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Too Profitable to Cure Brent Hoadley, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Action to take: You, and especially your children, must avoid nutrasweet, aspartame, and any other artificial sweeteners for the dangerous toxins they are. Check the label on everything you buy. If the label boasts that the product is "sugar free," they're probably riding the low-carbohydrate, high-animal protein wave. In itself, that is a good thing, but the bad news is most of these products contain nutrasweet or Splenda (which is guilty by its association in the fake-sugar family) — either of which is even worse than the sugar it replaces. And that's saying something.

Before long, nutrasweet was everywhere, from soda to salad dressing. All thanks to a no-good, know-nothing businessman-turned-politician that we've STILL got making big decisions for this country. With that sordid history of Rummy the Magnificent in your memory bank, let's look at what nutrasweet has done to America's health. 92 reasons to avoid aspartame According to Dr.

You see, Rumsfeld is not only the current point man for the disaster in Iraq, but he was also the point man who brought to your table the most toxic substance ever added to food — aspartame (commonly known as nutrasweet). Now that NutraSweet's cousin, Splenda, is taking over the packaged food industry in all those new low-carb products, it's time to take a look back at how these mutants made their way into our lives in the first place. For years, Searle, the company that manufactures aspartame, tried in vain to get it approved. No one wanted to go near the stuff.

Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

The nutrasweet Company. "Customers and Partners." http://www.nutrasweet.com/custpart/index.asp. Pescatore, Fred. The Hamptons Diet. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. PMC Specialties Group, Inc., website, http://www.pmcsg.com/. PR Newswire. "Five Lawsuits Filed Against Splenda; Johnson & Johnson Under Fire Concerning False Advertising and Misleading Consumers about Splenda." Press release from the Truth about Splenda campaign, January 27, 2005. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT= 109&STORY=/www/story/01-27-2005/0002908706&EDATE. -.

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Searching for the cause of her illness, Hull discovered that the chemical sweetener aspartame found in nutrasweet was to blame. The Hundred Year Lie: How Food and Medicine Are Destroying Our Health www.hundredyearlie.com Randall Fitzgerald ISBN: 0525949518 Publishers Weekly Review: "A provocative and frightening look at the synthetic chemicals used by the processed foods, pharmaceutical and chemical industries delivers an excellent, up-to-date summary of what is really in our food, water, vitamins, prescription drugs, childhood vaccines, cosmetics, and in our homes.

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General Foods is a major customer of nutrasweet. Searle's public relation firm immediately hires Hayes as its senior scientific consultant; Hayes makes a windfall profit on this transition. It certainly appears all too closely connected. Fall 1983. The FDA approves nutrasweet for carbonated soft drinks and other liquids that are sold to consumers.

The FDA, under public pressure, establishes a Public Board of Inquiry to rule on the safely issues surrounding nutrasweet and aspartame. September 30, 1980. This Public Board of Inquiry concludes nutrasweet and aspartame should not be approved pending further investigation on brain tumors in animals. The Board states it "has not been presented with proof of reasonable certainty that aspartame is safe for use as a food additive and for human consumption." January 1981.

Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Gordon, Gregory. "NutraSweet: Questions Swirl." UPI Investigative Report. October 12, 1987. Greene, Bob. Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover. New York: Simon 8c Schuster, 2005. Gross, Adrian. Aspartame Safety Act of 1985 Hearing. Congressional Record (1985): S10834-81040. Heller, Rachel F., and Richard F. Heller. Carbohydrate Addicted Kids. New York: HarperCollins, 1997. Henkel, John. "Sugar Substitutes: Americans Opt for Sweetness and Lite." FDA Consumer, November/December 1999. http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1999/699_sugar.html. Hill, James O., and John C. Peters. The Step Diet Book.

Aspartame (Nutrasweet) - Is It Safe? H.J. Roberts, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Senator Howard Metzenbaum (1988) (Hearing on "NutraSweet"— Health and Safety Concerns") The APPARENT MAGNITUDE OF adverse reactions to aspartame products, and related public health problems, have been discussed in prior sections. This chapter summarizes certain shortcomings pertaining to research, labeling, "disinformation," and the acceptable daily intake (ADI) of such products. It also will review professional, legislative and bureaucratic obstacles encountered by physicians, patients and consumer advocates. These problems are not new . . . only magnified.

Too Profitable to Cure Brent Hoadley, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Now that NutraSweet's cousin, Splenda, is taking over the packaged food industry in all those new low-carb products, it's time to take a look back at how these mutants made their way into our lives in the first place. For years, Searle, the company that manufactures aspartame, tried in vain to get it approved. No one wanted to go near the stuff. The FDA refused to approve it for 16 years. In fact, according to the report I read, Dr.

Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

That's certainly your decision, but bear in mind that, although manufacturers insist their artificially sweetened products are safe and extensively tested, health concerns have been raised about most nonnutritive sweeteners on the market today, including sucralose (Splenda), aspartame (Equal, nutrasweet), saccharin (Sweet'n Low, Sugar Twin, Sucaryl, Weight Watchers), and acesulfame potassium (Sunette, Sweet One).

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In fact, the only additives allowed are nutrasweet or Splenda to substitute for whole sugar. And you'll have to stay away from carbs altogether. I don't think it essential to have a workbook with a list of the carbohydrate counts in each food. A simpler way to avoid high-carb foods is to remember which general categories you should avoid completely. Stop consuming anything with alcohol in it (wine, beer, or liquor) and stop eating starchy foods like rice, potatoes, corn, bread, or cake.

Aspartame, the chemical with the brand name nutrasweet that is found in many candies and sodas, is non-nutritional and is not absorbed into your body. But the bacteria in your gut will attempt to treat aspartame the same way they treat lactose, and the sudden introduction of large amounts of the artificial sweetener into your system will produce huge amounts of methane gas. You'll begin to experience a bout of severe crampy pain, gas, and horrible diarrhea. Fortunately, it will go away.

Interview with Dr. Russell Blaylock on devastating health effects of MSG, aspartame and excitotoxins Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Once they published their results, the full weight of these companies come down on their head. nutrasweet will contribute millions to a university and threaten to pull their donations if someone isn't quieted. Mike: So there's blatant scientific censorship at work here. Dr. Blaylock: There's blatant, and then there's just understood. You have nutrasweet manufacturers donating several million dollars to your university. The director of that laboratory, or the president of the university, will just quietly let them know that they'd really like to see research come to a stop.

Aspartame (Nutrasweet) - Is It Safe? H.J. Roberts, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Searle & Company and The nutrasweet Company— over 3,000 complaints (most relayed to the FDA). • The Community Nutrition Institute—over 2,500 complaints. • Dr. W. C. Monte (Food Sciences Department, Arizona State University)—over 1,000 complaints. • Dr. R.J. Wurtman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)— more than 100 persons with seizures attributed to aspartame, and "well over 1,000" letters and "related communications" (Congressional Record-Senate May 7, 1985). • Aspartame Victims and Their Friends—more than 900 complaints.

He informed a Senate hearing of his neurologist's reply to the suggestion that aspartame might be contributory: "Wouldn't it be a shame if all that is wrong with you is nutrasweet?" (Taylor 1988). • A 59-year-old man had his first convulsion while consuming up to eight glasses of aspartame soft drinks and three packets of an aspartame tabletop sweetener daily. He then predictably suffered convulsions after taking aspartame in various unrecognized forms.

The Myth of "The Most Thoroughly Tested Additive in History" Finally, we should learn a lesson from the nutrasweet experience. If a food additive has potential neurological or behavioral effects, it should undergo human clinical testing, similar to the process a drug must undergo before it is put on the market. . . the food and beverage industry, and their various institutes, exert tremendous influence over scientific research and investigation. I want to make sure such work is genuinely independent.

The "double blind" challenge test (placebo & aspartame capsule) is provided to physicians and test results are evaluated by the nutrasweet Co. itself. So far, they have never admitted to having anyone who submitted to testing in this manner turn out to have a special sensitivity to aspartame. Yet, in the general population, thousands have quit using it—their problems go away—(and) on rechallenge, the symptoms return. This includes accidental/unknown rechallenge . . . "3. Pilots & Aspartame.

NutraSweet may cause brain tumors and certainly suggests the need for additional in-depth research to rule out that possibility . . . "I seriously doubt whether this method of data analysis would stand the scrutiny of competent disinterested statisticians. Even more seriously I wonder why FDA allows microscopic slides to disappear (while supposedly impounded) and why they do not question the de novo emergence of a brain tumor among the controls when the slides reappear. "The PBOI panel member who was primarily responsible for reviewing the brain tumor issue was Peter Lampert, M.D.

Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

For example, sucralose (Splenda) contains man-made, chemically produced chlorine, which is carcinogenic, and aspartame (Equal or nutrasweet) converts to formaldehyde, an embalming fluid used to preserve the dead," explains Dr. Hull, author of Sweet Poison, which chronicles her near-death experience from a hyperthyroid condition she believes was brought on by "aspartame poisoning." And Dr. Walter Willett also believes that the best choice for sweetening foods is "none of the above. People are not suffering from aspartame or Splenda deficiency. They're suffering from too much sugar.

