initiating aspartame article on Citizendium democratic professional

initiating aspartame article on Citizendium democratic professional
world encyclopedia -- opportunities for all citizens and groups:
Murray 2007.11.20
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1492
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.htm
Tuesday, November 20, 2007


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Diet [edit]

There are a number of dietary changes a person with IBS can make to
prevent the overreaction of the gastrocolic reflex and lessen pain,
discomfort, and bowel dysfunction.

Having soluble fiber foods and supplements, substituting soy or rice
products for dairy, being careful with fresh fruits and vegetables
that are high in insoluble fiber, and eating regular small amounts,
can all help to lessen the symptoms of IBS.

Foods and beverages to be avoided or minimized include red meat, oily
or fatty and fried products, dairy (even when there is no lactose
intolerance), solid chocolate, coffee (regular and decaffeinated),
alcohol, carbonated beverages (especially those also containing
sorbitol), and artificial sweeteners.

However, care should be taken to avoid adding foods to the diet to
which the patient is allergic or intolerant.[34] ]



Herein I give an introduction, as the initiator of this article. I,
Rich Murray, have for nine years as a volunteer public service,
evolved a public archive of 1,492 posts, including this one, of long,
detailed, fair, civil, hyperlinked review articles of mostly
mainstream science and news on this and related citizen safety issues,
for a rather silent group of 112 members. I also publish every post
in , http://RMForAll.blogspot.com and many
groups on UseNet, such as sci.med.nutrition , bionet.neuroscience ,
and rarely, bionet.toxicology . Google Groups searches today puts 4
of my aspartame posts in the top 10 of 2,230 listings.

Aspartame since 1971 has 879 items in PubMed, including 20 studies
since summer 2005 that present specific troublesome findings about
aspartame safety, many dealing with highly technical biochemical
issues, many by new teams. Only a few of these have been discussed on
the Net or in any public media.

There has since 1971 been almost no collaboration between the hugely
successful aspartame industry and its agents with any critics about
safety issues. I myself, always giving full contact information on
every post, have experienced only being ignored or dismissed, often
with rude ad hominem rebuffs, with no to and fro professional
discussion based on common purpose, reason, and evidence. Other
information activists have helped and encouraged me since January,
1999, but none have collaborated with me in any creative, ongoing
projects. They are similarly ignored, isolated, marginalized, or
discredited by adroit public relations campaigns, including the
prestigious, highly professional Ramazzini Foundation and its great
leader, Morando Soffritti.

As a mature medical layman without relevant education, credentials, or
experience, I have always carefully earned credibility by limiting
myself to simple assessments of easily comprehensible research, citing
in detail abstracts from PubMed, as well as the increasing percentage
of online free full texts, and driving 60 miles from Santa Fe to
Albuquerque to get other texts at no cost via the UNM Health Sciences
Library, while focusing on the especially simple, obvious, and
transparent issues of conversion of methanol into formaldehyde and
formic acid in humans.

Since joining Citizendium 2006-03-27, I have noted every post by Larry
Sanger, and was especially stirred by his "A New Politics of
Information", a proclamation of existence of a new world democratic
entity with professional standards for that greatest of human
pleasures, competent mutual service.

Accordingly I have initiated my full participation in this
evolutionary revolution by starting this aspartame article. I welcome
all collaborators and all points of view in this great endeavor. We
must succeed, for our success establishes a precedent and paradigm for
world citizen service to establish reason and evidence based consensus
on the wonderful opportunities offered by the accelerating panoply of
interlinked global problems on all levels.

We, human citizens of Earth, rule.
We, citizen souls in this evolving world appearance, serve.

Now, it is crucial to suggest certain opportunities here for the
aspartame industry and its agents. The century-long tobacco debacle,
still an ongoing tsunami of needless human misery and crippling social
costs, is gradually being addressed effectively on a global scale.
Rapidly rising standards of safety, benefit, integrity, and competent
service are essential for personal happiness and success, as well as
benign social life and corporate survival in our single human world.

The Net is an uncontrollable information environment, the very epitome
of democracy. Free, reliable, democratically evolved information and
consensus, based on passion to competently serve, to constructively
reason, and to share evidence, among volunteer communities with high
professional standards, are the ever-growing treasure of our race, and
absolutely essential for not only the rudiments of sustainable
survival, but of ever generous glory.

