formaldehyde and formic acid, made by the body from methanol from
liquors and aspartame, complicate research on autism, mercury
(thimerosal), vaccines: Murray 2008.02.04
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.htm
Monday, February 4, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1509
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[ See also: recent Fetal Alcohol Syndrome research in Canada:
folic acid prevents neurotoxicity from formic acid, made by body
from methanol impurity in alcohol drinks
[ also 11 % of aspartame ], BM Kapur, PL Carlen, DC Lehotay,
AC Vandenbroucke, Y Adamchik, U. of Toronto, 2007 Dec., Alcoholism Cl.
Exp. Res.: Murray 2007.11.27
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.htm
Wednesday, November 27, 2007
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1495 ]


http://www.paramuspost.com/article.p...80131110933321

Greater Paramus News and Lifestyle Magazine
Monday, February 04 2008, 03:54 PM EST

Ms. Imus on "Imus in the Morning"

By Mel Fabrikant Thursday, January 31 2008, 11:09 AM EST
Views: 343
"NY Times Editorializes on the Autism Issue"

As a regular guest on "Imus in the Morning," Deirdre Imus,
humanitarian and best-selling author, took on the New York Times
Friday for a continuation of biased reporting about autism, and
spoke about new research warning on the use of artificial
sweetener aspartame and other artificial sweeteners and dyes
linked to neurotoxicity.

Mrs. Imus took issue with erroneous editorializing by reporter
Edward Wyatt in, "ABC Drama Takes on Science and Parent"
(NY Times 1-23). 1
The article describes the storyline behind an episode of a new
series, "Eli Stone," as "stepping into a subject that is the source of
heated debate among some parents * the relationship between
autism and childhood vaccines * and seemingly coming down on
the side that has been all but dismissed by prominent scientific
organizations."

The article claims that, "American health authorities have failed to
establish a causal link between the preservative and autism. Since
the preservative was largely removed from childhood vaccines in
2001, autism rates have not declined." Mrs. Imus told listeners this
information was not accurate.

Referring to a recent California study, Mrs. Imus said this claim
was "premature" based on the available information. She explained
there was no recall of existing supplies and that
thimerosal-containing vaccines remained on shelves until 2004.
(Full statement about the California study is available at:
http://www.dienviro.com/index1.aspx?BD=18736.

"No, this is intellectually false," said Mrs. Imus. "The New York
Times was briefed by top scientists and members of Congress,
showing them the link between mercury, thimerosal and
vaccinations and neurodevelopmental disorders. There's science
going back to 1991 showing real concern with mercury,
and yet the New York Times fails to address the facts."

Mrs. Imus also discussed the many scientific studies 2 from some
of the finest universities in the country that suggest an association
between thimerosal (mercury) and autism, which are continually
ignored by the press. She noted a contradiction and disconnect
when reporting a front page article about how dangerous mercury
is in tuna 3 while the Wyatt commentary in the arts section suggests
that thimerosal, a more lethal form of mercury, doesn't do anything
when injected into infants.

Asked about the role of federal agencies in stating there is no
association, Mrs. Imus pointed to the known conflicts of interest of
individuals working at those agencies.

"The FDA has a biased group regulating safety. The Science
board, an advisory committee to the FDA is composed of nine
members, some of which have ties to pharmaceutical companies.
It hasn't proven thimerosal to be safe, so we have a real problem."

Mrs. Imus also spoke about another study showing health risks
associated with the use of aspartame. 3

Deirdre Imus is the founder and President of the Deirdre Imus
Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology®, part of
Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC)
in New Jersey, a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit corporation.

The Environmental Center represents one of the first
hospital-based programs whose specific mission is to identify,
control, and ultimately prevent exposures to environmental factors
that may cause adult, and especially pediatric cancer, as well as
other health problems with our children.

