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July 28, 2003: Dr. Tim Johnson
Boston Channel.com, MA - Jul 28, 2003
ANSWER: Well, aspartame, better known by its trade name which is
NutraSweet, contains phenylalamine, which is an amino acid. It ...

Soft drinks – hard facts
... But is shifting to "Diet Soft Drink" the solution? The fact is that
diet soft drinks contain aspartame (an artificial low-calorie
sweetener). ...
AME Info, United Arab Emirates - Jul 26, 2003
http://www.ameinfo.com/news/Detailed/26590.html
The fact is that diet soft drinks contain aspartame (an artificial
low-calorie sweetener). Although aspartame does not add up the calories
it makes you feel hungrier and crave for food.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) no longer allows foods containing
aspartame to be labeled as "weight reduction product". Now it insists to
label these products simply as "Diet Drink" or "Diet Food ".
Research also shows that aspartame causes migraines, dizziness and
more over it reduces your memory.
Dr. Raouf Roshdi, Managing Director, WAW Health
Saturday, July 26 - 2003 at 19:23 UAE local time (GMT+4)

Splitting headaches
Boulder Daily Camera, CO - Jul 28, 2003
... already unstable, Rountree says. Other problem foods include sugar
substitutes such as aspartame or NutraSweet. Allergies to weeds ...

ChampionLyte Beverages, Inc. Signs Agreement to Distribute ...
Yahoo News (press release) - Jul 28, 2003
... drink market. It is the only sports drink with no sugar, calories,
sorbitol, saccharin, aspartame caffeine or carbonation. The reformulated
...

The skinny on sugar
Toronto Star, Canada - Jul 2, 2003
... The experts say the sweetener aspartame is safe, but we've heard so
much anecdotal evidence linking it to everything from headaches and mood
swings to seizures ...

Changmao looks at 20m yuan deal
The Standard, Hong Kong - Jul 27, 2003
... from the joint venture, Changmao will invest about 60 million yuan
to expand production of fumaric acid, an acidulant and effervescent
agent, and aspartame, a ...

Merchants give 'til it hurts
Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil, IA - Jul 26, 2003
... This is no lemonade made from concentrate, this is the real deal.
Lemons, water, sugar (or aspartame for those looking to cut down on
sugar). ...

Cookbooks, products cater to special nutritional needs
Springfield News Sun, OH - Jul 24, 2003
... Sweetened with the sugar alcohols maltitol and sorbitol, as well as
artificial sweeteners aspartame and acesulfame potassium (Ace-K). ...

FSA consults on sweeteners directive
Food Navigator, France - Jul 16, 2003
... changes to the conditions of use for two currently permitted
sweeteners: cyclamic acid and its sodium and calcium salts (E952;
'cyclamate'), and aspartame (E951 ...

Food code undergoes changes
Food Navigator, France - Jul 17, 2003
... A new intense sweetener, aspartame-acesulphame salt, when dissolved,
breaks down into two food additives that are already permitted for use
by the Code. ..

Expert: Sugar Substitutes Safe Alternatives
WRAL.com, NC - Jul 9, 2003
... Aspartame is 150 times to 200 times sweeter than table sugar.
Aspartame is made by joining together two amino acids that are found in
foods eaten every day. ...
[This pro-aspartame PR puff is from http://www.caloriecontrol.org ,
placed on dozens of TV stations. It cites Mary Donkersloot, RD,
founder and director of Personal Nutrition Management, 9915 Santa Monica
Blvd., Beverly Hills, California 90212, 310-843-9090,
author of The Simply Gourmet Diabetes Cookbook: Easy, Healthy Recipes
and Menus for People With Diabetes and Those Who Love Them,
The Fast-Food Diet: Quick and Healthy Eating at Home and on the Go, and
The How to Quit Smoking and Not Gain Weight Cookbook
{co-author, Linda Hyder Ferry, M.D. MPH, the founder of F.I.N.D. (the
Foundation for Innovations in Nicotine Dependence), an associate
professor at the Loma Linda University School of Medicine, and a leading
nicotine-dependence researcher who first studied the use of bupropion
(Zyban) as a nicotine-free treatment for smoking cessation--
http://www.findhelp.com/ (909) 777-3290
Fax: (909) 777-3281 FIND2001@...
P.O. Box 2001 Loma Linda, CA 92354
Dr. Ferry's Professional Street Address:
Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Affairs Medical Center
11201 Benton Street Loma Linda, CA 92357 909-777-3290
909-825-7084 909-796-9573
http://www.llu.edu/llu/wholeness/research/interest.html
Associate Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health
Program Director of Preventive Medicine Residency
Chief, Preventive Medicine Section, JL. Pettis VAMC, Loma Linda, CA
President, Foundation for Innovations in Nicotine Dependence (FIND)
Area of Interest: Spirituality and Addictions Recovery
Research currently involved with:
a. Nicotine dependence
b. Genetics of nicotine and other drug use (with City of Hope)
c. Medical students personal health practices and spiritual practices
(healthydoc project with Emory University) LHFerry@... }. ]

The Real Dangers of Soda to You and Your Children
Mercola, Illinois - Jul 8, 2003
... Most sodas include over 100 percent of the RDA of sugar. Aspartame:
This chemical is used as a sugar substitute in diet soda. There ...

