carcinogenic – F.I.G.H.T for your health! http://lymebook.com/fight Linda Heming describes her Lyme disease healing journey Wed, 06 Nov 2013 05:54:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 Aspartame Poisoning http://lymebook.com/fight/aspartame-poisoning/ http://lymebook.com/fight/aspartame-poisoning/#respond Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:59:10 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=1612 Dear Cara,
I’m so sorry about your child.  Aspartame does trigger birth defects 
and especially autism.  In fact, aspartame is not an additive at all 
but a deadly addictive excitoneurotoxic, carcinogenic, genetically 
engineered drug and adjuvant.  An adjuvant is an immune 
stimulator.  The squalene in the Anthrax vaccine that caused so many 
of the troops to have ALS is an adjuvant.  ALS is also caused by 
aspartame:  http://www.wnho.net/aspartameandgulfwar.htm  So its a 
double whammy so to speak.  Adjuvants all cause the same thing, MS, 
lupus, ALS, autism, etc.  Now to make it even worse aspartame damages 
the mitochondria which is the powerhouse of the cell and interacts 
with drugs and vaccines.  Splenda is a chlorocarbon 
poison.  http://www.wnho.net/splenda_chlorocarbon.htm

Dr. Jim Harrison just did a graph showing autism skyrocketing when 
aspartame was approved.  In fact, I used your case  without your 
name.  http://www.mpwhi.com/autism_chart.htm   Here is a new study 
which showed aspartame jumps premature birth up to 
78%:  http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_jumps_premature_births.htm  Of 
course, the front groups are fighting the evidence: 
http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_mob_figts_evidence.htm

You actually figured it out for yourself, but now you need help with 
your baby.  I do know somebody who can help you.  Contact Dr. Spice 
Crosby:  spicewc@earthlink.net  In my opinion if there is one person 
in this country who can help you, it would be Spice.  She worked with 
one case where the autism was even cured.

Here is the Aspartame Warning Flyer you can send to others to warm 
them not to make the same mistake and remember that Ajinomoto has 
just changed the name to AminoSweet so be 
warned.   http://www.mpwhi.com/warning_flyer_on_aspartame.htm

Below my signature you will find the Aspartame Resource Guide which 
has detox, the aspawrtame documentary, medical texts and a safe 
sweetener, Just Like Sugar.

All my best,
Betty

Helpful Links:

www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com, www.wnho.net
Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
Aspartame Information List, www.mpwhi.com  scroll down to banners

  Aspartame Resource Guide

Aspartame medical text, Aspartame Disease:  An Ignored Epidemic, 
<http://www.sunsentpress.com/>www.sunsentpress.com  by H. J. Roberts, 
M.D., over 1000 pages  He also has other books on aspartame and just 
published “A Manifesto for American Medicine”

Dr. Leonard Coldwell’s Detox Formula: 
<http://www.mpwhi.com/resources-coldwell.htm>http://www.mpwhi.com/resources-coldwell.htm 
His new book is “The Only Answer to Cancer”.

Detox formula:  “What To Do If You Have Used Aspartame” by 
neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., 
<http://www.wnho.net/wtdaspartame.htm>www.wnho.net/wtdaspartame.htm 
Dr. Blaylock is author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, 
<http://www.russellblaylockmd.com/>www.russellblaylockmd.com    He 
has an excellent CD titled:  “The Truth About Aspartame”, 
<http://www.atavistik.com/>www.atavistik.com  All info is on 
<http://www.mpwhi.com/blaylock_wellness_center.htm>http://www.mpwhi.com/blaylock_wellness_center.htm 

Aspartame documentary:  Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, 
<http://www.soundandfury.tv/>www.soundandfury.tv

Aspartame Information List, you can subscribe on 
<http://www.mpwhi.com/>www.mpwhi.com  scroll down to banners.

How to get aspartame out of your 
state: 
<http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/pr_24_feb_2009.html>http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/pr_24_feb_2009.html

Safe Sweetener:  Just Like Sugar, 
<http://www.justlikesugarinc.om/>www.justlikesugarinc.om   Can be 
found in places like Whole Foods. Made of chicory and orange peel, 
Calcium and Vitamin C.  Chicory has been used for 70 years to improve 
the health of diabetics.  Dr. Russell Blaylock wrote in his 
newsletter, The Blaylock Wellness Report, 
<http://www.russellblaylockmd.com/>www.russellblaylockmd.com 
“Finally a safe sweetener”.

Aspartame information for distribution:  The Artificially Sweetened 
Times, 24 page booklets on aspartame, 
<http://www.idaho-observer.com/>www.idaho-observer.com

The Lethal Science of 
Splenda: 
<http://www.wnho.net/splenda_chlorocarbon.htm>http://www.wnho.net/splenda_chlorocarbon.htm 

Studies have shown that sucralose can:

  * Cause the thymus to shrink by as much as 40% (the thymus is your 
immune powerhouse – it produces T cells)
* Cause enlargement of the liver and kidneys
  * Reduce growth rate as much as 20%
* Cause enlargement of the large bowel area
  * Reduce the amount of good bacteria in the intestines by 50%
  * Increase the pH level in the intestines (a risk factor for colon cancer)
  * Contribute to weight gain
  * Cause aborted pregnancy low fetal body weight
* Reduce red blood cell count

Particular warning to diabetics:  Researchers found that diabetic 
patients using sucralose showed a statistically significant increase 
in glycosylated hemoglobin, a marker that is used to assess glycemic 
control in diabetic patients. According to the FDA, “increases in 
glycosolation in hemoglobin imply lessening of control of diabetes.”

