Australia: Nasty Aspartame In response to your article

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Dear Editor:

 

Aspartame (Canderel,951/Equal/NutraSweet/Benevia/Spoonful) is simply

poison. It's as nasty as a product can be. Dr. Bill Deagle in Nova

Scotia said of the worst poisons is depleted uranium but he feels

aspartame is even worse because it is ubiquitous in our food. The

medical text: Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, by diabetic

specialist H. J. Roberts, M.D. is over 1000 pages of

neurodegenerative diseases, cancers, drug interactions and the

history of how this toxin was marketed through the political

chicanery of Donald Rumsfeld. Today many times Aspartame Disease is

referred to as Rumsfeld's Plague. www.sunsentpress.com

 

First it was never proven safe and the FDA revoked the petition for

approval: http://www.mpwhi.com/fda_petition1.doc Here is the actual

document, all 50 pages. So how did it get marketed?

 

Searle was very good at telling people that aspartame is the most

studied product and 200 studies have been done showing safety. What

Searle didn't say was that in these studies they couldn't prove

safety so they committed fraud, and they got caught. Here is the

Bressler Report or FDA audit which explained how Searle was filtering

out neoplasms, and they were even excising brain tumors from the

rats, putting them back in the study and then resurrecting them on

paper. The report found that 98 of the 196 animals died during one of

Searle's studies and weren't autopsied under later dates, in some

cases over one year after they died. http://www.dorway.com/bressler.txt

 

Records for approximately 30 animals showed substantial differences

between original observations on pathology sheets and the

observations on pathology sheets submitted to the FDA. There were

numerous other inconsistencies and errors noted. A mass, a uterine

polyp and ovarian neoplasms were found in animals but not reported or

diagnosed in Searle's reports. The FDA investigators found

dose-related uterine polyps in 15% of 34 animals. Interestingly I

called Jerome Bressler when he retired from the FDA and thanked him

for being honest and telling the public the truth. He told me that it

was a lot worse than what I had read in the FDA audit because the FDA

had retyped his report and it was so damning, they left out the worst

20%, two mice studies. Doctors H. J. Roberts and Russell Blaylock

also spoke with Jerome Bressler and were told the same thing so Dr.

Roberts asked his Congressman to get the omitted part of the report.

The FDA refused the congressman saying it was confidential. I

recently wrote a FOIA report for it and was told it was confidential.

When I said that this audit was a matter of public record all of a

sudden it became destroyed.

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On January 10, l977 in a 33 page letter, FDA Chief Counsel Richard

Merrill recommended to US Attorney Sam Skinner that a grand jury

investigate Searle for " apparent violations of the Federal Food,

Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 USC 331 (e) and the False Reports to the

Government Act 18 USC 1001, for " their willful and knowing failure to

make reports to the Food and Drug Administration required by the Act

21 U.S.C. 355 (i), and for concealing material facts and making false

statements in reports of animal studies conducted to establish the

safety of aspartame. " Instead of indicting Searle, Sam Skinner hired

on with the defense team. So U.S. Prosecutor William Conlon was asked

to take over. He, too, hired on with the defense team and the statute

of limitations expired.

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The FDA at that time had absolutely no intention of allowing

aspartame on the market. Here are some remarks made at the FDA Task Force:

 

" At the heart of FDA's regulatory process is its ability to rely upon

the integrity of the basic safety data submitted by sponsors of

regulated products. Our investigation clearly demonstrates that, in

the case of G D Searle Company, we have no basis for such reliance now. "

 

" We have noted that Searle has not submitted all the facts of

experiments to FDA, retaining unto itself the unpermitted option of

filtering, interpreting, and not submitting information which we

would consider material to the safety evaluation of the product ....

