BREAKING NEWS: ASPARTAME LAWSUITS
Alan B. Mac Farlane
kills and Bush telling US that checks and balances are not necessary, as
Congressional oversight is just fine and who gets killed ... why it is US.)
BREAKING NEWS: ASPARTAME LAWSUITS
Aspartame Lawsuits Filed Against Some of the World's Largest Companies For
Poisoning Consumers
Leading Fortune 500 Companies, Coke, Pepsi, Walmart, Kraft General Foods,
etc. filed against for knowingly poisoning the public with aspartame
SACRAMENTO, CA (PRWEB) April 11, 2004--ASPARTAME LAWSUITS ACCUSE MANY
COMPANIES OF POISONING THE PUBLIC. Defendants in the lawsuits include
Coca-cola, PepsiCo, Bayer Corp., the Dannon Company, William Wrigley Jr.
Company, Walmart, ConAgra Foods, Wyeth, Inc., The NutraSweet Company, and
Altria Corp. (parent company of Kraft Foods and Philip Morris).
Lawsuits were filed in three separate California courts against twelve
companies who either produce or use the artificial sweetener aspartame as a
sugar substitute in their products. The suits were filed in Shasta, Sonoma
and Butte County, California.
The suits allege that the food companies committed fraud and breach of
warranty UCC by marketing products to the public such as diet Coke, diet
Pepsi, sugar free gum, Flintstone's vitamins, yogurt and children's aspirin
with the full knowledge that aspartame, the sweetener in them, is
neurotoxic.
Aspartame is a drug masquerading as an additive. It interacts with other
drugs, has a synergistic and additive effect with MSG, and is a chemical
hyper-sensitization agent. As far back as 1970, Dr. John Olney founded the
field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity when he did studies on aspartic
acid, which makes up 40% of aspartame, and found it caused lesions in the
brains of mice. He made world news on the aspartame/brain tumor connection
in l996. 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.
1. 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
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.
Recent news is full of reports of world-class athletes and other healthy
consumers of aspartame suddenly dropping dead. Sudden death can occur from
aspartame use because it damages the cardiac conduction system 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."
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.
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 September 30, l980 the Board of Inquiry of the FDA concurred and
denied the petition for approval. In l981, 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.
In 1983, aspartame was approved for use in carbonated beverages. Today it is
found in over 5000 foods, drinks and medicines.
Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, MD, author of "Excitotoxins: The Taste that
Kills" http://www.russellblaylockmd.com <http://www.russellblaylockmd.com/>
wrote about the relationship between aspartame and macular degeneration,
diabetic blindness and glaucoma (all known to result from excitotoxin
accumulation in the retina).
All of these neurodegenerative diseases are worsened by aspartame. In
addition, we now have evidence that excitotoxins play a major role in
exacerbation of MS and other demyelinating disorders including trigeminal
neuralgia. Blaylock says that new studies show excitotoxins trigger
significant elevation of free radicals in the lining (endothelial cells) of
arteries, which means that aspartame will increase the incidence of heart
attacks and strokes (atherosclerosis).
In original studies, aspartame has triggered brain, mammary, uterine,
ovarian, testicular, thyroid and pancreatic tumors.
Plaintiffs have asked for an injunction to stop companies from producing,
manufacturing, processing, selling or using aspartame.
Plaintiffs in all three cases are seeking a jury trial. If you would like to
schedule someone from the National Justice League for an interview, please
call or fax us at 208-246-1171.
Roberta Bellon, Public Relations
NATIONAL JUSTICE LEAGUE
http://www.nationaljusticeleague.com
<http://www.nationaljusticeleague.com/> 2205 Hilltop Dr. Ste. 2022
Redding, Ca 96002
Phone: 208-246-1171
California: 530-248-3483
Cell Phone: 208-890-0034
E-mail: in...@nationaljusticeleague.com
<http://us.f405.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=in...@nationaljusticeleague.com>
FOR INFORMATION ON ASPARTAME:
http://www.dorway.com
<http://www.dorway.com/> http://www.wnho.net
<http://www.wnho.net/>
You can also contact Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible Intl, 9270
River Club
Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097 USA 770-242-2599
cal
news:BCBE39FB.EAD%al...@sonic.net...
> (this is worth the read, with the Chinese being marketed baby formula that
> kills and Bush telling US that checks and balances are not necessary, as
> Congressional oversight is just fine and who gets killed ... why it is
> US.)
>
> BREAKING NEWS: ASPARTAME LAWSUITS
>
> Aspartame Lawsuits Filed Against Some of the World's Largest Companies For
> Poisoning Consumers
>
> Leading Fortune 500 Companies, Coke, Pepsi, Walmart, Kraft General Foods,
> etc. filed against for knowingly poisoning the public with aspartame
i'm not overly fond of these corporations myself, but i think this is a
frivolous lawsuit and will fail. sensationalizing allegations like this
does a disservice to people on sugar-restricted diets, who don't need a
continuous slew of fear-mongering quasi-political bullshit from
herbologists, naturopaths and assorted inner healing whackos on top of the
other daily trials and stress we already have to cope with.
to balance the viewpoint, this is worth a read as well. it's a report posted
recently by canada's federal ministry of health (aka "health canada").
Health Canada acknowledges the safety of aspartame
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Aspartame, a low-calorie artificial sweetener, has been permitted for use as
a food additive in Canada since 1981 in a number of foods including soft
drinks, desserts, breakfast cereals and chewing gum and is also available as
a table-top sweetener. It is made by the bonding together of the amino acids
aspartic acid and phenylalanine, which are normal constituents of proteins,
to form a dipeptide which is further esterified with methanol.
In Canada, food additives such as aspartame are subjected to rigorous
controls under the Food and Drugs Act and Regulations. Before any food
additive is permitted for use, manufacturers are required to file a food
additive submission in accordance with Section B.16.002 of the Regulations.
A submission must contain detailed information, including the results of
safety tests, as well as information respecting the utility and potential
benefits to the consumer of the additive in question.
Before consideration was given to permitting aspartame for use in foods in
Canada, officials of Health Canada evaluated an extensive array of
toxicological tests in laboratory animals and, since its listing for use,
they have examined the results of a number of clinical studies in humans.
There is no evidence to suggest that the consumption of foods containing
this sweetener, according to the provisions of the Food and Drug Regulations
and as part of a well-balanced diet, would pose a health hazard to
consumers.
In addition, other scientific advisory bodies such as the
Scientific Committee for Food of the European Community, and the Joint
Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) of the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization have reviewed all the
available safety studies and have found aspartame to be safe. More than
ninety countries world-wide, including the United States, countries of the
European Union, and Australia and New Zealand, have also reviewed aspartame
and found it to be safe for human consumption and allow its use in various
foods.
Although aspartame can be safely consumed by most healthy individuals, it
has long been recognized that excessive intake of phenylalanine, one of the
constituent amino acids of aspartame, can pose a hazard to individuals
suffering from an inherited metabolic disorder called phenylketonuria. For
this reason, all foods containing aspartame must indicate on the label the
presence of phenylalanine.
An acceptable daily intake (ADI) of 40 milligrams/kilogram of body
weight/day was established by scientists in the Food Directorate of Health
Canada. This ADI is recognized internationally and is the same as that
established by the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) of the
Food and Agriculture Organization/World Health Organization (FAO/WHO).
As part of a post-market surveillance program, a study was conducted in 1987
to monitor the actual consumption of aspartame in Canada. This study which
involved 5200 Canadian households and 7500 individuals, demonstrated that
the actual consumption of aspartame was well below the recommended ADI even
during the warmest period of the year when soft drink consumption would be
expected to be high. Furthermore, follow-up studies on human subjects
revealed that no adverse effects were observed even when humans were exposed
to higher intakes than the established ADI.
Intakes of aspartame would be expected to be even lower now since other
high-intensity sweeteners such as acesulfame-K and sucralose have been
approved for use and compete on the market with aspartame.
Inspite of decades of scientific research attesting to the safety of
aspartame, negative allegations about the safety of aspartame have appeared
in the media and on the internet for a number of years. Some of the most
common allegations and the scientific facts refuting them are as follows.
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Allegation: The methanol in aspartame is toxic and is linked to numerous
health problems including lupus and blindness, and also mimics multiple
sclerosis
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Not supported.
While methanol is a by-product of aspartame digestion, it is not foreign to
the human diet. The pectin in many common foods including fruits and
vegetables and their juices contains low levels of methanol and substances
that are metabolised to methanol. A cup of tomato juice would provide about
six times more methanol than a cup of aspartame-containing soft drink.
Dietary methanol, whether it comes from aspartame or common foods, is
present at levels too low to cause any health problems. It does not
accumulate in the body but is metabolised through normal metabolic pathways
to formaldehyde, then to formic acid and finally to water and carbon
dioxide.
As the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada has stated in a Medical Update
Memo available on its website at
http://www.mssociety.ca/en/research/PC990122.htm, there has been no
published peer-reviewed research supporting a link between aspartame and
multiple sclerosis and no evidence of an MS "epidemic" exists.
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Allegation: Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics
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Not supported.
When the evaluation of the safety of aspartame was conducted by Health
Canada, possible susceptible populations, including diabetics, were taken
into consideration. Studies before and after approval of aspartame have
shown that it can be used safely by people with diabetes.
A review of the available studies on aspartame and glycemic control is
available in a recent publication (The Clinical Evaluation of a Food
Additive: Assessment of Aspartame. 1996. Edited by C. Tschanz et al. CRC
Press). The conclusion of the authors was that in five well-conducted
studies, the addition of aspartame to the diabetic diet in single doses or
for prolonged periods of time did not affect control of blood sugar levels.
In addition, there were no effects on parameters indicative of insulin
counter-regulation.
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Allegation: Aspartame causes cancer and brain tumours
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Not supported.
Scientists in the world-wide scientific community, including Canadian
scientists, have found no link between aspartame consumption and the
incidence of cancer or brain tumours from a study of the safety studies
performed with aspartame.
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Allegation: Aspartame causes seizures
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Not supported.
Clinical studies conducted by medical researchers have shown that there is
no link between aspartame consumption and seizures.
One study was conducted on children and adults claiming to have experienced
aspartame-induced seizures. On some days they were given a placebo and on
other days they were given a large single dose of aspartame. Monitoring by
EEG of their brain signals demonstrated that aspartame was no more likely to
cause seizures than a placebo.
Another study on children with a medical history of seizures showed that
aspartame did not induce or worsen seizures in these seizure-prone subjects.
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Allegation: Aspartame causes allergic reactions
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Not supported.
Investigation of reports from people claiming to have had allergic reactions
to aspartame did not demonstrate a link between aspartame and allergic
reactions.
1.See 21 CFR 172.804, U.S. Code of Federal Regulations.
2.See European Parliament and Council Directive of 04/35/EC of June 1994 on
sweeteners for use in foodstuffs.
3.See Standard A8, Australia-New Zealand Food Authority.
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satyagrahas
i am using aspartame now since january because of non sugar diet i am
following, and i was a bit uspet because i am having more headaches, i
started to consider what in my new feeding would bring that to me and i
indeed had already started to consider that actually aspartame is the only
chemical element in my food.
i don't know what is true, only saying that this is pointing to something
that is starting to worry me, but i do not know yet how to deal without it,
i use it very little but i don't know..
maybe it should be wiser of me to totally avoid it as much as the artificial
sugar taste that it gave.
i have been reading also the other article, well, it is good to see that
studies has been made by governments as well, but maybe inside of me i have
so many doubts about the credibility of the politics who are carrying
responsabilities for our healths that i fear and doubt to trust them. it
seems/feels so much to me as we as humans are now only considered as
consumers and productive tools, i am doubting more and more the honesty of
those who govern us.
but i think in anyway it is good to question myself about my health which is
damaged, i sure do not want to make it worst.
thanks :)
satyagrahas
--
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"Alan B. Mac Farlane" <al...@sonic.net> a écrit dans le message de news:
BCBE39FB.EAD%al...@sonic.net...
linda
"satyagrahas" <satya...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> thank you alan :)
>
> i am using aspartame now since january because of non sugar diet i am
> following, and i was a bit uspet because i am having more headaches, i
> started to consider what in my new feeding would bring that to me and i
> indeed had already started to consider that actually aspartame is the only
> chemical element in my food.
