Guest guest Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 If this doesn't make you stop using aspartame, nothing will. There's another article that give the credentials of all the doctors quoted in this story if you think they're just quacks - which they're definitely not - http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd42.htm this is the same kind of crap going on with vaccines and thimerosal right now. Makes you really wonder what happened to people's consciences...... DONALD RUMSFELD AND ASPARTAmE Posted: May 9, 200412:18 AM Easternby NWV Staff Writer© 2004 NewsWithViews.com Aspartame is an additive found in diet soft drinks and over 5,000 foods, drugs and medicine. It was approved in 1983 for use in carbonated beverages. However, there may be more sour than sweet when it comes to aspartame. In reality, aspartame is a drug, not an additive in the sense many people associate with that word. It interacts with other drugs, has a synergistic and additive effect with MSG, and is a chemical hyper-sensitization agent. Dr. Olney, who founded the field of neuoscience called excitotoxicity, attempted to stop the approval of aspartame with Attorney back in 1996. The FDA's own toxicologist, Dr. Gross told Congress that without a shadow of a doubt, aspartame can cause brain tumors and brain cancer and violated the Delaney Amendment which forbids putting anything in food that is known to cause Cancer. Detailed information on this can be found in the Bressler Report (FDA report on Searle). Dr. Olney isn't alone in attempting to reach out to the medical community and warn the American people about this drug. Dr. Ralph Walton, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine has written of the behavioral and psychiatric problems triggered by aspartame-caused depletion of serotonin. According to the top doctors and researchers on this issue, aspartame causes headache, memory loss, seizures, vision loss, coma and cancer. It worsens or mimics the symptoms of such diseases and conditions as fibromyalgia, MS, lupus, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue and depression. Further dangers highlighted is that aspartame liberates free methyl alcohol. The resulting chronic methanol poisoning affects the dopamine system of the brain causing addiction. Methanol, or wood alcohol, constitutes one third of the aspartame molecule and is classified as a severe metabolic poison and narcotic. Dr. Woodrow Monte in the peer reviewed journal, Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Health, wrote: "When diet sodas and soft drinks, sweetened with aspartame, are used to replace fluid loss during exercise and physical exertion in hot climates, the intake of methanol can exceed 250 mg/day or 32 times the Environmental Protection Agency's recommended limit of consumption for this cumulative poison." Neurosurgeon Blaylock, MD, author of "Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills," wrote about the relationship between aspartame and macular degeneration, diabetic blindness and glaucoma (all known to result from excitotoxin accumulation in the retina). The medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, by Dr. H. J. is 1038 pages of symptoms and diseases triggered by this neurotoxin. The claim is made that aspartame has even caused the epidemic of obesity because it makes you crave carbohydrates so you gain weight, and the formaldehyde accumulates in the adipose tissue (fat cells) according to the Trocho Study. Further accusations are that aspartame is also responsible for the epidemic of diabetes as it not only can precipitate diabetes but simulates and aggravates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, can cause diabetics to go into convulsions and interacts with insulin. The effects of aspartame are documented by the FDA's own data. In 1995 the agency was forced, under the Freedom of Information Act, to release a list of ninety-two aspartame symptoms reported by thousands of victims. It appears this is only the tip of the iceberg. H. J. , MD, published the medical text "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" -- 1,000 pages of symptoms and diseases triggered by this neurotoxin including the sordid history of its approval. Since its discovery in 1965, controversy has raged over the health risks associated with the sugar substitute. From laboratory testing of the chemical on rats, researchers have discovered that the drug induces brain tumors. On Sept 30, 1980 the Board of Inquiry of the FDA concurred and denied the petition for approval. In 1981, the newly appointed FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull , ignored the negative ruling and approved aspartame for dry goods. As recorded in the Congressional Record of 1985, then CEO of Searle Laboratories Rumsfeld said that he would "call in his markers" to get aspartame approved. Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and a day after taking office appointed . No FDA Commissioner in the previous sixteen years had allowed aspartame on the market. Dr. Betty i has worked in the medical field for 22 years. She is the founder of Mission Possible International, working with doctors around the world in an effort to remove aspartame from food, drinks and medicine. According to Dr. i, aspartame has brought more complaints to the American Food and Drug Administration than any other additive and is responsible for 75% of such complaints to that agency. From 10,000 consumer complaints FDA compiled a list of 92 symptoms, including death. The history of aspartame and its approval has a political history as well as a scientific one. According to Dr. i, "When Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle, that conglomerate manufactured aspartame. For 16 years the FDA refused to approve it, not only because its not safe but because they wanted the company indicted for fraud. Both U.S. Prosecutors hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations expired. They were Sam Skinner and Conlon. Skinner went on to become Secretary of Transportation squelching the cries of the pilots who were now having seizures on this seizure triggering drug, aspartame, and then Chief of Staff under President Bush's father. Some of these people reach high places. Even Supreme Justice Clarence is a former Monsanto attorney. (Monsanto