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Ever heard about Aspartame ?
Aspartame is the name for an artificial, non-carbohydrate sweetener.
It is commonly used in diet soft drinks, and is often provided as a table condiment
Aspartame’s attractiveness as a sweetener comes from the fact that it is approximately 180 times sweeter than sugar in typical concentrations without the high energy value of sugar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame
Aspartame was not approved until 1981, in dry foods. For over eight years the FDA refused to approve it because of the seizures and brain tumors this drug produced in lab animals. The FDA continued to refuse to approve it until President Reagan(a friend of Searle) took office and fired the FDA Commissioner who wouldn't approve it. Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes was appointed as commissioner. Even then there was so much opposition to approval that a Board of Inquiry was set up. The Board said: "Do not approve aspartame". Dr. Hayes OVERRULED his own Board of Inquiry.
Shortly after Commissioner Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr., approved the use of aspartame in carbonated beverages, he left for a position with G.D. Searle's Public Relations firm.
In a 1993 the FDA approved aspartame as an ingredient in numerous food items that would always be heated to above 30°Degrees C.
Much worse, on 27 June 1996, without public notice, the FDA removed all restrictions from aspartame allowing it to be used in everything, including all heated and baked goods.
Approximately 10% of aspartame is broken down into methanol in the small intestine. The absorption of methanol into the body is speed up considerably when free methanol is ingested. Free methanol is created from aspartame when it is heated to above 30°Degrees C..
Methanol breaks down into formic acid and formaldehyde in the body. Formaldehyde is a deadly neurotoxin!. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formaldehyde )
Im sure you all remember The troops of Desert Storm, they were "treated" to large amounts of aspartame-sweetened beverages which had been heated to over 30° in the Saudi Arabian sun. Many of them returned home with numerous disorders similar to what has been seen in persons who have been chemically poisoned by formaldehyde.
The fact remains, though, that MOST victims don't have a clue that aspartame may be the cause of their many problems!
A few reactions included here submitted by FDA
http://www.presidiotex.com/aspartame/Facts/92_Symptoms/92_symptoms.gif
Anxiety attacks
Asthmatic Reactions
Chest Pains
Diabetes and Diabetic Complications
Depression
Epilepsy
Hypertension
Insomnia
Irritability
Memory loss
Rapid Heart Beat
Vision Loss
How it happens:
Methanol, from aspartame, is released in the small intestine when the methyl group of aspartame encounters the enzyme chymotrypsin.
Free methanol begins to form in liquid aspartame-containing products at temperatures above 30°.. also within the human body.
The methanol is then converted to formaldehyde. The formaldehyde converts to formic acid, ant sting poison. Toxic formic acid is used as an activator to strip epoxy and urethane coatings. Imagine what it does to your tissues!
Phenylalanine and aspartic acid, 90% of aspartame, are amino acids normally used in synthesis of protoplasm when supplied by the foods we eat. But when unaccompanied by other amino acids we use (there are 20), they are neurotoxic.
That is why a warning for Phenylketonurics is found on EQUAL and other aspartame products.
Components of aspartame go straight to the brain, damage that causes headaches, mental confusion, seizures and faulty balance. Lab rats and other test animals died of brain tumors.
Here is a documentary "Sweet Misery", Interviews with doctors, lawyers, people who have had health problems which they associate with aspartame usage, advocates, and many others. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1871783678882092937&q=aspartame
Aspartame is an "approved sweetener" because of a few greedy and dishonest people who place profits above human life and well-being.
If you are a user of aspartame, and you have physical, visual, mental problems... take the 30-day no aspartame test. If your symptoms are either gone, or are much less severe, please get involved to get this neurotoxin off the market.
Aspartame is the name for an artificial, non-carbohydrate sweetener.
It is commonly used in diet soft drinks, and is often provided as a table condiment
Aspartame’s attractiveness as a sweetener comes from the fact that it is approximately 180 times sweeter than sugar in typical concentrations without the high energy value of sugar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame
Aspartame was not approved until 1981, in dry foods. For over eight years the FDA refused to approve it because of the seizures and brain tumors this drug produced in lab animals. The FDA continued to refuse to approve it until President Reagan(a friend of Searle) took office and fired the FDA Commissioner who wouldn't approve it. Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes was appointed as commissioner. Even then there was so much opposition to approval that a Board of Inquiry was set up. The Board said: "Do not approve aspartame". Dr. Hayes OVERRULED his own Board of Inquiry.
Shortly after Commissioner Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr., approved the use of aspartame in carbonated beverages, he left for a position with G.D. Searle's Public Relations firm.
In a 1993 the FDA approved aspartame as an ingredient in numerous food items that would always be heated to above 30°Degrees C.
Much worse, on 27 June 1996, without public notice, the FDA removed all restrictions from aspartame allowing it to be used in everything, including all heated and baked goods.
Approximately 10% of aspartame is broken down into methanol in the small intestine. The absorption of methanol into the body is speed up considerably when free methanol is ingested. Free methanol is created from aspartame when it is heated to above 30°Degrees C..
Methanol breaks down into formic acid and formaldehyde in the body. Formaldehyde is a deadly neurotoxin!. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formaldehyde )
Im sure you all remember The troops of Desert Storm, they were "treated" to large amounts of aspartame-sweetened beverages which had been heated to over 30° in the Saudi Arabian sun. Many of them returned home with numerous disorders similar to what has been seen in persons who have been chemically poisoned by formaldehyde.
The fact remains, though, that MOST victims don't have a clue that aspartame may be the cause of their many problems!
A few reactions included here submitted by FDA
http://www.presidiotex.com/aspartame/Facts/92_Symptoms/92_symptoms.gif
Anxiety attacks
Asthmatic Reactions
Chest Pains
Diabetes and Diabetic Complications
Depression
Epilepsy
Hypertension
Insomnia
Irritability
Memory loss
Rapid Heart Beat
Vision Loss
How it happens:
Methanol, from aspartame, is released in the small intestine when the methyl group of aspartame encounters the enzyme chymotrypsin.
Free methanol begins to form in liquid aspartame-containing products at temperatures above 30°.. also within the human body.
The methanol is then converted to formaldehyde. The formaldehyde converts to formic acid, ant sting poison. Toxic formic acid is used as an activator to strip epoxy and urethane coatings. Imagine what it does to your tissues!
Phenylalanine and aspartic acid, 90% of aspartame, are amino acids normally used in synthesis of protoplasm when supplied by the foods we eat. But when unaccompanied by other amino acids we use (there are 20), they are neurotoxic.
That is why a warning for Phenylketonurics is found on EQUAL and other aspartame products.
Components of aspartame go straight to the brain, damage that causes headaches, mental confusion, seizures and faulty balance. Lab rats and other test animals died of brain tumors.
Here is a documentary "Sweet Misery", Interviews with doctors, lawyers, people who have had health problems which they associate with aspartame usage, advocates, and many others. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1871783678882092937&q=aspartame
Aspartame is an "approved sweetener" because of a few greedy and dishonest people who place profits above human life and well-being.
If you are a user of aspartame, and you have physical, visual, mental problems... take the 30-day no aspartame test. If your symptoms are either gone, or are much less severe, please get involved to get this neurotoxin off the market.
