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USA aspartame use drops to 31% now from 40% last year of all low-
calorie sweeteners, International Food Information Council survey: Murray 2007.05.24 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1435 " Overall consumption trends stayed consistent for low-calorie sweeteners, with the exception of aspartame, which suffered a significant decrease in consumption to 31 percent compared to 40 percent in 2006. " News Headlines Science & Nutrition Weight loss desire prompts Americans to change diet By Philippa Jones 05/24/2007 -- Most Americans decide to change their diet because they want to lose weight, according to a report by the International Food Information Council (IFIC). The survey looked at how consumer attitudes towards food had changed in the last 12 months and found that 70 percent of Americans had altered their diet to lose weight. Seventy-five percent of respondents said they were concerned about their weight, compared to 66 percent in 2006, and 56 percent said they were actively "trying to lose weight." An increasing number of Americans also said they had changed their diet to make it healthier and over half the respondents (58 percent) confirmed they had reduced portion sizes. Sixty percent of Americans who said they were trying to lose weight admitted they were making an effort "to reduce the number of calories" they consumed. However, it would seem that the food industry could play a greater role in educating consumers as only 11 percent correctly estimated the recommended number of calories per day for a person of their age and weight. Moreover, only 31 percent correctly understood that calories from any source contributed equally to potential weight gain. Trans fats were high up on the list of specific health concerns mentioned by respondents to the survey, with 72 percent indicating they were concerned with the amount and types of fats they consumed compared to 66 percent last year. Awareness of trans fats grew to 87 percent in 2007 from 81 percent in 2006. Sixty-three percent of Americans said they used trans fat information on the Nutrition Facts Panel, up from 49 percent last year, and 75 percent said they were limiting their consumption of trans fat, compared to 54 percent in 2006. However, understanding of the types of "good" fats that can be consumed in greater quantities was sketchy. Awareness of mono- and polyunsaturated fats has declined over the past year, and the number of Americans trying to consume less polyunsaturated fats increased to 42 percent from 33 percent in 2006. Americans remained concerned about the amount (70 percent in 2007 versus 63 percent in 2006) and the type (58 percent versus 53 percent) of sugar they ate. Overall consumption trends stayed consistent for low-calorie sweeteners, with the exception of aspartame, which suffered a significant decrease in consumption to 31 percent compared to 40 percent in 2006. Despite these health concerns, "taste" and "price" continued to have the greatest impact on Americans' food-buying decisions. Eighty-eight percent of Americans considered taste to be priority when buying food, while 72% believed price was most important and 65% put the emphasis on whether the food was healthy. If food manufacturers want to cash in on these trends they should be putting their research money into improving their breakfast and snack products: 90 percent of consumers named breakfast as the most important meal of the day, while nearly all Americans (93 percent) consumed at least one snack per day. Copyright -- Unless otherwise stated all contents of this web site are © 2000/2007 -- Decision News Media SAS -- All Rights Reserved. For permission to reproduce any contents of this web site, please email our Syndication department: Administration & Finance . Full details for the use of materials on this site can be found in the Terms & Conditions. http://ific.org/about/contact.cfm International Food Information Council (IFIC) and the IFIC Foundation: 1100 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 430 Washington, DC 20036 202-296-6540 (phone) 202-296-6547 (fax) For media inquiries: For publications inquiries: /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// more from The Independent, UK, Martin Hickman, re ASDA (unit of Wal- Mart Stores) and Marks & Spencer ban of aspartame, MSG, artificial chemical additives and dyes to prevent ADHD in kids: Murray 2007.05.16 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1427 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1426 ASDA (unit of Wal-Mart Stores WMT.N) and Marks & Spencer will join Tesco and also Sainsbury to ban and limit aspartame, MSG, artificial flavors dyes preservatives additives, trans fats, salt "nasties" to protect kids from ADHD: leading UK media: Murray 2007.05.15 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1271 combining aspartame and quinoline yellow, or MSG and brilliant blue, harms nerve cells, eminent C. Vyvyan Howard et al, 2005 education.guardian.co.uk, Felicity Lawrence: Murray 2005.12.21 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1277 50% UK baby food is now organic -- aspartame or MSG with food dyes harm nerve cells, CV Howard 3 year study funded by Lizzy Vann, CEO, Organix Brands, Children's Food Advisory Service: Murray 2006.01.13 http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/hea...cle2548747.ece formaldehyde as a potent