References:

1 Wyatt, Edward.
"ABC Drama Takes on Science and Parent,"
NY Times, Jan. 23, 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/ar...&or ef=slogin

2. Autism Research Index.
The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology.
http://www.dienviro.com/index1.aspx?BD=18171

3. Burros, Marian.
"High Levels of Mercury Found in Tuna Sushi,"
NY Times, January 23, 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/di...=1&oref=slogin

4. Gombos, K. et. al.
"The effect of aspartame administration on oncogene and
suppressor gene expressions."
In Vivo. 2007 Jan-Feb;21(1):89-92.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...ntrez .Pubmed.
Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum .
[Pubmed Abstract]

www.dienviro.com/index1.aspx?BD=17645

Phone: 201-336-8071 Fax: 201-336-8161
Web: www.dienviro.com
Email: ;

Our Address:
The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology
Hackensack University Medical Center
Research Building, Room 240
30 Prospect Avenue
Hackensack, NJ 07601

www.dienviro.com/index1.aspx?BD=17648

Our Mission

The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology
at Hackensack University Medical Center represents one of the
first hospital-based programs whose specific mission is to identify,
control and ultimately prevent exposures to environmental factors
that may cause adult, and especially pediatric cancer,
as well as other health problems with our children.

The Center's mission is twofold: to enhance health by educating
our children, their parents and the public-at-large about the
carcinogens and other environmental factors that occur all too
commonly in our lives.and to serve as a voice that can realistically
help shape policy decisions that impact the environment and our
well being.

INTRODUCTION

The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center is part of Hackensack University
Medical Center, a not-for-profit corporation. The Environmental Center
is devoted to the health and well being of
children, their parents and the general public through a program of
education and action designed to identify and eliminate the
carcinogens and environmental factors that assault and ravage
our lives.

Collectively, fewer than 10 percent of all malignancies are thought
to involve inherited mutations.*
Today, most scientists believe that environmental factors cause or
contribute to many cancers in children.**
The environmental hazards include exposure to mercury, lead,
pesticides, tobacco products, automotive and industrial
emissions and even the food we eat, the water we drink,
and the air we breathe.

Environmental causes for childhood cancer are less well defined.
Various small studies have implicated pesticides as a cause of
leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and brain tumors.

Regrettably, it is children who are the most vulnerable to many
environmental insults. In fact, studies have shown a 30 percent
increase in various cancers in children resulting from exposure to
toxins in our environment. For example, researchers have
discovered a direct connection between the development of
leukemia in children whose parents were exposed to various
pesticide products. Similarly, studies have revealed a disturbing
increase in the occurrence of brain tumors in children exposed
to many common pesticides found in the home. In addition, asthma,
blamed for six percent of school absenteeism and now the most common
chronic childhood disorder, often has its roots in
environmental agents.***

*Natural Resources Defense Council,
http://www.nrdc.org/health/kids/kids...idscancer1.asp

**NCI, Understanding Gene Testing, NIH Pub. 96-3905
(Bethesda, Md.: NCI, 1995. rev. 4.02)

*** Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.nrdc.org/health/kids/kids...idscancer5.asp
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Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2008 Jan; 65(1): 19-24.
Comment in: Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2008 Jan; 65(1): 15-6.
Continuing increases in autism reported to California's
developmental services system: mercury in retrograde.
Schechter R, Grether JK. ;
Immunization Branch, California Department of Public Health,
850 Marina Bay Pkwy, Richmond, CA 94804, USA. ;

CONTEXT:
Previous analyses of autism client data reported to the California
Department of Developmental Services (DDS) have been
interpreted as supporting the hypothesis that autism is caused by
exposure to the preservative thimerosal, which contains
ethylmercury.

The exclusion of thimerosal from childhood vaccines in the United
States was accelerated from 1999 to 2001.

The Immunization Safety Review Committee of the Institute of
Medicine has recommended surveillance of trends in autism as
exposure to thimerosal during early childhood has decreased.

OBJECTIVE:
To determine whether trends in DDS autism client data support the
hypothesis that thimerosal exposure is a primary cause of autism.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS:
Study of time trends in the prevalence by age and birth cohort of
children with autism who were active status clients of the DDS
from January 1, 1995, through March 31, 2007.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASU
Prevalence of autism among children with active status in the DDS.

RESULTS:
The estimated prevalence of autism for children at each year of age
from 3 to 12 years increased throughout the study period.

The estimated prevalence of DDS clients aged 3 to 5 years with
autism increased for each quarter from January 1995 through
March 2007.

