Can't remember where i got this.



ASPARTAME IS LETHAL TO YOUR HEALTH
I have spent several days lecturing at the World Environmental Conference on
Aspartame marketed as 'NutraSweet,' 'Equal,' and 'Spoonful.'

In the keynote address by the EPA, they announced that there was an epidemic
of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus, and they did not understand what
toxin was causing this to be rampant across the United States.

I explained I was there to lecture on exactly that subject. When the temperature
of Aspartame exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in aspartame
converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes
metabolic acidosis. (Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire
ants.) The methanol toxicity mimics multiple sclerosis; thus, people were
being diagnosed with having multiple sclerosis in error. The multiple
sclerosis is not a death sentence, where methanol toxicity is.

In the case of systemic lupus, we are finding it has become almost as
rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers.
Also, with methanol toxicity, the victims usually drink three to four 12
oz.cans of them per day, some even more. In the cases of systemic lupus,
which is triggered by aspartame, the victim usually does not know that the
aspartame is the culprit. The victim continues its use aggravating the lupus
to such a degree, that sometimes it becomes life threatening.

When we get people off the aspartame, those with systemic lupus usually
become asymptotic. Unfortunately, we cannot reverse this disease. On the
other hand, in the case of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis,(when in
reality, the disease is methanol toxicity), most of the symptoms disappear.
We have seen cases where their vision has returned and even their hearing
has returned. This also applies to cases of tinnitus.

During a lecture I said "If you are using aspartame [NutraSweet, Equal,
Spoonful, etc.] and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting
pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches,
tinnitus, joint pain, depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred
vision, or memory loss, you probably have ASPARTAME DISEASE!"

People were jumping up during the lecture saying, "I've got this. Is it
reversible?" It is rampant. Some of the speakers at my lecture were even
suffering from these symptoms. In one lecture attended by the Ambassador of
Uganda, he told us that their sugar industry is adding aspartame! He
continued by saying that one of the industry leader's son could no longer
walk due in part to product usage! We have a very serious problem.

Even a stranger came up to Dr. Espisto, (one of my speakers) and myself and
said, "Could you tell me why so many people seem to be coming down with MS?"

During a visit to a hospice, a nurse said that six of her friends, who were
heavy Diet Coke drinkers, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence.

Here is the problem. There were Congressional Hearings when aspartame was
originally included as a sweetener in 100 different products.

Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, but to
no avail. Nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very
deep pockets. Now there are over 5,000 products containing this chemical,
and the PATENT HAS EXPIRED!!!!

At the time of this first hearing, people were going blind. The methanol in
the aspartame converts to formaldehyde in the retina of the eye.

Formaldehyde is grouped in the same class of drugs as cyanide and arsenic
DEADLY POISONS!!! Unfortunately, it just takes longer to quietly kill, but
it is killing people and causing all kinds of neurological problems.

Aspartame changes the brain's chemistry. It is the reason for severe
seizures. This drug changes the dopamine level in the brain. Imagine what
this drug does to patients suffering from Parkinson's Disease. This drug
also causes birth defects. There is absolutely no reason to take this
product. It is NOT A DIET PRODUCT! The Congressional record said, "It makes
you crave Carbohydrates and will make you FAT." Dr. Roberts stated that when
he got patients off aspartame, their average weight loss was 19 pounds per person.

The formaldehyde stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and
thighs. Aspartame is especially deadly for diabetics. All physicians know
what wood alcohol will do to a diabetic. We find that physicians believe
that they have patients with retinopathy, when in fact, it is caused by the
aspartame. The aspartame keeps the blood sugar level out of control, causing
many patients to go into a coma.

Unfortunately, many have died. People were telling us at the conference of
the American College of Physicians, that they had relatives that switched
from saccharin to an aspartame product and how that relative had eventually
gone into a coma. Their physicians could not get the blood sugar levels
under control. Thus, the patients suffered acute memory loss and eventually
coma and death.

Memory loss is due the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are
neurotoxic without the other amino acids found in protein. Thus it goes past
the blood brain barrier and deteriorates the neurons of the brain. Dr.
Russell Blaylock, a neurosurgeon, said, "The ingredients stimulates the
neurons of the brain to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees.
Dr. Blaylock has written a book entitled "EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT
KILLS"
(Health Press 1-800-643-2665). Dr. H. J. Roberts, diabetic specialist and
world expert on aspartame poisoning, has also written a book entitled
"DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE" (1-800-814-9800). Dr. Roberts
tells how aspartame poisoning is escalating Alzheimer's Disease, and indeed it is.
As the hospice nurse told me, women are being admitted at 30 years of age
with Alzheimer's Disease. Dr. Blaylock and Dr. Roberts will be writing a
position paper with some case histories and will post it on the Internet.

According to the Conference of the American College of Physicians, "We are
talking about a plague of neurological diseases caused by this deadly
poison." Dr. Roberts realized what was happening when aspartame was first
marketed. He said, "His diabetic patients presented memory loss, confusion,
and severe vision loss."

At the Conference of the American College of Physicians, doctors admitted
that they did not know. They had wondered why seizures were rampant
(the phenylalanine in aspartame breaks down the seizure threshold and depletes
serotonin, which causes manic depression, panic attacks, rage and violence).

Just before the Conference, I received a fax from Norway, asking for a
possible antidote for this poison because they are experiencing so many
problems in their country. This "poison" is now available in 90 PLUS
countries worldwide. Fortunately, we had speakers and ambassadors at the
Conference from different nations who have pledged their help. We ask that
you help too.

