Re: The Evils of Chewing Gum?

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I'd stay the heck away from anything with aspartame! This is probably one of

the most diabolical substances out there. If you must chew gum, I'd say go

with gum with sugar, not that it's not bad for you.

Chris

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The Aspartame Scandal by <A

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The Thalidomide of the 90’s is Aspartame, otherwise known as Equal,

Nutrasweet or Spoonful.

In May, 1992 an article in Flying Safety Magazine explained the dangers of

this ubiquitous substance. Some people have triggered aspartame related

disorders with doses as small as that carried in a single stick of chewing

gum. This could mean a pilot who drinks diet sodas is more susceptible to

flicker vertigo or to flicker-induced epileptic activity. It also means that

all pilots are potential victims of sudden memory loss, dizziness during

instrument flight and gradual loss of vision. Some pilots have experienced

grand mal seizures in the cockpits of commercial airline flights and have

lost medical certification to fly -- and with it their careers.

The FDA has received more than 10,000 consumer complaints on Nutra-Poison.

That’s 80% of all complaints about food additives, yet they remain comatose

and have done nothing to alert the American consumer who assumes, since it’s

so highly advertised, that it must be safe as mother’s milk.

If you are using aspartame and have headaches, depression, slurred speech,

loss of memory, fibromyalgia type symptoms, loss of sensation in lower legs

or shooting pains, loss of equilibrium, vertigo, anxiety attacks, chronic

fatigue, vision loss, floaters, retinal detachment, seizures, heart

palpitations, etc., you have Aspartame Disease! Many physicians are

diagnosing multiple sclerosis when in reality it is methanol toxicity which

mimics MS. Get off this dangerous drug right away. MS is not a death

sentence, but methanol toxicity is!

Fifty-one percent of FDA approved drugs have serious risks and could cause

adverse reactions that lead to severe or permanent disability or death. The

Center for Disease Control, s Hopkins University and the New Jersey

School of Medicine estimate that 80,000-120,000 Americans are killed by

prescription drugs every year. That this atrocious holocaust persists has

everything to do with money and nothing to do with public health. Monsanto

reaps $2 billion per year from the Aspartame toxic bonanza. This can buy a

lot of bureaucrats! Does FDA mean Fatal Drugs Allowed? The FDA works for

industry, not citizens. FDA head Arthur overruled his own board of

inquiry to approve aspartame and then went to work for their public relations

firm. Federal attorney Sam Skinner was assigned to prosecute Searle for

fraudulent tests in their application, but switched sides and went to work

for Searle’s lawyers and the case died when the statute of limitations ran

out. Honest FDA toxicologist, the late Dr. Gross, wrote to Senator

Metzenbaum: “The views of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety read like

a script written for Abbott & Costello in the sense of their having

perceptions inside-out and upside-down. ... FDA may have gone through the

motions. ... such a ‘process’ or dance represents a farce and a mockery.â€

Aspartame is a molecule composed of three components: aspartic acid,

phenylalanine and methanol. Methanol is wood alcohol that has killed or

blinded thousands of skid row drunks. It converts into formaldehyde and

formic acid (ant sting poison) in the gut. Formaldehyde, a deadly neurotoxin,

is common embalming fluid, a Class A carcinogen. Phenylalanine is also

neurotoxic when unaccompanied by the other amino acids in proteins. Aspartic

acid causes brain lesions and neuroendocrine disorders in experimental

animals. There are 92 documented symptoms including headaches, numbness,

fatigue, blurred vision, heart palpitations, memory loss, dizziness, muscle

spasms, weight gain, seizures, rashes, blindness, tachycardia, tinnitus,

joint pain, nausea, depression , hearing loss, irritability, slurred speech,

anxiety attacks, loss of taste, vertigo and insomnia.

Nutrasweet is in about 9,000 foods and on every restaurant table for the same

reasons tobacco is everywhere: Greed, Addiction and Profit! The NutraSweet

Company and sister Searle, whose chemists discovered aspartame while testing

an ulcer drug, are owned by Monsanto. If you are taking other medicine,

consider possible reactions you may have. In 1969, Searle approached Dr.

Harry Waisman to study the effects of aspartame on primates. Seven infant

monkeys were fed the chemical in milk. One died after 300 days; five others

had grand mal seizures. Searle deleted these findings when they submitted

this study to the FDA! The best way to understand NutraSweet is to think of

it as a minute dose of nerve gas that eradicates brain and nerve functions.

Some diseases triggered by aspartame include brain tumors and other cancers,

Alzheimers, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, epilepsy, mental retardation,

fibromyalgia, lymphoma, Graves disease, birth defects, chronic fatigue

syndrome, systemic lupus, Epstein Barr, Parkinsons and ... death!

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology surveyed 80 people who

suffered brain seizures after eating or drinking products with aspartame.

Said the Community Nutrition Institute: “These 80 cases meet the FDA’s own

definition of an imminent hazard to the public health, which requires the FDA

to expeditiously remove a product from the market.â€

America is seeing a tremendous increase in seizures. Phenylalanine in

aspartame lowers the seizure threshold in the brain and blocks serotonin

production. Today our nation is swept by a rage of violence. Researchers

attribute this in part to low brain serotonin levels inducing depression,

rage and paranoia. So President Clinton, Diet Coke in hand, programs billions

of dollars to buy penitentiaries for the paranoid. Fetal tissue cannot

tolerate methanol and Dr. Bowen calls NutraSweet instant birth control.

The fetal placenta can concentrate phenylalanine and cause mental

retardation. Aspartame tests on animals produced brain and mammary tumors. No

wonder breast cancer is growing exponentially! During Operation Desert Storm

truckloads of diet drinks cooked in the Arabian sun and at 86 degrees

aspartame liberates methanol in the can! Thousands of service men and women

returned home with chronic fatigue syndrome and weird toxic symptoms.

On July 28, 1993 the National Soft Drink Association drafted a 30-page

protest questioning the safety of aspartame in soft drinks. Then they found

weight-conscious Americans would sip soda all day if it was sugarless, so

they forgot their objections; nor did they tell us that aspartame makes you

crave carbohydrates and so you gain weight. The formaldehyde stores in the

fat cells, particularly on the hips and thighs. Drink diet soda, get fat now

and later develop seizures, diabetes, blindness, Epstein Barr, MS, depression

and death.

Similarly, the American Diabetic Association, which now receives mega-funds

from NutraSweet, ignored a 1987 abstract submitted by Dr. H. J.

(world expert on aspartame and diabetic specialist) summarizing 58 diabetic

aspartame reactors. He says: “I now advise all patients with diabetes and

hypoglycemia to avoid aspartame products.†In his book Excitotoxins: The

Taste that Kills, Blaylock, MD, a neurosurgeon, says aspartame may

trigger clinical diabetes! He says that excitotoxins such as NutraSweet

literally stimulate neurons to death, causing brain damage of varying

degrees. “What really concerns me about aspartame,†he says, “is its

association with brain tumors as well as pancreatic, uterine and ovarian

tumors. ... and that so many develop an Alzheimers-like syndrome with

prolonged exposure.â€

NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful are the deadliest toxins in our society because of

their ubiquitous presence in thousands of foods, even vitamins, medicines,

Kool Aid, Jell-O, diet foods and the packets on every restaurant table. We

are dosed with millions of pounds every year. Every product containing

aspartame should contain the following warning: Chemical Poison: Keep Out of

Reach of Humans! Genocidal!

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