phenylalanine – 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 More on Aspartame… http://lymebook.com/fight/more-on-aspartame/ http://lymebook.com/fight/more-on-aspartame/#respond Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:07:52 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=2346

Linda’s comments:  I don’t know what it is going to take to get the FDA to ban Aspartame….I know a doctor who refuses to listen….yes, that is right, however, what she won’t admit to is she is ADDICTED, as those of us who have suffered and gone through the withdrawals can attest to.  There is a horrible addicting property to these DIET chemicals…..to me it is a crime to even allow them on the market….I can speak to this as I was once ONE of those people….my addiction to diet coke and diet dr pepper was over the top….they almost had to hospitalize me through the withdrawals.  My doctors said aspartame withdrawals are worse than heroin withdrawals….while I never did heroin, I can say THANK GOD, as the withdrawals I had from this deadly neurotoxin was HORRIFIC….and the damage it did to my liver is unbelievable…..all I can say is DO NOT TOUCH DIET ANYTHING…..I now use www.justlikesugarinc.com as it is made from chicory trees from the Brazilian Rain Forest.

Sent: 4/2/2011 9:26:54 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time
Subj: [WNHO-Aspartame-Information] Seizures, stopped breathing and turned blue three times, aspartame
 

Hi Lucinda,

I’m so sorry of what has happened to your child.  Because of the fact
that each seizure was after some aspartame product, sugarfree Jello,
Diet Coke, Crystal Lite, etc. you should know that aspartame is a
seizure triggering drug.  Look at the FDA list of 92 symptoms and
notice how many times seizures are
listed:  http://www.mpwhi.com/92_aspartame_symptoms.pdf  I have it
here on FDA stationery because today they try and deny it.

The phenylalanine in aspartame as an isolate is neurotoxic, floods
the brain, lowers the seizure threshold and depletes
serotonin.  Lowered serotonin triggers psychiatric and behavioral
problems.  Aspartame damages the mitochondria or powerhouse of the
cell and interacts with all antidepressants.  What really makes it
bad is that all components of aspartame can trigger seizures,
aspartic acid, an excitotoxin that stimulates he neurons of the brain
to death causing brain damage, and the free methyl alcohol that
converts to formaldehyde and formic acid and causes metabolic
acidosis also can trigger seizures.

As I understand it your daughter used Crystal Lite during pregnancy
and some babies have been prone to seizures because their mother used
aspartame which causes birth
defects:  http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_causes_birth_defects.htm  Be
sure to print out this paper for your physician.

One of the pivotal studies that approved aspartame is a 52 week oral
toxicity study done on 7 infant monkeys. Five had grand mal seizures
and one died.

As soon as aspartame was approved people started having seizures big
time.  Dr. Wurtman said the 80 cases he collected was enough to have
FDA remove it from the market.  In 1986 James Turner, Atty and the
Community Nutritional Institute in Washington, D.C. petitioned the
FDA to ban aspartame because it was causing so many seizures and
people were going blind from the free methyl alcohol.  It was taken
all the way to the Supreme Court and with all this information to ban
it, it was stopped.  I heard it was because of a corrupt judge. They
had all the evidence so it should have been banned and someone at the
FDA meeting at the time said FDA was ready to take it off the shelves.

The FDA tried to have the manufacturer indicted for fraud because
they were not able to show safety and got caught doing such things as
excising brain tumors from rats and when they died they resurrected
them back on paper.

In another  email I will give you the Aspartame Resource Guide which
has the medical books, movie and even the history of how Rumsfeld got
it on the market after the FDA revoked the petition for
approval.  Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic by H. J. Roberts,
M.D. has a chapter on drug interaction and you will notice it
interacts with anti seizure medication.  Your physician needs this
medical text and one by Dr. Blaylock titled “Excitotoxins: The Taste
That Kills”.  In this one it will tell you what to give your child
because a lot of problems may not show up until puberty.

You didn’t tell me what state you’re in, but if you do take this to
court we will give you all the information you need and there is a
movie being made, and telling your story in this film can save a lot
of other victims who have no idea its aspartame triggering the
seizures.  Dr. Sanchez here in Atlanta told me about a case where he
gave the lady every anti-seizure medication in the PDR and nothing
worked.  Then he put her in the hospital and happen to see a case of
Diet Coke under her bed.  He told her that was the problem and she
had to get off of it.  She went crazy he said (its very addictive and
withdrawal problems are sometimes hard to cope with) and was admitted
to a mental hospital.  Two weeks later she got out, no more seizures
and no more mental problems.  It was the aspartame in the Diet Coke
that kept causing her  seizures and he didn’t know that aspartame
interacted with anti-seizure medication.  Another physician in the
movie also told a similar story – off aspartame the patient stopped
having seizures.

Let me know you received this.  I wasn’t quite sure about your email address.

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

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Genetically Modified Ingredients Overview http://lymebook.com/fight/genetically-modified-ingredients-overview/ http://lymebook.com/fight/genetically-modified-ingredients-overview/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:15:32 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=688 Here is a summary of what crops, foods and food ingredients have been genetically modified as of July, 2007:

Currently Commercialized GM Crops in the U.S.:
(Number in parentheses represents the estimated percent that is genetically modified.)

