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Organic Style magazine wants environmental health cases: Feld: Murray
2005.03.29

From: "Bevinetto Feld, Gina" <Gina.BevinettoFeld@...>
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Subject: Organic Style magazine interested in cases for new column
Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:25 AM

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Hi. I'm the health editor of Organic Style magazine and I'm working on
finding environmental health cases that could be used for a new column we're
developing at the magazine.

The column would run five to 10 times a year and would present
environmental health cases, going through the symptoms,
investigation/diagnosis, and resolution. The New York Times Magazine has a
similar health column called "Diagnosis." Medical journals also often
feature cases that the reader follows along with from symptoms to diagnosis.

We're excited about the opportunity to have a monthly column focusing on the
subject of environmental health, looking at cases that affect both children
and adults, and think it will be a great service to our readers. The best
cases, of course, involve common, relatable situations (for instance, I had
a lead on one case where a family's basement was flooded, exposing them to
lawn pesticides), have a bit of drama to them, perhaps the symptoms the
patient presents are a bit mysterious, or it's not immediately apparent what
the cause is. However, with some investigation we could point to a culprit
that could be eradicated or otherwise dealt with for a "happy ending." The
column would also be an opportunity for education: a sidebar would accompany
each story to discuss relevant preventative and/or safety tips.

Some examples of the types of cases that would be of interest:
1) mold exposure
2) mercury poisoning
3) exposure to lead in home (e.g. during home renovation)
4) respiratory symptoms due to diesel exhaust exposure (e.g., someone who
lives near the highway; school bus riders)
5) symptoms due to indoor cleaning supplies
6) symptoms suffered due to renovation in school (e.g. refinishing floors in
child's school and child comes home every day with headaches)
7) any school cases (e.g. child gets sick in classroom every fourth period;
children get sick due to off-gassing in poorly-constructed portable units
used as school classrooms)
9) pesticide cases (e.g. symptoms suffered due to lawn spraying with
pesticides either at home, school, park, etc.)
10) occupational cases where exposure was unexpected (not someone who works
directly with dangerous chemicals)
11) asthma cases

As we envision the column, the information and point of view would
be the doctor's. A writer would interview the doctor(s) involved, and the
names and certain identifying features of the person(s) involved could be
changed.

Please let me know if you have an ongoing or archival environmental
health case that may be appropriate. This would be an opportunity to reach a
broad group of readers and educate them about important environmental health
dangers. For more information about Organic Style, see below.

Best, Gina

Gina Bevinetto Feld Health Editor Organic Style
733 Third Avenue 3rd Floor New York, NY 10017 212-573-0240
gina.bevinettofeld@... www.organicstyle.com

Organic Style is sold on the newsstand and has a circulation of 750,000.
It's owned by Rodale, the company that also publishes Men's Health and
Prevention magazines. It's reader profile is women in their 30s and 40s,
about half are parents, and they have a median household income of $75,000+.

The magazine was started in Fall 2001 for women who want to live organically
in the broadest sense-- by making smart, responsible choices about the way
they live, cook simple meals with wholesome ingredients, decorate with
environmentally friendly products, and be healthy-- but without sacrificing
style, beauty, and convenience (at least too much).
We're one of the few newsstand magazines that regularly covers environmental
health, from stories about our chemical body burden to the cleanest beaches
and healthiest cities.

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1162
Santa Fe area physicians who oppose aspartame: Citizens Nutrition Council,
Santa Fe: Murray 2005.03.29

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1157
Sales volume: saccharin > sucralose > aspartame, Harold Brubaker
timesleader.com 2005.03.23: Murray rmforall

A very detailed, highly credible account of the dubious approval process for
aspartame in July, 1981 is part of the just released two-hour documentary
"Sweet Misery, A Poisoned World: An Industry Case Study of a Food Supply
In Crisis" by Cori Brackett: cori@...
http://www.soundandfuryproductions.com/ 520-624-9710
2301 East Broadway, Suite 111 Tucson, AZ 85719

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartame/messages
Aspartame Victims Support Group Edward Bryant Holman, Chief Moderator
808 members, 18,204 posts in a public, searchable archive
http://www.presidiotex.com/aspartame/ bryanth@...

