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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 took office (a friend of Searle) 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. Long-Term Damage. It appears to cause slow, silent damage in those unfortunate enough to not have immediate reactions and a reason to avoid it. It may take one year, five years, 10 years, or 40 years, but it seems to cause some reversible and some irreversible changes in health over long-term use. METHANOL (AKA WOOD ALCOHOL/POISON) (10% OF ASPARTAME) Methanol/wood alcohol is a deadly poison. People may recall that methanol was the poison that has caused some "skid row" alcoholics to end up blind or dead. Methanol is gradually released in the small intestine when the methyl group of aspartame encounter the enzyme chymotrypsin. The absorption of methanol into the body
is sped
up considerably when free methanol is ingested. Free methanol is
created from aspartame when it is heated to above 86 Fahrenheit
(30
Centigrade). This would occur when Heavy users of aspartame-containing
products consume
as much as 250 mg of methanol daily or 32 times the EPA
limit.
The most well known problems from methanol poisoning are vision
problems.
Formaldehyde is a known In a 1993 act that can only be described
as "unconscionable",
the FDA approved aspartame as an ingredient in numerous food
items
that would always be heated to above 86°degrees F
(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. The truth about aspartame's
toxicity is far different than what Abdominal Pain
Aspartame Disease Mimics Symptoms or Worsens the Following Diseases Fibromyalgia
How it happens: Methanol, from aspartame, is released in
the small
intestine when the methyl group of aspartame encounters the
enzyme
chymotrypsin (Stegink 1984, page 143). Free methanol begins to
form
in liquid aspartame-containing products at temperatures above 86
degrees F.. 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.
Phenylketenurics
are 2% of the population with extreme sensitivity to this
chemical
unless it's present in food. It gets you too, causing brain
1. Methanol from alcohol and juices does not get converted to formaldehyde to any significant extent. There is very strong evidence to confirm this fact for alcoholic beverages and fairly strong evidence for juices. 2. Formaldehyde obtained from methanol is very toxic in *very small* doses as seen by recent research. 3. Aspartame causes chronic toxicity reactions/damage due to the methanol to formaldehyde and other break down products despite what is claimed otherwise by the very short, industry-funded experiments using a test substance that is chemically different and absorbed differently than what is available to the general public. "Strangely enough", almost all independent studies show that aspartame can cause health problems. 4. A common ploy from Monsanto is to claim that aspartame is "safe" yet a few select people may have "allergic" reactions to it. This is typical Monsanto nonsense, of course. Their own research shows that it does not cause "allergic" reactions. It is there way of trying to minimize and hide the huge numbers of toxicity reactions and damage that people are experiencing from the long-term use of aspartame. Summary Given the following points, it is definitely premature for researchers to discount the role of methanol in aspartame side effects: 1. The amount of methanol ingested from
aspartame
is unprecedented in human history. Methanol from fruit
juice
ingestion does not even approach the quantity of methanol
ingested
from aspartame, especially in persons who 2. Lack of laboratory-detectable changes in plasma formic acid and formaldehyde levels do not preclude damage being caused by these toxic metabolites. Laboratory-detectable changes in formate levels are often not found in short exposures to methanol. 3. Aspartame-containing products often
provide little
or no nutrients which may protect against chronic methanol
poisoning
and are often consumed in between meals. Persons who ingest
aspartame-containing
products are often 4. Persons with certain health conditions or on certain drugs may be much more susceptible to chronic methanol poisoning. 5. Chronic diseases and side effects from slow poisons often build silently over a long period of time. Many chronic diseases which seem to appear suddenly have actually been building in the body over many years. 6. An increasing body of research is
showing that
many people are highly sensitive to low doses of formaldehyde in
the environment. Environmental exposure to formaldehyde and
ingestion of methanol (which converts to 7. Formic acid has been shown to slowly accumulate in various parts of the body. Formic acid has been shown to inhibit oxygen metabolism. 8. The are a very large and growing number of persons are experiencing chronic health problems similar to the side effects of chronic methanol poisoning when ingesting aspartame-containing products for a significant length of time. This includes many cases of eye damage similar to the type of eye damage seen in methanol poisoning cases. Toxicity Effects of Aspartame Use Selection of Health Effects from Short-term and/or Long-Term Use Note: It often takes at least sixty days without any aspartame NutraSweet to see a significant improvement. Check all labels very carefully (including vitamins and pharmaceuticals). Look for the word "aspartame" on the label and avoid it. (Also, it is a good idea to avoid "acesulfame-k" or "sunette.") Finally, avoid getting nutrition information from junk food industry PR organizations such as IFIC or organizations that accept large sums of money from the junk and chemical food industry such as the American Dietetic Association. If you are a user of any products with aspartame, and you have physical, visual, mental problems... take the 60-day no aspartame test. If, after two months with no aspartame your symptoms are either gone, or are much less severe, please get involved to get this neurotoxin off the market. Write a letter to the FDA, with a copy to Betty Martini (for proof of how the FDA doesn't keep proper records). Write your congressmen. Return products containing aspartame to the point of purchase... for a FULL refund. Make a big stink if they WON'T give you a full refund! Tell all your friends and family... and if they stop using aspartame and also "wake up well"... get them involved in the same way. Aspartame is an "approved sweetener" because of a few greedy and dishonest people who place profits above human life and well-being. With the FDA and our Congress culpable, only an INFORMED and ACTIVE public will affects its reclassification from "food additive" to TOXIC DRUG, and removed from the human food chain. Link to a printable report form: http://www.dorway.com/reprtfrm.html Addresses: Commissioner Mrs. Betty Martini Links for additional information: http://www.dorway.com
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NOW... that you are aware of the 92 FDA recognized symptoms (that required a Freedom Of Information Act request to pry from their reluctant hands) and HOW aspartame does its dirty work, change to my Official Dogma page. On this page Mark Gold has taken the IFIC "Official" aspartame safety myth and shot it full of holes using all of the smoking guns that were used by the FDA to approve this poison as a food additive, along with information they either ignored or discounted. This excellent debunking of the official FDA/Monsanto/ Searle/ Nutrasweet/ Nutrasweet Kelco/AMA/ADA/IFIC/??? chain of lies and half truths includes a long history of this "product's" sordid trail to the marketplace and the sweet tooth. |