Ajinomoto just announced a new name for aspartame called 
AminoSweet.  Be warned.

Web sites:  <http://www.mpwhi.com/>www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com  and 
<http://www.wnho.net/>www.wnho.net
Aspartame Toxicity Center, 
<http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame>www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

Also, you may be interested in the history of aspartame just reported 
for Prop 65:

Cynthia Oshita
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
Proposition 65 Implementation
P.O. Box 4010 1001 I Street, 19th floor
Sacramento, California 95812-4010
FAX (916) 323-8803

Dear Ms. Oshita:

In reading available information, I assume you want mostly how 
aspartame relates to cancer.  Indeed it is a carcinogen, proven so by 
many scientific studies.  Aspartame also triggers many other serious 
diseases which fill the 1,000+ page medical text, Aspartame Disease: 
An Ignored Epidemic, 
<http://www.sunsentpress.com/>www.sunsentpress.com by H. J. Roberts, M.D.

When FDA Commissioner Dr. Von Eschenbach took office I wrote him 
about aspartame and cancer, mainly due to his professed intention to 
save cancer victims; so much of this has already been 
done. 
<http://www.mpwhi.com/project_recall_aspartame.htm>http://www.mpwhi.com/project_recall_aspartame.htm 
Later 12 toxicologists asked the FDA to ban aspartame because of the 
long term Ramazzini studies on large rat populations showing 
aspartame is “a multipotential carcinogen”. 
<http://www.cspinet.org/new/pdf/aspartame_letter_to_fda.pdf>http://www.cspinet.org/new/pdf/aspartame_letter_to_fda.pdf 

Now I’ll go back to the beginning.

Aspartame was not approved by science but thru the political 
chicanery of Don Rumsfeld.  D.C. Attorney James Turner, explains how 
Rumsfeld did it in the documentary Sweet Misery, a Poisoned World. 
Here’s a clip from the movie so you can hear what he 
said: 
<http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html>http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html

Searle’s problem was they couldn’t get studies to show safety.  For 
example, in  the Bressler 
Report: 
<http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_news.htm>http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_news.htm
you read where they would excise brain tumors from the rats, put them 
back in the study and after they died resurrected them back on paper. 
They even filtered out neoplasms to hide them from the 
FDA.  Repeatedly Searle was caught in this criminal activity.

On January 10, 1977 in a 33 page letter, FDA Chief Counsel Richard 
Merrill recommended to the Justice Department Attorney Sam Skinner 
that a grand jury investigate Searle for “apparent violations of the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 USC 331 (e), and the False 
Reports to the Government Act, 18 U.S.C. 1001, for “their willful and 
knowing failure to make reports to the Food and Drug Administration 
required by the Act, 21 U.S.C 355 (i) and making false statements in 
reports of animal studies conducted to establish the safety of 
aspartame.” The FDA called special attention to studies investigating 
the effect of NutraSweet on monkeys and hamsters.

Searle was caught dead to rights, so they hired Skinner, made him a 
deal he couldn’t refuse. So the former Justice Department prosecutor 
became a defender.  Next at bat as                   U. S. Prosecutor 
was William Conlon, who promptly switched sides too. By then the 
statute of limitations had expired. Searle knew they couldn’t win the 
case so they simply hired the prosecutors.  The Godfather hired the 
District Attorneys!

Nevertheless the FDA had no intention of approving aspartame.  The 
fraud was so great that  Dr. John Olney (who with James Turner fought 
against approval of aspartame ) told Searle to do studies in his lab 
so he could see that they were done honestly, with supervision.  Dr. 
Olney believed the FDA wouldn’t approve aspartame because the studies 
showed it produced brain damaged.  What he didn’t anticipate is that 
Searle didn’t submit these findings to the FDA.

January 30, 1980 the Public Board of Inquiry revoked Searle’s 
petition for approval declaring that they had “not been presented 
with proof of reasonable certainty that aspartame is safe for use as 
a food additive.”   Searle had spent $17 million on an aspartame 
factory and had no intention of giving up, poison or no.  At this 
point they hired Donald Rumsfeld who said he would call in his 
markers and get it approved anyway.
What were those markers?  President Reagan had told Rumsfeld he would 
be nominated for vice president, but instead selected Bush number 1.

