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Diet Soda [aspartame] Dangerous? Shari Lieberman, The O'Reilly Factor 3.19.4: Murray 3.23.4 rmforall
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Diet Soda [aspartame] Dangerous? Shari Lieberman, The O'Reilly Factor 3.19.4: Murray 3.23.4 rmforall http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114880,00.html Dr. Shari Lieberman http://www.drshari.net Diet Soda Dangerous? Monday, March 22, 2004 This is a partial transcript from "The O'Reilly Factor," March 19, 2004 that has been edited for clarity. Watch The O'Reilly Factor weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and listen to the Radio Factor! BILL O'REILLY, HOST: In the "Back of the Book" Segment tonight, Americans drink billions of gallons of diet soda a year. It's incredible how much we consume. And some believe millions of Americans are addicted to the stuff. They have to have it. With us now is Dr. Shari Lieberman, a certified nutrition specialist here in New York City. All right. So it's -- 10 billion cases of soda sold every year in the USA, and 30 percent of that, approximately, is diet soda, and I know people who walk around all day long drinking diet soda. What is that all about? SHARI LIEBERMAN, PH.D., CERTIFIED NUTRITION SPECIALIST: It's unbelievable. It is such an addicting substance. You have both the aspartame, the NutraSweet, combined with the caffeine. You're basically getting a rush all day. It actually messes with your brain chemicals, Bill. O'REILLY: Does it really? LIEBERMAN: It really does. You know, aspartic acid actually makes what we call excitatory neurotransmitters. Imagine we have a balance of ones that calm us down and ones that hype us up. So, if you're drinking something that's going to make the ones that are excitatory or making us hyper all day long, that's why there are so many side effects associated with NutraSweet, such as irritability and anxiety. I mean people are basically getting a rush all day from drinking this. O'REILLY: OK. So, if you're drinking diet soda all day long or, say, you're drinking, you know, 48 ounces, 50 ounces a day, which a lot of people do... LIEBERMAN: They do. O'REILLY: ... you are basically -- it's an upper. LIEBERMAN: It's an upper. Exactly. And guess what happens when you run out of it? It's a crasher... O'REILLY: Is that right? LIEBERMAN: ... and then you need an upper. O'REILLY: You feel bad after it. Now is this physically addicting, do you believe, or is it psychological? LIEBERMAN: I believe it's physically addicting. You know, we know that caffeine is. So you've got a ton of caffeine in the diet sodas. Then you actually have a substance that's affecting neurotransmitters. So they're really getting a double whammy, and, of course, we're talking about people that are drinking it all day long. O'REILLY: Yes, and they think that, well, I can drink it all day long because there's no calories in it, I'm not going to get fat. Go ahead. LIEBERMAN: I have to tell you something about that. If you look at the research, people that drink diet sodas are oftentimes eating more calories than people drinking regular sodas. O'REILLY: But they're eating them. LIEBERMAN: It actually increases... O'REILLY: You know, that's -- they're eating. LIEBERMAN: It seems to increase... O'REILLY: You can't get fat drinking diet soda. LIEBERMAN: It's not that you get fat, Bill. I think it's the... O'REILLY: Bloated. LIEBERMAN: ... taste of the sweet. It keeps you so addicted. They seem to eat more carbohydrates throughout the day when they're drinking diet soda. Go figure. O'REILLY: What other physical things -- if you're consuming a lot of diet soda, what happens to your body? LIEBERMAN: Well, you also can get a certain amount of methanol, which is the more toxic alcohol. That's a byproduct of NutraSweet and aspartame, if you're drinking a lot of it, and that's a wood alcohol that's actually rather toxic and can cause some problems as well. So you have a substance that, when you're taking in really large amounts, is going to affect your chemistry, your brain chemistry, your... O'REILLY: Your body chemistry and... LIEBERMAN: Exactly. Your body chemistry. O'REILLY: OK. Now there are no warnings on any of the soda labels, and nobody says any of this. But, you know, I -- and I wanted to do the story because, anecdotally, I've seen people, you know, in the office here and all of that, drink diet soda after diet soda after diet soda. LIEBERMAN: Well, who did my makeup today actually said to me she's drinking a ton of diet soda and is suffering from migraines. There are reports of migraines and fibromyalgia and certain illnesses disappearing when people go off diet sodas. So, I mean, there is a relationship between taking in a lot of this stuff -- we're not talking about the occasional user. O'REILLY: No. LIEBERMAN: But if -- you know, once again, you've got these excited neurons in your head, and it is related to migraines and fibromyalgia and a number of other illnesses that have been shown to go away. O'REILLY: Right. And it doesn't do any -- your teeth any good either? LIEBERMAN: It really -- it doesn't protect your teeth like Xylitol and some of the other sweeteners. O'REILLY: All right, Doctor. I knew drinking 50 ounces of that stuff wasn't good. LIEBERMAN: You were right, Bill. O'REILLY: You know, one Dr. Pepper once in a while, fine, but, you know, leave the six-pack home. Content and Programming Copyright 2004 Fox News Network, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Transcription Copyright 2004 eMediaMillWorks, Inc. (f/k/a Federal Document Clearing House, Inc.), which takes sole responsibility for the accuracy of the transcription. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No license is granted to the user of this material except for the user's personal or internal use and, in such case, only one copy may be printed, nor shall user use any material for commercial purposes or in any fashion that may infringe upon Fox News Network, Inc.'s and eMediaMillWorks, Inc.'s copyrights or other proprietary rights or interests in the material. This is not a legal transcript for purposes of litigation. ************************************************** ************* Rich Murray, MA Room For All 1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 USA 505-986-9103 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1059 foxnews.com, The O'Reilly Factor, Shari Lieberman, diet soft drinks (aspartame), Friday March 19 2004: Mike: Martini: Murray 3.21.4 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1063 positive response to Lieberman on The O'Reilly Factor: Lieberman: Murray 3.22.4 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/927 Donald Rumsfeld, 1977 head of Searle Corp., got aspartame FDA approval: Turner: Murray 12.23.2 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1039 three-page review: aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) toxicity: Murray 11.22.3 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1026 brief aspartame review: formaldehyde toxicity: Murray 9.11.3 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/989 On 4.10.2003 the European Union Parliament voted 440 to 20 to approve sucralose, limit cyclamates & reevaluate aspartame & stevia: Murray 4.12.3 rmforall http://google.com gives 221,000 websites for "aspartame" , with the top 9 of 10 listings being anti-aspartame, while http://groups.google.com finds on 700 MB of posts from 20 years of Usenet groups, 83,800 posts, the top 10 being anti-aspartame. http://news.google.com 28 recent aspartame items from 4500 sources. http://www.AllTheWeb.com gives 291,700, the top 7 of 10 being leading and very well informed volunteer anti-aspartame sites. http://teoma.com/index.asp gives 85,700 websites, top 8 of 10 anti. