1. Wow, I never knew that Cancer-causing Aspartame under scrutiny once again. That's pretty interesting...

Posted at 8:31AM on Feb 5th 2009 by Generic Viagra

2. Michael Herndon of the FDA keeps saying "At this time, FDA finds no reason to alter its previous conclusion that aspartame is safe as a general purpose sweetener in food." WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM?????

Dr. Soffritti’s new study suggests a danger to unborn babies and especially to children, including the newly identified risk of breast cancer as the child ages. He also believes that aspartame causes leukemia, lymphoma, and pelvis and kidney tumors. He said that his study should be a WAKE UP CALL to the FDA to seriously reconsider the use of aspartame. Dr. Soffritti expressed horror at the fact that aspartame is in approximately 500 drugs.

Over the years, many bright, courageous American physicians have warned of many other unwanted side effects of aspartame. Sadly, the Food and Drug Administration continues to support the safety of aspartame because our government watchdog is industry’s lapdog. The FDA totally ignores the toxicity, carcinogenicity and neurodegenerative disabilities caused by aspartame. Many other groups, including the American Council on Science and Health and the Calorie Control Council are nothing but industry supporters. They have absolutely no conscience! Remember that the modern Golden Rule is: He who hath the gold makes the rules!

Aspartame causes problems other than cancer. In fact, the FDA admits to reports of 92 symptoms from aspartame.

More than 20 years ago, when my daughter was in her early 20's and studying for a Master's Degree, she noticed that she was experiencing bizarre symptoms that were quite alarming.

This truly bright girl, whose college tuition was entirely funded by scholarships and who won a Telluride Association Scholarship in competition with more than one million students from the entire US, realized that she was becoming very confused. In addition to her intellectual deterioration and drastic personality change, she developed epileptic-type seizures, and she began to lose her vision in both eyes.

She also began having severe headaches, panic attacks, tremors, profound exhaustion, insomnia, suicidal thoughts and numerous other problems including joint pains.

My daughter consulted a neurologist, and he told her that she had temporal lobe epilepsy. He began treating her with medication, but the medication didn't work, because the doctor was wrong in his diagnosis and he was treating her for a condition she didn't have! What she really had was ASPARTAME -- POISONING/TOXICITY!

I had heard about Dr. H. J. Roberts (Florida), so I contacted him and he
confirmed what I suspected - that she was suffering from a reaction to the artificial sweetener in diet soda, even though she drank only 1 or 2 cans a day. My daughter owes her life to Dr. Roberts, because thanks to him, she stopped drinking diet soda, and gradually, every one of her problems disappeared. Today, she is a successful computer programmer and financial analyst. Dr. Roberts is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Science and Technology, Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, and The Best Doctors in the U.S.

To follow up, my daughter went to Boston for special studies on her brain, and the doctors at the Clinical Research Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology confirmed that it was the aspartame that had made her so sick. They said that she had been totally misdiagnosed by the neurologist and that she did not have temporal lobe epilepsy at all. She also saw a highly-respected ophthalmologist who explained why her vision loss was due to aspartame.

She was fine for 12 years. Then, she began drinking diet soda again and had the same severe reaction. Luckily, I realized what was happening to her and was able to convince her to stop using aspartame. Why did she start again? It's addictive! (Aspartame has three components: phenylalanine (50 percent), aspartic acid (40 percent) and methanol, also termed wood alcohol (10 percent). Think about the 10 percent of aspartame that is absorbed into the bloodstream as methanol (wood alcohol)! The Environmental Protection Agency defines safe consumption as no more than 7.8 milligrams per day of this dangerous substance. A one-liter beverage, sweetened with aspartame, contains about 56 milligrams of wood alcohol, or eight times the EPA limit!)

By approving aspartame, the FDA caused many problems for many innocent people.

Aspartame is marketed under names such as NutraSweet, Equal, Equal Measure, Spoonful, Naturataste, Canderal, Benevia, E951, Nutrataste, Joe Sweet, Indulge, Hermesetas Gold (both ace-k and aspartame), Sanecta, and Tri-Sweet. (Crystal-Lite is a beverage mix that contains aspartame.)

