My take on Aspartame has been screwed!

[Pale Horse]

Man, every time I think I git something figured out this happens!

DONALD RUMSFELD AND ASPARTAME Posted: May 9, 200412:18 AM

Easternby NWV Staff Writer© 2004 NewsWithViews.com

Aspartame is an additive found in diet soft drinks and over 5,000 foods, drugs and medicine. It was approved in 1983 for use in carbonated beverages. However, there may be more sour than sweet when it comes to aspartame. In reality, aspartame is a drug, not an additive in the sense many people associate with that word. It interacts with other drugs, has a synergistic and additive effect with MSG, and is a chemical hyper-sensitization agent. Dr. John Olney, who founded the field of neuoscience called excitotoxicity, attempted to stop the approval of aspartame with Attorney James Turner back in 1996. The FDA's own toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross told Congress that without a shadow of a doubt, aspartame can cause brain tumors and brain cancer and violated the Delaney Amendment which forbids putting anything in food that is known to cause Cancer. Detailed information on this can be found in the Bressler Report (FDA report on Searle). Dr. Olney isn't alone in attempting to reach out to the medical community and warn the American people about this drug. Dr. Ralph Walton, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine has written of the behavioral and psychiatric problems triggered by aspartame-caused depletion of serotonin. According to the top doctors and researchers on this issue, aspartame causes headache, memory loss, seizures, vision loss, coma and cancer. It worsens or mimics the symptoms of such diseases and conditions as fibromyalgia, MS, lupus, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue and depression. Further dangers highlighted is that aspartame liberates free methyl alcohol. The resulting chronic methanol poisoning affects the dopamine system of the brain causing addiction. Methanol, or wood alcohol, constitutes one third of the aspartame molecule and is classified as a severe metabolic poison and narcotic. Dr. Woodrow Monte in the peer reviewed journal, Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Health, wrote: "When diet sodas and soft drinks, sweetened with aspartame, are used to replace fluid loss during exercise and physical exertion in hot climates, the intake of methanol can exceed 250 mg/day or 32 times the Environmental Protection Agency's recommended limit of consumption for this cumulative poison."

Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, MD, author of "Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills," wrote about the relationship between aspartame and macular degeneration, diabetic blindness and glaucoma (all known to result from excitotoxin accumulation in the retina). The medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, by Dr. H. J. Roberts is 1038 pages of symptoms and diseases triggered by this neurotoxin. The claim is made that aspartame has even caused the epidemic of obesity because it makes you crave carbohydrates so you gain weight, and the formaldehyde accumulates in the adipose tissue (fat cells) according to the Trocho Study. Further accusations are that aspartame is also responsible for the epidemic of diabetes as it not only can precipitate diabetes but simulates and aggravates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, can cause diabetics to go into convulsions and interacts with insulin .

The effects of aspartame are documented by the FDA's own data. In 1995 the agency was forced, under the Freedom of Information Act, to release a list of ninety-two aspartame symptoms reported by thousands of victims. It appears this is only the tip of the iceberg. H. J. Roberts, MD, published the medical text "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" -- 1,000 pages of symptoms and diseases triggered by this neurotoxin including the sordid history of its approval. Since its discovery in 1965, controversy has raged over the health risks associated with the sugar substitute. From laboratory testing of the chemical on rats, researchers have discovered that the drug induces brain tumors. On Sept 30, 1980 the Board of Inquiry of the FDA concurred and denied the petition for approval. In 1981, the newly appointed FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull Hayes, ignored the negative ruling and approved aspartame for dry goods. As recorded in the Congressional Record of 1985, then CEO of Searle Laboratories Donald Rumsfeld said that he would "call in his markers" to get aspartame approved. Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and a day after taking office appointed Hayes. No FDA Commissioner in the previous sixteen years had allowed aspartame on the market. Dr. Betty Martini has worked in the medical field for 22 years. She is the founder of Mission Possible International, working with doctors around the world in an effort to remove aspartame from food, drinks and medicine. According to Dr. Martini, aspartame has brought more complaints to the American Food and Drug Administration than any other additive and is responsible for 75% of such complaints to that agency. From 10,000 consumer complaints FDA compiled a list of 92 symptoms, including death. The history of aspartame and its approval has a political history as well as a scientific one. According to Dr. Martini, "When Donald Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle, that conglomerate manufactured aspartame. For 16 years the FDA refused to approve it, not only because its not safe but because they wanted the company indicted for fraud. Both U.S. Prosecutors hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations expired.