Since 2004, the absolute increase and the rate of increase in DDS
clients aged 3 to 5 years with autism were higher than those in DDS
clients of the same ages with any eligible condition including autism.

CONCLUSIONS:
The DDS data do not show any recent decrease in autism in
California despite the exclusion of more than trace levels of
thimerosal from nearly all childhood vaccines.

The DDS data do not support the hypothesis that exposure to thimerosal
during childhood is a primary cause of autism.
PMID: 18180424
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formaldehyde in FEMA trailers and other sources (aspartame, dark wines
and liquors, tobacco smoke): Murray 2008.01.30
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1508


The FEMA trailers give about the same amount of formaldehyde daily
as from a quart of dark wine or liquor, or two quarts (6 12-oz cans)
of aspartame diet soda, from their over 1 tenth gram methanol impurity
(one part in 10,000), which the body quickly makes into
formaldehyde -- enough to be the major cause of "morning after"
alcohol hangovers.

Methanol and formaldehyde also result from many fruits and
vegetables, tobacco and wood smoke, heater and vehicle exhaust,
household chemicals and cleaners, cosmetics, and new cars, drapes,
carpets, furniture, particleboard, mobile homes, buildings, leather...
so all these sources add up and interact with many other toxic
chemicals.

BN Ames and LS Gold, 1998, have presented detailed information
that there is no increase in recent decades for most cancers, and that
common carcinogens do not result in significant exposures to the
average human population.

However, individuals are not average -- each person has a unique
genetic makeup, resulting in a huge range of variation of
vulnerability
to specific chemicals, as is well evidenced in the case of methanol,
formaldehyde, and formic acid, especially with regard to behavioral
effects.

Each is subject to very wide ranges of exposure levels.

Many are in especially vulnerable groups, depending on diet,
obesity, sex, exercise, life stress, age from conception to very old,
severe toxic exposures, injuries, and diseases.

It is clear that a variety of multiple chemical sensitivity syndromes
do exist, often with remarkable hypersensitivity.

Methanol, formaldehyde, and formic acid toxicity are unusual, in
that humans are far more vulnerable than any other mammal,
as much as ten to sixty-fold, which complicates the utility of animal
data.

The unusally long human life span also increases the role of long-term
chronic low-level exposure.


FEMA slow to safety test Katrina toxic trailers, Charles Babington,
Associated Press -- 1 ppm formaldehyde in air is about half the daily
dose from 3 cans aspartame diet soda and ten times the 1999 EPA
alarm level for drinking water: Murray 2007.07.23
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1455

"Paulison said FEMA received "just over 200 complaints of strange
odors including formaldehyde" in trailers and that 58 trailers were
replaced "because of formaldehyde concerns."

Occupants of five other trailers were moved to apartments, he said.

Several lawmakers said FEMA should have seen the 200 complaints
as a sign of a much wider problem. "


1 ppm formaldehyde in air is half the daily dose
from 3 cans aspartame diet soda
and ten times the 1999 EPA alarm level for drinking water.

J. D. Trasher et al in 1990 found many symptoms
in 19 mobile home residents,
living with 0.05 to 0.5 ppm formaldehyde.

http://www.drthrasher.org/formaldehyde_1990.html full text
Jack Dwayne Thrasher, Alan Broughton, Roberta Madison.
Immune activation and autoantibodies in humans
with long-term inhalation exposure to formaldehyde.
Archives of Environmental Health. 1990; 45: 217-223.
"Immune activation, autoantibodies, and anti-HCHO-HAS
antibodies are associated with long-term formaldehyde inhalation."
PMID: 2400243

" The patients in our study had symptoms and complaints
related to several organs, as described previously, (4,5,9)
which were similar to symptoms
of workers with multiple chemical sensitivity,(11) cacosmia,(12)
and other chemical exposures. (13-15)

We report on the differences in
humoral and cell-mediated immunity in humans with long-term
inhalation exposure to HCHO vs. asymptomatic students (controls)
who experienced short-term, periodic exposure to the chemical. "

" All patients in this study
had sought continuous medical attention
because of multiple organ symptoms
involving the central nervous system (CNS)
(headaches, memory loss, difficulty completing tasks, dizziness),
upper- and lower-respiratory symptoms,
skeletal-muscle complaints,
and gastroenteritis.

