Aspartame - A Deadly Toxin

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NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful/ASPARTAME: are the deadliest toxins in our society because of their ubiquitous presence in thousands of foods like children's vitamins, medicines, Kool Aid, Jell-O and on every restaurant table. We're dosed with millions of pounds per year! The following warning should be on all aspartame products:

Chemical Poison: Keep Out Of Reach Of Humans!

Here's a website called "Aspartame Poisoning Information Site" with many articles devoted to the killing power of aspartame: aspartame.ca

Dropping like flies: poisoned by ASPARTAME

Sudden Cardiac Death or SCD, according to the US Centers for Disease Control, is the number one killer, having ended the lives of close to half a million Americans in 1999.

Sudden Cardiac Death is not a "heart attack" or myocardial infarction, caused by clogged arteries. It's an electrical problem in which the cardiac conduction system that generates the impulses regulating the heart suddenly outputs rapid or chaotic electrical impulses, or both.

The heart ceases its rhythmic contractions, the brain is starved of oxygen and the victim loses consciousness in seconds, says Betty Martini of Mission Possible, an Aspartame Consumer Awareness group.

ASPARTAME, a sweetening substance that is generally touted as innocuous by our health authorities, is implicated in the epidemic of unusual sudden deaths.

This should be a scandal of major proportions, considering how Aspartame was originally approved over the resistence of the FDA's own scientific panel examining the evidence, and also considering how every health authority around the world - including the World Health Organization - has since rubber-stamped the fraudulent approval of Aspartame as a sweeetener to be added in huge quantities to our foods.

"Light" soft drinks and all kinds of "sugar free" foods for diabetics contain the poison. It is increasingly hard to keep Aspartame out of our food by reading the labels. There's hardly a soft drink or chewing gum that does not contain the stuff (ok, I exaggerated a bit).

Many of the smarter consumers know enough to stay away from Aspartame. When will the health authorities wake up to the facts? They can't really say that they have not been told!

And as we're asking questions - why are the authorities so "fast asleep" by all appearances?

Could it be a question of MONEY? Or are they just plain STUPID?

Warning! NutraSweet is a Neurotoxin

In May 1992, the official U.S. Air Force Magazine, Flying Safety explained: "In pregnancy the effects of aspartame can be passed directly to the fetus, even in very small doses. People have suffered 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." Aspartame is sold by Monsanto Chemical Co. as NutraSweet and EQUAL, and now under other names by other producers.

Pilots have experienced grand mal seizures in the cockpits of commercial airline flights and have lost their medical certification to fly, and three have died this year from aspartame. FDA has received more than 10,000 consumer complaints on NutraPoison, that's 80% of all complaints about food additives.

Still FDA remains comatose and has done nothing to alert the public, who assume that since it's so highly advertised, it must be as safe as mother's milk. The FDA consistently approves killer drugs as OMNI Magazine reported:

"51% of FDA approved drugs have serious risks and could cause adverse reactions that lead to severe or permanent disability of death" [MAY '94] The CDC, Johns Hopkins University and the New Jersey School of Medicine estimates that 80-120,000 Americans die from prescription drugs each year.

This atrocity has everything to do with money and nothing to do with public health. Monsanto reaps at least a billion annually from its Aspartame toxic bonanza. This can and does buy a lot of bureaucrats! Does FDA mean FATAL DRUGS ALLOWED? FDA works for industry, not citizens.

Ronald Reagan's FDA head, Arthur Hayes overruled his own board of inquiry to approve NutraSweet, then hired on with their public relations firm. Federal attorney Sam Skinner was assigned to prosecute the G. D. Searle Co. For the fraudulent tests they used get this poison approved, but Sam switched sides and went to work for Searle's lawyers and the case died when the feds let the statute of limitations run out. [Monsanto acquired Searle, original producer of NutraSweet]

If you are using aspartame and have headaches, depression, slurred speech loss of memory, fibromylagia, loss of sensation or shooting pains in the lower legs, loss of equilibrium, vertigo, anxiety attacks, chronic

fatigue, vision loss, floaters, retinal detachment, seizures or heart palpitations you may have ASPARTAME DISEASE! Many physicians diagnose as multiple sclerosis what is simply methanol poisoning from aspartame, mimicking MS. Get off this killer drug now! MS is not a death sentence

but methanol poisoning is! CARDIAC ALERT: aspartame triggers abnormal heart action, can lead to complete heart failure, sudden death!