>
> i don't know what is true, only saying that this is pointing to something
> that is starting to worry me, but i do not know yet how to deal without it,
> i use it very little but i don't know..
> maybe it should be wiser of me to totally avoid it as much as the artificial
> sugar taste that it gave.
> i have been reading also the other article, well, it is good to see that
> studies has been made by governments as well, but maybe inside of me i have
> so many doubts about the credibility of the politics who are carrying
> responsabilities for our healths that i fear and doubt to trust them. it
> seems/feels so much to me as we as humans are now only considered as
> consumers and productive tools, i am doubting more and more the honesty of
> those who govern us.
>
> but i think in anyway it is good to question myself about my health which is
> damaged, i sure do not want to make it worst.
>
> thanks :)
>
> satyagrahas
>
> --
Aspartame gave me headaches too. Splenda does much better if you can
get it.
kaitlyn
On Wed, 05 May 2004 23:18:35 -0700, linda <2creu...@suxcharter.net>
wrote:
>Aspartame gave me headaches too. Splenda does much better if you can
>get it.
I love Splenda. It doesn't have the after taste that Aspartame has. I
started using it when it first came out and I'll use nothing else
nowadays. I 'm happy that Diet Rite Cola is now using it instead of
Aspartame. I understand that Costco also has a diet cola which uses
Splenda.
astri
>Aspartame gave me headaches too. Splenda does much better if you can
>get it.
i gave up artificial sweetners when i was trying to get pregnant. i haven't
gone back to them, and don't really miss it. i usually drink selzer, cuz i
like the fizz. on the rare occasions that i want a flavored drink, i'll
take the regular stuff (most often something like lemonaide) or iced tea.
once, i tried a diet soft drink with aspartame again and got a headache, so
i didn't see any reason to go back to it.
-- astri
cal
news:Pine.BSI.4.58.04...@malasada.lava.net...
i've been eating and drinking the stuff daily for about ten years with no
headache or any other adverse effect, and i think it's just yummie. my
headaches actually used to be much worse than they are now, although i'm not
suggesting they declined because of regular aspartame use. just that for me
there's no connection at all. for me there's a connection between
occasional headache and not enough coffee, which is quickly remedied with a
mug of artificially sweetened vienna roast with a blop of milk and a couple
of extra-strength tylenols.
chemical cal
Alan B. Mac Farlane
is like natural ... not a chemical from a test tube. better living through
better chemistry ... make a new drug combination and its the new Ecestasy on
the street that is not illegal ... and lightening crashes, a new mother
dies, an angel cries as the tears come tumbling down. give up the drugs ...
it is a lot better ... me you might know is a 25 year malignant and
metastatic thyroid cancer survivor ... lots of near death experiences on the
way and I have something of a healthy life that I am making progress on.
sumbuddie duex amor
in article c7bf52$1vml0$1...@ID-191184.news.uni-berlin.de, satyagrahas at
satya...@hotmail.com wrote on 5/5/04 12:28 PM:
astri
before i gave it up, i was using lots of it daily. i never got headaches
from it then, that i noticed. i think the difference may be some sort of
tolerance or something--whatever the proper term to use. i see it as kind
of like a side effect that goes away if you keep taking a med. maybe it
only happens with some people.
-- astri
cal
> from it then, that i noticed. i think the difference may be some sort of
> tolerance or something--whatever the proper term to use. i see it as kind
> of like a side effect that goes away if you keep taking a med. maybe it
> only happens with some people.
as a diabetic i sometimes feel threatened by even well-intentioned efforts
to restrict my range of edible things even more than it already is.
cal
tinytim
Yeah me too....... I once ventured into a diabetic news group ( a UK based
one it grieves me to admit) and mentioned 'Stevia' as an option to
aspartame... Damnation I was flamed outa there so quick it'd make yer head
spin... Seems they'd had someone, or thought in their tiny minds that I was
someone, trying to sell the stuff to them. That wasn't the case at all, I
had indeed gone to considerable lengths to acquire some (s'not availabe in
the UK) for self testing and thought it to be on a par with aspartame as a
sweetener.
Asa
PS
Further flames for having the gall mentioning the stuff again will be
cheerfully ignored ;-)
>
> cal
astri
i certainly don't advocate diabetics not using sugar substitutes.
-- astri
linda
"cal" <cal...@hotmail.com> wrote:
the way it was explained to me was that it is like anything else. some
things affect some people some of the time. particularly with aspertame,
it's worse with those who are succeptable to migraines. (which I was)
i don't know about the chemical stuff but this has been around the
internet for a long time and hasn't gone away. it is worth looking
into,imo. i don't feel it's quackery. sure some take it a bit far but
when it doubt run unbiased testing. (imo)
my brother drinks diet coke a hell of a lot and he's got a brain tumor.
so this report does bother me.
fwiw,
linda
linda
"tinytim" <tin...@asarian-host.net> wrote:
> > as a diabetic i sometimes feel threatened by even well-intentioned
> > efforts to restrict my range of edible things even more than it
> > already is.
>
> Yeah me too....... I once ventured into a diabetic news group ( a UK based
> one it grieves me to admit) and mentioned 'Stevia' as an option to
> aspartame... Damnation I was flamed outa there so quick it'd make yer head
> spin... Seems they'd had someone, or thought in their tiny minds that I was
> someone, trying to sell the stuff to them. That wasn't the case at all, I
> had indeed gone to considerable lengths to acquire some (s'not availabe in
> the UK) for self testing and thought it to be on a par with aspartame as a
> sweetener.
>
> Asa
>
i've heard of stevia. could never find it though. have you ever had a
chance to try it out?
linda
linda
kaitlyn <kai...@asarian-host.net> wrote:
> X-No-Archive: Yes
>
> On Wed, 05 May 2004 23:18:35 -0700, linda <2creu...@suxcharter.net>
> wrote:
>
>
> >Aspartame gave me headaches too. Splenda does much better if you can
> >get it.
>
> I love Splenda. It doesn't have the after taste that Aspartame has. I
> started using it when it first came out and I'll use nothing else
> nowadays. I 'm happy that Diet Rite Cola is now using it instead of
> Aspartame. I understand that Costco also has a diet cola which uses
> Splenda.
>
>
that is good to know. i'll check out the costco cola. i haven't seen
diet rite up here as of yet.
linda
linda
oh crap. i forgot the x-no thingie kaitlyn. i'm sorry.
linda
In article <d1b7bc20d.809497a...@asarian-host.net>,
kaitlyn <kai...@asarian-host.net> wrote:
kaitlyn
On Thu, 06 May 2004 18:01:34 -0700, linda <2creu...@suxcharter.net>
wrote:
>
>
>oh crap. i forgot the x-no thingie kaitlyn. i'm sorry.
It's no problem, having it in the header does that to people. I
mainly use it for others and I hate to see my own words archived, but
don't seem to mind it so much when my words are archived in other's
posts.
Weird I know and it might say way to much about me for my own good.
>linda
>
>
>In article <d1b7bc20d.809497a...@asarian-host.net>,
> kaitlyn <kai...@asarian-host.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 05 May 2004 23:18:35 -0700, linda <2creu...@suxcharter.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> >Aspartame gave me headaches too. Splenda does much better if you can
>> >get it.
>>
>> I love Splenda. It doesn't have the after taste that Aspartame has. I
>> started using it when it first came out and I'll use nothing else
>> nowadays. I 'm happy that Diet Rite Cola is now using it instead of
>> Aspartame. I understand that Costco also has a diet cola which uses
>> Splenda
kaitlyn
On Thu, 06 May 2004 18:00:18 -0700, linda <2creu...@suxcharter.net>
wrote:
Do you get RC (Royal Crown) Cola? Diet Rite is their diet version.
>
>linda
kaitlyn
On Thu, 06 May 2004 18:00:18 -0700, linda <2creu...@suxcharter.net>
wrote:
>In article <d1b7bc20d.809497a...@asarian-host.net>,
> kaitlyn <kai...@asarian-host.net> wrote:
Funny I just noticed it was in the main text. I guess that's
something Mark's server does on it's own. I've got it set up in
the header of my posts, so I just assumed that was what you were
speaking of.
Still no problem, but it was kind of you to be concerned.
Kaitlyn
cal
news:2creus1spam-FA17...@corp.supernews.com...
> i don't know about the chemical stuff but this has been around the
> internet for a long time and hasn't gone away.
a lot of scary guff circulates around the internet since forever and never
goes away. look at that hoax your sis fell for the other day. it's been
going on for four years. at a guess i'd say about 90% of what's around the
internet at any given moment is raw manure delivered with so much emotion
and conviction that it seems for real.
> it is worth looking into,imo.
but it has been looked into.
> i don't feel it's quackery. sure some take it a bit far but
> when it doubt run unbiased testing. (imo)
i think the testing reported in the health canada article i posted earlier
is about as unbiased and comprehensive as it gets, and there's more where
that came from.
> my brother drinks diet coke a hell of a lot and he's got a brain tumor.
my sister died of a brain tumor and never touched the stuff. that said
though, i think it's only common sense not to do any eating or drinking to
excess. and there are other things in coke besides sugar or aspartame.
excessive eating and drinking tend to be lethal no matter what it is. we
here in north america tend to eat and drink in excessive quantities. it's
not really rocket science that we tend to sicken and die of eating and
drinking related causes. is a gross excess of aspartame consumption more
lethal than a gross excess of sugar consumption in a population where the
number of diagnosed diabetics is closing in on ten percent?
when my sister was in the hospital, i left her room at one point to walk
around the halls and got into a conversation with a nurse who knew her. do
you know, i said to the nurse, of the four of us... parents, sister and i...
i'm the only one who's never been touched by cancer yet [knock on wood] and
i'm the only one who smokes?
well, she said, you'd better keep on smoking then.
that was funny, so far as anything could be funny at that time.
funny enough to remember, anyway.
the fact is (i say), i and everyone i cherish are going to get really sick
and die of something sometime which could be just about any time, and i feel
i do better to try to integrate that reality into my life than to be unduly
preoccupied with ways to get out of it... as if it were possible. after a
lot of time spent being afraid, i find it isn't necessary to be afraid.
i'll take reasonable measures to stay alive and well. i'll keep doing my
private thing i call prayer for the health and safety of everyone i care
about, as it occurs to me to do it. i'm not going to do more than that,
because i don't want to and i don't have to.
and btw, i haven't smoked in nearly three years :-)
cal
linda
In article <7882fad084715.4bd...@asarian-host.net>,
kaitlyn <kai...@asarian-host.net> wrote:
> X-No-Archive: Yes
>
> On Thu, 06 May 2004 18:00:18 -0700, linda <2creu...@suxcharter.net>
> wrote:
>
> >In article <d1b7bc20d.809497a...@asarian-host.net>,
> > kaitlyn <kai...@asarian-host.net> wrote:
>
> >>
> >> On Wed, 05 May 2004 23:18:35 -0700, linda <2creu...@suxcharter.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> >Aspartame gave me headaches too. Splenda does much better if you can
> >> >get it.
> >>
> >> I love Splenda. It doesn't have the after taste that Aspartame has. I
> >> started using it when it first came out and I'll use nothing else
> >> nowadays. I 'm happy that Diet Rite Cola is now using it instead of
> >> Aspartame. I understand that Costco also has a diet cola which uses
> >> Splenda.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >that is good to know. i'll check out the costco cola. i haven't seen
> >diet rite up here as of yet.
>
> Do you get RC (Royal Crown) Cola? Diet Rite is their diet version.
> >
> >linda
>
>
we got it in NJ and NH but i haven't seen it out in Calif. the northern
part anyway. maybe it's here. i'll look.
linda
(btw, royal crown was never a favorite of mine over the years,
personally. or soda in general for that matter. my son likes soda more
than i do but he doesn't drink it a lot. more like a treat) it would be
nice to have a soda now and then though. i tend to like coke or ginger
ale. maybe jones cream soda. (yes, cal, it's from Canada. ;-) my
splenda use is primarily in tea or on cereal. i am looking into baking
with it too.
linda
wrote:
> "linda" <2creu...@suxcharter.net> wrote in message
> news:2creus1spam-FA17...@corp.supernews.com...
> > i don't know about the chemical stuff but this has been around the
> > internet for a long time and hasn't gone away.