Three common symptoms were expressed:
(1) and initial flu-like illness
from which they had not fully recovered;
(2) chronic fatigue,
and (3) an olfactory sensitivity to ambient conditions
containing low concentrations of chemicals. (4,9,11) "

" (2.) Mobile home residents consisted
of 19 patients (6 males, 13 females, mean age 41 +-20 y)
who currently lived in mobile homes.

The patients had lived in their environments for 2-7 y
and reported multiple symptoms. (4,9)

Measured HCHO concentrations ranged from 0.05 to 0.5 ppm
at the time blood samples were taken. "


FEMA found 1.2 ppm formaldehyde in April 2005
in one of over 120,000 mobile homes
supplied for recent hurricane victims --
75 times more than the
0.016 level set for 8-hour working days
by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
for workers to be required to wear respirators.

http://www.arb.ca.gov/toxics/tac/appendxc.htm

1 ppm FA in air = 1.23 mg/cubic meter, so breathing 20 cubic
meters would retain about 20 mg FA daily, ten times the 1999 EPA
alarm level for drinking water.

Dark wines and liquors, as well as aspartame, provide similar levels
of methanol, above 120 mg daily, for long-term heavy users,
2 L daily, about 6 cans.

Within hours, methanol is inevitably largely turned into formaldehyde,
and thence largely into formic acid -- the major causes of the
dreaded symptoms of "next morning" hangover.

Fully 11% of aspartame is methanol --
1,120 mg aspartame in 2 L diet soda,
almost six 12-oz cans, gives 123 mg methanol (wood alcohol).
If 30% of the methanol is turned into formaldehyde,
the amount of formaldehyde, 37 mg, is 18.5 times the USA EP
limit for daily formaldehyde in drinking water,
2.0 mg in 2 L average daily drinking water.

Medicine has to consider that the many sources of methanol and
formaldehyde are additive co-factors.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1286
methanol products (formaldehyde and formic acid)
are main cause of alcohol hangover symptoms
[same as from similar amounts of methanol, the 11% part of
aspartame]: YS Woo et al, 2005 Dec: Murray 2006.01.20

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1143
methanol (formaldehyde, formic acid) disposition:
Bouchard M et al, full plain text, 2001:
substantial sources are degradation of fruit pectins,
liquors, aspartame, smoke: Murray 2005.04.02


"... aspartame. It's perfectly safe," eminent diabetes MD S. Kalani
Brady -- er, Doctor, RX for ignorance, 3 days earnest study of
recent 2 years of mainstream research by groups independent of
vested interests: Murray 2008.01.27
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm
Sunday, January 27, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1507

details on 6 epidemiological studies since 2004 on diet soda (mainly
aspartame) correlations, as well as 14 other mainstream studies on
aspartame toxicity since summer 2005: Murray 2007.11.27
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.htm
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1490

Hawaiian aspartame ban bills in House and Senate challenge
corporate clout, Sen. J. Kalani English & Suzanne Chun Oakland,
Rep. Calvin K.Y. Say & Mele Carroll: Murray 2008.01.25
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm
Friday, January 25, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1505

http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/...bers/rep13.asp

Mele Carroll
13th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 405
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone 808-586-6790; fax 808-586-6779
From Maui, toll free 984-2400 + 66790
From Molokai and Lanai,
toll free 1-800-468-4644 + 66790
E-mail ;

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1426
ASDA (unit of Wal-Mart Stores WMT.N) and Marks & Spencer
will join Tesco and also Sainsbury to ban and limit
aspartame, MSG, artificial flavors dyes preservatives additives,
trans fats, salt "nasties" to protect kids from ADHD:
leading UK media: Murray 2007.05.15

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNMmessage/1451
Artificial sweeteners (aspartame, sucralose) and coloring
agents will be banned from use in newly-born and baby foods,
the European Parliament decided: Latvia ban in schools 2006:
Murray 2007.07.12

"Of course, everyone chooses, as a natural priority, to enjoy peace,
joy, and love by helping to find, quickly share, and positively act
upon evidence about healthy and safe food, drink, and environment."