unexamined cofactor in cancer research -- sources include methanol, dark wines and liquors, aspartame, wood and tobacco smoke: IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans implicate formaldehyde in #88 and alcohol drinks in #96: some related abstracts: Murray 2007.05.15 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1417 aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) toxicity research summary: Rich Murray 2007.05.15 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1404 One liter aspartame diet soda, about 3 12-oz cans, gives 61.5 mg methanol, so if 30% is turned into formaldehyde, the formaldehyde dose of 18.5 mg is 37 times the recent EPA limit of 0.5 mg per liter daily drinking water for a 10-kg child: http://www.epa.gov/teach/chem_summ/F...de_summary.pdf 2007.01.05 [ does not discuss formaldehyde from methanol or aspartame ] http://www.epa.gov/teach/teachsurvey.html comments "Of course, everyone chooses, as a natural priority, to actively find, quickly share, and positively act upon the facts about healthy and safe food, drink, and environment." Rich Murray, MA Room For All 505-501-2298 1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/messages group with 75 members, 1,435 posts in a public, searchable archive http://RMForAll.blogspot.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1340 aspartame groups and books: updated research review of 2004.07.16: Murray 2006.05.11 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1395 Aspartame Controversy, in Wikipedia democratic encyclopedia, 72 references (including AspartameNM # 864 and 1173 by Murray), brief fair summary of much more research: Murray 2007.01.01 Dark wines and liquors, as well as aspartame, provide similar levels of methanol, above 120 mg daily, for long-term heavy users, 2 L daily, about 6 cans. Within hours, methanol is inevitably largely turned into formaldehyde, and thence largely into formic acid -- the major causes of the dreaded symptoms of "next morning" hangover. 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). If 30% of the methanol is turned into formaldehyde, the amount of formaldehyde, 37 mg, is 18.5 times the USA EPA limit for daily formaldehyde in drinking water, 2.0 mg in 2 L average daily drinking water. 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 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1143 methanol (formaldehyde, formic acid) disposition: Bouchard M et al, full plain text, 2001: substantial sources are degradation of fruit pectins, liquors, aspartame, smoke: Murray 2005.04.02 "According to model predictions, congruent with the data in the literature [Dorman et al., 1994; Horton et al., 1992], a certain fraction of formaldehyde is readily oxidized to formate, a major fraction of which is rapidly converted to CO2 and exhaled, whereas a small fraction is excreted as formic acid in urine. However, fits to the available data in rats and monkeys of Horton et al. [1992] and Dorman et al. [1994] show that, once formed, a substantial fraction of formaldehyde is converted to unobserved forms. This pathway contributes to a long-term unobserved compartment. The latter, most plausibly, represents either the formaldehyde that [directly or after oxidation to formate] binds to various endogenous molecules [Heck et al., 1983; Røe, 1982] or is incorporated in the tetrahydrofolic-acid-dependent one-carbon pathway to become the building block of a number of synthetic pathways [Røe, 1982; Tephly and McMartin, 1984]. That substantial amounts of methanol metabolites or by-products are retained for a long time is verified by Horton et al. [1992] who estimated that 18 h following an iv injection of 100 mg/kg of 14C-methanol in male Fischer-344 rats, only 57% of the dose was eliminated from the body. From the data of Dorman et al. [1994] and Medinsky et al. [1997], it can further be calculated that 48 h following the start of a 2-h inhalation exposure to 900 ppm of 14C-methanol vapors in female cynomolgus monkeys, only 23% of the absorbed 14C-methanol was eliminated from the body. These findings are corroborated by the data of Heck et al. [1983] showing that 40% of a 14C-formaldehyde inhalation dose remained in the body 70 h postexposure. In the present study, the model proposed rests on acute exposure data, where the time profiles of methanol and its metabolites were determined only over short time periods [a maximum of 6 h of exposure and a maximum of 48 h postexposure]. This does not allow observation of the slow release from the long-term components. It is to be noted that most of the published studies on the detailed disposition kinetics of methanol regard controlled short-term [iv injection or continuous inhalation exposure over a few hours] methanol exposures in rats, primates, and humans [Batterman et al., 1998; Damian and Raabe, 1996; Dorman et al., 1994; Ferry et al., 1980; Fisher et al., 2000; Franzblau et al., 1995; Horton et al., 1992; Jacobsen et al., 1988; Osterloh et al., 1996; Pollack et al., 1993; Sedivec et al., 1981; Ward et al., 1995; Ward and Pollack, 1996]. Experimental studies on the detailed time profiles following controlled repeated exposures to methanol are lacking." http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1406 brain cell tangles and neuron death similar to Alzheimers via low dose formaldehyde from methanol, Chunlai Nie, Rongqiao He et al, China, 2007.01.23 BMC Neuroscience 28 pages, 63 references: Murray 