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Feb 3, 1999
From: betty martini
Date: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 5:57 PM
Subject: Press Release: In response to AP, CNN, Time, etc. attempt to
crush the expose on the deadly effects of aspartame
(NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful) The Nancy Markle Story! Contact Betty
Martini, 770 242-2599
It's an old plot. We've seen it many times. A gigantic corporation contaminates the community, spreading deadly toxins. People are sick, children die, but the greedy poisoner remains undetected. At last a persistent reporter finds the source. Now denials begin, authorities side with the polluters, against the people. A smoke screen of propaganda and ridicule is raised so business and dying can continue as usual.
Some mainstream media too often dependent on advertising from these corporations won't expose them, and would never allow a bright reporter to tell the story. Monsanto, Coke and Pepsi have fat checkbooks so will the pride of true journalism in getting the facts to the people take a backseat to exposing them in the NutraSweet issue?
Someone using the name of Nancy Markle took a report from www.dorway.com I had written about lecturing at the World Environmental Conference, and added her name. She made some changes but the message of aspartame mimicking MS as it destroys the central nervous system was exposed as well as other problems caused by the toxin. It is escalating Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease as well as precipitating diabetes. It causes blindness and even Focus(www.focusnewsletter.org) in Nov, l998 (Vol. 3, No. 3) had an article on aspartame titled: What's Blinding the World! Dr. Louis Elsas testimony before congress (pediatric professor at Emory University) was discussed in the post and quoted him saying aspartame is a neurotoxin and teratogen (triggers birth defects ). It also triggers lupus. This article was carried on 450 global networks and circulation on the Internet and beyond could have caused circulation to exceed CNN and AP.
Thousands of Aspartame Disease victims emailed and called as well as media , hospitals, clinics and medical establishments. A support list was setup on line on the Internet as victims counted the days off aspartame and watched symptoms disappear. They tell of the addiction of this drug masquerading as an additive, and shattered years of medical problems. You could weep at the stories. My computer has crashed three times because it can't take the thousands of cases coming in and we are in the process of adding the biggest hard drive and memory made to record what may be one of the largest epidemics in world history.
H. J. Roberts, M.D., said in his first press conference that if something wasn't done about aspartame then in 5 or 10 years we would have a plague on our hands. Now Dr. Roberts has declared aspartame disease to be a world epidemic and is in the process of publishing the medical text on the world plague. His other publications can be gotten at www.icanect.net
In talking to AP, Lauran Neergaard, said she would tell the story if there was a peer reviewed study on MS and aspartame. She mentioned she was on the web site and said "but I didn't mention your name". No , she didn't and neither did she mention the web site. And there she was on a web site that showed that the story was true containing even government documents.
There is the Bressler Report, the FDA audit of the horror of the original studies that approved aspartame, the FDA's own report of 92 documented symptoms from coma to death triggered by aspartame, the damning CDC investigation and even the protest of the National Soft Drink Association, showing that Coke and Pepsi knew aspartame breaks down into a witches brew of toxins at 86 degrees before they ever put it in pop. They also knew it was not a diet product because it is a drug that makes you crave carbohydrates (last page of report) and misrepresented this to the public. If you want to get fat NutraSweet is where its at!
I have no sympathy for the MS Society because they have been sent information for years including Dr. Roberts position paper MS or Aspartame Disease? and never uttered a word to warn the victims. In Atlanta at their walk-a-thon while Mission Possible gave out medical documentation on aspartame's ability to mimic MS and destroy the central nervous system they gave out Diet Coke. They were furious that these walkers were getting this information.
So the MS Society and the FDA who over-ruled a Board of Inquiry to approve this deadly toxin were swamped with calls. I personally spoke to Dr. Rudolph Harris at the FDA who admitted all the calls. I told him to stop giving out false information that aspartame is safe, and that we had the actual government documents on dorway to show they were lying. He answer to me: "We can't refute that!" I asked him again why the FDA refused to answer the 26 questions on dorway sent to them by Newt Gingrich. Could it be that if they answered truthfully they would have to recall aspartame. Instead they simply sent me propaganda and federal registries and told Gingrich's office they have to talk to their attorneys. But they were quick to talk to CNN to try and squelch the outcry of the public even though they knew the truth. Those there to solve the problem ARE THE PROBLEM!