>
> a lot of scary guff circulates around the internet since forever and never
> goes away. look at that hoax your sis fell for the other day. it's been
> going on for four years. at a guess i'd say about 90% of what's around the
> internet at any given moment is raw manure delivered with so much emotion
> and conviction that it seems for real.
>
yeah, i know that is true. but i've followed this aspertame thing a lot
and know how it's affected me and others i know. and how fast it was
brought to market without a lot of testing or time trials first like
other things have to go thru. i'm really not that naive to just blindly
take anything for granted. i just think it needs to be addressed more
than i've ever seen being done. You're Canadian testing is the first
i've heard that was positive. (from an unbiased source) i wish more
agencies or recognized journals would publish more on it and have
followup studies. to corroborate their findings.
> > it is worth looking into,imo.
>
> but it has been looked into.
not enough to suit me. especially now that i see rumsfield was involved.
>
> > i don't feel it's quackery. sure some take it a bit far but
> > when in doubt run unbiased testing. (imo)
>
> i think the testing reported in the health canada article i posted earlier
> is about as unbiased and comprehensive as it gets, and there's more where
> that came from.
>
without deluging me with "proof", can you post or send me some good
sources to check it out myself? i'm from ...well, not missouri but i
need lots of proof. ;)
and can you help me understand who health canada is and their purpose?
i gather it's a govt. run agency, no? i'm sorry, i'm fairly ignorant of
how your system works. i'm used to seeing things posted in journals
like the New Eng. journal of medicine and such. is health canada
similar to that?
> > my brother drinks diet coke a hell of a lot and he's got a brain tumor.
>
> my sister died of a brain tumor and never touched the stuff. that said
> though, i think it's only common sense not to do any eating or drinking to
> excess.
i don't recall you ever mentioning what your sister died of. i'm sorry
cal. i know you loved her a great deal.
his main reason for drinking diet coke (as he told me anyway) was the
stuff they made him take after his surgery was so horrible. coke was
the only thing that could come even close to masking the taste. (and
grit) it replaces some of the hormones/enzymes that his pituitary,
thyroid and hypothalmus were no longer producing. he's not taking that
stuff now though. <--last time i talked to him and it's growing again.
so i'm not sure what his excuse is for still drinking the stuff.
probably just hooked on it. :-/
> and there are other things in coke besides sugar or aspartame.
point well taken. coke is said to eat away a nail if you leave it in
there for a week or so. mechanic's love it.
> excessive eating and drinking tend to be lethal no matter what it is. we
> here in north america tend to eat and drink in excessive quantities. it's
> not really rocket science that we tend to sicken and die of eating and
> drinking related causes. is a gross excess of aspartame consumption more
> lethal than a gross excess of sugar consumption in a population where the
> number of diagnosed diabetics is closing in on ten percent?
>
of course, but i still feel we need to not take the attitude, of "oh
well, it's all going to kill us if we overdo anyway".
we still need to test new products and scrutinize the findings
carefully. if we don't they will put anything on the market just to
make a buck. i am totally distrustful of the business of business. i
know i'm taking a one sided view of their motives and not all are
crooked. i just feel it's better to keep the standards high and not let
them be part of the final decisions about their own products. power and
money always seem to win out if we let down our guard.
as diabetics, we do have few choices, i know. i just hope more good
ones are brought to market to keep up with demand. not more that are
rushed thru with strong opposition right from the start. maybe this
lawsuit will force more testing to be done or different types of
testing.
> when my sister was in the hospital, i left her room at one point to walk
> around the halls and got into a conversation with a nurse who knew her. do
> you know, i said to the nurse, of the four of us... parents, sister and i...
> i'm the only one who's never been touched by cancer yet [knock on wood] and
> i'm the only one who smokes?
>
> well, she said, you'd better keep on smoking then.
> that was funny, so far as anything could be funny at that time.
> funny enough to remember, anyway.
>
some things are the luck of the genes too. my dad smoked and died from
lung cancer and emphasyma. <sp> no one's made it past 70 and there is a
lot of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke etc. i was unlucky in
the lottery of genes, it seems. (how do you spell, say la vie?)
but if you know you have crappy genes, and still do things that have
proven to raise the chances of getting these things, would that be
called passive suicide? like me, not giving a shit if i follow the diet
for diabetes and eating donuts and candy and cake and whatever. i'm
asking for it more than someone who seems to get away with anything.
> the fact is (i say),
thank you for putting in the qualifier. :)
i and everyone i cherish are going to get really sick
> and die of something sometime which could be just about any time, and i feel
> i do better to try to integrate that reality into my life than to be unduly
> preoccupied with ways to get out of it... as if it were possible.
that is quite a jump from just checking into things a bit more. no one
says you need to be freaked out over it. that's when people go
overboard. do you think that this issue is something that bothers you
more as you see it like loosing choices, as you said earlier? a loss of
personal power to do as you please and live life as you want to?
somehow, i doubt it will ever come to anything like that. they'll
probably just make them put labels on the stuff or something really
useful like that. if anything at all.
>after a
> lot of time spent being afraid, i find it isn't necessary to be afraid.
> i'll take reasonable measures to stay alive and well. i'll keep doing my
> private thing i call prayer for the health and safety of everyone i care
> about, as it occurs to me to do it. i'm not going to do more than that,
> because i don't want to and i don't have to.
>
sounds like a good solid way of handling things to me. :)
> and btw, i haven't smoked in nearly three years :-)
>
> cal
>
>
very good for you cal. it was not a good thing for you to play those
odds. (imo) food tastes better now, doesn't it? i'm learning to like
the taste of things without all the sweetness to it. like regular corn
flakes instead of frosted flakes. i do actually prefer those now and
the others are too sweet for me. same with other things. and due to
my kidney thing, i find i like the OSpray cranberry juice with splenda
just as well as the regular stuff. i just would like to see more
choices for us who can't use aspertame. everyone seems to have went
whole hog for the one thing and screw everyone else. so i guess i'm
dealing with a little of the lack of choices thing too. <:-/
linda
kaitlyn
On Fri, 07 May 2004 00:30:57 -0700, linda <2creu...@suxcharter.net>
wrote:
>we got it in NJ and NH but i haven't seen it out in Calif. the northern
>part anyway. maybe it's here. i'll look.
We do have it here in So. Calif, but I've learned that No. Cal and So.
Cal are very much like two different states.
>linda
>
>(btw, royal crown was never a favorite of mine over the years,
>personally. or soda in general for that matter. my son likes soda more
>than i do but he doesn't drink it a lot. more like a treat) it would be
>nice to have a soda now and then though. i tend to like coke or ginger
>ale. maybe jones cream soda. (yes, cal, it's from Canada. ;-) my
>splenda use is primarily in tea or on cereal. i am looking into baking
>with it too.
If I'm going to drink "normal" soda I'll stick to Pepsi, but I can't
stand the taste of aspartane (sp), so had been looking for something
different. I was really happy to find a soda that had Splenda in it.
BTW Splenda is great for cooking, baking.
cal
> In article <2g0m5nF...@uni-berlin.de>, "cal" <cal...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> > "linda" <2creu...@suxcharter.net> wrote in message
> > news:2creus1spam-FA17...@corp.supernews.com...
> >
> > but it has been looked into.
>
> not enough to suit me. especially now that i see rumsfield was involved.
i hear ya, but rummy wasn't involved in the international studies.
i quote from the article i posted before:
-------------------------------------------------
In addition, other scientific advisory bodies such as the
Scientific Committee for Food of the European Community, and the Joint
Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) of the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization have reviewed all the
available safety studies and have found aspartame to be safe. More than
ninety countries world-wide, including the United States, countries of the
European Union, and Australia and New Zealand, have also reviewed aspartame
and found it to be safe for human consumption and allow its use in various
foods
-------------------------------------------------
> without deluging me with "proof", can you post or send me some good
> sources to check it out myself? i'm from ...well, not missouri but i
> need lots of proof. ;)
i can't do a web search right now, but i would guess the work done by the
above organizations is probably out there for public view.
> and can you help me understand who health canada is and their purpose?
> i gather it's a govt. run agency, no? i'm sorry, i'm fairly ignorant of
> how your system works. i'm used to seeing things posted in journals
> like the New Eng. journal of medicine and such. is health canada
> similar to that?
as i said in that earlier post, "health canada" is canada's federal ministry
of health. it's headed by the health minister who is in the cabinet and
reports to the prime minister. i'm not sure what the corresponding entity
in the US federal govt. is. if you have a secretary of health, then the
department s/he heads up would be the equivalent.
> > > my brother drinks diet coke a hell of a lot and he's got a brain
> > > tumor.
> >
> > my sister died of a brain tumor and never touched the stuff. that said
> > though, i think it's only common sense not to do any eating or drinking
> > to excess.
>
> i don't recall you ever mentioning what your sister died of. i'm sorry
> cal. i know you loved her a great deal.
she had breast cancer. it came back in her fifth year of remission and
metastasized to the brain. her first brain tumor was removed. another one
appeared within months. it was inoperable.
<...snip>
> of course, but i still feel we need to not take the attitude, of "oh
> well, it's all going to kill us if we overdo anyway".
> we still need to test new products and scrutinize the findings
> carefully.
yes, but this testing and retesting have been going on for a long time.
aspartame isn't a new product. it's been in commercial use for
nearly 25 years.
cal
satyagrahas
"linda" <2creu...@suxcharter.net> a écrit dans le message de news:
2creus1spam-0F0D...@corp.supernews.com...
thanks, i asked today doing my shopping, they didn't knew about it.
it might take some time before i can even try this
but i am going to avoid the aspartame and see if the headaches reduced
satyagrahas
tinytim
> In article <2fvk5aF...@uni-berlin.de>,
> "tinytim" <tin...@asarian-host.net> wrote:
>
>>> as a diabetic i sometimes feel threatened by even well-intentioned
>>> efforts to restrict my range of edible things even more than it
>>> already is.
>>
>> Yeah me too....... I once ventured into a diabetic news group ( a
>> UK based one it grieves me to admit) and mentioned 'Stevia' as an
>> option to aspartame... Damnation I was flamed outa there so quick
>> it'd make yer head spin... Seems they'd had someone, or thought in
>> their tiny minds that I was someone, trying to sell the stuff to
>> them. That wasn't the case at all, I had indeed gone to
>> considerable lengths to acquire some (s'not availabe in the UK) for
>> self testing and thought it to be on a par with aspartame as a
>> sweetener.
>>
>> Asa
>>
>
> i've heard of stevia. could never find it though. have you ever had
> a chance to try it out?
Yeah, I got some from the l'il old US of A........ then paid double tax on
it, state tax there and import tax here, so it cost me plenty. It was OK
and indeed I still have some, but as Cal mentioned early in the thread
"scaremongers" place lots of pressures on us and I got some of this typical
scaremongering about Stevia, so there it sits in my cupboard, and I
occasionally give it a paranoid looking at ;-(
Asa
linda
"tinytim" <tin...@asarian-host.net> wrote:
that really is a damn shame. why isn't some organization (reputable)
testing it and answering any questions once and for all. it'd be nice to
know if it's an alternative or not. it must not be produced by a big
corporation so it's not worth anyone's bother? grrr.
take care, Asa.
linda
linda
In article <b18df14da.a9142df...@asarian-host.net>,
kaitlyn <kai...@asarian-host.net> wrote:
> X-No-Archive: Yes
>
> On Fri, 07 May 2004 00:30:57 -0700, linda <2creu...@suxcharter.net>
> wrote:
>
> >we got it in NJ and NH but i haven't seen it out in Calif. the northern
> >part anyway. maybe it's here. i'll look.
>
> We do have it here in So. Calif, but I've learned that No. Cal and So.
> Cal are very much like two different states.
>
i believe it. i am way up by the oregon line so it's very different.
> >linda
> >
> >(btw, royal crown was never a favorite of mine over the years,
> >personally. or soda in general for that matter. my son likes soda more
> >than i do but he doesn't drink it a lot. more like a treat) it would be
> >nice to have a soda now and then though. i tend to like coke or ginger
> >ale. maybe jones cream soda. (yes, cal, it's from Canada. ;-) my
> >splenda use is primarily in tea or on cereal. i am looking into baking
> >with it too.
>
> If I'm going to drink "normal" soda I'll stick to Pepsi, but I can't
> stand the taste of aspartane (sp), so had been looking for something
> different. I was really happy to find a soda that had Splenda in it.