It is impossible for any corporate entity to ignore this surging tide
of opportunity, or to limit or manipulate it for narrow ends by
ignoble means.

The only realistic strategy is to join our mutual gold rush, quickly,
actively, constructively, creatively, fully.

Citizendium needs you, and we all need Citizendium.

Citizendium needs feet on the ground, and funds in the coffers.

With regard to aspartame, there are multiple opportunities, including
accepting stevia quickly as a global solution, and using its profits
to help citizen clients who have incurred costs from any unsafe
features of aspartame. Firms that actively explore the safety issues,
for instance, by participating fully in this article, will more
quickly come to a realistic perception of any genuine problems, and be
in position to cooperate with other players for mutually positive
remedies. There is no need to continue to plunge pathetically over
the cliff blindly and stubbornly like tobacco.

Any firm that shares in the development of affordable means of
removing all methanol from alcohol beverages, the main cause of
hangovers, will enjoy a huge market.

If "medicinal brandy" is a real phenomenon, ie, if formaldehyde at low
levels is far more harmful to many bacteria, viruses, and fungi than
to complex human cells, there are huge opportunities that so far have
not been explored:

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://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scf/out96_en.pdf

12 July 2001
Opinion of the Scientific Committee on Food
on the use of dimethyl dicarbonate (DMDC) in wines
(opinion expressed on 11 July 2001)

"...DMDC was evaluated by the SCF in 1990 and considered acceptable
for the cold sterilization of soft drinks and fruit juices at levels
of addition up to 250 mg/L (1)
....DMDC decomposes primarily to CO2 and methanol ...

The use of 200 mg DMDC/L would add 98 mg/L of methanol to wine which
already contains an average of about 140 mg/L from natural sources. A
healthy person metabolises 1500 mg methanol/hr without any
physiological problems and this should be compared to the amount of up
to 240 mg/L methanol in wine, treated with DMDC up to 200 mg/L.
Metabolism of the amounts of methanol resulting from consumption of
wine containing such levels is therefore well within the capacity of
the human body. Thus consumption of even large quantities of wine
would not pose any hazards from methanol.

Conclusion
The formation of methanol and other reaction products following the
use of DMDC for the treatment of alcoholic beverages and wine is
similar to that formed in non-alcoholic beverages. Therefore the
previous opinion on the use of DMDC for non-alcoholic beverages (1) is
equally applicable to wines treated with DMDC."

It is possible that the SCF made a mistake, unaware of or disregarding
the report by Jones, AW 1987 on methanol as the major cause of
hangovers from alcohol drinks. Note the strong hint that methanol or
formaldehyde may be reasonably safe medicines or preventives for a
variety of infections. Only open-minded, mutually respectful global
cooperation can sustain the social environment that will efficiently
explore many such opportunities. Epidemiological studies on aspartame
should be watchful for unexpected positive correlations with health.

These major reviews cover major developments since 1998:

http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.htm
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1490
details on 6 epidemiological studies since 2004 on diet soda (mainly
aspartame) correlations, as well as 14 other mainstream studies on
aspartame toxicity since summer 2005: Murray 2007.11.20

http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.htm
Saturday, September 15, 2007
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1472
bias, omissions, incuriosity = opportunity, aspartame safety
evaluation, Magnuson BA, Burdock GA, Williams GM, 7 more, 2007 Sept,
Ajinomoto funded 98 pages html [$ 32 781888262_content.pdf]: Murray
2007.09.15

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/1491
industry scientists praise aspartame safety and benefits in Paris on
2006.05.30, Herve Nordmann, Andrew G. Renwick, Carlo La Vecchia, Tommy
Visscher, Jaap Seidell, France Bellisle, Adam Drewnowski, Margaret
Ashwell, Anne de la Hunty, Sigrid A. Gibson, Alan R. Boobis: Murray
2007.11.18

In mutual service, Rich Murray

"Of course, everyone chooses, as a natural priority, to enjoy peace,
joy, and love by helping to find, quickly share, and positively act
upon evidence about healthy and safe food, drink, and environment."

Rich Murray, MA Room For All
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