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House Concurrent Resolution #132 for Health Department panel todecide aspartame ban by early 2010, Hawaii Rep. Josh Green MD, Health
House Concurrent Resolution #132 for Health Department panel to decide
aspartame ban by early 2010, Hawaii Rep. Josh Green MD, Health Committee Chair: Murray 2008.03.12 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.htm Wednesday, March 12, 2008 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1525 __________________________________________________ ___ http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessio...ls/HCR132_.pdf Hawaii House of Representatives H.C.R. No. 132, Twenty-fourth Legislature, State of Hawaii -- House Concurrent Resolution Requesting the Director of Health to form a work group to explore the need to ban or better label products containing the artificial sweetener aspartame. WHEREAS, discovered in 1965, aspartame was first approved in the United States in 1981 and is one of the most widely used artificial sweeteners; and WHEREAS, when metabolized by the body, aspartame is broken down into two common amino acids, aspartic acid and phenylalanine, and a small amount of a third substance, methanol; and [ Note: the aspartame molecule becomes equal numbers of aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol molecules (which although light weight, are more chemically active by far, being turned quickly into nearly the same number of molecules of formaldehyde and then formic acid, enough to have toxic effects in every cell in the body by binding with and impairing DNA, RNA, and protein molecules. ] WHEREAS, these three substances occur in similar or greater amounts in common foods; and [ Note: methanol and formaldehyde are also supplied by dark wines and liquors (the major cause of "morning after" hangovers), tobacco and wood smoke, fumes from faulty furnaces, heaters and stoves, many fruits and vegetables (when heated in canning, fermented, or degraded by colonic bacteria), mobile homes and RVs, particleboard, new buildings new cars, carpets, drapes, and furniture, mortuaries, medical training and research, many cleaners and disinfectants, many personal care products ranging from leather to hair dyes, and more, including many Asian foods. ] WHEREAS, aspartame continues to be the subject of strong public controversy regarding its safety; and WHEREAS, some studies have recommended further investigation into the possible connection between aspartame and diseases such as brain tumors, brain lesions, and lymphoma; and [ Note: the range of symptoms also includes headache, fatigue, poor memory, irritability, lassitude, mania, anxiety, depression, "brain fog", insomnia, dizziness, many body pains and muscle cramps, restless legs, interstitial cystitis, eye and vision problems, tinnitus, dry eyes and mouth, skin rashes, diarrhea or constipation, partial paralysis (often confused as MS), ideopathic seizures, weight gain or loss, blood sugar swings, craving and addiction, impaired fertility and pregnancy, "spontaneous" abortion, premature birth, low birth weight, birth defects, sudden infant death syndrome, autism, and early diabetes -- this dazzling litany of outcomes is the natural result of chronic, long-term, low-level exposure to formaldehyde and formic acid. Naturally, there are countless interactions with other drugs and toxins, as well as major and complex individual genetic variations. Cheap, safe folic acid protects against formaldehyde toxicity in most people. ] WHEREAS, some human and animal studies have found adverse effects and some have found no adverse effects; and [ Note: almost all industry and vested interest funded research claims no evidence of problems, while the opposite is found by independent teams. ] WHEREAS, while there have been a number of studies on the effects of aspartame on people, there is a great deal of argument by both proponents and opponents on the methods used in the testing and whether accurate representations of the consequences of average consumption by people have been achieved by these studies; and Note: a major need is to focus on the effects for long-term heavy users, above 6 12-oz cans daily diet drink, from vulnerable groups like fetus, infants, kids, teens, students, difficult critical jobs like police, pilots, military, and nuclear plant operators, pregnant women, seniors, obese, diabetic, depressed, violent criminal, cancer, and, especially, over-worked PR agents lavishly funded to defend aspartame as, "the most tested food additive in history". WHEREAS, the Internet has become a tool for many to spread and promote the opinion they adhere to as fact whether it is that aspartame is a neurotoxin derived from toxic sludge or it is a harmless product enabling a healthy lifestyle; and WHEREAS, while many may find that the simple answer to the problem is to not purchase or use any product containing aspartame in it, there are those who maintain that some products do not specifically list aspartame as an ingredient, rather it is hidden under the label of "natural flavors"; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-fourth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2008, the Senate concurring, that the Director of Health is requested to form a work group to explore the need to ban or improve labeling for products containing the artificial sweetener aspartame; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED the members of the work group should include: (1) One member from the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives; (2) One member of the Senate appointed by the President of the Senate; (3) The Director of Health or the director's designee; (4) The President of the Calorie Control Council or the President's designee; and [ the preminent aspartame lobby ] (5) The President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Beverage