An honest FDA toxicologist, the late Dr. Adrian Gross wrote to Senator Howard 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 represented a farce and a mockery." Aspartame is a molecule composed of three components: aspartic acid, phenylalanine and methanol.

Once ingested, the methanol (wood alcohol that has killed or blinded thousands of skid row drunks) converts to formaldehyde, then formic acid [ant sting poison]. Formaldehyde is deadly embalming fluid, a Class A Carcinogen.

Phenylanine and aspartic acid are toxic when unaccompanied by the other amino acids in proteins. Aspartic acid caused brain lesions in experimental animals.

The FDA report listed 92 documented symptoms, including:

NutraSweet is found in thousands of foods and on every restaurant table for the same reasons tobacco is everywhere: Greed, Addiction and Profit. If you take other medicine consider possible reactions aspartame may cause.

One Pivotal Study submitted for aspartame approval was a 52-week oral toxicity infant monkey study (SC18862). "All animals in the medium and high dosage groups exhibited seizures. The seizures were of the Grand Mal type. One monkey, M38, died after 30 days."

The report makes this conclusion: "The convulsions in the monkeys are correlated with and can be attributed to high serum phenylalanine levels." This research proved aspartame triggers seizures in monkeys. The seizures stopped when it was discontinued. They took the "no aspartame test" and got well. Don't let your family be their next monkeys!

Some Diseases Triggered by Aspartame:

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology surveyed 80 people who had brain seizures after consuming aspartame. Said the Community Nutrition Institute:

"These 80 cases meet the FDA's definition of an imminent hazard to the public health, which requires the FDA to expeditiously remove a product from the market." America is seeing a tremendous increase in seizures. Phenylalanine in Aspartame lowers the seizure threshold in the brain and blocks seratonin production.

Our nation is swept by and epidemic of violence, which researchers attribute, in part, to low brain seratonin levels, including depression, rage and paranoia. NutraSweet isn't food: just a sweet chemical poison. The Romans sweetened their wine with lead; recall what it did for Nero!

MISCARRIAGES and INFERTILITY: Fetal tissue cannot tolerate methanol or phenylalanine! Dr. James Bowen calls NutraSweet "instant birth control". So sorrowful women sipping diet sodas throng fertility clinics. How sad! Emory University Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics, Dr. Louis Elsas, testified before Congress in 1987:

"Aspartame is a well known neurotoxin and teratogen (causes birth defects). In some as yet undefined dose, aspartame will irreversibly in the developing child or fetal brain produce adverse effects.

The Placenta Concentrates Phenylalanine And This Causes Mental Retardation

In tests on animals, aspartame produced brain and mammary tumors. So breast cancer is exponentiating! According to the National Soft Drink Association [NSDA], at 86 degrees F, aspartame breakdown gets into high gear.

Truckloads of diet soda sat in the Arabian sun during Operation Desert Storm, So for months thousands of healthy American men and women drank formaldehyde cocktails. They came home with Gulf War Syndrome!

The NSDA, representing 95% of the soft drink companies in the U.S. drafted protest, printed in the Congressional Record of May 7, 1985, describing aspartame's instability. After a few weeks in a hot climate, most of the aspartame in a soda can, will be broken down.

[Into formaldehyde, methanol, formic acid diketopiperazine, aspartylphenylalanine, beta aspartame, tyrosine, L-Dopa, dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine, phenylethylalanine, phenypyruvate, phenylactic acid, etc.]

NSDA wanted aspartame outlawed from soda pop! It didn't happen. The cash registers began to jingle, so they forgot their objections. It also slipped their mind to tell us aspartame makes you crave carbohydrates, due to seratonin depletion, so you gain weight!

The formaldehyde stores in fat cells, particularly on the hips and thighs. Since NutraSweet hit the market, obesity has become epidemic! If you want to be fat, Diet Coke is where it's at! Later you can have diabetes, blindness, chronic fatigue, MS depression and death.

The American Diabetic Association gets megabucks from NutraSweet, so they ignored a 1987 abstract by diabetic specialist Dr. H. J. Roberts which summarized 58 diabetic aspartame reactors. He says "I now advise ALL patients with diabetes and hypoglycemia to avoid aspartame." NutraSweet pays off the American Dietetic Association also. These world class Jell-O makers actually admit that Monsanto writes their material.