As to a study on aspartame and MS, there was one in l983/84 that did show that aspartame destroyed the central nervous system, triggered brain tumors and seizures and other neurological horrors. But it was never published - it showed aspartame to be a killer. Two people died under mysterious circumstances. A statement from the translator, notarized, is on dorway is a new study that indicates auto-antibodies contribute to destruction of nerve fibers myelin sheath, the hallmark of multiple sclerosis (University of California ). H. J. Roberts, M.D. over three decades ago explained in publications about MS that if the myelin is damaged by any cause the body may take antibodies to the myelin fragments which then can initiate a vicious cycle which can breakdown myelin. Aspartame or its byproducts can damage the nerves sheath, and the body may respond by making the antibodies to it.
References: Journal of American Geriatric Society, Volume 14, page 586, l966
Journal of American Geriatric Society, Volume 12, 9/26/ 64 On the Etiology, Treatment and Prevention of MS, South Medical Journal, Volume 59, page 940, l966
On this new study Dr. Roberts emphasized to me that the model of experimental EAE is not the counterpart of human MS and is not related to reality in patients who have pre clinical MS or evolutionary MS .
Also, there is a new study on Parkinson's Disease which clearly points to environmental factors and diet rather than to genetics.
Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills (1 800 - 643- 2665) gave me these points which support this study:
(1) Parkinson's Disease is a disorder who's cause appears from
substantial evidence, to be related to excitotoxicity. These toxins
destroy the cells in the brain central to this disease.
(2) Excitotoxins cause these brain cells to generate enormous amounts
of free radicals. This is true of MSG and Aspartic Acid ( aspartame ).
(3) There is substantial circumstantial evidence that dietary
excitotoxins , including aspartame, can aggravate these destructive changes
in the Parkinson's brain .
(4) The additional toxins - DKP , aspartate, methanol, formaldehyde
and formic acid - add to this injury .
(5) Recent evidence demonstrates that aspartame product, formaldehyde
- accumulates within cells and damages proteins and DNA .
Michael Fox was a Diet Pepsi spokesman and wondered why he got an old man's disease at the age of 30? Be assured he now knows and has been warned that aspartame changes the dopamine level of the brain . Think of the ramifications of this. Read Senator Metzenbaum's bill that never got out of committee on the problems surfacing in the population in the 80's that he wanted to have investigated by independent studies. Notice aspartame is a drug that interacts with other drugs !!!!!!!
A good deal of Dr. Blaylock's material is on dorway including a lecture where he says the reactions to aspartame are not allergic in nature but toxic like arsenic and cyanide. There is the interview on Mission Possible radio also in transcript form where he tells how studies are doctored, how aspartame triggers ADD, and why pilots are having seizures and other problems. Three American Airline pilots who were heavy users of aspartame have died, one in flight, and another has had a stroke. I can't think of anything more hazardous to aviation safety than allowing pilots to consume a deadly neurotoxin known to be a seizure triggering drug ( proven in a pivotal study on 7 monkeys in which 5 had grand mal seizures and 1 died, (SC18862), that also triggers confusion, memory loss, blindness and cardiac symptoms.
Christine Gorman who wrote the Time magazine article admits in her article that she searched the web for the problems like multiple sclerosis, seizures, etc. in the Nancy Markle article and found the web site where there was almost an identical letter. So she too was on dorway .
She said she didn't believe any chemical could cause all these problems, yet there on the web site was the FDA report admitting 92 symptoms and there are many more. She had to have seen the secret trade information exposed in Congress where the original manufacturer, Searle, admitted they had to consider complete conversion to DKP ----A BRAIN TUMOR AGENT. Yet, she puts down brain tumors. How famous is the doctor who made world history in l996 over the aspartame/brain tumor link ? Dr. John Olney is so famed he founded the field of neuroscience known as excitotoxicity and his update is on DORway. Christine picked up industry and flaming web sites in her article but she wouldn't give the one site that had the government documents and world expert reports on the subject.
Christine Gorman even picked up the propaganda on Monsanto's web site, all this baloney about trace amounts of methanol exist naturally in many fruits and vegetables. The truth of the matter is in ASPARTAME: METHANOL AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH by Dr. Woodrow Monte, Journal of Applied Nutrition, Volume 36 , Number 1, l984 where he says: "Ethanol, the classic antidote for methanol toxicity, is found in natural food sources of methanol at concentrations 5 to 500,000 times that of the toxin. Ethanol inhibits metabolism of methanol and allows the body time for clearance of the toxin through the lungs and kidneys." You don't slur your words when you eat an orange but many do with aspartame.
