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Part 1 of 2
In May, 1992 an article in Flying Safety
Magazine explained the dangers of this ubiquitous substance. Some
people have triggered aspartame related disorders with doses as
small as that carried in a single stick of chewing gum. This could
mean a pilot who drinks diet sodas is more susceptible to flicker
vertigo or to flicker-induced epileptic activity. It also means that
all pilots are potential victims of sudden memory loss, dizziness
during instrurnent flight and gradual loss of vision. Some pilots
have experienced grand mal seizures in the cockpits of commercial
airline flights and have lost medical certification to fly-and with
it their careers.
The FDA has received more than 10,000 consumer complaints on
Nutra-Sweet. That's 80% of all complaints about food additives, yet
they have done nothing to alert the American consumer who assumes,
since it's so highly advertised, that it must be safe as mother's
milk. If you are using aspartame and have headaches, depression,
slurred speech. loss of memory, fibromyalgia type symptoms, loss of
sensation in lower legs or shooting pains, loss of equilibrium,
vertigo, anxiety attacks, chronic fatigue, vision loss, floaters,
retinal detachment, seizures, heart palpitations, etc., you have
Aspartame Disease! Many physicians are diagnosing multiple sclerosis
when in reality it is methanol toxicity which mimics MS. Get off
this dangerous drug right away. MS is not a death sentence, but
methanol toxicity can be!
Fifty-one percent of FDA approved drugs have serious risks and could
cause adverse reactions that lead to severe or permanent disability
or death. The Center for Disease Control, Johns Hopkins University
and the New Jersey School of Medicine estimate that 80,000-120,000
Americans are killed by prescription drugs every year. That this
atrocious holocaust persists has everything to do with money and
nothing to do with public health. Monsanto reaps $2 billion per year
from the Aspartame toxic bonanza. This can buy a lot of bureaucrats!
The FDA works for industry, not citizens. FDA head Arthur Hayes
overruled his own board of inquiry to approve aspartame and then
went to work for their public relations firm.
Federal attorney Sam Skinner was assigned to prosecute Searle for
fraudulent tests in their application, but switched sides and went
to work for Searle's lawyers and the case died when the statute of
limitations ran out. Honest FDA toxicologist, the late Dr. Adrian
Gross, wrote to Senator Howard Metzenbaum: "The views of the FDA's
Center for Food Safety read like a script written for Abbott &
Costello in the sense of their having perceptions inside-out and
upside-down. ... FDA may have gone through the motions. ... such a
'process' or dance represents a farce and a mockery."
Aspartame is a molecule composed of three components: aspartic acid,
phenylalanine and methanol. Methanol is wood alcohol that has killed
or blinded thousands of skid row drunks. It converts into
formaldehyde and formic acid (ant sting poison) in the gut.
Formaldehyde, a deadly neurotoxin, is common embalming fluid, a
Class A carcinogen. Phenylalanine is also neurotoxic when
unaccompanied by the other amino acids in proteins. Aspartic acid
causes brain
lesions and neuroendocrine disorders in experimental animals.
There are 92 documented symptoms including headaches, numbness,
fatigue, blurred vision, heart palpitations, memory loss, dizziness,
muscle spasms, weight gain, seizures, rashes, blindness,
tachycardia, tinnitus, joint pain, nausea, depression, hearing loss,
irritability, slurred speech, anxiety attacks, loss of taste,
vertigo and insomnia.
Nutrasweet is in about 9,000 foods and on every restaurant table for
the same reasons tobacco is everywhere: Greed, addiction and profit!
The NutraSweet Company and sister Searle, whose chemists discovered
aspartame while testing an ulcer drug, are owned by Monsanto. If you
are taking other medicine, consider possible reactions you may have.
In 1969, Searle approached Dr. Harry Waisman to study the effects of
aspartame on primates. Seven infant monkeys were fed the chemical in
milk. One died after 300 days; five others had grand mal seizures.
Searle deleted these findings when they submitted this study to the
FDA! The best way to understand NutraSweet is to think of it as a
minute dose of nerve gas that eradicates brain and nerve functions.
Some diseases triggered by aspartame include brain tumors and other
cancers, Alzheimers, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, epilepsy, mental
retardation, fibromyalgia, lymphoma, Graves disease, birth defects,
chronic fatigue syndrome, systemic lupus, Epstein Barr, Parkinsons
and ... death!
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology surveyed 80
people who suffered brain seizures after eating or drinking products
with aspartame. Said the Community Nutrition Institute: "These 80
cases meet the FDWs own definition of an imminent hazard to the
public health, which requires the FDA to expeditiously remove a
product from the market."