Association or a designee; [ With their original name, The National Soft Drink Association, they condemned aspartame on July 28, 1983 in a detailed critique: http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?page_id=60 ] (6) The President of the Hawaii Society of Naturopathic Physicians or a designee; (7) The Founder of Mission Possible International or a designee; and (8) Two consumers appointed by the Director of Health; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED the work group is requested to submit a report of its findings, as well as any suggested legislation, to the Legislature no later than 20 days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2010; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Director of Health, President of the Calorie Control Council, ; President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Beverage Association, ; President of the Hawaii Society of Naturopathic Physicians, ; and Founder of Mission Possible International, Betty Martini, Offered by Josh Green, MD March 4, 2008 Honorable Rep. Josh Green, M.D., Chair, Health Committee ; 6th Representative District Hawaii State Capitol, Room 327 415 South Beretania Street Honolulu, HI 96813 phone 808-586-9605; fax 808-586-9608 From the Big Island, toll free 974-4000 + 69605 Hawaiian aspartame ban bills in House and Senate challenge corporate clout, Sen. J. Kalani English & Suzanne Chun Oakland, Rep. Calvin K.Y. Say & Mele Carroll: Murray 2008.01.25 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm Friday, January 25, 2008 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1505 __________________________________________________ ___ www.hawaiind.org/index.htm Hawaii Society of Naturopathic Physicians 750-D Kapahulu Ave Honolulu, HI 96816 808-732-6996 Dr. Ye Nguyen - President ; Dr. Monique Yuen - Vice President: ; Dr. Karen Tan - Treasurer Dr. Madeleine Portuondo ; __________________________________________________ ___ 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: Rich 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 [ Rich Murray comments: As a medical layman volunteer information activist for aspartame and related toxicity issues since January 1999, I note with appreciation the remarkable exponential progress on all fronts, including a rapidly emerging consensus about the primary importance of all toxicity challenges for our world. This lengthy review features in detail two quite different, revolutionary contributions, from Canada, and England and China. It is indicative of our times that the CL Nie et al. study, 2007 appears in a free, open access journal-- indeed, as all life and death information must. Following rather vigorously, indeed blindly, the imperatives of single-minded, profit-driven capitalist competition -- manipulating adroitly research, education, media, citizens, governments -- many great global corporations have inevitably created results that oppose the common good. Alcohol and tobacco are well known. Realistically, any further manipulations can only lead to inevitable and even sudden corporate meltdowns, in the context of an unfettered, cooperative, democratic global information forum, the Internet. Now, it is as easy and cheap to compose and instantly post a 30-page review as 3 pages a decade ago -- and such reviews are archived forever in multiple collections, open via global search engines to a billion Net citizens. Perforce, and increasingly happily, all societal entities will have to operate by high and shared voluntary universal standards for the common good. ] http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi...7.2007.00541.x Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research Volume 31 Issue 12 Page 2114-2120, December 2007 Bhushan M. Kapur, ; Arthur C. Vandenbroucke, PhD, FCACB Yana Adamchik, Denis C. Lehotay, ; Peter L. Carlen ; (2007) Formic Acid, a Novel Metabolite of Chronic Ethanol Abuse, Causes Neurotoxicity, Which Is Prevented by Folic Acid Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 31 (12), 2114-2120. doi:10.1111/j.1530-0277.2007.00541.x Abstract Background: Methanol is endogenously formed in the brain and is present as a congener in most alcoholic beverages. Because ethanol is preferentially metabolized over methanol (MeOH) by alcohol dehydrogenase, it is not surprising that MeOH accumulates in the alcohol-abusing population. This suggests that the alcohol-drinking population will have higher levels of MeOH's neurotoxic metabolite, formic acid (FA). FA elimination is mediated by folic acid. Neurotoxicity is a common result of chronic alcoholism. This study shows for the first time that FA, found in chronic alcoholics, is neurotoxic and this toxicity can be mitigated by folic acid administration. Objective: To determine if FA levels are higher in the alcohol-drinking population and to assess its neurotoxicity in organotypic hippocampal rat brain slice cultures. Methods: Serum and CSF FA was measured in samples from both ethanol abusing and control patients, who presented to a hospital emergency department. [ CSF = Cerebral Spinal Fluid ] FA's neurotoxicity and its reversibility by folic acid were assessed using organotypic rat brain hippocampal slice cultures using clinically relevant concentrations. Results: Serum FA levels in the alcoholics (mean ± SE: 0.416 +- 0.093 mmol/l, n = 23) were significantly higher than in controls (mean ± SE: 0.154 +- 0.009 mmol/l, n = 82) (p 0.0002). FA was not detected in the controls' CSF (n = 20), whereas it was 0.15 mmol/l in CSF of 3 of the 4 alcoholic cases. Low doses of FA from 1 to 5 mmol/l added for 24, 48 or 72 hours to the rat brain slice cultures caused neuronal death as measured by propidium iodide staining. When folic acid (1 umol/l) was added with the FA, neuronal death was prevented. [ umol = micromole ] Conclusions: Formic acid may be a significant factor in the neurotoxicity of ethanol abuse. This neurotoxicity can be mitigated by folic acid administration at a clinically relevant dose. Key Words: Formic Acid, Folic Acid, Methanol, Neurotoxicity, Alcoholism. __________________________________________________ __ Note: many recent aspartame bans..... 