In Dr. Roberts book Sweet'ner Dearest on page 168 and 169 he says "Producers and their representatives have become masters at dodging the very mention of its name, especially on talk shows . They prefer to call this chemical "aspartic acid and phenylalanine as the methyl ester." In the body, however, the "methyl ester" translates into METHYL ALCOHOL ..also known as METHANOL and WOOD ALCOHOL !!! The public is more familiar with methanol as an ingredient of fuels (such as Sterno) and antifreeze. (The methyl ester is required for aspartame's taste since aspartyl-phenylalanine is tasteless. )" Dr. Roberts goes on to say: "Just in case you didn't know, methanol is a severe metabolic poison. The dictionary defines "poison" as a substance having an inherent tendency to impair health or destroy life. ... Significant amounts of methyl alcohol in its free form are rarely found in nature. The ingestion of relatively small amounts can result in blindness , other serious illnesses and even death."
Dr. Ralph Walton on 60 Minutes explained there are only 90 valid studies on aspartame that were independent and 83 showed problems with the toxin. The 7 non-industry studies attesting to aspartame 's safety were 6 studies from the FDA and 1 literature review reflecting almost exclusively the industry sponsored research. Since the FDA has been trying to cover up this issue for years you can dismiss the 6 studies. They went so far as to refer complaints to the AIDS Hotline as discussed in Congress!
Dr. Walton himself did a study although NutraSweet refused to sell him the aspartame because they had no control over the study. After one subject started bleeding from the eyes, another had a retinal detachment and others complained of being poisoned, the institution stopped the study.
How do you do a study on MS and aspartame ? Who wants to sign up for a dose of poison? That was tried in South America with people in poor villages who wouldn't be missed they thought. The biggest study on aspartame has been done on the consumer public in 100 countries of the world, and the cases on the sick and dying continue to pour in.
This press release will travel in the path of the original article signed by Nancy Markle. Responsible journalists will tell this side of the story and publish after research of the DORway web site. Those who have sold out to industry will defend it to the end. Most people with problems from aspartame will continue to search and find us, as they have been doing. For those who believe comments in articles like Time and AP may go on using this toxin until it can be removed from the market. They can go on losing babies or bearing those with deformities, having seizures, developing Alzheimer's (Defense Against Alzheimer's Disease - 1 800 - 814-9800 - Dr.Roberts), going blind and destroying their central nervous system. These reporters will have to live with this all the days of their life because they saw the truth and didn't publish it.
Coca Cola profits tumbled 27% in the fourth quarter and 14% in l998. Monsanto who makes NutraSweet is trying to sell the NutraSweet Kelco Company! To avoid billions of dollars of law suits? The news is out and it can't be covered up. Aspartame exposers are even called toxic terrorists! Indeed, Nutrasweet has terrorized nutrition and disbeliveers embark on the Monsanto Titanic. Its iceberg proof, you know, and up for sale !
I hope that every responsible journalist publishes this side of the story, those who believe like Mission Possible that death and disability are not acceptable costs of business. Fraud in science is despicable, as despicable as failure to tell consumers the truth when the facts are known by the media. Now Monsanto wants to get approved neotame, an even more potent aspartame!
Betty Martini, Mission Possible International (a worldwide volunteer force in the US and many countries warning the world off aspartame) 770 242-2599
For a map of the 450 pages on dorway email help@xxxxxx.xxx with nothing in message text or subject line. Also check out holisticmed and aspartamekills
1. Take the 60-day No Aspartame Test and send us your case history. Mission Possible International 5950-H State Bridge Rd. #215, Duluth, GA 30097 USA
2. Tell your doctor and all of your friends!
3. Return Asparcidal food to the store. (anything with Monsanto's NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful/Benevia/NatraTaste)
VISITdorway Get links to over 30 sites on aspartame
VISIT holisticmed ..FAQs & Cases
VISIT notmilk Exposing Bovine Growth Hormone
Disability and Death are not acceptable costs of business!
Aspartame - The Silent Killer
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Going to smoke a cigarette or two, drink a six pack and think about this.
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Scary stuff. I've always been wary of eating things that don't taste right. Diet pop tastes strange, no surprise the stuff is deadly. Ever go to the grocery store? 100 products like butter, same as butter, better than butter. You have to SEARCH to actually find BUTTER. Scares me to think what the other products are REALLY made from.
Margarine never leaves the body...it is like eating plastic...butter is the only way to go...
I don't know if this is true or not, but I've never trusted diet sodas.
Some people are smart enough to go by their gut feelings or instincts...obviously you are...instead of believing what the press puts out there...through years of research, I have found there are as many lies in the conventional medical field as in the political relm...
I have never posted medical info here...however, I would like the people at FR to know the truth on these things that affect them daily...
