It starts off by saying: "Millions on this planet distribute warning flyers on the deadly toxin Aspartame marketed as Nutrasweet, Equal and Spoonful. An Austrian journalist has filed criminal charges against his country for allowing its distribution and has written a book to warn the world of its dangers. An ophthalmic surgeon advised the Indian Parliament to remove this deadly substance from their country. .. the bombay Times carried the story. ... Yet, the Food and Drug Administration quietly approved the widespread use of aspartame in June without advising the public." Diet pop now has the FDA's blessing.

Three months later the head of the FDA who approved the use of aspartame against his own research scientist's recommendations, left the FDA and went to work in a high position for the advertising firm that promotes (guess what?), Aspartame! ..... For a chronology of all this legal lying, read this!

I guess money talks, Dr. Atkins originally warned his patients off Aspartame in a newsletter that said words like " A six pack of mental retardation - a bonafide poison" has gone back to saying it is ok. Dr. Atkins and Monsanto are being sued for $20 million dollars because he told a patient it was safe.

And now !!!  Monsanto has funded the American Diabetic Association and American Dietetic Association who have endorsed this poison for the very groups it can harm the most, diabetics and pregnant women. We weep when we are told of those on aspartame who gave birth to babies without brains without eyes or birth defects. Many babies do not survive at all. As Dr. James Bowen said: "Fetal tissue does not tolerate methanol."Dr. Louis Elsas, Pediatric professor, Emory University (genetics) testified before congress that aspartame is a neurotoxin and teratogen (triggers birth defects). Neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock in a letter to me said: "What really concerns me about aspartame is its association with brain tumors as well as pancreatic, terine and ovarian tumors.. and that so many develop an Alzheimer's-like syndrome with prolonged exposure.."

If you are not convinced by now, know that Aspartame (the chemical) was sold in containers marked with a skull and crossbones. It is a POISON. Why would you put it in your body? Aspartame destroys the central nervous system, brain and optic nerve and ravages every organ in the body. It has biologic effects and is not an additive but a DRUG.
Aspartame processing plants have to replace the metal pipes through which the aspartame flows every few months, and the Teflon coated pumps get eaten up on a regular basis. NOTHING eats Teflon; but Aspartame does! Is your stomach coated with Teflon?
How about your brain? In his audio taped lecture called "A Healthier You" (E-Mail me for a free copy: juiceguy@juiceguy.com.com

 Dr. Joe Esposito talks about a friend of his who does autopsies on young girls who have died of brain tumors. He says that the tumors are mostly ASPARTAME. The body's attempt to protect itself against a chemical that can penetrate the blood brain barrier. NOTHING evil can penetrate the blood brain barrier; ASPARTAME can!

Product names:
NutraSweet
Equal
Spoonful
Benevia
NatraTaste

Chewing gum with these chemicals in it is not the way to lose weight. Read the label.
I was telling my barber about aspartame, and he pulled out a pack of gum, read the label and threw it in the trash. A good visual there, but better: Read the label first and then don't buy it. If what you are eating has a label, you know chemists were involved. "Enriched" means: We processed all the natural goodness OUT of the product, and the government won't let us sell "Nothing", so we added back only enough chemicals (synthetic representations of real vitamin's) to satisfy them. This does not make it good food!

(This is an E-Mail note I pulled off the web this morning)

Subject: Re: Obesity
To: "Dave Rietz (www.dorway.com)"
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Dear Dave: I'm getting ready to leave town so do me a favor and send Dr. Cabot's position paper Aspartame Makes you Fatter to Reuters or put this and hers on a media list. I wonder how many of these are aspartame users really dying because methanol is a cumulative poison and they is so much formaldehyde in their body. Well, at least they don't have to be embalmed!

Fat kids - Diet Coke Addicts? Dr. Roberts is going to write a paper on aspartame and addiction. It has needed to be written for a long time.

>Obesity an epidemic - among kids, too - >
>U.S. conference WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Obesity is a major epidemic in the >United States, not just among adults but among children too, doctors and >nutritionists told a conference Monday.
>
> With more than half the adult population overweight, and nearly a third >clinically obese, as many as 300,000 people a year are dying simply because >they are too fat, they said.

> > "This is a major public health hazard, a crisis of epic proportions," >Gordon Jensen, director of clinical nutrition at Vanderbilt University's >School of Medicine in Tennessee, said in a statement ahead of the American >Dietetic Association's annual meeting.

> > He said older people are becoming obese at frightening rates and it is >affecting their lifestyles. "We have new, quite striking data on >relationships between functional limitations and increasing body mass among >older women," Jensen said.

> > Researchers are especially worried about children, with recent surveys >indicating that as many as 20 percent of American children are obese.

> > Kathleen Rourke of the College of Applied Health Sciences at the >University of Cincinnati told the meeting she has been experimenting with a >"team" approach to helping teenage girls lose weight safely.

> > Her teams include parents, teachers and health workers, she told the >meeting, being held in Kansas City. Teenagers may just try to starve themselves thin, she said, but that does >not work and can damage their health. "For successful weight loss among young girls, parents' assistance and a >team approach are vital," she said in the statement. "Young girls don't see >themselves vulnerable to osteoporosis, but if they haven't had effective >bone optimization by their teen years they can run into deficiences all >their lives."

> > An unbalanced diet, lacking in fresh vegetables, for instance, can be low >in calcium and other vitamins and minerals key to bone and tissue development.

> > Being overweight or obese can lead directly to heart disease, high blood >pressure and diabetes. Losing as little as 10 pounds can help.

> > Overweight is defined by international standards as having a body mass >index (BMI) of 25. People with a BMI of 30 are considered obese. BMI is >calculated by dividing height in meters squared by weight in kilograms.

> > For example, someone who is 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 meters) tall and weighs >155 pounds (70 kg) has a BMI of 23 -- considered normal and healthy. At 169 >pounds (76 kg) such a person would have a BMI of 25 and is overweight.

> > ^REUTERS@

> For a real horror story on aspartame, read what David Reitz has to say about his "arthritis".          

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