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[Guest guest]

In one of Dr. Mirkin's audio files he states that Nutrasweet is absolutely

harmless to the human body system unless you drink 350 diet Cokes per day.

It has been proven in scientific studies to be one of the safest sweeteners

ever discovered and produced.

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Why Nutrasweet was so Successful and Will Likely Never be Replaced by

Splenda 2/11/04I am sending this just for information for you to mull over.

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Why Nutrasweet was so Successful and Will Likely Never be

Replaced by Splenda

By Dr. Janet Starr Hull

I receive many e-mails asking what I think about the

newest artificial sweetener, Splenda®. My first thought is the obvious

answer: any artificial sweetener is harmful to the health of humans and all

animals.

But it also became obvious to me the more I was asked this

question, that NO new chemical sweetener will ever take the market like

NutraSweet/Equal® did.

While pondering the emergence of the many 'new' sugar

substitutes of late, it came clear exactly WHY NutraSweet has been such a

social icon for the past 20 years.

NutraSweet has remained popular not due to its quality of

product (or lack of quality, as the case may be), but because The NutraSweet

Company designed one of the most brilliantly strategized corporate campaigns

in history. THEY masterminded their own market and THEY structured from the

beginning a social monopoly more well-thought-out than any other American

corporation to date.

So will Splenda, Tagatose, maltitol or even natural Stevia

ever replace NutraSweet's track record and past 20-year monopoly? Not

likely.

Without the manipulation of its competitors, liaisons

within government agencies and the soft drink industry, the AMA (American

Medical Association) and the media, no other artificial sweetener will hold

a candle to the history of aspartame.

Here's the deal .

The NutraSweet Company became a trillion dollar industry

because seven shrewd corporate and government leaders got away with

executing marketing strategies that enabled them to covertly pocket the

'diet' market.

The history of aspartame and the NutraSweet Company

stratagem will one day be written about in business journals and marketing

textbooks taught at universities. What will they say? That the NutraSweet

Company carefully planned out and successfully achieved the following:

a.. All their competition was carefully eliminated and

taken off the market. Note: Saccharin was not totally removed from the

market due to Monsanto Chemical Company owning BOTH saccharin and

NutraSweet, and also due to saccharin's true 'safety' record. (See

newsletter archives on Monsanto and saccharin for more information.)

b.. Marketing strategies were set into motion to gain

access to and influence relationships with the food and pharmaceutical

industries.

c.. Liaisons were established between the NutraSweet

Company and government officials, specifically the FDA and U.S. Department

of Transportation.

d.. Relationships were bridged between the NutraSweet

Company and the AMA, the American Diabetic Association, the Multiple

Sclerosis Society, among other public health organizations.

e.. New research centers were funded and built by the

NutraSweet Company at predominant universities throughout the United States.

f.. Research scientists responsible for aspartame safety

testing were payrolled by the NutraSweet Company.

g.. Marketing relationships were established between the

NutraSweet Company and the National Soft Drink Association and the various

soft drink companies.

h.. Allegiances were established within American

mainstream media primarily through multi-million dollar advertising

campaigns to television stations and prominent newspapers. (Hull, Janet,

SWEET POISON: How The World's Most Popular Artificial Sweetener Is Killing

Us, New Horizon Press, 1999.)

The seven businessmen and government officials responsible

for the creation of the NutraSweet Company and its historic cornering of the

market prepared and executed these brilliant business strategies.

Some day the facts will be common knowledge. My hat's off

to the NutraSweet Company for such a zealously designed and brilliantly

controlled marketing campaign. It succeeded longer than anyone expected,

even the NutraSweet Company officials themselves.

So will Splenda or any other artificial sweetener be able

to repeat the NutraSweet Company's historic control of the world sweetener

market?

Not likely without manipulation of its competitors,

liaisons with government agencies, the soft drink industry, the AMA and the

media.

And as far as product quality goes? Oh yeah--that's what

this is supposed to be all about, isn't it?

--------------------------------------------------------------

Dr. Mercola's Comment:

Aspartame is the artificial sweetener used in such brands

as Equal and Nutrasweet. The components of aspartame may lead to a wide

variety of ailments including:

a.. Birth defects

b.. Diabetes

c.. Emotional disorders

d.. Epilepsy/seizures

e.. Migraines

f.. Lowered sperm count

Dr. Hull's book, Sweet Poison: How The World's Most

Popular Artificial Sweetener Is Killing Us, does a great job of exposing

even more of aspartame's dangers.

Your body does not do well with regular sugar, let alone

synthetic sugar substitutes. About 70 percent of the population suffers from

an excess of insulin, which is often marked by excess weight, high blood

pressure, diabetes or high cholesterol. Nearly all of these people would

benefit from avoiding ANY sweeteners, and this includes sucralose and even

herbal sweeteners like stevia, until their signs of excess insulin resolve.