2007.01.24 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1385 Coca-Cola carcinogenicity in rats, Ramazzini Foundation, F Belpoggi, M Soffritti, Annals NY Academy Sciences 2006 Sept, parts of 17 pages: Murray 2006.12.02 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1382 Fiorella Belpoggi & Morando Soffritti of Ramazzini Foundation prove lifetime carcinogenicity of Coca-Cola, aspartame, and arsenic, Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences: Murray 2006.11.28 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1369 Bristol, Connecticut, schools join state program to limit artificial sweeteners, sugar, fats for 8800 students, Johnny J Burnham, The Bristol Press: Murray 2006.09.22 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1341 Connecticut bans artificial sweeteners in schools, Nancy Barnes, New Milford Times: Murray 2006.05.25 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1376 soft drinks and adolescent hyperactivity, mental distress, conduct problems, Lars Lien, Nanna Lien, Sonja Heyerdahl, Mayne Thoresen, Espen Bjertness 2006 Oct., A J Pub Health: Murray 2006.10.21 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1375 healthy diet, vitamins, and fish oil help reduce depression and violence, studies by Joseph Hibbeln, Bernard Gesch, and Stephen Schoenthaler, articles by Felicity Lawrence in UK Guardian Unlimited and Pat Thomas in The Ecologist: Murray 2006.10.21 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1353 carcinogenic effect of inhaled formaldehyde, Federal Institute of Risk Assessment, Germany -- same safe level as for Canada: Murray 2006.06.02 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1352 Home sickness -- indoor air often worse, as our homes seal in pollutants [one is formaldehyde, also from the 11% methanol part of aspartame], Megan Gillis, WinnipegSun.com: Murray 2006.06.01 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1414 effect of aspartame on oncogene and suppressor gene expressions in mice, Katalin Gambos, Istvan Ember, et al, University of Pecs, Hungary, In Vivo 2007 Jan; scores of their relevant past studies since 1977: Murray 2007.04.14 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1366 toxicity in rat brains from aspartame, Vences-Mejia A, Espinosa-Aguirre JJ et al 2006 Aug: Murray 2006.09.06 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1373 aspartame rat brain toxicity re cytochrome P450 enzymes, especially CYP2E1, Vences-Mejia A, Espinosa-Aguirre JJ et al, 2006 Aug, Hum Exp Toxicol: relevant abstracts re formaldehyde from methanol in alcohol drinks: Murray 2006.09.29 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1271 combining aspartame and quinoline yellow, or MSG and brilliant blue, harms nerve cells, eminent C. Vyvyan Howard et al, 2005 education.guardian.co.uk, Felicity Lawrence: Murray 2005.12.21 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1277 50% UK baby food is now organic -- aspartame or MSG with food dyes harm nerve cells, CV Howard 3 year study funded by Lizzy Vann, CEO, Organix Brands, Children's Food Advisory Service: Murray 2006.01.13 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1279 all three aspartame metabolites harm human erythrocyte [red blood cell] membrane enzyme activity, KH Schulpis et al, two studies in 2005, Athens, Greece, 2005.12.14: 2004 research review, RL Blaylock: Murray 2006.01.14 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1349 NIH NLM ToxNet HSDB Hazardous Substances Data Bank inadequate re aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid): Murray 2006.08.19 http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/si...temp/~HwoSfJ:1 HSDB Hazardous Substances Data Bank: Aspartame ASPARTAME CASRN: 22839-47-0 METHANOL CASRN: 67-56-1 FORMALDEHYDE CASRN: 50-00-0 FORMIC ACID CASRN: 64-18-6 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 2001.07.12: Murray 2004.01.22 http://www.HolisticMed.com/aspartame Aspartame Toxicity Information Center Mark D. Gold 12 East Side Drive #2-18 Concord, NH 03301 603-225-2100 http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame.../methanol.html "Scientific Abuse in Aspartame Research" 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 EU Scientific Committee on Food, a whitewash http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1045 http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame...2-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/782 RTM: Smith, Terpening, Schmidt, Gums: full text: aspartame, MSG, fibromyalgia 2002.01.17 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. 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/915 formaldehyde toxicity: Thrasher & Kilburn: Shaham: EPA: Gold: Wilson: CIIN: Murray 2002.12.12 Thrasher (2001): "The major difference is that the Japanese demonstrated the incorporation of FA and its metabolites into the placenta and fetus. The quantity of radioactivity remaining in maternal and fetal tissues at 48 hours was 26.9% of the administered dose." [ Ref. 14-16 ] Arch Environ Health 2001 Jul-Aug; 56(4): 300-11. Embryo toxicity and teratogenicity of formaldehyde. [100 references] Thrasher JD, Kilburn KH. Sam-1 Trust, Alto, New Mexico, USA. full text http://www.drthrasher.org/formaldehy..._toxicity.html 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. PMID: 2400243 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// |
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