Finally, we have found instance of irrelevant or unproductive animal

research where experiments have been poorly conceived, carelessly

executed, or inaccurately analyzed or reported. "

 

" Some of our findings suggest an attitude of disregard for FDA's

mission of protection of the public health by selectively reporting

the results of studies in a manner which allay the concerns of

question of an FDA reviewer. " " Unreliability in Searle's animal

research does not imply, however, that its animal studies have

provided no useful information on the safety of its products. Poorly

controlled experiments containing random errors blur the differences

between treated and control animals and increase the difficulty of

discriminating between the two populations to detect a product

induced effect. A positive finding of toxicity in the test animals in

a poorly controlled study provides a reasonable lower bound on the

true toxicity of the substance. The agency must be tree to conclude

that the results from such a study, while admittedly imprecise as to

incidence or severity of the untoward effect, cannot be overlooked in

arriving at a decision concerning the toxic potential of the product. "

 

It would be very easy to give you another 50 pages of the horrors of

original aspartame studies. You simply can't take a deadly chemical

poison and have it show safety. It can't be done. Searle got caught

constantly.

 

For instance in the aspartame (DKP) 115 week rat study the written

observations of the pathology report was changed by the supervising

pathologist, Dr. Rudolph Stejskal even though he was not physically

present during the autopsies and could not have verified the

observations of the pathology who did perform the autopsies. The

pathologist who did perform some of the autopsies had no formal

training for such procedures. (Gross l985, page S10837 of

Congressional Record l985b). You could go from study to study and

show the fraud. For instance in the aspartame 46 week hamster study,

blood samples reported in the submission to FDA as 26 week values

(for certain specified animals) were found by investigators as being,

in fact, values for different animals which were bled at the 38th

week. Many of the animals for which these values were reported (to

the FDA) were dead at the 38th week. " (Gross 1985, page S10838 of

congressional record l985b).

 

There were " clerical or arithmetic errors which resulted in reports

of few tumors. " (Schmidt 1976c, page 27 of US Senate l976b). G. D.

Searle " delayed the reporting of alarming findings. " (Schmidt 1976c,

page 27 of US Senate 1976b).

 

Dr. Adrian Gross, FDA toxicologist who was on site really summed it

up when he said:

 

" They ( G.. D. Searle) lied and they didn't submit the real nature of

their observations because had they done that it is more than likely

that a great number of these studies would have been rejected simply

for adequacy. What Searle did, they took great pains to camouflage

these shortcomings of the study. As I say filter and just present to

the FDA what they wished the FDA to know and they did other terrible

things for instance animals would develop tumors while they were

under study. Well they would remove these tumors from the animals. "

Wilson l985

 

FDA lead investigator and Task Force Team Leader, Phillip Brodsky

described the 1975 FDA Task Force members as some of the most

experienced drug investigators. He went on to state that he had never

seen anything as bas as G. D. Searle's studies (Graves 1984, page

S5499 of Congressional Record l985a).

 

Dr. Marvin Legator, professor and director of environmental

toxicology at the University of Texas and the pioneer of mutagenicity

testing at the FDA from 1962 to 1972 was asked by Common Cause

Magazine to review the FDA investigation results of G. D. Searle's

tests (Graves 1984, page S5498 of Congressional Record 1985a):

 

" All tests were scientifically irresponsible and disgraceful. I'm

just shocked that that kind of sloppy work would even be sent to FDA,

and that the FDA administrators accepted it. There is no reason why

these tests couldn't have been carried out correctly. It's not that

we are talking about some great scientific breakthrough in methodology. "

 

Senator Edward Kennedy at the April 8, 1976 hearings before the

Senate Subcommittee on Labor and Public Welfare stated (Kennedy

l976): " The extensive nature of the almost unbelievable range of

abuses discovered by the FDA on several major Searle products is

profoundly disturbing. " Aspartame is admitted to be in 6000 products

but probably more and often hidden in artificial and natural flavors.

Did Senator Kennedy eventually use aspartame? He now has a brain

tumor and aspartame breaks down to diketopiperazine, a brain tumor

agent. Brain tumors are rampant.

 

This is what we know: no doubt a lot was hidden. In fact, Dr. Adrian

Gross said the deliberate misconduct and lies invalidated all their

experiments for these reasons:

 

* Many of the problems with the studies included horrendous

experimental designs, questions regarding dosage given, loss of

animal tissue and data, etc.. which invalidates entire experiments

and causes what they claim to be 4 million observations and

calculations per study (average) to become irrelevant.

