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blessings, Shan

 

 

IS ASPARTAME A HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL?

_http://myaspartameexperiment.com/index.php?page=7_

(http://myaspartameexperiment.com/index.php?page=7)

THE INDEPENDENT, JUNE 6, 1999

WORLD’S TOP SWEETENER IS MADE WITH GM BACTERIA.

“A Monsanto spokeswoman confirmed that aspartame for the US market is often

made using genetic engineering.â€

OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration classifies

methanol, formaldehyde and formic acid, components of aspartame as hazardous.

Carol Guilford convinced me to let her attempt to explain Aspartame, The

Poison, in just a few paragraphs.

Aspartame is a very sophisticated, clever drug. So, first off, let me point

out that this sophisticated, clever drug could never have been “discoveredâ€

accidentally.

Incidentally, James M. Schlatter, the scientist who, working on an ulcer

drug licked his finger to find the sweet chemical NutraSweet has never been

questioned.

PHENYLALANINE, 50% of the aspartame molecule is isolated from the chain of

amino acids with which it exists in nature. Isolated phenylalanine,

neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock, M.D. tells us crosses the blood brain

barrier to

interfere and kill the neurotransmitters of the brain by “exciting them to

death.†(“Excitotoxins: The Taste That Killsâ€)

In 1987, Dr. Louis J. Elsas, then Professor of Pediatrics and Director of

the Division of Medical Genetics at Emory University testified at the hearing

before the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources,

concerning “NUTRASWEETâ€â€”HEALTH AND SAFETY CONCERNS.â€

Dr. Elsas told the Senators, “In the developing fetus such a rise in

maternal blood phenylalanine could be magnified four to six fold by the

concentrative efforts of the placental and fetal blood brain barrier and this

concentration kills such cells in tissue culture. The effect of such an

increased fetal

brain concentrations in vivo would probably be much more subtle and expressed

as mental retardation, microcephaly, or potential certain birth defects.â€

Does autism ring a bell? When Dr. Elsas told the senate this significant

fact about phenylalanine, in 1987, infant autism rates were 1 in 1500, today

they are 1 in 150 and rising.

How many of us ever heard of Alzheimer’s, in 1980? The rates have doubled

since aspartame was approved; a conservative statistic is 5 million in the US

have the disease.

PHENYLALANINE converts to DKP, diketopiperazine, a tumor agent. The

suspicious study of DKP by Searle Pharmaceuticals prompted the FDA to audit the

experiment, the results of which are documented in the Bressler Report.

ASPARTIC ACID is 40% of the aspartame molecule. Dr. Madelon Price, in 1998

was Professor of Neurobiology at Washington University, in St. Louis,

Missouri told her students: “Aspartic acid (aspartate) has been known to be a

neurotoxin for 30 years. (now 40 years) Rodents that have ingested too much

aspartame as infants are stunted as adults, obese and have sexual and

reproductive

dysfunctions. (7)

At the same lecture to her students that day, someone asked Dr. Price

whether the phenylalanine in neotame, the aspartame clone, approved by the FDA

was

the same as the phenylalanine in aspartame. Dr. Price answered, it was.

Neotame is now in the food supply, unlabeled, without a PKU warning for those

who cannot metabolize phenylalanine. “Ah, says industry… but there’s

such a

small amount of phenylalanine in neotame, it doesn’t count.â€

Wait a minute. Dr. Price explains, “Aspartate (aspartame) is additive in

its effects with glutamate and other excitotoxins. In other words, a subtoxic

dose of aspartame added to a subtoxic dose of glutamate (MSG) may add up to

a toxic dose. Unfortunately it is hard to find food that does not contain

added glutamate, and for some categories of food it does not have to be listed

on the label.

METHANOL is 10% of the aspartame molecule. Methanol (wood alcohol) is a

known poison and addictive, too. Doesn’t everyone knows someone who carries

a

diet Coke around all day?

The aspartame industry claims there is more methanol in a glass of orange

juice than in aspartame products, but in a natural product, such as orange

juice, the poisonous wood alcohol has the antidote for methanol inherently in

it-- ethanol.

Free methanol turns into formaldehyde (embalming fluid).

In 1998, a research team from the biology department of the University of

Barcelona, Spain, C.Trocho, et al concluded: “Aspartame converts to

formaldehyde in vivo in the bodies of laboratory rats.â€

“Formaldehyde is a highly reactive small molecule which strongly binds to

proteins and nucleic acids forming adducts which are difficult to eliminate

through the normal metabolism pathways… the amount of formaldehyde adducts

coming from aspartame in tissue proteins and nucleic acids may be cumulative.

It

is concluded that aspartame consumption may constitute a hazard because of

its contribution to the formation of formaldehyde adducts. “

The formaldehyde from the free methanol then breaks down to formic acid, ant

sting venom.

Yes, a very, sophisticated, clever drug—killing us sweetly.

 

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FOOTNOTES

 

1. Three female rats in the control group of 48 had small tumors.

 

2. Activist Betty Martini has a receipt from the Dept. of Health and Human

Services for her request of the aspartame “report.†The cost was $42.30.

The letter is dated June 6, 1995_ http://www.presidiotex.com/92symptoms_

(http://www.presidiotex.com/92symptoms/)

3. The complete Bressler Report can be read at

_http://www.presidiotex.com/bressler_ (http://www.presidiotex.com/bressler)

4. Dr. Ralph Walton compiled a list of all controlled human and animal

studies looking for the effects of aspartame. Out of 90 independently-funded

studies, 83 of them found one or more problems caused by aspartame. But out of

the 74 studies funded by the aspartame industry (e.g., Monsanto, G.D. Searle,

etc). every single one of them claimed that no problems were found.

5. Dr. Sandra Cabot (“The Liver Cleansing Dietâ€) in a position paper on

aspartame explains the liver is so busy detoxing the poisons from aspartame, it

cannot properly metabolize fat.

MSG is also an “excitotoxin†that causes obesity.

Dr. Blaylock writes, in an article for Nurse World Magazine… “dozens of

independent laboratories have confirmed the connection between gross obesity

and exposure to MSG early in life. More recent studies have also found it

induces type 2 diabetes. “One of the most frightening connections is with

sudden

cardiac death. It is known that the heart’s electrical conduction system

contains a number of glutamate receptors, as does the heart muscle itself. If

these glutamate receptors are overstimulated, fatal arrhythmias can

result.â€

Change in heart rate is No. 15 on the FDA list of aspartame symptoms.

6. Everything you ever wanted to know about the methanol in aspartame is in

Dr. Monte’s letter of January, 2006. Author, columnist David L. Dewey has

posted the letter at _http://www.dldewey.com/monte.htm_

(http://www.dldewey.com/monte.htm) David’s concise article Aspartame -

Sweetness Disguised as

Disease or Death is at _http://www.dldewey.com/aspar.htm_

(http://www.dldewey.com/aspar.htm)

7. Dr. Price worked with Dr. John Olney, who in 1969 found aspartic acid

caused nerve damage in the brains of mice. It was Dr. Olney who discovered

that

aspartame and MSG could kill brain cells by “exciting†them to death, hence

the name “excitotoxin.â€

In 1996, Dr. Olney showed the link between aspartame and brain cancer, up

10% after aspartame had been on the market for 3 years and one year after its

inclusion in diet sodas.

Despite an airing on “60 Minutesâ€, Dr. Olney was media-blitzed by

industrial power, in the same manner as Dr. Soffritti is being dismissed today,

ten

years later.

Death is No. 77 on the FDA list of aspartame symptoms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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