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Lee Cooper
 
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You must work for the comoany that makes Splinda!
"BZ" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
> ...
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> > > I'm going to try to quit anything with aspertame in it. I did a
> > > report on it and some of the problems and symptoms were pretty scary.

> >
> > They would be scary, if they were true. But they are not.
> > >
> > > My problem is that most no sugar added and diet products have
> > > aspartame added. Any links or suggestions would be appreciated.

> >
> > Here are a couple. Simply type in "Aspartame".
> >
> > http://snopes.com/
> >
> > http://urbanlegends.com/
> >
> > You'll see that the scary stuff is all a fairy tale.

>
> Please visit www.dorway.com for excellent information on ASPARTAME and all
> the evidence you need to know about to make an informed decision about

what
> you or your children are taking into your bodies.
>
> Aspartame is very sweet. However roaches won't eat it, cats and dogs won't
> eat it, ants won't eat it and flies won't eat it - but the FDA (Food and
> Drug Administration) serves it to you with their approval and the approval
> of the Monsanto Chemical Company.
>
> Warnings
>
> Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) surveyed 80
> people who suffered brain seizures after eating or drinking products with
> aspartame. The report stated "These 80 cases meet the FDA's own definition
> of an imminent hazard to the public health, which requires the FDA to
> expeditiously remove a product from the market." On July 28, 1983 the
> National Soft Drink Association drafted a 30-page protest questioning the
> safety of aspartame in soft drinks.
>
> The American Diabetic Association, which receives megafunds from The
> NutraSweet Company, ignored a 1987 abstract submitted by Dr. H.J. Roberts
> (world expert on diabetes) summarizing 58 diabetic aspartame reactions. He
> says: "I now advise all patients with diabetes and hypoglycemia to avoid
> aspartame products."
>
> The FDA and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) have received nearly

7,000
> complaints, including five deaths, attributed to the use of aspartame in
> food products since the FDA first permitted limited use in 1981. A number

of
> researchers and doctors around the country object not only to the product
> itself, but to the questionable preliminary research that led the FDA to
> approve it's use.
>
> Why hasn't aspartame been banned? The answer could be that there are
> thousands of companies using aspartame in diet sodas, powdered drinks,
> gelatin, tea, cocoa, juices, frozen desserts, even vitamins and

medications.
> This translates to billions of dollars worldwide. Far more profits than
> needed to provide agency officials with gratuities and/or very favorable
> future employment, politicians with campaign funds, non-profit foundations
> with endowments, scientists with research grants, and the media with lots

of
> advertising dollars.
>
> History
> Aspartame was the accidental discovery of chemist Jim Schlatter, who was
> working for the pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle on an anti-ulcer drug.

It
> was December 1965; Schlatter licked his finger and tasted the substance

that
> had spilled on his flask. It's sweetness stunned him, and he realized that
> tiny amounts of the chemicals he'd been mixing were powerfully sweet.

Searle
> began testing the chemical mixture, aspartame, and it eventually gained

FDA
> approval.
>
> Toxic Properties
> Aspartame is a drug that breaks down into a witch's brew of toxins. It is

a
> molecule composed of three components: aspartic acid, phenylalanine and
> methanol.
>
> Free methanol begins to form in liquid aspartame-containing products at
> temperatures above 86F. The human body runs around 98.6F. Once ingested

the
> free methanol is released into the small intestine and encounters the

enzyme
> chymotrypsin produced by the liver which breaks it down into formaldehyde.
>
> Formaldehyde, also known as formalin, embalming fluid, or formol, is a
> colorless gas with a pungent odor. Symptoms of formaldehyde exposure

include
> nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, or diarrhea. When the reaction is
> allergic, symptoms may include minor respiratory irritation and watery

eyes.
> It is a known carcinogen.
>
> The body has difficulty eliminating formaldehyde so it combines some of it
> with water and stores it in the fat. What is not stored in the fat is
> further converted to formic acid (AKA ant sting poison-also used as an
> activator to strip epoxy and urethane coatings).
>
> Phenylalanine and aspartic acid, 90% of aspartame, are amino acids

normally
> used in synthesis of protoplasm when supplied by the foods we eat. But

when
> unaccompanied by other amino acids they are neurotoxic. They can go past

the
> blood brain barrier and deteriorate the neurons of the brain. The
> phenylalanine which is genetically engineered breaks down into
> diketopiperazine, a known brain tumor agent and it is the reason for the

FDA
> mandated warning label that states "Phenylketonurics: Contains
> phenylalanine". In other words: aspartame converts to dangerous byproducts
> that have no natural countermeasures. A dieter's empty stomach accelerates
> these conversions and amplifies the damage.
>
> How bad is it?
> There are 90 documented symptoms including: Headaches, Muscle spasms,
> Irritability, Heart palpatations, Loss of taste, Joint pain, Dizziness,
> Weight gain, Tachycardia (heart racing), Breathing difficulty, Tinnitus
> (ringing in the ears), Blurred vision, Seizures, Rashes, Insomnia, Anxiety
> attacks, Vertigo, Hearing loss, Nausea, Depression, Blindness, Slurred
> Speech, Memory Loss, Fatigue, Numbness.
>
> In l993, Swiss scientist S. E. Shephard exposed aspartame to nitrite in a
> test tube, causing it to undergo nitration as it might do when it

encounters
> nitrite in the stomach. Shephard then demonstrated that the nitrated
> aspartame molecule was able to cause mutations in cultured bacteria. This
> test is commonly used to assess the cancer causing potential of chemicals.
>
> Unethical Conduct
> The FDA is charged by Congress to protect the public health by prohibiting
> the manufacture and distribution of unapproved drugs. The Department of
> Justice has the responsibility for prosecution of criminal and civil cases
> arising under the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, Title 21, United States