My daughter's experience was a terrible waste of time and money -- from something as avoidable as diet soda. And, why did it take so long to help her? Because most physicians and their patients are clueless when it comes to connecting the myriad of bizarre symptoms of aspartame poisoning with the consumption of what is supposedly a safe substance - approved by the FDA! Since the FDA says aspartame is "safe," doctors don't notice "side-effects" when they are staring them in the eye.

All this happened to my daughter 20 years ago, long before I had a computer and could check out aspartame there. I had to spend an entire year writing to doctors and scientists and congressmen to learn about aspartame. I suspected aspartame because I knew it gave me severe classic migraine headaches.

As a teacher, I am especially upset when students drink diet soda.
In addition to causing other serious health problems, aspartame can definitely have a subtle effect on cognitive functioning and can interfere with the concentration and attention skills of the students.

Most students realize that illegal drugs and smoking are bad for them, but many don’t know anything about the hazards of aspartame. With all the media attention on obesity these days, Americans will start using even more “diet” products.

Yes, obesity is a serious problem!!! However, what upsets me even more is that people turn to artificial sweeteners in an attempt to lose weight or prevent weight gain.

Several important studies have shown that aspartame contributes to weight gain!!! People who lose weight while consuming aspartame are losing only because they have the determination to make proper food choices and to exercise.



Government statistics indicated that more than 2.2 million American teenagers experience major depression. The use of antidepressants is skyrocketing. Not always, but very often symptoms of depression are caused by aspartame. Aspartame greatly lowers the Serotonin Level, and, decreased brain serotonin has been associated with depression, anxiety, panic attacks, suicidal attempts, hostility and psychopathic states, as well as hallucinations and insomnia.


A group demanding an FDA recall of aspartame has contacted influential people in Washington from the President on down. Thousands and thousands of victims of aspartame wish to have this artificial sweetener banned from the market. All they ever get from the FDA are packages of information claiming that aspartame is “safe” and that the victims are “mistaken” or “over-reacting.” I, personally, have seen what aspartame can do to members of my family and friends. I am not “mistaken” or “over-reacting.” Some people react quickly to aspartame consumption and others don't realize they have a problem for years. Other people recognize problems, but they have no idea that aspartame is the cause.

All Aspartame victims have busy lives. They wouldn’t take their own valuable time to fight to have Aspartame banned from our food supply if they didn’t think it was crucial to the health of the American people and to others all over the world.


I would like to quote an Aspartame victim from Great Britain. I recently saw a letter she wrote in which she described herself as a 29-year-old research scientist at the University of Cambridge. She said, “I use hundreds of different chemicals and have been doing so for years without harmful consequences, and yet I was ignorantly poisoning myself every day drinking diet Coke from the drinks machine down the corridor.” When she realized that Aspartame was making her sick, she stopped using it. She also said, “My brain cells are functioning again, and I feel like working and enjoying life again, instead of just going through the motions on Auto Pilot waiting for 7 pm and the end of the day to finish.”

The FDA’s approval of NutraSweet was very murky in the first place. I think that’s why the FDA ignores the issue now. In addition, I suspect the manufacturer had enough money and influence to convince everyone of the safety of aspartame.

For many years, the FDA refused to approve Aspartame because of the documented seizures and brain tumors it caused in laboratory animals. When President Reagan (a friend of Searle) took office in 1981, he asked the FDA Commissioner to approve it, and the man refused. So, President Reagan fired the FDA Commissioner and appointed Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes to do the deed. There was great opposition, so a Board of Inquiry was set up. The Board said not to approve Aspartame. Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes overruled his own Board of Inquiry and approved Aspartame in dry foods. (Don Rumsfield was President of Searle then.) In 1983, with acting FDA Commissioner Mark Novitch, he approved Aspartame for carbonated beverages, in spite of a thirty-page protest from the National Soft Drink Association asking for a delay of approval until further evaluation verified its safety. Then, when he was under investigation for conflicts of interest, Dr. Hayes went to work for Burson Marstellar, the manufacturer’s public relations firm, for $1,000 a day. In 1993, the FDA approved Aspartame in baked goods, even though they themselves admitted it couldn’t be heated!

