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Nutrasweet: The Nutrapoison
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| Alex Constantine
Posted on 07/04/2003 11:08:54 AM PDT by hardhead
NutraSweet: The NutraPoison
by Alex Constantine
"I recognized my two selves: a crusading idealist and a cold, granitic believer in the law of the jungle." Edgar Monsanto Queeny, Monsanto chairman, 1943-63, The Spirit of Enterprise, 1934.
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The FDA is ever mindful to refer to aspartame, widely known as NutraSweet, as a "food additive"-never a "drug." A "drug" on the label of a Diet Coke might discourage the consumer. And because aspartame is classified a food additive, adverse reactions are not reported to a federal agency, nor is continued safety monitoring required by law.1 NutraSweet is a non-nutritive sweetener. The brand name is misnomer. Try Non-NutraSweet. Food additives seldom cause brain lesions, headaches, mood alterations, skin polyps, blindness, brain tumors, insomnia and depression, or erode intelligence and short-term memory. Aspartame, according to some of the most capable scientists in the country, does. In 1991 the National Institutes of Health, a branch of the Department of Health and Human Services, published a bibliography, Adverse Effects of Aspartame, listing not less than 167 reasons to avoid it.2 Aspartame is an rDNA derivative, a combination of two amino acids (long supplied by a pair of Maryland biotechnology firms: Genex Corp. of Rockville and Purification Engineering in Baltimore.)3 The Pentagon once listed it in an inventory of prospective biochemical warfare weapons submitted to Congress.4 But instead of poisoning enemy populations, the "food additive" is currently marketed as a sweetening agent in some 1200 food products. In light of the chemo-warfare implications, the pasts of G.D. Searle and aspartame are ominous. Established in 1888 on the north side of Chicago, G.D. Searle has long been a fixture of the medical establishment. The company manufactures everything from prescription drugs to nuclear imaging optical equipment.5 Directors of G.D. Searle include such geopolitical heavy-hitters as Andre M. de Staercke, Reagan's ambassador to Belgium and Reuben Richards, an executive vice president at Citibank. Also Arthur Wood, the retired CEO of Sears, Roebuck & C disgorged by the clan of General Robert E. Wood, wartime chairman of the America First Committee.6 America Firsters, organized by native Nazis cloaked as isolationists, were quietly financed by the likes of Sullivan & Cromwell's Allen Dulles and Edwin Webster of Kidder, Peabody.7 Until the acquisition by Monsanto in 1985, the firm's chairman was William L. Searle, a Harvard graduate, Naval reservist and-a grim irony in view of aspartame's adverse effects-an officer in the Army Chemical Corps in the early 1950s, when the same division tested LSD on groups of human subjects in concert with the CIA.8 The chief of the Chemical Warfare Division at this time was Dr. Laurence Laird Layton, whose son Larry was convicted for the murder of Congressman Leo Ryan at Jonestown ("Come to the pavilion! What a legacy!"). Jonestown, of course, bore a remarkable likeness to a concentration camp, and kept a full store of pharmaceutical drugs. (The Jonestown pharmacy was stocked with a variety of behavior control drugs: qualudes, valium, morphine, demerol and 11,000 doses of thorazine-a better supply, in fact, than the Guyanese government's own, not to mention a surfeit of cyanide.9)
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: aspartame; conspiracy; fda; health; nutrasweet; sweetener
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A long conspiracy theory. I seem to remember some years ago that Pat Robertson did an 'expose' of this very subject on the 700 Club. Whether you believe or not, this is fun reading. If you want to make sure you are protected, get out the roll of aluminum foil. Regarding conspiracies, they are popular pastimes that get your bloo 'a boiling and the adrenalin pumping. They're fun - but like John Payne said at the end of Miracle on 34th Street, 'now I'm not so sure'. Where there is smoke, possibly there is a spark. All legends begin with some fact. The hard part is deciding or gleaning just what is fact or fiction. You be the judge.
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posted on
07/04/2003 11:08:54 AM PDT
by
hardhead
To: hardhead
Try and find one double blind study that proves one single claim, or don't bother I already looked. I looked for 2 days, I have diabetes and wanted to know. I could not find one single double blind study that backed a single claim. The only proof these folks ever give are testimonials. Testimonials are ussually void of fact. They tested the **** out of the stuff. I believe it is safe.