The day after Reagan took office he appointed Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes 
as the new FDA Commissioner, to over-rule the Board of 
Inquiry.  Reagan knew it would take 30 days to get Hayes to the FDA , 
so he wrote an Executive Order making the FDA powerless to do 
anything about aspartame.  At 3 AM that night a member of Reagan’s 
staff called the FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan and fired him.  Here is 
a letter from his wife who was there when the terminating call came 
in:  http://www.mpwhi.com/letter_about_jere_goyan.pdf

Once aspartame was on the market there was outrage as consumers were 
diagnosed with seizures, multiple sclerosis and blindness from the 
free methyl alcohol releases.  Senator Orrin Hatch, on Monsanto’s 
payroll, obstructed hearings on aspartame for years, but there were 3 
Congressional hearings from 1985 to l987.  Hatch was on Monsanto’s 
payroll, and kept  the bill in committee that would put a moratorium 
on aspartame until NIH completed independent studies on the flood of 
aspartame problems they were seeing: seizures, blindness, headaches, 
sexual dysfunction, behavioral problems, especially in children, drug 
interactions and birth defects.

About that time  Dr. James Bowen wrote FDA that “aspartame is mass 
poisoning of the American public and 70 countries” – today over 
100. 
<http://www.dorway.com/drbowen.txt>http://www.dorway.com/drbowen.txt 
The good doctor wrote: “For this reason, I am opposed to labeling 
aspartame content of food and drinks.  To do so would imply that the 
government is taking some sort of responsible action….when the only 
responsible action would be to immediately take aspartame off the 
market, fully disclose its toxicities, offer full compensation to the 
injured, public and criminally prosecute anyone who participated in 
the fraudulent placement of aspartame on the marketplace.”

How was the new FDA Commissioner,  Arthur Hayes,  get rewarded for 
over-ruling the Board of Inquiry?  He was hired as a consultant to 
NutraSweet’s PR Agency on a 10-year contract at $1,000.00 a day, and 
nobody’s heard a peep from him since, he got lockjaw.  Who ever heard 
of a PR guy who won’t talk?

Now they began funding professional organizations 
ladies-of-the-evening like the American Diabetes Assn, American 
Dietetic Assn and numerous others to propagandize the public with 
touting asparshame. Of course they also threatened scientists whose 
studies identified the toxicity of this poison. In the UPI 
Investigation Dr. Wurtman was threatened if he did studies on 
aspartame and seizures he would lose his funding. He capitulated. 
Read this report on the 8 month investigation by United Press 
International: 
<http://www.mpwhi.com/upi_1987_aspartame_report.pdf>http://www.mpwhi.com/upi_1987_aspartame_report.pdf 
Dr. Wurtman, too, got a terrible case of aspartame lockjaw, but MIT 
still gets the money.

ILSI, the International Life Sciences Institute, was born in 1978 as 
a “research” front for our favorite poisoners.  It’s board members 
are from Coke, Pepsi, Searle, Monsanto and the rest of the usual 
suspects. If a university won’t play their way the get no pay, that 
is to say, funding for fake “research”.

Over the years many independent studies have been done.  The 
manufacturers say 200 studies that aspartame is safe as rain.  Some 
of those were the ones FDA found fraudulent and sought prosecution 
for, and others were simply bought and paid for quack studies from 
rubber duck labs.

Consider seizure studies by Monsanto, they bought Searle in 
l985: 
<http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/seizures.html>http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/seizures.html 
Seizures are listed 5 times on the FDA report of 92 symptoms that 
range from male sexual dysfunction to 
death: 
<http://www.mpwhi.com/92_aspartame_symptoms.pdf>http://www.mpwhi.com/92_aspartame_symptoms.pdf 
People are having so many seizures and going blind on aspartame that 
the Community Nutrition Institute filed a petition to ban aspartame 
in l986. Again the manufacturers put in the fix to prevent it from 
being banned.
They were so worried someone would have a seizure they actually gave 
people anti-seizure medication in the Rowan study.  ‘

Another impeccable “study” involved one-day consumption of,  believe 
it or not:  a single capsule of aspartame. Tantamount to smelling the 
bottle.  The got it peer reviewed with their power.  So when 
consumers complain of seizures they say “we did studies and aspartame 
doesn’t cause seizures”.

                   I smoked a Lucky once and I’m fine, so nicotine 
doesn’t cause cancer!

They have all bases covered.  Today front groups like Calorie Control 
Council, with full knowledge that aspartame causes birth defects and 
mental retardation actually push the 
poison: 
<http://www.wnho.net/mh_aspartame_letter.htm>http://www.wnho.net/mh_aspartame_letter.htm

When 60 Minutes did a story about aspartame and brain tumors the 
manufactures claimed to have all these studies showing safety.  Dr. 
Ralph Walton who was on the show decided to research who funded the 
“studies”:<http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html>http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html 
Note that 92% of independent peer-reviewed studies show problems 
aspartame causes, while those funded or controlled by industry all 
say it’s safe. If you eliminate 6 studies the FDA, aspartame’s branch 
office in Washington, messed with, and one pro-aspartame sponsored 
summary, 100% of independent scientific peer reviewed studies show 
aspartame problems.