Related Articles:

Researcher Believes Aspartame Promotes Hypersensitivity

Syndrome

Aspartame: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

Aspartame Disease: An FDA-Approved Epidemic

Splenda is Not a " Healthy " Sweetener

12 Questions You Need to Have Answered Before You Eat

Splenda

Splenda's Dangers: One Man's Personal Story That You

Should Know

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If you don't mind starting to put feermeldihyde in your body befor you die I

guess it is good. it has been pruven that diet soft drinks kept in a warn place

can turn into fermeldihyde after a while and we do not know where the soft drink

compny land stores have had there soft drinks befor thay were sold to you.

friends wayne

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Why Nutrasweet was so Successful and Will Likely Never be Replaced by

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Issue 506

February 11, 2004

Nutrasweet Will Never be Replaced by Splenda

Vitamin Deficiency

Turn a Bad Meal Into a Good One

Living Fuel Rx Superfood

Metabolic Typing Overcomes Diabetes

10 Emerging Technologies

Grapefruit May Help Obesity, Diabetes

No Shipping/Handling on My New Book

Antidepressant Makers Withhold Data

New Form of Matter

Genetically Modified Plant

Seven Recipes from My New Book

Home New Patients H.O.T. News Recommended Products

Print this Page

Why Nutrasweet was so Successful and Will Likely Never be

Replaced by Splenda

By Dr. Janet Starr Hull

I receive many e-mails asking what I think about the

newest artificial sweetener, Splenda®. My first thought is the obvious

answer: any artificial sweetener is harmful to the health of humans and all

animals.

But it also became obvious to me the more I was asked this

question, that NO new chemical sweetener will ever take the market like

NutraSweet/Equal® did.

While pondering the emergence of the many 'new' sugar

substitutes of late, it came clear exactly WHY NutraSweet has been such a

social icon for the past 20 years.

NutraSweet has remained popular not due to its quality of

product (or lack of quality, as the case may be), but because The NutraSweet

Company designed one of the most brilliantly strategized corporate campaigns

in history. THEY masterminded their own market and THEY structured from the

beginning a social monopoly more well-thought-out than any other American

corporation to date.

So will Splenda, Tagatose, maltitol or even natural Stevia

ever replace NutraSweet's track record and past 20-year monopoly? Not

likely.

Without the manipulation of its competitors, liaisons

within government agencies and the soft drink industry, the AMA (American

Medical Association) and the media, no other artificial sweetener will hold

a candle to the history of aspartame.

Here's the deal .

The NutraSweet Company became a trillion dollar industry

because seven shrewd corporate and government leaders got away with

executing marketing strategies that enabled them to covertly pocket the

'diet' market.

The history of aspartame and the NutraSweet Company

stratagem will one day be written about in business journals and marketing

textbooks taught at universities. What will they say? That the NutraSweet

Company carefully planned out and successfully achieved the following:

a.. All their competition was carefully eliminated and

taken off the market. Note: Saccharin was not totally removed from the

market due to Monsanto Chemical Company owning BOTH saccharin and

NutraSweet, and also due to saccharin's true 'safety' record. (See

newsletter archives on Monsanto and saccharin for more information.)

b.. Marketing strategies were set into motion to gain

access to and influence relationships with the food and pharmaceutical

industries.

c.. Liaisons were established between the NutraSweet

Company and government officials, specifically the FDA and U.S. Department

of Transportation.

d.. Relationships were bridged between the NutraSweet

Company and the AMA, the American Diabetic Association, the Multiple

Sclerosis Society, among other public health organizations.

e.. New research centers were funded and built by the

NutraSweet Company at predominant universities throughout the United States.

f.. Research scientists responsible for aspartame safety

testing were payrolled by the NutraSweet Company.

g.. Marketing relationships were established between the

NutraSweet Company and the National Soft Drink Association and the various

soft drink companies.

h.. Allegiances were established within American

mainstream media primarily through multi-million dollar advertising

campaigns to television stations and prominent newspapers. (Hull, Janet,

SWEET POISON: How The World's Most Popular Artificial Sweetener Is Killing

Us, New Horizon Press, 1999.)

The seven businessmen and government officials responsible

for the creation of the NutraSweet Company and its historic cornering of the

market prepared and executed these brilliant business strategies.

Some day the facts will be common knowledge. My hat's off

to the NutraSweet Company for such a zealously designed and brilliantly

controlled marketing campaign. It succeeded longer than anyone expected,

even the NutraSweet Company officials themselves.

So will Splenda or any other artificial sweetener be able

to repeat the NutraSweet Company's historic control of the world sweetener

market?

Not likely without manipulation of its competitors,

liaisons with government agencies, the soft drink industry, the AMA and the

media.

