUDY PROVES LOW DOSES OF ASPARTAME CAUSE CANCER

http://www.mpwhi.com/new_soffritti_study_on_aspartame.htm

 

Dr. Betty Martini

Mission Possible World Health International

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097

Telephone: 770-242-2599

E-Mail: BettyM19

 

 

Posted: 15 June 2007

 

Environmental Health Perspectives, the Journal of the U.S. National Institute

of Environmental Health Sciences ranks first among more than 200

environmental science and occupational health journals and is read in 190

countries.

 

At New York's Mt Sinai School of Medicine DR. MORANDO SOFFRITTI was honored

in April with the Irving J Selikoff Award for Outstanding contributions to the

identification of environmental and industrial carcinogens, and his promotion

of independent scientific research.

 

The prestigious Selikoff Award is only granted for groundbreaking cancer

research. It was created 1993 by the Collegium Ramazzini, an academy of 180

internationally renowned experts in occupational and environmental health from

over

30 nations. It has been awarded just twice before being presented to Dr.

Soffritti.

 

His research was conducted for 36 months using 1,800 rats. It forced the

conclusion that aspartame is a multipotential carcinogen. Cancers aspartame

produced included leukemia, lymphoma, kidney, and cranial peripheral nerves

among

others. Only the rats fed aspartame got malignant brain tumors. This prodigious

work was peer reviewed by 7 world experts.

 

This work confirmed studies presented to the FDA 25 years ago that documented

a catalogue of brain, uterine, ovarian, testicular, mammary, pancreatic and

thyroid tumors. Based on the evidence FDA denied approval of aspartame for 16

years from the time it was discovered. Then Don Rumsfeld, who was the CEO of

NutraSweet's parent, the G. D. Searle Co., went to Washington to be newly

elected Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Defense. The existing FDA Commissioner was

asked to resign and aspartame was approved by Arthur Hull Hayes appointed by

President Reagan. He did this over the objections of the FDA's scientific Board

of

Inquiry who had revoked the petition. President Reagan had written an

executive order making FDA powerless to do anything about aspartame until Hayes

could

get to FDA. Now the floundering Searle became profitable. The compromised FDA

had full knowledge of aspartame's toxicity and the approval of this deadly

carcinogen sentenced millions to disability and death.

 

An Atlanta Journal Constitution article dated 9/25/85 was titled " Reagan Says

He Quit Using Sweeteners " . It was in l985 there were two congressional

hearings over the outrage of the public being poisoned. In this article it

states:

" President Reagan says he quit using artificial sweeteners because " we don't

know what is in them, " .. Unfortunately it was too late for the public as the

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of

NutraSweet, even though it was known that the FDA had asked for the indictment

for

Searle, and revoked the petition for approval.

 

Soffritti's new study " Lifespan Exposure to Low Doses of Aspartame Beginning

During Prenatal Life Increases Cancer Effects in Rats " focused on damage from

low-dosage aspartame consumption over the long term and clearly demonstrated a

great danger to unborn babies and children. Newly identified is risk of

breast cancer as the aspartame using child matures.

 

Exposures were at low doses. A 20 kg (45 pounds) child drinking 2 cans of

diet soda a day brings into his body 400 mg. of aspartame. Food & Drink Weekly

reports that soda is the most commonly consumed beverage among children and soft

drink consumption is up 500% over the last 50 years. American consumption has

skyrocketed to over 600 12-ounce servings per person per year, and climbing.

Cokes goal is to jump sales 25% annually.

 

The aim of Soffritti's new study was to identify the cancer risk aspartame

presents, starting with the mother's ingestion before the fetus is born. The

study was conducted on groups of 70-95 male and female Sprague Dawley rats,

administered aspartame with feed at concentrations of 2000, 400, or 0 ppm from

the

12th day of fetal life until natural death.

 

The results of this carcinogenicity bioassay confirm and reinforce the

earlier study's demonstration of aspartame's multipotential carcinogenicity.

Further, the study demonstrates that when lifespan exposure to aspartame begins

during fetal life, its carcinogenic effects magnify.

 

Dr. Philip Landrigan, Chairman of Community and Environmental Medicine at Mt.

Sinai Medical Center, says Dr. Soffritti's study on rats strongly implies

human risk. He advises parents of young children to think very very carefully

about giving drinks and other aspartame-contaminated foods to children. He

advocates federal action be taken to review regulation of aspartame and that the

chemical be submitted for precise critical investigation.