Print this article out and warn everyone you know. Take anything that
contains aspartame back to the store. Take the "NO ASPARTAME "TEST" and send
us your case history. I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame,
knows how deadly it is. They fund the American Association, American
Dietetic Association Congress, and the Conference of the American College of Physicians.
The New York Times, November 15, 1996, ran an article on how the
American Dietetic Association takes money from the food industry to endorse
their products. Therefore, they cannot criticize any additives or tell about their link to MONSANTO.

How bad is this? We told a mother who had a child on NutraSweet to get off
the product. The child was having grand mal seizures every day. The mother
called her physician, who called the ADA, who told the doctor not to take
the child off the NutraSweet. We are still trying to convince the mother
that the Aspartame is causing the seizures. Every time we get someone off of
aspartame, the seizures stop. If the baby dies, you know whose fault it is,
and what we are up against. There are 92 documented symptoms of aspartame,
from coma to death. The majority of them are all neurological, because the
aspartame destroys the nervous system.

Aspartame Disease is partially the cause to what is behind some of the
mystery of the Desert Storm health problems. The burning tongue and other
problems discussed in over 60 cases can be directly related to the
consumption of Aspartame product. Several thousand pallets of diet drinks
were shipped to the Desert Storm troops. (Remember heat can liberate the
methanol from the aspartame at 86 degrees F.)

Diet drinks sat in the 120 degree F Arabian sun for weeks at a time on
pallets. The servicemen and women drank them all day long. All of their
symptoms are identical to aspartame poisoning.

Dr. Roberts says consuming Aspartame at the time of conception can cause
birth defects." According to Dr. Louis Elsas, Pediatrician and Professor of
Genetics,at Emory University, In his testimony before Congress. The
phenylalanine concentrates in the placenta, causing mental retardation. In
the original lab tests, animals developed brain tumors, phenylalanine breaks
down into DXP, a brain tumor agent.) When Dr. Espisto was lecturing on
aspartame, one physician in the audience, a neurosurgeon, said, "When they
remove brain tumors, they have found high levels of aspartame in them."

Stevia, a sweet food, NOT AN ADDITIVE, which helps in the metabolism of
sugar, which would be ideal for diabetics, has now been approved as a
dietary supplement by the FDA. For years the FDA has outlawed this sweet
food because of their loyalty to MONSANTO.

If it says "SUGAR FREE" on the label - DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.
Senator
Howard Hetzenbaum wrote a bill that would have warned all infants, pregnant
mothers and children of the dangers of aspartame. The bill would have also
instituted independent studies on the problems existing in the population
(seizures, changes in brain chemistry, changes in neurological and
behavioural symptoms). It was killed by the powerful drug and chemical
lobbies, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting
public. Since the Conference of the American College of Physicians, we hope
to have the help of several world leaders.

Again, please help us, too. There are a lot of people out there who must
be warned, please let them know this information.

Women's Cancer Resource Center Laurie Moser, Assistant Director 1815 East
41st Street, Suite C Minneapolis, MN 55407-3425 1-800-908-8544 or 612-729-049

The author, Betty Martini, can be reached at 770-242-2599.

my brother freaked out about this because he would drink a 2 liter of diet pepsi a day... i think this is a lot like that woman freaking out about "dihydrogen monoxide" (H²O) though.... i don't think it's real.

you know Rumsfeld was the key politician who is responsible for the fda's approval of aspartame
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How Aspartame Became
Legal - The Timeline
From Rich Murray
rmforall@att.net
12-24-2


From Norfolk Genetic Information Network (Taken from Welcome to the Spin Machine by Michael Manville http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/2001/04/biotech/ http://www.freezerbox.com/ )

In 1985 Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle, the chemical company that held the patent to aspartame, the active ingredient in NutraSweet. Monsanto was apparently untroubled by aspartame's clouded past, including a 1980 FDA Board of Inquiry, comprised of three independent scientists, which confirmed that it "might induce brain tumors."

The FDA had actually banned aspartame based on this finding, only to have Searle Chairman Donald Rumsfeld (currently the Secretary of Defense) vow to "call in his markers," to get it approved.

On January 21, 1981, the day after Ronald Reagan's inauguration, Searle re-applied to the FDA for approval to use aspartame in food sweetener, and Reagan's new FDA commissioner, Arthur Hayes Hull, Jr., appointed a 5-person Scientific Commission to review the board of inquiry's decision.

It soon became clear that the panel would uphold the ban by a 3-2 decision, but Hull then installed a sixth member on the commission, and the vote became deadlocked. He then personally broke the tie in aspartame's favor. Hull later left the FDA under allegations of impropriety, served briefly as Provost at New York Medical College, and then took a position with Burston-Marsteller, the chief public relations firm for both Monsanto and GD Searle. Since that time he has never spoken publicly about aspartame.


The Aspartame/NutraSweet Timeline

http://www.swankin-turner.com/aspartame.html http://www.swankin-turner.com/hist.html
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http://www.rense.com/general33/legal.htm

Wow, that's amazing.. That blows me away.. I have to read into that some more before I go crazy

this is the thirf board i have seen something like this on

blown WAY out of proportion

Check out www.snopes.com and search for aspartame

It won't kill you.

http://www.snopes.com/toxins/aspartame.asp

I'd say it's safe.

I cringe every time i see someone drinking that crap. If I see someone I know drinking it, I surely let them know the story, they don't drink it for long.

Oh yeah, scipherel, you mentioned how it causes depression, don't forget that monsanto also makes prozac or zoloft, whatever, just another "coincidence" I'm sure.

Don't get me wrong though, it's O.K. for YOU guys to drink it.