* Only the key aspartame studies were looked at. It is almost a

certainty that the non-key aspartame studies were equally flawed.

Therefore, this would invalidate the " hundreds of millions " of

observations and calculations made during these studies.

* The difference between a study showing no statistical

difference and a significant statistical difference is often only a

few observations or calculations. Therefore, had the myriad of other

serious experimental errors not occurred, the observation and

calculation mistakes in each experiment investigated would, by

themselves, invalidate most of the key studies.

* It is highly unlikely that the FDA Investigative teams found

all of the problems with G. D. Searle's studies. G. D. Searle seemed

so intent on covering up their misconduct, that it is quite likely

that they were able to hide many of the problems from the FDA.

 

No matter what the aspartame industry says, about aspartame being the

most tested additive in history and showing safety, the public record

shows aspartame never showed safety at all. What it did show was

massive fraud, and they got out of it by buying the U.S. Prosecutors

who were never investigated for not doing their job and instead going

to work for the defense team.

 

So FDA revoked the petition for approval. Here is that report.

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Before the FDA Commissioner, Dr. Jere Goyan could sign this into law,

the next day Searle filed suit. Don Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle, hired

to get them out of trouble. He said he would call in his markers and

get aspartame on the market anyway. What were those markers?

President Reagan had told Rumsfeld he would nominate him for Vice

President but instead nominated Bush. Rumsfeld said Reagan owed him a

favor and Reagan paid it. Rumsfeld was on Reagan's transition team

and the day after President Reagan took office he appointed Dr.

Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA Commissioner to over-rule the Board of

Inquiry. Knowing it would take 30 days to get him there he wrote an

executive order making the FDA powerless to do anything about

aspartame. This executive order is suppose to be a matter of public

record but today has been stricken. Someone from the Reagan

Transition Team called FDA Commissioner, Dr. Jere Goyan at 3:00 AM in

the morning and fired him. Here is the actual letter from Dr. Goyan's

wife who at the time was with him when he received the call. Notice

she mentions that executive order.

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oyan.pdf

 

 

Dr. Goyan died just a few months ago.

 

Back during those days the FDA was the hero. A former Searle employee

once wrote an article titled: " What Happened To the Old FDA? " Her

question was answered by the Philadelphia Inquirer on 11/22/87: The

New FDA: Good Medicine for Drug Firms:

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This is when as the article points out the FDA stopped operating in

an adversary role and became a friend of the drug industry. This is

the FDA under Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes who was put there specifically to

put one of the most deadly drugs on the market to mass poison the

American Public and today over 100 countries of the world. Rumors fly

on what they had on Hayes to get him to do this deadly deed. When he

over-ruled the Board of Inquiry and put aspartame on the market he

has refused to speak to the press ever since.

 

In l983 the National Soft Drink Association protested that aspartame

not be approved in carbonated beverages even mentioning the law that

makes it illegal to market a product that is adulterated. They had

concluded that aspartame is not safe in carbonated beverages.

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ter_dick_adamson.htm

Aspartame breaks down at 86 degrees or moderate temperature, and it

breaks down into a witches brew of toxins including formaldehyde and

even diketopiperazine, a brain tumor agent.

 

On July 8, l983 Acting Commissioner of the FDA, Mark Novitch,

approved NutraSweet for use in carbonated beverages and carbonated

beverage syrup bases, even though levels of aspartame remaining in

beverages stored eight weeks at 68 degrees F were between 84% and 89%

of the original amount. " Lost " aspartame degrades to DKP (a brain

tumor agent), methanol, a severe metabolic poison, aspartic acid, an

excitotoxin, and phenylalanine, as an isolate a neurotoxin that

lowers the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin triggering

psychiatric and behavioral problems. Aspartame interacts with all

antidepressants.

 

I personally called Mark Novitch recently and asked him about what he

did. It seems Mr. Novitch, who did this under the direction of Arthur

Hull Hayes, had a bad case of amnesia. He said it was so long ago he

just couldn't remember anything on the issue. That was certainly a

convenient loss of memory. Memory loss is #9 on the FDA list of 92

documented symptoms from aspartame from four types of seizures to

coma and death.

