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Below is list of some of my research on the health topic of MSG and Aspartame...both VERY bad for you and to be avoided at all costs. If you want a thorough understanding of their dangers, please read the following book:
Russell Blaylock, M.D., Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills (Albuquerque, NM: Health Press, 1996)
What Is Aspartame & MSG Made Of?
Aspartic Acid (40 percent of Aspartame)
Dr. Russell L.
Blaylock, a professor of neurosurgery at the Medical University of Mississippi,
recently published a book thoroughly detailing the damage that is caused by the
ingestion of excessive aspartic acid from aspartame. Blaylock makes use of almost
500 scientific references to show how excess free excitatory amino acids such
as aspartic acid and glutamic acid (about 99 percent of monosodium glutamate
(MSG) is glutamic acid) in our food supply are causing serious chronic
neurological disorders and a myriad of other acute symptoms.
How Aspartate (and Glutamate) Cause Damage
Aspartate and
glutamate act as neurotransmitters in the brain by facilitating the
transmission of information from neuron to neuron. Too much aspartate or
glutamate in the brain kills certain neurons by allowing the influx of too much
calcium into the cells. This influx triggers excessive amounts of free
radicals, which kill the cells. The neural cell damage that can be caused by
excessive aspartate and glutamate is why they are referred to as
"excitotoxins." They "excite" or stimulate the neural cells
to death.
Aspartic acid is an
amino acid. Taken in its free form (unbound to proteins) it significantly
raises the blood plasma level of aspartate and glutamate. The excess aspartate
and glutamate in the blood plasma shortly after ingesting aspartame or products
with free glutamic acid (glutamate precursor) leads to a high level of those
neurotransmitters in certain areas of the brain.
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If you go to Whole Foods website, they have a list of
unacceptable food ingredients:
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See page 2 of the MSG PDF
for a list of hidden sources of MSG. Hidden Sources of MSG PDF
Sun Chips, Cheetos and Doritos are
especially bad. Both Cheetos and Doritos list MSG as an ingredient.
Most of Campbell's soups contain multiple sources of MSG
Dean’s French Onion dip has 7 sources of MSG (Hydrolyzed soy, MSG,
Gelatin, Soy lecithin, brewers’ yeast, HYDROLYZED TORULA, modified food starch,
carrageenan)
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Below is an experiment done by a mother who was at one point
a scientist:
67% of Female rats consuming Aspartame had tumors
As a private citizen, I performed a 2-1/2
year study, putting aspartame in the form of packets of NutraSweet in the
drinking water of 60 rats and keeping 48 rats as controls. My female rats
received about 45 mg/kg of aspartame per body weight per day. My males
received about 34 mg/kg/day.
Females hit harder than males
The total number of rats with tumors in the
aspartame group was 27 – 20 females and 7 males. The percentage of
females-to-males was therefore 20/7 or 286%, which coincides with the
observation of H.J. Roberts, M.D, author of Aspartame Disease: An Ignored
Epidemic, that females are more affected by aspartame than males by a 3:1
ratio.
Other adverse effects
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Female rats with tumors video.
Male rats with tumors video
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List of books warning against dangers of aspartame:
- H.
J. Roberts, M.D., Aspartame (NutraSweet): Is It Safe? A Concerned
Doctor’s Views (Philadelphia, PA: The Charles Press, 1990).
- Synopsis
- This is a book on the severe
reactions to products containing aspartame. The artificial sweetner
Aspartame, marketed under the name NutraSweet, is being consumed by
nearly 100 million people in the US alone. The author is a specialist in
internal medicine who has been responsible for major research studies in
the fields of diabetes and hyperglycaemia. He became suspicious of
Aspartame when he encountered an increasing number of patients with
diverse symptoms which could not be attributable to specific medical
problems. This book presents his findings which were arrived at through
personal clinical encounters as a practising physician and through an
extensive study of people with adverse reactions to Aspartame. It
includes clear descriptions of the numerous reactions which patients and
others have suffered.