> BTW Splenda is great for cooking, baking.
>
good. costco had a good deal on 3 packs of the powdered splenda (not
packets) so i'll get that. have to wait till next month though. my
kitties cost me a pretty penny at the vets the other day. they have
some sort of parasite so i need to take care of that first.
thanks for the info, kaitlyn.
linda
(didn't like the taste of aspertame either)
tinytim
There were two schools of thought as far as I could tell, one went down the
route of 'There's so much big money in slimming/diabetic products that it
was being suppressed' and the other was 'That it was untested and thought to
be harmful'.
I couldn't get to the bottom of it, but the person who put me on to it said
it was a totally natural product derived from a plant extract, which is why
I wanted to give it a go.... That was before I got all the negative stuff
that brought my paranoia roaring the surface ;-(
Asa
Rich Murray
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1071
research on aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid) toxicity:
Murray 2004.05.08 rmforall
Rich Murray, MA Room For All rmfo...@comcast.net
1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 USA 505-501-2298
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/927
Donald Rumsfeld, 1977 head of Searle Corp., got aspartame FDA approval:
Turner: Murray 2002.12.23 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1039
three-page review: aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) toxicity:
Murray 2003.11.22 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1026
brief aspartame review: formaldehyde toxicity: Murray 2003.09.11 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1025
aspartame & formaldehyde toxicity: Murray 2003.09.09 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1067
eyelid contact dermatitis by formaldehyde from aspartame, AM Hill & DV
Belsito, Nov 2003: Murray 2004.03.30 rmforall [ 150 KB ]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1070
critique of aspartame review, French Food Safety Agency AFSSA 2002.05.07
aspartamgb.pdf (18 pages, in English), Martin Hirsch:
Murray 2004.04.13
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/957
safety of aspartame Part 1/2 12.4.2: EC HCPD-G SCF:
Murray 2003.01.12 rmforall EU Scientific Committee on Food, a whitewash
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1045
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/scf2002-response.htm
Mark Gold exhaustively critiques European Commission Scientific
Committee on Food re aspartame ( 2002.12.04 ): 59 pages, 230 references
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/989 On 2003.04.10
the European Union Parliament voted 440 to 20 to approve sucralose,
limit cyclamates & reevaluate aspartame & stevia: Murray 2003.04.12 rmforall
http://www.eatright.org/Nutritive(1).pdf
J Am Diet Assoc. 2004 Feb; 104(2): 255-75.
Position of the American Dietetic Association: use of nutritive and
nonnutritive sweeteners. American Dietetic Association.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1068
critique of aspartame review by American Dietetic Association Feb 2004,
Valerie B. Duffy & Madeleine J. Sigman-Grant: Murray 2004.04.03 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/messages
120 members, 1080 posts in a public searchable archive
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartame/messages
796 members, 16,857 posts in a public, searchable archive
It is certain that high levels of aspartame use, above 2 liters daily for
months and years, must lead to chronic formaldehyde-formic acid toxicity.
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).
The methanol is immediately released into the body after drinking--
unlike the large levels of methanol locked up in complex molecules inside
many fruits and vegetables.
Within hours, the liver turns much of the methanol into formaldehyde, and
then much of that into formic acid, both of which in time are partially
eliminated as carbon dioxide and water.
However, about 30% of the methanol remains in the body as cumulative
durable toxic metabolites of formaldehyde and formic acid-- 37 mg daily,
a gram every month, accumulating in and affecting every tissue.
If only 10% of the methanol is retained daily as formaldehyde, that would
give 12 mg daily formaldehyde accumulation-- about 60 times more than the
0.2 mg from 10% retention of the 2 mg EPA daily limit for formaldehyde in
drinking water.
Bear in mind that the EPA limit for formaldehyde in drinking water is
1 ppm, or 2 mg daily for a typical daily consumption of 2 L of water.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/835
ATSDR: EPA limit 1 ppm formaldehyde in drinking water July 1999:
Murray 2002.05.30 rmforall
This long-term low-level chronic toxic exposure leads to typical patterns of
increasingly severe complex symptoms, starting with headache, fatigue, joint
pain, irritability, memory loss, rashes, and leading to vision and eye
problems, and even seizures. In many cases there is addiction. Probably
there are immune system disorders, with a hypersensitivity to these toxins
and other chemicals.
J. Nutrition 1973 Oct; 103(10): 1454-1459.
Metabolism of aspartame in monkeys.
Oppermann JA, Muldoon E, Ranney RE.
Dept. of Biochemistry, Searle Laboratories,
Division of G.D. Searle and Co. Box 5110, Chicago, IL 60680
They found that about 70% of the radioactive methanol in aspartame put into
the stomachs of 3 to 7 kg monkeys was eliminated within 8 hours, with little
additional elimination, as carbon dioxide in exhaled air and as water in
the urine.
They did not mention that this meant that about 30% of the methanol must
transform into formaldehyde and then into formic acid, both of which must
remain as toxic products in all parts of the body.
They did not report any studies on the distribution of radioactivity in body
tissues, except that blood plasma proteins after 4 days held 4% of the
initial methanol.
This study did not monitor long-term use of aspartame.
The low oral dose of aspartame and for methanol was 0.068 mmol/kg, about 1
part per million [ppm] of the acute toxicity level of 2,000 mg/kg, 67,000
mmol/kg, used by McMartin (1979).
Two L daily use of diet soda provides 123 mg methanol, 2 mg/kg for a 60 kg
person, a dose of 67 mmole/kg, a thousand times more than the dose in this
study.
By eight hours excretion of the dose in air and urine had leveled off at
67.1 +-2.1% as CO2 in the exhaled air and 1.57+-0.32% in the urine, so 68.7
% was excreted, and 31.3% was retained.
This data is the average of 4 monkeys.
"...the 14C in the feces was negligible."
"That fraction not so excreted (about 31%) was converted to body
constituents through the one-carbon metabolic pool."
"All radioactivity measurements were counted to +-1% accuracy..."
This indicates that the results could not be claimed to have a precision of
a tenth of a percent. OK, so this is a nit-pick-- but I believe espousing
spurious accuracy is a sign of scientific insecurity.
The abstract ends, "It was concluded that aspartame was digested to its
three constituents that were then absorbed as natural constituents of the
diet."
Thus, the concept is very subtly insinuated that methanol, as a
constituent of aspartame, is absorbed as a natural constituent of the diet.
"Dietary methanol is derived in large part from fresh fruits and
vegetables."
This is a serious error, since the large amounts of methanol in fresh fruits
and vegetables are not readily released by human digestion. (W. C. Monte,
1984)
Nowhere in this report are mentioned the dread words, "formaldehyde" and
"formic acid".
Of course, methanol and formaldehyde toxicity studies are highly relevant to
the issue of aspartame toxicity. [ Aspartame has to be turned into its
toxic products, formaldehyde and formic acid, in the body, before it is
toxic, so some pro-aspartame reseach studies test aspartame outside the
body, and then proclaim that they have proved that it is not toxic. ]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/915
formaldehyde toxicity: Thrasher & Kilburn: Shaham: EPA: Gold:
Wilson: CIIN: Murray 2002.12.12 rmforall
Thrasher (2001): "The major difference is that the Japanese demonstrated
the incorporation of FA and its metabolites into the placenta and fetus.
The quantity of radioactivity remaining in maternal and fetal tissues
at 48 hours was 26.9% of the administered dose." [ Ref. 14-16 ]
Arch Environ Health 2001 Jul-Aug; 56(4): 300-11.
Embryo toxicity and teratogenicity of formaldehyde. [100 references]
Thrasher JD, Kilburn KH. toxic...@drthrasher.org
Sam-1 Trust, Alto, New Mexico, USA.
http://www.drthrasher.org/formaldehyde_embryo_toxicity.html full text
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-HSA antibodies are associated with long-term
formaldehyde inhalation." PMID: 2400243
Confirming evidence and a general theory are given by Pall (2002):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/909
testable theory of MCS type diseases, vicious cycle of nitric oxide &
peroxynitrite: MSG: formaldehyde-methanol-aspartame:
Martin L. Pall: Murray: 2002.12.09 rmforall
Environ Health Perspect. 2003 Sep; 111(12): 1461-4.
Elevated nitric oxide/peroxynitrite theory of multiple chemical sensitivity:
central role of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in the sensitivity mechanism.
Pall ML.
School of Molecular Biosciences, 301 Abelson Hall, Washington State
University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA. marti...@wsu.edu
The elevated nitric oxide/peroxynitrite and the neural sensitization
theories of multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) are extended here to propose
a central mechanism for the exquisite sensitivity to organic solvents
apparently induced by previous chemical exposure in MCS.
This mechanism is centered on the activation of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)
receptors by organic solvents producing elevated nitric oxide and
peroxynitrite, leading in turn to increased stimulating of and
hypersensitivity of NMDA receptors.
In this way, organic solvent exposure may produce progressive sensitivity to
organic solvents.
Pesticides such as organophosphates and carbamates may act via muscarinic
stimulation to produce a similar biochemical and sensitivity response.
Accessory mechanisms of sensitivity may involve both increased blood-brain
barrier permeability, induced by peroxynitrite, and cytochrome P450
inhibition by nitric oxide.
The NMDA hyperactivity/hypersensitivity and excessive nitric
oxide/peroxynitrite view of MCS provides answers to many of the most
puzzling aspects of MCS while building on previous studies and views of this
condition. PMID: 12948884
Prof. Pall describes processes by which an initial trigger exposure, such as
carbon monoxide or formaldehyde, can generate hypersensitivity to many
substances. He himself had recovered from a sudden, debilitating attack of
multiple chemical sensitity in June/July 1997.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1055
hormesis: possible benefits of low-level aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde)
use: Calabrese: Soffritti: Murray 2004.03.11 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1056
disorders of NMDA glutamate receptors in brain range from high activity
(MCS, CF, PTSD, FM, from carbon monoxide or formaldehyde (methanol,
aspartame)-- Pall)
to low activity (schizophrenia-- Coyle, Goff, Javitts):
Murray 2004.03.13 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/946
Functional Therapeutics in Neurodegenerative Disease Part 1/2:
Perlmutter 1999.07.15: Murray 2003.01.10 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/97
Lancet website aspartame letter 1999.07.29:
Excitotoxins 1999 Part 1/3 Blaylock: Murray 2000.01.14 rmforall
The Medical Sentinel Journal 1999 Fall; (95 references)
http://www.dorway.com/blayenn.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1034
Brain cell damage from amino acid isolates (aspartame releases
phenylalanine, aspartate, methanol [formaldehyde, formic acid] Bowen &
Evangelista May 6 2002: Murray 2003.11.10 rmforall
http://www.aspartame.ca/Brain%20Cell%20Damage.pdf
Brain cell damage from amino acid isolates 5.6.2 41 references
detailed 22 page review by James D. Bowen, MD and Arthur M. Evangelista,
former FDA Investigator orw...@msn.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/628
Professional House Doctors: Singer: EPA: CPSC:
formaldehyde toxicity: Murray 2001.06.10 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1047
Avoiding Hangover Hell 2003.12.31 Mark Sherman, AP writer: Robert Swift, MD:
[ formaldehyde from methanol in aspartame ]:
Murray 2004.01.16 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1048
hangovers from formaldehyde from methanol (aspartame?):
Schwarcz: Linsley: Murray 2004.01.18
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1052
DMDC: Dimethyl dicarbonate 200mg/L in drinks adds methanol 98 mg/L
( becomes formaldehyde in body ): EU Scientific Committee on Foods
2001.07.12: Murray 2004.01.22 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/782
RTM: Smith, Terpening, Schmidt, Gums:
full text: aspartame, MSG, fibromyalgia 2002.01.17 rmforall
Jerry D Smith, Chris M Terpening, Siegfried OF Schmidt, and John G Gums
Relief of Fibromyalgia Symptoms Following
Discontinuation of Dietary Excitotoxins.
The Annals of Pharmacotherapy 2001; 35(6): 702-706.
Malcolm Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, FL, USA.
BACKGROUND: Fibromyalgia is a common rheumatologic disorder that is
often difficult to treat effectively.
CASE SUMMARY: Four patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia syndrome
for two to 17 years are described.
All had undergone multiple treatment
modalities with limited success. All had complete, or nearly complete,
resolution of their symptoms within months after eliminating monosodium
glutamate (MSG) or MSG plus aspartame from their diet.
