Blood Sugar Control Linked to Memory Decline, Study Says

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Obviously, aspartame and NutraSweet, Equal,

Canderel, E951, etc., are pushed on

diabetics. It is a killer to the diabetic

because it not only can precipitate diabetes but

it simulates and aggravates diabetic retinopathy

and neuropathy, destroys the optic nerve, causes

diabetics to go into convulsions and even

interacts with insulin. The free methyl alcohol

is causing them to lose limbs. It keeps blood

sugar out of control. Furthermore, aspartame

which is in reality an addictive excitoneurotoxic

carcinogenic drug that interacts with virtually

all drugs and vaccines because of damage to the

mitochondria actually causes memory loss. It's #9

on the FDA list of 92 symptoms from four types of

seizures to coma and death. Avoid aspartame like

the plague it is. Splenda is a chlorocarbon

poison. There is a safe sweetener for diabetics

called Just Like Sugar which you can get from

www.justlikesugarinc.com or in Whole Foods and

such places. It is chicory which has been used

for 70 years to improve the health of diabetics,

orange peel, Vitamin C from organic oranges and

Calcium. It's been analyzed and has no chemicals

in it. Dr. Russell Blaylock, M.D., wrote in the

Blaylock Wellness Report,

www.russellblaylockmd.com three times, " Finally a safe sweetener " .

 

Just today someone called me from Hartford whose

dad was diabetic and using aspartame. I warned

him that the free methyl alcohol would cause him

to lose limbs. Chubby Stephens said, My father

who lives in Swainsboro, Georgia first lost his

feet and then his legs. " I told him to get Dr.

H. J. Roberts medical text, Aspartame Disease: An

Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com for a

chapter on aspartame and diabetes, get him off

this deadly poison and on to a safe

sweetener. Dr. Roberts is an endocrinologist or diabetic specialist.

 

Here is the FDA list of 92 symptoms showing

memory loss: http://www.mpwhi.com/92_aspartame_symptoms.pdf

 

Who is to blame for what aspartame is doing to

diabetics? The aspartame manufacturers and the

professional organizations they fund to push it

like the American Diabetes Assn, and the FDA who

not only refuse to ban it but refuse to answer a

petition to ban which is required to be answered

in 180 days. Send this note to congress. Every

Senator and Congressman needs to know the FDA refuses to obey the law.

 

Be sure to see the aspartame documentary, Sweet

Misery: A Poisoned World, www.soundandfury.tv to

learn how Don Rumsfeld got aspartame on the

market after the FDA had revoked the petition for

approval. This shows you the FDA knows how deadly it is.

 

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

 

 

New York Times

 

January 1, 2009

 

 

Blood Sugar Control Linked to Memory Decline, Study Says

 

By RONI CARYN RABIN

 

Spikes in blood sugar can take a toll on memory

by affecting the dentate gyrus, an area of the

brain within the hippocampus that helps form memories, a new study reports.

 

Researchers said the effects can be seen even

when levels of blood sugar, or glucose, are only

moderately elevated, a finding that may help

explain normal age-related cognitive decline,

since glucose regulation worsens with age.

 

The study, by researchers at

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iversity/index.html?inline=nyt-org>Columbia

University Medical Center and funded in part by

the National Institute on Aging, was published in

the December issue of Annals of Neurology.

 

“If we conclude this is underlying normal

age-related cognitive decline, then it affects

all of us,” said lead investigator Dr. Scott

Small, associate professor of neurology at

Columbia University Medical Center. The ability

to regulate glucose starts deteriorating by the

third or fourth decade of life, he added.

 

Since glucose regulation is improved with

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activity, Dr. Small said, “We have a behavioral

recommendation ­ physical exercise.”

 

In the study, researchers used high-resolution

functional

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ifier>magnetic

resonance imaging to map brain regions in 240

elderly subjects. They found a correlation

between elevated blood glucose levels and reduced

cerebral blood volume, or blood flow, in the

dentate gyrus, an indication of reduced metabolic

activity and function in that region of the brain.

 

By manipulating

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sugar levels in mice and monkeys, researchers

said, they tried to confirm a cause-and-effect

relationship between the glucose spikes and the

reduced blood volume, Dr. Small said.

 

Bruce S. McEwen, who heads the neuroendocrinology

lab at

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_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org>Rockefeller

University in New York and was not involved in

the research, said the study’s findings were

“compelling,” with important implications not

just for the elderly but for the growing number

of overweight children and teens at risk of

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nline=nyt-classifier>Type

2 diabetes.

 

“When we think about

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yt-classifier>diabetes,

we think about heart disease and all the

consequences for the rest of the body, but we

usually don’t think about the brain,” he said.

“This is something we’ve got to be really worried

about. We need to think about their ultimate

risks not only for cardiovascular disease and

metabolic disorders, but also about their

cognitive skills, and whether they will be able

to keep up with the demands of education and a

fast-paced complex society. That’s the part that scares the heck out of me.”

 

Previous observational studies have shown that

physical activity reduces the risk of cognitive

decline, and studies have also found that

diabetes increases the risk of

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yt-classifier>dementia.

Earlier studies had also found a link between

Type 2 diabetes and dysfunction in the dentate gyrus.

 

Sheri Colberg-Ochs, an associate professor of

exercise science at Old Dominion University in

Norfolk, Va., said her research has found that

regular exercise, even light physical activity,

can offset the potentially negative effects of

Type 2 diabetes on cognitive function. It is not

clear what the mechanism is, she said, but may

have something to do with the effect of insulin.

 

“This new study is interesting in that it allows

for a greater understanding of which region of

the hippocampus is likely most affected by poorly

controlled diabetes,” she said.

 

But the elevations in blood glucose seen in the

new study are more subtle and would not be

considered a disease state, Dr. Small said.

 

“It’s part of the normal process of aging, much

like wrinkling of skin,” he said. “It happens to

all of us inexorably, and it worsens progressively across the life span.”