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I am upset by the mainstream media's lack of truth about aspartame, the artificial sweetener unfortunately approved by the FDA, thanks to political pressure from Don Rumsfeld and President Reagan.
Aspartame is one product that has possibly harmed more people around the world than any other, from babies in the womb to the elderly in nursing homes.
There are brilliant physicians such as H. J. Roberts, MD, Russell Blaylock, MD, Morando Soffritti, MD, Ralph Walton, MD, and John Olney, MD that understand the dangers of aspartame and they speak out clearly. However, the mainstream media ignores them.
As a result, insurance pays for many, many, many visits to doctors by people made ill by aspartame, but most doctors are clueless about the connection with the artificial sweetener and do not treat people properly. Huge amounts of time and money are wasted as a result.
Many years ago, my own daughter consulted a neurologist, and he told her that she had temporal lobe epilepsy. He began treating her with medication, but the medication didn't work, because the doctor was wrong in his diagnosis and he was treating her for a condition she didn't have! What she really had was Aspartame Poisoning/Toxicity!
We took our daughter to MIT where she had special studies on her brain, and the doctors confirmed that it was the NutraSweet (aspartame) that made her so sick. They said that she had been totally misdiagnosed by the neurologist and that she did not have temporal lobe epilepsy at all. The doctors who saw her were in the Clinical Research Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Our daughter is an incredibly bright girl whose college tuition was entirely funded by scholarships. She even won a Telluride Association Scholarship in competition with more than one million students from the entire US. And she was two years younger than the students with whom she competed.
Her serious problems from aspartame became an eye-opening event since aspartame nearly destroyed her. Drinking only one can a day, this brilliant girl developed intellectual deterioration, a drastic personality change, epileptic-type seizures, and she began to lose her vision in both eyes.
Numerous studies for three days on her brain and vision in Boston confirmed that it was the aspartame that had made her so sick. She stopped drinking it and she finally recovered.
Aspartame gives me classic migraine headaches. And, it causes a multitude of additional problems for others who consume it.
Dr. Richard J. Wurtman, neurophysiologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was one of the first people to realize the problems from aspartame. Dr. Wurtman told Congress that as an isolate it is neurotoxic and goes directly in the brain. It lowers the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin. I even have a letter from him regarding my own daughter.
Two years ago, I drove to New York City to Mount Sinai School of Medicine to watch Philip J. Landrigan, M.D. confer the third Irving J. Selikoff Award on Morando Soffritti, MD for "his outstanding contributions to the identification of environmental and industrial carcinogens and his promotion of independent scientific research." I also attended to hear Dr. Soffritti speak on "The carcinogenicity of aspartame: the lessons we still must learn."
Dr. Soffritti thoroughly discussed a second study on aspartame conducted by the European Ramazzini Foundation (ERF) that confirms the carcinogenicity of aspartame.
I met and spoke with Dr. Soffritti, and I was also able to speak for a long time with several Americans concerned about the use of aspartame, including Dr. Philip Landrigan, a pediatrician, who heads up the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine at Mount Sinai and who directs Mount Sinai's Center for Children's Health and the Enviroment and Dr. Myron Mehlman, whose specialty is Medical Neurology & Toxicology. These men are leading the effort to identify and prevent chemical toxicity in children and adults. They are visionaries.
Dr. Soffritti's new study suggests a danger to unborn babies and especially to children, including the newly identified risk of breast cancer as the child ages. He also believes that aspartame causes leukemia, lymphoma, and pelvis and kidney tumors. He said that his study should be a WAKE UP CALL to the FDA to seriously reconsider the use of aspartame. Dr. Soffritti expressed horror at the fact that aspartame is in soft drinks, chewing gum, candy, desserts, yogurt as well as in approximately 500 pharmaceuticals, in particular, syrups and antibiotics for children.
Sadly, the Food and Drug Administration continues to support the safety of aspartame because our government watchdog is industry's lapdog. The FDA totally ignores the toxicity, carcinogenicity and neurodegenerative disabilities caused by aspartame.
