Aspartame: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A Dangerous Spin on the Cancer Risks of a Sugar-Free Sweetener - Dr. Epstein

[Guest guest]

http://world-wire.com/news/1001060003.html by Dr. Samuel Epstein

 

For more information on aspartame, www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com,

www.wnho.net

Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

 

Dr. Betty Martini. D.Hum, Founder

Mission Possible International

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097

770 242-2599

 

Aspartame Resource Guide:

 

 

Aspartame medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic,

<http://www.sunsentpress.com/>www.sunsentpress.com by H. J. Roberts,

M.D., over 1000 pages He also has other books on aspartame and just

published " A Manifesto for American Medicine "

 

Dr. Leonard Coldwell's Detox Formula:

<http://www.mpwhi.com/resources-coldwell.htm>http://www.mpwhi.com/resources-cold\

well.htm

His new book is " The Only Answer to Cancer " .

 

Detox formula: " What To Do If You Have Used Aspartame " by

neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D.,

<http://www.wnho.net/wtdaspartame.htm>www.wnho.net/wtdaspartame.htm

Dr. Blaylock is author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills,

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

has an excellent CD titled: " The Truth About Aspartame " ,

<http://www.atavistik.com/>www.atavistik.com All info is on

<http://www.mpwhi.com/blaylock_wellness_center.htm>http://www.mpwhi.com/blaylock\

_wellness_center.htm

 

 

Aspartame documentary: Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World,

<http://www.soundandfury.tv/>www.soundandfury.tv

 

Aspartame Information List, you can on

<http://www.mpwhi.com/>www.mpwhi.com scroll down to banners.

 

How to get aspartame out of your

state:

<http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/pr_24_feb_2009.html>http://www.thenhf.com/\

press_releases/pr_24_feb_2009.html

 

Safe Sweetener: Just Like Sugar,

<http://www.justlikesugarinc.om/>www.justlikesugarinc.om Can be

found in places like Whole Foods. Made of chicory and orange peel,

Calcium and Vitamin C. Chicory has been used for 70 years to improve

the health of diabetics. Dr. Russell Blaylock wrote in his

newsletter, The Blaylock Wellness Report,

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

" Finally a safe sweetener " .

 

Aspartame information for distribution: The Artificially Sweetened

Times, 24 page booklets on aspartame,

<http://www.idaho-observer.com/>www.idaho-observer.com

 

The Lethal Science of

Splenda:

<http://www.wnho.net/splenda_chlorocarbon.htm>http://www.wnho.net/splenda_chloro\

carbon.htm

 

 

Studies have shown that sucralose can:

 

* Cause the thymus to shrink by as much as 40% (the thymus is your

immune powerhouse - it produces T cells)

* Cause enlargement of the liver and kidneys

* Reduce growth rate as much as 20%

* Cause enlargement of the large bowel area

* Reduce the amount of good bacteria in the intestines by 50%

* Increase the pH level in the intestines (a risk factor for colon cancer)

* Contribute to weight gain

* Cause aborted pregnancy low fetal body weight

* Reduce red blood cell count

 

Particular warning to diabetics: Researchers found that diabetic

patients using sucralose showed a statistically significant increase

in glycosylated hemoglobin, a marker that is used to assess glycemic

control in diabetic patients. According to the FDA, " increases in

glycosolation in hemoglobin imply lessening of control of diabetes. "

 

Ajinomoto just announced a new name for aspartame called

AminoSweet. Be warned.

 

Web sites: <http://www.mpwhi.com/>www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com and

<http://www.wnho.net/>www.wnho.net

Aspartame Toxicity Center,

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

 

 

 

Also, you may be interested in the history of aspartame just reported

for Prop 65:

 

 

Cynthia Oshita

Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

Proposition 65 Implementation

P.O. Box 4010 1001 I Street, 19th floor

Sacramento, California 95812-4010

FAX (916) 323-8803

 

Dear Ms. Oshita:

 

In reading available information, I assume you want mostly how

aspartame relates to cancer. Indeed it is a carcinogen, proven so by

many scientific studies. Aspartame also triggers many other serious

diseases which fill the 1,000+ page medical text, Aspartame Disease:

An Ignored Epidemic,

<http://www.sunsentpress.com/>www.sunsentpress.com by H. J. Roberts, M.D.

 

When FDA Commissioner Dr. Von Eschenbach took office I wrote him

about aspartame and cancer, mainly due to his professed intention to

save cancer victims; so much of this has already been

done.

<http://www.mpwhi.com/project_recall_aspartame.htm>http://www.mpwhi.com/project_\

recall_aspartame.htm

Later 12 toxicologists asked the FDA to ban aspartame because of the

long term Ramazzini studies on large rat populations showing

aspartame is " a multipotential carcinogen " .