Prozac / Zoloft

BREAKING!! FDA put on notice!-
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Aspartame Interacts With
ALL Drugs Vaccines And Toxins
FDA Put On Notice
From Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.
Bettym19@mindspring.com
2-23-5


Who knows more about the toxicity of aspartame than the FDA. Their toxicologists, Doctors Adrian Gross and Jacqueline Verrett strenuously objected to aspartame approval for 16 years. It wasn't just that aspartame is not safe and in original studies triggered brain tumors, seizures and all sorts of other tumors, it was that the manufacturer filtered out what they didn't want FDA to see.

(January 10, l977 in a 33 page letter, FDA Chief Counsel Richard Merrill recommended to U.S. Attorney Sam Skinner that a grand jury investigate Searle for "apparent violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C.331(e), Act 18 USC 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 for concealing material facts 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. ) Both U.S. Prosecutors hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations expired. Still the FDA kept saying loudly no - no - no!

FDA's Jerome Bressler wrote the brilliant FDA audit, the Bressler Report on http://www.dorway.com in regard to Searle's testing. In speaking with Bressler he told me personally the studies were so bad the worst 20% was removed by FDA when retyped. He also told this to Doctors H. J. Roberts and Dr. Russell Blaylock. Dr. Roberts asked his congressman to get the rest of the report from the FDA who promptly refused.

In the incredible aspartame documentary, Sweet Misery, A Poisoned World, from the very mouth of Attorney James Turner who assisted the famed Dr. John Olney in trying to prevent approval came mind boggling facts! Don Rumsfeld, currently Secretary of Defense, was CEO of Searle and said he would call in his markers and get aspartame approved. To Rumsfeld the fact the FDA said "no" meant only he would have to use politics instead of science to get this neurotoxin approved, knowing full well it would poison the public, causing in humans the injuries seen in lab animals, brain tumors and seizures. He was on Reagan's transition team and the day after Reagan took office Arthur Hull Hayes was appointed to approve this toxin, since no former FDA Commissioner had been willing to do so.

ASPARTAME WAS APPROVED BY PRESIDENTIAL ORDER

President Reagan knew it would take 30 days to get Hayes to FDA so he wrote an executive order making the outgoing FDA Commissioner powerless to oppose aspartame. From the congressional record, Senate, page S5497, May 7, l985:

"Two FDA officials have told Common Cause Magazine that Hayes was determined to push aspartame forward, in part as a signal that the Reagan administration was ushering in a new regulatory era. One official privy to some of the deliberations made at Hayes' level says the "people at the top" were not receptive to important concerns raised about the quality and validity of some of the key tests submitted in support of aspartame."

"There were real questions" about the reliability and interpretation of the data "that were glossed over" at the commissioner's level, this official says, adding that Hayes and his close associates wanted FDA scientists to concentrate on providing rationales for overturning the l980 Public Board of Inquiry instead of focusing on the fact that there were unresolved issues about a number of key tests."

John Hoey, M.D. in reviewing Marcia Angell's book, "The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It" (10/7/2004) says:

"By Angell's account, the current slide toward the commercialization and corruption of clinical research coincided with the election of President Ronald Reagan in l980 and the passage of the Bayh-Dole Act, a new set of laws that permitted and encouraged universities and small businesses to patent discoveries from research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Research paid for by the public to serve the public instantly became a private and salable, good, one that is producing drug sales of more than $200 billion a year."

Further, Dr. Hoey in discussing research commercialization said: "The broader effects are felt in the commercialization of universities, medical faculties, and our profession. In 2000, in a letter written in response to Angell's Journal editorial, Is Academic Medicine for Sale?" a reader supplied the answer: No. The current owner is very happy with it. The increasing intrusion of industry into medical education and the almost complete domination of continuing medical education (especially regarding drugs) by the marketing departments of large pharmaceutical companies are a scandal."

When Arthur Hull Hayes got to the FDA a Board of Inquiry was set up with the finest scientists FDA had. They declared: " ..the Board concludes that approval of aspartame for use in foods should be withheld at least until the question concerning its possible oncogenic potential has been resolved by further experiments. The Board has not been presented with proof of a reasonable certainty that aspartame is safe for use as a food additive under its intended conditions of use. "

"ORDER: The foregoing constitutes the Board's findings of fact and conclusions of law. Therefore, it is ORDERED that: (1) Approval of the food additive petition for aspartame (FAP 3A2885) be and it is hereby withdrawn. (2) The stay of the effectiveness of the regulation for aspartame, 21 CFR 172.804, is hereby vacated and the regulation revoked."

--- This PBOI report on 9/3/80 was signed by Walle J. H. Nauta, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman, Peter W. Lampert, M.D., and Vernon R. Young, Ph.D., Member

Dr. Hayes wouldn't take "no" because he was there to get aspartame approved. As the Congressional Record continues, Senate, S5497, May 7, l985: "Hayes decisions to approve aspartame for use in dry foods such as cereals in l981 and soft drinks in l983 does not square with the role of the FDA is supposed to play. The FDA is the government agency that reviews and approves all tests submitted by companies before allowing food additives on the market. The law requires a manufacturer - in this case Searle - to prove to the satisfaction of the FDA that there is a "reasonable certainty" that a food additive is safe. The government does not have to prove that it is harmful - an important distinction. If tests are inconclusive, an additive is not suppose to be approved by the FDA."

When Hayes finished his job to get a neurotoxic drug on the market he hired on with the public relations firm, Burston Marsteller, who represented NutraSweet, for $1000.00 per day as a consultant. Hayes refused to talk to the press since. He had no excuse for approving a toxic drug whose petition was revoked by FDA scientists. Hayes had full knowledge that its a carcinogen in violation of the Delaney Amendment which forbid adding carcinogens to food and drugs.