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed lists 751 aspartame items. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1025 aspartame & formaldehyde toxicity: Murray 9.9.3 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/messages for 1064 posts in a public searchable archive 120 members http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartame/messages 774 with 16,660 posts http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1047 Avoiding Hangover Hell 12.31.3 Mark Sherman, AP writer: Robert Swift, MD: [formaldehyde from methanol in aspartame]: Murray 1.16.4 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1048 hangovers from formaldehyde from methanol (aspartame?): Schwarcz: Linsley: Murray 1.18.4 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 7.12.1: Murray 1.22.4 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1024 aspartame review: methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid toxicity: Murray 9.5.3 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/910 formaldehyde & formic acid from methanol in aspartame: Murray: 12.9.2 rmforall It is certain that high levels of aspartame use, above 2 liters daily for months and years, must lead to chronic formaldehyde-formic acid toxicity, since 11% of aspartame (1,120 mg in 2L diet soda, 5.6 12-oz cans) is 123 mg methanol (wood alcohol), immediately released into the body after drinking (unlike the large levels of methanol locked up in molecules inside many fruits), then quickly transformed into formaldehyde, which in turn becomes formic acid, both of which in time are partially eliminated as carbon dioxide and water. However, about 30% of the methanol remains in the body as cumulative durable toxic metabolites of formaldehyde and formic acid-- 37 mg daily, a gram every month. [Metabolism of aspartame in monkeys. Oppermann JA, Muldoon E, Ranney RE. J. Nutrition 1973 Oct; 103(10): 1454-1459.] If 10% of the methanol is retained as formaldehyde, that would give 12 mg daily formaldehyde accumulation, about 60 times more than the 0.2 mg from 10% retention of the 2 mg EPA daily limit for formaldehyde in water. Bear in mind that the EPA limit for formaldehyde in drinking water is 1 ppm, or 2 mg daily for a typical daily consumption of 2 L of water. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/835 RTM: ATSDR: EPA limit 1 ppm formaldehyde in drinking water July 1999 5.30.2 rmforall This long-term low-level chronic toxic exposure leads to typical patterns of increasingly severe complex symptoms, starting with headache, fatigue, joint pain, irritability, memory loss, and leading to vision and eye problems, and even seizures. In many cases there is addiction. Probably there are immune system disorders, with a hypersensitivity to these toxins and other chemicals. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/782 RTM: Smith, Terpening, Schmidt, Gums: full text: aspartame, MSG, fibromyalgia 1.17.2 rmforall 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/846 RTM: aspartame in Merck Maxalt-MLT worsens migraine, AstraZeneca Zomig, Eli Lilly Zyprexa, J&J Merck Pepcid AC (Famotidine 10mg) Chewable Tab, Pfizer Cool Mint Listerine Pocketpaks 7.16.2 rmforall Migraine MLT-Down: an unusual presentation of migraine in patients with aspartame-triggered headaches. Newman LC, Lipton RB Headache 2001 Oct; 41(9): 899-901. [Merck 10-mg Maxalt-MLT, for migraine, has 3.75 mg aspartame, while 12 oz diet soda has 200 mg.] Headache Institute, St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY Department of Neurology Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY Innovative Medical Research http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/855 RTM: Blumenthall & Vance: aspartame chewing gum headaches Nov 1997 7.28.2 rmforall Harvey J. Blumenthal, MD, Dwight A Vance, RPh Chewing Gum Headaches. Headache 1997 Nov-Dec; 37(10): 665-6. Department of Neurology, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Tulsa, USA. Aspartame, a popular dietetic sweetener, may provoke headache in some susceptible individuals. Herein, we describe three cases of young women with migraine who reported their headaches could be provoked by chewing gum sweetened with aspartame. [6-8 mg aspartame per stick chewing gum] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/925 aspartame puts formaldehyde adducts into tissues, Part 1/2 full text, Trocho & Alemany 6.26.98: Murray 12.22.2 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/926 aspartame puts formaldehyde adducts into tissues, Part 2/2 full text, Trocho & Alemany 6.26.98: Murray 12.22.2 rmforall http://ww.presidiotex.com/barcelona/index.html Trocho C, Pardo R, Rafecas I, Virgili J, Remesar X, Fernandez-Lopez JA, Alemany M ["Trok-ho"] Formaldehyde derived from dietary aspartame binds to tissue components in vivo. Life Sci 1998 Jun 26; 63(5): 337-49. Departament de Bioquimica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. http://www.presidiotex.com/barcelona/index.html Maria Alemany, PhD (male) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/864 Murray: Butchko, Tephly, McMartin: Alemany: aspartame formaldehyde adducts in rats 9.8.2 rmforall Prof. Alemany vigorously affirms the validity of the Trocho study against criticism: Butchko, HH et al [24 authors], Aspartame: review of safety. Regul. Toxicol. Pharmacol. 2002 April 1; 35 (2 Pt 2): S1-93, review available for $35, [an industry paid organ]. Butchko: "When all the research on aspartame, including evaluations in both the premarketing and postmarketing periods, is examined as a whole, it is clear that aspartame is safe, and there are no unresolved questions regarding its safety under conditions of intended use." [ They repeatedly pass on the ageless industry deceit that the methanol in fruits and vegetables is as as biochemically available as that in aspartame-- see the 1984 rebuttal by Monte, below. In the same report, Schiffman concludes on page S49, not citing any research after 1997, "Thus, the weight of the scientific evidence indicates that aspartame does not cause headache." Dr. Susan S. Schiffman, Dept. of Psychiatry, Duke University 919-684-3303, 660-5657 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/864 Murray: Butchko, Tephly, McMartin: Alemany: aspartame formaldehyde adducts in rats 9.8.2 rmforall ] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/911 RTP ties to industry criticized by CSPI: Murray: 12.9.2 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1016 President Bush & formaldehyde (aspartame) toxicity: Ramazzini Foundation carcinogenicity results Dec 2002: Soffritti: Murray 8.3.3 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. