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Stephen Fox
I have focused recent years on creating through our Legislature a Nutrition Council with real powers to challenge FDA approved products, the most dangerous of which is the artificial sweetener, aspartame. Aspartame is found in 7000 food products, including Equal, sugarless gums, all of the Diet Sodas, and numerous children's medications. So what is the problem? If it is FDA approved, it must be OK, right?
Aspartame is metabolized as methanol, formaldehyde, aspartic acid, and phenylalanine, and these ingredients have increased ghastly neurodegenerative illnesses since approval was forced in 1981 by Donald Rumsfeld as CEO of G.D. Searle, the patent holder, in one of the darkest and dirtiest chapters of the history of failures at the FDA. He forced the appointment of a crony, Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, as FDA Commissioner, in exchange for agreeing to approve aspartame, despite 16 years of the FDA saying no, based on the obvious and rudimentary toxic biochemistry of its metabolized components.
[Google "Rumsfeld's Bioweapon Legacy to read more, as well as Googleable articles by H.J. Roberts (Internist), Russell Blaylock (Neurosurgeon) and Betty Martini, Founder of Mission Possible International. My own best article is "Resolving the Worsening Crisis at the FDA"]. Readers should watch the free online posting of SWEET MISERY, a documentary by a victim of aspartame poisoning at Sound and Fury Productions.tv.
New Mexico State Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino introduced bills to ban aspartame but they were shot down by corporate lobbying, to the tune of several million dollars just to eviscerate some true consumer protection initiatives. New Mexico legislators drinking their diet sodas capitulated when corporate theories of federal pre-emption were advanced by lobbyists, along with pointed reminders about how much they and Coca Cola or Pepsi contributed to their campaigns.
Our efforts have shifted now to Hawaii, where activists have succeeded in getting bills to ban aspartame introduced, House Bill 2680 and Senate Bill 2506. The sponsors are strong two Senate Committee Chairs, Kalani English and Suzanne Chun-Oakland, and the Speaker of the House, Calvin Say, by request of Rep. Mele Carroll.
The first salvos for true consumer protection were recently fired on KHON-2, a conservative station and Fox Affiliate in which a predictable "dealarmist" Medical school professor absurdly said "a little bit won't hurt you." However, any sentient being knows that a whole lot of little bits of poison are cumulative and end up killing you, whether through cancer, heart disease, Multiple Sclerosis, etc.
The New Mexico bills were eviscerated by lobbyists representing Ajinomoto of Japan, the world's largest manufacturer of both aspartame and MSG, as well as their duped American corporate henchmen/partners-in-poisoning who use massive amounts of Aspartame, like Coca Cola, Pepsi, and Altria/Kraft Corporate Services. Even more will show up in Honolulu, probably to include Wrigley's Gum, all of whose products contain aspartame, even more dangerous since gum releases poisons absorbed under the tongue, which go directly to the brain.
We attempt this in Hawaii to protect the health of Hawaiians; the legislators recognize the merits and take it seriously. Perhaps seeing a few more victims of aspartame poisoning might wake up Hawaiians to the urgency of these bills.
I am happy to answer questions; you are welcome to print my email address.
Stephen Fox, Managing Editor of Santa Fe Sun News
Founder of New Millennium Fine Art in Santa Fe, NM:
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website: unitednationsundersecretarygeneralfornutrition.org
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In a short time, I didn't feel right. For a couple days, I felt "off-kilter". I had a humming in my ears. It turns out I had consumed "Crystal Light," which has artificial sweetener.
I was skeptical when I heard artificial sweeteners were bad for people. Why would "they" put it in our food and drink, and in those cute packets for our coffee?
What I found out is shocking. These days, a person is hard-pressed to find gum, many beverages, and a gamut of consumables without it in the ingredient list. It's even in prescription medications like quit-smoking aids.
Remember saccharin? Is that still in use? The little pink packets had warning labels on them that caused cancer in lab rats. Hmmm, I think I'll pass on that. None for me, thank you very much.
I have found reliable sources to back the claim that Splenda (sucralose...sucker lose?) and aspartame are detrimental.
From Vision II: The Never-ending Rough Draft of Cures by Brian Severson (1995, '96, '97)...
Aspartame, you would not believe the problems and destruction it causes in your body- everything from brain damage to blindness, to congestion to sinus problems, hearing loss, allergies, and "dry eyes." Aspartame should be immediately and forever banned. It is a chemical poison and when ingested causes seizures, depression, memory loss, headaches, tumors, birth defects, infertility, etc.
The soft drink companies knew aspartame degrades into toxic components and protested Congress in 1983. Five pages of their objections were printed in the Senate Congressional Record on May 7, 1985. "Objections of the National Soft Drink Association to a final rule permitting the use of aspartame in carbonated beverages. Objection one: Searle has not demonstrated that aspartame and its degradation products are safe for use in soft drinks...aspartame is inherently, markedly, and uniquely unstable."
I'm telling you that even if a package is not marked "light" or "diet," it could still be in there.
There are many testimonials from people who have suffered health challenges (behavior problems, anxiety, crying bouts, certain dysfunctions, rashes, etc.). They cut out artificial sweeteners and were relieved of their symptoms.
Just do a search for "dangers of aspartame" or "sucralose testimonials." to read more.
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