As Dr. Bowen said: this is mass poisoning of the world.  Aspartame 
destroys the brain, the optic nerve, the immune system and central 
nervous system.  It devastates every organ of the body.  Epidemic 
obesity, diabetes, sexual dysfunction, retinopathy and neuropathy, 
optic nerve destruction, convulsions and insulin reactions, MS, 
Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, IQ depreciation and dozens of other 
afflictions have been inflicted upon us by this deadly neurotoxic 
carcinogenic “sweetener”.

According to the prestigious Ecologist, aspartame was listed with the 
pentagon in an inventory of prospective biochemical warfare weapons 
submitted to Congress. 
<http://www.mpwhi.com/ecologist_september_2005.pdf>http://www.mpwhi.com/ecologist_september_2005.pdf

Studies show the horrific damage done to the body.  For instance, the 
Trocho Study shows the formaldehyde converted from the free methyl 
alcohol actually embalms tissue and damages DNA. 
<http://www.mpwhi.com/formaldehyde_from_aspartame.pdf>www.mpwhi.com/formaldehyde_from_aspartame.pdf

Here are summaries of the two aspartame studies, Ramazzini, that 
showed aspartame to be a  multipotential carcinogen, passed down 
through the mother:

DR. MORANDO SOFFRITTI, lead researcher on two groundbreaking 
long-term aspartame studies. He was recently honored at New York’s Mt 
Sinai School of Medicine with the Irving J Selikoff Award For his 
outstanding contributions to the identification of environmental and 
industrial carcinogens and his promotion of independent scientific 
research. Reviewing his two impeccable aspartame studies. Dr. 
Soffritti explains:

The first ERF study (2005) was conducted on 1800 Sprague-Dawley rats 
(100-150/per sex/per group) In order to simulate daily human intake, 
aspartame was added to the standard rat diet in quantities of 5000, 
2500, 100, 500, 20, 4, and 0 mg/Kg of body weight. Treatment of the 
animals began at 8 weeks of age and continued until spontaneous 
death. The results show that APM causes a statistically significant, 
dose-related increase of lymphomas/leukemias and malignant tumors of 
the renal pelvis in females and malignant tumors of peripheral nerves 
in males. These results demonstrate for the first time that APM is a 
carcinogenic agent, capable of inducing malignancies at various dose 
levels, including those lower than the current acceptable daily 
intake (ADI) for humans (50 mg/kg of body weight in the US, 40 mg/kg 
of body weight in the EU).

The second ERF study (2007) was conducted on 400 Sprague-Dawley rats 
(70-95/per sex/per group). In order to simulate daily human intake, 
aspartame was added to the standard rat diet in quantities of 100, 
20, and 0 mg/Kg of body weight. Treatment of the animals began on the 
12th day of fetal life until natural death. The results of the second 
study show an increased incidence of lymphomas/leukemias in female 
rats with respect to the first study. Moreover, the study shows that 
when lifespan exposure to APM begins during fetal life, the age at 
which lymphomas/leukemias develop in females is anticipated. For the 
first time, a statistically significant increase in mammary cancers 
in females was also observed in the second study. The results of this 
transplacental carcinogenicity bioassay not only confirm, but also 
reinforce the first experimental demonstration of APMs multipotential 
carcinogenicity.

Over six years ago I petitioned the FDA to ban aspartame.  The FDA 
has 180 days to answer it.  They refuse, obviously because I’m using 
their own words, and they don’t know how to get around the fact that 
everything is a matter of record.   If it wasn’t so criminal one 
would have to laugh at their propaganda – the idea that someone might 
even consider believing them.  For instance, they will tell you there 
is just a small amount of methanol, and there is more in 
oranges.  What they don’t say is that in oranges that it is 
accompanied by ethanol which is the classic antidote for methanol 
toxicity and takes it out of your body safely.  Here is a peer 
reviewed journal article about it. 
<http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_methanol_and_public_health.pdf>http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_methanol_and_public_health.pdf 
Methanol also binds to pectin.  In aspartame there is no 
ethanol.  Here is their basic propaganda answered with 
references: 
<http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?page_id=606>http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?page_id=606

A detox formula for aspartame victims endorsed by Dr. Russell 
Blaylock, Neurosurgeon: 
<http://www.wnho.net.wtdaspartame.htm/>www.wnho.net.wtdaspartame.htm 
Available are his excellent books and a CD :”The Truth About Aspartame”

There are efforts now in states and countries to rid the planet of 
aspartame.  It is genetically engineered.  The manufacturers are get 
people in high places addicted.  When I testified to the Senate in 
New Mexico, half the senators were sipping Diet Coke.  Presidents 
Clinton and Bush were addicted.  Methanol is classified as a 
narcotic, it causes chronic methanol poisoning. This effects the 
dopamine system of the brain producing addiction.

  I’ve lectured in other countries and I can tell you people are sick 
and dying the world over on this poison. It would be great to see it 
banned from California.  First of all its illegally on the market 
because it violates the Delaney Amendment.  Here are comments from an 
FDA toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, to Congress on 8/1/85:

Dr. Gross testified that at least one of Searle’s studies “has 
established beyond ANY REASONABLE DOUBT that aspartame is capable of 
inducing brain tumors in experimental animals and that this 
predisposition of it is of extremely high significance. … In view 
of these indications that the cancer causing potential of aspartame 
is a matter that had been established WAY BEYOND ANY REASONABLE 
DOUBT, one can ask: What is the reason for the apparent refusal by 
the FDA to invoke for this food additive the so-called Delaney 
Amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act?”