Code
> Section 331. Cases are referred to the Department generally through the

FDA'
> s Chief counsel after the FDA has conducted an investigation.
>
> The FDA approved aspartame under very suspect circumstances. By their own
> admission it is the most complained about substance in their history, with
> over 10,000 "official" complaints. The FDA, CDC and many others have proof
> that aspartame does in fact cause tumors, and they have more than ample
> proof that the toxic substances methanol, formaldehyde, and formic acid,
> along with the action of aspartic acid cause a wide range of problems in
> those who ingest aspartame-laced products.
>
> Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, a former FDA toxicologist, and member of a FDA

task
> force that investigated the authenticity of research done by Searle to
> establish the safety of aspartame, says she believes the original

aspartame
> studies were "built on a foundation of sand." She testified in front of an
> U.S. Senate hearing in 1987 that flawed tests conducted by Searle, used as
> the basis for FDA approval, were a "disaster" and should have been "thrown
> out." She said she believed the studies left many unanswered questions

about
> possible birth defects and the safety of aspartame. Verrett said the team
> was instructed not to be concerned with, or comment upon, the overall
> validity of the study. She said a subsequent review discarded or ignored

the
> problems and deficiencies outlined by her team's original report. She

said,
> "serious departures from acceptable toxicological protocols that her
> investigative team noted. were also discounted."
>
> On Jan 10, 1977; FDA Chief Counsel Richard Merrill recommended to U.S.
> Attorney Sam Skinner, "We request that your office convene a Grand Jury
> investigation into apparent violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and
> Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. 331(e), and the False Reports to the Government

Act,
> 18 U.S.C. 1001, by G.D. Searle and Company and three of its responsible
> officers for their willful and knowing failure to make reports to the Food

a
> nd 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 the drug Aldactone and the

food
> additive Aspartame."
>
> Why was Searle not indicted? Searle's law firm met with Attorney Skinner

on
> January 26. A week later they offered him a job. On April 17 the Justice
> Department advised Skinner to proceed immediately because of a looming
> statute of limitations deadline. On July 1 Skinner switched sides to work
> for Sidney and Austin, Searle's law firm. His successor Atty. William

Conlon
> after convening a grand jury let the Statute of Limitations run out on the
> aspartame charges. Fifteen months later he too went to work for Sidney and
> Austin. All in all ten ranking FDA or federal officials involved with the
> investigation and regulation of aspartame had left government service for
> employment by the sweetener industry.
>
> No FDA Commissioner would approve aspartame and so it was kept off the
> market for 16 years. In April 1981, Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr. was appointed

FDA
> Commissioner. On July 18, 1981 aspartame was approved for use in dry

foods.
> Arthur Hayes overruled a Public Board of Inquiry and ignored the law,
> Section 409(c)(3) of the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 348), which
> says that a food additive should not be approved if tests are

inconclusive.
> The FDA did apply an "acceptable daily intake" or ADI to aspartame. This

was
> raised so that in 1983 Dr. Hayes could approve aspartame for use in
> beverages... against the consensus of the National Soft Drink Association
> that aspartame was too unstable for such use. Shortly after the FDA

approval
> for aspartame in carbonated beverages, Arthur Hayes left the FDA under
> charges of improprieties, took a position as the Dean of New York Medical
> Collage and was hired as a consultant ($1,000 per day) with G.D. Searle's
> public relations firm, Burson-Marsteller.
>
> Burson-Marsteller (B-M) is the world's largest PR firm, with 63 offices in
> 32 countries. On the human rights front, B-M has represented some of the
> worst violators of our age. These include: The Nigerian government during
> the Biafran war, to discredit reports of genocide; The fascist junta that
> ruled Argentina during the 70's and early 80's, to attract foreign
> investment; The totalitarian regime of South Korea, to whitewash the human
> rights situation there during the 1988 Olympics; and the Indonesian
> government, which got into power through a CIA-sponsored bloodbath.
>
> So it's a possibility that B-M did a great job keeping aspartame on the
> world market despite "red-handed" evidence of it's toxic capabilities.

What
> may have been another "aspartame" biased act by the FDA was its effort to
> prevent the use of stevia. Stevia, a natural sweetener, is not a synthetic
> chemical, nor has it been implicated in health problems, as has aspartame.
> Stevia is 200 times sweeter than sugar, and in Japan it claims 41% of the
> sweetener market. In the entire history of stevia use as a sweetener in
> Japan, even in Diet CokeT, there has never been any complaints or concerns
> about its safety. Celestial SeasoningsT, one of the largest herbal tea
> companies in the world, used stevia as a flavoring and sweetener in many
> teas. In 1986, without warning, FDA agents entered their warehouse, seized
> their entire stock of stevia, and told them they could not use it in their
> teas. In 1991, the FDA banned stevia, claiming that in spite of its use
> worldwide as a sweetener additive with no reported side effects, it was an
> "unsafe food additive." (Today stevia is finally approved and on the open
> U.S. market.)
>
> Dr. H.J. Roberts has declared aspartame disease to be a world epidemic.
> Currently Monsanto reaps $1 billion/year from the aspartame toxic bonanza.
> They have asked for a more potent version called NeotameE to be approved

by
> the FDA.
>
> Those wishing detailed scientific documentation may choose to order a an
> excellent book by Dr. Blaylock or something from Dr. H. J. Roberts. On the
> internet go to http://www.dorway.com
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