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The truth about NutraSweet NutraSweet (aspartame or trademark name Equal) has been implicated in dozens of health complaints, including brain and nervous system toxicity. It's synthesized from two isolated amino acids, which the makers of NutraSweetä are quick to point out are "naturally occurring in foods." Unfortunately, when it breaks apart in the system, it releases the neurotoxin, formaldehyde, as a by-product. In February of 1994, The U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the listing of adverse reactions to aspartame. Aspartame accounted for over 75 percent of all adverse reactions reported to the FDA's Adverse Reaction Monitoring System, some of which included seizures and death, most of which related to neurological and psychological problems. Despite the claims of being safe for diabetics and hypoglycemics, there are some indications that this artificial additive (fake food) has some effect on insulin release.
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, fibromyalgia, loss of sensation or shooting pains in 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 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 and 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:
Numbness
Headaches
Fatigue
Vertigo
Nausea
Palpitations
Weight Gain
Dizziness
Irritability
Anxiety
Memory loss
Blurry vision
Rashes
Seizures
Blindness
Tinnitus
Joint pain
Depression
Hearing loss
Spasms
Addiction
Loss of taste
Insomnia
Weakness
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:
Brain tumors
Multiple sclerosis
Epilepsy
Fibromyalgia
Graves Disease
Chronic fatigue
Epstein Barr
Parkinson's
Alzeheimer's
Diabetes
Mental retardation
Lymphoma
Birth defects
Systemic lupus
DEATH!!
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 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."