WHEN FDA WAS PUSHED OFF ITS PEDESTAL: Imagine an intact FDA which tried to do its job of protecting the public, having to proclaim that a horrendous neurotoxic drug is safe. Would could FDA say when asked if aspartame was safe? Could they say "we approved it but its poison"? Probably the only thing they could say was "Ask us no questions and we will tell you no lies." Even today when journalists ask the FDA to comment on aspartame they say: "No comment. See our web site." The web site is just lying industry propaganda. Beginning with Reagan and Hayes the pharmaceutical cartel had the power to get approved the worst drugs. FDA seemed to care not. Their bulletin, the FDA Consumer continued to tout the safety of aspartame and letters to victims whose lives were destroyed said aspartame was the most tested additive in history. Even letters to congressmen lied and lied.

Dr. John Olney knew what aspartame would do to the brains of our children. and discussed it in his report to the Board of Inquiry. In l999 Parents Magazine asked "What's Happening to our Children", announcing that families all over America were experiencing so much depression it was estimated that 1 out of 4 had contemplated suicide. The 50% phenylalanine in aspartame lowers the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin,and can trigger bipolar or manic depression, mood swings, paranoia, hallucination and suicidal tendencies. So our children are medicated instead of educated. Seventy per cent of consumers use aspartame and 40% of the children. Dr. Olney's prophecy is fulfilled.

To get a copy of the congressional record, Board of Inquiry Report and Dr. Olney's Report to the Board of Inquiry on CD you can contact Bob Flint at bobflint@greatfallspro.com. The web site would be www.greatfallspro.com

Three congressional hearings were held by Senator Howard Metzenbaum who wrote a bill to have independent studies done on the problems from aspartame, effect on the fetus, behavioral problems in children, seizures and drug interactions. The producers saw to it that the bill never got out of committee. The last of the heros of FDA toxicologists Adrian Gross and Jacqueline Verrett testified to no avail. Dr. Adrian Gross said without a shadow of a doubt aspartame causes brain tumors and brain cancer, and violates the Delaney Amendment. His last words were : "And if the FDA violates its own laws who is left to protect the public?"

We are now taking case histories on brain tumors and seizures starting in New York and New Jersey. Dr. Verrett said: "All studies were built on a foundation of sand and should be thrown out." Today's FDA is the handmaiden of the pharmaceutical/chemical cartel. The revolving door is so busy they need a bridge for the traffic. I told all this to Acting Commissioner Dr. Michael Friedman. He defended Monsanto on 60 Minutes when Dr. Olney made world news about the aspartame brain tumor association. Then Friedman hired as Vice President of Searle for big bucks - crime pays well.

In l986 the Community Nutrition Institute in Washington, D.C. petitioned FDA to ban aspartame because so many were having seizures and going blind from the free methyl alcohol in the drug. Aspartame is sold as an additive but it's a neurotoxic drug. FDA law requires an additive be inert or non-reactive. The medical text on aspartame disease lists countless diseases and symptoms and drug interactions by the toxin.

ASPARTAME DISEASE RAGES, INTERACTS WITH ALL DRUGS, VACCINES AND TOXINS.

When aspartame was news, Dr. H. J. Roberts in a press conference foretold that in 5 or 10 years we would have a global plague. And it was Dr. Roberts who declared Aspartame Disease to be a global plague and published the medical text in 2001, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com or 1 800 827 7991.
His chapter on drug interaction goes into Coumadin, Dilantin, antidepressants and other psychotropic agents, Inderal, Aldomet, hormones and insulin. He says aspartame interacts with all cardiac medication and even discusses drug reactions after the cessation of aspartame.

In his general considerations he discusses that aspartame may either reduce or potentiate drug action by various mechanisms. He lists a few of the possibilities.

* Alteration of the blood proteins to which drugs attach.
* Alteration of drug receptors on cell membranes.
* Changes in the sites at which impulses are transmitted along nerves and to muscle.
* Metabolic abnormalities in the elderly that are known to enhance their vulnerability to drug reactions (Weber l986). This problem increases in the case of persons taking multiple drugs ("polypharmacy") prescribed by several physicians.
* Interference with drug action by amino acids and protein. An example is the erratic therapeutic effects when patients with parkinsonism who were controlled on levodopa began to use aspartame products. The antagonism of levodopa by dietary protein presumably reflects impaired transport from serum across the blood brain barrier by neutral amino acids (Pincus l986).

Dr. Roberts also discusses Lidocaine (Xylocaine) which he says is an important drug used for local anesthesia and the treatment of ventricular arrhythmias in intensive care units. Alterations of its pharmacology by aspartame require study. He says: "Kim et al (l987) reported that the intraperitoneal administration of aspartame significantly reduced the 50% convulsion dose of lidocaine. They indicated that PKU patients and asymptomatic PKU heterozygotes may be more sensitive to the toxic effects of this and related local anesthetics."

Today Dr. Roberts explained: "An interaction should be suspect with virtually every drug if the patient is using aspartame."

This goes along with conversations with Dr. James Bowen who says because aspartame damages the mitocondria of the cell it will interact with all drugs and as a chemical hypersensitization agent will interact with vaccines, unsafe sweeteners like Splenda or sucralose ( chlorinated hydrocarbon) and toxins.

Dr. Bowen wrote about the biochemical interactions between aspartame and other poisons including many pharmaceuticals illustrated in Dr. Roberts medical text and said Dr. Mercola's web site has them as well. Further he wrote: "Because aspartame in the processes of digestion and metabolism, forms about ten other known severe poisonings, and intermediate metabolites, it's potential for drug related interactions is immeasurable. To top that off, the aspartame molecule is so heinously poisonous in different ways that it never passed a single FDA standard toxicity test! So Donald Rumsfeld, CEO of aspartame manufacturer Searle employed political power to get it approved, after the FDA for 16 years refused to allow it on the market because of aspartame toxicity. Then Reagan took direct executive measures to paralyze FDA from further action against aspartame.

