Aspertame

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Since you've been on it for years, you might not realize what it is doing to you. The best test would be to go off it for 30 to 40 days. See if you feel better, lost weight, etc...

 

By the slim chance you don't feel any different, I still would not recommend consuming it.

 

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At the risk for being stoned by this group I would like to ask if there has ever been any research on Equal or Aspertame not being harmful. Every single thing I read is so negative but I have used Equal and tons of it for years with no adverse problems. Any comments would be appreciated.

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Gracie I won't stone you but ---

 

I would have to say that I believe every study done by the owners and manufacturers of Aspartame will have shown the so called NO DANGERS of this substance. I have read that they manipulated the data just to get it approved. IMHO its been a case of EGO and Follow the $$$$$$$.... who cares if ordinary folks such as us get killed or made terribly ill in the process, so long as the buck make it to the bank!

 

Clare in Tassie

[Guest guest]

Hi Gracie

 

I'm sure we are all relieved that you have no noticeable ill effects from taking Aspartane - there are all sorts of questions I would like to ask you - like your age, weight, other drugs you are on, (alcohol & tobacco included) any symptoms, albeit unrelated, that you do have - but I realise this is a very open forum and don't feel you should have to answer anything here - if you wish to email me privately with any answers to any of these questions please feel free to do so

 

Best,

 

Jane

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Gracie Becker

 

At the risk for being stoned by this group I would like to ask if there has ever been any research on Equal or Aspertame not being harmful. Every single thing I read is so negative but I have used Equal and tons of it for years with no adverse problems. Any comments would be appreciated.

[Guest guest]

Welcome Gracie, to H & H,

I assume you are new to the group, and no, we won't stone

you...lol.

Not sure if you have tried as yet, but the group does have archives

available, and when you key in Aspartame, or Equal , you should

receive many articles.

Otherwise, keep an eye on the messages from Dr. Betty

Martini who posts here regularly.

One video you might want to watch is sweet misery, a

poisoned world.

 

http://www.documentarywire.com/sweet-misery-a-poisoned-world

This documentary should give answers to at least some, if not all of your

questions.

Hanneke

 

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At the risk for being stoned by this

group I would like to ask if there has ever been any research on Equal or

Aspertame not being harmful. Every single thing I read is so negative but

I have used Equal and tons of it for years with no adverse problems. Any

comments would be appreciated.

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Good point. Betty and I wrote the Resolution in the Hawaii Senate and the

New Mexico Senate which asks the FDA to take it off the market, and gives

about 30 historic reasons for doing so. Here is what it says (and you could

probably get it introduced in your state or nation within about 1 hour of

your valuable computer time, forwarding it to the top legislators in your

state or nation!!!!):

 

 

 

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SENATE CONCURRENT

 

RESOLUTION

 

 

 

 

 

REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES TO

REVIEW EXISTING REPORTS AND STUDIES RELATED TO ASPARTAME, AND REQUESTING THE

UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION TO RESCIND APPROVAL OF ASPARTAME

FOR UNITED STATES MARKETS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHEREAS, aspartame was originally developed as a drug to treat peptic

ulcers; and

 

 

 

WHEREAS, manufacturers state that aspartame is made up of forty per

cent aspartic acid, fifty per cent phenylalanine, and ten per cent methanol;

and

 

 

 

WHEREAS, aspartic acid is a nonessential amino acid that is used by the

body to initiate apoptosis or cell death in aging cells, and that excess

aspartic acid from aspartame consumption causes apoptosis in healthy cells

that can destroy healthy tissue, especially in the brain; and

 

 

 

WHEREAS, phenylalanine is an essential amino acid found naturally in

protein but when isolated becomes neurotoxic, lowers the seizure threshold,

depletes serotonin triggering psychiatric and behavioral problems, and

interacts with antidepressants and other drugs; and

 

 

 

WHEREAS, methanol is a severe metabolic poison classified as a narcotic

that converts to formaldehyde and formic acid, and can embalm living tissue

and damage DNA; and

 