There are numerous documents that show that the late Dr. Adrian Gross, an FDA toxicologist, and many, many other physicians and scientists, tried to prevent Aspartame from ever being approved. For example, Dr. Gross said, “We have uncovered serious deficiencies in Searle’s operation and practices which undermined the basis for reliance on Searle’s integrity. . . Searle has not submitted all the facts or experiments to the FDA, retaining unto itself the un-permitted option of filtering, interpreting, and not submitting information . . an attitude of disregard for the FDA’s mission of protection of the public health . . conduct which compromises the scientific integrity of the studies.” He also indicated that Searle “did other terrible things. For instance, animals would develop tumors while they were under study. Well, they would remove these tumors from the animals.”

Dr. Gross also said, “The report of the Task Force submitted in March 1976 in essence constituted a stinging indictment of Searle, and it contained various recommendations for regulatory action including referral to the Justice Department for review of possible criminal violations of the law.”


On January 10, 1977, in a thirty-three page letter, FDA Chief Counsel Richard Merrill recommended to U. S. Attorney Sam Skinner that a grand jury investigate Searle for “apparent violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, Title 21, Unites States Code Section 331, and the False Reports to Government Act, 18 U.S.C. 1001, for their willful and knowing failure to make reports to the Food and Drug Administration required by Act 21 U.S.C. 355, and for concealing material facts and making false statements in reports of animal studies conducted to establish the safety of Aspartame.” It was an open and shut case, so Searle’s lawyers hired the U.S. Prosecutors, Skinner and Conlon, and the case died when the statute of limitations ran out.

In 1985, Senator Howard Metzenbaum introduced a bill entitled “Aspartame Safety Act of 1985.” It required quantity labeling of Aspartame on food items and mandated that there be a moratorium on new uses of Aspartame until independent tests could be conducted under the auspices of the National Institute of Health, since the original studies were the target of an indictment for fraud that was never carried out. Due to heavy Monsanto lobbying, the bill never got out of committee. (Monsanto bought Searle in 1985.)

“Retired” Senator Metzenbaum recently mentioned that he told Dr. David Kessler that the case on Aspartame should be reopened because it never should have been approved. A physician told the FDA that the only responsible action would be to immediately take Aspartame off the market, fully disclose its toxicities, offer full compensation to the injured public, and criminally prosecute anyone who participated in the fraudulent placement of Aspartame in the marketplace as well as those who worked so diligently to keep it on the market.

Did Dr. Kessler listen to anyone? No! Without public notification, he approved Aspartame in blanket form in June 1996. He protected the manufacturer by ignoring the FDA register of complaints and its published list of 92 reactions to Aspartame ranging from coma and blindness to seizures and death. In fact, I understand that the FDA has constantly tried to ignore complaints about Aspartame or has at times even refused to accept new ones and by their own admission, has thrown out old ones. After all, the FDA had to show a decrease in complaints in 1996 in order to grant blanket approval. Dr. Kessler said in a JAMA article that only 1% of serious problems are even reported to the FDA. If that’s the case, why wasn’t he interested in finding out about the other 99% of serious problems before giving blanket approval to Aspartame? The FDA admits to receiving more than 10,000 complaints about aspartame. In the case of aspartame, then, that would balloon the real number to over one million. And, I would like to add that organizations of Aspartame victims are constantly flooded with complaints, even if the FDA isn’t!

Apparently, Aspartame did violate the Delaney clause’s “zero-tolerance” law. The late FDA toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, told Congress that it violated the Delaney Amendment because it triggered brain tumors, astrocytomas , (the first stage of the deadly glioblastoma now said to be rampant in the population ), and his last words were, “and if the FDA violates its own laws, who is left to protect the public?” His words are in the Congressional Record.