 

The abstract and link to the full text to be published on EHP online, is on

the homepage of the European Ramazzini Foundation: http://www.ramazzini.it

 

Il secondo studio Ramazzini sullaspartame in stampa sul giornale scientifico

Environmental Health Perspectives Un secondo studio sul dolcificante

artificiale aspartame, della Fondazione Europea Ramazzini, dal titolo

LEsposizione ad

Aspartame a Basse Dosi, dalla Vita Fetale e per Tutta la Vita, Aumenta gli

Effetti Cancerogeni sui Ratti, tato accettato per essere pubblicato su

Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). Labstract e il pdf del testo completo

di EHP

online, isponibile nella homepage della Fondazione Europea Ramazzini:

http://www.ramazzini.it

 

Aspartame carcinogenicity has been known for decades. In 1985 Dr Adrian

Gross, FDA toxicologist, warned Congress that aspartame violates the Delaney

Amendment which prohibits from our foods any ingredient causing cancer in

animals.

 

See two letters Dr. Gross addressed to Senator Howard Metzenbaum, and the

memo that triggered a request for indictment of Searle for fraudulent

submissions: http://www.dorway.com/gross.txt Both US Prosecutors hired on the

defense

team and the statute of limitations expired.

 

Atty. James Turner, author of the Chemical Feast and the Nader Report on Food

Protection at FDA, explains: " Since l974 FDA and the Searle Drug Company have

known that aspartame causes brain tumors in animals. In 1980 the public has

known the Public Board of Inquiry affirmed the Searle studies showed cancer in

animals and ruled that it should not be used in the food supply. It is past

time that the FDA invoked the Delaney Clause and remove NutraSweet from the

market. In July of 2005 further studies (Ramazzini) underscored the cancer

causing

capability of NutraSweet/aspartame in animals. "

 

See Mr. Turner in Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World explain how Rumsfeld's

aspartame got approved after FDA said no.

http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html

 

Ralph G. Walton, M.D. of Safe Harbor Behavioral Health, Erie, PA, emphasizes:

" Dr. Soffritti's two outstanding studies on the multipotential carcinogenic

effects of aspartame add significantly to the ever-growing body of evidence on

the hazards of this artificial sweetener. The FDA's stubborn adherence to

their original, and controversial, approval of aspartame is unconscionable. The

public must be informed that the approvals, both in this country and Europe, are

based on highly questionable industry-funded research, or, in the case of

recently issued statements on aspartame's supposed safety, on a questionnaire

which in no way represents legitimate research. Independent research, such as

the

recent Soffritti studies invariably demonstrates the extremely hazardous

nature of this product. " http://www.safeharborbh.org

 

When the Ramazzini 2005 study was released the government and aspartame

manufacturers were responsible for a coverup. They found an old AARP survey sent

to

a million American seniors: 16 pages with 56 questions. It asked: How high

did you go in school? Had a hysterectomy? Do you eat brownies? Oatmeal?

Margarine? Question #25 asked " Over the last 12 months when you drank coffee or

tea,

what kind of sweetener did you regularly add? " There were 6 multi-choice

selections, one of which was: Equal or aspartame.

 

The 10 year old 3-word item instantaneously converted the questionnaire into

the biggest aspartame study in history! It showed no problems at all! (None

were asked for!) Thru saturation news releases this propaganda spread planetwide

in major magazines and other media.

http://www.wnho.net/halt_the_spin_on_bogus_studies.htm

 

Dr. Soffritti's work was presented to the European Food Safety Authority

(EFSA). The EFSA risk assessment has been criticized from the beginning because

of

conflicts of interest among the panel members, particularly the chair Susan

Barlow, who is an industry consultant. They rejected Dr. Soffritti's study with

the lame excuse that cancers were caused by lung infections. Eminent

Researchers and scientists know that respiratory infection is a factor in the

dying

process and never took their excuse as noteworthy.

 

Ramazzinis control rats had a much lower incidence of cancers than the

aspartame-fed rats. Critics of EFSA's risk assessment said that if the cancers

were

caused by inflammatory lung disease than the control group would have had as

many cancers as the rats fed aspartame.

 

EFSA didn't apologize so they were reported to the Universal Court of

Justice. Then EFSA's Dr. Koeter admitted that industry pressured them to hijack

science. http://www.wnho.net/letter_to_efsa.htm

 

Dr. H. J. Roberts, M.D., FACP, FCCP, author of several texts on aspartame

disease commented: " The elegant studies by Dr. Morando Soffritti and his

colleagues, coupled with other recent related publications, reinforce my

longstanding

opinion that aspartame products represent carcinogens -- or co-carcinogens --

for several major tumors in humans, especially involving the brain.

 

" The details appear in my text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, and

in my article, Does Aspartame Cause Human Brain Cancer? The latter indicated

that aspartame or its metabolites " might activate one or more oncogenes that

potentate or initiate cell mitosis, either by direct or indirect effects.