Our FDA has never been the same since. Deadly chemicals now being blessed by FDA are marketed as wholesome pharmaceuticals, are just the tip of the iceberg, and result of Rumsfeld's damage to FDA. If any concern whatsoever for human welfare still existed, aspartame would be immediately pulled from the market! The reasonable FDA lawful standard is that a chemical must pass all toxicity tests at one hundred times the "maximum human dose," in order to pass as a food additive. What the original tests showed is that at a dose of three cans of pop per day, scaled to the weight of the animal, aspartame releases DKP, a recognized virulent brain carcinogen. No other chemical causes the brain cancer rate to jump as much."

Dr. Bowen continues, "Aspartame is a known destroyer of DNA. The mitocondrial DNA (MtDNA) is especially damaged, yielding the present epidemic of diseases aspartame consuming mothers pass on to all future generations. Aspartame also directly damages the mitochondria, thus having a "double whammy" effect on mitochondrial function! The summation of these many known severe toxicities and its immune, genetic, mitochondrial, and metabolic damages, make clear that aspartame will not only cause many diseases, which the FDA and CDC have already noted but it has pathways of approach to interact adversely with every conceivable pharmaceutical. My forth coming book: "Sweet Mystery in The Present Darkness: Whatever Happened to We Scientists Who First Spoke Out Against Aspartame?" will delve into all of this in greater detail and more specificity."

The Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste wrote in the spring of l996 the article: "The Rising Rates of Health Problems - Is There A Toxic Connection? Stephen Lester.
It might as well have been written about aspartame because the diseases it lists are all ones that have been written about as triggered by aspartame, from birth defects to chemical sensitives. Under the title Cancer Lester says:

"When has gone wrong with our way of thinking when it is considered "normal" that 1 in 3 people get cancer? IT IS NOT NORMAL.. Cancer is not a natural disease and even if it were, it wouldn't be "normal" for cancer to claim the lives of 25% of the population. " Again, one can only think of aspartame when in original studies it triggered brain, mammary, uterine, ovarian, testicular, thyroid and pancreatic tumors and violated the Delaney Amendment. The Pharmaceutical and Chemical cartel know aspartame violates the law, so one would ask is that why the Delaney Amendment was repealed? When a law for the safety of the public gets in their way of marking poison they simply do away with the law.

In June it will be 3 years since I petitioned the FDA to ban aspartame because I have the FDA records and they lie to the public. The law states they have 180 days to answer. Their letter to me states they have more important things to do. So the FDA continues to recall drugs that interact and leave the poison aspartame on the market. Aspartame triggers an irregular heart rhythm and interacts with all cardiac Rx. It damages the cardiac conduction system and causes sudden death. With people dropping dead so fast that defibrillators are now sold over the counter, they took the opportunity to pull ephedra (Chinese MaHaung )off the market when an athlete died who was using Diet coke. Dr. John Olney reviewed the FDA records on ephedra and found it to be safe. One attorney said, "it wasn't Chinese Mahaung at all, but the drug that caused some problems." So what does the FDA do, leave the drug on the market causing the problems and snatches a safe supplement in their continuing loyalty to the pharmaceutical cartel.

MSG has an additive and synergistic effect with aspartame. Is that why the glutamate industry used aspartame as their placebo, so they could show that one excitotoxin does not react more than the placebo when, in fact, the aspartic acid in aspartame is also an excitotoxin. They started doing this before aspartame was approved, so it was well known in the industry that aspartame would react. The records found in the FDA files by Jack Samuels (www.truthinlabeling.org) who filed suit against the FDA on labeling of MSG, showed the FDA had known all along and the industry had been doing this for 25 years against the law. While the FDA had to admit it was wrong they did nothing, again giving their loyalty the glutamate industry.

One can only remember the words of Dr. James Bowen to the FDA over 18 years ago: "Aspartame is mass poisoning of the American public and over 70+ countries of the world". What does it take to save the people from this poison when government lies?

Dr. John Hoey, writing about the book The Truth About the Drug Companies says according to Angell, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the pharmaceutical industry's U.S. trade association has "the largest lobby in Washington," which in 2002 employed 675 lobbyists (including 26 former members of Congress) at a cost of more than $91 million. The result has been above-average growth in corporate profits during both Republican and Democratic administrations.

The most recent and perplexing lobbying effort caused Congress explicitly to prohibit Medicare from using its huge purchasing power to get lower prices for drugs, thus opening up a dollar pipeline, in the form of higher drug prices, directly from taxpayers to corporate coffers. These changes, along with the cave-in by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in l997 that permitted direct-to-consumer advertising to bypass mention in their ads of all but the most serious side effects, have further augmented profits. The overall effect has been a corruption not only of science but also of the dissemination of Science." No wonder new books keep being published like Dr. Carolyn Dean's "Death of Medicine".

Dr. Betty Martini
Founder, Mission Possible Intl
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770 242-2599

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Just found this statistic worth noting!!!!

A Stanford study of risks



Note this was risk table was devised in 1978!!!

and the link of Diet Coke to weight gain...

I once gave a Shamanistic evaluation to a 50 year old Woman, she was suffering severely from daily Migraine headaches and when I went over her entire daily diet as she logged it down, and I pinned it down and I told her the food sources that was causing her server Migraine headaches and when I told her she out right got hostile and defensive, I closed my books, got up and walk way, her cause was she was consuming two to three Diet Pepsi daily, it is the Aspartame that is harming people and the FDA Knows this but still it is as of last time I check in over 5,000 consumer ingestible produces many of which are called food and I refuse to because they are far from anything natural and meant for human consumption…

Pavot

The fact that they have added artificial sugar to vitamins, baby food.. medicines is horrific.
http://www.doctorsaredangerous.com/illness..._openletter.htm

Yet again a table is given out and states that something has a slight potential to cause harm. Necroposted in a long dead thread that wrongly uses the word "lethal"in the title and we have nothing but scaremongering. I've got news for you crystal sage, everything can cause potential harm, EVERYTHING! It's a matter of putting it into context and not making silly, unfounded claims.