 

 

WHEREAS, aspartame metabolites include formaldehyde, a " class A "

carcinogen, diketopiperazine, a brain tumor agent, and formic acid; and

 

 

 

WHEREAS, in 1974, the United States Food and Drug Administration

approved aspartame as an artificial sweetener, but asked its manufacturer

Searle to hold back from selling it on the market until further tests could

be made with regards to its safety; and

 

 

 

WHEREAS, scientific data revealed that there was a problem with

aspartame safety data and the United States Food and Drug Administration

withdrew its approval; and

 

 

 

WHEREAS, in 1975, the United States Food and Drug Administration

initiated an investigation into Searle's laboratory practices and discovered

fraud in scientific experiments as well as manipulated data giving favorable

results proving aspartame to be safe; and

 

 

 

WHEREAS, the results of this investigation are included in what is

called " The Bressler Report " by Jerome Bressler; and

 

 

 

WHEREAS, in 1980, Dr. John Olney submitted scientific data to a United

States Food and Drug Administration Public Board of Inquiry showing that

aspartic acid, the excitotoxic ingredient in aspartame, caused holes in the

brains of mice; and

 

 

 

WHEREAS, Dr. John Olney stated that it warranted special emphasis that

excitotoxins act by an acute but silent mechanism requiring only a single

exposure to toxic concentrations for CVO neurons to be quietly destroyed,

that clearly Searle failed to establish the safety of their product,

aspartame, for use in children's food, and that all age comparative data

support the following conclusions: (1) orally administered excitotoxins

destroy CVO neurons at any age; (2) immature animals are most vulnerable;

and (3) the toxic threshold increases only gradually between birth and

adulthood; and

 

 

 

WHEREAS, in 1980, the Public Board of Inquiry unanimously voted against

aspartame approval, but was overruled by a new United States Food and Drug

Administration Commissioner, Dr. Arthur Hull Hays, against the advice of

Food and Drug Administration scientific personnel and advisers; and

 

 

 

WHEREAS, the United States Food and Drug Administration approved

aspartame use in sodas, despite the fact that the National Soft Drink

Association argued vehemently against aspartame in these quotes from their

protest:

 

 

 

(1) " The present record does not contain data which demonstrate that

the use of APM in soft drinks will not result in the adulteration of the

beverages under section 402(a)(3) of the FDC Act 21 U.S.C. 342(a)(3), which

provides that a food is adulterated if it contains, in whole or in part, " a

decomposed substance or if it is otherwise unfit for food”;

 

 

 

(2) " An important decomposition product of aspartame, aspartic acid,

cannot be detected at all using TLC " ;

 

 

 

(3) " G. D. Searle and Company has not demonstrated to a reasonable

certainty that the use of aspartame in soft drinks, without quantitative

limitations, will not adversely affect human health as a result of the

changes such use is likely to cause in brain chemistry and under certain

reasonably anticipated conditions of use " ; and

 

 

 

(4) " Specifically, Searle has not met its burdens under section

409....to demonstrate that aspartame is safe and functional for use in soft

drinks. Collectively, the extensive deficiencies in the stability studies

conducted by Searle to demonstrate that aspartame and its degradation

products are safe in soft drinks intended to be sold in the United States,

render those studies inadequate and unreliable. " Senate Congressional

Record, May 7, 1985, S5507–5511; and

 

 

 

WHEREAS, the United States Food and Drug Administration has compiled a

list of ninety-two symptoms attributed to aspartame consumption including

four types of seizures, coma, and death; and

 

 

 

WHEREAS, the Ramazzini Studies by the European Foundation for Oncology

in Italy conducted exhaustive studies over three years with thousands of

rats, and proved aspartame to be a multipotential carcinogen, thus

confirming the United States Food and Drug Administration's original

findings; and

 

 

 

WHEREAS, the United States Food and Drug Administration admitted that

aspartame caused cancer over two decades ago when the Administration's

toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, told Congress at least one of Searle's

studies " has established beyond any reasonable doubt that aspartame is

capable of inducing brain tumors in experimental animals and that this

predisposition of it is of extremely high significance....In view of these

indications that the cancer causing potential of aspartame is a matter that

had been established way beyond any reasonable doubt, one can ask: What is

the reason for the apparent refusal by the FDA to invoke for this food

additive the so-called Delaney Amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act?