On December 29, 1996, when 60 Minutes aired a program about Dr. John Olney’s article in the “Journal of Neurology” questioning a link between brain tumors and Aspartame, Dr. Virginia Weldon appeared on the show to defend NutraSweet/Aspartame. On this program, James Turner, Washington-based attorney, explained that the original studies on Aspartame never proved safety and were never replicated. According to Dr. Ralph Walton on 60 Minutes, independent studies have been done and 83 out of 90 reveal problems with aspartame.

The Bressler (1977) report exposed mammary, uterine, and ovarian tumors. James Bressler, leader of the FDA Task Force, said, “The question you have got to ask yourself is: Because of the importance of this study, why wasn’t greater care taken? The study is highly questionable because of our findings. Why didn’t Searle, with their scientists, closely evaluate this, knowing full well that the whole society, from the youngest to the elderly, from the sick to the unsick . . . will have access to this product.”

What it all boils down to is that it’s too much of a hassle for anyone in Washington to care. BUT, THAT ISN’T RIGHT! What’s done should be Undone! It was the United States that put the poison on the market, and it should be the United States that stops it. Should the entire world look at us and ask why we poisoned the food in all the countries of the world?

Posted at 3:53PM on Jun 26th 2007 by Barbara Metzler

3. "bizarre FDA?'
"swept aside the growing evidence"
"health officials are making excuses once again"
"commercial interests at play here (like always)"

AND FINALLY
"with so much evidence that connects Aspartame with cancer"

Geez. That's a lot of confidence and emotion in a few short paragraphs.
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But, let's take a rational look at what others say:

"This institute has issued very flawed studies in the past," said Keith-Thomas Ayoob, an associate professor and nutritionist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

"The European Food Safety Authority, and many others, have discredited past studies by this institute, due to serious flaws," he said. "They presented this data months ago in New York but wouldn't let the study be reviewed before they made their announcement, or even after. It makes you wonder why."

"Millions of people are exposed to high doses of aspartame daily, which means we have an enormous amount of observational data in humans," he said. "If aspartame were going to cause a meaningful uptick in human cancers, we've had a natural experiment -- namely, the continuous tracking of cancer trends by CDC -- to show us that movement of the needle. To date, it has not been seen."

"If the investigators examined the incidence of many different types of tumors, one would expect one to two to be significantly increased by chance alone, i.e., random, not real," said Susan Fisher, director of the division of epidemiology in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center."

"We know that rats consistently exposed to fairly high doses of aspartame develop more leukemia and lymphoma, although these conditions are common in rats anyway," he said. "For all we know, exposing them to a high daily dose of sugar might do the same."

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/Story?id=3317079&page=3

And, of course, let us not forget who drinks diet sodas?

Why, the obese, of course. Could THAT be the cause of increased cancer risk?

hchcec

Posted at 4:04PM on Jun 26th 2007 by hchcec

4. I just read these words about alleged drinkers of diet soda, "And, of course, let us not forget who drinks diet sodas? Why, the obese, of course. Could THAT be the cause of increased cancer risk?"

Is the author suggesting that only obese people drink diet soda or that only obese people get cancer? I see myriads of thin people drinking diet soda and know of many thin people with cancer.

Wouldn’t it be more straight-forward to ask why we eat non-food items/chemical sweeteners?

Posted at 3:37PM on Jul 5th 2007 by amber Straus

5. recent research and news re aspartame and stevia: Murray 2007.07.24
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1454

"Of course, everyone chooses, as a natural priority,
to actively find, quickly share, and positively act
upon the facts about healthy and safe food, drink,
and environment."

