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February 7, 2008 at 22:38:26 Permalink Three strong testimonial letters to support bill to ban Aspartame in Hawaii Diary Entry by Stephen Fox (about the author) |
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This bill will be heard by the full Health Committee about 9 AM in Honolulu: it is a make or break situation: these letters are from a Professor of Psychiatry in Ohio, a documentary film maker in Tucson, and a radio talkshow host from Honolulu. Let's hope the committee doesn't turn a deaf ear to such appropriate testimony! There are many many more of such testimonial letters that have been sent to the committee members.... :::::::: From Ralph Walton, M.D. Dear Chairman Dr. Green, Vice Chairman Mizuno, and members of the Hawaii House Health Committee: Aspartame is a very sneaky, cumulative toxin accompanied by a smiley face. This is very dangerous. As more knowledge comes to light, it has become your responsibility and high honor to react to this new understanding. I ask you to give your bill a do pass in your Health Committee. HESH GOLDSTEIN, MScNutr “Health Talk” Moderator K-108 Radio P.O. Box 240783 No doubt you will be lobbied by companies like Ajinomoto, Coca Cola, Pepsi and others to not ban Asparatme. You must not lose sight of the fact that their sole motivation for you to not ban Aspartame is money and profits and most definitely not the health of the people. We, the people of Hawaii, can only hope and pray that you will focus on our health and not corporate profits. Aspartame is marketed as a “diet aid”. The reality is that Aspartame causes the brain to stop producing serotonin, which results in feeling as though you haven’t had enough to eat even when you are full. 75% of ALL recorded complaints received by the FDA were concerning Aspartame. Those symptoms complained about included headache, nausea, vertigo, insomnia, loss of control of limbs, blurred vision, blindness, memory loss, slurred speech, depression, hyperactivity, gastronomical disorders, seizures, skin lesions, rashes, anxiety attacks, muscle and joint pain, numbness, mood changes, menstrual cramps out of cycle, hearing loss or ringing in the ears, and heart palpitations. Aspartame has three components: phenylalanine (50%), aspartic acid (40%), and methanol, aka wood alcohol (10%). But, their breakdowns present an even greater cause for concern. Phenylalanine decomposes into diketopiperazine (DKP), a known carcinogen when exposed to warm temperatures or prolonged storage. At 84 degrees F, the wood alcohol converts to formaldehyde. The body’s temperature is 98.6 degrees F. Talk about “Night of the Living Dead”! The FDA refused to approve Asparatme 16 straight times. It was specifically rejected in 1974 because it was shown to cause brain tumors in rats. Pages S5507 – S5511 of the Congressional Record dated May 7, 1985 showed convincing evidence that G.D. Searle and Company, the manufacturer of Aspartame which is now owned by Monsanto, manipulated its tests to get approval. If you follow the money trail you will find that Monsanto has a billion dollars in sales annually from the sale of Aspartame, the media has tens of billions of dollars invested in advertisements for over 5,000 products, the medical system makes hundreds of billions in expensive but useless tests that cannot pinpoint patients’ problems with certainty, and there is the pharmaceutical industry pushing expensive drugs that don’t work What’s interesting is that the herb stevia, which is completely safe, is a natural sweetener that does not contribute to weight gain, yet the FDA has made it illegal for stevia’s manufacturers to state that it is a sugar subsitute. Please, please put health first and not corporate profits. Aloha! Hesh Goldstein
Subject: copy of letter I sent re Hawaii ban
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:35:02 -0500
I would like to vigorously support the proposed ban on aspartame.
For the past 20 years I have written about the very significant health hazards of this artificial sweetener. I am convinced that it can lower seizure threshold, mimic or exacerbate multiple neuropsychiatric disorders, contribute to the risk for certain cancers, and paradoxically increase appetite and thus play a significant role in the worldwide epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes.
The aspartame industry will undoubtedly cite the many studies attesting to safety. It is important to recognize however that virtually all such studies were funded by the industry. Nearly all independently funded studies identify one or more problems.
Ralph G. Walton, M.D.
Former Professor and Chairman,
Department of Psychiatry
Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Medical Director,
Safe Harbor Behavioral Health
Ralph G. Walton M.D.
Safe Harbor Behavioral Health
1330 West 26th Street
Erie, PA 16508
www.safeharborbh.org
814.459.9300
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As the documentary filmmaker behind the films, Sweet Misery and Sweet
Remedy, which both delve deeply into an analysis of aspartame - its history
and chemical breakdown - I am writing to commend you for seriously
considering the health of Hawaiians by bringing forward a bill to ban
aspartame. It is a truly admirable and courageous act, in the spirit of
positive community-based change. I, myself, am an aspartame survivor and
personally can attest to the physical horrors it can inflict. In 2002, I
was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and shortly thereafter, was confined
to a wheelchair with double vision and slurred speech. As I began to
recover, I made the aforementioned aspartame documentaries, needing to alert the public at large and to spare people from my personal traumas. I also wanted to learn as much as I could during this film-making process about the truth or fiction of the dangers of aspartame. Although I did not want to believe that there was a problem with what had been my beverage of choice for twenty years, I found that in aspartame's case at least, where there was smoke, there was fire - a raging inferno, in fact.
The largest tragedy in my own life was thinking that aspartame was not only safe, but good for me. This same story has been repeated by countless aspartame survivors who have contacted me as they regain their health. Many other products have found to be toxic after entering the market place and have subsequently been banned. Look at DDT in pesticides; lead in gasoline; or even Red #1, #2 and #4 for use as food dyes.
Thank you truly for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Cori Brackett
Sound and Fury Productions
2301 East Broadway
Tucson, AZ 85719
(520) 884-4346 (Direct line)
www.sweetremedy.tv
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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 (more...)
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