The Delaney Amendment makes it illegal to allow any residues of 
cancer causing chemicals in foods. In his concluding testimony Gross 
asked, “Given the cancer causing potential of aspartame how would the 
FDA justify its position that it views a certain amount of aspartame 
as constituting an allowable daily intake or ‘safe’ level of it? Is 
that position in effect not equivalent to setting a ‘tolerance’ for 
this food additive and thus a violation of that law? And if the FDA 
itself elects to violate the law, who is left to protect the health 
of the public?” Congressional Record SID835:131 (August 1, l985)

Here is my letter to the Assembly Committee on Health which exposes 
the fact that it’s adulterated: 
<http://www.mpwhi.com/letter_to_a_n_kim_california_ach.htm>http://www.mpwhi.com/letter_to_a_n_kim_california_ach.htm 
The adulteration  means it violates interstate commerce laws.

Consumer power is winning the war against this toxin. Holland 
Sweetener, the largest European aspartame producer closed in 2006. 
Another European maker also quit. In Japan Tosh stopped making it as 
well.  Merisant, in the USA went bankrupt for $230,000,000 in 
January, 2009.  47 members of Parliament signed for a ban in the 
UK.  There is continuing effort to get banned in the 
Philippines.  Romania banned it in the early 90’s because it’s 
carcinogenic. And now the European Food Safety Authority is doing a review.

Today no drug is safe if the consumer is using aspartame because of 
the interaction due to damage to the mitochondria.  It’s used in 
hospitals because of the dietitians making patients even sicker.

The Nutratanic hit the iceberg and Coke & Pepsi are in the lifeboats 
with new sweeteners in the works. Japan’s Ajinomoto and the USA 
NutraSweet Co are still slapping around in the frigid waters of 
consumer 
condemnation. 
<http://www.wnho.net/recipe_for_death.htm>http://www.wnho.net/recipe_for_death.htm

  If I can provide further data I’ll gladly do so. There is no way to 
show safety on aspartame with honest, unbiased studies.  Eliminate 
industry studies to defend its product and you’ll see how deadly is 
this toxin.  Dr. Bill Deagle said its more deadly than depleted 
uranium because its ubiquitous  in our food.

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
Mission Possible International (warning the world off aspartame)
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770 242-2599
<http://www.mpwhi.com/>www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com and 
<http://www.wnho.net/>www.wnho.net
Aspartame Toxicity Center, 
<http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame>www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
Aspartame Information List, 
<http://www.mpwhi.com/>www.mpwhi.com  scroll down to banners

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Articifical sweeteners and their toxicity. http://lymebook.com/fight/articifical-sweeteners-and-their-toxicity/ http://lymebook.com/fight/articifical-sweeteners-and-their-toxicity/#respond Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:55:06 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=1526 Dear Catherine,

I’m pasting in a good article on High Fructose Corn Syrup.  You say “can you explain HFCS with regards to aspartame?”  HFCS is not good for you but it won’t instantly kill you.  Actually aspartame can.  As you’ve heard me say its masquerading as an additive but its a chemical poison – literally an addictive,  excitoneurotoxic, carcinogenic, genetically engineered drug and adjuvant that damages the mitochondria and interacts with drugs and vaccines…

It kills in many ways but for instance, its causes an irregular heart rhythm,
interacts with all cardiac medication,  damage
the cardiac conduction system and causes sudden
cardiac death.  Here are two articles about it
from world experts, H. J. Roberts, M.D., and Russell Blaylock, M.D.

http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_and_arrhythmias.htm   H. J. Roberts, M.D.

http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_msg_scd.htm  Russell Blaylock, M.D.

You even get embalmed first.  Here is the Trocho
Study showing the formaldehyde converted from the
free methyl alcohol embalms living tissue and
damages DNA.  When you damage DNA you can destroy
humanity.  http://www.mpwhi.com/formaldehyde_from_aspartame.pdf

However, there are all types of ways to die from
aspartame.  Just read Dr. H. J. Roberts medical
text, “Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic”,
www.sunsentpress.com  – 1000 pages of symptoms
and diseases and ways to die from this deadly
chemical poison masquerading as an additive.

Why ever drink a Coke?   I grew up in Atlanta,
Georgia home of Coca Cola.  It was different when
I was a young girl, of course, and the formula
changed.   When I started Mission Possible
International it was the last Coke I ever
drank.  I read the protest of the National Soft
Drink Assn and saw that they knew the gun was
loaded and even protested, then found out it was
addictive, a cash cow and used it
anyway:
http://www.mpwhi.com/open_letter_dick_adamson.htm
So they knew what it would do to the public and
didn’t care.  So I wouldn’t give them a penny
profit.  It was the last Coke I ever drank.  I
was in a movie theatre and asked for a glass of
water and it came in a Diet Coke cup.  I refused
it too.  Neither would I advertise for them.