Soy (91%)
Cotton (88%)
Canola (80-85%)
Corn (85%)
Hawaiian papaya (more than 50%)
Alfalfa, zucchini and yellow squash (small amount)
Tobacco (Quest® brand)

Other Sources of GMOs:

  • Dairy products from cows injected with rbGH. 
  • Food additives, enzymes, flavorings, and processing agents, including the sweetener aspartame (NutraSweet®) and rennet used to make hard cheeses 
  • Meat, eggs, and dairy products from animals that have eaten GM feed 
  • Honey and bee pollen that may have GM sources of pollen 
  • Contamination or pollination caused by GM seeds or pollen 

Some of the Ingredients That May Be Genetically Modified:

Vegetable oil, vegetable fat and margarines (made with soy, corn, cottonseed, and/or canola)

Ingredients derived from soybeans: Soy flour, soy protein, soy isolates, soy isoflavones, soy lecithin, vegetable proteins, textured vegetable protein (TVP), tofu, tamari, tempeh, and soy protein supplements.

Ingredients derived from corn: Corn flour, corn gluten, corn masa, corn starch, corn syrup, cornmeal, and High-Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS).

Some Food Additives May Also Be Derived From GM Sources:

The list may change as we encounter new information: ascorbic acid/ascorbate (Vitamin C), cellulose, citric acid, cobalamin (vitamin B12), cyclodextrin, cystein, dextrin, dextrose, diacetyl, fructose (especially crystalline fructose), glucose, glutamate, glutamic acid, gluten, glycerides (mono- and diglycerides), glycerol, glycerol, glycerine, glycine, hemicellulose, , hydrogenated starch hydrolates, hydrolyzed vegetable protein or starch, inositol, invert sugar or inverse syrup, (also may be listed as inversol or colorose), lactic acid, lactoflavin, lecithin, leucine, lysine, maltose, maltitol, maltodextrin, mannitol, methylcellulose, milo starch, modified food starch, monooleate, mono- and diglycerides, monosodium glutamate (MSG), oleic acid, phenylalanine, phytic acid, riboflavin (Vitamin B2) sorbitol, stearic acid, threonine, tocopherol (Vitamin E), trehalose, xanthan gum, and zein.

Some of the Foods That May Contain GM Ingredients:

Infant formula
Salad dressing
Bread
Cereal
Hamburgers and hotdogs
Margarine
Mayonnaise
Crackers
Cookies
Chocolate
Candy
Fried food
Chips
Veggie burgers
Meat substitutes
Ice cream
Frozen yogurt
Tofu
Tamari
Soy sauce
Soy cheese
Tomato sauce
Protein powder
Baking powder (sometimes contains corn starch)
Powdered/Confectioner’s sugar (often contains corn starch)
Confectioner’s glaze
Alcohol
Vanilla
Powdered sugar
Peanut butter
Enriched flour
Vanilla extract (sometimes contains corn syrup)
Pasta
Malt
White vinegar

Non-Food Items That May Contain GM Ingredients:

Cosmetics
Soaps
Detergents
Shampoo
Bubble bath

 

INVISIBLE GM INGREDIENTS

Processed foods often have hidden GM sources (unless they are organic or declared non-GMO).
The following are ingredients that may be made from GM soy, corn, cotton, or canola.

aspartame gluten modified starch
baking powder glycerides monosodium glutamate
bee pollen glycerin oleic acid
caramel color glycerol Phenylalanine
cellulose glycerol monooleate phytic acid
citric acid glycine sorbitol
cobalamin (Vitamin B12) hemicellulose soy flour
corn gluten high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) soy isolates
corn masa hydrogenated starch soy lecithin
corn oil hydrolyzed vegetable protein soy protein
corn syrup inositol starch
cornmeal invert sugar (colorose or inversol) stearic acid
cornstarch tamari inverse syrup
cyclodextrin isoflavones tempeh
cystein lactic acid threonine
dextrin lecithin tocopherols (Vitamin E)
dextrose leucine tofu
diacetyl lysine trehalose
diglyceride malitol triglyceride
fructose maltodextrin vegetable fat
fructose (crystalline) maltose vegetable oil
glucose mannitol Vitamin B12
glutamate methylcellulose Vitamin E
glutamic acid milo starch xanthan gum

Our understanding is that ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), although usually derived from corn, is probably
not GM because it is not made in North America. Honey and bee pollen may contain GMOs if the
beehives are near GM crops.

This list is continually being updated and refined. For the most recent version, see www.nongmoshoppingguide.com.

© Copyright Institute For Responsible Technology 2008

Sources for “Genetically Modified Ingredients Overview:

Natural Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, US Department of Agriculture: Acreage. Available at: http://www.thecampaign.org/Acre-06-30-2006.pdf (2006)

Cornell Cooperative Extension, GEO-PIE (Genetically Engineered Organisms Public Issues Education) Project. http://www.geo-pie.cornell.edu/crops/ingredients.html

Ruth Winter , A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives: Descriptions in plain English of more than 12,000 ingredients both harmful and desirable found in foods, 6th ed. (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004).

Robert S. Igoe , The Dictionary of Food Ingredients, 2nd ed. (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989).

Research Triangle Institute, “Economic Characterization of the Dietary Supplement Industry” March 1999. Available at: http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~acrobat/ds-econ.pdf

Codex General Standard for Food Additives (GSFA) Online Database of the World Health Organization(WHO) Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO) of the United Nations and the reports of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA). Available at: http://www.codexalimentarius.net/gsfaonline/additives/index.html

The University of Maryland Medical Center database of supplements by name: http://www.umm.edu/altmed/ConsLookups/Supplements.html

Archives of the Agricultural Research Service of the USDA: http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/

Reports of the European Commission Scientific Committee for Food: http://ec.europa.eu/food/fs/sc/scf/reports_en.html

U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) PubMed Central (PMC): http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

Also consulted the following industry sites:

http://www.corn.org/web/bioprod.htm
http://www.confectionerynews.com/news/ng.asp?n=70687-danisco-xylitol-sugar
http://www.grainprocessing.com/food/malinfo.html

http://www.cargillfoods.com/pdfs/sweeteners.pdf/ca198.pdf

 

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