Thread: Aspartame: Sweet Misery A Poisoned World

I'm about to watch this video based on the very strong recommendation of FL Patriot. He tells me that anyone watching this video while drinking a diet soda is not going to finish that soda.

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Dear Fellow WNN Members,

Please watch the video on aspartame (also called NutraSweet, Equal, and Crystal-lite) that FL Patriot has posted at this link:

http://www.whitenewsnow.com/forums/h....html#post9872

I normally would not send a message to folks on some health idea like this. But this movie, and Dr. Blaylock, is so devastating in its immediate health implications for all of us, and our families, as White patriots, that I'm being so importunate as to send out a message like this.

I actually know of stories of folks who have experienced what is talked about in this very well researched and documented movie. Their experiences are anecdotal and subjective, but Dr. Blaylock et al's research in this movie is not anecdotal.

Thanks, Jamie

When the first such product came before the FDA, it was sent to a Panel for evaluation.

When a new drug goes before an FDA Panel, the Panel will either approve or reject that new drug.

The entire FDA Panel voted to reject the first "artificial sweetener".

The FDA over ruled its own Panel, and approved it for sale.

The first "artificial sweetener" was waving a red flag right at the beginning, before the public was even exposed to it.

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This is the wiki-article on Stevia, a natural sweetener deemed "unsafe" by the FDA in favor of Aspartame. Pretty facinating how countries that don't have the FDA use natural sweeteners. As we corn syrup, places like Italy use cane sugar, where we use Aspartame, others use Stevia.

After you've watched the excellent Sweet Misery video, be sure to read the interview at the link below given by Dr. Russell Blaylock, one of the neurosurgeons you saw in the video:

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Originally Posted by Jamie Kelso

Dear Fellow WNN Members,

Please watch the video on aspartame (also called NutraSweet, Equal, and Crystal-lite) that FL Patriot has posted at this link:

http://www.whitenewsnow.com/forums/h....html#post9872

I normally would not send a message to folks on some health idea like this. But this movie, and Dr. Blaylock, is so devastating in its immediate health implications for all of us, and our families, as White patriots, that I'm being so importunate as to send out a message like this.

I actually know of stories of folks who have experienced what is talked about in this very well researched and documented movie. Their experiences are anecdotal and subjective, but Dr. Blaylock et al's research in this movie is not anecdotal.

Thanks, Jamie

This thread reminds me of Yankee Jim and of my wife's grandmother.

My Wife's grandmother lived a good clean life no cigarettes, no booze or soda. She did drink a lot of tea with sugar. She switched to NutraSweet in the early 80's, because all of the "health experts" were saying that it was healthier.

She was a healthy woman when she started putting that poison in her tea. She died in 1992 from cancer that was caused by the NutraSweet that she put in her tea. The doctors told her that it was NutraSweet that cause her to have cancer.

Originally Posted by Jamie Kelso

I'm about to watch this video based on the very strong recommendation of FL Patriot. He tells me that anyone watching this video while drinking a diet soda is not going to finish that soda.

Despite knowing the dangers of Aspartame, I've been drinking more diet pop lately. I try to drink juice and water as much as possible these days, but sometimes I jones for a deadly treat.

Originally Posted by Quinn

Stevia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the wiki-article on Stevia, a natural sweetener deemed "unsafe" by the FDA in favor of Aspartame. Pretty facinating how countries that don't have the FDA use natural sweeteners. As we corn syrup, places like Italy use cane sugar, where we use Aspartame, others use Stevia.

I use stevia and it is damn good.

Originally Posted by McKinley

This thread reminds me of Yankee Jim

Me too. The first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title was our old friend.

Top 15 chemical additives in your food

January 19, 2010


(Fresno Bee)

We don’t just want our food to taste good these days: It also has to look good. As a result, food producers use any of 14,000 laboratory-made additives to make our food appear fresher, more attractive or last longer on the shelf.

