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March 18, 2008 at 11:56:59

Hawaii AspartameTask Force Resolution by Rep. Green, M.D.; Former FDA Investigator Art Evangelista Details Neurotoxicity

by Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible, and Dr. Art Evangelista (Posted by Stephen Fox) Page 3 of 3 page(s)

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The aspartic acid, in aspartame, is a known excitotoxin which easily crosses the blood-brain barrier, and is chemically similar to MSG. An excitotoxin, is a deleterious substance that excites or over stimulates nerve cells to death. (L.E.Rosenberg, McGraw-Hill 1991)

Aspartame creates altered brain function, nerve damage, and systemic organ complications. Information collected by independent research, reveals that aspartame clinically exacerbates any borderline (even yet undetected) predisposing illness, and absolutely complicates certain known medical illnesses like Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s, diabetes, retinopathies, allergies, and mentation and behavior disorders, et al.

The research data uncovered aspartame’s connection regarding nerve cell mitochondria damage, and aspartame-induced brain cell hypoglycemia. Changes in peripheral circulation and nerve transmission occur. Altered systemic metabolites occur, including and the conversion of phenylalanine metabolites into destructive chemical toxins like diketopiperazine, a known carcinogen.

Tests reveal a correlation between diketopiperazine and astrocytoma (type of aggressive brain tumor). Aspartame is unique in this hazardous respect. Aspartame is not an allergen, but rather, a true toxin.

On the political side and economic perspective, I can only say that politics was the underlying cause of this depraved indifference toward human life, and is exhibited by the FDA-corporate corruption, which had brought aspartame to our tables.

No political or profit based motive should ever replace common sense and the responsibility of preserving the public health…EVER. Although, there is no question as to aspartame's lethality and instigation of morbidity, ANY question of food safety should ALWAYS be ruled in favor of public health, until disinterested, third party investigations can be initiated.

From this, it would be apparent, and can be documented, that companies that abstain from using aspartame, have not suffered any financial setbacks. On the contrary: it would be both reassuring, if a company would actually produce healthy and health supporting foods to the general public. The publicity of excellent quality controls, acknowledgment of healthful foods, based on scientific and available bio-physiological evidence, would be absolutely welcomed by the consuming public. This would be especially true, if corporate or federal interference did not place the profit motive before a human being’s health needs. I believe the public requires a governmental body to support the public’s best interests and not that of corporate profit motives.

The issues of toxic food additives and their resulting destructive health effects are long term and seriously incapacitating, as earmarked by the number of disease states from the collective insults of foods, air, and water issues, all driven by profit, and distinctly indifferent to common sense health implications. Make no mistake…to rule against aspartame, is to rule in favor of public conviction and good, sound public health principles.

Sincerely,

Arthur M. Evangelist, PhD

Public Health & Medical Fraud Research Cooperative

P.O. Box 474, Barnardsville, NC 28709 828-658-4174

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SpiritBlooms lives in Southern California. She's a former technical writer and currently an aspiring fiction writer and poet.
SpiritBloomsSpiritBlooms lives in Southern California. She's a former technical writer and currently an aspiring fiction writer and poet.

I'm glad to hear that

someone in the science/medical community is attempting to do something about aspartame.

I've avoided aspartame as much as I could since the 80s. I remember reading about concerns regarding it back then, and not wanting to consume something that caused brain lesions in rats, turned to formaldehyde in my system, and wasn't allowed in baby food.

I knew first and second hand of several people who had brain cancer, about a decade ago, and since I thought that seemed to become more widespread in those days, on a hunch I started asking if they drank diet soda. The answer always seemed to be yes. Of course nearly everyone drinks diet soda, and it wasn't a scientific study, but it was some validation for me that I was right to avoid it.

Now I wonder if anyone in the medical/scientific community has concerns regarding sucralose? I avoid it since having a bout of severe headaches and diarrhea the first time I tried it -- by accident in a nutritional supplement for arthritis, before I knew what sucralose was. I couldn't associate my symptoms with anything else in my diet. It wasn't a bug or food poisoning, and it went away about a day after I finally cut out the sucralose, which was the only unfamiliar ingredient I'd used.

Unfortunately, sucralose is even more difficult to avoid than aspartame ever was, and I find that I have to read labels very carefully, even with foods that you wouldn't think a sweetener would be added to.

I like sweets, but I'd rather cut back on sweets and stick to cane sugar or honey when I eat sweets than risk using chemicals that are even more toxic and have no food value. I've noticed that the less sweets I eat, the sweeter fruit tastes on its own. A little chocolate now and then with sugar, and I'm satisfied. Cereal doesn't need all the sugar the food companies put on it, either. Whole grains taste great on their own. It would be nice if children could learn to appreciate that again.

It's good that stevia is being looked at as a dietary sweetener. Even though I don't care for it, at least it's more natural than the artificial stuff. But I think most of all people need to realize how food manufacturers have addicted us to sweets, most of us as children in breakfast cereals. I also suspect that high fructose corn syrup is problematic, used in many jellies and syrups instead of cane sugar, and I wonder how much genetic modification of corn affects the healthfulness of corn syrup -- if it was ever healthy to begin with.

If we just cut back on sweet tastes for a while, enjoy a little now and then, and eat as close to nature as possible -- as I was taught in health class in junior high, back in the 70s -- we're much better off than depending on the latest greatest chemical.

But it floors me to know that what I learned in the 70s was more reliable than what we're told by the government in 2008!

Why do I have to read labels so carefully if the FDA is doing its job? Why do we have the agency at all if we have to still be so very careful and untrusting about our food?

I'm very upset that the FDA, an agency I was raised to trust, has let us down so completely and allowed our foods to be poisoned by corporations for profit. The greed that corporations exercise in business these days is criminal, and I think in some cases tantamount to murder.

I avoid the newest drugs too. I only want a drug that will save my life or my quality of life without side effects worse than the benefit, and has been properly and honestly tested and disclosed. I'm very leery of drug companies since I learned that they spend 2/3 of their expenses on advertising, and since they seem to be inventing diseases to go with new drugs instead of the other way around, and telling us to tell our doctors what to prescribe. That's just absurd, and reminiscent of the days of patent medicine shows.

by SpiritBlooms (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 55 comments) on Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 3:42:53 PM

In 1980, Stephen Fox founded New Millennium Fine Art, a Santa Fe gallery specializing in Native American and Landscape, and is very active in New Mexico Legislative consumer protection politics, trying above to get the FDA to rescind its approval for the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener, Aspartame. [http://www.prlog.org/10070694]

In a strictly legislative context, his most important writing has been for the Hawaii Senate: http://www.prlog.org/10056715-hawaii-senate ...

to see more of bio, click on member name
Stephen FoxIn 1980, Stephen Fox founded New Millennium Fine Art, a Santa Fe gallery specializing in Native American and Landscape, and is very active in New Mexico Legislative consumer protection politics, trying above to get the FDA to rescind its approval for the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener, Aspartame. [http://www.prlog.org/10070694]

In a strictly legislative context, his most important writing has been for the Hawaii Senate: http://www.prlog.org/10056715-hawaii-senate ...

to see more of bio, click on member name

reply to comment on this article, by Stephen Fox

Dear Spiritblooms:

Thanks for your lengthy and thoughtful comment. I ask you to take the time to shift this into a letter to legislators and then send it to many in the Hawaii legislature. Please get in touch with me at: stephen@santafefineart.com

Thanks again. Here is some news from Hawaii:

http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?e24a00b2-64d3-47dc-9ea1-0ee921b0d7be

by Stephen Fox (79 articles, 2 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 437 comments) on Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 9:32:59 PM