Coming as I do from a big sugar-producing area (Far North Queensland), I always read carefully the little sachets that one gets with one’s coffee in coffee lounges. I make sure that I am putting real sugar in my coffee and not some substitute junk. So I should be in sympathy with the campaign against aspartame, right? Wrong! As far as I can see, the campaign is founded on little more than the usual self-glorifying belief that if something is popular it must be bad.
There is a list here of 13 recent anti-aspartame studies and, unless I have missed something, there is not one study of the type that would be decisive: A double-blind study in humans. There are plenty of in vitro (“test tube”) and in vivo (rats and mice) studies but that’s about it.
And even some of the studies listed there admit that some of the potentially bad byproducts of aspartame metabolism can be broken down rapidly by other food components or metabolites. So showing that rats on a rat diet cannot handle aspartame well tells us nothing about humans. What is needed are studies of humans on a human diet as it seems probable that the human metabolism CAN safely break down aspartame. One has to look at the bottom line, not intermediate processes in isolation.
Since a double blind study in humans should not pose any great difficulty, I think it is the absence of such a study which is most telling.
The attention-seeking studies have however had an effect. There are now various bans on aspartame, particularly in Europe and the UK. Seeing how crazy such places also are about “obesity”, it is strange indeed that something which could help combat obesity is restricted on such flimsy grounds. It reinforces the impression that the attack on obesity is insincere too. It adds to the evidence that the anti-obesity campaign is really an expression of middle-class contempt for the working class, who are indeed fatter on the whole: Good old class-prejudice again. The more things change ….
The amusing thing is that all the food and health rhetoric goes right over the heads of most working class people. They very wisely just don’t listen. They just eat what they like and damn the consequences. I do too. But my father was, after all, a lumberjack. Heh!
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WHAT EXPERTS SAY ABOUT ASPARTAME and ABBY CORMACK
“Tragically, Abby’s experience with aspartame is far from unique. In1985 I first encountered a clinical situation in which aspartame clearly triggered a manic episode in one of my patients. initially made an incorrect diagnosis of bipolar disorder and actually started a treatment regimen of lithium carbonate. The overall picture however was not totally consistent with bipolar illness, especially as a grand mal seizure accompanied the “manic”episode. Some detective work as to what was different in my patient’s life resulted in the conclusion that the only significant change was the sudden introduction of a large amount of Crystal Lite (aspartame) into her diet. The total elimination of all aspartame >resulted in fairly rapid resolution of her symptoms. The lithium was discontinued and she has remained symptom, and aspartame, free. I believe it is essential for all physicians to include a dietary history when assessing patients. Whenever aspartame is found to be included in the diet, I would encourage all health care professionals to educate their patients about the hazards and encourage complete abstinence from this artificial sweetener. In my own practice, I have found that many patients improve substantially with just this simple change. In particular, patients with underlying mood disorders appear to be particularly sensitive to the adverse consequences of this extremely hazardous substance.”
Dr RG Walton MD, Medical Director, Safe Harbor Behavioral Health, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Adjunct Professor Of Psychiatry, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine.
“Aspartame/NutraSweet cripples the lives of thousands of people. When I tried to persuade the president of the Searle Drug company, manufactures of that chemical sweetener, to do the tests that would find any dangers it posed before it was marketed he blew me off. His name was Donald Rumsfeld (Iraq war architect). In exchanges about aspartame safety with him and his company I learned how little he values human life.”
Attorney James Turner, Atty, who with Dr. John Olney tried to prevent approval of aspartame.
Meet Don Rumsfeld: http://www.soungandfury.tv/Paes/Rumsfeld.html
“I have reviewed the recent experience of Abby Cormack while chewing four (4) packs of aspartame gum daily, based on her “medical timeline 2007” — coupled with the details of her testing and doctoring by interested and competent professionals, and the dramatic improvement of her psychological and most other symptoms following the avoidance of aspartame products.
Her problem appears to be largely due to aspartame disease, as I have detailed in many publications. I have reported severe depression, anxiety, insomnia, cramps, speech disturbance, confusion, blurred vision, eruptions, and neuropathic symptoms in numerous aspartame reactors consuming both gum and other products containing this chemical. Fortunately, her mother suspected the cause which had escaped the attention of several doctors. I have admired the great emphasis by persons in New Zealand and its government on avoiding exposure to a variety of toxic substances. The serious documented affliction of this young woman due to consuming aspartame is probably replicated by many other consumers in the country, and warrants the profound attention of its regulatory agencies.”