Too Profitable to Cure Brent Hoadley, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

In itself, that is a good thing, but the bad news is most of these products contain nutrasweet or Splenda (which is guilty by its association in the fake-sugar family) — either of which is even worse than the sugar it replaces. And that's saying something. References: "Donald Rumsfeld and Aspartame," News With Views (), 5/9/04 Roberts, H.J. Aspartame Disease — An Ignored Epidemic. West Palm Beach (FL): Sunshine Sentinel Press, 2001. The FDA and the USDA are culpable drug agents when you consider they approved the additives for our processed food products.

With that sordid history of Rummy the Magnificent in your memory bank, let's look at what nutrasweet has done to America's health. 92 reasons to avoid aspartame According to Dr. Betty Martini, founder of Mission Possible International, an organization of medical professionals working to remove aspartame from foods, drinks, and medicines, aspartame has brought more complaints to the American Food and Drug Administration than any other additive and is responsible for 75 percent of such complaints to that agency.

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A child consuming a soup containing MSG plus a drink with nutrasweet will have a blood level of excitotoxins six times the blood level that destroys hypothalamus neurons in baby mice.49 ASPARTAME Aspartame, commonly thought to be a benefit to diabetics as a sweetener because it is low glycemic and low caloric, has actually been linked to the activation of diabetes. According to research conducted by Dr. H. J.

Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey See book keywords and concepts

Aspartame (Equal or nutrasweet) does not cross the placenta when consumed in usual amounts. It is useful in uncooked foods but unstable when heated. Women who have phenylketonuria (PKU) must restrict their phenylalanine intake. Because the amino acid phenylalanine is one of the metabolites of aspartame, it should be avoided by women with PKU. Maternal plasma levels of phenylalanine after ingestion of aspartame-containing foods, in normal amounts, are no higher than after the ingestion of protein-containing meals [57].

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In this merger, Searle's aspartame business became a separate Monsanto subsidiary, the nutrasweet Company.)40 The U.S. military was not sanguine about aspartame's safety. Both the U.S. Air Force magazine Flying Safety and the U.S. Navy magazine Navy Physiology warned that aspartame can cause serious brain problems in pilots.41 Around 1995 the FDA stopped gathering adverse reaction reports. If you don't want to know, don't ask. By 1996, aspartame was approved for all uses. What about all those studies finding aspartame safe? In 1996 Ralph G.

Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods Jeffrey M. Smith See book keywords and concepts

Special alert on aspartame, a genetically engineered sweetener The sweetener aspartame, (also known as nutrasweet, Equal, Spoonful, Canderel, Benevia, and E951) is genetically engineered.2 The amino acids are grown using GM E. coli bacteria. Although numerous studies and thousands of consumer complaints have linked this controversial sweetener to serious illnesses, it is unclear if the genetic engineering contributes to the problems. Aspartame is a molecule composed of three sub-units.

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Also, as previously mentioned, avoid added sugar and artificial sweeteners, especially aspartame, sold as nutrasweet, which is a neurotoxic substance that has been associated with numerous health problems including dizziness, visual impairment, severe muscle aches, numbing of extremities, high blood pressure, retinal hemorrhaging, seizures, and depression. Sugars to eliminate include table sugar, honey, molasses, maple syrup, and other concentrated sweeteners. A moderate amount of the herb stevia may be used as a sweetener when needed. All sodas, diet and regular, should be strictly avoided.

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It's usually proudly proclaimed right on the label as "Nutrasweet." To truly understand the story of aspartame, however, you have to look behind the label and examine the history of this sweet-tasting chemical. Aspartame was accidentally discovered in 1969 by James Schlatter, a biochemist trying to find a cure for stomach ulcers. He just happened to lick his thumb, the story goes, and was impressed by the sweetness of the chemical.

Interview with Dr. Russell Blaylock on devastating health effects of MSG, aspartame and excitotoxins Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Mike: Have you taken a lot of heat from nutrasweet or any of these other companies? I mean, have you been threatened with lawsuits or anything for going public with this information? Dr. Blaylock: No, they leave me alone. I know too much. They've never bothered me. When I wrote the book, George Schwartz warned me, "Are you sure you want to write this book? If you do, they're just going to hound you to death." I said, "Yes, I want to write the book." So, I wrote it with one thing in mind: that they would not be able to refute it.

Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements Phyllis A. Balch, CNC See book keywords and concepts

Other additives, like monosodium gluta-mate (MSG) and aspartame, are used without warnings per se, but packages of food that contain them are now marked in the United States with sometimes cryptic statements, such as "PHENYLKETONURICS: CONTAINS PHENYLALANINE," which appears on packets of Equal, nutrasweet, and other products containing aspartame. These products may cause problems for some sensitive people. The long-term effects of most sugar-substitute additives, including sucralose, are unknown.

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