They were Sam Skinner and William Conlon. Skinner went on to become Secretary of Transportation squelching the cries of the pilots who were now having seizures on this seizure triggering drug, aspartame, and then Chief of Staff under President Bush's father. Some of these people reach high places. Even Supreme Justice Clarence Thomas is a former Monsanto attorney. (Monsanto bought Searle in 1985, and sold it a few years ago). When Ashcroft became Attorney General, Thompson from King and Spalding Attorneys (another former Monsanto attorney) became deputy under Ashcroft. (Attorneys for NutraSweet and Coke). "However, the FDA still refused to allow NutraSweet on the market. It is a deadly neurotoxic drug masquerading as an additive. It interacts with all antidepressants, L-dopa, Coumadin, hormones, insulin, all cardiac medication, and many others. It also is a chemical hyper sensitization drug so that it interacts with vaccines, other toxins, other unsafe sweeteners like Splenda which has a chlorinated base like DDT and can cause auto immune disease. It has a synergistic and additive effect with MSG. Both being excitotoxins, the aspartic acid in aspartame, and MSG, the glutamate people were found using aspartame as the placebo for MSG studies, even before it was approved.

[brian11]

wowzers, another great reason to not let your kids drink soft drinks!!!


-B-

[Pale Horse]

Yeah, I knew it was not the best for you but didn't really think it to be that severe. I love diet soda. What now?

[brian11]

Yeah, I knew it was not the best for you but didn't really think it to be that severe. I love diet soda. What now?

As a kid i drank 4, 5 sodas a day. I loved them. Now that im a little older and have gotten a little more serious about lifting, all i drink is water. 2 gallons a day and you dont have time to drink anything else. Plus it makes it a treat when i rarely do dip into a soda or some other sugary drink. And by no means am i really hardcore about my diet, but taking soda out was probably the best thing ive ever done.

-B-

[Pale Horse]

Well I don't get into sugar really at all. Diabetes runs in the Family and I got a bout of type 2 a couple of years ago that is gone since I got off my ass and started working out again. Thus the diet soda. Man I gotta have some flava! What am I gonna do plain H2O is so bland. Just gotta suck it up. I could have worse problems.

[brian11]

Well I don't get into sugar really at all. Diabetes runs in the Family and I got a bout of type 2 a couple of years ago that is gone since I got off my ass and started working out again. Thus the diet soda. Man I gotta have some flava! What am I gonna do plain H2O is so bland. Just gotta suck it up. I could have worse problems.

You can make blend with crystal light. Take the amount of CL powder that you would normally make 2qts with and put it in a gallon jug. Diluted CL tastes better than just plain water. I just stick to the plain stuff though.

-B-

[Pale Horse]

CL has Aspertame too, it's a fu*cking conspiracy I tell you!

[brian11]

CL has Aspertame too, it's a fu*cking conspiracy I tell you!

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, i didnt read that part if it was in your initial post.....****

-B-

[Pale Horse]

Basicaly everything today with artificial sweetener is full of Aspertame, no way around it. The best sweetener in on the planet is Stevia a natural plant 100 times more potent than sugar that won't jack with your blood sugar, it's 100% natural.

[Pale Horse]

Bump ............people should read this one.

[Cousin Eddie]

Good read.

I have tried Stevia but could never get anything to taste right using it.

What about Splenda? How long before they say it kills too?

[InsaneInTheMembrane]

Good read.

I have tried Stevia but could never get anything to taste right using it.

What about Splenda? How long before they say it kills too?

..uhh...they're already saying it... That stuff is chlorinated and has many sides as well...

[Aboot]

Have you gone to the web site that published this article? They're a bunch of wack jobs.