- Dr.
Miladie L. Dillard, Food Sweeteners: Aspartame and Its Adverse
Reactions, Strange Symptoms, Illness Behavior and Controversy: Index of
New Information with Authors and Subjects (1997).
- George
Andrews, Ph.D., The Aspartame Documents: What Industry and the FDA
Don’t Want You to Know, (Healthnet Press, 2002).
- James
Balch and Mark Stengler, Prescription for Natural Cures: A Self-Care
Guide for Treating Health Problems with Natural Remedies Including Diet
and Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Bodywork, and More,
(John Wiley & Sons, 2004).
- Michael
Barbee, C.D.C., Politically-Incorrect Nutrition: Finding Reality in the
Mire of Food Industry Propaganda (Ridgefield, CT: Vital Health
Publishing, 2004).
- Russell
Blaylock, M.D., Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills (Albuquerque,
NM: Health Press, 1996).
- Russell
Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life
(Albuquerque, NM: Health Press, 2002).
- Russell
Blaylock, M.D., Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients (New York,
NY: Twin Streams Kensington Publishing Corp., 2003).
- Dr.
Janet Starr Hull, Sweet Poison: How the World’s Most Popular Artificial
Sweetener Is Killing Us--My Story (Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press,
1999).
- Beatrice
Trum Hunter, Consumer Beware! Your Food and What’s Been Done to it
(New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1972),.
- Barbara
A. Mullarkey, Bittersweet Aspartame: A Diet Delusion (Health Watch
Book, 1992).
- Dr.
Joseph Mercola, Sweet Deception: Why Splenda, NutraSweet and the FDA
May Be Hazardous to Your Health, (Nashville, TN: Nelson Books, 2006).
- Dennis
W. Remington, M.D. and Barbara W. Higa, R.D., The Bitter Truth About
Artificial Sweeteners (Vitality House International, Inc., 1987).
- Byron
J. Richards (Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist), Fight for Your
Health: Exposing the FDA’s Betrayal of America (Tucson, AZ: Truth in
Wellness, LLC., 2006).
- H.
J. Roberts, M.D., Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic (West Palm
Beach, FL: Sunshine Sentinel Press, Inc., 2001).
- H.J.
Roberts, M.D., Breast Implants or Aspartame (NutraSweet) Disease?: The
Suppressed Opinion About Perceived Medicolegal Travesty, booklet
edition (West Palm Beach, FL: Sunshine Sentinel Press, Inc., 1999).
- H.
J. Roberts, M.D., Sweet 'ner Dearest: Bittersweet Vignettes About
Aspartame (NutraSweet) (West Palm Beach, FL: Sunshine Sentinel Press,
Inc., 1992).
- Carol
Simontacchi, The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry is Destroying Our
Brains and Harming Our Children (Tarcher, 1st Trade edition, 2001).
- John
Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, Trust Us, We’re Experts: How Industry
Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future (Tarcher, 2002).
- Paul
A. Stitt, Beating the Food Giants (WI: Natural Press, 1982).
- Mary
Nash Stoddard, Deadly Deception: Story of Aspartame, Shocking expose of
the world’s most controversial sweetener (Dallas, TX: Odenwald Press,
1998).
- James
S. Turner, The Chemical Feast: Ralph Nader’s Study Group Report on the
Food and Drug Administration (New York, NY: Grossman Publishers,
1970).
- Jacqueline
Van de Kamp, Adverse effects of aspartame: January 1986 through
December 1990: 167 citations (Washington, DC: Superintendent of
Documents, U.S. G.P.O., 1991).
- R.J.
Wurtman, Dietary Phenylalanine & Brain Function: Proceedings of the
First International Meetings (Boston, MA: Birkhauser, 1988). Note:
Mary Nash Stoddard is co-founder of the Aspartame Consumer Safety Network
and the Pilot’s Hotline. The latter was established as a support network
after it was found that pilots have blacked out after consuming aspartame.