I've 'known' about that nutra-sweet garbage for years. My kids have acquired the habit of reading labels to look for aspartame listed. Their logic? Mom says it's poison. They are now the little informers of their world. They tell EVERYONE who holds a diet soda...you're drinking poison. The 700 Club put out a facts sheet a while ago, that listed the effects and known problems that this additive has caused. It's stupid to worry about the 16 calories that a tsp. of sugar contains, when you play russian roulette with your long term health.
you are not referencing:
now, are ya?
Got to echo Professional's comments, diet pop sux, and as to margarine, if I want to eat axle grease, I keep a tub of the stuff for repacking wheel bearings. They can keep their chemical cocktails, gimme the real stuff--in moderation.
Folks, you realize, don't you, that you've defined proof as that which affirms your position?
This was passed on to me without sourcing, so I am stating it as such, unsubstantiated: that soft drink manufacturers have been adding aspartame to regular [non-diet soda] purportedly in order to decrease the amount of sugars needed in it.
If true, at first thought it might suggest it was being done to lower the manufacturing cost.
But what else would this do, besides producing the same type effects as in diet soft drinks?
You bet, I also have known about aspartame for years...however, I was not sure about folks here at FR, or the many lurkers...
Good for your kids...Kids are so smart...
Sugar or honey is by far the best...but then you have stevia...which has been black ball by the FDA, because of aspartame...stevia is natural and does not mess with your blood sugar like sugar and honey...your compounding pharmists use it, to sweeten their medications...
The following is the only scientific paper dealing with aspartame and Parkinson's desease referenced by medline since 1966 at the National Library of Medicne. It speaks for itself. Unique Identifier 93196900> Authors Karstaedt PJ. Pincus JH.>p Institution Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC 20007. Title Aspartame use in Parkinson's disease. Source Neurology. 43(3 Pt 1):611-3, 1993 Mar. Abstract The artificial sweetener aspartame (NutraSweet) is hydrolyzed in the gut as phenylalanine (PA), a large neutral amino acid (LNAA). LNAAs compete with levodopa for uptake into the brain. To determine the effect of aspartame on levodopa-treated Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, we studied 18 PD patients with protein-sensitive motor fluctuations by administering in a double-blind and single-crossover design, on alternate days, aspartame (600 or 1,200 mg) and placebo. Every hour, we performed a motor examination and drew blood to estimate plasma LNAA, PA, and levodopa levels. Six-hundred mg of aspartame had no effect on plasma PA or motor status. Although 1,200 mg of aspartame significantly increased plasma PA, motor performance did not deteriorate. Aspartame consumption in amounts well in excess of what would be consumed by heavy users of aspartame-sweetened products has no adverse effect on PD patients.
I stopped using 'sacchrin' since the mice were dying of cancer after consuming 10 times their bodyweight of the stuff. Then, I stopped using 'aspertame'. I used to drink a lot of diet cola made with the stuff. Now, I just drink hot or iced tea and I sweeten it with 'splenda'. My dull headaches were gone within a few days of stopping my 'aspertame' consumption.
Anyone have any bad news about 'splenda'? BTW, I have tried 'Stevia', but it is very expensive though it seems OK otherwise.
To make the public sick, is what I would say...
You have got to be kidding...I have not heard that...and they do not list it on the label either do they?
I'm a financial consultant. In 1994 or 1995 the FDA approval process was streamlined. The process time was greatly decreased. While the old FDA policy was TERRIBLE, I wonder if we haven't wound up at the other extreme. I'm sure the major Pharmaceuticals like the new system and lobbied for it hard with their cash.
I'll see if I can find out...stevia is expensive, but it takes so little...we are only talking about a grain or so...a little goes a long way...
I don't know...the FDA is corrupt...first, we need to do a lot of house cleaning...
Until clinton loosened the FDA guidlines for
releasing drugs to market, the FDA kept America's
pharmaceuticals and food industry to the highest
standards in the World.
Every effort should be made to restore the FDA to it's
original state.
It isn't the agency, it's this administration's manipulation
of the agency.
Good case to make for more intrusive government action, plus years of delays in testing new products before getting FHA approval. Put Dr. Kook, hmmmmmm... I mean .... Dr. Koop back in charge. Being a cigarette smoker (someone who rates below an HIV+ carrier), I'll be a guinea pig. LOL
If true, my supposition would be that it would--besides lowering the manufacturing cost--mask over the effects solely deriving from diet drinks.
Get it? It could blow future epidemiological studies.
I've always been wary of eating things that don't taste right. Diet pop tastes strange, no surprise the stuff is deadly.
