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Curtain Fall on the Aspartame Follies
THENHF Fri, 02 May 2008
Found in markets under the brand names NutraSweet, Equal, E951, Canderel, and Benevia, aspartame (“APM”) has been sold for many years now as a safer sweetener than sugar or saccharin. And since aspartame is made of two amino acids that naturally occur in many foods, it is easy to convince consumers that this “natural” product is safe. Too many years have gone by since aspartame was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) for use as a sweetener, despite convincing evidence presented that this artificial product posed serious safety risks. New awareness of these risks, however, is bringing the curtain down on this charade.

Listen in on the Senate Congressional Hearing on aspartame recorded in the Congressional Record of May 7, 1985, where Senator Howard Metzenbaum, an outspoken critic of aspartame, said, “G.D. Searle Company has not demonstrated to a reasonable certainty that the use of aspartame in soft drinks will not adversely affect human health as a result of the changes such use is likely to cause in the brain chemistry. The extensive deficiencies in the stability studies conducted by Searle render those studies inadequate and unreliable.”
HI Aspartame Resolution Not Scheduled - Thus Killed
RENSE Tue, 29 Apr 2008
This is a letter published with the permission of Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder of Mission Possible International to Hawaii Senate Health Chair, Sen. David Ige, who although signed the Hawaii Senate Resolution asking FDA to rescind approval for aspartame, ended up in fact never scheduling it for the obligatory hearing in his Senate Health Committee, thus killing the Resolution that he had signed with ten other Senate Committee Chairs and Vice Chairs!
Did the Sweetener lobby kill off a competitor in 1974 ?
WORLDPRESSNETWORK Mon, 28 Apr 2008
The BBC story below on a "Miracle Berry" alternative to artificial sweeteners seems to provide anecdotal evidence that the FDA, which in 1974 didn't allow the berry to be introduced into food, is in bed with big business. It seems that it is prepared to be used to kill off new competitors, and then refuse to disclose its reasoning even after a Freedom of Information request.

With the history of how the FDA reversed its position on Aspartame / Phenylalanine from an initial decline, this puts a different light onto the world we face today where a huge number of individuals are overweight and heading to an early death, plus the immeasurable damage which artificial sweeteners might have caused to mental and physical development. Can the military-industrial complex be to blame for all this ?

There should be an international court convened to hear the evidence against artificial sweeteners which are being pumped into the food supply, including into children's medicine. It seems ironic that medicine which is supposed to cure you might be making you worse in the long term -- which would require us to buy even more medicines from these corporations.
The miracle berry
BBC Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:54:47 GMT
Imagine an extract from a berry that would make sour things taste sweet and help you lose weight. Then imagine not being allowed to take it.

The world is getting fatter. One billion people are overweight, and 300 million of those are clinically obese.

The search is always on for replacements for those things that, eaten in excess, make us obese - fatty and sugary foods. There is no miracle pill that can replace either. Nearly four decades ago one man came close to providing a tablet that could reduce our love of sugar. In the 1960s, Robert Harvey, a biomedical postgraduate student, encountered the miracle berry, an African fruit which turns sour tastes to sweet.

The FDA, which had previously been very supportive, wrote to Miralin, effectively banning its product. No co-incidence, according to Don Emery.

"I honestly believe that we were done in by some industrial interest that did not want to see us survive because we were a threat. Somebody influenced somebody in the FDA to cause the regulatory action that was taken against us."

The Calorie Control Council, which represents artificial sweetener manufacturers in the US, has failed to respond to questions on the issue.

The Food and Drugs Administration also refused to be interviewed and has indicated that a Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation request to look at the relevant FDA files will not be considered for a year. Robert Harvey had requested the same files over 30 years ago.

"We got back the most redacted information I've ever seen from FOI. Everything was blacked out. There would have been material in the file that would have embarrassed the FDA, I believe."

Faced with this silence, it's virtually impossible to assess what actually happened to prevent the miracle berry's progress to a sugar-free market.

But one thing is certain, it never got the chance to prove whether it really would have provided a miracle in our ever fattening world. And for Robert Harvey, that's the biggest shame of all.

"It was a big loss not only for my employees and shareholders but, even more importantly, for diabetics and other people with special dietary needs. It was tragic."
Aspartame Harms Diabetics
HAWAIIREPORTER Mon, 31 Mar 2008

Q. Should diabetic patients, in particular, be concerned about aspartame?

A. Yes. I believe that aspartame can aggravate diabetes and its complications, especially eye problems and neuropathy, or it can simulate the complications of diabetes. In other words, aspartame disease can simulate diabetic retinopathy or peripheral neuropathy. When patients discontinue these products, they usually get better. In terms of aggravating diabetes, consuming aspartame either can bring out latent diabetes clinically or can lead to insulin resistance, which would require patients to take oral drugs to increase the amount of insulin required. The bottom line is that when people stop ingesting these products, the symptoms usually improve.
One Woman's Astonishing Experiment With Aspartame
MERCOLA Tue, 11 Mar 2008
Victoria Inness-Brown’s family was addicted to diet soda. After researching the effects of aspartame, she strongly believed the artificial sweetener might one day lead to their illness or even their early deaths.

So she decided to perform her own aspartame experiment -- with 108 rats for 2 years and 8 months. Daily, she fed some of the rats the equivalent, for their body weight, of two-thirds the aspartame contained in 8-oz of diet soda.