bought Searle in 1985, and sold it a few years ago). When Ashcroft became Attorney General, from King and Spalding Attorneys (another former Monsanto attorney) became deputy under Ashcroft. (Attorneys for NutraSweet and Coke). "However, the FDA still refused to allow NutraSweet on the market. It is a deadly neurotoxic drug masquerading as an additive. It interacts with all antidepressants, L-dopa, Coumadin, hormones, insulin, all cardiac medication, and many others. It also is a chemical hyper sensitization drug so that it interacts with vaccines, other toxins, other unsafe sweeteners like Splenda which has a chlorinated base like DDT and can cause auto immune disease. It has a synergistic and additive effect with MSG. Both being excitotoxins, the aspartic acid in aspartame, and MSG, the glutamate people were found using aspartame as the placebo for MSG studies, even before it was approved. The FDA has known this for a quarter of a century and done nothing even though its against the law. Searle went on to build a NutraSweet factory and had $9 million worth of inventory. " Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and the day after he took office he appointed an FDA Commissioner who would approve aspartame. The FDA set up a Board of Inquiry of the best scientists they had to offer who said aspartame is not safe and causes brain tumors, and the petition for approval is hereby revoked. The new FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull , over-ruled that Board of Inquiry and then went to work for the PR Agency of the manufacturer, Burson-Marstellar, rumored at $1000.00 a day, and has refused to talk to the press ever since. "There were three congressional hearings because of the outcry of the people being poisoned. Senator Orrin Hatch refused to allow hearings for a long time. The first hearing was in 1985, and Senator Hatch and others were paid by Monsanto. So the bill by Senator Metzenbaum never got out of committee. This bill would have put a moratorium on aspartame, and had the NIH do independent studies on the problems being seen in the population, interaction with drugs, seizures, what it does to the fetus and even behavioral problems in children. This is due to the depletion of serotonin caused by the phenylalanine in aspartame." According to a press release put out by the National Justice League on April 26, 2004, lawsuits were filed in three separate California courts against twelve companies who either produce or use the artificial sweetener aspartame as a sugar substitute in their products: Defendants in the lawsuits include Coca-cola, PepsiCo, Bayer Corp., the Dannon Company, Wrigley Jr. Company, Walmart, ConAgra Foods, Wyeth, Inc., The NutraSweet Company, and Altria Corp. (parent company of Kraft Foods and Philip ). The suits allege that the food companies committed fraud and breach of warranty by marketing products to the public such as diet Coke, diet Pepsi, sugar free gum, Flintstone's vitamins, yogurt (including Yoplait) and children's aspirin with the full knowledge that aspartame, the sweetener in them, is neurotoxic. Dr. i recommends that consumers read all labels on any food, medicine or drinks they intend to consume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 Thanks for sharing this. First time I heard about it. I just checked and it is in my diet 7 up, kids scooby doo vitamins and the fruity gum, although it also has sugar so why this substitute? I will do a google search, but is there a way to find out which products and medicines this is in? I already look out for lanolin since I am allergic to it and might do feingold diet and now watch for aspartame. Before summer I did stop drinking the diet 7Up and went more with water, drink probably more than the 8 glasses a day of H20, but might have a small glass of diet 7 up every other day and my kid takes those vitamins! Bonnie =============== Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 Here are two links I found. This covers some of the products it is found in: http://www.mercola.com/article/aspartame/hidden_dangers.htm Get this - this is an ingredient in the breath savers I pop constantly. I could go back to tic tacs - they just have sugar, but a dye too. The carnation instant breakfast contains it too. Here are the listed side effects - there are 92: http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects.html Bonnie ============== Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 Good grief. That stuff has always made me sick, but I didn't know it was so toxic! And people wonder why food allergies, autism, and autoimmune disorders are on the rise. GGRRRR! I can't stand it. Don't forget to vote, Amnesty " When diet sodas and soft drinks, sweetened with > aspartame, are used to replace fluid loss during exercise and physical exertion in > hot climates, the intake of methanol can exceed 250 mg/day or 32 times the > Environmental Protection Agency's recommended limit of consumption for this > cumulative poison. " > Neurosurgeon Blaylock, MD, author of " Excitotoxins: The Taste That > Kills, " wrote about the relationship between aspartame and macular > degeneration, diabetic blindness and glaucoma (all known to result from excitotoxin > accumulation in the retina). > The medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, by Dr. H. J. > is 1038 pages of symptoms and diseases triggered by this neurotoxin. The > claim is made that aspartame has even caused the epidemic of obesity because > it makes you crave carbohydrates so you gain weight, and the formaldehyde > accumulates in the adipose tissue (fat cells) according to the Trocho Study. > Further accusations are that aspartame is also responsible for the epidemic of > diabetes as it not only can precipitate diabetes but simulates and aggravates > diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, can cause diabetics to go into > convulsions and interacts with insulin. > The effects of aspartame are documented by the FDA's own data. In 1995 the > agency was forced, under the Freedom of Information Act, to release a list of > ninety-two aspartame symptoms reported by thousands of victims. It appears > this is only the tip of the iceberg. H. J. , MD, published the medical > text " Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic " -- 1,000 pages of