It's no supprise that diet pop tastes kind of strange.. seeing that aspartame is 300 times sweeter then normal surgar is. Sickening sweet to me.
-The Hajman-
Thanks for posting this article. As a physician, I worry at the amount of stuff like this thread that people bring in. Common sense tells you to be careful of any substance that you are not sure about - artificial or natural. There are plenty of "natural" toxins. There are also tons of "artificial" chemicals that result in the long, healthy lifespan enjoyed by most of us. From basic biochemistry we learn that aspartame is a simple joining of two amino acids. Folks, you can't get more basic and safe than amino acids. There are 20 of these that the human body needs to make proteins. That some people get a headache from this does not make it necessarily toxic. You can look up any substance including aspirin, a natural compound found in tree bark, and get a huge list of reported symptoms. That's why articles like the one you reported are so important. This study shows that aspartame appeared to be safe and resulted in the buildup of the amino acid phenylalanine which could be gotten from many food sources and is not harmful.
As a physician, I have no vested interest in aspartame. If I felt there was evidence that aspartame was dangerous, I would say so. I do not know of credible (double-blinded, placebo studies) evidence yet that aspartame is dangerous. It may cause some people headaches and other symptoms but I know of no reason why it should be any more toxic than chicken.
Before you jump on the butter (i.e. dairy) bandwagon ...
listen to the November 8, 1999 show of sightings at
Robert Cohen: The Dangers Of Milk And Dairy
By the way, Jeff Renses' show Sightings has August 27 and August 6
interviews
with Betty Martini concerning this story.
Just follow the links to the 1999 archived shows.
Oops! I made a correction in the link. Use this version ...
Before you jump on the butter (i.e. dairy) bandwagon ...
listen to the November 8, 1999 show of sightings at
Robert Cohen: The Dangers Of Milk And Dairy
By the way, Jeff Renses' show Sightings has August 27 and August 6
interviews
with Betty Martini concerning this story.
Just follow the links to the 1999 archived shows.
Since I'm unable to access these links listed above..I don't know if this is a part of them. But here goes..
I hope the link works, never did one before. Yikes!
You almost got the link right. Have to specify a http:// before the www. address in the HTML.
Here's the correct Aspartame info.
-The Hajman-
OK guys...can someone figure out why that doesn't work? I have my handy-dandy post-it note stuck to the 'puter, and typed it in just like it says. OH WELLLL, guess that was my LAST attempt.
Here's the address...www.awod.com/gallery/probono/dorway/barua.html
I bought a product that's called Stevita. The FDA won't approve it for use in products. But, you can buy it to use in baking or to sweeten drinks, ect. The stuff is great, it's all natural, extremely sweet, and because it is so sweet it has no calories, you don't use very much to sweeten your drinks and it's safe. Here is the website http://www.stevitastevia.com
The link doesn't work.
Why not just reply with the url and someone will try to html it.
WOW... you beat me to the puch and WITH a helpful hint to boot!!! Thank you, thank you. Now to make up a new post-it note.teeheehee
But but, sputter sputter, you are one of the aliens from the medical industry sent here to poison us! ;-)
The problem with focusing on a single substance is to lose sight of the fact that there are thousands of natural and artificial substances that various individuals cannot tolerate.
Good old milk, for instance -- lactose intolerance.
Or good old honey, some people will die from allergic reactions. And on the subject of allergic reactions -- there are just too many to name -- and that's just counting the natural ones.
Discovery of specific food intolerance is part of life. Many people face threats to their very lives from good old wholesome natural foods.
But you have to keep in perspective that millions of people are suffering the health effects of too much sugar, etc. For them, the risk is considerably reduced by the use of artifical sweetners. Lives are saved. To ban them would be to increase the death toll.
You do not know of credible evidence yet that aspartame is dangerous?
That's a curious statement.
Rather than what you don't know, do you know of any study you can post?
A California newspaper cooking section had an article on asparteme in the late '70s or early '80s. It's toxic when heated over 85 degrees. Delivery trucks do not refrigerate colas.
Heated asparteme converts to formic acid. Bee, wasp, and red ant venom is composed of formic acid, which is irritating to the skin.
Try Sweet N Low in a cup of hot tea...tastes like poison.
LOL.... you smartalec!!!!
I got the link to pull up...but the link for aspartamekills, says dorway is down and it is the mirror site...
Maybe it's time for me to give it up. Here's what I have written down..a href='your link url'>linkname Does that mean I type...http:// instead of the 'a href='???
OH NO...well, I can't tell ya what I have written down cuz then it wants to make into a REAL link that goes nowhere. I hope you know what I'm trying to ask now.
