Efforts to ban Aspartame

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From: drmikethompson@...(Dr. T's Health Tips)

Aspartame? This Senator is RIGHT!

The following article exposes the seriousness of Aspartame. In my book I

explain the profound effect of this toxic artificial sweetner that

people all around the world are blindly ingesting.

Although it is fairly lengthy, please read it. I applaud this US Senator

for going out on a limb to protect the public and put a stop to the

effects of ASPARTAME. This is very, very nasty stuff.

Again, it's all about the money.

SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW

In total health,

Dr. Mike

www.BioTruth.com

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Banning Aspartame - A Common Sense Precaution

By: Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino

Source: www.rense.com

January 8, 2007

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When many of my constituents hear that I plan to introduce a bill to ban

the artificial sweetener aspartame in the upcoming legislative session,

I get a lot of very strange looks. Or worse.

The American Diabetes Foundation, for example, considers aspartame

almost sacramental for persons with the disease they battle, one that

makes consumption of sugar very dangerous. To hear their lobbyists tell

it, aspartame is the modern scientific equivalent of Lourdes water for

diabetics: " If you take away my soft drinks with aspartame, what am I

supposed to drink, then, huh? " (On each occasion that sentiment is

expressed to me, I have to bite my tongue not to gently, but

sarcastically, suggest cold water, unsugared ice tea or skim milk all

perfectly drinkable alternatives, but not acceptable solutions for

carbonation-crazed Coke or Pepsi devotees.)

Aspartame is currently used in over 6,000 processed foods in this

country, practically everything that passes itself off as a " lite " or

" nonfat " food or drink.

Banning it, I am scolded, will create a massive economic depression,

leading to factory closures, layoffs of thousands of workers, bank

failures and rioting in the streets. Even the Coca-Cola corporation,

which looks at a casual glance like a fairly prosperous company even an

incredibly profitable one, I would think will be, I am assured,

destroyed by such a ban a very heavy burden to lay on my shoulders.

Meanwhile, dozens of corporate lobbyists (the world's second-oldest

profession) are praying that I introduce the measure again, as it would

occasion a windfall profit of extravagant expenditures for their

services when every soda pop manufacturer in the country rushes to hire

clever mouthpieces to protect their interests from our attack. It is a

veritable full-employment-for-lobbyists initiative.

To be candid, the chances of our efforts succeeding in the face of the

phalanx of three-piece suits and slick leather briefcases that will be

arrayed against our tiny cadre of concerned health advocates is

extremely slim. Still, it is absolutely worth doing, I am convinced, if

it furthers the awareness-expanding process and builds on the excellent

work that is being done by the aspartame whistle-blowers like Santa

Feans Fox and Dr. Stoller, and the remarkable Dr. Betty

i from Atlanta whose tireless advocacy is slowly turning the tide

of public opinion against this absolutely worthless and extremely

dangerous substance. It is even worth risking the destruction of the

Coca- Cola empire, apparently much more fragile than any of us ever

imagined.

For those wishing to become more familiar with the aspartame menace, a

good starting point would be the two hour-long documentary films

(available as DVDs) produced by Cori Brackett: Sweet Misery and Sweet

Remedy, available through Sound and Fury Productions at

www.soundandfury.tv. What you see in these two films is a frightening

case study of how corporate greed can completely overwhelm the supposed

protections of our governmental watchdogs, the Food and Drug

Administration (FDA), the Environmental Protection Agency, and the state

and federal departments of Health.

It is worth taking a moment here to review the history of how a true

poison like this might be passed on to us as " food " over the protests of

the scientists who tried to say " No! " but who were, and who continue to

be, subverted by corporate money spent to influence politicians. And it

may be instructional to consider as well how this same process of

erosion in public protections could actually be going on with

ever-growing sophistication and success in many other public health

areas of concern, such as mad cow disease and E. coli outbreaks at

meatpacking plants.