All patients were women with multiple comorbidities
prior to elimination of MSG.
All have had recurrence of symptoms whenever MSG is ingested.
Siegfried O. Schmidt, MD Asst. Clinical Prof. si...@shands.ufl.edu
Community Health and Family Medicine, U. Florida, Gainesville, FL
Shands Hospital West Oak Clinic Gainesville, FL 32608-3629
352-376-5071
Debbie J. Hypes painfre...@aol.com 304-872-4141 (Case # 1 of 4)
P.O Box 25 Lookout, WV 25868-0025 She has about 1,000 on her local
mailing list, and has been a volunteer activist since 1997. Her guide
first came out in 1997: http://www.Pain-Free-Living.net
"The Food Plan: How To Do It" $ 5 by mail, free by email.
Her sister Darlene, now 47, cured her own severe fibromyalgia in 1995
by using an elimination diet, and then Debbie also cured herself by
1997. Their doctor, Siegfried Schmidt, paying attention, tried it on
two more patients, who got well, and are his third and fourth cases.
http://www.perque.org/Fibromyalgia.pdf
A Novel Treatment for Fibromyalgia Imrpoves Clinical Outcomes in a
Community-Based Study.
Patricia A. Deuster, Russell M. Jaffe. RJa...@perque.com
Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain. 1998; Vol. 6(2): 133-149.
http://www.perque.com/ in...@perque.com 800-525-7372
Using blood tests, the researchers ran a panel of 350 antigens including
environmental chemicals, food additives and preservatives, crustaceans,
diary products, fish, fruits, grains, meats, mollusks, and oils.
Normal, healthy people react to only two or less of this panel. The greatest
offenders were:
MSG 42.5 % (17 out of 40 patients)
Candida albicans 37.5
Caffeine 37
Chocolate/cocoa 37
Food colorings 37
Cola beverages 37
Cow Dairy Products 25
Sulfite/metabisulfite 22.5
Xylene 22.5
Yogurt 22.5
Aspartame 20
BHA 20
Cadmium 20
Lead 20
Tylenol 20
Yeast 20
Sodium benzoate 20
Orange 20
C. Trocho (1998):
"In all, the rats retained, 6 hours after administration, about 5% of the
label, half of it in the liver."
They used a very low level of aspartame ingestion, 10 mg/kg, for rats, which
have a much greater tolerance for aspartame than humans.
So, the corresponding level for humans would be about 1 or 2 mg/kg.
Many headache studies in humans used doses of about 30 mg/kg daily.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/925
aspartame puts formaldehyde adducts into tissues, Part 1/2
full text, Trocho & Alemany 1998.06.26: Murray 2002.12.22 rmforall
http://ww.presidiotex.com/barcelona/index.html full text
Formaldehyde derived from dietary aspartame binds to tissue components in
vivo.
Life Sci June 26 1998; 63(5): 337-49.
Departament de Bioquimica i Biologia Molecular,
Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
http://www.bq.ub.es/cindex.html Línies de Recerca: Toxicitat de
l'aspartame http://www.bq.ub.es/grupno/grup-no.html
Sra. Carme Trocho, Sra. Rosario Pardo, Dra. Immaculada Rafecas,
Sr. Jordi Virgili, Dr. Xavier Remesar, Dr. Jose Antonio
Fernandez-Lopez, Dr. Marià Alemany [male]
Fac. Biologia Tel.: (93)4021521, FAX: (93)4021559
Sra. Carme Trocho "Trok-ho" Fac. Biologia Tel.: (93)4021544,
FAX: (93)4021559
ale...@porthos.bio.ub.es bi...@sun.bq.ub.es jos...@porthos.bio.ub.es
raf...@porthos.bio.ub.es rem...@porthos.bio.ub.es
Abstract:
Adult male rats were given an oral dose of 10 mg/kg aspartame,
14C-labeled in the methanol carbon.
At timed intervals of up to 6 hours, the radioactivity in plasma and several
organs was investigated.
Most of the radioactivity found (>98% in plasma, >75% in liver) was bound to
protein.
Label present in liver, plasma and kidney was in the range of 1-2% of total
radioactivity administered per g or mL, changing little with time.
Other organs (brown and white adipose tissues, muscle, brain, cornea and
retina) contained levels of label in the range of 1/12th to 1/10th of that
of liver.
In all. the rats retained, 6 hours after administration, about 5% of the
label, half of it in the liver.
The specific radioactivity of tissue protein, RNA and DNA was quite uniform.
The protein label was concentrated in amino acids, different from
methionine, and largely coincident with the result of protein exposure to
labeled formaldehyde.
DNA radioactivity was essentially in a single different adduct base,
different from the normal bases present in DNA.
The nature of the tissue label accumulated was, thus, a direct consequence
of formaldehyde binding to tissue structures.
The administration of labeled aspartame to a group of cirrhotic rats
resulted in comparable label retention by tissue components, which suggests
that liver function (or its defect) has little effect on formaldehyde
formation from aspartame and binding to biological components.
The chronic treatment of a series of rats with 200 mg/kg of non-labeled
aspartame during 10 days results in the accumulation of even more label when
given the radioactive bolus, suggesting that the amount of formaldehyde
adducts coming from aspartame in tissue proteins and nucleic acids may be
cumulative.
It is concluded that aspartame consumption may constitute a hazard because
of its contribution to the formation of formaldehyde adducts. PMID: 9714421
[ Extracts ]
"The high label presence in plasma and liver is in agreement with the
carriage of the label from the intestine to the liver via the portal vein.
The high label levels in kidney and, to a minor extent, in brown adipose
tissue and brain are probably a consequence of their high blood flows (45).
Even in white adipose tissue, the levels of radioactivity found 6 hours
after oral administration were 1/25th those of liver.
Cornea and retina, both tissues known to metabolize actively methanol
(21,28) showed low levels of retained label.
In any case, the binding of methanol-derived carbon to tissue proteins was
widespread, affecting all systems, fully reaching even sensitive targets
such as the brain and retina....
The amount of label recovered in tissue components was quite high in all the
groups, but especially in the NA rats.
In them, the liver alone retained, for a long time, more than 2 % of the
methanol carbon given in a single oral dose of aspartame, and the rest of
the body stored an additional 2 % or more.
These are indeed extremely high levels for adducts of formaldehyde, a
substance responsible of chronic deleterious effects (33), that has also
been considered carcinogenic (34,47).
The repeated occurrence of claims that aspartame produces headache and other
neurological and psychological secondary effects-- more often than not
challenged by careful analysis-- (5, 9, 10, 15, 48) may eventually find at
least a partial explanation in the permanence of the formaldehyde label,
since formaldehyde intoxication can induce similar effects (49).
The cumulative effects derived from the incorporation of label in the
chronic administration model suggests that regular intake of aspartame may
result in the progressive accumulation of formaldehyde adducts.
It may be further speculated that the formation of adducts can help to
explain the chronic effects aspartame consumption may induce on sensitive
tissues such as brain (6, 9, 19, 50).
In any case, the possible negative effects that the accumulation of
formaldehyde adducts can induce is, obviously, long-term.
The alteration of protein integrity and function may needs some time to
induce substantial effects.
The damage to nucleic acids, mainly to DNA, may eventually induce cell death
and/or mutations.
The results presented suggest that the conversion of aspartame methanol into
formaldehyde adducts in significant amounts in vivo should to be taken into
account because of the widespread utilization of this sweetener.
Further epidemiological and long-term studies are needed to determine the
extent of the hazard that aspartame consumption poses for humans."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/864
Butchko, Tephly, McMartin: Alemany: aspartame formaldehyde
adducts in rats: Murray 2002.09.08 rmforall
Prof. Alemany vigorously affirms the validity of the Trocho study
against criticism:
Butchko, HH et al [24 authors], Aspartame: review of safety.
Regul. Toxicol. Pharmacol. 2002 April 1; 35 (2 Pt 2): S1-93, review
available for $35, [an industry paid organ]. Butchko:
"When all the research on aspartame, including evaluations in both the
premarketing and postmarketing periods, is examined as a whole, it is
clear that aspartame is safe, and there are no unresolved questions
regarding its safety under conditions of intended use."
[ They repeatedly pass on the ageless industry deceit that the methanol
in fruits and vegetables is as as biochemically available as that in
aspartame-- see the 1984 rebuttal by W.C. Monte. ]
In the same report, Schiffman concludes on page S49, not citing any
research after 1997, "Thus, the weight of the scientific evidence
indicates that aspartame does not cause headache."
Dr. Susan S. Schiffman, Dept. of Psychiatry, Duke University
s...@acpub.duke.edu 919-684-3303, 660-5657
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/911
RTP ties to industry criticized by CSPI: Murray: 2002.12.09 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/846
aspartame in Merck Maxalt-MLT worsens migraine,
AstraZeneca Zomig, Eli Lilly Zyprexa,
J&J Merck Pepcid AC (Famotidine 10mg) Chewable Tab,
Pfizer Cool Mint Listerine Pocketpaks: Murray 2002.07.16 rmforall
Migraine MLT-Down: an unusual presentation of migraine
in patients with aspartame-triggered headaches.
Newman LC, Lipton RB Headache 2001 Oct; 41(9): 899-901.
[ Merck 10-mg Maxalt-MLT, for migraine, has 3.75 mg aspartame,
while 12 oz diet soda has 200 mg. ]
Headache Institute, St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY
Department of Neurology newma...@aol.com
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Innovative Medical Research RLi...@IMRInc.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/855
Blumenthall & Vance: aspartame chewing gum headaches Nov 1997:
Murray 2002.07.28 rmforall
Harvey J. Blumenthal, MD, Dwight A Vance, RPh
Chewing Gum Headaches. Headache 1997 Nov-Dec; 37(10): 665-6.
Department of Neurology, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine,
Tulsa, USA. neuro...@aol.com
Aspartame, a popular dietetic sweetener, may provoke headache in some
susceptible individuals. Herein, we describe three cases of young women
with migraine who reported their headaches could be provoked by chewing
gum sweetened with aspartame. [ 6-8 mg aspartame per stick chewing gum ]
Subject: Re: Murray: Butchko:
Tephly: critique of Trocho report Apr 2002 8.29.2
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:49:56 +0200
From: Marià Alemany <ale...@bio.ub.es>
To: "Rich Murray" <rmfo...@att.net>
References: 1
Dear Rich,
Thank you for the opportunity to say something about the "paper" by Tephly
that followed our study on the incorporation of aspartame-derived methanol
label into DNA and protein of rats.
I don't know if responding to that publication is worth the effort.
Surprisingly, a serious journal, such as Life Sciences published a rebuttal
of our previous paper as a normal "research paper", but including no new
information neither experimental work.
This is only a sample of the "scientific" power of the advocates of
aspartame.
Anybody can extract conclusions from this anomaly, but it seems to me that
there was nothing new in that pamphlet that may add information to what we
already explained in our paper.
The responses to the questions raised by Tephly are already in our paper,
which means that either that it was not read or, worst, it was misread.
The presence of aspartame-derived label in DNA and protein adducts is
unquestionable and unquestioned, and agrees with previous studies.
Then, what importance has the mechanism of incorporation?
There were adducts, and they represent loss of function and mutation.
That was our thesis.
The reference to previous studies showing very low levels of formaldehyde in
blood do not refute our data.
First of all, measuring formaldehyde is tricky,
and in any case, the circulating levels would be below the current limit of
detection for most of the methods used.
That is the current explanation for the low levels of methanol in plasma
after aspartame loading: they are zero, using most of the methods available
for methanol, since the expected levels are currently below the limit of
detection...
In addition, it is not logical to expect to find measurable levels of
formaldehyde in a medium (blood) containing a huge amount of protein.
Formaldehyde reacts immediately with proteins because it is highly reactive:
that is the reason why we have found it in cell protein and DNA.
It is absurd to expect it to forfeit binding with cell proteins and go all
the way into the bloodstream!
Remember that formaldehyde is used to preserve corpses precisely because it
binds protein (including those of putrefactive bacteria) and prevents its
degradation.
The "alternative" point expressed by Tephly, suggesting that aspartame
methanol-label goes all the way into formic acid and the C1 pathway was
thoroughly refuted by us, using experimental data.