We did an expose in Atlanta once for a TV station
and used a lady who had never had aspartame until
she was given a piece of sugarfree gum with
aspartame.  She immediately had a grand mal
seizure.  Many times reactions to aspartame are
instant as shown with this woman.  Also, because
of the chemical hypersensitization some people
have had immediate reactions.  If you saw Sweet
Misery: A Poisoned World  (cori@soundandfury.tv)
and I highly recommend everybody get a copy,
there is a woman, Cheryl Kemptner, who told the
hospital about the chemical hypersensitization of
aspartame and that she couldn’t be given any of
it.  They gave her a bracelet and put it on the
record but she was handed a glass of Crystal-Lite
with aspartame.  She became a Code-Blue and had
to be resuscitated.   She lived to tell the story
in Sweet Misery.  Some people have gone into anaphylactic shock.

Think of what aspartame can do to the
diabetic.  It not only can precipitate diabetes,
but aggravates and simulates diabetic retinopathy
and neuropathy, destroys the optic nerve, causes
diabetics to go into convulsions and even
interacts with insulin.  The free methyl alcohol
causes diabetics to lose their limbs.  No doubt
aspartame has caused the epidemic of
diabetes!  http://www.wnho.net/letter_to_senator_goyp_concerning_aspartame.htm

You just have to give up Coke and drink water and
not in plastic bottles.    You can get healthy
drinks at Whole Foods in glass bottles.  Or soon
you can get drinks from Just Like Sugar which are
safe and delicious www.justlikesugarinc.com

Here is something to forward to warn people about
aspartame:
http://www.mpwhi.com/warning_flyer_on_aspartame.htm
Be sure to remember that Ajinomoto has changed
the name to AminoSweet, and all the other names
like NutraSweet, Equal,Spoonful, E951, Canderel, Benevia, etc.

Read on for an excellent article from the Nutrition Reporter on HFCS.

All my best,
Betty
www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com, www.wnho.net
Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

Fructose

Maybe Not So Natural…and Not So Safe

  Jack Challem, The Nutrition Reporter™

If you consider fructose a safe, natural sugar,
think again. You’ve been had by one of the
biggest nutritional bait-and-switch ploys in years.

Fructose and high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) have
been aggressively promoted as natural sugars.
After all, we’ve been taught since childhood that fructose is fruit sugar.

The truth is that fructose and HFCS, as
large-scale commercial sweeteners, didn’t exist
20 years ago. Now, they’re almost as common as
sucrose-plain old white sugar. HFCS is routinely
added to processed foods and beverages including
Coca-Cola, Snapple, and many health food products.

“Fructose is not from fruit. It’s a commercial,
refined sugar,” asserted Robin Rogosin, a buyer
and research coordinator at Mrs. Gooch’s Natural
Foods Market in Beverly Hills, Calif.

In fact, a trail of medical studies dating back a
quarter of a century doesn’t paint a terribly
sweet picture for fructose. High fructose
consumption has been fingered as a causative
factor in heart disease. It raises blood levels
of cholesterol and another type of fat,
triglyceride. It makes blood cells more prone to
clotting, and it may also accelerate the aging process.

“People should avoid it,” urged John Yudkin,
M.D., Ph.D., professor emeritus at Queen
Elizabeth College, London, and an expert in the health effects of sugar.

Most fructose sneaks into the diet in the forms
of sucrose and HFCS. Sucrose breaks down during
digestion into equal parts of glucose and
fructose. HFCS consists of 55 percent fructose blended with 45 percent glucose.

As is the case with any other refined food, a
little fructose won’t hurt you. The problem comes
with the sheer quantity of “hidden” fructose
being consumed through the HFCS and sucrose in
processed foods. For example, conventional and
“new age” soft drinks almost universally contain
11 percent HFCS by weight-2.2 pounds per case.

“The consumption of fructose has not increased
over the last 40 years. We have the data to show
that we’re not increasing fructose consumption,”
contended Mark Hannover, Ph.D., a researcher at
the A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co. of Decatur,
Ill, the second largest maker of HFCS in the United States.

Hannover is right about the past 40 years. But he
sidestepped the larger historical context.
Overall sugar (sucrose) consumption remained very
low – a few pounds a year – until the industrial
revolution. Advances in processing made it easy
to manufacture from sugar cane and sugar beets,
and people began eating more of it.

Although pure fructose has been available in
small quantities for decades, its use as common
sweetener dates only from the early 1970s. That’s
when the Finnish Sugar Co. developed a method to
efficiently synthesize it from cane and beet
sugar. Now, Staley and five other American companies make fructose from corn.

Staley’s principal product is HFCS, which has
captured a huge chunk of the market once owned by
makers of sucrose. The advantage of HFCS, from
the standpoint of food manufacturing, is that
it’s much sweeter than sucrose, it’s easier to
handle during processing, it has a longer shelf
life – and it’s cheaper than sucrose.