Neurosurgeon, Russell Blalock states in his book, Excitotoxins, the taste that kills, [800-643-2665] "What really concerns me about aspartame is its association with brain tumors as well as pancreatic, uterine and ovarian tumors and that so many develop Alzheimer's-like syndrome."

What Can You Do? Tell Everybody!

Mission Possible's only objective is to save lives and health by eliminating aspartame. This flyer has been translated into more than a dozen languages and has reached millions of readers. PLEASE MAKE COPIES for your friends, school, workplace, lawmakers, merchants and physicians.

Spread The Warning!

Permission is granted to copy this for your friends, school, work place, lawmakers, merchants and physicians! Give a copy to ANYONE who might benefit from the knowledge!

For further information on aspartame

Diet Drink Anyone?

by Nancy Markle
June 14, 2001

I have spent several days lecturing at the World Environment Conference on Aspartame marketed as NutraSweet, Equal and Spoonful. In the keynote address by the EPA, they announced that there was an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus, and they did not understand what toxin was causing this to be rampant across the United States. I explained that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.

When the temperature of Aspartame exceeds 86 degrees F; the wood alcohol in Aspartame converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. (Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants). The methanol toxicity mimics multiple sclerosis thus peoples were being diagnosed with having multiple sclerosis in error.

The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where methanol toxicity is. In the case of systemic lupus, we are finding it has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers.

Also, with methanol toxicity, the victims usually drink three to four 12 oz. cans of them per day, some even more. In the case of systemic lupus, which is triggered by Aspartame, the victim usually does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit.

The victim continues its use aggravating the lupus to such a degree, that sometimes it becomes life threatening. When we get people off the Aspartame, those with systemic lupus usually become symptomatic. Unfortunately, we cannot reverse this disease.

On the other hand, in the case of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, (when in reality, the disease is methanol toxicity), most of the symptoms disappear. We have seen cases where their vision has returned and even their hearing has returned. This also applies to cases of tinnitus.

During a lecture, I said, and quote, "If you are using Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc.) and you suffer from Fibromyalgia symptoms; spasms, shooting pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision or memory loss, you probably have Aspartame disease." People were jumping up during the lecture saying, "I've got this. Is it reversible?" It is rampant.

Some of the speakers at my lecture even were suffering from these symptoms. In one lecture attended by the Ambassador of Uganda, he told us that their sugar industry is adding Aspartame. He continued by saying that one of the industry leader's sons could no longer walk - due in part by product usage. We have a very serious problem.

Even a stranger came up to Dr. Espisto (one of my speakers) and myself and said, "Could you tell me why so many people seem to be coming down with M.S.?" During a visit to a hospice, a nurse said that six of her friends who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with M.S. This is beyond coincidence.

Here is the problem. There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included in 100 different products. Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, but to no avail. Nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets.

Now there are over 5,000 products containing this chemical, and the patent has expired. At the time of this first hearing, people were going blind. The methanol in the Aspartame converts to formaldehyde in the retina of the eye. Formaldehyde is grouped in the same class of drugs as cyanide and arsenic - DEADLY POISONS!

Unfortunately, it just takes longer to quietly kill, but it is killing people and causing all kinds of neurological problems. Aspartame changes the brain's chemistry. It is the reason for severe seizures. This drug changes the dopamine level in the brain. Imagine what this drug does to patients suffering from Parkinson's Disease.

This drug also causes Birth Defects. There is absolutely no reason to take this product. It is NOT A DIET PRODUCT. The Congressional record said, "It makes you crave carbohydrates and will make you FAT." Dr. Roberts stated that when he got patients off Aspartame, their average weight loss was 19 pounds per person.

The formaldehyde stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Aspartame is especially deadly for diabetics. All physicians know what wood alcohol will do to a diabetic. We find that physicians believe that they have patients with retinopathy, when, in fact, it is caused by the Aspartame.

The Aspartame keeps the blood sugar level out of control, causing many patients to go into a coma. Unfortunately, many have died. People were telling us at the Conference of the American college of Physicians, that they had relatives that switched from saccharin to an Aspartame product and how that relative had eventually gone into a coma.

Their physicians could not get the blood sugar levels under control. Thus, the patients suffered acute memory loss and eventually coma and death. Memory loss is due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylanine are neurotoxic without the other amino acids found in protein. Thus it goes past the brain barrier and deteriorates the neurons of the brain.