Thanks for the site...Stevia is the best sweet additive, there is...I have used it for years...your compounding pharmist, use it ONLY to sweeten their medications...it is natural...and it is great to cook with...
I dunno. My mother's 80 years old, and, occasionally, I go over to her house and make her a cup of cappuccino with NutraSweet.
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From basic biochemistry we learn that aspartame is a simple joining of two amino acids. Folks, you can't get more basic and safe than amino acids.
Chemicals don't always act like you think they might when you start combining then. Sodium and Clorine are both toxic chemicals, but when combined, they create salt (sodium cloride), a non-toxic chemical we use to put on food. Cyanide is deadly, but it holds together the chemicals best known as B12 and B17. (Incidently, the FDA says B17 is deadly because it contains cyanide, but B12 they say is safe. Is it just conicendence B17 is a supposed cure for cancer?).
One must remember that things change when combining chemicals, and even if you combine two 'safe' chemicals, the outcome could be potentially deadly. You can't always base the safety of the chemical compound on it's seperate parts.
-The Hajman-
From basic biochemistry we learn that aspartame is a simple joining of two amino acids. Folks, you can't get more basic and safe than amino acids.
Chemicals don't always act like you think they might when you start combining then. Sodium and Clorine are both toxic chemicals, but when combined, they create salt (sodium cloride), a non-toxic chemical we use to put on food. Cyanide is deadly, but it holds together the chemicals best known as B12 and B17. (Incidently, the FDA says B17 is deadly because it contains cyanide, but B12 they say is safe. Is it just conicendence B17 is a supposed cure for cancer?).
One must remember that things change when combining chemicals, and even if you combine two 'safe' chemicals, the outcome could be potentially deadly. You can't always base the safety of the chemical compound on it's seperate parts.
-The Hajman-
Here's how you do it mommadooo3:
<a href="http://www.awod.com/gallery/probono/dorway/barua.html">Aspartame info</a>
This code will give: Aspartame info
-The Hajman-
Moral is, don't mess with my mom. She still votes for Democrats, but I'm slowly but surely changing that. Be patient.
That is just SO true.
It took me years (starting at 25, and I just turned 33), but my father, rationalist, scientist, physician, christian, former repbulican, is now a lifetime (sniff!) member of the Libertarian Party.
Thanks to Pete Wilson, although there were many before him, for finally pushing my father away from the republican party, and into the arms of freedom.
Been drinking about a gallon of Diet Coke®™ for over 10 years and feel fit as a fiddle. Can't say I've suffered any ill effects yet. I suppose the effects could be suttle, such as minor spelling errors.
What a coincidence...I'm a Libertarian too.
What I will say to you is, use a natural sweeter: STEVIA...STEVIA...STEVIA...this was available before aspartame was pushed on the public...but because of big money and Monsanto...we were given ASPARTAME...
Didn't you mean to say you've been drinking about a gallon of Diet Coke DAILY for over 10 years? I thought so.
Fight the good fight, and suffer no fools.
"It's stupid to worry about the 16 calories that a tsp. of sugar contains, when you play russian roulette with your long term health."
Normally, I would agree with you, but, being diabetic (Type I), regular coke can kill. A regular coke can raise my bloodsugar by 300 (that's in addition to the normal level of 100-120), creating a very serious situation. I enjoy a carbonated drink once in awhile, so I go for the Nutrasweet. Diet cokes and sugar-free gum are the ONLY things I eat or drink with Nutrasweet, and on my Dr.'s advice, I try to limit to 3 cokes a week. I found that when I reduced the Nutrasweet, my general health improved. (less water retention, as an example). Nutrasweet allows me some small pleasures that I otherwise could not enjoy. Diet coke did not exist until I was in college and care-free gum was all that was out until college also. I missed out on stupid small things as a child/teenager and would hate to see something banned simply because people cannot control their eating habits. "Everything in moderation" is a very good rule.
You betcha!!!!
The real hidden KILLER is FLORIDATION of our WATER! All the other poisons pale in comparison! And floride in TOOTHPASTE for crissake! Floride is a RAT POISON!
You need to try Stevia...natural sweeter...leaves your blood sugar alone...you can get it at health food store...it seems to be expensive...but a very very little goes a long way...
The real hidden KILLER is FLORIDATION of our WATER! All the other poisons pale in comparison! And floride in TOOTHPASTE for crissake! Floride is a RAT POISON!
The problem with this webiste is that it's getting to hard to tell the smartypants' from the others.