“We have improved the quality of sweeteners since
the advent of HFCS,” insisted Hannover. “It’s
clean microbiologically, it contains few sodium
ions, and it’s more stable than sugar.”

HFCS may be better than sucrose for
manufacturing, but it’s not any better for health.

Because refined sweeteners – and refined foods,
in general – lack bulk, it’s easy to consume
large quantities of them. Staley grinds up a
mind-boggling 500,000 bushels of corn a day and
turns them into more than 3 billion pounds of
HFCS annually. Amazingly, that’s only 20 percent
of the 16 billion pounds of HFCS consumed each year in the United States.

These days, our per capita intake of refined
sugar is almost 150 pounds a year. HFCS accounts
for 51.7 pounds of that, and sucrose for 64.5
pounds, according to the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. That translates to about 60 pounds of fructose per person.

There’s good reason to believe that, from an
evolutionary standpoint, our bodies can’t handle
such large quantities of sugar, particularly
fructose. Eating it poses a health hazard, and it
doesn’t matter whether it’s from HFCS or sucrose.
But HFCS may be more dangerous because it sounds
more natural – and therefore healthier – than plain old white sugar.

“We felt the healthiest approach was to stay away
from refined sugars. That way, we’re not offering
a lot of empty calories,” said Bill Knudsen,
whose Chico, Calif., company has steered clear of
fructose sweeteners for its health food juices.
“A pure fruit juice product is healthier for you
than a refined sugar because of the micronutrients that come with the juice.”

In medicine, the first alarms about the link
between sugar consumption and heart disease were
sounded by Yudkin in the late 1960s. At the time,
he was chairman of the department of nutrition at
Queen Elizabeth College, London. Disturbed by
inconsistencies in the evidence linking animal
fats to heart disease, Yudkin began searching for another dietary factor.

An expert in carbohydrate metabolism, he
initially focused on sucrose consumption. In
laboratory and human tests, he found that sucrose
increased blood levels of cholesterol,
triglyceride, uric acid, insulin, and cortisol –
all associated with an increased risk of heart
disease. Sucrose also raised blood pressure and
increased the fragility of blood platelet cells,
making them more prone to clotting.

As dramatic as those findings were, the real
surprise came when Yudkin substituted fructose
for sucrose in his experiments. “The effects of
eating sucrose in the quantities we eat are
magnified with fructose. Fructose is the
dangerous part,” he said. In contrast, glucose
did little more than cause cavities.

Although he has been retired for almost 20 years,
Yudkin regularly publishes articles and letters
about sugar and heart disease in the leading
medical journals. In a phone interview, he was
surprised to hear that fructose and HFCS had
become common sweeteners in the United States. He
said they were virtually unheard of in England,
where overall sugar consumption has been declining.

Other researchers have confirmed Yudkin’s
findings, but sucrose and fructose are still
recognized as generally safe by the Food and Drug
Administration. Many widely used products, like
sucrose, were grandfathered in as a safe product
when food and drug regulations were created early
in 1938, and the safety of fructose was assumed
based on the perceived safety of sucrose.

“Fructose is part of the sucrose sugar. Sucrose
is affirmed as GRAS (generally regarded as
safe),” explained Judy Folke, a spokesperson at
the FDA’s Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Press
Office in Washington,D.C. “Fructose is not GRAS,
but it was treated under prior sanction because
it had been used for so many years.”

But the research suggests that, in retrospect,
the FDA may have assumed too much.

For example, fructose has been touted for years
as a safe sugar for diabetics because it doesn’t
trigger a rapid rise in blood sugar. That’s true,
but the cardiovascular consequences may outweigh
the benefits for diabetics,who already face a
higher than average risk of developing heart disease.

In a recent study, John Bantle, M.D., of the
University of Minnesota sequentially placed 18
Type I (insulin-dependent) and Type II
(noninsulin-dependent) diabetics on two diets.
The only difference between the diets was that
one contained carbohydrate as starch, which is
digested as glucose, and the other contained carbohydrate as fructose.

When they consumed the fructose, the diabetics
had fewer spikes in blood sugar levels. Three of
the Type I diabetics were able to reduce their
insulin intake, a positive change. However,
according to Bantle’s report in the Nov. 1992
Diabetes Care, the diabetics’ total cholesterol
rose an average 7 percent, and their “bad”
low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol rose
almost 11 percent. The fructose increased their risk of heart disease.

But fructose doesn’t play havoc with only the
hearts of diabetics. Bantle noted the same
effects in a study of 14 healthy volunteers who
sequentially ate a high-fructose diet and one
almost devoid of the sugar. While on the fructose
diet, the subjects’ total cholesterol levels
increased by 9 percent and the LDL fraction increased by 11 percent.

“There is some data that if you consume a lot of
fructose, you can get an increase in
lipoproteins,” Hannover told Natural Health. “A
lot of this is mediated by consuming fructose
with other carbohydrates. We recommend using a
blend of carbohydrates – fructose may be the
primary carbohydrate with glucose or more complex carbohydrates.”