 

" The failure of the FDA to acknowledge and act on the ongoing revelations

over the last two decades about the hazards of aspartame products in a number of

realms, especially when taken by children and pregnant women, remains a source

of professional embarrassment. This chemical constitutes an imminent public

health hazard. I congratulate Dr. Soffritti for independently underscoring this

warning. "

 

Neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock remarked on Dr. Soffritti's first study:

" The study released in the European Journal of oncology by Morando Soffritti and

co-workers should terrify mothers and all those consuming aspartame sweetened

products. This was a carefully done study, which clearly demonstrated a

statistically significant increase in several types of lymphomas and leukemias

in

rats. Both of these malignancies have increased significantly in this country

since the widespread use of aspartame. "

 

The type of damage was a duplicate of that associated with cancers. Along

with this

most recent study, this means that drinking a single diet cola sweetened with

developing a lymphoma or leukemia. "

 

They also found an increased incidence of malignant brain tumors, even though

it was not statistically significant. This does not mean there is no

association to brain tumors, since only the animals exposed to aspartame

developed the

tumors. With children and pregnant women drinking the largest amount of diet

colas, this puts their children at the greatest risk of developing one of

these horrible diseases. Their study found that even low doses of aspartame

could

cause these malignancies; yet, the higher the dose, the more cancers that were

seen. "

 

Since aspartame can increase obesity and may even cause the metabolic

syndrome that affects 48 million Americans, there is no reason to ever consume

this

product. At the least it should be immediately banned from all schools. " Dr.

Blaylock is author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills about aspartame. In

order to save the children this Report For Schools is repeatedly sent to schools

and boards of education.

http://www.wnho.net/report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm

 

Will FDA finally admit aspartame approval was illegal, violating Delaney and

also adulteration statutes? Aspartame is sold as an additive, but it's a

deadly excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug that interacts with all drugs and

vaccines. Aspartame brain tumor cases from New York and New Jersey are being

taken at

this time.

 

Just when you think the FDA can't sink lower, they do. They issued a report

the day before the release of the new study, denying its research, without any

excuse. This was about the 2005 study but releasing this negative statement

the day before the new one stands to confuse the public, as they intend.

http://www.wnho.net/open_letter_to_laura_tarantino_fda.htm

 

After a study sponsored by Food Standards in the UK showed additives cause

behavioral problems in children, large food chains there began the removal of

aspartame from their products. But not the FDA in the US who have known this for

a quarter of a century.

 

From Atavistik Pictures: http://www.atavistik.com Dr. Louis Elsas, pediatric

professor, genetics, testified to Congress in l985 that it's a teratogen and

can trigger birth defects and mental retardation.

 

It's time for Congress to look into the matter that the FDA has allowed

aspartame to remain on the market for a quarter of a century even though they

know

it causes cancer, and a host of neurodegenerative diseases. The stream of

whoppers continues http://www.wnho.net/whopper.htm just like the millions of

deaths from aspartame.

 

COMMENTS ON THIS STUDY BY DR. RUSSELL BLAYLOCK

 

Here is my statement on this second Ramazzini study:

 

My review of the first Ramazzini Study concluded that the study was one of

the best designed, comprehensive and conclusive studies done to date on the

multipotent carcinogenic potential of aspartame. This second study is even more

conclusive, in that it shows a dose-dependent statistically significant increase

in lymphomas/leukemia in both male and female rats exposed to aspartame.

These two cancers are the fastest growing cancers in people under age 30.

 

Also, of major concern is their finding of statistically significant

increases in breast cancer in animals exposed to aspartame. With newer studies

clearly

indicating that toxic exposures during fetal development can dramatically

increase the cancer risk of the offspring, this study takes on a very important

meaning to all pregnant women consuming aspartame products. Likewise, small

children are at considerable risk of the later development of these highly fatal

cancers.

 

It should be appreciated that the doses used in these study fall within the

range of doses seen in everyday users of aspartame. This study, along with the

first study, should convince any reasonable scientific mind, as well as the

public at large, that this product should be removed from the market.

 

Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.

Web Site: http://www.russellblaylockmd.com

 

 

Dr. Betty Martini

Founder, Mission Possible World Health International

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097

770-242-2599

E-Mail: BettyM19

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Aspartame Toxiocity Center: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

surpriseshan2 wrote:

 

> NEW STUDY PROVES LOW DOSES OF ASPARTAME CAUSE CANCER

> http://www.mpwhi.com/new_soffritti_study_on_aspartame.htm

 

This is a good article as it has provided quality reading which makes

the subject (truth vs deceipt) quite clear. Along with the many links.

Very useful for passing on to some friends and family who are not

quite up to thinking beyond general food marketing and consumption.

 

Thankyou

 

Ric