There was no labelled methionine nor thymine in protein and DNA respectively
in the rat protein we recovered from rats treated with aspartame.
This means--unequivocally-- that the label present in DNA and protein
adducts was NOT incorporated into amino acids or nucleic acid bases.
The only explanation for our data was that the label was in the form of
formaldehyde adducts.
If this explanation does not satisfy other scientists, they are free to
repeat the experiment and show where we went wrong, or to probe and prove
experimentally their hypotheses.
Otherwise, our results stand unchecked and, consequently, should be deemed
true.
I hope that this information will help any attentive reader understand why
we have left for good this field of study.
Best regards.
------------------------------
Prof.Dr. Marià Alemany
Grup de Recerca Nitrogen-Obesitat
Departament de Nutrició i Bromatologia
Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona
Av. Diagonal, 645; 08028 Barcelona Espanya/España/Spain
tel. +34 93 403 4606; fax: +34 93 403 7064; E-mail: ale...@bio.ub.es
Life Sci 1999; 65(13): PL157-60. [ letter, usually not peer reviewed ]
Comments on the purported generation of formaldehyde and adduct
formation from the sweetener aspartame.
Tephly TR Thomas R. Tephly 319-335-7979 thomas...@uiowa.edu
tte...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu Department of Pharmacology
The University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA.
A recent paper by Trocho et al. (1) describes experiments meant to show that
formaldehyde adducts are formed when rats are administered the sweetener
aspartame.
These authors assume that the methanol carbon of aspartame generates
formaldehyde which then forms adducts with protein, DNA, and RNA.
Doses employed range widely.
In this letter, studies which have been published previously and which were
not cited by these authors are reviewed in order to put into perspective the
disposition of methanol and formaldehyde in monkeys and humans, species
relevant to the toxicity of methanol and its toxic metabolite, formic acid.
PMID: 10503962, UI: 99431287
[ A number of pro-aspartame studies by Tephly and associates, invariably
funded by the aspartame industry (Monsanto, NutraSweet) are criticized in
detail at:
http://www.HolisticMed.com/aspartame mg...@holisticmed.com
Aspartame Toxicity Information Center Mark D. Gold
12 East Side Drive #2-18 Concord, NH 03301 603-225-2100
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/methanol.html
"Scientific Abuse in Aspartame Research"
Gold points out that industry methanol assays were too insensitive to
properly measure blood methanol levels. ]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1016
President Bush & formaldehyde (aspartame) toxicity: Ramazzini Foundation
carcinogenicity results Dec 2002: Soffritti: Murray 2003.08.03 rmforall
p. 88 "The sweetening agent aspartame hydrolyzes in the gastrointestinal
tract to become free methyl alcohol, which is metabolized in the liver
to formaldehyde, formic acid, and CO2. (11)"
Medinsky MA & Dorman DC. 1994; Assessing risks of low-level
methanol exposure. CIIT Act. 14: 1-7.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2002 Dec; 982: 87-105.
Results of long-term experimental studies on the carcinogenicity of
formaldehyde and acetaldehyde in rats.
Soffritti M, Belpoggi F, Lambertin L, Lauriola M, Padovani M, Maltoni C.
Cancer Research Center, European Ramazzini Foundation for Oncology and
Environmental Sciences, Bologna, Italy. cr...@tin.it
Formaldehyde was administered for 104 weeks in drinking water supplied
ad libitum at concentrations of 1500, 1000, 500, 100, 50, 10, or 0 mg/L
to groups of 50 male and 50 female Sprague-Dawley rats beginning at
seven weeks of age.
Control animals (100 males and 100 females) received tap water only.
Acetaldehyde was administered to 50 male and 50 female Sprague-Dawley
rats beginning at six weeks of age at concentrations of 2,500, 1,500,
500, 250, 50, or 0 mg/L.
Animals were kept under observation until spontaneous death.
Formaldehyde and acetaldehyde were found to produce an increase in total
malignant tumors in the treated groups and showed specific carcinogenic
effects on various organs and tissues. PMID: 12562630
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2002 Dec; 982: 46-69.
Results of long-term experimental studies on the carcinogenicity of
methyl alcohol and ethyl alcohol in rats.
Soffritti M, Belpoggi F, Cevolani D, Guarino M, Padovani M, Maltoni C.
Cancer Research Center, European Ramazzini Foundation for Oncology and
Environmental Sciences, Bologna, Italy. cr...@tin.it
Methyl alcohol was administered in drinking water supplied ad libitum at
doses of 20,000, 5,000, 500, or 0 ppm to groups of male and female
Sprague-Dawley rats 8 weeks old at the start of the experiment.
Animals were kept under observation until spontaneous death.
Ethyl alcohol was administered by ingestion in drinking water at a
concentration of 10% or 0% supplied ad libitum to groups of male and
female Sprague-Dawley rats; breeders and offspring were included in the
experiment.
Treatment started at 39 weeks of age (breeders), 7 days before mating,
or from embryo life (offspring) and lasted until their spontaneous death.
Under tested experimental conditions, methyl alcohol and ethyl alcohol
were demonstrated to be carcinogenic for various organs and tissues.
They must also be considered multipotential carcinogenic agents.
In addition to causing other tumors, ethyl alcohol induced malignant
tumors of the oral cavity, tongue, and lips.
These sites have been shown to be target organs in man by epidemiologic
studies. Publication Types: Review Review, Tutorial PMID: 12562628
Surely the authors deliberately emphasized that aspartame is well-known
to be a source of formaldehyde, which is an extremely potent, cumulative
toxin, with complex, multiple effects on all tissues and organs.
This is even more significant, considering that they have already tested
aspartame, but not yet released the results:
p. 29-32 Table 1: The Ramazzinni Foundation Cancer Program
Project of [200] Long-Term Carcinogenicity Bioassays: Agents Studied
No. No. of Bioassays Species No. Route of Exposure
108. "Coca-Cola" 4 Rat 1,999 Ingestion, Transplantal Route
109. "Pepsi-Cola" 1 Rat 400 Ingestion
110. Sucrose 1 Rat 400 Ingestion
111. Caffeine 1 Rat 800 Ingestion
112. Aspartame 1 Rat 1,800 Ingestion
http://members.nyas.org/events/conference/conf_02_0429.html
Soffritti said that Coca-Cola showed no carcinogenicity.
It may be time to disclose these important aspartame results.
Finally, an intripid and much published team in Japan has found DNA damage
in 8 tissues from single non-lethal doses of aspartame (near-significant
high levels of DNA damage in 5 tissues) and many other additives in groups
of just 4 mice:
Mutat Res 2002 Aug 26; 519(1-2): 103-19
The comet assay with 8 mouse organs: results with 39 currently used food
additives.
Sasaki YF, Kawaguchi S, Kamaya A, Ohshita M, Kabasawa K, Iwama K,
Taniguchi K, Tsuda S.
Laboratory of Genotoxicity, Faculty of Chemical and Biological
Engineering, Hachinohe National College of Technology,
Tamonoki Uwanotai 16-1, Aomori 039-1192, Japan.
yfsas...@hachinohe-ct.ac.jp s.t...@iwate-u.ac.jp
We determined the genotoxicity of 39 chemicals currently in use as food
additives.
They fell into six categories-dyes, color fixatives and
preservatives, preservatives, antioxidants, fungicides, and sweeteners.
We tested groups of four male ddY mice once orally with each additive at
up to 0.5xLD(50) or the limit dose (2000mg/kg) and performed the comet
assay on the glandular stomach, colon, liver, kidney, urinary bladder, lung,
brain, and bone marrow 3 and 24 h after treatment.
Of all the additives, dyes were the most genotoxic.
Amaranth, Allura Red, New Coccine, Tartrazine, Erythrosine, Phloxine, and
Rose Bengal induced dose-related DNA damage in the glandular stomach, colon,
and/or urinary bladder.
All seven dyes induced DNA damage in the gastrointestinal organs at a
low dose (10 or 100mg/kg).
Among them, Amaranth, Allura Red, New Coccine, and Tartrazine induced
DNA damage in the colon at close to the acceptable daily intakes (ADIs).
Two antioxidants (butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated
hydroxytoluene (BHT)), three fungicides (biphenyl, sodium
o-phenylphenol, and thiabendazole), and four sweeteners (sodium
cyclamate, saccharin, sodium saccharin, and sucralose) also induced DNA
damage in gastrointestinal organs.
Based on these results, we believe that more extensive assessment of
food additives in current use is warranted. PMID: 12160896
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/934
24 recent formaldehyde toxicity [Comet assay] reports:
Murray 2002.12.31 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/935
Comet assay finds DNA damage from sucralose, cyclamate, saccharin in
mice: Sasaki YF & Tsuda S Aug 2002: Murray 2003.01.01 rmforall
[ Also borderline evidence, in this pilot study of 39 food additives,
using test groups of 4 mice, for DNA damage from for stomach, colon,
liver, bladder, and lung 3 hr after oral dose of 2000 mg/kg aspartame--
a very high dose.]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/961
genotoxins, Comet assay in mice: Ace-K, stevia fine; aspartame poor;
sucralose, cyclamate, saccharin bad: Y.F. Sasaki Aug 2002:
Murray 2003.01.27 rmforall [A detailed look at the data] ]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1018
aspartame toxicity coverup increases danger of corporate meltdown:
Michael C. Carakostas of Coca-Cola: Murray 2003.08.11 rmforall
http://www.isrtp.org/new_members/members1.htm
The International Society of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
Carakostas, Michael C., DVM, PhD Director/Scientific & Regulatory
Affairs The Coca-Cola Company PO Drawer 1734 Atlanta, GA 30301
T. 404/676-4234 F. 404/676-7166 E-mail: mcara...@na.ko.com
http://www2.coca-cola.com/ourcompany/columns_aspartame.html [photo]
Aspartame: The world agrees it's safe By Michael Carakostas, DVM, PhD
Director, Scientific and Regulatory Affairs, Coca-Cola
It is commendable that Carakostas mentions the core problem, albeit
disparagingly, and overlaid with multiple untruths: "During digestion,
aspartame yields a very small amount of methanol-- as do many other food
substances. The body converts this methanol to formaldehyde, which is
instantly converted to formate. Formate is quickly eliminated as carbon
dioxide and water."
Carakostas deceptively make claims, unsupported by research, that the amount
of methanol from aspartame is "very small", that many foods release as much,
and that little of the inevitable formaldehyde or formic acid toxic products
accumulate in body tissues. This executive, with a PhD in veterinary
science, is deceiving people about very serious multiple toxicities.
Thus, there is evidence here cited from 1973 to 2004 that research and
reviews by immense vested interests about aspartame must be scrutinized with
the greatest skepticism. The greatest Internet myth about aspartame is
this: "Aspartame is the most thoroughly tested food additive in history."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/857
www.dorway.com: original documents and long reviews of flaws in
aspartame toxicity research: Murray 2002.07.31 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/858
Samuels: Strong: Roberts: Gold: flaws in double-blind studies re
aspartame and MSG toxicity: Murray 2002.08.01 rmforall
"Survey of aspartame studies: correlation of outcome and funding
sources," 1998, unpublished: http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html
Walton found 166 separate published studies in the peer reviewed
medical literature, which had relevance for questions of human safety.
The 74 studies funded by industry all (100%) attested to aspartame's
safety, whereas of the 92 non-industry funded studies, 84 (91%)
identified a problem. Six of the seven non-industry funded studies
that were favorable to aspartame safety were from the FDA, which
has a public record that shows a strong pro-industry bias.
Ralph G. Walton, MD, Prof. of Clinical Psychology, Northeastern Ohio
Universities, College of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry, Youngstown,
OH 44501, Chairman, The Center for Behavioral Medicine,
Northside Medical Center, 500 Gypsy Lane, P.O. Box 240 Youngstown,
OH 44501 330-740-3621 rwalt...@aol.com
http://www.neoucom.edu/DEPTS/Psychiatry/walton.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/622
Gold: Koehler: Walton: Van Den Eeden: Leon:
aspartame toxicity: Murray 2001.06.04 rmforall four double-blind studies
Headache 1988 Feb; 28(1): 10-4
The effect of aspartame on migraine headache.