I assume you meant the floridation of Goldwaterian ideals with Reagan/Bush/Forbes/Buchanan (oh, that's right, he's no longer among the chosen)/Robertsonian/name the sucker you will-ian-isms.
At least, I hope you meant that.
Here's another site for aspartame information: Aspartame is bad for you
-The Hajman-
Is it anything like Fructose? I know people who thought that was a safe sugar replacement, too. What kind of natural sweetener doesn't turn to sugar?
Look at post #33, she has a web address...that is where you can learn about it hopefully...I understand it is safe for diabetics...stevia can be cooked with...if you have a compounding pharmacy near you...talk to the pharmarist...only at a compounding pharmacy...those guys/gals know their stuff about stevia...
you should beable to learn a lot about it on the web...
Oh many many thanks!!! I had it written down without that http:// thingy. So don't know if it was an original mistake or mine in copying it. Well, like I said, I don't think I'll be trying THAT again anytime soon. Maybe by NEXT Millenium I'll get brave enough.
.if you have a compounding pharmacy near you..
excellent tip. I will definitely check stevia out. My mother-in-law will be thrilled if this checks out okay and can be cooked with. Cakes, cookies, pies, breads, etc, etc are her specialty. She and her mother bake professionally and it's always a battle to keep that stuff out of my house.
Ever since saccharin was taken off the market, I've steered totally away from any kind of articifical sweetener over concern about health repercussions. Give me full-strength sugar any day of the week :-).
Ever since saccharin was taken off the market, I've steered totally away from any kind of articifical sweetener over concern about health repercussions. Give me full-strength sugar any day of the week :-).
My wife a truly brilliant woman, but like myself not formally educated, figured out that Nutra-Sweet was killing her several years ago all on here own.
She had dozens of symptoms that all the many Doctors she saw could recognize but not explain. She began a systomatic process of elimination of foods and chemicals from her diet that led her to the conclusion that NutraSweet was the culprit.
She stopped using it in ANY form and rid herself of crippling Migraines, Allergy symptoms galore, joint pain, vision problems and others too numerous to mention.
Frankly at the beginning I thought she was a few sandwiches short of a full picnic. But after seeing the miraculous improvement in her health as a result of avoiding this one chemical I have recanted.
I have printed out this post for her as we were not aware that other people knew of the harmful effects of this sweetener.
Thanks for the post it is wonderful to find that we are not alone in this matter.
Not at all...extremely dangerous stuff...but you still have doctors out there that think this is safe stuff...I have called on a number of doctors, and it is amazing how blind they are and continue to stay blind...they need to educate themselves some more...
Your wife is a smart lady...and I am truly thrilled that she found the answer...it is obvious she had no help from her doctor...
I bet you prescribe...premarin and progestin, too..
bump..
I'll see if I can find out...stevia is expensive, but it takes so little...we are only talking about a grain or so...a little goes a long way...
So does Arsenic.
Yeah and it is called aspartame....Stevia is one of the safest natural sweetens around...
But you have to keep in perspective that millions of people are suffering the health effects of too much sugar, etc. For them, the risk is considerably reduced by the use of artifical sweetners. Lives are saved. To ban them would be to increase the death toll.
Banning sugar substitutes will not increase the death toll, even banning processed sugar would not increase the death toll. I have totally cut all sugar out of my diet because of hypoglycemia and manic-depression. I make up for it with carbs in small amounts several times a day (which convert to glucose in your system). I have also cut out all the salt (due to edema) and caffiene (it makes me go manic as well) out of my diet as well. My doctor says my diet is very healthy and that I am at a lower risk of death than the majority. Besides, I like tasting my food, not the seasonings.
I've never heard of stevia before today. What is it? Where does it come from?
I have never, to my knowledge, used aspartame or saccharine.
Ever wonder where all that banned saccharine went to? It's in your toothpaste. (Unless you use a health food store brand.)
You've got to do better than one study...when there is so much other proof out there, that says different...I suggest you go through all the documents at DORway...
First of all, if you study the FDA, you will find that it is an extremely political organization. Food and Drug Safety is sometimes a serendipidous biproduct of their ridiculous rules and regulations, but not always. It used to be be a somewhat benign entity that worked with industry to ensure product safety. However, under Kessler and xlinton, it became yet another enforcement arm of the state. Industries favored by the socialists, such as those making any type of birth control device, any drug that could claim any chance to "cure" AIDS, and device or drug which proported to address any politically correct problem, were guaranteed approval and protection. Many of these industries were exempted from the rules completely. Conversely, any industry that managed to get itself on the hit list was routinely visited by FDA nazi's who would fine or even shut down firms violating ridiculous rules, such as an unlabelled or improperly labelled work in process container. Even when no violations could be found, these nazi's were generally successful at interupting production. So, if you believe the FDA is protecting your interest, wake up and smell the coffee.