Rich Murray, MA Room For All
505-501-2298 1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1469
highly toxic formaldehyde, the cause of alcohol hangovers, is made by
the body from 100 mg doses of methanol from dark wines and liquors,
dimethyl dicarbonate, and aspartame: Murray 2007.08.31

http://RMForAll.blogspot.com new primary archive

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/messages
group with 119 members, 1,509 posts in a public archive
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Lawmakers Fault FEMA on Trailers

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From News Services and Staff Reports
Tuesday, January 29, 2008; Page A03

Lawmakers Fault FEMA on Trailers

Democratic leaders of a House science subcommittee alleged
yesterday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency
manipulated scientific research into the potential danger posed by a
toxic gas emitted in trailers still housing tens of thousands of
survivors of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

FEMA "ignored, hid and manipulated government research on the
potential impact of long-term exposure to formaldehyde" on Katrina
and Rita victims now living in the FEMA trailers, the congressmen
wrote in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff,
whose department includes FEMA.

Reps. Brad Miller (N.C.) and Nick Lampson (Tex.) cited agency
documents given to Congress in alleging that the federal Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention -- generally considered a repository
of nonpartisan scientific expertise -- was "complicit in giving FEMA
precisely what they wanted" to suppress the adverse health effects.

The lawmakers said the CDC's Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry ignored one of its experts, Christopher T. De Rosa,
after he informed FEMA there was no "safe level" of long-term
exposure. They said FEMA bypassed that opinion and "shopped"
the agency for its desired recommendation to study only short-term
exposure.

"Any level of exposure to formaldehyde may pose a cancer risk,
regardless of duration," De Rosa wrote in a Feb. 27, 2007, letter
to a FEMA lawyer, recently obtained by a House Science and
Technology investigative subcommittee that Miller chairs. "Failure
to communicate this issue is possibly misleading and a threat to
public health."

De Rosa wrote the letter after learning that the CDC bypassed his
office to produce a Feb. 1, 2007, report for FEMA that did not
consider long-term exposure risks, contradicting his recommendation
to the agency in June 2006.

"Honest scientific studies don't start with the conclusion, and then
work backwards from there," Miller said.

FEMA said the health agency's report last February did not address
long-term health effects but rather concerned ways to avoid toxic
exposure to formaldehyde. "FEMA did not suppress or
inappropriately influence any report," agency spokesman James
McIntyre said.

More than 40,000 trailers are still being used by families displaced
by
Katrina in August 2005 and Rita weeks later. FEMA announced last
July that it would test occupied trailers, after congressional
investigators disclosed that the agency had suppressed warnings for
more than a year from its field workers about health problems
experienced by Katrina survivors.

Tests on 500 trailers, finally begun last month, are being performed
by CDC, the lawmakers noted. "The Committee is concerned about
the independence and scientific integrity of any indoor air testing
for
formaldehyde levels in these trailers done under the auspices of
FEMA," Miller and Samson wrote.

"For those who are too poor to live elsewhere, FEMA's position
remains as it was in 2006: there are no possible adverse health
effects that can't be cured by opening the windows," they added.

1/29/2008 12:28:27 PM rhfalk wrote:

It is not as though formaldehyde was not known to be present in
mobile homes.

In a scientific paper published in 1998
(Biotherapy 11: 205-220, The Causes and Prevention of Cancer:
The Role of the Environment), Bruce Ames and Lois Gold,
eminent researchers at the University of California, Berkeley,
clearly indicated that this was the case.

There is nothing mysterious about formaldehyde or a great deal of
other compounds that have potential carcinogenic effects as listed in
this excellent research paper.

Lots of rather common things have the potential to cause cancer.