[ http://www.mercola.com/2003/jul/9/soda_dangers.htm Dr. Joseph Mercola
with Rachael Droege:
Aspartame: This chemical is used as a sugar substitute in diet soda.
There are over 92 different health side effects associated with
aspartame consumption including brain tumors, birth defects, diabetes,
emotional disorders and epilispsy/seizures. Further, when aspartame is
stored for long periods of time or kept in warm areas it changes to
methanol, an alcohol that converts to formaldehyde and formic acid,
which are known carcinogens.]

Just call me sugar
... There are also chemically produced sweeteners on the market such as
saccharine and aspartame, but being chemically produced they are not the
type of product to ...

Lose weight by avoiding sugar, flour
Go Erie, PA - Jul 9, 2003
A Sugar substitutes, such as aspartame, do not affect metabolism —
except that by taking the place of high-calorie sugar, they force the
body to burn ...

Stuck with leftovers once again
Arizona Republic, AZ - Jul 3, 2003
... about it? Phenylalanine is a fairly common amino acid that is found,
among other places, in aspartame, the artificial sweetener. It ...
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aspartame review: methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid toxicity:
Murray 7.29.3 rmforall

Rich Murray, MA Room For All rmforall@...
1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 USA 505-986-9103

[NutraSweet, Equal, Canderel, Benevia]

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aspartame & formaldehyde toxicity: Murray 7.29.3 rmforall

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EU votes 440 to 20 to approve sucralose, limit cyclamates & reevaluate
aspartame & stevia: Murray 4.12.3 rmforall

http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/scf2002-response.htm
Mark Gold exhaustively critiques European Commission Scientific
Committee on Food re aspartame (12.4.2): 59 pages, 230 references

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formaldehyde & formic acid from methanol in aspartame:
Murray: 12.9.2 rmforall

It is certain that high levels of aspartame use, above 2 liters daily
for months and years, must lead to chronic formaldehyde-formic acid
toxicity, since 11% of aspartame (1,120 mg in 2L diet soda, 5.6 12-oz
cans) is 123 mg methanol (wood alcohol), immediately released into the
body after drinking (unlike the large levels of methanol locked up in
molecules inside many fruits), then quickly transformed into
formaldehyde, which in turn becomes formic acid, both of which in
time are partially eliminated as carbon dioxide and water.

However, about 30% of the methanol remains in the body as cumulative
durable toxic metabolites of formaldehyde and formic acid-- 37 mg daily,
a gram every month. [J. Nutrition 1973 Oct; 103(10): 1454-1459.
Metabolism of aspartame in monkeys. Oppermann JA, Muldoon E, Ranney RE.]
If 10% of the methanol is retained as formaldehyde, that would give 12
mg daily formaldehyde accumulation, about 60 times more than the 0.2 mg
from 10% retention of the 2 mg EPA daily limit for formaldehyde in
drinking water.

Bear in mind that the EPA limit for formaldehyde in drinking water is
1 ppm, or 2 mg daily for a typical daily consumption of 2 L of water.

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RTM: ATSDR: EPA limit 1 ppm formaldehyde in drinking water July 1999
5.30.2 rmforall

This long-term low-level chronic toxic exposure leads to typical
patterns of increasingly severe complex symptoms, starting with
headache, fatigue, joint pain, irritability, memory loss, and
leading to vision and eye problems, and even seizures. In many cases
there is addiction. Probably there are immune system disorders, with a
hypersensitivity to these toxins and other chemicals.

Confirming evidence and a general theory are given by Pall (2002):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/909
testable theory of MCS type diseases, vicious cycle of nitric oxide &
peroxynitrite: MSG: formaldehyde-methanol-aspartame:
Martin L. Pall: Murray: 12.9.2 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/946
Functional Therapeutics in Neurodegenerative Disease Part 1/2:
Perlmutter 7.15.99: Murray 1.10.3 rmforall

http://google.com gives 149,000 websites for "aspartame" , with the top
9 listings being anti-aspartame, while
http://groups.google.com/ finds on 700 MB of posts from 20 years of
Usenet groups, 79,300 posts, the top 10 being anti-aspartame.
http://www.AllTheWeb.com gives 239,091, the top 5 being leading and
very well informed volunteer anti-aspartame sites.
http://teoma.com/index.asp gives 42,900 websites, the top 7 are anti.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ lists 734 aspartame items.

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formaldehyde toxicity: Thrasher & Kilburn: Shaham: EPA: Gold: Murray:
Wilson: CIIN: 12.12.2 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/934
24 recent formaldehyde toxicity [Comet assay] reports:
Murray 12.31.2 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/935
Comet assay finds DNA damage from sucralose, cyclamate, saccharin in
mice: Sasaki YF & Tsuda S Aug 2002: Murray 1.1.3 rmforall
[Also borderline evidence, in this pilot study of 39 food additives,
using a test group of 4 mice, for DNA damage from for stomach, colon,
liver, bladder, and lung 3 hr after oral dose of 2000 mg/kg aspartame--
a very high dose.]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/961
genotoxins, Comet assay in mice: Ace-K, stevia fine; aspartame poor;
sucralose, cyclamate, saccharin bad: Y.F. Sasaki Aug 2002:
Murray 1.27.3 rmforall [A detailed look at the data]
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