Rich Murray, MA Room For All rmforall@comcast.net
505-501-2298 1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/messages
group with 78 members, 1,455 posts in a public,
searchable archive http://RMForAll.blogspot.com

groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1395
Aspartame Controversy, in Wikipedia democratic
encyclopedia, 72 references (including AspartameNM # 864
and 1173 by Murray, brief fair summary of much more research:
Murray 2007.01.01

aspartameNM/message/1453
Souring on fake sugar (aspartame), Jennifer Couzin,
Science 2007.07.06: 4 page letter to FDA from 12 eminent
USA toxicologists re two Ramazzini Foundation
cancer studies 2007.06.25: Murray 2007.07.18

aspartameNMmessage/1451
Artificial sweeteners (aspartame, sucralose) and coloring
agents will be banned from use in newly-born and baby foods,
the European Parliament decided: Latvia ban in schools 2006:
Murray 2007.07.12

aspartameNMmessage/1437
stevia to be approved and cyclamates limited by
Food Standards Australia New Zealand:
JMC Geuns critiques of two recent stevia studies by Nunes:
Murray 2007.05.29

aspartameNM/message/1427
more from The Independent, UK, Martin Hickman, re ASDA
(unit of Wal-Mart Stores) and Marks & Spencer ban of
aspartame, MSG, artificial chemical additives and dyes
to prevent ADHD in kids: urray 2007.05.16

aspartameNM/message/1426
ASDA (unit of Wal-Mart Stores WMT.N) and Marks & Spencer
will join Tesco and also Sainsbury to ban and limit
aspartame, MSG, artificial flavors dyes preservatives additives,
trans fats, salt "nasties" to protect kids from ADHD:
leading UK media: Murray 2007.05.15

aspartameNM/message/1438
Coca-Cola and Cargill Inc., after years of development,
with 24 patents, will soon sell rebiana (stevia)
in drinks and foods: Murray 2007.05.31

aspartameNM/message/1277
50% UK baby food is now organic - aspartame or MSG
with food dyes harm nerve cells, CV Howard 3 year study
funded by Lizzy Vann, CEO, Organix Brands,
Children's Food Advisory Service: Murray 2006.01.13

aspartameNM/message/1271
combining aspartame and quinoline yellow, or MSG and
brilliant blue, harms nerve cells, eminent
C. Vyvyan Howard et al, 2005 education.guardian.co.uk,
Felicity Lawrence: Murray 2005.12.21

aspartameNM/message/1417
formaldehyde as a potent unexamined cofactor in cancer research --
sources include methanol, dark wines and liquors,
aspartame, wood and tobacco smoke: IARC Monographs on the Evaluation
of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans implicate formaldehyde
in #88 and alcohol drinks in #96: some related abstracts:
Murray 2007.05.15

aspartameNM/message/1286
methanol products (formaldehyde and formic acid)
are main cause of alcohol hangover symptoms
[same as from similar amounts of methanol, the 11% part of aspartame]:
YS Woo et al, 2005 Dec: Murray 2006.01.20

aspartameNM/message/1143
methanol (formaldehyde, formic acid) disposition:
Bouchard M et al, full plain text, 2001: substantial sources
are degradation of fruit pectins, liquors, aspartame, smoke:
Murray 2005.04.02

aspartameNM/message/1455
FEMA slow to safety test Katrina toxic trailers,
Charles Babington, Associated Press -- 1 ppm formaldehyde in air
is about half the daily dose from 3 cans aspartame diet soda
and ten times the 1999 EPA alarm level for drinking water:
Murray 2007.07.23

aspartameNMmessage/1447
second study by expert Greek team of neurotoxicity
in infant rats by aspartame (or its parts, methanol,
phenylalanine, aspartic acid), KH Schulpis et al,
Toxicology 2007.05.18: Murray 2007.07.04

aspartameNMmessage/1444
expert Greek group finds aspartame (or its parts,
methanol, phenylalanine, aspartic acid) harm infant rat
brain enzyme activity, KH Schulpis et al,
Pharmacol. Res. 2007.05.13: Murray 2007.06.23

aspartameNM/message/1414
effect of aspartame on oncogene and suppressor gene
expressions in mice, Katalin Gambos, Istvan Ember, et al,
University of Pecs, Hungary, In Vivo 2007 Jan;
scores of their relevant past studies since 1977: Murray 2007.04.14

aspartameNM/message/1373
aspartame rat brain toxicity re cytochrome P450 enzymes,
especially CYP2E1, Vences-Mejia A, Espinosa-Aguirre JJ et al,
2006 Aug, Hum Exp Toxicol: relevant abstracts re formaldehyde
from methanol in alcohol drinks: Murray 2006.09.29

aspartameNM/message/1340
aspartame groups and books:
updated research review of 2004.07.16: Murray 2006.05.11

Dark wines and liquors, as well as aspartame,
provide similar levels of methanol,
above 120 mg daily, for long-term heavy users,
2 L daily, about 6 cans.

