Aspartame: Free to Choose

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Dear Mr. Alston:

 

I enjoyed reading your article. It reminds me of

a conversation I had with a waiter in a

restaurant who had Equal and Saccharin on the

table. I gave him some information but he

said: " In this restaurant we want people to have

a choice, either the pink or the blue " I replied

the only way people would have a choice is if the

pink one said " sweetener " and the blue one said:

" poison " . Then they would have the ability to

choose whether to live or whether to die. Today

I have a flyer to give the

waiter: http://www.mpwhi.com/waiter_remove_this_neurotoxic_drug.htm

 

Frankly, I think aspartame should have a skull

and crossbones on it. At one time when a victim

who didn't know what was killing her had left

town to buy a burial plot in her hometown, her

medical student daughter actually found a bottle

of aspartame with a skull and crossbones in the

lab. Immediately she notified her mother who

gave it up and came home without the purchased burial plot and got well.

 

I see you're a marathon runner and it reminds me

of another runner who died of a seizure. You may

remember Flo Jo. She loved Diet Coke and, of

course, the aspartame is addicting having a

methyl ester which immediately becomes free

methyl alcohol classified as a narcotic. It

causes chronic methanol poisoning which effects

the dopamine system of the brain and causes

addiction. Perhaps she couldn't get off of

it. She didn't know that athletes are dropping

dead because aspartame not only is a seizure

triggering drug, but causes an irregular heart

rhythm, interacts with all cardiac medication,

damage the cardiac conduction system and causes

sudden death. Here are the medical

reports:

http://www.rense.com/general67/alert.htm and

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

Now Flo Jo could have been saved when she decided

to choose, if only the label had been sincere and

said: " Seizure triggering drug, interacts with

anti-seizure medication, extremely serious for

marathon runners because it causes sudden

death. " If that label had been on the Diet Coke

with aspartame Flo Jo would probably be alive

today because she could have chosen not to use it.

 

Then there was the woman who used aspartame

during three pregnancies and has three autistic

children. She could have chosen wisely if only

the label had read: " Causes birth defects including autism " .

 

Actually, I think there should be a special

aspartame label for men: " Triggers male sexual

dysfunction but have no fear Viagra is here. "

 

For all the ones I wept about, the youngsters who

died of aspartame brain tumors, in the prime of

their life, perhaps there could have been a label

that said: " Aspartame breaks down to brain tumor

agent, DKP, and is a multipotential

carcinogen. " These youngsters could have then chosen not to use it and live.

 

Since the Trocho Study showed the formaldehyde

converted from the free methyl alcohol embalms

living tissue perhaps there should be a standard

death label: This product kills but embalms you free.

 

Then what do we do for the mental problems? I

know, how about a label that states: Triggers

psychiatric and behavioral problems, interacts

with anti-depressants. Psychiatrists see medical

text. As the experts have said for years, so

many mental hospitals full of patients who are only aspartame victims.

 

What about the diabetics? They should have a

label that says: " Aspartame can precipitate

diabetes, destroys the optic nerve, simulates and

aggravates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy,

causes diabetics to go into convulsions and

interacts with insulin. The methanol in this

product can cause you to lose limbs. " I know,

its too long. I guess it would simply have to say: " Kills diabetics " !

 

Having to do with the obesity issue, I think the

label could really be short: " If you want to get

fat, NutraSweet is where it's at. " How's

that? What about for the infertile? Maybe the

label could simply say: " Endocrine Disrupting Drug - no baby! "

 

I know the label is not big enough to list the 92

symptoms on the FDA report including

death. There is a solution, however. How about

simply a label that states: " Genocide: Keep

out of reach of humans. " Now people have the

right to choose.... They will know exactly what

they are consuming and can decide if they wish to live or die.

 

In the meantime, with propaganda from aspartame

manufacturers, front groups, professional

organizations and the FDA, people can't choose

because they have no idea what they are

consuming. We could probably shorten the label

even more: " Biochemical warfare

weapon " .

www.mpwhi.com/Ecologist_September_2005.pdf They

definitely would get the idea of what to expect.

 

You see, Mr. Alston, if people are to have the

right to choose, then they should also have the

right to know what they are choosing. Otherwise,

they may give up their life, and never know they

choose death because they were not given the

right to know what they were consuming.

 

I do believe that people have a certain

responsibility to research what they put in their

mouth. But when they are lied to and deceived

unless there were operations like ours to warn

and work to ban, millions more would be dead. As

Dr. Alemany said who did the Trocho

Study: " Aspartame can kill 200 million

people. " You want to be free to choose. I want

to be alive to choose and know what I'm

choosing. That's where we differ. If aspartame

had never been approved through the political

chicanery of Don Rumsfeld, I could have spent

these last almost 18 years doing things that my

husband and myself had looked forward to doing

with his retirement funds instead of warning the

world. But you see, I also choose to have a

conscience and cared to save consumers from

Rumsfeld's Plague so they could live long enough to have a retirement.

