ASPARTAME - A Dangerous Sweetener?

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Aspartame is NOT a natural substance!
Aspartame is NOT a diet enhancement product!
Aspartame is NOT safe - for ANYONE!
Aspartame is NOT a food "additive"
Aspartame is an UNREGULATED and UNSAFE DRUG! (It was originally slated to be a peptic ulcer drug!)
Aspartame in liquids turns to FORMALDEHYDE above freezing!
Aspartame is even worse for DIABETICS!
Aspartame poisoning is cumulative (it adds up!)
Aspartame byproducts get stored in your FAT!
Aspartame has 92 "official" side effects (the worst is DEATH!)
Aspartame MIMICS a wide range of problems
Aspartame side effects are USUALLY MISDIAGNOSED!
Aspartame is unfit for human consumption!
Aspartame's approval by the FDA is A SHAMELESS tragedy!
Aspartame's approval for use in EVERYTHING is far worse!
Who are the culprits? FDA, Searle, Monsanto, NutraSweet and more!
The ONLY "CURE" is total exclusion from the diet!
TOTAL recovery may not be possible!
Only an irate and active PUBLIC can rid the world of this POISON!
If YOU have been affected... REPORT IT! GET INVOLVED!

Want to know more?

http://www.dorway.com/

I mention all this now, as the stuff is getting into our food chain everywhere. If a drink has the word "diet" in it, then almost certainly you'll find aspartame there. As someone diagnosed as diabetic, how impressed have I been to find that I have been making my situation WORSE for the last 12 years by switching from "full fat" cola, tonic water and the like to the "diet" equivalent. Best to cut it out entirely, I know, but some vices are easier to give up than others ...

So, imagine when, on the night of our Doctor Who finale party this year, I noticed the big bag of Walkers' Sensations that had been brought along contained ASPARTAME. The stupid nonces are now putting the damn stuff in some flavours of crisps.

And ... having not had a packet of Prawn Cocktail Walkers' Crisps for ages, I got a packet of them on a deal the other day (along with two other flavours). My favourite flavour tasted sweeter than I remember it ... and then I read the ingredients. Yes, this would be the only flavour of the three with ASPARTAME in, wouldn't it??!!??

So, I have to give them up now. Thanks, Walkers. Here's an idea for that new flavour you're currently offering 50 Grand for people to suggest - - - make sure it doesn't contain Aspartame!

The good news is that my little bit of research revealed that Smoky Bacon and Salt and Vinegar are SAFE (for now ...)!

So, be on your guard - the industry has tried all sorts to discredit the negative publicity surrounding Aspartame.

As Dave Rietz says on his www.dorway.com site: DORway.com opened Searle's "Pandora's" book of facts on aspartame during September of 1996. For over four years Monsanto (who bought Searle in 1985), their many PR and law firms, visited DORway.com many thousands of times (documented by IP addresses). The FDA, CDC and other entities visited, as well. The highly litigious Monsanto was unable to find anything to use against the site in an effort to close it down and relieve the growing pressures on its dying aspartame cash cow. Obviously, they cannot argue with the documentation (the most damning of which comes from the FDA and sworn testimony).

So, this is NOT an internet hoax, try as they might to make you believe it is. Check out the website - find out the truth for yourself!

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http://www.foodnavigator.com/Financial- ... CYig%3D%3D

Note here that there is acknowledgement that some supermarkets have removed aspartame from some 'own brand' products, thanks to the campaigning of various knowledgeable consumers. What isn't mentioned is that Asda is still in the middle of legal proceedings with another Aspartame producer to be ALLOWED NOT to have Aspartame in their own brand products! Yeah, a free market out there ...


Chinese aspartame firm makes UK move

By Jess Halliday

05-Sep-2008 - SinoSweet is stepping up its activities in the UK this month with the opening of a new sales office for aspartame, which it believes will help sales of the sweetener in the face of rival sucralose.

SinoSweet claims to be the manufacturer of more than 50 per cent of the aspartame made in China, and to “enjoy major contracts with all of the world’s largest users”.

SinoSweet UK’s managing director Richard Stead said that the Chinese firm believes it will be able to provide the UK market with a “cost-effective, full flavour, alternative to sucralose”.

The aspartame will be supplied directly from China and stocks will be held in the UK.

Stead told FoodNavigator.com supermarkets have removed aspartame from own brands. However, because the own brands market share is not huge, there has been only a small loss for aspartame and overall there has been continued growth in its use.

He added: “The changes to own brands have not necessarily been successful, the taste and so forth has not necessarily improved.”

Stead said price is also an issue as aspartame costs about £10 per kilo, while sucralose costs £100 per kilo, although about a third less sucralose can be used compared to aspartame.

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http://www.naturalnews.com/024316.html

High intake of the artificial sweetener aspartame may lead to the degeneration of brain cells and various mental disorders, according to a research review conducted by South African scientists from the University of Pretoria and the University of Limpopo and published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

"We propose that excessive aspartame ingestion might be involved in the pathogenesis of certain mental disorders, and also in compromised learning and emotional functioning," the researchers concluded.

The review of prior research found that aspartame, marketed as NutraSweet, Equal, Canderal and Tropicana Slim, leads to both direct and indirect changes in the brain when consumed in high quantities. Among these effects, the chemical can disrupt amino acid metabolism and structure, degrade nucleic acids, and interfere with the function of nerve cells and hormonal systems. It also appears to change the concentration of certain neurotransmitters in the brain.

The FDA and the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA), however, continue to insist that the sweetener is safe.

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And for those of you who find all these facts a little, er, "in your face", well we now have an anti-Aspartame song to spread virally around the internet.

It current resides at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eep3PJ--Czc

Enjoy!

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And, just in case you think you're safe with Splenda and Sucralose ...

http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/n ... l?d=150785

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Fatal Studies Should Have Blocked NutraSweet Approval

'When the G.D. Searle Co. sought FDA approval for NutraSweet they submitted doctored, fraudulent "studies," so corrupt that the Department of Justice appointed two prosecutors to Investigate Searle. Searle's lawyers hired the prosecutors and the case died with the statute of limitations.

Listen in on aspartame hearings in 1976 between Senator Ted Kennedy and FDA Commissioner Alexander Schmidt at the Senate Subcommittee on Labor and Public Health.'

http://rense.com/general88/hid.htm