<http://www.cspinet.org/new/pdf/aspartame_letter_to_fda.pdf>http://www.cspinet.o\

rg/new/pdf/aspartame_letter_to_fda.pdf

 

 

Now I'll go back to the beginning.

 

Aspartame was not approved by science but thru the political

chicanery of Don Rumsfeld. D.C. Attorney James Turner, explains how

Rumsfeld did it in the documentary Sweet Misery, a Poisoned World.

Here's a clip from the movie so you can hear what he

said:

<http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html>http://www.soundandfury.tv/page\

s/rumsfeld2.html

 

Searle's problem was they couldn't get studies to show safety. For

example, in the Bressler

Report:

<http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_news.htm>http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_news.htm

you read where they would excise brain tumors from the rats, put them

back in the study and after they died resurrected them back on paper.

They even filtered out neoplasms to hide them from the

FDA. Repeatedly Searle was caught in this criminal activity.

 

On January 10, 1977 in a 33 page letter, FDA Chief Counsel Richard

Merrill recommended to the Justice Department 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 U.S.C. 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 making false statements in

reports of animal studies conducted to establish the safety of

aspartame. " The FDA called special attention to studies investigating

the effect of NutraSweet on monkeys and hamsters.

 

Searle was caught dead to rights, so they hired Skinner, made him a

deal he couldn't refuse. So the former Justice Department prosecutor

became a defender. Next at bat as U. S. Prosecutor

was William Conlon, who promptly switched sides too. By then the

statute of limitations had expired. Searle knew they couldn't win the

case so they simply hired the prosecutors. The Godfather hired the

District Attorneys!

 

Nevertheless the FDA had no intention of approving aspartame. The

fraud was so great that Dr. John Olney (who with James Turner fought

against approval of aspartame ) told Searle to do studies in his lab

so he could see that they were done honestly, with supervision. Dr.

Olney believed the FDA wouldn't approve aspartame because the studies

showed it produced brain damaged. What he didn't anticipate is that

Searle didn't submit these findings to the FDA.

 

January 30, 1980 the Public Board of Inquiry revoked Searle's

petition for approval declaring that they had " not been presented

with proof of reasonable certainty that aspartame is safe for use as

a food additive. " Searle had spent $17 million on an aspartame

factory and had no intention of giving up, poison or no. At this

point they hired Donald Rumsfeld who said he would call in his

markers and get it approved anyway.

What were those markers? President Reagan had told Rumsfeld he would

be nominated for vice president, but instead selected Bush number 1.

 

The day after Reagan took office he appointed Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes

as the new FDA Commissioner, to over-rule the Board of

Inquiry. Reagan knew it would take 30 days to get Hayes to the FDA ,

so he wrote an Executive Order making the FDA powerless to do

anything about aspartame. At 3 AM that night a member of Reagan's

staff called the FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan and fired him. Here is

a letter from his wife who was there when the terminating call came

in: http://www.mpwhi.com/letter_about_jere_goyan.pdf

 

Once aspartame was on the market there was outrage as consumers were

diagnosed with seizures, multiple sclerosis and blindness from the

free methyl alcohol releases. Senator Orrin Hatch, on Monsanto's

payroll, obstructed hearings on aspartame for years, but there were 3

Congressional hearings from 1985 to l987. Hatch was on Monsanto's

payroll, and kept the bill in committee that would put a moratorium

on aspartame until NIH completed independent studies on the flood of

aspartame problems they were seeing: seizures, blindness, headaches,

sexual dysfunction, behavioral problems, especially in children, drug

interactions and birth defects.

 

About that time Dr. James Bowen wrote FDA that " aspartame is mass

poisoning of the American public and 70 countries " - today over

100.

<http://www.dorway.com/drbowen.txt>http://www.dorway.com/drbowen.txt

The good doctor wrote: " For this reason, I am opposed to labeling

aspartame content of food and drinks. To do so would imply that the

government is taking some sort of responsible action....when the only

responsible action would be to immediately take aspartame off the

market, fully disclose its toxicities, offer full compensation to the

injured, public and criminally prosecute anyone who participated in

the fraudulent placement of aspartame on the marketplace. "

 

How was the new FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hayes, get rewarded for

over-ruling the Board of Inquiry? He was hired as a consultant to

NutraSweet's PR Agency on a 10-year contract at $1,000.00 a day, and

nobody's heard a peep from him since, he got lockjaw. Who ever heard

of a PR guy who won't talk?

 

Now they began funding professional organizations

ladies-of-the-evening like the American Diabetes Assn, American

Dietetic Assn and numerous others to propagandize the public with

touting asparshame. Of course they also threatened scientists whose

studies identified the toxicity of this poison. In the UPI

Investigation Dr. Wurtman was threatened if he did studies on

aspartame and seizures he would lose his funding. He capitulated.

