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When I imagine someone sounding the alert that the government has poisoned the masses, I imagine some wacko in the woods somewhere with a stockpile of bottled water in his basement and a high powered telecope perched on a tower to watch for aliens. Not so.

The tale of Aspartame is even more chilling, partly because it is a true story. Mostly because it’s common knowledge.

Donald Rumsfeld is implicated? Common knowledge. Aspartame causes brain tumors? This too, is well documented and is finally becoming common knowledge. And, the inevitable conclusion is that the U.S. government is apparently implicated in one of the more sinister mass poisonings in recent history.

Yes, poisoning. There are not one, not two, but ninety-two (92) symptoms of aspartame poisoning. These symptoms are not sneezing or vague malaise but humdingers such as convulsions, and the ultimate symptom, “death,” which is a fairly serious symptom and the last one you’ll never complain about.

Aspartame should have never been approved by the FDA, and in fact, the panel reviewing the manufactured sugar substitute voted against approval. Aspartame was “approved” out of corporate greed, despite evidence that it is a dangerous exitotoxin that causes brain tumors in laboratory animals.

Aspartame was successfully kept off the market for over ten years prior to GD Searle hiring Donald Rumsfeld as their CEO. Shortly after he was hired aspartame became approved through an unbelievable conflict of interest. Several FDA commissioners that voted against approving aspartame were replaced by those that voted for it [creating a tie]. Shortly after aspartame approval these FDA commissioners were given cushy jobs with quarter million dollar salaries as a reward for their help.
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Who knows more about the toxicity of aspartame than the FDA? Their toxicologists, Doctors Adrian Gross and Jacqueline Verrett strenuously objected to aspartame approval for 16 years. It wasn’t just that aspartame is not safe, and in original studies triggered brain tumors, seizures, and all sorts of other tumors, it was that the manufacturer filtered out what they didn’t want FDA to see.

ASPARTAME WAS APPROVED BY PRESIDENTIAL ORDER: President Reagan knew it would take 30 days to get Hayes into the FDA so he wrote an executive order making the outgoing FDA Commissioner powerless to oppose aspartame. From the congressional record, Senate, page S5497, May 7, l985:

“Two FDA officials have told Common Cause Magazine that Hayes was determined to push aspartame forward, in part as a signal that the Reagan administration was ushering in a new regulatory era. One official privy to some of the deliberations made at Hayes’ level says the “people at the top” were not receptive to important concerns raised about the quality and validity of some of the key tests submitted in support of aspartame.”
Dr. Betty Martini

Our FDA has never been the same since. Deadly chemicals now being blessed by FDA are marketed as wholesome pharmaceuticals, are just the tip of the iceberg, and result of Rumsfeld’s damage to FDA. The reasonable FDA lawful standard is that a chemical must pass all toxicity tests at one hundred times the “maximum human dose,” in order to pass as a food additive. What the original tests showed is that at a dose of three cans of pop per day, scaled to the weight of the animal, aspartame releases DKP, a recognized virulent brain carcinogen. No other chemical causes the brain cancer rate to jump as much.”
Dr. James Bowen

So just how widespread is Aspartame? Well, it is in cereals, juices, candy, breath mints, sugar-free chewing gum, gelatin desserts, cocoa mixes, coffee beverages, tea beverages, instant teas and coffees, wine coolers, topping mixes, yogurt, vitamin supplements, herb supplements, soft-drinks, over the counter drugs, prescription drugs, laxatives, milk drinks, instant breakfasts, frozen desserts, shake mixes, tabletop sweeteners…and more. Do you or anyone you know ingest any of these?

It is in everything. In fact, I think your regular church-going Mid-western voting Amreican citizen is just about riddled with this toxic stuff. Next time you are in the grocery store, look at how many things have aspartame in them.

“When has gone wrong with our way of thinking when it is considered “normal” that 1 in 3 people get cancer? IT IS NOT NORMAL. Cancer is not a natural disease and even if it were, it wouldn’t be “normal” for cancer to claim the lives of 25% of the population.”
Stephen Lester, Is There a Toxic Connection, 1996

Forget about the toxicity for a moment. Aspartame happens to be a rip-off. It causes people who eat the stuff to crave carbohydrates. They don’t lose any weight.