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2002 Dec; 982: 87-105. Results of long-term experimental studies on the carcinogenicity of formaldehyde and acetaldehyde in rats. Soffritti M, Belpoggi F, Lambertin L, Lauriola M, Padovani M, Maltoni C. Cancer Research Center, European Ramazzini Foundation for Oncology and Environmental Sciences, Bologna, Italy. Formaldehyde was administered for 104 weeks in drinking water supplied ad libitum at concentrations of 1500, 1000, 500, 100, 50, 10, or 0 mg/L to groups of 50 male and 50 female Sprague-Dawley rats beginning at seven weeks of age. Control animals (100 males and 100 females) received tap water only. Acetaldehyde was administered to 50 male and 50 female Sprague-Dawley rats beginning at six weeks of age at concentrations of 2,500, 1,500, 500, 250, 50, or 0 mg/L. Animals were kept under observation until spontaneous death. Formaldehyde and acetaldehyde were found to produce an increase in total malignant tumors in the treated groups and showed specific carcinogenic effects on various organs and tissues. PMID: 12562630 Surely the authors deliberately emphasized that aspartame is well-known to be a source of formaldehyde, which is an extremely potent, cumulative toxin, with complex, multiple effects on all tissues and organs. This is even more significant, considering that they have already tested aspartame, but not yet released the results: p. 29-32 Table 1: The Ramazzinni Foundation Cancer Program Project of [200] Long-Term Carcinogenicity Bioassays: Agents Studied No. No. of Bioassays Species No. Route of Exposure 108. "Coca-Cola" 4 Rat 1,999 Ingestion, Transplantal Route 109. "Pepsi-Cola" 1 Rat 400 Ingestion 110. Sucrose 1 Rat 400 Ingestion 111. Caffeine 1 Rat 800 Ingestion 112. Aspartame 1 Rat 1,800 Ingestion http://members.nyas.org/events/confe...f_02_0429.html Soffritti said that Coca-Cola showed no carcinogenicity. It may be time to disclose these important aspartame results. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/934 24 recent formaldehyde toxicity [Comet assay] reports: Murray 12.31.2 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/935 Comet assay finds DNA damage from sucralose, cyclamate, saccharin in mice: Sasaki YF & Tsuda S Aug 2002: Murray 1.1.3 rmforall [Also borderline evidence, in this pilot study of 39 food additives, using test groups of 4 mice, for DNA damage from for stomach, colon, liver, bladder, and lung 3 hr after oral dose of 2000 mg/kg aspartame-- a very high dose.] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/961 genotoxins, Comet assay in mice: Ace-K, stevia fine; aspartame poor; sucralose, cyclamate, saccharin bad: Y.F. Sasaki Aug 2002: Murray 1.27.3 rmforall [A detailed look at the data] http://www.dorway.com/tldaddic.html 5-page review Roberts HJ Aspartame (NutraSweet) addiction. Townsend Letter 2000 Jan; http://www.sunsentpress.com/ Sunshine Sentinel Press P.O.Box 17799 West Palm Beach, FL 33416 800-814-9800 561-588-7628 561-547-8008 fax http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/669 1038-page medical text "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" published May 30 2001 $ 60.00 postpaid data from 1200 cases available at http://www.amazon.com over 600 references from standard medical research ************************************************** *************** |
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Diet Soda [aspartame] Dangerous? reply not so.
Rich Murray wrote: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1064 Diet Soda [aspartame] Dangerous? Shari Lieberman, The O'Reilly Factor 3.19.4: Murray 3.23.4 rmforall http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114880,00.html Dr. Shari Lieberman http://www.drshari.net Diet Soda Dangerous? Monday, March 22, 2004 This is a partial transcript from "The O'Reilly Factor," March 19, 2004 that has been edited for clarity. Watch The O'Reilly Factor weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and listen to the Radio Factor! BILL O'REILLY, HOST: In the "Back of the Book" Segment tonight, Americans drink billions of gallons of diet soda a year. It's incredible how much we consume. And some believe millions of Americans are addicted to the stuff. They have to have it. With us now is Dr. Shari Lieberman, a certified nutrition specialist here in New York City. All right. So it's -- 10 billion cases of soda sold every year in the USA, and 30 percent of that, approximately, is diet soda, and I know people who walk around all day long drinking diet soda. What is that all about? SHARI LIEBERMAN, PH.D., CERTIFIED NUTRITION SPECIALIST: It's unbelievable. It is such an addicting substance. You have both the aspartame, the NutraSweet, combined with the caffeine. You're basically getting a rush all day. It actually messes with your brain chemicals, Bill. O'REILLY: Does it really? LIEBERMAN: It really does. You know, aspartic acid actually makes what we call excitatory neurotransmitters. Imagine we have a balance of ones that calm us down and ones that hype us up. So, if you're drinking something that's going to make the ones that are excitatory or making us hyper all day long, that's why there are so many side effects associated with NutraSweet, such as irritability and anxiety. I mean people are basically getting a rush all day from drinking this. O'REILLY: OK. So, if you're drinking diet soda all day long or, say, you're drinking, you know, 48 ounces, 50 ounces a day, which a lot of people do... LIEBERMAN: They do. O'REILLY: ... you are basically -- it's an upper. LIEBERMAN: It's an upper. Exactly. And guess what happens when you run out of it? It's a crasher... O'REILLY: Is that right? LIEBERMAN: ... and then you need an upper. O'REILLY: You feel bad after it. Now is this physically addicting, do you believe, or is it psychological? LIEBERMAN: I believe it's physically addicting. You know, we know that caffeine is. So you've got a ton of caffeine in the diet sodas. Then you actually have a substance that's affecting neurotransmitters. So they're really getting a double whammy, and, of course, we're talking about people that are drinking it all day long. O'REILLY: Yes, and they think that, well, I can drink it all day long because there's no calories in it, I'm not going to get fat. Go ahead. LIEBERMAN: I have to tell you something about that. If you look at the research, people that drink diet sodas are oftentimes eating more calories than people drinking regular sodas. O'REILLY: But they're eating them. LIEBERMAN: It actually increases... O'REILLY: You know, that's -- they're eating. LIEBERMAN: It seems to increase... O'REILLY: You can't get fat drinking diet soda. LIEBERMAN: It's not that you get fat, Bill. I think it's the... O'REILLY: Bloated. LIEBERMAN: ... taste of the sweet. It keeps you so addicted. They seem to eat more carbohydrates throughout the day when they're drinking diet soda. Go figure. O'REILLY: What other physical things -- if you're consuming a lot of diet soda, what happens to your body? LIEBERMAN: Well, you also can get a certain amount of methanol, which is the more toxic alcohol. That's a byproduct of NutraSweet and aspartame, if you're drinking a lot of it, and that's a wood alcohol that's actually rather toxic and can cause some problems as well. So you have a substance that, when you're taking in really large amounts, is going to affect your chemistry, your brain chemistry, your... O'REILLY: Your body chemistry and... LIEBERMAN: Exactly. Your body chemistry. O'REILLY: OK. Now there are no warnings on any of the soda labels, and nobody says any of this. But, you know, I -- and I wanted to do the story because, anecdotally, I've seen people, you know, in the office here and all of that, drink diet soda after diet soda after diet soda. LIEBERMAN: Well, who did my makeup today actually said to me she's drinking a ton of diet soda and is suffering from migraines. There are reports of migraines and fibromyalgia and certain illnesses disappearing when people go off diet sodas. So, I mean, there is a relationship between taking in a lot of this stuff -- we're not talking about the occasional user. O'REILLY: No. LIEBERMAN: But if -- you know, once again, you've got these excited neurons in your head, and it is related to migraines and fibromyalgia and a number of other illnesses that have been shown to go away. O'REILLY: Right. And it doesn't do any -- your teeth any good either? LIEBERMAN: It really -- it doesn't protect your teeth like Xylitol and some of the other sweeteners. O'REILLY: All right, Doctor. I knew drinking 50 ounces of that stuff wasn't good. LIEBERMAN: You were right, Bill. O'REILLY: You know, one Dr. Pepper once in a while, fine, but, you know, leave the six-pack home. Content and Programming Copyright 2004 Fox News Network, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Transcription Copyright 2004 eMediaMillWorks, Inc. (f/k/a Federal Document Clearing House, Inc.), which takes sole responsibility for the accuracy of the transcription. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No license is granted to the user of this material except for the user's personal or internal use and, in such case, only one copy may be printed, nor shall user use any material for commercial purposes or in any fashion that may infringe upon Fox News Network, Inc.'s and eMediaMillWorks, Inc.'s copyrights or other proprietary rights or interests in the material. This is not a legal transcript for purposes of litigation. ************************************************** ************* Rich Murray, MA Room For All 1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 USA 505-986-9103 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1059 foxnews.com, The O'Reilly Factor, Shari Lieberman, diet soft drinks (aspartame), Friday March 19 2004: Mike: Martini: Murray 3.21.4 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1063 positive response to Lieberman on The O'Reilly Factor: Lieberman: Murray 3.22.4 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/927 Donald Rumsfeld, 1977 head of Searle Corp., got aspartame FDA approval: Turner: Murray 12.23.2 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1039 three-page review: aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) toxicity: Murray 11.22.3 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1026 brief aspartame review: formaldehyde toxicity: Murray 9.11.3 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/989 On 4.10.2003 the European Union Parliament voted 440 to 20 to approve sucralose, limit cyclamates & reevaluate aspartame & stevia: Murray 4.12.3 rmforall http://google.com gives 221,000 websites for "aspartame" , with the top 9 of 10 listings being anti-aspartame, while http://groups.google.com finds on 700 MB of posts from 20 years of Usenet groups, 83,800 posts, the top 10 being anti-aspartame. http://news.google.com 28 recent aspartame items from 4500 sources. http://www.AllTheWeb.com gives 291,700, the top 7 of 10 being leading and very well informed volunteer anti-aspartame sites. http://teoma.com/index.asp gives 85,700 websites, top 8 of 10 anti. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed lists 751 aspartame items. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1025 aspartame & formaldehyde toxicity: Murray 9.9.3 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/messages for 1064 posts in a public searchable archive 120 members http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartame/messages 774 with 16,660 posts http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1047 Avoiding Hangover Hell 12.31.3 Mark Sherman, AP writer: Robert Swift, MD: [formaldehyde from methanol in aspartame]: Murray 1.16.4 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1048 hangovers from formaldehyde from methanol (aspartame?): Schwarcz: Linsley: Murray 1.18.4 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 7.12.1: Murray 1.22.4 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1024 aspartame review: methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid toxicity: Murray 9.5.3 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/910 formaldehyde & formic acid from methanol in aspartame: Murray: 12.9.2 rmforall It is certain that high levels of aspartame use, above 2 liters daily for months and years, must lead to chronic formaldehyde-formic acid toxicity, since 11% of aspartame (1,120 mg in 2L diet soda, 5.6 12-oz cans) is 123 mg methanol (wood alcohol), immediately released into the body after drinking (unlike the large levels of methanol locked up in molecules inside many fruits), then quickly transformed into formaldehyde, which in turn becomes formic acid, both of which in time are partially eliminated as carbon dioxide and water. However, about 30% of the methanol remains in the body as cumulative durable toxic metabolites of formaldehyde and formic acid-- 37 mg daily, a gram every month. [Metabolism of aspartame in monkeys. Oppermann JA, Muldoon E, Ranney RE. J. Nutrition 1973 Oct; 103(10): 1454-1459.] If 10% of the methanol is retained as formaldehyde, that would give 12 mg daily formaldehyde accumulation, about 60 times more than the 0.2 mg from 10% retention of the 2 mg EPA daily limit for formaldehyde in water. Bear in mind that the EPA limit for formaldehyde in drinking water is 1 ppm, or 2 mg daily for a typical daily consumption of 2 L of water. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/835 RTM: ATSDR: EPA limit 1 ppm formaldehyde in drinking water July 1999 5.30.2 rmforall This long-term low-level chronic toxic exposure leads to typical patterns of increasingly severe complex symptoms, starting with headache, fatigue, joint pain, irritability, memory loss, and leading to vision and eye problems, and even seizures. In many cases there is addiction. Probably there are immune system disorders, with a hypersensitivity to these toxins and other chemicals. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/782 RTM: Smith, Terpening, Schmidt, Gums: full text: aspartame, MSG, fibromyalgia 1.17.2 rmforall 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/846 RTM: aspartame in Merck Maxalt-MLT worsens migraine, AstraZeneca Zomig, Eli Lilly Zyprexa, J&J Merck Pepcid AC (Famotidine 10mg) Chewable Tab, Pfizer Cool Mint Listerine Pocketpaks 7.16.2 rmforall Migraine MLT-Down: an unusual presentation of migraine in patients with aspartame-triggered headaches. Newman LC, Lipton RB Headache 2001 Oct; 41(9): 899-901. [Merck 10-mg Maxalt-MLT, for migraine, has 3.75 mg aspartame, while 12 oz diet soda has 200 mg.] Headache Institute, St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY Department of Neurology Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY Innovative Medical Research http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/855 RTM: Blumenthall & Vance: aspartame chewing gum headaches Nov 1997 7.28.2 rmforall Harvey J. Blumenthal, MD, Dwight A Vance, RPh Chewing Gum Headaches. Headache 1997 Nov-Dec; 37(10): 665-6. Department of Neurology, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Tulsa, USA. Aspartame, a popular dietetic sweetener, may provoke headache in some susceptible individuals. Herein, we describe three cases of young women with migraine who reported their headaches could be provoked by chewing gum sweetened with aspartame. [6-8 mg aspartame per stick chewing gum] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/925 aspartame puts formaldehyde adducts into tissues, Part 1/2 full text, Trocho & Alemany 6.26.98: Murray 12.22.2 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/926 aspartame puts formaldehyde adducts into tissues, Part 2/2 full text, Trocho & Alemany 6.26.98: Murray 12.22.2 rmforall http://ww.presidiotex.com/barcelona/index.html Trocho C, Pardo R, Rafecas I, Virgili J, Remesar X, Fernandez-Lopez JA, Alemany M ["Trok-ho"] Formaldehyde derived from dietary aspartame binds to tissue components in vivo. Life Sci 1998 Jun 26; 63(5): 337-49. Departament de Bioquimica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. http://www.presidiotex.com/barcelona/index.html Maria Alemany, PhD (male) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/864 Murray: Butchko, Tephly, McMartin: Alemany: aspartame formaldehyde adducts in rats 9.8.2 rmforall Prof. Alemany vigorously affirms the validity of the Trocho study against criticism: Butchko, HH et al [24 authors], Aspartame: review of safety. Regul. Toxicol. Pharmacol. 