Read this report on the 8 month investigation by United Press

International:

<http://www.mpwhi.com/upi_1987_aspartame_report.pdf>http://www.mpwhi.com/upi_198\

7_aspartame_report.pdf

Dr. Wurtman, too, got a terrible case of aspartame lockjaw, but MIT

still gets the money.

 

ILSI, the International Life Sciences Institute, was born in 1978 as

a " research " front for our favorite poisoners. It's board members

are from Coke, Pepsi, Searle, Monsanto and the rest of the usual

suspects. If a university won't play their way the get no pay, that

is to say, funding for fake " research " .

 

Over the years many independent studies have been done. The

manufacturers say 200 studies that aspartame is safe as rain. Some

of those were the ones FDA found fraudulent and sought prosecution

for, and others were simply bought and paid for quack studies from

rubber duck labs.

 

Consider seizure studies by Monsanto, they bought Searle in

l985:

<http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/seizures.html>http://www.holisticmed\

..com/aspartame/abuse/seizures.html

Seizures are listed 5 times on the FDA report of 92 symptoms that

range from male sexual dysfunction to

death:

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

e_symptoms.pdf

People are having so many seizures and going blind on aspartame that

the Community Nutrition Institute filed a petition to ban aspartame

in l986. Again the manufacturers put in the fix to prevent it from

being banned.

They were so worried someone would have a seizure they actually gave

people anti-seizure medication in the Rowan study. '

 

Another impeccable " study " involved one-day consumption of, believe

it or not: a single capsule of aspartame. Tantamount to smelling the

bottle. The got it peer reviewed with their power. So when

consumers complain of seizures they say " we did studies and aspartame

doesn't cause seizures " .

 

I smoked a Lucky once and I'm fine, so nicotine

doesn't cause cancer!

 

They have all bases covered. Today front groups like Calorie Control

Council, with full knowledge that aspartame causes birth defects and

mental retardation actually push the

poison:

<http://www.wnho.net/mh_aspartame_letter.htm>http://www.wnho.net/mh_aspartame_le\

tter.htm

 

When 60 Minutes did a story about aspartame and brain tumors the

manufactures claimed to have all these studies showing safety. Dr.

Ralph Walton who was on the show decided to research who funded the

" studies " :<http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html>http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html

Note that 92% of independent peer-reviewed studies show problems

aspartame causes, while those funded or controlled by industry all

say it's safe. If you eliminate 6 studies the FDA, aspartame's branch

office in Washington, messed with, and one pro-aspartame sponsored

summary, 100% of independent scientific peer reviewed studies show

aspartame problems.

 

As Dr. Bowen said: this is mass poisoning of the world. Aspartame

destroys the brain, the optic nerve, the immune system and central

nervous system. It devastates every organ of the body. Epidemic

obesity, diabetes, sexual dysfunction, retinopathy and neuropathy,

optic nerve destruction, convulsions and insulin reactions, MS,

Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, IQ depreciation and dozens of other

afflictions have been inflicted upon us by this deadly neurotoxic

carcinogenic " sweetener " .

 

According to the prestigious Ecologist, aspartame was listed with the

pentagon in an inventory of prospective biochemical warfare weapons

submitted to Congress.

<http://www.mpwhi.com/ecologist_september_2005.pdf>http://www.mpwhi.com/ecologis\

t_september_2005.pdf

 

Studies show the horrific damage done to the body. For instance, the

Trocho Study shows the formaldehyde converted from the free methyl

alcohol actually embalms tissue and damages DNA.

<http://www.mpwhi.com/formaldehyde_from_aspartame.pdf>www.mpwhi.com/formaldehyde\

_from_aspartame.pdf

 

 

Here are summaries of the two aspartame studies, Ramazzini, that

showed aspartame to be a multipotential carcinogen, passed down

through the mother:

 

 

DR. MORANDO SOFFRITTI, lead researcher on two groundbreaking

long-term aspartame studies. He was recently honored at New York's Mt

Sinai School of Medicine with the Irving J Selikoff Award For his

outstanding contributions to the identification of environmental and

industrial carcinogens and his promotion of independent scientific

research. Reviewing his two impeccable aspartame studies. Dr.

Soffritti explains:

 

The first ERF study (2005) was conducted on 1800 Sprague-Dawley rats

(100-150/per sex/per group) In order to simulate daily human intake,

aspartame was added to the standard rat diet in quantities of 5000,

2500, 100, 500, 20, 4, and 0 mg/Kg of body weight. Treatment of the

animals began at 8 weeks of age and continued until spontaneous

death. The results show that APM causes a statistically significant,

dose-related increase of lymphomas/leukemias and malignant tumors of

the renal pelvis in females and malignant tumors of peripheral nerves

in males. These results demonstrate for the first time that APM is a

carcinogenic agent, capable of inducing malignancies at various dose

levels, including those lower than the current acceptable daily

intake (ADI) for humans (50 mg/kg of body weight in the US, 40 mg/kg

of body weight in the EU).