“The fact that aspartame fattens people is generally well known. We have all seen the post cards and comics that depict an overweight person with a Diet Coke in one hand while reaching for a bowl of corn chips with the other hand. The reason aspartame so strikingly stimulates the appetite is it provides over half of its content in a form of a phenylalanine isolate.

The amino acid phenylalanine outcompetes all the other at enzyme sites in the body. This suppresses the formation of dopamine from tyrosine and the formation of serotonin from tryptophan. The serotonin is the neurotransmitter that reports carbohydrate metabolism. When your serotonin levels are not allowed to raise as they normally do when you eat carbohydrates you crave more and more food. The dopamine is the neurotransmitter that lets you feel satisfied, so when you use aspartame you have unsatisfiable cravings. The aspartame also poisons your metabolism so you cannot burn calories.
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At the same time, Monsanto, and its buy-out partner Ajinmoto dress up in the pep squad gear to tout just how cool they claim aspartame is. It’s bold.

Monsanto’s previous incarnation, G.D. Searle, was the ugly elephant Donald Rumsfeld was riding when he promised to get aspartame approved by the FDA despite nine years of evidence that it caused severe illness in laboratory animals. Evidence? What evidence? The laboratory rats had their brain tumors cut out and voila! Suddenly, the removed evidence made it appear that there were NO deleterious effects of aspartame. I am not making this up.

Action based on fact in the United States is never based on fact. Iraq had nuclear weapons, therefore the U.S. invaded. Aspartame causes no cancer, therefore Americans eat it.

So what makes Aspartame so toxic? Well, like most creepy things that have no business on the skins of or in the bodies of humans, it was discovered by accident. Just as the crop pesticides used in the United States are incarnations of chemical warfare substances, so too was Aspartame never meant to be food. Aspartame was a byproduct of research on ulcer drugs. Looking for a compound that would inhibit the release of gastrin, a gastrointestinal hormone, the intermediate compound aspartylphenylalanine-methyl-ester (aspartame) was created. The researching scientist accidentally got some aspartame on his finger, tasted it, and the rest, as they say, is mystery.

In 1969 the Journal of the American Chemical Society reported:

We wish to report another accidental discovery of an organic compound with a profound sucrose (table sugar) like taste . . . Preliminary tasting showed this compound to have a potency of 100-200 times sucrose depending on concentration and on what other flavors are present and to be devoid of unpleasant aftertaste. (Mazur)

I wonder what would happen if one went to the local drugstore and loaded up on ulcer drugs. Sprinkled them on one’s breakfast cereal every morning and added them to one’s coffee.

As soon as you swallow, your body converts aspartame converts to a particularly dangerous form of free methanol, then to formaldehyde, and then to formic acid.

Methanol is basically wood alcohol, and formaldehyde is a known carcinogen, as is formic acid. But the clearest way to describe what aspartame does in the human body is to explain what an exitotoxin is. Aspartae acid, in aspartame, is an exitotoxin. This means that it over-excites neurons to the point of death. Exitotoxins destroy human nerve cells. Ingested by the young, they destroy the proper formation of nerve cells. Children’s brains develop in severely miswired patterns, resulting in ADD, hperactivity disorder, and learning disorders.

The damage, unfortunately, does not stop there. I cannot do justice to the panoramic scope of harm caused by aspartame without simply listing the illnesses caused by caused by this chemical.

Here is a list of symptoms and illnesses caused by or worsened by Aspartame compiled by Mark Gold.

Abdominal Pain
Anxiety attacks
Arthritis
Asthma
Asthmatic Reactions
Bloating, Edema (Fluid Retention)
Blood Sugar Control Problems (Hypoglycemia or Hyperglycemia)
Brain Cancer (Pre-approval studies in animals)
Breathing difficulties
Burning eyes or throat
Burning Urination
Can’t think straight
Chest Pains
Chronic cough
Chronic Fatigue
Confusion
Death
Depression
Diarrhea
Dizziness
Excessive Thirst or Hunger
Fatigue
Flushing of face
Hair Loss (Baldness) or Thinning of Hair
Headaches/Migraines dizziness
Hearing Loss
Heart palpitations
Hives (Urticaria)
Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)
Impotency and Sexual Problems
Inability to concentrate
Infection Susceptibility
Insomnia
Irritability
Itching
Joint Pains
Laryngitis
Marked Personality Changes
Memory loss
Menstrual Problems or Changes
Migraines and Severe Headaches (Trigger or Cause From Chronic Intake)
Muscle spasms
Nausea or Vomiting
Numbness or Tingling of Extremities
Other Allergic-Like Reactions
Panic Attacks
Phobias
Poor memory
Rapid Heart Beat
Rashes
Seizures and Convulsions
Slurring of Speech
Swallowing Pain
Tachycardia
Tremors
Tinnitus
Vertigo
Vision Loss
Weight gain