The longer manufacturers use these additives, the more we learn about their impacts. While some additives are harmless, others cause everything from hives and asthma to nausea and headaches in some people. Some experts recommend avoiding foods listing more than five or six ingredients or ingredients of longer than three syllables and purchasing foods that contain such natural additives as fruits and vegetables.

Our list of the top 15 chemical additives and their possible side effects will help decipher ingredient lists at your supermarket.

1-METHYLCYCLOPROPENE
This gas is pumped into crates of apples to stop them from producing ethylene, the natural hormone that ripens fruit. Commonly known as SmartFresh, this chemical preserves apples for up to a year and bananas up to a month. Sulphur dioxide serves the same purpose when sprayed on grapes.

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ARTIFICIAL COLORS

Researchers in the early 1900s developed many artificial colors from coal-tar dyes and petrochemicals. Over the years, the FDA banned many of these chemicals as proven carcinogens (cancer-exacerbating agents). Today, the FDA only allows 10 colors in foods, four of which are restricted to specific uses. This restriction suggests some risks remain. Check out the color additives section of the FDA

(www.fda.gov/ForIndustry/ColorAdditives/default.htm) Web site for more information.

ARTIFICIAL FLAVORING

This blanket term refers to hundreds of laboratory chemicals designed to mimic natural flavors. For example, some imitation vanilla flavorings are made from petroleum or paper-mill waste. In fact, a single artificial flavoring can be created from hundreds of individual chemicals. New studies suggest artificial-flavoring additives can cause changes in behavior.

ASPARTAME

This sugar substitute is sold commercially as Equal and NutraSweet and was hailed as a savior for dieters unhappy with saccharine’s unpleasant after-taste. Unfortunately, one out of 20,000 babies is born without the ability to metabolize phenylalanine, one of the two amino acids in Aspartame. As a result, it’s not recommended for pregnant women or infants.

ASTAXANTHIN

Almost 90-percent of salmon sold in supermarkets today come from farms. The diet of farmed salmon doesn’t include crustaceans, which contains a natural astaxanthin that causes pink flesh in wild salmon. As a result, producers add astaxanthin to farm-salmon diets for that fresh-from-the-water appearance. Astaxanthin is manufactured from coal tar.
BENZOIC ACID/SODIUM BENZOATE

Often added to milk and meat products, these preservatives are used in many foods, including drinks, low-sugar products, cereals and meats. Both temporarily inhibit the proper functioning of digestive enzymes and cause headaches, stomach upset, asthma attacks and hyperactivity in children.
BHA (BUTYLATED HYDROXYANISOLE) AND BHT (BUTYLATED HYDROXYTOLUENE)


These antioxidants are similar but non-identical petroleum-derived chemicals added to oil-containing foods as a preservative and to delay rancidity. They are most commonly found in crackers, cereals, sausages, dried meats and other foods with added fats. The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer considers BHA a possible human carcinogen.

CANTHAXANTHIN

Egg yolks don’t always come out golden yellow, so producers use this pigment to make them more palatable. Although the amounts used are very small, tests have shown greater quantities of canthaxanthin can cause retinal damage.

EMULSIFIERS

Emulsifiers, made from vegetable fats, glycerol and organic acids, extend the shelf life of bread products and allow liquids that wouldn’t normally mix, such as oil and water, to combine smoothly. Many reduced-fat or low-calorie products use emulsifiers. Commercial emulsifiers also are used in low-calorie butter, margarine, salad dressings, mayonnaise and ice cream. Emulsifying agents used in foods include agar, albumin, alginates, casein, egg yolk, glycerol monostearate, xanthan gums, Irish moss, lecithin and soaps.

HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP

This ubiquitous sweetener helps maintain moisture while preserving freshness. A little fructose isn’t a problem but the sheer quantity of “hidden� fructose in processed foods is startling. The consumption of large quantities has been fingered as a causative factor in heart disease. It raises blood levels of cholesterol and triglyceride fats, while making blood cells more prone to clotting and accelerating the aging process.

MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE (MSG)

There was much hue and cry years ago when the public learned Chinese restaurants commonly added MSG to Chinese foods as a flavor enhancer. We then learned MSG could be found in many other processed products, such as salad dressings, condiments, seasonings, bouillons and snack chips. Some reports indicate MSG causes tightening in the chest, headaches and a burning sensation in the neck and forearms. While MSG is made of components found in our bodies – water, sodium and glutamate (a common amino acid) – ingesting it is an entirely different matter.

OLESTRA

The FDA approved this fake fat for use in snack foods several years ago, over objections from dozens of researchers. Their concern was that Olestra inhibits our ability to absorb the healthy vitamins in fruits and vegetables thought to reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease. Even at low doses, Olestra is commonly known to cause “anal leakage� and other gastrointestinal problems. Perhaps this is why the FDA requires foods containing Olestra carry a warning label.

PARTIALLY-HYDROGENATED OILS

Hydrogenation is the process of heating an oil and passing hydrogen bubbles through it. The fatty acids in the oil then acquire some of the hydrogen, which makes it more dense. If you fully hydrogenate, you create a solid (a fat) out of the oil. But if you stop part way, you create a semi-solid, partially hydrogenated oil with the consistency of butter. Because this process is so much cheaper than using butter, partially-hydrogenated oils are found in many, many foods. Their addictive properties have linked partially-hydrogenated oils to weight problems caused by a slowed metabolism and the development of diabetes, cancer and heart disease.

POTASSIUM BROMATE

Potassium bromate increases volume in white flour, breads and rolls. Most bromate rapidly breaks down to an innocuous form, but it’s known to cause cancer in animals – and even small amounts in bread can create a risk for humans. California requires a cancer warning on the product label if potassium bromate is an ingredient.

SODIUM NITRITE AND NITRATE

These closely related chemicals have been used for centuries to preserve meat. While nitrate itself is harmless, it easily converts to nitrite which, when combined with secondary-amines compounds form nitrosamines, a powerful cancer-exacerbating chemical. This chemical reaction occurs easily during the frying process.

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(Natural News)

February 13, 2010

In response to growing awareness about the dangers of artificial sweeteners, what does the manufacturer of one of the world’s most notable artificial sweeteners do? Why, rename it and begin marketing it as natural, of course. This is precisely the strategy of Ajinomoto, maker of aspartame, which hopes to pull the wool over the eyes of the public with its rebranded version of aspartame, called “AminoSweet�.

Over 25 years ago, aspartame was first introduced into the European food supply. Today, it is an everyday component of most diet beverages, sugar-free desserts, and chewing gums in countries worldwide. But the tides have been turning as the general public is waking up to the truth about artificial sweeteners like aspartame and the harm they cause to health. The latest aspartame marketing scheme is a desperate effort to indoctrinate the public into accepting the chemical sweetener as natural and safe, despite evidence to the contrary.

Aspartame was an accidental discovery by James Schlatter, a chemist who had been trying to produce an anti-ulcer pharmaceutical drug for G.D. Searle & Company back in 1965. Upon mixing aspartic acid and phenylalanine, two naturally-occurring amino acids, he discovered that the new compound had a sweet taste. The company merely changed its FDA approval application from drug to food additive and, voila, aspartame was born.

G.D. Searle & Company first patented aspartame in 1970. An internal memo released in the same year urged company executives to work on getting the FDA into the “habit of saying yes� and of encouraging a “subconscious spirit of participation� in getting the chemical approved.
G.D. Searle & Company submitted its first petition to the FDA in 1973 and fought for years to gain FDA approval, submitting its own safety studies that many believed were inadequate and deceptive. Despite numerous objections, including one from its own scientists, the company was able to convince the FDA to approve aspartame for commercial use in a few products in 1974, igniting a blaze of controversy.