Koehler SM, Glaros A PMID: 3277925, UI: 88138777
Shirley M. Koehler, PhD 904-858-7651 skoe...@brookshealth.org
http://www.med.umich.edu/abcn/alpha/alpha-K.html#Koehler
Alan Glaros gla...@umkc.edu 816-235-2074
They conducted a double-blind study of patients, ages 18-55, who had
a medical diagnosis of classical migraines (normally having 1-3
migraines in 4-weeks), who were not on medications (other than
analgesics), and who suspected that aspartame had a negative effect on
their migraine headaches. The subjects were given 1200 mg daily,
aspartame or placebo, for four weeks, about 17 mg/kg. The placebo
group had no increase in headaches. Approximately half of the subjects
(5 of 11) who took aspartame had a large, statistically significant
(p = 0.02), increase in migraine headache frequency, but not in
intensity or duration, compared to baseline or placebo. Only 11 of
25 subjects completed the program: 8 dropped out, 4 began new
medications, 2 had incomplete records. They were at home.
Since 1/3 of the subjects dropped out, they may have been choosing
to avoid headaches-- were they unpaid? To achieve statistical
signifance with only 11 subjects hints that the incidence rate from
aspartame is very high, about 1/2, for migraine cases who believe
that they are hurt by aspartame.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1077
eight depressed people react strongly to aspartame, Prof. Ralph G. Walton,
MD, 1993 double-blind study, full text: Murray 2004.04.26 rmforall
Walton, RG, "Adverse reactions to aspartame: double-blind challenge in
patients from a vulnerable population," 1993, with Robert Hudak and
Ruth J. Green-Waite, Biological Psychiatry, 34 (1), 13-17.
Ralph G. Walton, MD, Prof. of Clinical Psychology, Northeastern Ohio
Universities, College of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry, Youngstown,
OH 44501, Chairman, The Center for Behavioral Medicine,
Northside Medical Center, 500 Gypsy Lane, P.O. Box 240 Youngstown,
OH 44501 330-740-3621 rwalt...@aol.com
http://www.neoucom.edu/DEPTS/Psychiatry/walton.htm
Eight depressed patients, ages 24-60, and five non-depressed controls,
ages 24-56, employed at the hospital, were given for 7 days either
aspartame or a placebo, and then after a 3 day break, given the
opposite. Each got 2100 mg aspartame daily, 30 mg/kg bodyweight,
equal to 10-12 cans of diet soda daily, about a gallon. Despite the
very small number of subjects, the results were dramatic and
statistically significant. The eight depressed patients reported with
aspartame, compared to placebo, much higher levels of nervousness,
trouble remembering, nausea, depression, temper, and malaise. (For each
symptom, p<0.01) The five normals did not report strong enough
differences between aspartame and placebo to be significant.
Initially, the study was to be on a group of 40, but was halted by the
Institutional Review Board because of severe reactions among 3 of the
depressed patients.
Again, statistical significance with only 8 depressed patients:
"In this study, patients most often began to report significant
symptoms after day 2 or 3." The incidence rate is very high,
indeed, about 1/3. The most common symptoms are entirely typical
of thousands of case histories.
Stephen K. Van Den Eeden, T.D. Koepsell, W.T. Longstreth, Jr,
G. van Belle, J.R. Daling, B. McKnight, "Aspartame ingestion and
headaches: a randomized crossover trial," 1994, Neurology, 44, 1787-93
Steven K. Van Den Eeden,PhD 550-450-2202 s...@dor.kaiser.org
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program
3505 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94611-5714
http://www.dor.kaiser.org/dorhtml/investigators/Stephen_Van_Den_Eeden.html
In their introduction, they comment:
"In addition, the FDA had received over 5,000 complaints as of July,
1991 in a passive surveillance system to monitor adverse side effects.
(17) Neurologic problems constitute the primary complaints in these
and several other case series, with headaches accounting for
18 to 45 %,depending on the case series reported. (17-19)"
Subjects, ages 18-57, were recruited who believed they got headaches
from aspartame, but were otherwise mentally and physically healthy.
They were paid $ 15 total, and were at home. Of the 44 subjects, 32
contributed data to the 38-day trials: a week of inert placebo, a week
of either aspartame or placebo, followed by a week of the opposite, and
then this two-week cycle repeated. The daily dose was about 30 mg/kg.
"The proportion of days subjects reported having a headache was
higher during aspartame treatment compared with placebo treatment
(aspartame = 0.33, placebo = 0.24; p = 0.04) (table 5)".
Of the 12 subjects not included in the data, 7 reported adverse
symptoms before withdrawing.
Again, statistical significance with a moderate number of healthy
subjects, willing to be recruited by a newspaper ad, who believed
aspartame hurt them. The number of headaches for each subject
for each treatment week are given: it appears that 4 subjects
had the strongest increase in headaches from the run-in week
or placebo week to their first week on aspartame, jumping from 0 to 5,
1 to 6, 1 to 4, 0 to 5 headaches per week. So, about 4 of the 44
healthy people recruited for the study, who believed aspartame hurt
them, had a stong increase in headaches from the first week of daily
asparame exposure, while 7 reported adverse symptoms before leaving,
a total of 11 out of 44, an incidence ratio of 1/4.
This is sky high, if we consider that, if the incidence ratio for the
about two hundred million users in the USA is 1 of 100, that is 2
million cases. It is plausible that the incidence ratio lies between 1
and 10 out of 100 for continuous daily exposure. These three flames
should have set off alarm bells, with extensive follow-up studies and
much more careful study of thousands of case histories. But these
little flares were adroitly smothered by thick blankets of industry
funded fluff:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/623
Simmons: Gold: Schiffman: Spiers:
aspartame toxicity: Murray 2001.06.04 rmforall two double-blind studies
http://www.dorway.com/tldaddic.html 5-page review
Roberts HJ Aspartame (NutraSweet) addiction.
Townsend Letter 2000 Jan; HJRob...@aol.com
http://www.sunsentpress.com/ sunsen...@aol.com
Sunshine Sentinel Press P.O.Box 17799 West Palm Beach, FL 33416
800-814-9800 561-588-7628 561-547-8008 fax
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/669
1038-page medical text "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic"
published May 30 2001 $ 60.00 postpaid data from 1200 cases
available at http://www.amazon.com
over 600 references from standard medical research
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/790
Moseley: review Roberts "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic":
Murray 2002.02.07 rmforall
Roberts, Hyman J., 1924- ,
Useful insights for diagnosis, treatment and public heath: an updated
anthology of original research, 2002, 798 pages,
aspartame disease, pages 627-685, 778-780
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/859
Roberts: the life work of a brilliant clinician: aspartame toxicity:
Murray 2002.08.02 rmforall
http://www.dorway.com ( David O. Rietz, died 2003 )
over 12,000 print pages
Mission-Possible-USA Betty Martini 770-242-2599
Bett...@mindspring.com dor...@awod.com
http://www.dorway.com/asprlink.html many links
http://www.dorway.com/nslawsuit.txt Jeff Martin, Attorney
http://www.dorway.com/doctors.txt
What many informed doctors are saying/have said about aspartame
Aspartame Consumer Safety Network and Pilot Hotline
Mary Nash Stoddard P.O. Box 780634 Dallas, TX 75378
214-352-4268 marystod@ai(rmail.net
http://web2.airmail.net/marystod/index.html
http://web2.airmail.net/marystod/espanol.htm
Toxicology Sourcebook: "Deadly Deception: Story of Aspartame"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/802
700.club.com: CBN:
Totheroh & Robertson: aspartame expose : Murray 2002.02.13 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/805
Ive: UK Daily Mirror Magazine: aspartame toxicity:
Murray 2002.02.18 rmforall
http://www.dorway.com/upipart1.txt
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/262
aspartame expose 96K Oct 1987 Part 1/3: Gregory Gordon, UPI reporter:
Murray 2000.07.10 rmforall
http://www.dorway.com/enclosur.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/53
aspartame history Part 1/4 1964-1976: Gold: Murray 1999.11.06 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/928
revolving door, Monsanto, FDA, EPA: NGIN: Murray 2002.12.23 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/841
RTM: Merisant Co., MSD Capital, Dell Computer Corp., NutraSweet Co.,
JW Childs Assc.: aspartame-neotame toxicity 2002.07.10 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/876
hyperthyroidism (Graves disease) in George and Barbara Bush, 1991--
aspartame toxicity? Roberts 1997: Murray 2002.10.09 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/874
re "dry drunk": Bisbort: danger to President Bush from aspartame
toxicity: Murray: 2002.02.24 2002.09.29 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1065
politicians and celebrities hooked on diet sodas (aspartame):
Murray 2004.03.24 rmforall
http://google.com gives 239,000 websites for "aspartame" , with the top
9 of 10 listings being anti-aspartame, while
http://groups.google.com finds on 700 MB of posts from 20 years of
Usenet groups, 89,600 posts, the top 10 being anti-aspartame.
http://news.google.com 33 recent aspartame items from 4500 sources.
http://www.AllTheWeb.com gives 43,913, the top 8 of 10 anti.
http://teoma.com/index.asp gives 78,200 websites, top 8 of 10 anti.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed lists 753 aspartame items.
Many scientific studies and case histories report: * headaches * many body
and joint pains (or burning, tingling, tremors, twitching, spasms, cramps,
stiffness, numbness, difficulty swallowing) * fever, fatigue, swollen
glands * "mind fog", "feel unreal", poor memory, confusion, anxiety,
irritability, depression, mania, insomnia, dizziness, slurred speech, sexual
problems, poor vision, hearing (deafness, tinnitus), or taste * red face,
itching, rashes, allergic dermatitis, hair loss, burning eyes or throat, dry
eyes or mouth, mouth sores, burning tongue * obesity, bloating, edema,
anorexia, poor appetite or excessive hunger or thirst * breathing
problems, shortness of breath * nausea, diarrhea or constipation * coldness
* sweating * racing heart, low or high blood pressure, erratic blood sugar
levels * hypothryroidism or hyperthyroidism * seizures * birth defects
* brain cancers * addiction * aggrivates diabetes, autism, allergies,
lupus, ADHD, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple chemical
sensitivity, multiple sclerosis, pseudotumor cerebri and interstitial
cystitis (bladder pain).
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/870
Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Interest 1984: Monte:
Murray 2002.09.23 rmforall
Dr. Woodrow C. Monte Aspartame: methanol, and the public health.
Journal of Applied Nutrition 1984; 36 (1): 42-54.
(62 references) Professsor of Food Science [retired 1992]
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 woody...@xtra.co.nz
The methanol from 2 L of diet soda, 5.6 12-oz cans, 20 mg/can, is
112 mg, 10% of the aspartame.
The EPA limit for water is 7.8 mg daily for methanol (wood alcohol), a
deadly cumulative poison.
Many users drink 1-2 L daily.
The reported symptoms are entirely consistent with chronic methanol
toxicity. (Fresh orange juice has 34 mg/L, but, like all juices, has 16
times more ethanol, which strongly protects against methanol.)
"Fruit and vegetables contain pectin with variable methyl ester content.
However, the human has no digestive enzymes for pectin (6, 25) particularly
the pectin esterase required for its hydrolysis to methanol (26).
Fermentation in the gut may cause disappearance of pectin (6) but the
production of free methanol is not guaranteed by fermentation (3).
In fact, bacteria in the colon probably reduce methanol directly to formic
acid or carbon dioxide (6) (aspartame is completely absorbed before
reaching the colon).
Heating of pectins has been shown to cause virtually no demethoxylation;
even temperatures of 120 deg C produced only traces of methanol (3).
Methanol evolved during cooking of high pectin foods (7) has been accounted
for in the volatile fraction during boiling and is quickly lost to the
atmosphere (49).
Entrapment of these volatiles probably accounts for the elevation in
methanol levels of certain fruits and vegetable products during canning (31,
33)."
Recent research [see links at end of post] supports his focus on the
methanol to formaldehyde toxic process:
"The United States Environmental Protection Agency in their Multimedia
Environmental Goals for Environmental Assessment recommends a minimum
acute toxicity concentration of methanol in drinking water at 3.9 parts
per million, with a recommended limit of consumption below 7.8 mg/day (8).
This report clearly indicates that methanol:
"...is considered a cumulative poison due to the low rate of excretion
once it is absorbed. In the body, methanol is oxidized to formaldehyde
and formic acid; both of these metabolites are toxic." (8)...
Recently the toxic role of formaldehyde (in methanol toxicity) has been
questioned (34).
