Duty to Warn: Diet Soda Is Poison by Gary G. Kohls, M.D.

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Duty to warn: Diet soda is poison

By Gary G. Kohls, MD

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May 4, 2009, 00:19

 

I was on a long road trip last week and, feeling

rather drowsy, stopped at a convenience store for

some coffee and refreshments. As I walked up and

down the aisles to find something to munch on for

the next leg of the trip, I discovered nothing

that seemed to be real food on any of the

shelves. So I thought I would at least buy some

chewing gum, something I used to do decades ago

when gum only cost a penny a stick. I fondly

remembered the refreshing taste of Wrigley’s

Doublemint, Juicy Fruit or Spearmint gum.

 

Reading the fine print on the gum labels (a habit

I always urged my patients to adopt whenever

making purchases in grocery stores), I was

annoyed and a bit alarmed to find that NONE of

the 20 flavors had good old dextrose or sucrose

in them. Instead, 100 percent of the choices

contained, as their sweetener, a synthetic

chemical called aspartame, a.k.a. NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful.

 

Now I have read the book Excitotoxins: The Taste

that Kills, written by

<http://www.russellblaylockmd.com/>Russell

Blaylock, MD, one of the neuroscientists who has

thoroughly studied the toxicities of the common

food additives aspartame and monosodium glutamate

(MSG). I have also seen the sobering video

documentary about aspartame poisoning entitled:

Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, which proves

without any doubt how dangerous this synthetic

sweetener can be. (You can order a copy by

emailing

<coricori.)

 

Aspartame, which is in thousands of processed

food products that are usually labeled “lite” or

“diet” products, was synthesized in 1965 by a G.

D. Searle chemist who, when he was trying to

create an anti-ulcer drug, combined two amino

acids, aspartic acid and phenylalanine and found

that the resulting dipeptide (a molecule

consisting of two amino acids) had an intensely

sweet taste to the tongue. Searle soon saw

aspartame as a product that could compete in the

low calorie food industry and obtained, in 1974,

FDA approval for its use in dry foods. However

the FDA approval was rescinded within six months

because of toxic reactions and widespread concerns by a number of scientists.

 

These scientists knew that aspartame was a lethal

poison! In fact, in a 1996 report compiled from

10,000 consumer complaints obtained during the

pre-marketing testing period, the FDA listed 92

aspartame-related symptoms, ranging from seizures to death!

 

Still, the tenacious Searle, led by its cunning

management team, refused to give up its effort to

obtain FDA approval and denied that they had a sweet poison on their hands.

 

Interestingly, Searle’s CEO at the time was

Donald Rumsfeld (which is why some prefer to call

Aspartame Disease Rumsfeld’s Disease).

 

Here is an excerpt from an article entitled:

Aspartame (NutraSweet): Something Evil This Way

Comes written by Betty Martini, of Mission

Possible World Health International, an

organization devoted to exposing aspartame as the dangerous substance it is:

 

“Listen to Attorney James Turner who, with famed

Dr. John Olney, tried to prevent aspartame’s

approval. Turner tells what it took to get a

deadly poison approved. The FDA attempted to have

Searle indicted for fraud and making false

statements. Both U.S. prosecutors hired on with

the defense team and the statute of limitations

expired. For 16 years, the FDA refused to allow

it on the market. When Reagan was elected, Don

Rumsfeld, CEO of Searle, said he’d call in his

markers to get aspartame approved. This is

documented by a UPI investigation and

congressional record. The day after Reagan took

office Arthur Hayes was appointed as FDA Commissioner to get it approved.

 

”Reagan knew it might take 30 days to get Hayes

installed, so he wrote an Executive Order making

the outgoing FDA Commissioner powerless to act

against aspartame before he departed. Then the

FDA set up a Public Board of Inquiry (PBOI) that

revoked Reagan’s petition for approval because it

had not been proved safe and causes brain tumors.

Hayes overruled the PBOI and let slip the hounds

of disease, disability and death on an innocent,

unwarned population. Soon he became a consultant

for the NutraSweet Company’s public relations

outfit on a 10-year contract at $1,000/day. Hayes

then refused to talk to the press.”

 

In 1981, the Reagan FDA approved aspartame in dry

food and in 1983, aspartame was approved for use

in soda pop. In 1985 Rumsfeld’s Searle was

acquired by Monsanto, making Rumsfeld rich and

Searle Pharmaceuticals and The NutraSweet Company

separate subsidiaries! And the rest, as they say, is history.

 

Suffice it to say, I passed on the

chemically-contaminated chewing gum. I have

learned to avoid swallowing synthetic flavor

enhancers (or other chemicals in food) whenever I

am able, preferring to use natural, unrefined and

unbleached table sugar if I feel the need to

sweeten tea or coffee. Understanding the chemical

breakdown products of aspartame informed my

decision long ago and will help the readers to

try to break their diet pop habits also. It is my professional duty to warn.

 

Each molecule of NutraSweet, when it reaches a

temperature of 86 degrees F (recall that the

body’s normal temperature is 98.6 and warehouses

in the summer’s sun can reach temperatures far

higher than that)) breaks down into its two amino

acids (a molecule each of phenylalanine and

aspartic acid, both excitotoxins) and a molecule

of methanol (wood alcohol!) which then

metabolizes into formaldehyde (embalming fluid

and a known carcinogen), formic acid (the acid

that causes the intense itching from the prickles

of burning weed) and diketopiperazine (a known carcinogen).

 

Perhaps a small amount of any of these toxins can

be tolerated by some people, especially those who

are well nourished, but I wouldn’t want to take

the chance, for there is too much evidence for

its being a poison. The long list of

neurodegenerative, psychological and other health

problems aspartame can cause can be found

<http://www.dorway.com/badnews.html#symptoms>here.

They include seizures, multiple sclerosis,

headaches, lupus, insomnia, fibromyalgia,

arthritis, depression, anxiety and dozens more.

 

If that isn’t enough to convince readers to

gradually withdraw (diet soda is also addictive)

from your NutraSweet habit, it might give you

extra motivation if you recall the list of evil

geniuses listed above that have played a part in this tragedy.

 

There, you’ve been warned.

 

(Coming up soon, an expose on another toxic

artificial sweetener that is in a lot of food

products, the trichlorinated sucrose molecule

sucralose (Splenda), once marketed as a pesticide in Japan.)

 

For more on the health-destroying properties of

aspartame, check out these resources:

 

<http://www.dorway.com/>Dorway to Discovery

<http://www.aspartame.com/>ASPARTAMEKILLS.COM

<http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/>Aspartame

(NutraSweet) Toxicity Info Center

<http://www.wnho.net/>WORLD NATURAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Medical Text:

<http://www.sunsentpress.com/>Aspartame Disease:

An Ignored Epidemic, H. J. Roberts, M.D.

<http://www.infowars.com/articles/science/diet_softdrinks_suicide.htm>‘Diet’

Soft Drinks -- Suicide On An Installment Plan

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Gary G. Kohls. MD, is a retired family

practitioner, who specialized in holistic and

preventive mental health care in Duluth, Minnesota.

 

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