"Peter Bowditch" <myfirstname@ratbags.com> wrote in message
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> "Jan Drew" <jdrew1374@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>>http://www.newstarget.com/z021031.html
>>
>>Originally published November 9 2006
>>Soda warning: High sugar intake linked to pancreatic cancer
>>(NewsTarget) On Wednesday, research was released from the Karolinska
>>Institute in Sweden that showed people who drink soft drinks or add sugar
>>to
>>their coffee increase their risk of developing pancreatic cancer.
>
> It's just as well that I switched over to aspartame when I was
> diagnosed with diabetes, isn't it? My pancreas is in enough trouble
> already.
> --
> Peter Bowditch
Aspartame.
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/0511...051114-15.html
April 6, 2004
LAWSUITS ACCUSE MANY COMPANIES OF POISONING THE PUBLIC WITH ASPARTAME
http://www.nationaljusticeleague.com
SACRAMENTO -- April 6th, 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 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.
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 Sept 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" (
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 neuraliga. 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.
Defendants in the lawsuits include Coca-cola, PepsiCo, Bayer Corp.,
the Dannon Company, William Wrigley Jr. Company, ConAgra Foods, Wyeth,
Inc., The NutraSweet Company, and Altria Corp. (parent company of
Kraft Foods and Philip Morris).
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.
Sincerely,
Roberta Bellon,
Public Relations
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.
On Sept 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.
Aspartic acid (aspartame) and glutamate (ingredient in monosodium glutamate)
have been labeled as excitotoxins, which Dr. Russell Blaylock, author of
Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, defines as "a group of excitatory amino
acids that can cause sensitive neurons to die" (226). An article in the
Orlando
Sentinel Tribune states, "according to Blaylock, a single meal may contain
several of these additives . . . given a high enough dose can include brain
lesions." Blaylock is concerned that "hundreds of millions of infants and
young
children are at great risk and their parents are not even aware of it" (qtd.
In
Bonvie and Bonvie G1).
The last component of aspartame is methanol, better known as wood alcohol, a
"deadly poison," claims Dr. Roberts. The Environmental Protection Agency
recommends less than eight milligrams per day of methanol. A typical liter
of
an aspartame diet soda contains approximately 55 milligrams. Complications
of
methanol poisoning include blindness, brain swelling, pancreatitis,
numbness,
shooting pains, cardiac changes, and death (28, 42-45). According to
Aspartame
Consumer Safety Network, when ingested, methanol breaks down into
formaldehyde,
"known to cause cancer, accumulating slowly without detection in the body"
(The Deadly Deception 2).
Soda warning: High sugar intake linked to pancreatic cancer 
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