“I’m not trying to ignore the data,” he added,
“but I’m not trying to blow it out of proportion either.”

There’s another wrinkle. Add fructose to the
typical American high-fat diet – as most people
do – and the risk of heart disease increases even
more. Sheldon Reiser, Ph.D., of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s Human Nutrition
Research Center in Beltsville, Md., studied 21
men eating two kinds of high-fat diets. The diets
were the same except for the carbohydrate. One
used simple starch, the other 20 percent fructose.

The cholesterol and triglyceride levels of all
the men increased while they consumed the
high-fructose/high-fat diet, but not while they
ate a high-starch/high-fat diet. Ten of the men
began the study with high blood levels of insulin
– another risk factor for heart disease – and
their cholesterol and triglyceride levels rose a whopping 30 to 50 percent.

Should people with moderate to high cholesterol
reduce their intake? The answer seems apparent.

“They might benefit from that,” Hannover
conceded. “We presume you’re under a doctor’s
care, and if you’re not, you should be. If I had
high cholesterol, it would be on the list of
foods to avoid – not on the top of the list, but
I wouldn’t leave it off either, since there is some data to support this view.”

Fructose and other sugars contribute to heart
disease in yet another way. Dietary sugars
increase what doctors call “spontaneous platelet
aggregation”, an unnatural tendency toward blood
clotting. But according to a study published in
the Aug. 1, 1990, Thrombosis Research, fructose
promotes abnormal clotting much more than does any other common sugar does.

There’s even more. Recent research by Forrest
Nielsen, Ph.D., of the USDA’s Human Nutrition
Research Center in Grand Forks, N.D., found that
fructose interferes with absorption of copper, an
essential mineral needed to create hemoglobin in red blood cells.

“Copper is affected by fructose,” Nielsen told
Natural Health. “With a high intake of
high-fructose corn syrup, people might show signs
of a copper deficiency and may need to enhance their copper intake.”

In addition, when five volunteers ate a diet with
20 percent fructose, their total cholesterol and
LDL cholesterol shot up. But the combination of
suppressed copper and high fructose also
increased the number of free radicals, damaged
molecules that contribute to cancer and aging.

Does Nielsen think fructose is safe? “I’m not
going to damn fructose because in small amounts
it’s not a bad substance,” Nielsen said. But he
later acknowledged, “I’m not convinced it’s completely safe.”

There’s one more significant side effect of
fructose. It cross links – that is, ties up –
proteins in what biochemists call the Maillard
reaction. This cross linking occurs during the
cooking of food, affecting both the taste and the nutritional value of food.

But the Maillard reaction also occurs in the
human body, and it’s suspected as a factor in
diabetes and aging, according to William Dills,
Ph.D., a chemist at the University of
Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Dills noted in the
Nov. 1993 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
that the relationship between the “Maillard
reaction-related cross-link in proteins,
cells,and tissues and the overall aging process appears indisputable.”

All this should not dampen your taste for fresh
fruit or fruit juice. The hazards associated with
fructose appear to be dose dependent, according
to Yudkin and other experts. If you eat
predominantly natural foods, and avoid large
quantities of processed foods, you have little to worry about.

Fructose accounts for only 5 to 7.7 percent of
the wet weight of cherries,pears, bananas,
grapes, and apples. That’s about 5.5 to 8
teaspoons per pound of fresh fruit. There’s even
less fructose – 2 to 3 percent, or roughly 2 to 3
teaspoons per pound – in strawberries,
blackberries, blueberries, oranges, and
grapefruit. Honey, refined by bees, contains 40
percent fructose, but its extreme sweetness
deters most people from consuming it in large amounts.

Calls to health food stores around the country
indicated a fairy high awareness of fructose as a refined sugar.

Rogosin, at Mrs. Gooch’s Natural Foods Market,
pointed out that carrying fructose-containing
products would be contrary to the chain’s mission
statement that emphasizes natural foods. “It has
known health effects – it increases cholesterol
and triglyceride levels,” she said.

Tim Connor, a buyer for Nature’s Fresh Northwest!
in Portland, Ore., pointed out that “there’s no
question that it’s a highly refined sugar.” The
health food grocery chain carries some products with fructose, though not many.

“We have not taken a no-sugar stance,” Connor
said. “We have taken a no-excessive-sugar stance.
We carry a broader range of products than what’s
found in more traditional health food or natural food stores.”

Is there a safe amount of fructose? Yudkin
reiterated that people should avoid it and that
they should be wary of sugars hidden in processed
foods. “Rather than switch to another sugar,” he
advised, “they should gradually reduce the amount
of sweetness in foods,” he said.

And what’s the view of the FDA, mandated by
Congress to ensure food safety? “We don’t have
any studies that show health effects (of
fructose)”, said spokeswoman Folke, after
checking with a scientific staff member she
declined to name. “We do not have any safety
studies on it. If a safety issue had come up, it would be big news.”

This article originally appeared in Natural
Health magazine. The information provided by Jack
Challem and The Nutrition Reporter™ newsletter is
strictly educational and not intended as medical
advice. For diagnosis and treatment, consult your physician.

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