http://www.HolisticMed.com/aspartame mgold@...
Aspartame Toxicity Information Center Mark D. Gold also Co-Moderator
12 East Side Drive #2-18 Concord, NH 03301 603-225-2110
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/methanol.html
"Scientific Abuse in Aspartame Research"

http://www.sweetpoison.com/ Janet Starr Hull, PhD, CN jshull@...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1092
Janet Starr Hull, who also had Graves disease in 1991, told Justin Dumais to
quit aspartame: Murray 2004.06.12 rmforall

http://www.aspartamesafety.com marystod@...
Mary Nash Stoddard, Founder
Aspartame Consumer Safety Network and Pilot Hotline [1987-2004]
P.O. Box 2001 Frisco, TX 75034 214-387-4001 [ 25 miles N of Dallas ]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/957
safety of aspartame Part 1/2 12.4.2: EC HCPD-G SCF:
Murray 2003.01.12 rmforall EU Scientific Committee on Food, a whitewash

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1045
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/scf2002-response.htm
Mark Gold exhaustively critiques European Commission Scientific
Committee on Food re aspartame ( 2002.12.04 ): 59 pages, 230 references

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1131
genotoxicity of aspartame in human lymphocytes 2004.07.29 full plain text,
Rencuzogullari E et al, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey 2004 Aug: Murray
2004.11.06 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1088
Murray, full plain text & critique:
chronic aspartame in rats affects memory, brain cholinergic receptors, and
brain chemistry, Christian B, McConnaughey M et al, 2004 May:
2004.06.05 rmforall

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1067
eyelid contact dermatitis by formaldehyde from aspartame, AM Hill & DV
Belsito, Nov 2003: Murray 3.30.4 rmforall [ 150 KB ]
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1052
DMDC: Dimethyl dicarbonate 200mg/L in drinks adds methanol 98 mg/L
( becomes formaldehyde in body ): EU Scientific Committee on Foods 7.12.1:
Murray 1.22.4 rmforall

http://www.drthrasher.org/formaldehyde_1990.html full text Jack Dwayne
Thrasher, Alan Broughton, Roberta Madison. Immune activation and
autoantibodies in humans with long-term inhalation exposure to formaldehyde.
Archives of Environmental Health. 1990; 45: 217-223. "Immune activation,
autoantibodies, and anti-HCHO-HSA antibodies are associated with long-term
formaldehyde inhalation." PMID: 2400243

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/782
RTM: Smith, Terpening, Schmidt, Gums:
full text: aspartame, MSG, fibromyalgia 1.17.2 rmforall
Jerry D Smith, Chris M Terpening, Siegfried OF Schmidt, and John G Gums
Relief of Fibromyalgia Symptoms Following
Discontinuation of Dietary Excitotoxins.
The Annals of Pharmacotherapy 2001; 35(6): 702-706.
Malcolm Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, FL, USA.
BACKGROUND: Fibromyalgia is a common rheumatologic disorder that is
often difficult to treat effectively.
CASE SUMMARY: Four patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia syndrome
for two to 17 years are described.
All had undergone multiple treatment
modalities with limited success. All had complete, or nearly complete,
resolution of their symptoms within months after eliminating monosodium
glutamate (MSG) or MSG plus aspartame from their diet.
All patients were women with multiple comorbidities
prior to elimination of MSG.
All have had recurrence of symptoms whenever MSG is ingested.

Siegfried O. Schmidt, MD Asst. Clinical Prof. siggy@...
Community Health and Family Medicine, U. Florida, Gainesville, FL
Shands Hospital West Oak Clinic Gainesville, FL 32608-3629
352-376-5071