In 1976, then FDA Commissioner Alexander Schmidt wrote a letter to Sen. Ted Kennedy expressing concern over the “questionable integrity of the basic safety data submitted for aspartame safety�. FDA Chief Counsel Richard Merrill believed that a grand jury should investigate G.D. Searle & Company for lying about the safety of aspartame in its reports and for concealing evidence proving the chemical is unsafe for consumption.
Despite the myriad of evidence gained over the years showing that aspartame is a dangerous toxin, it has remained on the global market with the exception of a few countries that have banned it. In fact, it continued to gain approval for use in new types of food despite evidence showing that it causes neurological brain damage, cancerous tumors, and endocrine disruption, among other things.

The details of aspartame’s history are lengthy, but the point remains that the carcinogen was illegitimately approved as a food additive through heavy-handed prodding by a powerful corporation with its own interests in mind. Practically all drugs and food additives are approved by the FDA not because science shows they are safe but because companies essentially lobby the FDA with monetary payoffs and complete the agency’s multi-million dollar approval process.

Changing aspartame’s name to something that is “appealing and memorable�, in Ajinomoto’s own words, may hoodwink some but hopefully most will reject this clever marketing tactic as nothing more than a desperate attempt to preserve the company’s multi-billion dollar cash cow. Do not be deceived.
Sources:

Ajinomoto brands aspartame ‘AminoSweet’ – FoodBev.com
Aspartame History Highlights – Janet Starr Hull
FDA’s approval of aspartame under scrutiny – The Globe and Mail (Canada)
An Overdue Ban On A Dangerous Sweetener – Huffington Post

I gave up all diet pop/diet drinks, etc back in March and have only had water since. I want to say there has been a huge difference in the way I feel but there isn't. I have lost my taste for diet drinks though, that's for sure. Water is all I want now!

Originally Posted by MrsJCurnow

I gave up all diet pop/diet drinks, etc back in March and have only had water since. I want to say there has been a huge difference in the way I feel but there isn't. I have lost my taste for diet drinks though, that's for sure. Water is all I want now!

Yeah, I did that a fair while ago. Thing is, you may have other things within you that are out of balance as well, hence you don't feel better.
However, by taking the soda drinks, you are doing better.
Do you drink tap water or do you get in water? I only drink spring water as we have fluoridated tap water.

Originally Posted by Imbar

(Natural News)

February 13, 2010

In response to growing awareness about the dangers of artificial sweeteners, what does the manufacturer of one of the world’s most notable artificial sweeteners do? Why, rename it and begin marketing it as natural, of course. This is precisely the strategy of Ajinomoto, maker of aspartame, which hopes to pull the wool over the eyes of the public with its rebranded version of aspartame, called “AminoSweet�.

Over 25 years ago, aspartame was first introduced into the European food supply. Today, it is an everyday component of most diet beverages, sugar-free desserts, and chewing gums in countries worldwide. But the tides have been turning as the general public is waking up to the truth about artificial sweeteners like aspartame and the harm they cause to health. The latest aspartame marketing scheme is a desperate effort to indoctrinate the public into accepting the chemical sweetener as natural and safe, despite evidence to the contrary.

Natural News is one of the worst scientific misinformation sites I've ever seen.

There's nothing wrong with aspartame, unless you're consuming doses of more than 4,000mg/kg, which for a 70kg person would mean 5,600 cans of diet soda per day. WATER is fatal in that quantity.

Still, the FDA's allowable limit is well below that, at 50mg/kg which would be about 70 cans of soda per day. Every day, from birth until death... and then you might get cancer.

This information sounds ominous for people who aren't familiar with the chemistry of everyday food products. Formaldehyde sounds horrible but it's actually a natural product of metabolism. Methanol is in countless natural products such as fruit juice, in higher doses than in artificially sweetened products.

When it comes to aspartame, there are about a thousand worse things that we all consume every day.