Eleven of the females who took aspartame -- 37 percent -- developed tumors, some of massive size.
MSG and ASPARTAME- A PERSONAL STORY - Could Aspartame and MSG have caused my excruciating headaches and paralyzing panic attacks?
WHATREALLYHAPPENED Tue, 12 Feb 2008
A bill at the Hawaii legislature that would have banned aspartame just sputtered and died.

Did anyone actually think lawmakers would ban aspartame? They would have to ban about 6000 food products. Not likely.

I’ve been a television news reporter for 34 years and I have won the Hawaii Medical Association Distinguished Medical Reporting Award five times. I didn’t win those awards for going on TV and telling people how to be healthy. I won the awards for reporting the AMA company line; the newest drugs, the latest surgery, and the most advanced methods of zapping cancer with radiation.

So here’s my health story. I suffered from migraines and panic attacks. Doctors prescribed drugs for both conditions.

I had heard several interviews with Dr. Russell Blaylock and I began to wonder about food additives. So I did my own research. I found out things my doctors didn’t know. I read as much as I could find about Asparatame and MSG. Could Aspartame and MSG have caused my excruciating headaches and paralyzing panic attacks?

MSG was a hard one. It is in everything. I am a vegetarian and I used to cook with a powered vegetable broth that I purchased at my local “health food” store. The main ingredient was “hydrolyzed protein.” I looked that one up and discovered it is MSG. MSG has many hidden names. (Do an Internet search for “HIDDEN MSG”) Those bastards!

I now make my own vegetable broth. It’s easy. Two onions, chopped, three carrots, chopped. One stalk of celery, chopped. Six cloves of garlic. Drizzle some olive oil and toss on some sea salt. Roast in the oven until everything begins to darken and caramelize. Toss the veggies in a pot with about 8 cups of water and simmer for an hour. Strain and you have a great broth for soups, stir-fries, and it has no MSG. Does it take time and effort? Yes. Does it beat writhing on the floor with a pounding, excruciating headache? Absolutely.

I stopped eating at restaurants. This is difficult when you’re a news reporter on the go. I take my own food with me. I know about 5 places in Honolulu that don’t use MSG. When I go to the grocery it takes longer for me to check out because most of the food I buy does not have a bar code. I buy fresh whole foods. I make just about everything I eat from scratch.

Guess what? I stopped having migraines and panic attacks. Now this is what we call “anecdotal” evidence. It is not a scientific study and no medical claims can be made from my personal testimony. I won’t even put this on the local news as a story. But when I eat something with “autolyzed yeast” or “natural flavoring” I get knocked down with terrible headache. I realized that my heart would race and my breathing would become labored after consuming anything with aspartame, even one diet soda. The more you clean up your diet the more sensitive you become.

Do not wait for the government to take action. Just stop eating these poisons.
Artificial sweeteners linked to weight gain
EUREKALERT Tue, 12 Feb 2008
Cutting the connection between sweets and calories may confuse the body, making it harder to regulate intake

Want to lose weight? It might help to pour that diet soda down the drain. Researchers have laboratory evidence that the widespread use of no-calorie sweeteners may actually make it harder for people to control their intake and body weight. The findings appear in the February issue of Behavioral Neuroscience, which is published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
Speak out against aspartame
MOLOKAITIMES Tue, 12 Feb 2008
What do arsenic, asbestos, aspartame and lead all have in common? They are not generally recognized as safe (GRAS). We know from history and even from more recent times that you can easily kill someone by giving them small doses of arsenic until eventually it builds up in the body to a level toxic and the person or animal dies. Being a civilized country we have put in place controls so that poisonings, intended or accidental, are avoided.

As long as known neurotoxins such as aspartame, monosodium glutamate (MSG) and hydrolyzed vegetable protein (which is commonly listed on product labels as “natural flavors, natural flavoring, spices, yeast extract, textured protein” and “soy protein extract”) are considered GRAS, we are eating chemicals known to have cumulative levels within the body which are indeed deadly.
Banning Aspartame - A Common Sense Precaution, By New Mexico Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino
RENSE Tue, 12 Feb 2008
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 Stephen Fox and Dr. Kenneth Stoller, and the remarkable Dr. Betty Martini 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.

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 Donald 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.
UPDATE ON HAWAII BILLS TO BAN ASPARTAME
WORLDPRESSNETWORK Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:30:26 GMT
These New Mexico bills were overwhelmed and eviscerated in New Mexico by some of the most vicious corporate lobbyists I have ever encountered, representing Ajinomoto of Japan, the world's largest manufacturer of both aspartame and MSG, as well as their duped American corporate henchmen/partners-in-poisoning who use massive amounts of Aspartame, like Coca Cola, Pepsi, Altria/Kraft Corporate Services, and others. The same corporations and even more will show up in Honolulu, make no mistake! Probably to include Wrigley's Gum, all of whose products contain aspartame, which is metabolized as methanol and formaldehyde.

These corporations have everything to lose if such bills advance and ultimately lead to the inevitable product liability and personal injury suits from those damaged by aspartame, which number in the hundreds of millions, despite their corporate serving propaganda and lies.
Feeling A Lot Like Victory -- Over Aspartame
SCOOP Wed, 02 Jan 2008
Think Before You Drink is the life-saving theme of Phoenix Organics anti-aspartame campaign. They're backing their words with 20,000 free bottles labeled with the truth about this poisonous sweetener, the ingredient in Diet ...
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Super Size My Aspartame by trillion
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Sweet Misery - A Poisoned World
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Excellent documentary showing how dangerous artificial sweetner Aspartame is. From its history, to its effects this video is enough to shock anyone into really looking at there food labels...

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