 

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, www.wnho.net

Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

 

 

Written by Wilton D. Alston

Wednesday, 24 September 2008 11:57

 

Given that I'm a runner, nay a marathoner, as

well a bit of a health-nut, I might be expected

to have a bit of a soft spot for any move to get

rid of

<http://www.mpwhi.com/92_aspartame_symptoms.pdf>poison

like <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame>aspartame.

 

Apple

Certainly then,

<http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_betty_ma_080217_hawaii_ban_aspartame.ht\

m>Hawaii's

proposed ban on aspartame should appeal to me,

no? Borrowing a phrase from the Hertz

commercials, " Not exactly. " From an article by

Op-Ed News columnist Betty Martini we find:

 

The Hawaii House Health Committee was to consider

the bill to ban aspartame, but it never happened.

Chairman Josh Green, M.D. deferred this

lifesaving initiative, which means the committee

won't be able to vote on the overwhelming

testimony of renowned medical authorities,

physicians and researchers that aspartame is a

neurotoxin, unfit for human consumption,

inflicting disabilities and death on multitudes.

 

One can, upon reading the piece, see that Dr.

Martini is both passionate and informed about the

dangers of aspartame. I do not care to offer any

debate on any substantive point she makes about

the dangers of aspartame. Frankly, her information is compelling. For instance:

 

Paralysis is one of the 92 disabilities the Food

& Drug Administration named in their 1995 list of

aspartame reactions which they now deny ever

existed. FDA derived these from over 10,000

complaints volunteered by American consumers;

more than those reported to FDA for any other

additive. FDA slammed the complaint window in

1996 and have ignored all testimony and research,

including over 100 damning scientific peer

reviewed studies on the devastating consequence

of consuming aspartame. Seizures, sexual

dysfunction, birth defects, blindness, paranoia,

diabetes, migraines, obesity, and its a

multi-potential carcinogen concluded an award

winning 3-year study on1,800 rats by Dr. M.

Soffritti of the Ramazzini Institute. The 2005

study was peer reviewed by 7 world experts. His

second study showed it only takes a small amount

to cause cancer and if pregnant women use it and

their baby survives the offspring can get cancer.

 

Were the decision mine, I would un-create

aspartame in a minute. But the decision is not

mine, and that's where Dr. Martini and I diverge.

Debating about the facts, or lack thereof

regarding aspartame is using the argument from

effect. By this I mean that one is faced with a

case of " dueling facts and opinions " from which

either decision could be made. In cases such as

this, it is my position that the

<http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/molyneux7.html>argument

from morality is a better approach. That is to

say, no matter the evidence, the State (or any

group of people) is not justly authorized to

decide for everyone else. Simply put, all people

should be free to choose a behavior that effects

their most basic initial possession, their

bodies. That the chosen action might be unwise is

irrelevant. As I asked some time ago,

<http://www.lewrockwell.com/alston/alston15.html>if

the State protects me from myself, who will

protect me from the State? Although I was

talking, at that time, about the proposed ban on

transfats, the logic is exactly analogous. From that article:

 

" People are (or should be) free to choose. If

they really don’t want to consume trans fats,

they are free to not do so. If a restaurant wants

to use them, I am free to not dine there while

you are free to enjoy them if you like. Everyone

is happy. Secondly, the prevalence of trans fats

is largely the result of government interference

anyway, so why would even more government

involvement make things better? Let’s review this little scenario:

 

* Initially people are free to use whatever

they want, including lard, butter, coconut oil,

olive oil, and/or palm oil, etc. (Some people are

fat, but hey, that was less about the fats and

more about their lifestyle choices, among other things.)

 

* Aggressive lobbying by the edible oil

industry causes adoption, at the federal

government level, of dietary goals and guidelines

that incorporate the mistaken idea that

consumption of saturated fat causes heart

disease. (State intervention makes finding a

domestic substitute for these fats financially critical.)

* Because of inherent limitations,

polyunsaturated vegetable oils are unsuitable for

baking; partially hydrogenated oils are developed

to mitigate these effects. (Manufacturers,

seeking to maximize profits while meeting the

federal guidelines eagerly incorporate this stuff into, well, everything.)

* After years of clogged arteries, heart

attacks, bypass surgeries and the like, somebody

discovers that making a cheap vegetable oil into

a baking fat via the magic of chemistry also

changes the properties of that oil for the worse. (Who knew?)

* State intervention seeks to preclude that

which was originally facilitated largely by state

intervention – trans fats are banned. (Complete symmetry is achieved.) "

 

Government action, either in banning or

mandating, always results in unintended (and

often dangerous) consequences. How better to

conclude this essay but as I concluded that previous one on transfats?

 

" It’s not my place to make choices of this type

for anyone else and neither is it the

government’s place. (I’ve already got a mother,

but thanks anyway.) Let the right and the

responsibility rest where they should. "

 

Having the government ban aspartame, transfats,

or anything else, simply opens up the door for

some other self-interested body to lobby them to mandate some other additive.

 

While I'm certainly no fan of artificial

sweeteners, I'm still willing to take my chances,

without the FDA or Congress looking over my shoulder at my plate.

 

 

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