Ames and Gold's paper can be found at
http://potency.berkeley.edu/pdfs/Biotherapy1998.pdf

Section of Cardiology, Boston University School of Medicine,
Boston, MA 02118, USA. ;


Last name Derosa
First name Christopher
Middle name T.
Agency ATSDR
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Job title ACT. SPECIAL ASST FOR TOXICOLOGY
Building CCTR
Duty station Atlanta GA 30329
Mail stop E28
Phone 404.498.0284 Fax 404.498.0083
Internet e-mail ;
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http://potency.berkeley.edu/pdfs/Biotherapy1998.pdf

Biotherapy 11: 205-220, 1998.
© 1998 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.
The Causes and Prevention of Cancer: The Role of Environment
Bruce N. Ames 1
and Lois Swirsky Gold 2
1 Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California,
Berkeley, CA 94720-3202;
2 Life Sciences Division, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720

Nutrition and Metabolism Center, Children's Hospital of Oakland
Research Institute, Oakland, CA 94609, USA. ;

University of Washington School of Public Health and Community
Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Seattle, Washington, USA.
;
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Seizures and hyponatremia after excessive intake of diet coke, LJ
Mortelmans, M Van Loo, HG De Cauwer, K Merlevede, Klina
General Hospital, Brasschaat, Belgium, EJEM 2008 Feb:
Mark D. Gold critique: Murray 2008.01.10
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm
Thursday, January 10, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1502


See also:
possible neurologic effects of aspartame, TJ Maher, RJ Wurtman,
Environ. Health Persp. 1987 Nov, full text: other seizure reports re
aspartame, methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid: Murray 2008.01.10
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm
Thursday, January 10, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1501


Eur J Emerg Med. 2008 Feb; 15(1): 51.
Seizures and hyponatremia after excessive intake of diet coke.
Mortelmans LJ, ;
Van Loo M,
De Cauwer HG, ;
Merlevede K. ;
Departments of
a Emergency Medicine
b Neurology,
Klina General Hospital, Brasschaat, Belgium.

We describe a case of epileptic seizures after a massive intake of
diet coke.

Apart from the hyponatremia due to water intoxication the
convulsions can be potentiated by the high dose of caffeine and
aspartame from the diet coke.

To our knowledge this is the first report of seizures due to
excessive diet coke intake. PMID: 18180668


Methyl alcohol ingestion as a model etiologic agent in multiple
sclerosis, WC Monte, D Glanzman, C Johnston; Methanol induced
neuropathology in the mammalian central nervous system, Woodrow
C. Monte, Renee Ann Zeising, both reports 1989.12.04:
Murray 2007.12.28
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.htm
Friday, December 28 2007
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1499

[ These seminal 1989 studies by Prof. Woodrow C. Monte are also
given in this previous post, along his two recent comprehensive
reviews:

role of formaldehyde, made by body from methanol from foods and
aspartame, in steep increases in fetal alcohol syndrome, autism,
multiple sclerosis, lupus, teen suicide, breast cancer, Nutrition
Prof. Woodrow C. Monte, retired, Arizona State U., two reviews,
190 references supplied, Fitness Life, New Zealand 2007 Nov, Dec:
Murray 2007.12.26
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.htm
Wednesday, December 26 2007
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1498 ]

folic acid prevents neurotoxicity from formic acid, made by body from
methanol impurity in alcohol drinks [ also 11 % of aspartame ], BM
Kapur, PL Carlen, DC Lehotay, AC Vandenbroucke, Y Adamchik,
U. of Toronto, 2007 Dec., Alcoholism Cl. Exp. Res.:
Murray 2007.11.27
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.htm
Wednesday, November 27, 2007
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1495

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1340
aspartame groups and books: updated research review of
2004.07.16: Murray 2006.05.11

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1453
Souring on fake sugar (aspartame), Jennifer Couzin,
Science 2007.07.06: 4 page letter to FDA from 12 eminent
USA toxicologists re two Ramazzini Foundation
cancer studies 2007.06.25: Murray 2007.07.18

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1341
Connecticut bans artificial sweeteners in schools, Nancy Barnes,
New Milford Times: Murray 2006.05.25

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1369
Bristol, Connecticut, schools join state program to limit artificial
sweeteners, sugar, fats for 8800 students, Johnny J Burnham,
The Bristol Press: Murray 2006.09.22

Devra Lee Davis, U. Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, rejects aspartame --
Luke Ravenstahl, Mayor, drinks 12 cans Diet Pepsi daily: accurate
warning by Ronald K. Frazer: Murray 2008.01.13
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm
Sunday, January 13, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1503

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy
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