Dr. H. J. Roberts, M.D., FACP, FCCP Named The Best Doctor in the USA by a national publication, author of 1,000 page medical text – Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic:
“Curiosity about the safety of Aspartame need go no further than the indisputable fact that each molecule of the sweetener turns into a molecule of Formaldehyde when metabolized in the human body. Enough said!”
Dr. Woodrow Monte Ph.D. ,University of Arizona, professor of Food Science, early investigator of aspartame, now residing in New Zealand.
Aspartame and Cancer
DR. MORANDO SOFFRITTI, lead researcher on two groundbreaking long-term aspartame studies.He was recently honored at New Yorks Mt Sinai School of Medicine with the Irving J Selikoff Award for his outstanding contributions to the identification of environmental and industrial carcinogens and his promotion of independent scientific research Reviewing his two impeccable aspartame studies Dr. Soffritti explains: The first ERF study (2005) was conducted on 1800 Sprague-Dawley rats (100-150/per sex/per group) In order to simulate daily human intake, aspartame was added to the standard rat diet in quantities of 5000, 2500, 100, 500, 20, 4, and 0 mg/Kg of body weight. Treatment of the animals began at 8 weeks of age and continued until spontaneous death. The results show that APM causes a statistically significant, dose-related increase of lymphomas/leukemias and malignant tumors of the renal pelvis in females and malignant tumors of peripheral nerves in males. These results demonstrate for the first time that APM is a carcinogenic agent, capable of inducing malignancies at various dose levels, including those lower than the current acceptable daily intake (ADI) for humans (50 mg/kg of body weight in the US, 40 mg/kg of body weight in the EU).
The second ERF study (2007) was conducted on 400 Sprague-Dawley rats (70-95/per sex/per group). In order to simulate daily human intake, aspartame was added to the standard rat diet in quantities of 100, 20, and 0 mg/Kg of body weight. Treatment of the animals began on the 12th day of fetal life until natural death. The results of the second study show an increased incidence of lymphomas/leukemias in female rats with respect to the first study. Moreover, the study shows that when lifespan exposure to APM begins during fetal life, the age at which lymphomas/leukemias develop in females is anticipated. For the first time, a statistically significant increase in mammary cancers in females was also observed in the second study. The results of this transplacental carcinogenicity bioassay not only confirm, but also reinforce the first experimental demonstration of APMs multipotential carcinogenicity.
Russell Blaylock, M.D. Neurosurgeon: Author: Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills. http://www.russellblaylockmd.com Lecture: The Truth About Aspartame http://www.atavistik.com
Ramazzini Case Studies
Commenting on the Ramazzini studies, above, Dr Blaylock states: “My review of the first Ramazzini Study concluded that the study was one of the best designed, comprehensive and conclusive studies done to date on the multipotential carcinogenic danger of aspartame. This second study is even more conclusive, in that it shows a dose-dependent statistically significant increase in lymphomas/leukemia in both male and female rats exposed to aspartame. These two cancers are the fastest growing cancers in people under age 30. Also, of major concern is their finding of statistically significant increases in breast cancer in animals exposed to aspartame. With newer studies clearly indicating that toxic exposures during fetal development can dramatically increase the cancer risk of the offspring, this study takes on a very important meaning to all pregnant women consuming aspartame products. Likewise, small children are at considerable risk of the later development of these highly fatal cancers. It should be appreciated that the doses used in these study fall within the range of doses seen in everyday users of aspartame. This study, along with the first study, should convince any reasonable scientific mind, as well as the public, that this product should be removed from the market.
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I steer wide and far from any substance containing aspartame. If you’re looking for a reason that cancer has exploded throughout the western world you need look no further than aspartame. Certainly accounts for a sizable portion of the rise in cancers and fNHL in particular. If you want to survive this disease stop all intake of aspartame and you, like I can look forward to a long and productive life.
Don’t take my word for it. Do your own research.
“What is needed are studies of humans on a human diet as it seems probable that the human metabolism CAN safely break down aspartame.”
*Seems* being the operative word. You’re talking shit.
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