Aspartamine to be banned?

[NU_nutrition_TS]

Don't know the source so I cannot vouch for the facts - though much of what is presented I have seen in other places, including a video documentary that covered very similar ground. This was in an email forwarded to me tonight:

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This you must read..it is a long report but if you want to live longer then read!!!!

I found this to be very thought provoking

SWEET POISON! A MUST READ!

In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick. She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain.

By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her.
She was in so much pain, and so sick she just knew she was dying. She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter's name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of. She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd.

On March 19 I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS. I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked my sister if she drank diet soda? She told me that she did. As a matter of fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment. I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda! I e-mailed her article my friend, a lawyer, had sent. My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk! The muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but, she sure felt a lot better. She told me she was going to her doctor with this article and would call me when she got home. Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! He is going to call all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners of any kind.

In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda...and literally dying a slow and miserable death. When she got to Florida March 22, all she had to take was one pill, and that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her way to a complete recovery. And she is walking! No wheelchair! This article saved her life. If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label; DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!

I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on 'ASPARTAME,' marketed as 'Nutra Sweet,' 'Equal,' and 'Spoonful.' In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United States in 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this to be rampant. I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.

I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous:

When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. Many people were being diagnosed in error. Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity is! Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. The victim usually does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its use; irritating the lupus to such a degree, that it may become a life-threatening condition. We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas. In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss returned and hearing loss improved markedly. This also applies to cases of tinnitus and Fibromyalgia.

During a lecture, I said, 'If you are using ASPARTAME (Nutra Sweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc) and you suffer from; Fibromyalgia symptoms, Spasms, Shooting pains, Numbness in your legs, Cramps, Vertigo, Dizziness, Headaches, Tinnitus, Joint pain, Unexplainable depression, Anxiety attacks, Slurred speech, Blurred vision, or memory loss; you probably have ASPARTAME poisoning!'

People were jumping up during the lecture saying, 'I have some of these symptoms. Is it reversible?' Yes! Yes! Yes! STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many products are fortified with it! This is a serious problem. Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice; a nurse stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Cokeaddicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence!

Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you crave carbohydrates. It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight! These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin and is used primarily to preserve 'tissue specimens.' Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body! Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the 'diet products' and with no significant increase in exercise; his patients lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.

Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that some physicians, who believed that they had a patient with Retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame. The Aspartame drives the blood sugar out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance. Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE. Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates the neurons of the Brain; causing various levels of Brain damage, Seizures, Depression, Manic depression, Panic attacks, Uncontrollable anger and rage. Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as well.

Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet. So called 'behavior modification prescription drugs' (Ritalin and others) are no longer needed. Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first place! Most of these children were being 'poisoned' on a daily basis with the very foods that were 'better for them than sugar.'

It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.

Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e. mental retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NEVER be given artificial sweeteners. There are many different case histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other neurological disturbances talking about a plague of neurological diseases directly caused by the use of this deadly poison.'

Herein lies the problem:

There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included in 100 different products and strong objection was made concerning its use. Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, and still nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets. Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED!
There are now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly chemical and there will be thousands more introduced. Everybody wants a 'piece of the Aspartame pie.' I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is. And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the Conference of the American College of Physicians? This has been recently exposed in the New York Times. These organizations cannot criticize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are required to endorse their products.

Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children and infants. The bill would also institute independent studies on the known dangers and the problems existing in the general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry, neurological changes and behavioral symptoms. The bill was killed. It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting and uninformed public. Well, you're informed now!

YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW!

Please print this out and/or e-mail to your family And friends. They have a right to know too!

[Bebop1980]

Wow, but would explain a lot for the issues people are having with their health that doctors could not really put there finger on the actual problem.