 

Amid allegations of using General Foods jet and other things, Dr.

Hayes resigned and went to work for the PR Agency of the manufacturer

on a ten year contract for $1000.00 a day. What does an FDA

Commissioner do for a PR agency? Send postcards home from Bermuda.

One article said he was there about 15 days. Quite a reward for

putting a deadly poison on the market and mass poisoning the world so

Searle could get rich. Immediately people started complaining and

Senator Howard Metzenbaum tried for congressional hearings. They were

not heard until 1985 because of Senator Orrin Hatch who was given

money from Monsanto who bought Searle that year.

 

There were actually three congressional hearings because of the

outrage of the public on being poisoned. It was triggering seizures,

MS and all sorts of neurodegenerative diseases. One pilot who

testified said his plane started going down when he passed out over

the sea on aspartame, but woke up in time to land it. Mission

Possible Aviation was started when a plane crashed on aspartame, and

the pilot came to Atlanta and asked me for help. Here is Dr.

Blaylock's pilot alert:

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tame_alert.htm

Notice he mentions again this problem of sudden death. Six American

Airline pilots died who used aspartame including one in flight, who

passed out and never woke up.

 

Many scientists as well as victims testified and it was admitted that

the FDA was so overcome with complaints they were sending them to the

AIDS Hotline. Senator Metzenbaum wrote a bill to do independent

studies by the National Institute of Health having to do with the

problems being seen in the population. This included seizures, drug

interaction, behavioral problems and what it does to the fetus.

 

Dr. Louis Elsas testified and said: .... I am a pediatrician, a

Professor of Pediatrics at Emory, and have spent 25 years in the

biomedical sciences, trying to prevent mental retardation and birth

defects caused by excess phenylalanine. And therein lies my basic

concern, that aspartame is in fact a well known neurotoxin and

teratogen which, in some as yet undefined dose, will both reversibly

in the adult and irreversibly in the developing child or fetal brain,

produce adverse effects. You remember those sloppy studies by Searle.

So what about reproduction studies in teratology to find out what

aspartame would do to the fetus? Here is what was discussed in Congress.

 

" It is significant to note that the Searle employee responsible for

reviewing most of the reproduction studies had only one year of prior

experience, working on population dynamics of cotton trial rabbits

while employed by Illinois Wildlife Service. In order to prepare him

for this title of 'Senior Research Assistant in Teratology' (fetal

damage) Searle bought him books to read on the subject and also sent

him to a meeting of the Teratology Society. This qualified him to

submit 18 of the initial tests to the FDA, in addition to training an

assistant and 2 technicians. He certainly must have kept them busy

because Searle claimed that 329 teratology examinations were

conducted in just 2 days. He estimated that he himself examined about

30 fetuses a day, but officials for the Center for Food and Applied

Nutrition could never determine how that was possible. " Graves 1984,

page S5500 of Congressional Record l985a).

 

Since aspartame was approved autism has gone through the roof. One

woman who used Diet Coke with aspartame through 3 pregnancies has 3

autistic children. Another woman said she stopped using aspartame

once pregnant but said her physician at Emory said it built up in her system.

 

On the MS

issue: http://www.mpwhi.com/new_report_at_neurology_conference.htm

These are reports from H. J. Roberts, M.D., who wrote the 1000 page

medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic,

www.sunsentpress.com and Russell Blaylock, M.D., neurosurgeon, who

wrote Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills. It includes information on

Cori Brackett who had a huge lesion, an aspartame victim diagnosed

with MS who walked out of her wheelchair where she could hardly talk

or walk after abstaining from aspartame, and went on to make the

aspartame documentary being talked about the world over: Sweet

Misery: A Poisoned World, www.soundandfury.tv Eight months after

getting off aspartame her huge lesion all but disappeared. Kim Evans

case is also included in this report who was diagnosed with MS, and

went back on the poison to convince her neurologist it was due to

aspartame. He now warms all patients off aspartame. MS is world

epidemic because of aspartame and is discussed in the experts medical texts.

