similar levels of daily formaldehyde and formic acid, causes of birth defects,
come from cigarettes, aspartame, and dark wines and liquors -- folic acid
protects most people: Rich Murray 2008.07.15
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.htm
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1552
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"A smoker who goes through one pack a day will smoke 7,300 cigarettes a year,
inhaling the equivalent of nearly 1 gram of formaldehyde (yikes!)."

That's about 2.5 mg daily formaldehyde intake for 20 cigarettes, over the 2 mg
USA FDA alarm level for formaldehyde in average 2 liters daily drinking water,
while a single 12 oz can of diet soda also results in about 2 mg formaldehyde
toxic products in the body, including formic acid, a notorious cause of birth
defects.

Dark wines and liquors usually supply even more methanol, which the body always
turns into formaldehyde and formic acid -- the major cause of "morning after"
hangovers.

High levels of folic acid, a safe, affordable vitamin in fruits and vegetables,
largely prevents formaldehyde and formic acid toxicity in most people.

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.

Fully 11 % of aspartame is methanol -- 1,120 mg aspartame
in 2 liters diet soda, almost six 12-oz cans, gives 123 mg methanol
(wood alcohol). The methanol is immediately released
into the body after drinking .
Within hours, the liver turns much of the methanol into formaldehyde,
and then much of that into 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, accumulating in and affecting every tissue.

If only 10 % of the methanol is retained daily 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 liters of water.


formaldehyde and formic acid in FEMA trailers and other sources
(aspartame, dark wines and liquors, tobacco smoke):
Murray 2008.01.30
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1508

The FEMA trailers give about the same amount of formaldehyde
and formic acid daily as from a quart of dark wine or liquor,
or two quarts (6 12-oz cans) of aspartame diet soda,
from their over 1 tenth gram methanol impurity
(one part in 10,000), which the body quickly makes into
formaldehyde and then formic acid -- enough to be the major cause
of "morning after" alcohol hangovers.

Methanol and formaldehyde and formic acid also result from
many fruits and vegetables, tobacco and wood smoke, heater
and vehicle exhaust, household chemicals and cleaners, cosmetics,
and new cars, drapes, carpets, furniture, particleboard,
mobile homes, buildings, leather... so all these sources add up
and interact with many other toxic chemicals.

methanol impurity in alcohol drinks [ and aspartame ] is turned into
neurotoxic formic acid, prevented by folic acid, re Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome, BM Kapur, DC Lehotay, PL Carlen at U. Toronto,
Alc Clin Exp Res 2007 Dec. plain text: detailed biochemistry,
CL Nie et al. 2007.07.18: Murray 2008.02.24
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.htm
Sunday, February 24, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1524
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http://www.divine.ca/en/health-and-wellness/articles/c_16_i_3295/5-reasons-to-qu\
it-smoking-1.html

Canada's Online Women's Magazine
http://www.divine.ca/en/divineca/contact-us/c_271/

5 Reasons to Quit Smoking NOW
By Mariève Inoue

It’s common knowledge that smoking is bad for you.
Shocking, even horrifying pictures of what smoking can do to your body are
placed strategically on packs of cigarettes in an effort to encourage people to
quit, and the price of cigarettes is constantly being increased.
Yet according to the Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey, about 5.3 million
Canadians aged 15 and over were current smokers in 2003.

If you’ve never been a smoker, or have quit successfully, our hats go off to you
-- but if you’re still stepping out for that cigarette break, we’ve got some
facts and stats to give you an extra nudge towards quitting for good.

Reason #1: Tobacco kills an estimated 45,000 Canadians every year.
This number is higher than the number of deaths caused by AIDS, car accidents,
suicide, murder, fires and accidental poisonings combined.

Reason #2: Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals.
These include carbon monoxide (what comes out of the car exhaust), arsenic (rat
poison), ammonia (found in many window cleaners), naphthalene (used in
mothballs), lead, formaldehyde, and butane.

A smoker who goes through one pack a day will smoke 7,300 cigarettes a year,
inhaling the equivalent of nearly 1 gram of formaldehyde (yikes!).

Reason #3: Smoking puts you at risk for lung cancer… among other things.
It’s a known fact: smoking puts you at risk for developing lung cancer.
But did you know it also puts you at a higher risk of developing pancreas,
breast, cervical, stomach, kidney, and bladder cancer, as well as leukemia,
coronary heart disease, circulatory, high blood pressure, high cholesterol,
tooth decay, gum disease, osteoporosis and cataracts?

Reason #4: It’s not only about you.
Second hand smoke exposure is the number two cause of lung cancer (the number
one cause being smoking), which means that by smoking you’re not only putting
yourself in danger, but also the people around you and your loved ones.

Reason #5: It’s never too late to quit.
Within eight hours of not having smoked, carbon monoxide levels decrease, and
the oxygen levels in your blood increase.
After having quit for two days, your sense of taste and smell start to improve.
Between two weeks and three months after having quit, your lungs work better,
making it a lot easier to do a vital action: breathe.
And only one year after having quit, your risk of having a smoking-related heart
attack is reduced by half.

