Rumsfeld and Aspartame-----

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Rumsfeld and Aspartame

Posted: May 9, 2004

by NWV Staff Writer

Aspartame is an additive found in diet soft drinks and over 5,000 foods,

drugs and medicine. It was approved in 1983 for use in carbonated beverages.

However, there may be more sour than sweet when it comes to aspartame.

In reality, aspartame is a drug, not an additive in the sense many people

associate with that word. It interacts with other drugs, has a synergistic and

additive effect with MSG, and is a chemical hyper-sensitization agent. Dr.

Olney, who founded the field of neuoscience called excitotoxicity, attempted

to stop the approval of aspartame with Attorney back in 1996. The

FDA's own toxicologist, Dr. Gross told Congress that without a shadow

of a doubt, aspartame can cause brain tumors and brain cancer and violated the

Delaney Amendment which forbids putting anything in food that is known to

cause Cancer. Detailed information on this can be found in the Bressler Report

(FDA report on Searle).

Dr. Olney isn't alone in attempting to reach out to the medical community

and warn the American people about this drug. Dr. Ralph Walton, Professor and

Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Universities College

of Medicine has written of the behavioral and psychiatric problems triggered

by aspartame-caused depletion of serotonin.

According to the top doctors and researchers on this issue, aspartame causes

headache, memory loss, seizures, vision loss, coma and cancer. It worsens or

mimics the symptoms of such diseases and conditions as fibromyalgia, MS,

lupus, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue and depression. Further

dangers

highlighted is that aspartame liberates free methyl alcohol. The resulting

chronic methanol poisoning affects the dopamine system of the brain causing

addiction. Methanol, or wood alcohol, constitutes one third of the aspartame

molecule and is classified as a severe metabolic poison and narcotic.

Dr. Woodrow Monte in the peer reviewed journal, Aspartame: Methanol and the

Public Health, wrote: " When diet sodas and soft drinks, sweetened with

aspartame, are used to replace fluid loss during exercise and physical exertion

in

hot climates, the intake of methanol can exceed 250 mg/day or 32 times the

Environmental Protection Agency's recommended limit of consumption for this

cumulative poison. "

Neurosurgeon Blaylock, MD, author of " Excitotoxins: The Taste That

Kills, " wrote about the relationship between aspartame and macular

degeneration, diabetic blindness and glaucoma (all known to result from

excitotoxin

accumulation in the retina).

The medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, by Dr. H. J.

is 1038 pages of symptoms and diseases triggered by this neurotoxin. The

cl

aim is made that aspartame has even caused the epidemic of obesity because it

makes you crave carbohydrates so you gain weight, and the formaldehyde

accumulates in the adipose tissue (fat cells) according to the Trocho Study.

Further

accusations are that aspartame is also responsible for the epidemic of

diabetes as it not only can precipitate diabetes but simulates and aggravates

diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, can cause diabetics to go into convulsions

and

interacts with insulin.

The effects of aspartame are documented by the FDA's own data. In 1995 the

agency was forced, under the Freedom of Information Act, to release a list of

ninety-two aspartame symptoms reported by thousands of victims. It appears this

is only the tip of the iceberg. H. J. , MD, published the medical text

" Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic " -- 1,000 pages of symptoms and

diseases triggered by this neurotoxin including the sordid history of its

approval.

Since its discovery in 1965, controversy has raged over the health risks

associated with the sugar substitute. From laboratory testing of the chemical on

rats, researchers have discovered that the drug induces brain tumors. On Sept

30, 1980 the Board of Inquiry of the FDA concurred and denied the petition for

approval.

In 1981, the newly appointed FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull , ignored

the negative ruling and approved aspartame for dry goods. As recorded in the

Congressional Record of 1985, then CEO of Searle Laboratories Rumsfeld

said that he would " call in his markers " to get aspartame approved. Rumsfeld was

on President Reagan's transition team and a day after taking office appointed

. No FDA Commissioner in the previous sixteen years had allowed aspartame

on the market.