That table gives the risk of being killed by lightning as more than double the danger of aspartame from one drink a day. Air pollution is 10 times more likely to kill you. What that table states, to those capable of understanding it, is that the risk from aspartame is actually very VERY low.

it's a chemical that affects the brain chemistry which is why we are concerned.

The concern is that it is appearing in food more and more now, and we all know why, well the people who know know the reasons why

not going into the drug issue but look at acid, small amount on a bit of paper can utterly change your perception, so why cant aspartane if you get my point.

small amounts over a long period of time builds up and that is what aspartame does.

I am disabled and have a very organic and tailored diet, I monitor everything I take into my body for health reasons, if you have a reaction to this chemical which I did, over a daily use over six weeks time by the last day of its use my body was immobile and I was in full body extreme pain, agonay my body was reacting to aspartame I was there, and the moment I stopped putting those once a day every morning wee tablets of Sweeter into my coffee all and I mean ALL of my symtoms and Full Body Pain disappeared by the next morning and because I monitor everything I ingest and did so through a process of elimination I found it was without a questionable doubt the Aspartame…Six weeks I used the sugar sustatute in the little pack and for six weeks I had migrain headaches every evening, nevery again the day after I stop using aspertame, I read labes and don't injest Aspartame at all...
That was over 5,000 food and drick products I stated 50,000 in arror, but I supsect it won't be long, and now I have to watch my helth food because they are putting Aspratne into it, I read the lable upon Yogurt and it had it in there...


It is bad stuff a chemical and for those of use that it has devastated we know and have a right to state so…

Pavot

I read it as you lose 2.5 days off your life for every can of diet soda you drink according to Stanford's statistics...When I think of how many cans of diet drink I've consumed in my life.. added to that all the other diet products from sugarless gum onwards... this chart was done in 1978 when they were already questioning the health risks of diet products... way before we had over 5000 products made of these frankensugars. I've lost years!!!

I remember way back in the late 70's when it was still new ,the news said that fake sugars could cause various cancers like leukemia and other serious illnesses then.




I stand corrected... there are now over 6000 products that contain 'Frankensugar'

Then you read it wrong. It is 2.5 days off your life for having a drink per day for an extended period of time, not for each drink.

Here is how it was stated
One diet drink/day 2.5

compare it to these other two that were on the chart
Smoking one pack/day 2200
Overeating by 200 calories/day 400

Do you really think that smoking one pack ever would decrease your life by over 6 years? Or that overeating once would shorten your life by more than a year? That would be absurd!
It also doesn't link the 2.5 days to aspartame. Especially if the table was made in 1978 it is likely they were basing the 2.5 days on something else.

I totally 100 % believe it has bad effects on the body. And I'm usually always a nay-sayer when it comes to blaming chemicals for this and that. But I had started drinking diet soda to help lose a few pounds. That's when the headaches and the occasional mild chest pains started. I quit drinking diet soda, and the symptoms went away.

Coincidence ? I thought maybe. Until I began drinking the diet soda once again. And yes. Sure enough the symptoms came back.

Was it Aspartame ? I believe it was. What else is in diet soda that isn't in regular soda ?

Risk :days of life expectancy lost by taking the risk

Riding in cars (10,000 miles/yr) 200
Not using seat belts 50
Driving small cars 50
Smoking one pack/day 2200
Overeating by 200 calories/day 400
Being one pound overweight 30
One diet drink/day 2.5
Fire 30 Drowning 40
Being poisoned 20
Choking on food 12
Being asphyxiated 7
Struck by falling object 6
Electrocution 6 Lightning 6
Being bitten by an animal or insect 0.3
Being murdered 90
Consuming nuclear electricity (if it were all nuclear) 0.05
Consuming electricity from coal 15
Air pollution (all sources) 25
Being male rather than female 2700
Remaining unmarried 1800
Working as a coal miner 1500

if you are murdered you are dead. they say it only takes 90 days off your life...bwahahaha. and how is getting murdered a risk? and how the hell did they get the unmarried statistic. and choking on food? you either die or you live....its theres no way to gauge some of these mainly because they arent risks and dont have a long term affect on the body, you either die or you dont.. this is one hella funny list.

Good luck to those who continue to ingest this garbage.

Of course you are at risk of being murdered, everyone is, drive-by victim, whatever, and the result of that risk is to shorten the average life expectancy by 90 days, lot more than that for the murder victims, zero for everyone else, but 90 days is the average. Same logic applies to the choking figure. The unmarried figure is due to someone working out that on average unmarried people have shorter lives than married ones by 1800 days. I can see reasons for this, having a spouse to call the ambulance if you collapse, take care of you when you are ill, nag you into going to the doctor before something nasty develops too far, etc.

yeah but nobody goes out and says "i think im going to risk being murdered today, just to give it a shot." these are supposed to be risky "behaviors" not the risk of going outside. everybody has a risk of dying, cause everybody dies. the list should only pertain to risky patterns or habitual behaviors since not everyone drinks aspartame.

Aspartame make me constipated anyway (for real). I used to drink diet pepsi all the time. I switched to Coors light because it's much tastier.

"If you are using aspartame [NutraSweet, Equal,
Spoonful, etc.] and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting
pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches,
tinnitus, joint pain, depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred
vision, or memory loss, you probably have ASPARTAME DISEASE!"