 

The second ERF study (2007) was conducted on 400 Sprague-Dawley rats

(70-95/per sex/per group). In order to simulate daily human intake,

aspartame was added to the standard rat diet in quantities of 100,

20, and 0 mg/Kg of body weight. Treatment of the animals began on the

12th day of fetal life until natural death. The results of the second

study show an increased incidence of lymphomas/leukemias in female

rats with respect to the first study. Moreover, the study shows that

when lifespan exposure to APM begins during fetal life, the age at

which lymphomas/leukemias develop in females is anticipated. For the

first time, a statistically significant increase in mammary cancers

in females was also observed in the second study. The results of this

transplacental carcinogenicity bioassay not only confirm, but also

reinforce the first experimental demonstration of APMs multipotential

carcinogenicity.

 

Over six years ago I petitioned the FDA to ban aspartame. The FDA

has 180 days to answer it. They refuse, obviously because I'm using

their own words, and they don't know how to get around the fact that

everything is a matter of record. If it wasn't so criminal one

would have to laugh at their propaganda - the idea that someone might

even consider believing them. For instance, they will tell you there

is just a small amount of methanol, and there is more in

oranges. What they don't say is that in oranges that it is

accompanied by ethanol which is the classic antidote for methanol

toxicity and takes it out of your body safely. Here is a peer

reviewed journal article about it.

<http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_methanol_and_public_health.pdf>http://www.mpwhi.\

com/aspartame_methanol_and_public_health.pdf

Methanol also binds to pectin. In aspartame there is no

ethanol. Here is their basic propaganda answered with

references:

<http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?page_id=606>http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?page_id=606

 

A detox formula for aspartame victims endorsed by Dr. Russell

Blaylock, Neurosurgeon:

<http://www.wnho.net.wtdaspartame.htm/>www.wnho.net.wtdaspartame.htm

Available are his excellent books and a CD : " The Truth About Aspartame "

 

There are efforts now in states and countries to rid the planet of

aspartame. It is genetically engineered. The manufacturers are get

people in high places addicted. When I testified to the Senate in

New Mexico, half the senators were sipping Diet Coke. Presidents

Clinton and Bush were addicted. Methanol is classified as a

narcotic, it causes chronic methanol poisoning. This effects the

dopamine system of the brain producing addiction.

 

I've lectured in other countries and I can tell you people are sick

and dying the world over on this poison. It would be great to see it

banned from California. First of all its illegally on the market

because it violates the Delaney Amendment. Here are comments from an

FDA toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, to Congress on 8/1/85:

 

 

Dr. Gross testified that 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? "

 

The Delaney Amendment makes it illegal to allow any residues of

cancer causing chemicals in foods. In his concluding testimony Gross

asked, " 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 SID835:131 (August 1, l985)

 

Here is my letter to the Assembly Committee on Health which exposes

the fact that it's adulterated:

<http://www.mpwhi.com/letter_to_a_n_kim_california_ach.htm>http://www.mpwhi.com/\

letter_to_a_n_kim_california_ach.htm

The adulteration means it violates interstate commerce laws.

 

Consumer power is winning the war against this toxin. Holland

Sweetener, the largest European aspartame producer closed in 2006.

Another European maker also quit. In Japan Tosh stopped making it as

well. Merisant, in the USA went bankrupt for $230,000,000 in

January, 2009. 47 members of Parliament signed for a ban in the

UK. There is continuing effort to get banned in the

Philippines. Romania banned it in the early 90's because it's

carcinogenic. And now the European Food Safety Authority is doing a review.

 

Today no drug is safe if the consumer is using aspartame because of

the interaction due to damage to the mitochondria. It's used in

hospitals because of the dietitians making patients even sicker.

 

The Nutratanic hit the iceberg and Coke & Pepsi are in the lifeboats

with new sweeteners in the works. Japan's Ajinomoto and the USA

NutraSweet Co are still slapping around in the frigid waters of

consumer

condemnation.

<http://www.wnho.net/recipe_for_death.htm>http://www.wnho.net/recipe_for_death.h\

tm

 

If I can provide further data I'll gladly do so. There is no way to

show safety on aspartame with honest, unbiased studies. Eliminate

industry studies to defend its product and you'll see how deadly is

this toxin. Dr. Bill Deagle said its more deadly than depleted

uranium because its ubiquitous in our food.

 

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder

Mission Possible International (warning the world off aspartame)

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097

770 242-2599

<http://www.mpwhi.com/>www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com and

<http://www.wnho.net/>www.wnho.net

Aspartame Toxicity Center,

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

Aspartame Information List,

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