Sources: Health Canada, Canadian Cancer Society, and The Lung Association
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re "A Few too Many", Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, long review of hangover
research 2008.05.26 -- same levels of formaldehyde and formic acid in FEMA
trailers and other sources (aspartame, dark wines and liquors, tobacco
smoke): Murray 2008.06.05
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.htm
Thursday, June 5, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1541

[ See also:
There really is no controversy, Adrienne Samuels PhD, letter re
evident toxicity of aspartame EJCN 2008.06.11:
Murray 2008.06.30
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.htm
Monday, June 30, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1546

former key Hillary Clinton staff Mark Penn and Patti Solis Doyle
use much neurotoxic aspartame Diet Coke -- also many other
politicians: Murray 2008.06.30
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.htm
Monday, June 30, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1545

opportunities re BA Magnuson, GA Burdock et al., Aspartame Safety Evaluation
2007 Sept., Critical Reviews in Toxicology: Rich Murray 2008.07.11
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.htm
Friday, July 11, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1550 ]

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/26/080526fa_fact_acocella?currentPage\
=all

Annals Of Drinking
A Few Too Many
Is there any hope for the hung over?
by Joan Acocella May 26, 2008 themail@...

"Wayne Jones, of the Swedish National Laboratory of Forensic Medicine"
[ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1469
highly toxic formaldehyde, the cause of alcohol hangovers, is
made by the body from 100 mg doses of methanol from
dark wines and liquors, dimethyl dicarbonate, and aspartame:
Murray 2007.08.31 ]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/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

Addict Biol. 2005 Dec;10(4): 351-5.
Concentration changes of methanol in blood samples during
an experimentally induced alcohol hangover state.
Woo YS, Yoon SJ, Lee HK, Lee CU, Chae JH, Lee CT, Kim DJ.
Chuncheon National Hospital, Department of Psychiatry,
The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
http://www.cuk.ac.kr/eng/ sysop@...
Songsin Campus: 02-740-9714 Songsim Campus: 02-2164-4116
Songeui Campus: 02-2164-4114
http://www.cuk.ac.kr/eng/sub055.htm eight hospitals

[ Han-Kyu Lee ]

A hangover is characterized by the unpleasant physical and mental
symptoms that occur between 8 and 16 hours after drinking alcohol.

After inducing experimental hangover in normal individuals,
we measured the methanol concentration prior to
and after alcohol consumption
and we assessed the association between the hangover condition
and the blood methanol level.

A total of 18 normal adult males participated in this study.

They did not have any previous histories of psychiatric
or medical disorders.

The blood ethanol concentration prior to the alcohol intake
(2.26+/-2.08) was not significantly different from that
13 hours after the alcohol consumption (3.12+/-2.38).

However, the difference of methanol concentration
between the day of experiment (prior to the alcohol intake)
and the next day (13 hours after the alcohol intake)
was significant (2.62+/-1.33/l vs. 3.88+/-2.10/l, respectively).

A significant positive correlation was observed
between the changes of blood methanol concentration
and hangover subjective scale score increment when covarying
for the changes of blood ethanol level (r=0.498, p<0.05).

This result suggests the possible correlation of methanol
as well as its toxic metabolite to hangover. PMID: 16318957

[ The toxic metabolite of methanol is formaldehyde, which in turn
partially becomes formic acid -- both potent cumulative toxins
that are the actual cause of the toxicity of methanol.]

This study by Jones AW (1987) found next-morning hangover
from red wine with 100 to 150 mg methanol
(9.5 % w/v ethanol, 100 mg/l methanol, 0.01 %).
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).

Pharmacol Toxicol. 1987 Mar; 60(3): 217-20.
Elimination half-life of methanol during hangover.
Jones AW. wayne.jones@...;
Department of Forensic Toxicology,
University Hospital, SE-581 85 Linkoping, Sweden.

This paper reports the elimination half-life of methanol in human
volunteers.
Experiments were made during the morning after the subjects had
consumed 1000-1500 ml red wine
(9.5 % w/v ethanol, 100 mg/l methanol)
the previous evening. [ 100 to 150 mg methanol ]
The washout of methanol from the body
coincided with the onset of hangover.
The concentrations of ethanol and methanol in blood were
determined indirectly by analysis of end-expired alveolar air.
In the morning when blood-ethanol dropped
below the Km of liver alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH)
of about 100 mg/l (2.2 mM),
the disappearance half-life of ethanol was 21, 22, 18 and 15 min.
in 4 test subjects respectively.
The corresponding elimination half-lives of methanol
were 213, 110, 133 and 142 min. in these same individuals.
The experimental design outlined in this paper can be used
to obtain useful data on elimination kinetics of methanol
in human volunteers without undue ethical limitations.
Circumstantial evidence is presented to link methanol
or its toxic metabolic products, formaldehyde and formic acid,
with the pathogenesis of hangover. PMID: 3588516 ]
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