Within hours, methanol is inevitably largely turned into formaldehyde,
and thence largely into formic acid -- the major causes
of the dreaded symptoms of "next morning" hangover.

Fully 11% of aspartame is methanol -- 1,120 mg aspartame
in 2 L diet soda,
almost six 12-oz cans, gives 123 mg methanol (wood alcohol).
If 30% of the methanol is turned into formaldehyde,
the amount of formaldehyde, 37 mg, is 18.5 times the
USA EPA limit for daily formaldehyde in drinking water,
2.0 mg in 2 L average daily drinking water.
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Posted at 10:14PM on Jul 25th 2007 by Rich Murray

6.
After recently being diagnosed with Aspartame poisoning I sought international help from several American experts to help guide me through the detox process. With all the controversy about the safety of this toxic drug, they verified the diagnosis and medically went into detail about the symptoms I suffered. Below are the quotes and other details of studies which have confirmed the dangers of Aspartame


http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-7-23/57897.html

http://www.tv3.co.nz/VideoBrowseAll/VideoAll/tabid/303/articleID/30896/Default.aspx?articleID=30896

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/video_popup_windows_skin/1193703?bandwidth=128k

http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/HealthNews/tabid/191/ArticleID/29322/Default.aspx

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4102374a20475.html


WHAT EXPERTS SAY ABOUT ASPARTAME and ABBY CORMACK


“Tragically, Abby's experience with aspartame is far from unique. In1985 I first encountered a clinical situation in which aspartame clearly triggered a manic episode in one of my patients. initially made an incorrect diagnosis of bipolar disorder and actually started a treatment regimen of lithium carbonate. The overall picture however was not totally consistent with bipolar illness, especially as a grand mal seizure accompanied the "manic"episode. Some detective work as to what was different in my patient's life resulted in the conclusion that the only significant change was the sudden introduction of a large amount of Crystal Lite (aspartame) into her diet. The total elimination of all aspartame >resulted in fairly rapid resolution of her symptoms. The lithium was discontinued and she has remained symptom, and aspartame, free. I believe it is essential for all physicians to include a dietary history when assessing patients. Whenever aspartame is found to be included in the diet, I would encourage all health care professionals to educate their patients about the hazards and encourage complete abstinence from this artificial sweetener. In my own practice, I have found that many patients improve substantially with just this simple change. In particular, patients with underlying mood disorders appear to be particularly sensitive to the adverse consequences of this extremely hazardous substance.”
Dr RG Walton MD, Medical Director, Safe Harbor Behavioral Health, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Adjunct Professor Of Psychiatry, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine.

"Aspartame/NutraSweet cripples the lives of thousands of people. When I tried to persuade the president of the Searle Drug company, manufactures of that chemical sweetener, to do the tests that would find any dangers it posed before it was marketed he blew me off. His name was Donald Rumsfeld (Iraq war architect). In exchanges about aspartame safety with him and his company I learned how little he values human life."
Attorney James Turner, Atty, who with Dr. John Olney tried to prevent approval of aspartame.
Meet Don Rumsfeld: www.soungandfury.tv/Paes/Rumsfeld.html