[magz0202]

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I hope so but I doubt it will be , I have a nightmare getting juice for my kids without it, virtually evryone has it even the cordials

hello,

asda do an aspartame and sugar free cola that might be worth you getting if you want soft drinks without the adds for the children :-)

[Indiscreet]

That sounds very sensationalist, NU, but for the fact I'm convinced I had aspartame poisoning myself (see my second post on page 1 of this thread).
I am completely recovered now, but I no longer drink diet soda or chew sugar free gum. I would definitely recommend that people stay away from aspartame. It's bad stuff.

[Tauren]

Resurrecting this thread.

I have done a bit of reading up on this, and I just can't get to the bottom of it. Opinion seems to be polarised between

- people who say its safe as long as you don't drink 10l of soda a day
- people who say its poison, awful stuff, the "new cigarettes" etc.

Anything like that tends to set of my BS alarm, because the truth is rarely that black or white.

I'm not really one for global conspiracy theories, so I can't believe that the entire world's food regulatory bodies have been bought off. Equally I am shocked at just how rabidly the anti-aspartame lobby make their case. Is it really that bad, or are the real profiteers here those making their careers telling everyone how bad aspartame is.

Any further opinions?

[James]

I personally have the odd can of dirty sode every once in a while, I think you should look on it in the same way as cheat foods - little every now and then won't harm you.

[Supadude]

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Resurrecting this thread.

I have done a bit of reading up on this, and I just can't get to the bottom of it. Opinion seems to be polarised between

- people who say its safe as long as you don't drink 10l of soda a day
- people who say its poison, awful stuff, the "new cigarettes" etc.

Anything like that tends to set of my BS alarm, because the truth is rarely that black or white.

I'm not really one for global conspiracy theories, so I can't believe that the entire world's food regulatory bodies have been bought off. Equally I am shocked at just how rabidly the anti-aspartame lobby make their case. Is it really that bad, or are the real profiteers here those making their careers telling everyone how bad aspartame is.

Any further opinions?

You've only goto buy off the FDA and the rest follow suit

When it's my choice I always choose no for personal as well as health reasons but when I'm off my t1ts it all goes out the f***ing window & i'll take in anything

[NU_nutrition_TS]

I was going to post something similar to the above yesterday!

Aspartame was approved by the FDA in 1981. Donald Rumsfeld became part of Ronald Reagan's administration after his election to the US presidency in 1980. Domald Rumsfeld was formerly a CEO with GD Searle, the company who owned the patent for aspartame. Connect the dots!

Add to that that many of the administrators and advisors of the FDA are former CEOs of the companies like Searle and Monsanto and it is not hard to see that impartiality is likely to be highly suspect.

What is now worse is that a large proportion of the FDAs funding comes from the industry whose products the FDA are supposed to monitor on behalf of the general public rather than from the public itself via the government. Again, not conducive to impartiality.

[Tauren]

Yeah, I've seen fairly legitimate concerns about how it got approved, and the lobbying/industry/government connection in the USA does seem borderline corrupt at the best of times.

Still, doesn't the UK have an agency for this sort of thing, and most other developed countries in the world do too. Surely it wouldn't be legal everywhere if it was really dangerous??

Nu - I've seen you say before that you don't think Sucralose is any better. I take it in your opinion all sweeteners are best avoided?

[NU_nutrition_TS]

Yes, I would say most artificial sweeteners are best avoided for a number of reasons. Most of them sprang - as 'accidents' - from the development of pesticides, which is why most of them are organofluorines. Another reason is that, though many have a vastly reduced calorific value, their sweet taste can still elicit a sizeable insulin response. Without any (or much) actual carbohydrate content to add to the serum glucose levels, this can lead to serum glucose drops or hypoglycaemia, which only serves to increase the cravings for fast carbs and the sweet taste.

I think, as supadude said, many of the organisations around the world responsible for the approval of drugs and food additives in their respective jurisdictions tend to take their lead from the FDA. Having said that, there have been cases where European countries have finally withdrawn a product in their country even though the FDA and others continue to support its use. This is usually after much lobbying by researchers who have amassed a lot of conflicting data via studies which cast doubt on a product's safety.