symptoms and > diseases triggered by this neurotoxin including the sordid history of its > approval. > (http://www.newswithviews.com/Donate-DptA.htm) > Since its discovery in 1965, controversy has raged over the health risks > associated with the sugar substitute. From laboratory testing of the chemical on > rats, researchers have discovered that the drug induces brain tumors. On > Sept 30, 1980 the Board of Inquiry of the FDA concurred and denied the petition > for approval. > In 1981, the newly appointed FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull , ignored > the negative ruling and approved aspartame for dry goods. As recorded in the > Congressional Record of 1985, then CEO of Searle Laboratories Rumsfeld > said that he would " call in his markers " to get aspartame approved. Rumsfeld > was on President Reagan's transition team and a day after taking office > appointed . No FDA Commissioner in the previous sixteen years had allowed > aspartame on the market. > Dr. Betty i has worked in the medical field for 22 years. She is the > founder of Mission Possible International, working with doctors around the > world in an effort to remove aspartame from food, drinks and medicine. According > to Dr. i, aspartame has brought more complaints to the American Food > and Drug Administration than any other additive and is responsible for 75% of > such complaints to that agency. From 10,000 consumer complaints FDA compiled > a list of 92 symptoms, including death. > The history of aspartame and its approval has a political history as well as > a scientific one. According to Dr. i, > " When Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle, that conglomerate manufactured > aspartame. For 16 years the FDA refused to approve it, not only because its not > safe but because they wanted the company indicted for fraud. Both U.S. > Prosecutors hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations expired. > They were Sam Skinner and Conlon. Skinner went on to become Secretary > of Transportation squelching the cries of the pilots who were now having > seizures on this seizure triggering drug, aspartame, and then Chief of Staff > under President Bush's father. Some of these people reach high places. Even > Supreme Justice Clarence is a former Monsanto attorney. (Monsanto bought > Searle in 1985, and sold it a few years ago). When Ashcroft became Attorney > General, from King and Spalding Attorneys (another former Monsanto > attorney) became deputy under Ashcroft. (Attorneys for NutraSweet and Coke). > " However, the FDA still refused to allow NutraSweet on the market. It is a > deadly neurotoxic drug masquerading as an additive. It interacts with all > antidepressants, L-dopa, Coumadin, hormones, insulin, all cardiac medication, and > many others. It also is a chemical hyper sensitization drug so that it > interacts with vaccines, other toxins, other unsafe sweeteners like Splenda which > has a chlorinated base like DDT and can cause auto immune disease. It has a > synergistic and additive effect with MSG. Both being excitotoxins, the > aspartic acid in aspartame, and MSG, the glutamate people were found using aspartame > as the placebo for MSG studies, even before it was approved. The FDA has > known this for a quarter of a century and done nothing even though its against > the law. Searle went on to build a NutraSweet factory and had $9 million worth > of inventory. > " Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and the day after > he took office he appointed an FDA Commissioner who would approve aspartame. > The FDA set up a Board of Inquiry of the best scientists they had to offer > who said aspartame is not safe and causes brain tumors, and the petition for > approval is hereby revoked. The new FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull , > over-ruled that Board of Inquiry and then went to work for the PR Agency of the > manufacturer, Burson-Marstellar, rumored at $1000.00 a day, and has refused to > talk to the press ever since. > " There were three congressional hearings because of the outcry of the people > being poisoned. Senator Orrin Hatch refused to allow hearings for a long > time. The first hearing was in 1985, and Senator Hatch and others were paid by > Monsanto. So the bill by Senator Metzenbaum never got out of committee. This > bill would have put a moratorium on aspartame, and had the NIH do independent > studies on the problems being seen in the population, interaction with drugs, > seizures, what it does to the fetus and even behavioral problems in > children. This is due to the depletion of serotonin caused by the phenylalanine in > aspartame. " > According to a press release put out by the National Justice League on April > 26, 2004, lawsuits were filed in three separate California courts against > twelve companies who either produce or use the artificial sweetener aspartame > as a sugar substitute in their products: Defendants in the lawsuits include > Coca-cola, PepsiCo, Bayer Corp., the Dannon Company, Wrigley Jr. > Company, Walmart, ConAgra Foods, Wyeth, Inc., The NutraSweet Company, and Altria > Corp. (parent company of Kraft Foods and Philip ). > The suits allege that the food companies committed fraud and breach of > warranty by marketing products to the public such as diet Coke, diet Pepsi, sugar > free gum, Flintstone's vitamins, yogurt (including Yoplait) and children's > aspirin with the full knowledge that aspartame, the sweetener in them, is > neurotoxic. > Dr. i recommends that consumers read all labels on any food, medicine > or drinks they intend to consume. 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Guest guest Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 If you think Aspartame is bad, have you ever researched fluoride that is in almost all toothpaste and in many cities' water? I know that of my daughter, 's three boys, one was raised in a town with fluoride in the city water. He has the worst teeth--very brittle. and Evan spent all their years without fluoride in the water but in their toothpaste. They have the least cavities. Thank goodness my daughter is finally using filtered water, especially since they moved back into town with the fluoride. Betty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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