 

Aspartame has caused an epidemic of diabetes. Dr. H. J. Roberts is a

diabetic specialist who wrote the medical text and testified before

Congress. He says it can precipitate diabetes, aggravates and

simulates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, destroys the optic

nerve from the free methyl alcohol, causes diabetics to go into

convulsions and even interacts with insulin. Diabetics are losing

their limbs from the methanol. In 2004 the American Diabetes Assn

had suit filed against them for racketeering because they know all

this. In fact, Dr. Roberts was a member for 35 years and they even

refused to publish his paper on aspartame diabetic reactors. It

seems the ADA couldn't receive funding from the manufacturers and

also warn diabetics off the poison. So what they did is sacrifice

the diabetics. When those responsible to solve the problem ARE THE

PROBLEM, it is an abomination. While they got out of the suit they

will go down in history for this crime. Consider how many diabetics

have perished because of pushing a poison.

 

 

Aspartame is addictive, the free methyl alcohol, classified as a

narcotic causes chronic methanol poisoning. This affects the dopamine

system of the brain and causes addiction. I happened to ask Dr. Bill

Deagle one day why addicts on aspartame were not rational. He said

because aspartame affects the frontal lobe so it's like talking to

someone who has had a lobotomy.

 

Aspartame changes brain chemistry and users many times can look at

the documents that show the devastating studies and the horrors

aspartame caused, and insist its safe. It goes beyond dumbing down

the public. I've heard many of the experts say today the mental

hospitals are full of patients who are simply aspartame victims.

 

How nasty can aspartame get? Dr. Bill Deagle explains how its made:

" Most people when asked how Aspartame is made do not have the first

step of understanding. While an E.R. doctor and primary care

physician in Augusta, GA in 1987 and 1988, I was told a number of

interesting facts about the adjacent Aspartame factory. Bacteria with

genes inserted generate a sludge which is centrifuged to remove the

aspartame and many hundreds of contaminant organic and amino acids

are present. We were told not to report illness or worker's

compensation issues for fear of being fired by the hospital, now the

Augusta Regional Medical Center. Many of their employees presented

with psychiatric, neuropathy conditions, chronic fatigue and organic

cases of loss of cognitive function. This powder from the dried

sludge was then transported for packaging in factories elsewhere in

the US, before sale as Equal and now the myriad of names of this

neurotoxin. " Bill Deagle, M.D., 888-212-8871

 

This explains a conversation I had with a victim who worked at the

Augusta plant here in Georgia. I said, " Well you work there, what is

aspartame made out of? " His answer was " I don't know lady, all we

have here is toxic sludge! " Page Kaiser also called from

Augusta. She complained that the NutraSweet factory was using their

waste product to spray crops and it smelled nasty. She asked me why

they would do such a thing. I said, " NutraSweet is a systemic

neurotoxin and it will kill the bugs just like it kills humans, and

make the fruit sweet. " Aspartame like Dr. Deagle said is

genetically engineered and they use E. coli. You'll find it in your

toilet! Nasty nasty!

 

Dr. James Bowen points out that " aspartame is a known destroyer of

DNA. The mitocondrial DNA (MtDNA) is especially damaged, yielding the

present epidemic of diseases aspartame consuming mothers pass on to

figure generations. Aspartame also directly damages the mitochondria,

thus having a " double whammy " effect on mitochondrial function! The

summation of these many known severe toxicities and its immune,

genetic, mitochondrial, and metabolic damages, show that aspartame

will not only cause many diseases, which the FDA and CDC have already

noted but it has pathways of approach to interact adversely with

every conceivable pharmaceutical. " Dr. James Bowen, who is not only

diabetic has Lou Gehrigs from aspartame. Twenty years ago he told

the FDA it was mass poisoning of the American public and over 70

countries of the world:

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wnho.net/letter_to_senator_goyp_concerning_aspartame.htm

Poisoning the publication is extremely nasty.