“I have reviewed the recent experience of Abby Cormack while chewing four (4) packs of aspartame gum daily, based on her "medical timeline 2007" -- coupled with the details of her testing and doctoring by interested and competent professionals, and the dramatic improvement of her psychological and most other symptoms following the avoidance of aspartame products.
Her problem appears to be largely due to aspartame disease, as I have detailed in many publications. I have reported severe depression, anxiety, insomnia, cramps, speech disturbance, confusion, blurred vision, eruptions, and neuropathic symptoms in numerous aspartame reactors consuming both gum and other products containing this chemical. Fortunately, her mother suspected the cause which had escaped the attention of several doctors. I have admired the great emphasis by persons in New Zealand and its government on avoiding exposure to a variety of toxic substances. The serious documented affliction of this young woman due to consuming aspartame is probably replicated by many other consumers in the country, and warrants the profound attention of its regulatory agencies.”
Dr. H. J. Roberts, M.D., FACP, FCCP Named The Best Doctor in the USA by a national publication, author of 1,000 page medical text - Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic:


"Curiosity about the safety of Aspartame need go no further than the indisputable fact that each molecule of the sweetener turns into a molecule of Formaldehyde when metabolized in the human body. Enough said!”
Dr. Woodrow Monte Ph.D. ,University of Arizona, professor of Food Science, early investigator of aspartame, now residing in New Zealand.




Aspartame and Cancer
DR. MORANDO SOFFRITTI, lead researcher on two groundbreaking long-term aspartame studies.He was recently honored at New Yorks Mt Sinai School of Medicine with the Irving J Selikoff Award for his outstanding contributions to the identification of environmental and industrial carcinogens and his promotion of independent scientific research Reviewing his two impeccable aspartame studies Dr. Soffritti explains: The first ERF study (2005) was conducted on 1800 Sprague-Dawley rats (100-150/per sex/per group) In order to simulate daily human intake, aspartame was added to the standard rat diet in quantities of 5000, 2500, 100, 500, 20, 4, and 0 mg/Kg of body weight. Treatment of the animals began at 8 weeks of age and continued until spontaneous death. The results show that APM causes a statistically significant, dose-related increase of lymphomas/leukemias and malignant tumors of the renal pelvis in females and malignant tumors of peripheral nerves in males. These results demonstrate for the first time that APM is a carcinogenic agent, capable of inducing malignancies at various dose levels, including those lower than the current acceptable daily intake (ADI) for humans (50 mg/kg of body weight in the US, 40 mg/kg of body weight in the EU).

The second ERF study (2007) was conducted on 400 Sprague-Dawley rats (70-95/per sex/per group). In order to simulate daily human intake, aspartame was added to the standard rat diet in quantities of 100, 20, and 0 mg/Kg of body weight. Treatment of the animals began on the 12th day of fetal life until natural death. The results of the second study show an increased incidence of lymphomas/leukemias in female rats with respect to the first study. Moreover, the study shows that when lifespan exposure to APM begins during fetal life, the age at which lymphomas/leukemias develop in females is anticipated. For the first time, a statistically significant increase in mammary cancers in females was also observed in the second study. The results of this transplacental carcinogenicity bioassay not only confirm, but also reinforce the first experimental demonstration of APMs multipotential carcinogenicity.
Russell Blaylock, M.D. Neurosurgeon: Author: Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills. www.russellblaylockmd.com Lecture: The Truth About Aspartame www.atavistik.com

Ramazzini Case Studies
Commenting on the Ramazzini studies, above, Dr Blaylock states: “My review of the first Ramazzini Study concluded that the study was one of the best designed, comprehensive and conclusive studies done to date on the multipotential carcinogenic danger of aspartame. This second study is even more conclusive, in that it shows a dose-dependent statistically significant increase in lymphomas/leukemia in both male and female rats exposed to aspartame. These two cancers are the fastest growing cancers in people under age 30. Also, of major concern is their finding of statistically significant increases in breast cancer in animals exposed to aspartame. With newer studies clearly indicating that toxic exposures during fetal development can dramatically increase the cancer risk of the offspring, this study takes on a very important meaning to all pregnant women consuming aspartame products. Likewise, small children are at considerable risk of the later development of these highly fatal cancers. It should be appreciated that the doses used in these study fall within the range of doses seen in everyday users of aspartame. This study, along with the first study, should convince any reasonable scientific mind, as well as the public, that this product should be removed from the market.
www.dorway.com
www.mpwhi.com
www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
www.whno.net

Posted at 8:47PM on Jul 27th 2007 by Abby