Dr. Russell Blaylock, neurosurgeon, said, "The ingredients stimulate the neurons of the brain to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees."

Dr. Blaylock has written a book entitled, "EXVIROTOXINS : The Taste That Kills" (Health Press 800-643-2665). Dr. H.J. Roberts, diabetic specialist and world expert on Aspartame Poisoning has also written a book entitled, "Defense against Alzheimer's Disease" (800-814-9800). Dr. Roberts tells how Aspartame Poisoning is escalating Alzheimer's Disease and indeed it is. As the hospice nurse told me, women are being admitted at 30 years of age with Alzheimer's Disease.

Dr. Blaylock and Dr. Roberts will be writing a position paper with some case histories and will post it on the Internet. According to the Conference of the American College of Physicians, "We are talking about a plague of neurological diseases caused by this deadly poison." Dr. Roberts realized what was happening when Aspartame was first marketed.

He said, "his diabetic patients presented memory loss, confusion, and severe vision loss." At the Conference of American College of Physicians, doctors admitted that they did not know. They had wondered why seizures were rampant (the phenylaline in Aspartame breaks down the seizures threshold and depletes serotonin, which causes manic depression, panic attacks, rage and violence).

Is there a possible antidote for this poison because they are experiencing so many problems in their country. This "poison" is now available in 90 plus countries worldwide.

Fortunately, we had speakers and ambassadors at the Conference from different nations who have pledged their help. We ask you to help too. Copy this article and warn everyone you know. Take anything that contains Aspartame back to the store. Send us your case history.

I assure you that Monsanto, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is. They fund the American Diabetes Association, American Dietetic Association, Congress and the Conference of the American College of Physicians.

The New York Times, on November 15, 1996, ran an article on how the American Dietetic Association takes money from the food industry to endorse their products. Therefore, they cannot criticize any additives or tell about their link to Monsanto.

How bad is this? We told a mother who had a child on NutraSweet to get off the product. The child was having Grand Mal Seizures every day. The mother called her physician, who called the ADA, who told the doctor not to take the child off the NutraSweet. We are still trying to convince the mother that the Aspartame is causing the seizures.

Every time we get someone off of Aspartame, the seizures stop. If the baby dies, you know whose fault it is and what we are up against. There are 92 documented symptoms of Aspartame from coma to death.

The majority of them are neurological because the Aspartame destroys the nervous system. Aspartame Disease is partially the cause to what is behind some of the mystery of the Desert Storm health problems.

The burning tongue and other problems discussed in over 60 cases can be directly related to the consumption of Aspartame product and several thousand pallets of diet drinks were shipped to the Desert Storm troops. Diet drinks sat in the 120 degree F Arabian sun for weeks at a time on pallets.

The service men and women drank them all day long. All of their symptoms are identical to Aspartame Poisoning. Dr. Roberts says that consuming Aspartame at the time of conception can cause birth defects.

The phenylanine concentrates in the placenta, causing mental retardation, according to Dr. Louis Elsas, Pediatrician Professor - genetics at Emory University in his testimony before Congress. In the original lab tests, animals developed brain tumors (phenylaline breaks down into DXP, a brain tumor agent).

When Dr. Espisto was lecturing on Aspartame, one physician in the audience, a neurosurgeon said, "When they remove brain tumors, they have found high levels of Aspartame in them".

Stevia, a sweet food, NOT AN ADDITIVE, that helps in the metabolism of sugar, which would be ideal for diabetics, has now been approved as a dietary supplement by the FDA. For years, the FDA has outlawed this sweet food because of their loyalty to Monsanto.

If A Label Says Sugar Free, Do Not Even Think About Consuming It

Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote a bill that would have warned all infants, pregnant mothers and children of the dangers of Aspartame. The bill would have also instituted independent studies on the problems existing in the population (seizures, changes in brain chemistry, changes in neurological and behavioral symptoms).

The bill was killed by the powerful drug and chemical lobbies, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting public. Since the Conference of American College of Physicians, we hope to have the help of some world leaders.

Again, please help us too. There are a lot of people out there who must be warned. Please let them know this information. You might want to print it out to hand out or fax it to people who are not online.

Thank You
Kristine M. DeRobertis
kristine@floraquest.com