To: hardhead
Reynold's wrap to the rescue
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posted on
07/04/2003 11:17:22 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
To: big bad easter bunny
I'm not going to be long for this world if Diet Coke is bad for my health!
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posted on
07/04/2003 11:19:01 AM PDT
by
MEG33
To: hardhead
This means, of course, that I have to give up my Co-Cola??
And anything that I eat is going to do irreparable harm to my old body?
Gee whiz. Does that mean I've got to give up some of my current 77 years?
But, giving it a little more thought, methinks I need a whole bunch of rolls of aluminum foil.
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posted on
07/04/2003 11:20:46 AM PDT
by
Ole Okie
To: hardhead
laugh all you want. My oldest son has had two day-long, deblitating, hospitalized migraines, coupled with nausea and loss of equilibrium. Both times after ingesting this "food additive."
Not funny.
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posted on
07/04/2003 11:22:01 AM PDT
by
ImaGraftedBranch
(Education starts in the home. Education stops in the public schools)
To: big bad easter bunny
Before I ever read this, I had no opinion one way or another. My spouse is a diabetic and her and I cannot stand using aspartame - not because of what this says but it leaves an aftertaste (perceived or not, I don't know). We switched to Splenda which is a natural diabetic sweetener made from sugar (yes, we checked with our doctor and pharmacist first). It tastes like - sugar but has no carbohydrates. We have been watching the dietic foods very closely and many of them are quietly switching to Splenda. Who knows!
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posted on
07/04/2003 11:22:39 AM PDT
by
hardhead
('Curly, if you say its a fine morning I'll shoot you.' - John Wayne, 'McLintock' 1963)
To: big bad easter bunny
At one time, it was the most tested food additive to ever hit the market. May still be, for all I know.
And there is no evidence coming from the medical community that it is causing a problem.
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posted on
07/04/2003 11:23:05 AM PDT
by
gitmo
(Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.)
To: hardhead
There's nothing wrong with Nutrasweet, but it would be nice if Splenda were in wider usage.
It's sucralose, which doesn't spike insulin the way sugar and aspartame does.
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posted on
07/04/2003 11:24:21 AM PDT
by
sinkspur
To: MEG33
DIET COKE is bad for your health.
Doc
To: hardhead
All I know is that I seem to have an alergic reaction to it. If I consume something with asperteme for a while, I develop a persistent cough, which goes away when I take it out of my diet. I experimented with this for two cycles (take it, develop cough, discontinue, cough goes away) to confirm
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posted on
07/04/2003 11:24:49 AM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(Java/C++/Unix/Web Developer looking for next gig)
To: big bad easter bunny
Anecdotal equals data.
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posted on
07/04/2003 11:25:32 AM PDT
by
Bluntpoint
(Not there! Yes, there!)
To: Bluntpoint
Anecdotal equals data.Suuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeee it does. (Wink, wink)
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posted on
07/04/2003 11:26:55 AM PDT
by
Ole Okie
To: Doc On The Bay
DIET COKE is bad for your health. That's not science, Doc. It's opinion or, worse, an edict.
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posted on
07/04/2003 11:28:44 AM PDT
by
Glenn
(What were you thinking, Al?)
To: hardhead
Just an exercise; TRY to get "Aspartame" though the FDA regulating process as a "Drug".
I bet it would be summarily rejected.
Pardon my cynicism, but I suspect "Money Changed Hands."
Doc
To: Bluntpoint
Anecdotal equals data. The question is, how useful is the data? The anecdotal data you've got might be perfectly true, but it's hard to draw useful conclusions from a few isolated cases.
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posted on
07/04/2003 11:30:28 AM PDT
by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: ImaGraftedBranch
I am not laughing, I also have (mild) reaction to nutrasweet.
To: hardhead
To: hardhead
I don't know if I'll need tinfoil or not, but I have personally experienced headaches and disorientation associated with aspartame. I don't touch the stuff anymore.
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posted on
07/04/2003 11:34:07 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: ImaGraftedBranch
Some people have a dangerous allergy to peanuts or shellfish.
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posted on
07/04/2003 11:34:53 AM PDT
by
MEG33
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