2002 April 1; 35 (2 Pt 2): S1-93, review available for $35, [an industry paid organ]. Butchko: "When all the research on aspartame, including evaluations in both the premarketing and postmarketing periods, is examined as a whole, it is clear that aspartame is safe, and there are no unresolved questions regarding its safety under conditions of intended use." [ They repeatedly pass on the ageless industry deceit that the methanol in fruits and vegetables is as as biochemically available as that in aspartame-- see the 1984 rebuttal by Monte, below. In the same report, Schiffman concludes on page S49, not citing any research after 1997, "Thus, the weight of the scientific evidence indicates that aspartame does not cause headache." Dr. Susan S. Schiffman, Dept. of Psychiatry, Duke University 919-684-3303, 660-5657 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/864 Murray: Butchko, Tephly, McMartin: Alemany: aspartame formaldehyde adducts in rats 9.8.2 rmforall ] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/911 RTP ties to industry criticized by CSPI: Murray: 12.9.2 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1016 President Bush & formaldehyde (aspartame) toxicity: Ramazzini Foundation carcinogenicity results Dec 2002: Soffritti: Murray 8.3.3 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. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2002 Dec; 982: 87-105. Results of long-term experimental studies on the carcinogenicity of formaldehyde and acetaldehyde in rats. Soffritti M, Belpoggi F, Lambertin L, Lauriola M, Padovani M, Maltoni C. Cancer Research Center, European Ramazzini Foundation for Oncology and Environmental Sciences, Bologna, Italy. Formaldehyde was administered for 104 weeks in drinking water supplied ad libitum at concentrations of 1500, 1000, 500, 100, 50, 10, or 0 mg/L to groups of 50 male and 50 female Sprague-Dawley rats beginning at seven weeks of age. Control animals (100 males and 100 females) received tap water only. Acetaldehyde was administered to 50 male and 50 female Sprague-Dawley rats beginning at six weeks of age at concentrations of 2,500, 1,500, 500, 250, 50, or 0 mg/L. Animals were kept under observation until spontaneous death. Formaldehyde and acetaldehyde were found to produce an increase in total malignant tumors in the treated groups and showed specific carcinogenic effects on various organs and tissues. PMID: 12562630 Surely the authors deliberately emphasized that aspartame is well-known to be a source of formaldehyde, which is an extremely potent, cumulative toxin, with complex, multiple effects on all tissues and organs. This is even more significant, considering that they have already tested aspartame, but not yet released the results: p. 29-32 Table 1: The Ramazzinni Foundation Cancer Program Project of [200] Long-Term Carcinogenicity Bioassays: Agents Studied No. No. of Bioassays Species No. Route of Exposure 108. "Coca-Cola" 4 Rat 1,999 Ingestion, Transplantal Route 109. "Pepsi-Cola" 1 Rat 400 Ingestion 110. Sucrose 1 Rat 400 Ingestion 111. Caffeine 1 Rat 800 Ingestion 112. Aspartame 1 Rat 1,800 Ingestion http://members.nyas.org/events/confe...f_02_0429.html Soffritti said that Coca-Cola showed no carcinogenicity. It may be time to disclose these important aspartame results. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/934 24 recent formaldehyde toxicity [Comet assay] reports: Murray 12.31.2 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/935 Comet assay finds DNA damage from sucralose, cyclamate, saccharin in mice: Sasaki YF & Tsuda S Aug 2002: Murray 1.1.3 rmforall [Also borderline evidence, in this pilot study of 39 food additives, using test groups of 4 mice, for DNA damage from for stomach, colon, liver, bladder, and lung 3 hr after oral dose of 2000 mg/kg aspartame-- a very high dose.] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/961 genotoxins, Comet assay in mice: Ace-K, stevia fine; aspartame poor; sucralose, cyclamate, saccharin bad: Y.F. Sasaki Aug 2002: Murray 1.27.3 rmforall [A detailed look at the data] http://www.dorway.com/tldaddic.html 5-page review Roberts HJ Aspartame (NutraSweet) addiction. Townsend Letter 2000 Jan; http://www.sunsentpress.com/ Sunshine Sentinel Press P.O.Box 17799 West Palm Beach, FL 33416 800-814-9800 561-588-7628 561-547-8008 fax http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/669 1038-page medical text "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" published May 30 2001 $ 60.00 postpaid data from 1200 cases available at http://www.amazon.com over 600 references from standard medical research ************************************************** *************** Recent Statements Debunking Health/Internet Rumors “Don’t believe the rumors – widely spread on the Internet – that aspartame … causes not only multiple sclerosis, but also lupus, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, Gulf War syndrome, and brain tumors. ” -University of California, Berkeley Wellness Letter, April 1999 “I have no problem with information dissemination, even when it is wrong. But [this] has crossed the line. There is no evidence that aspartame in any way causes, provokes, mimics or worsens MS. This series of allegations are almost totally without foundation. They are rabidly inaccurate and scandalously misinformative.” -David Squillacote, MD, Senior Medical Advisor for the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation “There continues to be unsubstantiated claims that the nonnutritive sweetener aspartame (brand name NutraSweet) poses health risks to people with diabetes. Aspartame has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a governmental agency that conducts thorough scientific reviews to determine foods are safe for public consumption. The American Diabetes Association follows FDA recommendations and recognizes that there is no credible scientific evidence linking aspartame to any health-related problems for people with diabetes.” -American Diabetes Association Statement, February 9, 1999 “MS and lupus have been around a lot longer than aspartame has, and repeated scientific studies have found no connection between the sweetener and such symptoms.” -Associated Press, January 29, 1999 “This specimen of email scarelore, in wide circulation since mid-December 1998, warns that the artificial sweetener aspartame (a.k.a. "NutraSweet" and "Equal") is toxic to humans in a hundred different ways. It even coins a new medical term for these effects: ‘aspartame disease.’ Most of the allegations contradict the bulk of medical … but I would point out that the agency [FDA] has common sense and years of accumulated research on its side when it maintains that the sweetener is safe for most people. 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"Say not the Struggle nought Availeth" wrote in message . com... Rich Murray wrote: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1064 Diet Soda [aspartame] Dangerous? Shari Lieberman, The O'Reilly Factor 3.19.4: Murray 3.23.4 rmforall http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114880,00.html Dr. Shari Lieberman http://www.drshari.net Diet Soda Dangerous? Monday, March 22, 2004 This is a partial transcript from "The O'Reilly Factor," March 19, 2004 that has been edited for clarity. Watch The O'Reilly Factor weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and listen to the Radio Factor! BILL O'REILLY, HOST: In the "Back of the Book" Segment tonight, Americans drink billions of gallons of diet soda a year. It's incredible how much we consume. And some believe millions of Americans are addicted to the stuff. They have to have it. With us now is Dr. Shari Lieberman, a certified nutrition specialist here in New York City. All right. So it's -- 10 billion cases of soda sold every year in the USA, and 30 percent of that, approximately, is diet soda, and I know people who walk around all day long drinking diet soda. What is that all about? SHARI LIEBERMAN, PH.D., CERTIFIED NUTRITION SPECIALIST: It's unbelievable. It is such an addicting substance. You have both the aspartame, the NutraSweet, combined with the caffeine. You're basically getting a rush all day. It actually messes with your brain chemicals, Bill. O'REILLY: Does it really? LIEBERMAN: It really does. You know, aspartic acid actually makes what we call excitatory neurotransmitters. Imagine we have a balance of ones that calm us down and ones that hype us up. So, if you're drinking something that's going to make the ones that are excitatory or making us hyper all day long, that's why there are so many side effects associated with NutraSweet, such as irritability and anxiety. I mean people are basically getting a rush all day from drinking this. O'REILLY: OK. So, if you're drinking diet soda all day long or, say, you're drinking, you know, 48 ounces, 50 ounces a day, which a lot of people do... LIEBERMAN: They do. O'REILLY: ... you are basically -- it's an upper. LIEBERMAN: It's an upper. Exactly. And guess what happens when you run out of it? It's a crasher... O'REILLY: Is that right? LIEBERMAN: ... and then you need an upper. O'REILLY: You feel bad after it. Now is this physically addicting, do you believe, or is it psychological? LIEBERMAN: I believe it's physically addicting. You know, we know that caffeine is. So you've got a ton of caffeine in the diet sodas. Then you actually have a substance that's affecting neurotransmitters. So they're really getting a double whammy, and, of course, we're talking about people that are drinking it all day long. O'REILLY: Yes, and they think that, well, I can drink it all day long because there's no calories in it, I'm not going to get fat. Go ahead. LIEBERMAN: I have to tell you something about that. If you look at the research, people that drink diet sodas are oftentimes eating more calories than people drinking regular sodas. O'REILLY: But they're eating them. LIEBERMAN: It actually increases... O'REILLY: You know, that's -- they're eating. LIEBERMAN: It seems to increase... O'REILLY: You can't get fat drinking diet soda. LIEBERMAN: It's not that you get fat, Bill. I think it's the... O'REILLY: Bloated. LIEBERMAN: ... taste of the sweet. It keeps you so addicted. They seem to eat more carbohydrates throughout the day when they're drinking diet soda. Go figure. O'REILLY: What other physical things -- if you're consuming a lot of diet soda, what happens to your body? LIEBERMAN: Well, you also can get a certain amount of methanol, which is the more toxic alcohol. That's a byproduct of NutraSweet and aspartame, if you're drinking a lot of it, and that's a wood alcohol that's actually rather toxic and can cause some problems as well. So you have a substance that, when you're taking in really large amounts, is going to affect your chemistry, your brain chemistry, your... O'REILLY: Your body chemistry and... LIEBERMAN: Exactly. Your body chemistry. O'REILLY: OK. Now there are no warnings on any of the soda labels, and nobody says any of this. But, you know, I -- and I wanted to do the story because, anecdotally, I've seen people, you know, in the office here and all of that, drink diet soda after diet soda after diet soda. LIEBERMAN: Well, who did my makeup today actually said to me she's drinking a ton of diet soda and is suffering from migraines. There are reports of migraines and fibromyalgia and certain illnesses disappearing when people go off diet sodas. So, I mean, there is a relationship between taking in a lot of this stuff -- we're not talking about the occasional user. O'REILLY: No. LIEBERMAN: But if -- you know, once again, you've got these excited neurons in your head, and it is related to migraines and fibromyalgia and a number of other illnesses that have been shown to go away. O'REILLY: Right. And it doesn't do any -- your teeth any good either? LIEBERMAN: It really -- it doesn't protect your teeth like Xylitol and some of the other sweeteners. O'REILLY: All right, Doctor. I knew drinking 50 ounces of that stuff wasn't good. LIEBERMAN: You were right, Bill. O'REILLY: You know, one Dr. Pepper once in a while, fine, but, you know, leave the six-pack home. Content and Programming Copyright 2004 Fox News Network, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Transcription Copyright 2004 eMediaMillWorks, Inc. (f/k/a Federal Document Clearing House, Inc.), which takes sole responsibility for the accuracy of the transcription. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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This is not a legal transcript for purposes of litigation. ************************************************** ************* Rich Murray, MA Room For All 1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505 USA 505-986-9103 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1059 foxnews.com, The O'Reilly Factor, Shari Lieberman, diet soft drinks (aspartame), Friday March 19 2004: Mike: Martini: Murray 3.21.4 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1063 positive response to Lieberman on The O'Reilly Factor: Lieberman: Murray 3.22.4 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/927 Donald Rumsfeld, 1977 head of Searle Corp., got aspartame FDA approval: Turner: Murray 12.23.2 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1039 three-page review: aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) toxicity: Murray 11.22.3 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1026 brief aspartame review: formaldehyde toxicity: Murray 9.11.3 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/989 On 4.10.2003 the European Union Parliament voted 440 to 20 to approve sucralose, limit cyclamates & reevaluate aspartame & stevia: Murray 4.12.3 rmforall http://google.com gives 221,000 websites for "aspartame" , with the top 9 of 10 listings being anti-aspartame, while http://groups.google.com finds on 700 MB of posts from 20 years of Usenet groups, 83,800 posts, the top 10 being anti-aspartame. http://news.google.com 28 recent aspartame items from 4500 sources. http://www.AllTheWeb.com gives 291,700, the top 7 of 10 being leading and very well informed volunteer anti-aspartame sites. http://teoma.com/index.asp gives 85,700 websites, top 8 of 10 anti. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed lists 751 aspartame items. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1025 aspartame & formaldehyde toxicity: Murray 9.9.3 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/messages for 1064 posts in a public searchable archive 120 members http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartame/messages 774 with 16,660 posts http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1047 Avoiding Hangover Hell 12.31.3 Mark Sherman, AP writer: Robert Swift, MD: [formaldehyde from methanol in aspartame]: Murray 1.16.4 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1048 hangovers from formaldehyde from methanol (aspartame?): Schwarcz: Linsley: Murray 1.18.4 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 7.12.1: Murray 1.22.4 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1024 aspartame review: methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid toxicity: Murray 9.5.3 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/910 formaldehyde & formic acid from methanol in aspartame: Murray: 12.9.2 rmforall It is certain that high levels of aspartame use, above 2 liters daily for months and years, must lead to chronic formaldehyde-formic acid toxicity, since 11% of aspartame (1,120 mg in 2L diet soda, 5.6 12-oz cans) is 123 mg methanol (wood alcohol), immediately released into the body after drinking (unlike the large levels of methanol locked up in molecules inside many fruits), then quickly transformed into formaldehyde, which in turn becomes formic acid, both of which in time are partially eliminated as carbon dioxide and water. However, about 30% of the methanol remains in the body as cumulative durable toxic metabolites of formaldehyde and formic acid-- 37 mg daily, a gram every month. [Metabolism of aspartame in monkeys. Oppermann JA, Muldoon E, Ranney RE. J. Nutrition 1973 Oct; 103(10): 1454-1459.] If 10% of the methanol is retained as formaldehyde, that would give 12 mg daily formaldehyde accumulation, about 60 times more than the 0.2 mg from 10% retention of the 2 mg EPA daily limit for formaldehyde in water. Bear in mind that the EPA limit for formaldehyde in drinking water is 1 ppm, or 2 mg daily for a typical daily consumption of 2 L of water. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/835 RTM: ATSDR: EPA limit 1 ppm formaldehyde in drinking water July 1999 5.30.2 rmforall This long-term low-level chronic toxic exposure leads to typical patterns of increasingly severe complex symptoms, starting with headache, fatigue, joint pain, irritability, memory loss, and leading to vision and eye problems, and even seizures. In many cases there is addiction. Probably there are immune system disorders, with a hypersensitivity to these toxins and other chemicals. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/782 RTM: Smith, Terpening, Schmidt, Gums: full text: aspartame, MSG, fibromyalgia 1.17.2 rmforall 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/846 RTM: aspartame in Merck Maxalt-MLT worsens migraine, AstraZeneca Zomig, Eli Lilly Zyprexa, J&J Merck Pepcid AC (Famotidine 10mg) Chewable Tab, Pfizer Cool Mint Listerine Pocketpaks 7.16.2 rmforall Migraine MLT-Down: an unusual presentation of migraine in patients with aspartame-triggered headaches. Newman LC, Lipton RB Headache 2001 Oct; 41(9): 899-901. [Merck 10-mg Maxalt-MLT, for migraine, has 3.75 mg aspartame, while 12 oz diet soda has 200 mg.] Headache Institute, St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY Department of Neurology Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY Innovative Medical Research http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/855 RTM: Blumenthall & Vance: aspartame chewing gum headaches Nov 1997 7.28.2 rmforall Harvey J. Blumenthal, MD, Dwight A Vance, RPh Chewing Gum Headaches. Headache 1997 Nov-Dec; 37(10): 665-6. Department of Neurology, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Tulsa, USA. Aspartame, a popular dietetic sweetener, may provoke headache in some susceptible individuals. Herein, we describe three cases of young women with migraine who reported their headaches could be provoked by chewing gum sweetened with aspartame. [6-8 mg aspartame per stick chewing gum] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/925 aspartame puts formaldehyde adducts into tissues, Part 1/2 full text, Trocho & Alemany 6.26.98: Murray 12.22.2 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/926 aspartame puts formaldehyde adducts into tissues, Part 2/2 full text, Trocho & Alemany 6.26.98: Murray 12.22.2 rmforall http://ww.presidiotex.com/barcelona/index.html Trocho C, Pardo R, Rafecas I, Virgili J, Remesar X, Fernandez-Lopez JA, Alemany M ["Trok-ho"] Formaldehyde derived from dietary aspartame binds to tissue components in vivo. Life Sci 1998 Jun 26; 63(5): 337-49. Departament de Bioquimica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. http://www.presidiotex.com/barcelona/index.html Maria Alemany, PhD (male) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/864 Murray: Butchko, Tephly, McMartin: Alemany: aspartame formaldehyde adducts in rats 9.8.2 rmforall Prof. Alemany vigorously affirms the validity of the Trocho study against criticism: Butchko, HH et al [24 authors], Aspartame: review of safety. Regul. Toxicol. Pharmacol. 2002 April 1; 35 (2 Pt 2): S1-93, review available for $35, [an industry paid organ]. Butchko: "When all the research on aspartame, including evaluations in both the premarketing and postmarketing periods, is examined as a whole, it is clear that aspartame is safe, and there are no unresolved questions regarding its safety under conditions of intended use." [ They repeatedly pass on the ageless industry deceit that the methanol in fruits and vegetables is as as biochemically available as that in aspartame-- see the 1984 rebuttal by Monte, below. In the same report, Schiffman concludes on page S49, not citing any research after 1997, "Thus, the weight of the scientific evidence indicates that aspartame does not cause headache." Dr. Susan S. Schiffman, Dept. of Psychiatry, Duke University 919-684-3303, 660-5657 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/864 Murray: Butchko, Tephly, McMartin: Alemany: aspartame formaldehyde adducts in rats 9.8.2 rmforall ] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/911 RTP ties to industry criticized by CSPI: Murray: 12.9.2 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1016 President Bush & formaldehyde (aspartame) toxicity: Ramazzini Foundation carcinogenicity results Dec 2002: Soffritti: Murray 8.3.3 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. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2002 Dec; 982: 87-105. Results of long-term experimental studies on the carcinogenicity of formaldehyde and acetaldehyde in rats. Soffritti M, Belpoggi F, Lambertin L, Lauriola M, Padovani M, Maltoni C. Cancer Research Center, European Ramazzini Foundation for Oncology and Environmental Sciences, Bologna, Italy. Formaldehyde was administered for 104 weeks in drinking water supplied ad libitum at concentrations of 1500, 1000, 500, 100, 50, 10, or 0 mg/L to groups of 50 male and 50 female Sprague-Dawley rats beginning at seven weeks of age. Control animals (100 males and 100 females) received tap water only. Acetaldehyde was administered to 50 male and 50 female Sprague-Dawley rats beginning at six weeks of age at concentrations of 2,500, 1,500, 500, 250, 50, or 0 mg/L. Animals were kept under observation until spontaneous death. Formaldehyde and acetaldehyde were found to produce an increase in total malignant tumors in the treated groups and showed specific carcinogenic effects on various organs and tissues. PMID: 12562630 Surely the authors deliberately emphasized that aspartame is well-known to be a source of formaldehyde, which is an extremely potent, cumulative toxin, with complex, multiple effects on all tissues and organs. This is even more significant, considering that they have already tested aspartame, but not yet released the results: p. 29-32 Table 1: The Ramazzinni Foundation Cancer Program Project of [200] Long-Term Carcinogenicity Bioassays: Agents Studied No. No. of Bioassays Species No. Route of Exposure 108. "Coca-Cola" 4 Rat 1,999 Ingestion, Transplantal Route 109. "Pepsi-Cola" 1 Rat 400 Ingestion 110. Sucrose 1 Rat 400 Ingestion 111. Caffeine 1 Rat 800 Ingestion 112. Aspartame 1 Rat 1,800 Ingestion http://members.nyas.org/events/confe...f_02_0429.html Soffritti said that Coca-Cola showed no carcinogenicity. It may be time to disclose these important aspartame results. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/934 24 recent formaldehyde toxicity [Comet assay] reports: Murray 12.31.2 rmforall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/935 Comet assay finds DNA damage from sucralose, cyclamate, saccharin in mice: Sasaki YF & Tsuda S Aug 2002: Murray 1.1.3 rmforall [Also borderline evidence, in this pilot study of 39 food additives, using test groups of 4 mice, for DNA damage from for stomach, colon, liver, bladder, and lung 3 hr after oral dose of 2000 mg/kg aspartame-- a very high dose.] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/961 genotoxins, Comet assay in mice: Ace-K, stevia fine; aspartame poor; sucralose, cyclamate, saccharin bad: Y.F. Sasaki Aug 2002: Murray 1.27.3 rmforall [A detailed look at the data] http://www.dorway.com/tldaddic.html 5-page review Roberts HJ Aspartame (NutraSweet) addiction. Townsend Letter 2000 Jan; http://www.sunsentpress.com/ Sunshine Sentinel Press P.O.Box 17799 West Palm Beach, FL 33416 800-814-9800 561-588-7628 561-547-8008 fax http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/669 1038-page medical text "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" published May 30 2001 $ 60.00 postpaid data from 1200 cases available at http://www.amazon.com over 600 references from standard medical research ************************************************** *************** Recent Statements Debunking Health/Internet Rumors “Don’t believe the rumors – widely spread on the Internet – that aspartame … causes not only multiple sclerosis, but also lupus, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, Gulf War syndrome, and brain tumors. ” -University of California, Berkeley Wellness Letter, April 1999 “I have no problem with information dissemination, even when it is wrong. But [this] has crossed the line. There is no evidence that aspartame in any way causes, provokes, mimics or worsens MS. This series of allegations are almost totally without foundation. They are rabidly inaccurate and scandalously misinformative.” -David Squillacote, MD, Senior Medical Advisor for the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation “There continues to be unsubstantiated claims that the nonnutritive sweetener aspartame (brand name NutraSweet) poses health risks to people with diabetes. Aspartame has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a governmental agency that conducts thorough scientific reviews to determine foods are safe for public consumption. The American Diabetes Association follows FDA recommendations and recognizes that there is no credible scientific evidence linking aspartame to any health-related problems for people with diabetes.” -American Diabetes Association Statement, February 9, 1999 “MS and lupus have been around a lot longer than aspartame has, and repeated scientific studies have found no connection between the sweetener and such symptoms.” -Associated Press, January 29, 1999 “This specimen of email scarelore, in wide circulation since mid-December 1998, warns that the artificial sweetener aspartame (a.k.a. "NutraSweet" and "Equal") is toxic to humans in a hundred different ways. It even coins a new medical term for these effects: ‘aspartame disease.’ Most of the allegations contradict the bulk of medical … but I would point out that the agency [FDA] has common sense and years of accumulated research on its side when it maintains that the sweetener is safe for most people. As to aspartame's critics, it doesn't help their cause that the information presented in the email is disorganized, hysterical and poorly substantiated.” -About.com Ah! very good, YOU drink it, Lots of it .Please do so, Please. |
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Diet Soda [aspartame] Dangerous? reply not so.
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Diet Soda [aspartame] Dangerous? Shari Lieberman, The O'Reilly
BTW, if consuming 2 l of diet cola yields 123 mg of methanol, and if the average person is 150 kg, then the concentration of methanol is less than 1 ppm. (mg/kg) Are you, perchance, aware of the natural concentration of methanol in the human body? J. The acute toxicity of methanol by ingestion, inhalation, and skin contact is low. Ingestion of methanol or inhalation of high concentrations can produce headache, drowsiness, blurred vision, nausea, vomiting, blindness, and death. In humans, 60 to 250 mL is reported to be a lethal dose. Prolonged or repeated skin contact can cause irritation and inflammation; methanol can be absorbed through the skin in toxic amounts. Contact of methanol with the eyes can cause irritation and burns. Methanol is not considered to have adequate warning properties. Methanol has not been found to be carcinogenic in humans. Information available is insufficient to characterize the reproductive hazard presented by methanol. In animal tests, the compound produced developmental effects only at levels that were maternally toxic; hence, it is not considered to be a highly significant hazard to the fetus. Tests in bacterial or mammalian cell cultures demonstrate no mutagenic activity. Toxicity Data LD50 oral (rat) 5628 mg/kg LD50 skin (rabbit) 15,840 mg/kg LC50 inhal (rat) 145,000 ppm (1 h) PEL (OSHA) 200 ppm (260 mg/m3) TLV-TWA (ACGIH) 200 ppm (260 mg/m3)--skin STEL (ACGIH) 250 ppm (328 mg/m3) http://www.hhmi.org/research/labsafe/lcss/lcss58.html |
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Diet Soda [aspartame] Dangerous? reply not so.
who cares if it is dangerous, why drink something that tastes like
robot sweat? I had a serious Mt Dew habit -- ~1L/day for 3 years, but now I have gotten very used to my 58c/gallon Walmart water jugs, and appreciate the more balanced energy level. I don't get the highs any more, but I certainly don't miss the lows that come after. |
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Diet Soda [aspartame] Dangerous? Shari Lieberman, The O'Reilly Factor 3.19.4: Murray 3.23.4 rmforall
Who cares? Soda pop has no place in anyone's healthy diet,
even the crap with sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, or whatever sweetener of your choice in it. It's crap. |
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