Aspartame Disease Mimics Symptoms or Worsens the Following Diseases
Alzheimer’s Disease
Arthritis
Birth Defects
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Diabetes and Diabetic Complications
Epilepsy
Fibromyalgia
Lupus
Lyme Disease
Lymphoma
Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS)
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Parkinson’s Disease

Looking at the exhaustive lists of hurts caused by Aspartame, I begin to wonder if there is anything that Aspartame doesn’t cause. Could all of this be true?

When considering the idea of truth, my mind wanders inevitably to coporate advertisers. Like Thai underworld pimps, they inevitably take innocent small truths and quickly warp them into something else entirely for their own profit.

I was looking at that red and white Nutrasweet swirl logo the other day and I was impressed with how much it reminds me of familiar, comforting patterns. It looks like a peppermint candy. Yum. It also looks like a barbershop pole, thereby insinuating old-fashioned and hygenic dependability. The brains that went into making and marketing Aspartame were no dummies.

As often occurs when big money and big greed get going, great advertisers step in and make their enticing propaganda to feed the wheel of consumption. My favorite piece of Aspartame drivel was disseminated by Nutrasweet AG’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Hans Heezen, when he stated: “Aspartame is a unique sweetening ingredient not only because it tastes like sugar but also because it is treated by the body in exactly the same way as other foods.”

The crucial question here is, “which other foods?” An unearthed portion of pickled sixty year old Kim-Chee from Hiroshima and Nagasaki? It’s worth mentioning that saying that Aspartame “tastes like sugar” is a whopper of an understatement – it’s over 200 times sweeter.

For more giggles, check out the Nutrasweet advertisement that slyly compares Aspartame to human breastmilk. Now here’s a big, bold, spare-no-prisoners statement:

“Remember your first taste of NutraSweet? Mothers’ milk doesn’t contain NutraSweet, but it might as well. Aspartame is made from things which occur in much larger quantities in other parts of our diet, and our bodies digest it completely naturally. The principal components of aspartame are two building blocks of protein – phenylalanine and aspartic acid, which are just like those found in eggs, fruit, cheese or fish. And even in mothers’ milk. So when you’re looking for a partner for sugar, pick the sweetener which your body will recognise.”
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Mother’s milk is made in a place like this? It’s also a superfund site that has leached arsenic into the adjacent river

Trade names for Aspartame are NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, Canderel, Benevia, Misura. In Europe Aspartame hides under the seemingly innocuous “E 951″ label. World-wide, warning labels that say “contains a source of phenylalanine” or “phenylchetonurics should not consume this product,” signal the presence of aspartame.
Truth In Labeling

Dr. John Hoey, writing about the book The Truth About the Drug Companies says according to Angell, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the pharmaceutical industry’s U.S. trade association has “the largest lobby in Washington,” which in 2002 employed 675 lobbyists (including 26 former members of Congress) at a cost of more than $91 million. The result has been above-average growth in corporate profits during both Republican and Democratic administrations. The most recent and perplexing lobbying effort caused Congress explicitly to prohibit Medicare from using its huge purchasing power to get lower prices for drugs, thus opening up a dollar pipeline, in the form of higher drug prices, directly from taxpayers to corporate coffers. These changes, along with the cave-in by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in l997 that permitted direct-to-consumer advertising to bypass mention in their ads of all but the most serious side effects, have further augmented profits. The overall effect has been a corruption not only of science but also of the dissemination of Science.” No wonder new books keep being published like Dr. Carolyn Dean’s “Death of Medicine”.
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Reading all of this, I cannot help but think of the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz when she says “Poppies will put them to sleep.” Poppies are drugs, of course, but alluringly sweet. Aspartame is sweet and destructive… and it’s everywhere. But it will do more than put us to sleep. It will cause tumors, seizures, heart arhythmia, a whole cornucopia of discomfort and pain.

And we won’t lose any weight.