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/aspartameNMmessage/1451 Artificial sweeteners (aspartame, sucralose) and coloring agents will be banned from use in newly-born and baby foods, the European Parliament decided: Latvia ban in schools 2006: Murray 2007.07.12 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/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/1513 metabolic syndrome is tied to diet soda, PL Lutsey, LM Steffen, J Stevens, Circulation 2008.01.22: role of formaldehyde and formic acid from methanol in wines, liquors, or aspartame?: Murray 2008.02.21 "But the one-third who ate the most fried food increased their risk by 25 percent, compared with the one-third who ate the least, and surprisingly, the risk of developing metabolic syndrome was 34 percent higher among those who drank one can of diet soda a day compared with those who drank none. "This is interesting," said Lyn M. Steffen, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota and a co-author of the paper, which was posted online in the journal Circulation on Jan. 22. "Why is it happening? Is it some kind of chemical in the diet soda, or something about the behavior of diet soda drinkers?"" "The diet soda association was not hypothesized and deserves further study." 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 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1511 vinyl acetate, ethyl alcohol, or aspartame in womb increases later cancers in adults with lifetime exposure in many studies, M Soffritti et al, Ramazzini Foundation, Basic Clin. Pharm. Toxicol. 2008 Feb.: Rich Murray 2008.02.07 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1016 President Bush & formaldehyde (aspartame) toxicity: Ramazzini Foundation carcinogenicity results Dec 2002: Soffritti: Murray 2003.08.03 rmforall p. 88 "The sweetening agent aspartame hydrolyzes in the gastrointestinal tract to become free methyl alcohol, which is metabolized in the liver to formaldehyde, formic acid, and CO2. (11)" Medinsky MA & Dorman DC. 1994; Assessing risks of low-level methanol exposure. CIIT Act. 14: 1-7. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1453 Souring on fake sugar (aspartame), Jennifer Couzin, Science 2007.07.06: 4 page letter to FDA from 12 eminent USA toxicologists re two Ramazzini Foundation cancer studies 2007.06.25: Murray 2007.07.18 30 female pet store rats drinking lifelong 13.5 mg aspartame, 1/3 packet of Equal, had 33% with obvious tumors -- also bulging, sick, and missing eyes, paralysis, obesity, skin sores -- agrees with Ramazzini Foundation results, Victoria Inness-Brown: Murray 2008.02.15 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.htm Friday, February 15, 2008 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1521 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 2007.11.27 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/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 old tiger roars -- Woodrow C Monte, PhD -- aspartame causes many breast cancers, as ADH enzyme in breasts makes methanol from diet soda into carcinogenic formaldehyde -- same in dark wines and liquors, Fitness Life 2008 Jan.: Murray 2008.02.11 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.htm Monday, February 11, 2008 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1517 "Alcohol dehydrogenase ADH is required for the conversion of methanol to formaldehyde (112). ADH is not a common enzyme in the human body -- not many cells in the human body contain this enzyme. The human breast is one of the few organs in the body with a high concentration of ADH (190b), and it is found there exclusively in the mammary epithelial cells, the very cells known to transform into adenocarcinoma (190c) (breast cancer). The most recent breast cancer scientific literature implicates ADH as perhaps having a pivotal role in the formation of breast cancer, indicating a greater incidence of the disease in those with higher levels of ADH activity in their breasts (190a)." role of formaldehyde, made by body from methanol from foods and aspartame, in steep increases in fetal alcohol syndrome, autism, multiple sclerosis, lupus, teen suicide, breast cancer, Nutrition Prof. Woodrow C. Monte, retired, Arizona State U., two reviews, 190 references supplied, Fitness Life, New Zealand 2007 Nov, Dec: Murray 2007.12.26 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.htm Wednesday, December 26 2007 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1498 bias, omissions, incuriosity = opportunity, aspartame safety evaluation, Magnuson BA, Burdock GA, Williams GM, 7 more, 2007 Sept, Ajinomoto funded 98 pages html [ $ 32 pdf ]: Murray 2007.09.15 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.htm Saturday, September 15, 2007 MSG and Aspartame -- A Personal Story, TV health reporter Dick Allgire (vegetarian) healed of migraines and panic attacks: Murray 2008.02.12 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.htm Tuesday, February 12, 2008 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1520 "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 505-501-2298 1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 http://RMForAll.blogspot.com new primary archive http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/messages group with 120 members, 1,525 posts in a public archive http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartame/messages group with 1,080 members, 22,439 posts in public archive __________________________________________________ ___ |
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