America is seeing a tremendous increase in seizures. Phenylalanine
in aspartame lowers the seizure threshold in the brain and blocks
serotonin production. Today our nation is swept by a rage of
violence. Researchers attribute this in part to low brain serotonin
levels inducing depression, rage and paranoia. So President Clinton,
Diet Coke in hand, programs billions of dollars to buy
penitentiaries for the paranoid. Fetal tissue cannot tolerate
methanol and Dr. James Bowen calls NutraSweet instant birth control.
The fetal placenta can concentrate phenylalanine and cause mental
retardation. Aspartame tests on animals produced brain and mammary
tumors. During Operation Desert Storm truckloads of diet drinks
cooked in the Arabian sun and at 86 degrees aspartame liberates
methanol in the can! Thousands of service men and women returned
home with chronic fatigue syndrome and weird toxic symptoms.
The synthesized components of Aspartame are Phenylalanine (50%),
Aspartic Acid (40%) and 10% Methyl ester which converts to methanol.
Methyl (wood) alcohol is poisonous to man when it stands alone. As a
constitutient of other foods in nature, it is in combination with
ethyl alcohol, which counteracts (or neutralizes) the ethanol as it
is metabolized. (There is no ethyl alcohol is aspartame).
Methanol from aspartame is in "free form" and immediately absorbed
into the bloodstream, then converts to formaldehyde. The
formaldehyde converts to formic acid, (ant sting poison). Toxic
formic acid is used as an activator for strip epoxy and urethane
coatings. Both formaldehyde and formic acid are considered
carcinogens.
Phenylalanine facilitates seizures, causes mental retardation in PKU
indviduals lowers or blocks production of Serotonin, which results
in increased craving for carbohydrates. Evidence shows that it is
anything but a diet drink.
Aspartic acid is an excitotoxin, which has been shown to cause
"holes" or
lesions in the brains of mice.
On July 28, 1993, the National Soft Drink Association drafted a
30-page protest questioning the safety of aspartame in soft drinks.
Then they found weight-conscious Americans would sip soda all day if
it was sugarless, so they forgot their objections; nor did they tell
us that aspartame makes you crave carbohydrates and so you gain
weight. The formaldehyde stores in the fat cells, particularly on
the hips and thighs. Drink diet soda, get fat now and later develop
seizures, diabetes, blindness, Epstein Barr, MS, depression and
death.
Similarly, the American Diabetic Association, which now receives
mega-funds from NutraSweet, ignored a 1987 abstract submitted by Dr.
H. J. Roberts (world expert on aspartame and diabetic specialist)
summarizing 58 diabetic aspartame reactors. He says: "I now advise
all patients with diabetes and hypoglycemia to avoid aspartame
products." In his book Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills, Russell
Blaylock, MD, a neurosurgeon, says aspartarne may trigger clinical
diabetes! (This is the definitive text for those who need more
information) He says that excitotoxins such as NutraSweet literally
stimulate neurons to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees.
"What really concerns me about aspartame," he says, "is its
association with brain tumors as well as pancreatic, uterine and
ovarian tumors. ... and that so many develop an Alzheimers-like
syndrome with prolonged exposure."
Many will state that Nutrasweet has been carefully analyzed by
scientists and found to be safe. An analysis of peer reviewed
medical literature using MEDLINE and other databases was conducted
by Ralph G. Walton, MD, Chairman, The Center for Behavioral
Medicine, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio
Universities College of Medicine. Dr. Walton analyzed 164 studies
which were felt to have relevance to human safety questions. Of
those studies, 74 studies had aspartame industry-related sponsorship
and 90 were funded without any industry money.
Of the 90 non-industry-sponsored studies, 83 (92%) identified one or
more problems with aspartame. Of the 7 studies which did not find a
problems, 6 of those studies were conducted by the FDA. Given that a
number of FDA officials went to work for the aspartame industry
immediately following approval (including the former FDA
Commissioner), many consider these studies to be equivalent to
industry-sponsored research. Of the 74 aspartame industry-sponsored
studies, all 74 (100%) claimed that no problems were found with
aspartame. This is reminiscent of tobacco industry research where it
is primarily the tobacco research which never finds problems with
the product, but nearly all of the independent studies do find
problems.
The 74 aspartame industry-sponsored studies are those which one
inveriably sees cited in PR/news reports and reported by
organizations funded by Monsanto / Benevia / NutraSweet (e.g., IFIC,
ADA). These studies have severe design deficiencies which help to
guarantee the "desired" outcomes. These design deficiencies may not
be apparent to the inexperienced scientist.
Part 2
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