This is too big of a range of symtoms. Any of those could point to hundreds of disorders. While I do believe artificial sweeteners are bad; I have heard from both sides. One stating there is no harm, and the other quoting things from above.
I personally do not like the awful aftertaste of it, so I avoid it.

Wasn't aspartame discovered as a sweetener by accident as it's original purpose was as an ingredient in plastics?

Moderation in consumption will often moderate any potential 'symptoms' from said consumption. I have seen first hand how a few people I know seem almost addicted to the stuff and they generally gain weight and don't look as healthy as they could be in my oppinion.

One drink a day is not much. One's gotta wonder what the lifespan difference is for a 5 diet drink a day person. The lost days of living could go exponential, who knows. The human body can handle a little poison a day in many circumstances. Taking in too much of a 'poison' is when real problems begin.

I'm with you Biff - Beer works for me.

Too much of anything is poison to the human body.

No doubt, but chemical sweeteners seem to be worse than many natural items you could go to town on...
and apparently in some scientists oppinions reach the 'poison to the human body' status at very low quantities- no?

Yes .. I had a similar experience... I just started to hurt... was feeling aches.. stiffness in joints.. to the extent that I found it hard to bend my fingers,..hold a pen for any length of time... then it got harder and harder to walk... I needed a walking stick to get around... and even that was painful.. I did numerous medical tests.. and they couldn't tell me what was wrong.. until I got a newsletter from a chemist that had it's own naturapath..( I entered a competition and found myself on their mailing list).. Well I was glad I did.. as one of the first pages told me of the dangers of Aspartmame.. diet drinks.. how side effects can mimic Lupus.. Multiple sclerosis... ( something that I was beginning to fear that I was getting)..someone told their story of how they were inexplicably wheelchair bound with MS symptoms... they went to their Naturapath who went thru their diet.. was shocked at the amount of diet drinks etc she consumed.. told her of the dangers ..and suggested to just leave off them for 6 months and see the difference... she did... and is now healthy and symptom free...

Coinicidence!!!
It was enough to convince me.. I was even mixing diet coke and pepsi with coffee... ( tastes like iced coffee spider but no calories).. So I stopped.. the symptoms disappeared... and I felt better than ever..

My experience convinced me....

In the UK aspartame is in a wide range of food products and some medicines , not just in diet products . Why does an artificial sweetener need to be in a can of soda along with sugar or in a bag of potato chips? this makes no sense. Are sweeteners supposed to taste sweet ? because to me they just taste like a bitter chemical so I dont think the makers have done a very good job with their product never mind the various health problems.

I recall well when they first started promoting Aspartame laced to the eyeballs Nutrasweet as some kinda revolutionary ultra low fat alternative to natural sugar (tis no better or lucrative market to promote ya poison than in ''diet'' products). It's all sweet i guess...Ya won't die of diabetes or high cholesterol but it it sure to kill ya in other ways.

A.sspartame

the people that i know that drink it on a daily basis are all insane and have a tendency to be jerks.

Then there is Splenda.. Sucralose

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucralose


http://www.splendaexposed.com/

http://splenda.worldwidewarning.net/


but then in the artificial sugar wars... who sponsored what research...
http://cwiechert.blogspot.com/2006/07/spen...ays-better.html
Maybe Stevia is the go... But then the Health blogger on the above site .. cited peer reviewed tests..

Who pays for these peer reviews?? Who provides the paychecks of the peers?

My guess is corporations...

Corporations sponsor scholarships... donate to research.. use what we can call behavioural psychology to perhaps influence research????

Eg. directing what will be tested.. what areas will be looked into... A corporation will say... we will commission research into the possible results of ....

http://mediationchannel.com/category/optical-illusions/


misdirection gets you to focus on one direction to distract you from what is going on in front of you.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFaY3YcMg1I


I think a lot of misdirection is going on these days by corporations..governments... religions... to prevent you from really seeing... understanding what is happening to you and those around you...

http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/M/mindcontrol/

http://crissangel.mymagictricks.net/

http://www.wisebread.com/mind-control-guru...sheets-of-paper

You people are freaking me out! I give this **** to my kid all the time. Now I feel like a bad parent when all I've been trying to do is keep his teeth from rotting out from sugar.

I don't eat anything with this stuff and read every label first



Pavot

I too am somewhat of a skeptic when it comes to the doomsday mentality that everything is horrifically bad and going to kill us. I generally believe that everything in moderation is most healthy.

HOWEVER, aspertame is one of those artificial products that scares the crap out of me. I don't know if it causes Lupus and Multiple Sclerosis and fibromyalgia, but I did have a friend that had a medically verifiable problem with nutrasweet.

he was suffering migrane headaches that were debilitating and they started right around the time nutrasweet came on the market in diet coke. He was drinking it because his sister, (my best friend) is a diabetic and SHE was drinking it on occasion, after switching from sacchrine sweetened drinks. He went to the doctor, and after exhaustive tests, they found he was not just suffering migraines, but small brain hemmorages! His doctor put him on a special diet, cut out pretty much all sweets refined and artificial, wheat, dairy and some other things hoping the hemmorages were being caused by diet. BAM, after doing that, no more headaches. He eventually started to add all those things back into his diet and when he added the Diet Coke back in, the headaches were back.

His doctors are 99% SURE it was caused by the aspertame.

His sister stopped drinking it immediately as well and hasn't had any aspertame in 20 years. BUT, just a couple of months ago... she was inconclusively tested for Lupus. They're testing her again. But she has so many health problems is baffling that she's even still alive.

I don't know that aspertame causes Lupus... if it did, it would be striking men and women equally and frankly, far fewer men suffer from Lupus than women.