No skeptic can overlook the fact that, metabolically, formaldehyde must be
formed as an intermediate to formic acid production (54).
Formaldehyde has a high reactivity which may be why it has not been found in
humans or other primates during methanol posisioning (59)....
If formaldehyde is produced from methanol and does have a reasonable half
life within certain cells in the poisoned organism the chronic toxicological
ramifications could be grave.
Formaldehyde is a known carcinogen (57) producing squanous-cell carcinomas
by inhalation exposure in experimental animals (22).
The available epidemiological studies do not provide adequate data for
assessing the carcinogenicity of formaldehyde in man (22, 24, 57).
However, reaction of formaldehyde with deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) has
resulted in irreversible denaturation that could interfere with DNA
replication and result in mutation (37)..."
http://www.dorway.com/barua.html
Dr. J. Barua (ophthalmic surgeon), Dr. Arun Bal (surgeon)
Emerging facts about aspartame.
Journal Of The Diabetic Association Of India 1995; 35 (4):
(79 references) ba...@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in
"...the total amount of methanol absorbed will be approximately 10% of
aspartame ingested. An EPA assessment of methanol states that methanol, 'is
considered a cumulative poison due to the low rate of excretion once it is
absorbed. The absorbed methanol is then slowly converted to
formaldehyde...'"
"Reaction of formaldehyde with DNA has been observed, by spectrophotometry
and electron microscopy, to result in irreversible denaturation."
"DKP [from aspartame] has been implicated in the occurence of brain
tumors."
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/939
aspartame (aspartic acid, phenylalanine) binding to DNA:
Karikas July 1998: Murray 2003.01.05 rmforall
Karikas GA, Schulpis KH, Reclos GJ, Kokotos G
Measurement of molecular interaction of aspartame and
its metabolites with DNA. Clin Biochem 1998 Jul; 31(5): 405-7.
Dept. of Chemistry, University of Athens, Greece
http://www.chem.uoa.gr gkok...@atlas.uoa.gr
"K.H. Schulpis" <inch...@otenet.gr> "G.J. Reclos" <rek...@otenet.gr>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/960
aspartame & MSG: possible role in autoimmune hepatitis:
Prandota Jan 2003: Murray 2003.01.15 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/938
aspartame harms mice brain cells: Hetle & Eltervaag: 2001 thesis
abstract: Sonnewald 1995 study, full text: Murray 2003.01.05 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/346
WebMD: Barclay: Barth:
survey shows aspartame hurts memory in students 2000.11.09
http://www.psy.tcu.edu/psy/barth.htm
Timothy M. Barth Department of Psychology t.b...@tcu.edu
Texas Christian University TCU Box 298920 Fort Worth, TX 76129
Chairman, Physiological Psychology 817-921-7410
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/760
Kovatsi L, Tsouggas M
The effect of oral aspartame administration on the
balance of magnesium in the rat.
Magnes Res 2001 Sep;14(3): 189-94.
Laboratory of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece kov...@med.auth.gr
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/943
aspartame, cell phones, brain cancer July 1999 Hardell:
Murray 2003.01.09 rmforall
http://www.medscape.com/MedGenMed/braintumors
Lennart Hardell, M.D., PhD, in 1999 reported in Sweden that both
cell phone use and heavy aspartame use correlate with increased
brain cancers lennart...@orebroll.se +46 19 602 15 46
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/31
Wurtman: aspartame & seizures 1985.11.09: Murray 1999.10.30
Wurtman RJ Aspartame: possible effect on seizure susceptibility.
Lancet 1985 Nov 9; 2(8463): 1060.
Richard J. Wurtman, Ph.D. di...@mit.edu 617-253-3091
Professor of Neuroscience
Prof. of Health Sciences and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technlogy Cambridge, Mass. 02139
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/32
Murray: Drake: aspartame & panic attacks 1986.09.13 1999.10.30 rmforall
Miles E. Drake, MD
Panic attacks and excessive aspartame ingestion.
Lancet 1986 Sep 13; 2(8507): 631.
Department of Neurology and Psychiatry,
Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
http://www.truthinlabeling.org/ Truth in Labeling Campaign [MSG]
Adrienne Samuels, PhD The toxicity/safety of processed
free glutamic acid (MSG): a study in suppression of information.
Accountability in Research 1999; 6: 259-310. 52-page review
P.O. Box 2532 Darien, Illinois 60561
858-481-9333 adan...@aol.com
Russell L. Blaylock, MD 601-982-1175 Madison, Mississippi
"Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills", 1977, 298 p., 493 references.
"Health and Nutrition Secrets that can save your life", 2002, 459 p.,
558 + 30 references, $ 30 http://www.russellblaylockmd.com/
George R. Schwartz, MD "In Bad Taste: The MSG Syndrome", 1988
http://www.healthpress.com/ good...@healthpress.com
PO Box 37470 Albuquerque, NM 87176 505-888-1394
Kathleen Frazier, Publisher
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http://www.readthelabel.org.uk/ Additives Survivors' Network (UK)
Geoff Brewer <geoff...@eurobell.co.uk>
http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/mom/aspartame/aspartame.html
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/webprojects2000/srogers/sarah.html
Sarah Rogers <sr8...@bristol.ac.uk>
http://www.react.ie/Health/Nutrition/Aspartame.htm Ireland
http://members.tripod.com/~mission_possible/scotland_branch.html
http://www.aspartame.ca/indexa.html John T. Linnell <ad...@aspartame.ca>
http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000/AspartaMalcache.htm
http://www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info/ Australia FAILSAFE diet
http://www.bradymax.com/nzaa/ New Zealand
http://www.reseauproteus.net/therapies/nutritio/aspartame.htm France
http://ww2.grn.es/avalls/aspa1.htm Spain
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Falls/8669/ Brazil
http://www.phd.com.br/aspartame.htm
http://hem.passagen.se/mission.possible.sweden/
http://home.online.no/~dusan/foods/aspartame.html Norway
http://www.ostara.org/aspartam/#menue Germany
http://www.aspartaam.nl/info/product.html Holland, in Dutch
http://www.laleva.org/ <arch...@laleva.cc> Italy 9 languages
http://www.laleva.cc/alimenti/alimenti.html aspartame vs stevia 4.17.03
http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/aspartame.htm Greece
http://www.cseindia.org/html/cola-indepth/index.htm India
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http://www.vegsource.com extensive vegan information
htttp://www.drmcdougall.com practical, delicious healthy diet guidance
http://www.vegsource.com/articles/kradjian_milk.htm
Robert Kradjian MD Discusses Milk
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/971
Joel Fuhrman critique of Atkins diet in "Eat To Live":
Murray 2003.03.01 rmforall
Substitute stevia (at health food stores).
Avoid all products with aspartame and MSG. Gradually reduce alcohol, sugar,
caffeine (coffee, cocoa, and teas), meat, fish, eggs, milk, butter, and
cheese, food additives and colors, fluoride, city water. Enjoy organic
rice, beans, nuts, almond butter, vegetables, fruits, with modest use of soy
products and sprouted grain breads, flax seed and olive oils, vitamins and
minerals, 4-8 1,000 mg fish oil capsules, and fill your jugs with deionized
water.
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linda
"tinytim" <tin...@asarian-host.net> wrote:
> There were two schools of thought as far as I could tell, one went down the
> route of 'There's so much big money in slimming/diabetic products that it
> was being suppressed' and the other was 'That it was untested and thought to
> be harmful'.
>
> I couldn't get to the bottom of it, but the person who put me on to it said
> it was a totally natural product derived from a plant extract, which is why
> I wanted to give it a go.... That was before I got all the negative stuff
> that brought my paranoia roaring the surface ;-(
>
> Asa
if i can find it anywhere, i'll try it and let you know.
linda
wrote:
> "linda" <2creu...@suxcharter.net> wrote in message
> news:2creus1spam-0062...@corp.supernews.com...
> > In article <2g0m5nF...@uni-berlin.de>, "cal" <cal...@hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > "linda" <2creu...@suxcharter.net> wrote in message
> > > news:2creus1spam-FA17...@corp.supernews.com...
> > > > it is worth looking into,imo.
> > >
> > > but it has been looked into.
> >
> > not enough to suit me. especially now that i see rumsfield was involved.
>
> i hear ya, but rummy wasn't involved in the international studies.
> i quote from the article i posted before:
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> In addition, other scientific advisory bodies such as the
> Scientific Committee for Food of the European Community, and the Joint
> Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) of the United Nations Food and
> Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization have reviewed all the
> available safety studies and have found aspartame to be safe. More than
> ninety countries world-wide, including the United States, countries of the
> European Union, and Australia and New Zealand, have also reviewed aspartame
> and found it to be safe for human consumption and allow its use in various
> foods
> -------------------------------------------------
>
i hope he wasn't involved. probably not.
"reviewed all the available studies" is what bothers me. maybe not
everything is readily available or wasn't at the time they needed it.
but it does look ok for those who it doesn't affect. those it does
affect still have to keep looking.
> > without deluging me with "proof", can you post or send me some good
> > sources to check it out myself? i'm from ...well, not missouri but i
> > need lots of proof. ;)
>
> i can't do a web search right now, but i would guess the work done by the
> above organizations is probably out there for public view.
>
ok. i'll research it. not feeling up to it today. other stuff going on.
> > and can you help me understand who health canada is and their purpose?
> > i gather it's a govt. run agency, no? i'm sorry, i'm fairly ignorant of
> > how your system works. i'm used to seeing things posted in journals
> > like the New Eng. journal of medicine and such. is health canada
> > similar to that?
>
> as i said in that earlier post, "health canada" is canada's federal ministry
> of health. it's headed by the health minister who is in the cabinet and
> reports to the prime minister. i'm not sure what the corresponding entity
> in the US federal govt. is. if you have a secretary of health, then the
> department s/he heads up would be the equivalent.
>
sorry i keep making you repeat yourself.
i guess the fda is the closest we have but not sure. i'm not real up on
all the agencies and depts we have. (food and drug admin.) they are
the ones who approved it very quickly. rummy appointed the person who
did it. i would think your agency is less open to tampering.
snip
> >
> > i don't recall you ever mentioning what your sister died of. i'm sorry
> > cal. i know you loved her a great deal.
>
> she had breast cancer. it came back in her fifth year of remission and
> metastasized to the brain. her first brain tumor was removed. another one
> appeared within months. it was inoperable.
>
>
oh. i see. 5 years is usually when they say you're cancer free. :(
so sorry cal.
> <...snip>
>
> > of course, but i still feel we need to not take the attitude, of "oh
> > well, it's all going to kill us if we overdo anyway".
> > we still need to test new products and scrutinize the findings
> > carefully.
>
> yes, but this testing and retesting have been going on for a long time.
> aspartame isn't a new product. it's been in commercial use for
> nearly 25 years.
>
> cal
>
and there have been issues with it even since it was created in the
sixties. they haven't been silenced yet. people like me just don't use
it but our choices are limited by companies decisions to use that and
nothing else. that bothers me. sure we shouldn't drink a lot of soda
but the idea that i can't do if it i want to because of this reason
sticks in my craw. like when you say you don't like having your choices
taken away. mine are too.
oh well, i'll stick to splenda and be glad we have that at least. maybe
try stevia if i can find it anywhere and it's not going to cost me an
arm and a leg.
be well,
linda
tinytim
I can't recall were I got it Linda, but it was from the internet.........
Asa
embie
we noticed funky stuff from aspartame, but we are funky so never sure of
any body trends. seemed to give headache and *short-term* memory probs
(long term is state related memory most often for us), but as we got
those normally - hard to measure. we noticed this before we read of
other ppl having similar. never noticed any other side effect listed.
we are only us, though. don't get caffeine or non-caffeine related
headaches, though we did realize only a while back that caffeine does
indeed effect our body. that's a depending though.
oh, sorry, babbling, and on this arm too. how odd. ;)
point we were going to add is that splenda is sucralose. dunno if that
helps anyone at all with trying to find it. fruit20 has it.
hth, embies, always sicky sweet.
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hi embies :)
great to read you babbling ;)
thanks for the information, i have to find something because there are times
when i sure wants something sweet :D
but aspartame gaves me a nasty taste after a while in + of the headaches, so
i try to drink lots afterwards to minimize the effects.
take good care of yourself ok?
satyagrahas
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