Coca-Cola has changed 180 degrees from its position on aspartame in

1980. At that time it testified in opposition to aspartame 's approval

at FDA hearings looking into the safety of it. Now they help finance its

defense. Of course, the FDA itself has flipped. Its initial denial was

reversed a few years later in 1983, when Rumsfeld (ring a bell?)

persuaded the Reagan administration that denial was not bad chemistry

but bad politics. At that time Rumsfeld headed Searle, the

pharmaceutical firm that helped develop

aspartame.

When concerns over the product's safety seemed likely to produce

lawsuits, Searle sold the manufacturing rights to

Monsanto, which in turn peddled them to its current primary producer,

the Japanese chemical giant Ajinomoto. That outfit has made billions on

the production of this artificial sweetener, a significant percentage of

which has gone into shoring up the political fortunes of the company 's

reputation with American congressional figures.

Brilliantly too, the company has consistently made the American Diabetes

Foundation one of the chief beneficiaries of its charitable giving

largesse that has created vast gratitude and easy acceptance of whatever

" scientific " rationales the company chooses to feed the diabetes

advocacy community.

Many more studies of the medical effects of aspartame consumption have

been undertaken with financing from the industry than by independent

researchers. Their findings that the formaldehyde-laced artificial

sweetener is perfectly safe are, therefore, of questionable objectivity.

Last year, however, a truly independent assessment was published by an

Italian academic researcher, Dr. Morando Soffritti. His findings

substantiate the links between aspartame and cancer, calling it a

" neurotoxin " with serious other health consequences and concluding it

has major negative impacts on those who ingest it. Soffitti 's study has

been repeatedly attacked by industry spokespeople and their paid

researchers, but its conclusions stand substantially intact. In Europe

and in India, its impact is already producing governmental action to

restrict or remove aspartame.

Efforts to act similarly in this country have been solely at state

levels so far, though the recent congressional changes may open the door

to much more active oversight by the Feds than was possible under the

previous leadership.

Nevertheless, I would like to proceed with our state initiative. It

will, win or lose, further the effort to draw attention to the serious

medical dangers that aspartame represents. It would serve as a

precaution and could save lives.

New Mexico Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino

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Let Your voice be heard

All members of the New Mexico Legislature are listed with their contact

information on the Legislature website: legis.state.nm.us/. The

telephone number for the Legislature is 986-4300.

If you, a friend or a family member is the victim of aspartame or

Splenda poisoning, your phoning and writing to the Attorney General 's

Office to encourage punitive and exemplary damage suits will be helpful,

particularly:

· Attorney General King, 505 - 827-6000, in the Bardacke

Attorney General Complex

· Deputy Attorney General Stuart Bluestone, 505 - 827-6004

Readers can also make their views known directly to Dr. C. Von

Eschenbach, Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug

Administration: commissioner@....

In order to obtain United States Senate hearings in the Health and

Judiciary committees on the forced approval for aspartame in 1981 (see

September 2005 Sun Monthly article " Rumsfeld's Disease: A Politically

Induced Biochemical Disaster of Global Proportions " ), please write a

letter via regular mail to: · Senator Kennedy, Chairman, U.S.

Senate Health Committee · Senator Leahy, Chairman, U.S. Senate

Judiciary Committee, United States Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510. Or

e-mail them at http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?ueyX1NIIEyTYQ40_YVP9LA and

senator_leahy@....

All members of the U.S. Senate Health and Judiciary committees should

learn of your concerns as well. Their e-mail addresses are listed at

http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?kxg_YdZLMqJu32sTs0lmJw senators_cfm.cfm.

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Note From Dr. Betty i, D.Hum, Mission Possible International:

With regard to Senator Ortiz y Pino's remarks about aspartame and

diabetes, in another article he mentions it seems aspartame makes it

worse. He is right.