You probably should be a little freaked out and I'd probably suggest stop giving this to your child. If you feel he needs a sweetener, and want to avoid refined sugar, go to the heath food store and ask for "Stevia" it's an all natural sweetner made from a tropical grass I believe. It comes in a liquid form. It's INCREDIBLY sweet so just a tiny drop into tea or cereal does the trick. It's suppose to even be good for you, and frankly, I think it tastes better than refined sugar. I actually buy gassy water and add a drop of Stevia to it and it's like drinking a soda. But maybe better. My mom actually cooks sweets with Stevia... she's even been known to put it on cuts and scrapes insisting it helps them heal faster. LOL. My mom is nutty sometimes when it comes to this kind of stuff... she's a little like crystal_sage in that respect (lol )... but I think she's right about the Stevia, it really is good and is not associated with anything dangerous or unhealthy.

The Way I was told it doesn’t cause Lupus and Multiple Sclerosis and fibromyalgia, I was told that in a person full on allergic reactive response that person Body Mimics those illnesses, and my body at the time at its worse in the peak of my bodies Reaction to Aspartame was mimicking the symptoms of MS... it cleared and my Body recover ever morning after a full night’s sleep but it would come again the follow evening after egesting two wee Equal tablets each evening it was far worse than the evening before...but I recovered, I am not sold upon that it causes these illnesses, but then perhaps each person is effected differently, I may have been lucky as I lived upon a Organic diet, But I can tell you that after what I went through for six weeks of just ingesting in my coffee two wee Equal tablets containing Aspartame each morning I will never ever ingest Aspartame again ever...

Pavot

whats wrong with good ole water



im starting to do this myself now,but luckily i stick with what i know is safe to eat. until they start hiding it from us
.

yeah... like what is in milk....



organic milk seems to be the go.... they must have healthier cows.. less white blood cells in the milk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4153951.stm

I'm trying to get my son to like water, and he slowly is drinking more and more of it. I am stopping giving him splenda mixed with his lemonade now, and he was drinking diet snapple. I am starting to mix small amounts of juice with water to get him to drink it.
He's allergic to cows milk, so we drink rice milk.

Good idea Pavot.



You won't find too many products with the actual wording of ''ASPARTAME'' or MSG for that matter (surprise surprise)...But look for the ''additive code #'' or different more user friendly>> <<name. That goes with most chemically laced foods & drinks. Sleazy a*sholes aren't they, guess because ppl are fast becoming more conscious aware, who knows. Wonder if it's to protect themselves legally later down track...


Behind The Label (The Ecologist)

Thanks Bro...

I have never even thought of the Surprise - Surprise factor Bro, gush do you really think they would pull that over upon us?

I try pretty much to stay as true to the Organics as possible, but things some do slip by and I feel it hard... I fear for all of the Chemicals in the Food products and like I stated before to 315, bad things are already within our bodies and we cannot purge them...They are in our living and working and sadly in many of our natural environments and air and water, within the Natural food chain we can only educate ourselves and especially before we are physically devastated by the Bad things sould our bodies react to them like mine now does, I learned of Aspartame the Hard way, and God I hope no one and especially their wee kids have to ever go through what I went through due to ingesting Aspartame......

Pavot

Next time anyone picks up a can of Diet Coke check for the word Phenylalanine.


Phenylalanine:

Phenylalanine - Aspartame Poisoning

Nutrition fact about Phenylalanine in aspartame:

The 1976 Groliers encyclopedia states cancer cannot live without phenylalanine. Aspartame contains 50% phenylalanine.

Phenylalanine is one of the essential amino acids found in proteins, but I am one of the believers that amino acids should be eaten in combination, not in isolated form. Nature provides amino acids in combination; only man isolates them for processing purposes.

Phenylalanine is found naturally in foods such as eggs, milk, bananas, and meat. If you are PKU (Phenylketonuric) or sensitive to phenylalanine, you will react to the phenylalanine in aspartame. You many want to get a blood test to check for this condition. Over the past 20 years, humans have become more aware of PKU reactions because human beings began using isolated phenylalanine to the degree it is harmful to some individuals, many as aspartame side effects. My suggestion would be to research PKU and phenylalanine extensively. Phenylalanine can be very harmful to diabetics.

Read all food labels and avoid anything with isolated amino acids. You want to buy products with at least eight amino acids in combination. <--(i think they hear ya Pavot)

Sweet Poison

aspartame is just a chemically modified dipeptide. yes, it is metabolized into methanol and then on to formaldehyde, with a 1 molecule of aspartame to a one molecule of formaldehyde ratio. However, it being hundreds of times as sweet as sugar and small amounts of it being ingested, it is not dangerous compared with what people are often exposed to in terms of those other molecules. At my lab at NIH, I am incidentally exposed to more methanol vapor than I am likely to ingest in the way of aspartame. Sure, formaldehyde is not something you want lots of in your diet (not that this gives you lots), and drinking diet sodas for years might increase your risk for cateracts and perhaps raise your mutation rate just a teeny bit. However, drinking normal sodas similarly will make you gain a couple pounds per year and all the health risks that entails... ill go with the teeny amount of formaldehyde rather than the heart disease myself.

Thank you Rebel

http://conspiracyrealitytv.com/aspartame-sweet-misery/

Very interesting video! I watched some of it. I'll watch the rest later when I have more time. I'm convinced, and I normally don't believe in conspiracy theories and stuff like that. We've been drinking a lot of water, and I also found some organic lemonade at the health food store that my son loves. He would never drink water before and he has constipation problems so I really have to push the fluids on him. But he is starting to aquire a taste for water.

http://www.amazon.com/tag/health/forum/ref...=TxHB55I75MF8GE