 

Another recent article by Dr. Bowen goes into other nasty things it

does like turning the tissues to plastic and embalming the

body. http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_turns_tissues_to_plastic.htm

The Trocho Study in Barcelona has proven the fact that aspartame

embalms living tissue and damages DNA. When you damage DNA you can

destroy humanity. Here is the entire Trocho

Study: www.mpwhi.com/formaldhyde_from_aspartame.pdf

 

Continuing with the " nasty " aspects of aspartame. According to the

prestigious Ecologist aspartame started out as a biochemical warfare

weapon, listed with the pentagon and submitted to Congress:

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t_september_2005.pdf

Do you really want this chemical poison in Australia. This 17 page

cover story has a complete time line.

 

Why is it necessary to have operations all over the world to warn the

public against aspartame? Because it's not an additive but a deadly

addictive excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug that interacts with

drugs and vaccines. It's an abortifacient and a teratogen and has

damaged a generation of children with autism, ADD, ADHD, and all

sorts of behavioral and psychiatric problems. The experts have

written articles to explain how it destroys their brains called

Report for Schools:

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report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm

There is not even a warning on the label for pregnant women. Some

women never get to have families because its also an endocrine

disrupting drug, stimulates prolactin and change the menses causing

infertility. In this Report For Schools is the article, Aspartame

Makes You Fatter by Dr. Sandra Cabot, Mission Possible Australia who

treats aspartame victims there in her clinic and lectures about it

all over the world. Sometimes called " the flying doctor " because she

is a pilot she also warns all pilots off the toxin. Mission Possible

Aviation was started when a pilot crashed his plane on aspartame and

asked me to help pilots. Remember when you fly your life is in the

hands of the pilot. Crashing planes and killing pilots is another

nasty aspects of aspartame. Captain Fred Fox retired from American

gave me the cases of 6 pilots on aspartame who died, one in flight

drinking Diet Coke.

 

Pilots are known to have grand mal seizures in the cockpits of

commercial airliners. Aspartame is not only a seizure triggering

drug and 4 types of seizures are listed on the FDA list of 92

documented symptoms from coma to death, but interacts with all

anti-seizure medication. Actually it interacts with virtually all

drugs and vaccines because of damage to the mitochondria but it is

particularly nasty in regards to seizures because no anti-seizure

drug will work. So if the doctor doesn't know to ask the patient if

they use aspartame they can get no help. Recently an epileptic

organization said they did a study on aspartame and seizures and

found it not only triggered seizures but also epilepsy. It also

proved no anti-seizure medication would work. This goes along with

what a neurologist recently told me. He said in one case they used

every anti-seizure medication on the market without helping the

patient. When he found out she was using Diet Coke he got her off of

it but she went crazy. He put her in a mental hospital and after two

weeks she was released. No more aspartame, no more seizures.

 

As you see, everything is a matter of public record and proven. I

flew to New Zealand this past summer when Abby Cormack almost died on

Wrigley's aspartame

gum. http://www.mpwhi.com/abby_cormack_story.htm Here is what the

experts had to say about Abby's case, and be sure to read about the

Ramazzini Studies which confirmed FDA's original records that

aspartame violates the Delaney Amendment because it causes

cancer:

http://www.mpwhi.com/experts_on_aspartame_and_abby_cormack.htm The

best article written in New Zealand was by Chris Wheeler, Dying For A

Diet Coke: http://www.rense.com/general78/dying.htm With all the

publicity, TV, magazines, newspapers, radio, etc. many had the same

symptoms of Abby Cormack, got off aspartame and got well. I regret I

didn't have time to also lecture in Australia but the news did reach

newspapers there.

 

Please retract your article so this misinformation will not stumble

the people of Australia. I'm sure if you contact Dr. Sandra Cabot

there: doctorcabot she will confirm this letter as

well and give you case after case. One of our flyers is in one of

her excellent books. Please also publish this article if you want to

help the people of Australia. Already ASDA (Walmart in the UK) as

well as other large chains have removed aspartame from their personal

products. I might mention we have other operations in Australia and

many victims who are on our six aspartame lists.