Dr. Betty i has worked in the medical field for 22 years. She is the

founder of Mission Possible International, working with doctors around the

world in an effort to remove aspartame from food, drinks and medicine. According

to Dr. i, aspartame has brought more complaints to the American Food and

Drug Administration than any other additive and is responsible for 75% of such

complaints to that agency. From 10,000 consumer complaints FDA compiled a

list of 92 symptoms, including death.

The history of aspartame and its approval has a political history as well as

a scientific one. According to Dr. i,

" When Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle, that conglomerate manufactured

aspartame. For 16 years the FDA refused to approve it, not only because its not

safe but because they wanted the company indicted for fraud. Both U.S.

Prosecutors hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations

expired. They

were Sam Skinner and Conlon. Skinner went on to become Secretary of

Transportation squelching the cries of the pilots who were now having seizures

on this seizure triggering drug, aspartame, and then Chief of Staff under

President Bush's father. Some of these people reach high places. Even Supreme

Justice Clarence is a former Monsanto attorney. (Monsanto bought Searle

in

1985, and sold it a few years ago). When Ashcroft became Attorney General,

from King and Spalding Attorneys (another former Monsanto attorney)

became deputy under Ashcroft. (Attorneys for NutraSweet and Coke).

" However, the FDA still refused to allow NutraSweet on the market. It is a

deadly neurotoxic drug masquerading as an additive. It interacts with all

antidepressants, L-dopa, Coumadin, hormones, insulin, all cardiac medication,

and

many others. It also is a chemical hyper sensitization drug so that it

interacts with vaccines, other toxins, other unsafe sweeteners like Splenda

which has

a chlorinated base like DDT and can cause auto immune disease. It has a

synergistic and additive effect with MSG. Both being excitotoxins, the aspartic

acid

in aspartame, and MSG, the glutamate people were found using aspartame as the

placebo for MSG studies, even before it was approved. The FDA has known this

for a quarter of a century and done nothing even though its against the law.

Searle went on to build a NutraSweet factory and had $9 million worth of

inventory.

" Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and the day after

he took office he appointed an FDA Commissioner who would approve aspartame.

The FDA set up a Board of Inquiry of the best scientists they had to offer who

said aspartame is not safe and causes brain tumors, and the petition for

approval is hereby revoked. The new FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull ,

over-ruled that Board of Inquiry and then went to work for the PR Agency of the

manufacturer, Burson-Marstellar, rumored at $1000.00 a day, and has refused to

talk

to the press ever since.

" There were three congressional hearings because of the outcry of the people

being poisoned. Senator Orrin Hatch refused to allow hearings for a long

time. The first hearing was in 1985, and Senator Hatch and others were paid by

Monsanto. So the bill by Senator Metzenbaum never got out of committee. This

bill

would have put a moratorium on aspartame, and had the NIH do independent

studies on the problems being seen in the population, interaction with drugs,

seizures, what it does to the fetus and even behavioral problems in children.

This

is due to the depletion of serotonin caused by the phenylalanine in

aspartame. "

According to a press release put out by the National Justice League on April

26, 2004, lawsuits were filed in three separate California courts against

twelve companies who either produce or use the artificial sweetener aspartame as

a sugar substitute in their products: Defendants in the lawsuits include

Coca-cola, PepsiCo, Bayer Corp., the Dannon Company, Wrigley Jr.

Company,

Walmart, ConAgra Foods, Wyeth, Inc., The NutraSweet Company, and Altria Corp.

(parent company of Kraft Foods and Philip ).

The suits allege that the food companies committed fraud and breach of warran

ty by marketing products to the public such as diet Coke, diet Pepsi, sugar

free gum, Flintstone's vitamins, yogurt (including Yoplait) and children's

aspirin with the full knowledge that aspartame, the sweetener in them, is

neurotoxic.

Dr. i recommends that consumers read all labels on any food, medicine

or drinks they intend to consume.

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