Because of that, some have lost their pilot’s licenses.
Aspartame
lawsuits allege major corporations are poisoning the public
SACRAMENTO,
Calif. --
Lawsuits were filed in three separate California courts against twelve
companies who either produce or use the artificial sweetener aspartame as a
sugar substitute in their products. The suits were filed in Shasta, Sonoma and
Butte County, California April 5, 2004 by the National Justice League,
plaintiffs.
The suits allege
that the food companies committed fraud and breach of warranty by marketing
aspartame-containing products to the public such as Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi,
sugar free gum, Flintstone's vitamins, yogurt and children's aspirin with the
full knowledge that the artificial sweetener is a neurotoxic drug.
Aspartame is a
drug masquerading as an additive. It interacts with other drugs, has a
synergistic and additive effect with MSG, and is a chemical hyper-sensitization
agent.
As far back as
1970, Dr. John Olney founded the field of neuroscience called “excitotoxicity”
when he conducted studies on aspartic acid, which comprises 40 percent of
aspartame, and found it caused lesions in the brains of mice. He made world
news on the aspartame/brain tumor connection in l996.
Dr. Ralph
Walton, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Northeastern
Ohio Universities College of Medicine has written of the behavioral and
psychiatric problems triggered by aspartame-caused depletion of serotonin.
Aspartame causes
headache, memory loss, seizures, vision loss, coma and cancer. It worsens or
mimics the symptoms of such diseases and conditions as fibromyalgia, MS, lupus,
ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue and depression.
Aspartame
liberates free methyl alcohol. The resulting chronic methanol poisoning affects
the dopamine system of the brain causing addiction. Methanol, or wood alcohol,
constitutes one-third of the aspartame molecule and is classified as a severe
metabolic poison and narcotic.
Recent news is
full of reports of world-class athletes and other healthy consumers of
aspartame suddenly dropping dead. Sudden death can occur from aspartame use
because it damages the cardiac conduction system.
Dr. Woodrow
Monte in the peer reviewed journal, Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Health,
wrote: “When diet sodas and soft drinks, sweetened with aspartame, are used to
replace fluid loss during exercise and physical exertion in hot climates, the
intake of methanol can exceed 250 mg/day or 32 times the Environmental
Protection Agency's recommended limit of consumption for this cumulative poison.”
The effects of
aspartame are documented by the FDA's own data. In 1995 the agency was forced,
under the Freedom Of Information Act, to release a list of ninety-two aspartame
symptoms reported by thousands of victims. This is only the tip of the iceberg.
H. J. Roberts, MD, published the medical text “Aspartame Disease: An Ignored
Epidemic” -- 1,000 pages of symptoms and diseases triggered by this neurotoxin
including the sordid history of its approval.
Since its
discovery in 1965, controversy has raged over the health risks associated with
the sugar substitute. From laboratory testing of the chemical on rats,
researchers have discovered that the drug induces brain tumors. On Sept 30,
l980 the Board of Inquiry of the FDA concurred and denied the petition for
approval. In l981, the newly appointed FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull Hayes,
ignored the negative ruling and approved aspartame for dry goods. As recorded
in the Congressional Record of 1985, then CEO of Searle Laboratories Donald
Rumsfeld said that he would call in his markers to get aspartame approved.
Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and a day after taking
office appointed Hayes. No FDA Commissioner in the previous sixteen years had
allowed Aspartame on the market.
In 1983,
aspartame was approved for use in carbonated beverages. Today it is found in
over 5000 foods, drinks and medicines.
Neurosurgeon
Russell Blaylock, MD, author of “Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills” wrote
about the relationship between aspartame and macular degeneration, diabetic
blindness and glaucoma (all known to result from excitotoxin accumulation in
the retina).