And as far as product quality goes? Oh yeah--that's what

this is supposed to be all about, isn't it?

--------------------------------------------------------------

Dr. Mercola's Comment:

Aspartame is the artificial sweetener used in such brands

as Equal and Nutrasweet. The components of aspartame may lead to a wide

variety of ailments including:

a.. Birth defects

b.. Diabetes

c.. Emotional disorders

d.. Epilepsy/seizures

e.. Migraines

f.. Lowered sperm count

Dr. Hull's book, Sweet Poison: How The World's Most

Popular Artificial Sweetener Is Killing Us, does a great job of exposing

even more of aspartame's dangers.

Your body does not do well with regular sugar, let alone

synthetic sugar substitutes. About 70 percent of the population suffers from

an excess of insulin, which is often marked by excess weight, high blood

pressure, diabetes or high cholesterol. Nearly all of these people would

benefit from avoiding ANY sweeteners, and this includes sucralose and even

herbal sweeteners like stevia, until their signs of excess insulin resolve.

Related Articles:

Researcher Believes Aspartame Promotes Hypersensitivity

Syndrome

Aspartame: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

Aspartame Disease: An FDA-Approved Epidemic

Splenda is Not a " Healthy " Sweetener

12 Questions You Need to Have Answered Before You Eat

Splenda

Splenda's Dangers: One Man's Personal Story That You

Should Know

--------------------------------------------------------------

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Disclaimer - The entire contents of this website are based upon

the opinions of Dr. Mercola, unless otherwise noted. Individual articles are

based upon the opinions of the respective author, who retains copyright as

marked. The information on this website is not intended to replace a

one-on-one relationship with a qualified health care professional and is not

intended as medical advice. It is intended as a sharing of knowledge and

information from the research and experience of Dr. Mercola and his

community. Dr. Mercola encourages you to make your own health care decisions

based upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care

professional.

[Guest guest]

I prefer drinking coffee and tea, and if I wish a sweetner, I prefer stevia.

I drink several cans of diet drinks per day, and I drink them because they

are cheap and convenient.

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> > > >

> > > >

> > > > > Wayne,

> > > > > Here is what I found from the urban legends post:

> > > > > Urban Myth- Nutrasweet Aspartame Conspiracy

> > > > > Claim: The artificial sweetener aspartame is responsible for an

> > epidemic

> > > > of

> > > > > diseases such as multiple sclerosis and lupus.

> > > > > Status: False.

> > > > >

> > > > > Example: [Collected on the Internet, 1998]

> > > > >

> > > > > 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 that I

was

> > > there

> > > > to

> > > > > lecture on exactly that subject.

> > > > >

> > > > > When the temperature of Aspartame exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood

> > alcohol

> > > > > ASPARTAME coverts 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

> > are

> > > > > 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 asymptomatic. Unfortunately, we can not 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

even

> > were

> > > > > 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

> > > > by

> > > > > 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 addicts, had all been

> > > > diagnosed

> > > > > with MS. This is beyond coincidence.

> > > > >

> > > > > At the time of its first drug 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. 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.

> > > > >

> > > > > 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.

> > > > >

> > > > > Origins of this Urban Myth:

> > > > >

> > > > > Well, if you can't trust an anonymous e-mail message filled with

words

> > > > > rendered in all CAPITAL LETTERS and containing liberal doses of

> > > > exclamation

> > > > > points,

> > > > > warning you about some widespread and imminent danger, what can

you

> > > trust?

> > > > >

> > > > > From whence comes this information? For one thing, it's not new --

> > this

> > > > text

> > > > > was written by one Betty i back in 1995. And who is this

Betty

> > > > > i?

> > > > > Well, she's not a doctor, biologist, chemist, or any other type of

> > > > > scientist -- she is the founder of Mission Possible International,

an

> > > > > organization dedicated

> > > > > to " spreading the word that aspartame is a toxic poison unfit for

> > human

> > > > > consumption. "

> > > > >

> > > > > Now, Ms. i may be earnest and sincere, but her screed is

full of

> > > > > flawed logic, scientific errors, and outright misinformation.

We're

> > not

> > > > > going to

> > > > > attempt to go through it point by point, nor are we going to claim

> > that

> > > > > aspartame is either a health hazard or absolutely 100% non-harmful

in

> > > any

> > > > > amount.

> > > > > What we will assert is that there is simply nothing remotely

> > approaching

> > > a

> > > > > consensus in the medical/scientific community that aspartame is

(or

> > even

> > > > > could

> > > > > be) responsible for an " epidemic of multiple sclerosis and

systemic

> > > lupus "

> > > > > or many of the other evils attributed to it above.

> > > > >

> > > > >

> > > > >

> > > > >

> > > > >