Given the cancer causing potential of aspartame how would the FDA justify

its position that it views a certain amount of aspartame as constituting an

allowable daily intake or 'safe' level of it? Is that position in effect not

equivalent to setting a 'tolerance' for this food additive and thus a

violation of that law? And if the FDA itself elects to violate the law, who

is left to protect the health of the public? " Congressional Record, August

1, l985, SID835:131; and

 

 

 

WHEREAS, aspartame is linked to sudden death, multiple sclerosis,

lupus, and many neurodegenerative diseases, as cited in many medical texts,

most notably: Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, by H.J. Roberts,

M.D., and Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, by Russell Blaylock, M.D.; and

 

 

 

WHEREAS, on November 3, 1987, Dr. Louis Elsas told Congress: " I am a

pediatrician, a Professor of Pediatrics at Emory and have spent twenty-five

years in the biomedical sciences, trying to prevent mental retardation and

birth defect 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. . . irreversibly in the

developing child or fetal brain, produce adverse effects " ; and

 

 

 

WHEREAS, there are tens of thousands of case histories and anecdotal

accounts from victims of aspartame poisoning who have come forward to make

their case histories known; now, therefore,

 

 

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-fourth Legislature of the

State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2008, the House of Representatives

concurring, that the Department of Health is requested to create, within

their existing budget, an evidentiary repository accessible to the public

for patients and physicians to submit over the next year their cases

involving victims of aspartame poisoning; and

 

 

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of Health is requested to

report to the Legislature on the status of the evidentiary repository during

periodic interim meetings with the Chairs of the Hawaii State Senate

Committees on Health and Human Services and Public Housing, the House of

Representatives Committees on Health and Human Services and Housing, and the

state Attorney General; and

 

 

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Health is requested to

review all existing reports, studies, experiments, and related literature on

aspartame, including clinical studies, differentiating each study by its

funding source, and submit a report to the Legislature no later than twenty

days prior to the convening of the 2009 Regular Session; and

 

 

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the National Academy of Sciences is

requested to review all existing reports, studies, experiments, and related

literature on aspartame, including clinical studies, differentiating each

study by its funding source, and that, if funding is required to undertake

this extended evaluation, that the appropriate funding be sought from

various foundations and from Congress; and

 

 

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that given the enormous amount of evidence that

has been compiled concerning the neurodegenerative harm it can cause, that

the United States Food and Drug Administration is requested to rescind

approval of aspartame immediately on a phase & #8209;out basis over six months to

one year; and

 

 

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent

Resolution be transmitted to the members of Hawaii's Congressional

Delegation, the Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug

Administration, the Executive Director of the National Academy of Sciences,

the Director of Health, the Director of Human Services, the Attorney

General, and the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

[Guest guest]

, " Gracie Becker "

<grabec wrote:

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> At the risk for being stoned by this group I would like to ask if

there has ever been any research on Equal or Aspertame not being

harmful. Every single thing I read is so negative but I have used

Equal and tons of it for years with no adverse problems. Any comments

would be appreciated.

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Hi Gracie, May I ask why you would be using either Equal or

Aspartame? Usually people use this because they are told by the

doctor to substitute it for sugar. White sugar has rat poison in it

to preserve it so that is not any better than either of the afore

mentioned. The world as it is now, is in such a sad state. All the

foods, water, air etc that we consume are laden with unhealthy

things. It is a wonder we have not all just gone belly up. Look at

the amount of cancer there is in very small babies. Allergies, birth

defects. It is mind boggling to think of all the children that are

on ritalin or concerta or something similar. So why should we put

more substitute things into our bodies? All we can do is to try and

get the most healthy foods we can. Edith