All of these
neurodegenerative diseases are worsened by aspartame. In addition, we now have
evidence that excitotoxins play a major role in exacerbation of multiple
sclerosis and other demyelinating disorders including trigeminal neuraliga.
Blaylock says that new studies show excitotoxins trigger significant elevation
of free radicals in the lining (endothelial cells) of arteries, which means
that aspartame will increase the incidence of heart attacks and strokes
(atherosclerosis).
In original
studies, aspartame has triggered brain, mammary, uterine, ovarian, testicular,
thyroid and pancreatic tumors.
Defendants in
the lawsuits include Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Bayer Corp., the Dannon Company,
William Wrigley Jr. Company, ConAgra Foods, Wyeth, Inc., The NutraSweet
Company, and Altria Corp. (parent company of Kraft Foods and Philip Morris).
Plaintiffs have
asked for an injunction to stop companies from producing, manufacturing,
processing, selling or using aspartame.
Plaintiffs in
all three cases are seeking a jury trial.
The National
Justice League is seeking individuals who have been adversely affected by
consuming products containing aspartame. To arrange an interview, please
Roberta Bellon at 208-246-1171
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Banning Aspartame - A
Common Sense Precaution
By Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino
New Mexico
When many of my constituents hear that I
plan to introduce a bill to ban the artificial sweetener aspartame in the
upcoming legislative session, I get a lot of very strange looks. Or worse.
The American Diabetes Foundation, for
example, considers aspartame almost sacramental for persons with the disease
they battle, one that makes consumption of sugar very dangerous. To hear their
lobbyists tell it, aspartame is the modern scientific equivalent of Lourdes
water for diabetics: "If you take away my soft drinks with aspartame, what
am I supposed to drink, then, huh? " (On each occasion that sentiment is
expressed to me, I have to bite my tongue not to gently, but sarcastically,
suggest cold water, unsugared ice tea or skim milk all perfectly drinkable alternatives,
but not acceptable solutions for carbonation-crazed Coke or Pepsi devotees.)
Aspartame is currently used in over 6,000
processed foods in this country, practically everything that passes itself off
as a "lite" or "nonfat" food or drink. Banning it, I am
scolded, will create a massive economic depression, leading to factory
closures, layoffs of thousands of workers, bank failures and rioting in the
streets. Even the Coca-Cola corporation, which looks at a casual glance like a
fairly prosperous company even an incredibly profitable one, I would think will
be, I am assured, destroyed by such a ban a very heavy burden to lay on my
shoulders.
Meanwhile, dozens of corporate lobbyists
(the world's second-oldest profession) are praying that I introduce the measure
again, as it would occasion a windfall profit of extravagant expenditures for
their services when every soda pop manufacturer in the country rushes to hire
clever mouthpieces to protect their interests from our attack. It is a
veritable full-employment-for-lobbyists initiative.
To be candid, the chances of our efforts
succeeding in the face of the phalanx of three-piece suits and slick leather
briefcases that will be arrayed against our tiny cadre of concerned health
advocates is extremely slim. Still, it is absolutely worth doing, I am
convinced, if it furthers the awareness-expanding process and builds on the
excellent work that is being done by the aspartame whistle-blowers like Santa
Feans Stephen Fox and Dr. Kenneth Stoller, and the remarkable Dr. Betty Martini
from Atlanta whose tireless advocacy is slowly turning the tide of public
opinion against this absolutely worthless and extremely dangerous substance. It
is even worth risking the destruction of the Coca- Cola empire, apparently much
more fragile than any of us ever imagined.
For those wishing to become more familiar
with the aspartame menace, a good starting point would be the two hour-long
documentary films (available as DVDs) produced by Cori Brackett: Sweet Misery
and Sweet Remedy, available through Sound and Fury Productions at www.soundandfury.tv. What you see in
these two films is a frightening case study of how corporate greed can
completely overwhelm the supposed protections of our governmental watchdogs,
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Environmental Protection Agency,
and the state and federal departments of Health.