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/846
RTM: aspartame in Merck Maxalt-MLT worsens migraine,
AstraZeneca Zomig, Eli Lilly Zyprexa,
J&J Merck Pepcid AC (Famotidine 10mg) Chewable Tab,
Pfizer Cool Mint Listerine Pocketpaks 7.16.2 rmforall
Migraine MLT-Down: an unusual presentation of migraine
in patients with aspartame-triggered headaches.
Newman LC, Lipton RB Headache 2001 Oct; 41(9): 899-901.
[Merck 10-mg Maxalt-MLT, for migraine, has 3.75 mg aspartame,
while 12 oz diet soda has 200 mg.]
Headache Institute, St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY
Department of Neurology newmanache@...
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Innovative Medical Research RLipton@...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/855
RTM: Blumenthall & Vance:
aspartame chewing gum headaches Nov 1997 7.28.2 rmforall
Harvey J. Blumenthal, MD, Dwight A Vance, RPh
Chewing Gum Headaches.
Headache 1997 Nov-Dec; 37(10): 665-6.
Department of Neurology, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine,
Tulsa, USA. neurotulsa@...
Aspartame, a popular dietetic sweetener, may provoke headache in some
susceptible individuals. Herein, we describe three cases of young women
with migraine who reported their headaches could be provoked by chewing
gum sweetened with aspartame. [6-8 mg aspartame per stick chewing gum]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/622
Rich Murray: Gold: Koehler: Walton: Van Den Eeden: Leon:
aspartame toxicity 6.4.1 rmforall four double-blind studies

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/623
Rich Murray: Simmons: Gold: Schiffman: Spiers:
aspartame toxicity 6.4.1 rmforall two double-blind studies

http://www.dorway.com/tldaddic.html 5-page review
Roberts HJ Aspartame (NutraSweet) addiction.
Townsend Letter 2000 Jan; HJRobertsMD@...
http://www.sunsentpress.com/ sunsentpress@...
Sunshine Sentinel Press P.O.Box 17799 West Palm Beach, FL 33416
800-814-9800 561-588-7628 561-547-8008 fax

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/669
1038-page medical text "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic"
published May 30 2001 $ 60.00 postpaid data from 1200 cases
available at http://www.amazon.com
over 600 references from standard medical research

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/346
WebMD: Barclay: Barth:
survey shows aspartame hurts memory in students 11.9.00
http://www.psy.tcu.edu/psy/barth.htm
Timothy M. Barth Department of Psychology t.barth@...
Texas Christian University TCU Box 298920 Fort Worth, TX 76129
Chairman, Physiological Psychology 817-921-7410

Many scientific studies and case histories report: * headaches
* many body and joint pains (or burning, tingling, tremors, twitching,
spasms, cramps, stiffness, numbness, difficulty swallowing)
* fever, fatigue, swollen glands * "mind fog", "feel unreal", poor
memory, confusion, anxiety, irritability, depression, mania, insomnia,
dizziness, slurred speech, sexual problems, poor vision, hearing
(deafness, tinnitus), or taste * red face, itching, rashes, hair loss,
burning eyes or throat, dry eyes or mouth, mouth sores, burning tongue
* obesity, bloating, edema, anorexia, poor appetite or excessive hunger
or thirst * breathing problems, shortness of breath * nausea,
diarrhea or constipation * coldness * sweating * racing heart, low or
high blood pressure, erratic blood sugar levels * hypothryroidism or
hyperthyroidism * seizures * birth defects * brain cancers
* addiction * aggrivates diabetes, autism, allergies, lupus, ADHD,
fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivity,
multiple sclerosis, and interstitial cystitis (bladder pain).
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http://www.truthinlabeling.org/ Truth in Labeling Campaign [MSG]
Adrienne Samuels, PhD The toxicity/safety of processed
free glutamic acid (MSG): a study in suppression of information.
Accountability in Research 1999; 6: 259-310. 52-page review
P.O. Box 2532 Darien, Illinois 60561
858-481-9333 adandjack@...

http://www.msgmyth.com/ Debby Anglesey <avenger@...>
Battling the "MSG Myth", A Survival Guide and Cookbook - $19.00
P.O. Box 895 Richland, WA 99352 509-735-3397

Russell L. Blaylock, MD 601-982-1175 Madison, Mississippi
"Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills", 1977, 298 p., 493 references.
"Health and Nutrition Secrets that can save your life", 2002, 459 p.,
558 + 30 references, $ 30 http://www.russellblaylockmd.com/

George R Schwartz MD 7518 Old Santa Fe Trail Santa Fe, NM 87505
992-1455 drgschwartz@yahoogroups.com
www.healingresearch.org 424-9467 610-8143 cell
"In Bad Taste: The MSG Syndrome", 1988, 123 p.
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