According to H. J. , M.D., diabetic and aspartame expert,

aspartame can not only precipitate diabetes, but also aggravates and

simulates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, destroys the optic nerve,

causes diabetics to go into convulsions and even interacts with insulin.

ASPARTAME DISEASE; AN IGNORED EPIDEMIC, H. J. , M.D., 1038 pages,

www.sunsentpress.com

Also on www.dorway.com scroll down to experts: Dr. H. J. :

Aspartame and diabetes and hypoglycemia Dr. Jayshree Barua: Diabetic

Journal of India

There are safe alternatives for diabetics, stevia, which you can get in

any health food store, and Just Like Sugar made of chicory and orange

peel, which you can get in Whole Foods and Wild Oats, etc. There is a

large study now on Just Like Sugar and the American Diabetes Assn has

asked to add their seal. Splenda should be avoided as its a chlorocarbon

poison, and , Atty, and Citizens for Health have petitioned

for recall.

Below my signature is a Canadian Study showing aspartame produces the

same effect as sugar.

Let's set a precedent in New Mexico and get it banned. We can if

everyone will help. All members of the legislature should get a copy of

the post FDA COMMISSIONER LIED TO NEW MEXICO LEGISLATURE:

http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?q48ioPBE3.J3_rO3XPk_yw The lobbyists will

be preventing some of this same propaganda and more. Dr. H. J.

spoke with Governor Bill when he was in West Palm Beach and

the Governor admitted that aspartame should be banned. Please be sure to

write him above

all....http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?3HJMYjADxvX6Wj9kGmSmwQ

Also, Dr. Morando Soffritti has done a new study showing Coca Cola

causes cancer, and remember they knew about the dangers of aspartame

before it was approved and put profit before safety:

http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?D.aW3VNDS7lL872jvXvjtg

Aspartame is a GM product as written by the Independent in the UK. The

amino acids are grown on E.coli bacteria, a toxic sludge according to

the words of Dr. Bill Deagle. The free methyl alcohol converts to

formaldehyde and embalms living tissue as proven by the Trocho Study in

Barcelona in 1998. This study also showed it damages DNA, and this means

it can destroy humanity.

Neurosurgeon Blaylock, M.D., author of Excitotoxins: The Taste

That Kills now has a lecture: The Truth About Aspartame:

www.atavistik.com

Let's get it out of New Mexico and then off the planet. It takes

everyone helping. Remember teamwork is the fuel that allows common

people to produce uncommon results.

Dr. Betty i, D.Hum, Founder

Mission Possible International

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097

770 242-2599

www.wnho.net and www.dorway.com

Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

www.aspartamekills.com

Aspartame Information List, www.mpwhi.com

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CANADIAN STUDY - ASPARTAME PRODUCES THE SAME EFFECT AS SUGAR

The aspartame produces the same effect as sugar in the diabetics who

devote themselves to a physical activity

By Hamann

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Original story can be found here:

http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?nSWZaw6XlpJBX3NurLPOEQ

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The Doctor of the Future will give NO Medicine, but will interest his

patients in diet and nutrition, exercise and the care of the human

frame. He will teach them about the cause of ALL disease.

- Edison

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[Guest guest]

I deal with a lot of guilt over this issue. I personally stopped using all

artificial sweeteners about 9 months before finding out that I had breast

cancer. I did this because of some memory problems I was having that I though

might be attributed to the use of aspartame. I also came to the realization

that in the years I had been drinking Diet Coke I had gained 70 lbs! My guilt

come in that I have raised 4 children to near adulthood on diet sodas. I

believed that drinking the diet versions was better than filling their bodies

with sugar. Turns out that neither one is a particularly good idea! Actually,

only my oldest drinks diet now. She's 21 and will be returning home to live

when she graduates from college in May, but I'm really going to get on her case,

so WATCH OUT! My husband is also a diet soda addict and is gravely overweight.

I'm working on him - we can't afford for both of us to be sick. For pity's sake

- it's even in the toothpaste!