It is worth taking a moment here to review
the history of how a true poison like this might be passed on to us as
"food" over the protests of the scientists who tried to say
"No!" but who were, and who continue to be, subverted by corporate
money spent to influence politicians. And it may be instructional to consider
as well how this same process of erosion in public protections could actually
be going on with ever-growing sophistication and success in many other public
health areas of concern, such as mad cow disease and E. coli outbreaks at
meatpacking plants.
Coca-Cola has changed 180 degrees from its
position on aspartame in 1980. At that time it testified in opposition to
aspartame 's approval at FDA hearings looking into the safety of it. Now they
help finance its defense. Of course, the FDA itself has flipped. Its initial
denial was reversed a few years later in 1983, when Donald Rumsfeld (ring a
bell?) persuaded the Reagan administration that denial was not bad chemistry
but bad politics. At that time Rumsfeld headed Searle, the pharmaceutical firm
that helped develop aspartame.
When concerns over the product's safety
seemed likely to produce lawsuits, Searle sold the manufacturing rights to
Monsanto, which in turn peddled them to its current primary producer, the
Japanese chemical giant Ajinomoto. That outfit has made billions on the
production of this artificial sweetener, a significant percentage of which has
gone into shoring up the political fortunes of the company’s reputation with
American congressional figures.
Brilliantly too, the company has
consistently made the American Diabetes Foundation one of the chief
beneficiaries of its charitable giving largesse that has created vast gratitude
and easy acceptance of whatever "scientific" rationales the company
chooses to feed the diabetes advocacy community.
Many more studies of the medical effects of
aspartame consumption have been undertaken with financing from the industry
than by independent researchers. Their findings that the formaldehyde-laced
artificial sweetener is perfectly safe are, therefore, of questionable
objectivity.
Last year, however, a truly independent
assessment was published by an Italian academic researcher, Dr. Morando
Soffritti. His findings substantiate the links between aspartame and cancer,
calling it a "neurotoxin" with serious other health consequences and
concluding it has major negative impacts on those who ingest it. Soffitti 's
study has been repeatedly attacked by industry spokespeople and their paid
researchers, but its conclusions stand substantially intact. In Europe and in
India, its impact is already producing governmental action to restrict or
remove aspartame.
Efforts to act similarly in this country
have been solely at state levels so far, though the recent congressional
changes may open the door to much more active oversight by the Feds than was
possible under the previous leadership. Nevertheless, I would like to proceed
with our state initiative. It will, win or lose, further the effort to draw
attention to the serious medical dangers that aspartame represents. It would
serve as a precaution and could save lives.
New Mexico Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino
NutraPoison
By Alex Constantine
The FDA is ever mindful to refer to
aspartame, widely known as NutraSweet, as a "food additive"-never a
"drug." A "drug" on the label of a Diet Coke might
discourage the consumer. And because aspartame is classified a food additive,
adverse reactions are not reported to a federal agency, nor is continued safety
monitoring required by law.
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NutraSweet
is a non-nutritive sweetener. The brand name is misnomer. Try Non-NutraSweet.
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Food
additives seldom cause brain lesions, headaches, mood alterations, skin polyps,
blindness, brain tumors, insomnia and depression, or erode intelligence and
short-term memory. Aspartame, according to some of the most capable scientists
in the country, does. In 1991 the National Institutes of Health, a branch of
the Department of Health and Human Services, published a bibliography, *Adverse
Effects of Aspartame*, listing not less than 167 reasons to avoid it.
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Aspartame
is an rDNA derivative, a combination of two amino acids (long supplied by a
pair of Maryland biotechnology firms: Genex Corp. of Rockville and Purification
Engineering in Baltimore.)
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The
Pentagon once listed it in an inventory of prospective biochemical warfare
weapons submitted to Congress.
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But
instead of poisoning enemy populations, the "food additive" is
currently marketed as a sweetening agent in some 1200 food products.