 

Also consumers should be warned not to use Splenda which is a

chlorocarbon poison and James Turner, Atty, and Citizens for Health

have petitioned the FDA to have it

banned. http://www.wnho.net/splenda_chlorocarbon.htm There is now a

billion dollar suit going on in California against them. They lost

the last two. There is a safe sweetener called Just Like Sugar which

I am happy to report is now in Australia. You can get more

information at www.justlikesugarinc.com It is made from chicory

which has been used for 70 years to help improve the health of

diabetics and orange peel, Vitamin C from organic oranges and Calcium.

 

All my best,

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder

Mission Possible International

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097

770 242-2599

www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com and www.wnho.net

Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

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Are Artificial Sweeteners hazardous?

 

I recently read an article about someone who was diagnosed with MS

but was actually affected adversely from an artificial sweetener. The

sweetener caused her to display similar symptoms to MS including leg

spasms resulting in her being placed in a wheelchair. The sweetener

which was blamed was aspartame According to the article, it was

causing a rise in MS and lupus diagnosis, and is especially dangerous

for people with diabetes causing possible memory loss, brain damage,

seizure, depression, rage and more. Are these artificial sweeteners a

real concern for us?

 

Editors Reply

 

Information concerning a supposed link between a number of health

problems and Aspartame (NutraSweet EqualTM and SpoonfulTM) has been

widely circulated throughout Australia via e-mail, the internet and

some local newspapers. The articles suggest that heating beverages

that contain Aspartame may cause more methanol to be produced.

However, methanol is not created new from aspartame, it is a part of

the molecule, and is released into the blood stream when it is

digested. Therefore, even if it did break down with heating, you

would not get any more methanol in total. Additionally, when

Aspartame breaks down with heating it loses its sweetness. Any

regular consumer of products containing Aspartame would immediately

notice the difference the beverage would develop a very unpleasant

taste! The articles state that the methanol released into the

bloodstream when Aspartame is digested is converted to formic acid,

which causes both MS and blindness, amongst other things. When

digested, 1 litre of a typical Aspartame sweetened beverage will

produce approximately 60 mg of methanol. In contrast, an equivalent

quantity of fruit juice contributes more than 120 mg of methanol, and

alcoholic beverages contribute between 200300 mg of methanol.

Therefore, Aspartame is not unique in producing methanol in the human

body, nor is it the major source of methanol in the average

Australian diet. The cause of MS is currently unknown, however a

virus or autoimmune mechanism is suspected. One case of an MS-like

syndrome has been reported in an individual with a history of chronic

excessive alcohol consumption, but symptoms disappeared when alcohol

consumption ceased and an autopsy showed no physical changes

characteristic of MS. Blindness can occur with severe diabetic

acidosis, or acidosis caused by ebronic excessive alcohol consumption

(hence the saying blind drunk!). This is usually, but not always,

reversible. Research has shown that consumption of very large doses

of Aspartame does not cause acidosis. Aspartame is the most studied

food additive in the world. It has been approved throughout the world

by the various health authorities because of the weight of evidence

that it is safe for human consumption, unless you suffer from

phenylketonuria (a rare genetic disease that requires a special diet

from birth). In view of this, the Australian and New Zealand Food

Authority has given approval for Aspartame to be used in foods and

beverages in Australia. Diabetes Australia has always recommended

that people use a variety of sweeteners including Aspartame (951),

Sucralose (955), Acesulphame K (950), and Saccharin (954), so that

the likelihood of excessive consumption of any one sweetener is

reduced. Studies in Australia, however, have shown that even the

heaviest users of Aspartame-sweetened products consume less than 1/3

of the recommended maximum level of Aspartame each day. Aspartame is

used in many products where the sugar-sweetened product may not be

appropriate for people with diabetes to consume in large amounts,

like soft drinks and cordials. The use of Aspartome in foods can also

help reduce the number of kiloloules (Calories) in a food and this

may be helpful in losing weight. However, research into the Glycaemic

Index of foods has determined that people with diabetes can consume a

moderate amount of sugar in their daily diet, if desired. The use of

moderate quantities of sugar in high fibre, low fat foods will not

cause a rapid rise in blood glucose levels.

 

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