Second of all, I don't believe this aspartame story for a minute. This misinformation has been circulating for years. The data and the victims are manufactured. None of this can be substantiated.
Of course, if you are afraid to drink diet soda or are afraid to eat artificially sweetened foods, you shouldn't eat them. But don't expect me to stop consuming them. I know the "risks" and I don't plan on stopping. That is unless you are able to make this a political cause, like the idiotic alar scare. Then you can get your good friend, bill xlinton to ban aspartame; right after he bans tobacco. Good luck.
Far more widesprad and debilitating than aspartane is the long-term effects of flouride. More toxic than lead and leading to such conditions as altzthimers, rhumatoid arthritis, chronic fatique, cancer etc. the stuff is classified as a harzardous waste in other countries. A by-product of aluminum smelting and fertilizer manufacturing these respective industries save an estimated $6 billion per year in disposal costs by Feeding it to the public! Lots of profits for dentists and doctors too!
Flouride can only be removed by distilling water or through reverse osmosis. Once introduced it cannot be removed from foods. Only 50% is removed by the kidneys, the rest seeks-out hard tissue within the body where it remains. Once a critical level is reached (flourosis) debilitating medical effects occur.
I say this only because I was waylaid by this stuff for years and only recently rid myself of it. What a Difference it's absense has made in my general health and well-being.
Sugar or honey is by far the best...but then you have stevia...which has been black ball by the FDA, because of aspartame...stevia is natural and does not mess with your blood sugar like sugar and honey...your compounding pharmists use it, to sweeten their medications...
Stevia is readily available in health food stores. It hasn't taken off since it tastes bad to most folks (me included).
The real hidden KILLER is FLORIDATION of our WATER!
True, but this only occurs in Florida. ;-)
You can get it at Health Food Stores, it is a natural sweetener from a tree in Uruguay...it is one of best kept secrets, because the supporters of aspartame do not want people to know about it....
OK check out post 65...
When aspartame came out in diet cola my Mom tried one, and her throat closed up...of course, she never tried one again...I know that is just one individual case...but there are a lot of people who have such horror stories...there is also a lot of clinical proof out there...
As for as what you say about the FDA, many many stories about their strong arming...and our present administration in the last 7 years, have turned perfectly sound agencies into enemies of the people...
The taste of stevia...your right you must acquire a taste for it...but it does not taste near as bad as aspartame...stevia has been proven to be safe...ask your local compounding pharmacy..
How did you get rid of it?
When aspartame came out in diet cola my Mom tried one, and her throat closed up...of course, she never tried one again...I know that is just one individual case...but there are a lot of people who have such horror stories...
Perhaps your mother has an allergy to aspartame, or some other ingredient in the soda. As I said before, this type of story has been circulating for years. Drawing conclusions based on this type of story is ridiculous and very unscientific. Conversely, aspartame has been tested numerous times using double blind studies. Every scientific study I have seen shows that aspartame is safe.
You are free to draw conclusions in any manner you choose. I choose to look at real data as opposed to anecdotal evidence. Hopefully, I will be free to enjoy aspartame just as you are free to avoid it.
I switched to bottled water. Apparently, when the body becomes saturated with flouride a continued high intake leads to immediate, even debilitating health effects. For me this was severe back pain (in the area of my injury), a constant headache, fatigue and convulsive muscle spasms in my left arm. Within four hours of switching to bottled water symptons which I'd had for weeks, months and even years greatly dissipated. A headache I'd had for four days-straight went away. I could actually feel my muscles relax. I have no doubt about the relationship as flouride is the only (known) chemical in my water supply which can get thru my water filter and the bottled water was the only change I made to my diet that day.
This only deals with the toxic effects of injesting flouride. The flouride in the body must be reduced through a gradual leeching effect and can take a very long time. Darlene Sherrell, an activist on flouridation, still suffers severe reactions to flouride since no labelling is required on products containing it. Nowadays that's the majority of food products. She recommends a few teaspoons of epsom salts as a remedy to accidental injestion. Having tried it already after drinking some Miller beer and then getting bad joint pains, etc. I can vouch for it's effectiveness.
It should be noted flouride is the base ingredient of nerve agents and is known to cause serious central nervous system damage in laboratory animals in dosages (Mg/Kg/body weight) similar to what people could conceivably injest thruogh the variety of sources it is now present in.
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