Kiwis Warned to Avoid Poisonous Chewing Gum

Aspartame is a poisonous sweetener found in over 6000 products

By Diane Cordemans, Epoch Times Hamilton staff, Jul 23, 2007

Kilde: The Epoch Times International (new Zealand)

http://en.epochtimes.com/tools/printer.asp?id=57897

A poisonous sweetener that mimics the symptoms of diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer''s, and many other diseases could be poisoning thousands of Kiwis.

Betty Martini, founder of Mission Possible International, says aspartame is the root cause of untold suffering for millions of people worldwide. Aspartame is also known as nutrasweet, equal and spoonful.

Dr Martini came to New Zealand after being contacted by a 25-year-old Wellington resident who had a severe reaction to aspartame-sweetened chewing gum. Dr Martini has spent 15 years talking to people and organisations about the dangers of aspartame, highlighting studies from renowned medical researchers and organisations to substantiate her argument.

Suicidal Thoughts After Chewing Gum

Wellington resident Abby Cormack experienced horrific symptoms after consuming large quantities of diet chewing gum earlier this year.  She was chewing four packets of aspartame-sweetened chewing gum a day and in February she started to feel the effects.

"I became very, very depressed and anxious and I wasn''t sleeping well. I tried to ignore it but it became worse and worse."

A psychiatrist diagnosed Miss Cormack with mild depression but found it difficult to fathom as she enjoyed a very stable and happy family, social and work life. She then began to experience panic attacks and suicidal thoughts.

"I started getting physical symptoms. Muscle cramps that started off in my legs. I put the muscle cramps down to weight training."

She stopped the weight training but the muscle cramps spread and grew worse. Her doctors suspected multiple sclerosis but the numerous tests showed that everything was normal. Now suffering from exhaustion and excruciating pain, and wondering whether it was all in her head, Miss Cormack said the last straw was when she lost control of her bladder at work.

At that point her mother suggested looking in to her heavy use of sugar-free chewing gum. After checking the ingredients, she ''googled'' phenylalanine, and up came aspartame.

"And I clicked on that and my symptoms came up – every one of them."  This included her blurred vision, which had prompted visits to an optometrist.

American researcher and endocrinologist, Dr H. J. Roberts, identified blindness as being ''the most serious complication'' from the use of aspartame. Miss Cormack said her symptoms disappeared within days of stopping her sugar-free gum habit.

In a letter to the New Zealand Food Safety Authority, Dr Martini said that aspartame is "an addictive excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug that will sicken and kill thousands of New Zealanders. The facts are of public record, you are informed of them, but prefer to poison your countrymen."

Aspartame was discovered by a researcher from the U.S. company, G.D. Searle. Initially approved for use in food in 1974, it was put on hold until 1981, following objections raised over its safety. In 1985, Monsanto purchased G. D. Searle.  Aspartame is made up of aspartic acid (an excitotoxin) which, in excess, stimulates nerve cells to death and forms holes in the brain; phenylalanine, which when found in excess in the brain can lead to emotional disorders such as depression; and methanol which converts to formaldehyde, a deadly neurotoxin.  Research has linked aspartame to depletion of seratonin, which can lead to manic depression, panic attacks, violence and rage.

Gulf War Syndrome

Thousands of pallets of diet drinks were shipped to Desert Storm Troops during the Gulf War. They sat in the heat which would have metabolised the drinks into toxic potions, says an American doctor. The symptoms of the Gulf War Syndrome are identical to those of Aspartame poisoning.

Aspartame and Diabetics

Diabetes New Zealand advises people to avoid excessive intakes of artificial sweeteners but said, "There is no evidence that a low to moderate intake by adults causes harm." People are advised to "vary the type used to avoid excessive consumption of any individual product which enables a greater margin of safety to be achieved."  The New Zealand Food Safety Authority feels that media reports have raised unnecessary alarm over the safety of aspartame.

"Aspartame is probably one of the most studied products on sale today," Deputy Chief Executive Sandra Daly says, "and there is an extensive body of evidence that tells us it is a safe product that offers consumers a sweet low-calorie option in their diet."

The American Food & Drug Agency once kept a public record of the side effects of aspartame - which totalled 10,000 by 1995 when it was halted. It included blindness, sexual dysfunction and death.

Betty Martini will speak in Wellington and Auckland late July/early August. Betty Martini has been researching aspartame for 15 years and works with the world experts. Dr Roberts'' medical text is dedicated to her. Prior to that she had 22 years of experience in the medical field, creating the first health delivery system in the US, and had 200 doctors working for her.

She has been given an honorary doctorate for her humanitarian work of alerting the world about aspartame, and comes as the messenger of the world experts she works with. She is also on the advisory board of the World Natural Health Organization.

New Zealands mattilsyn nekter å møte Betty Martini

NZFSA refuses to meet Betty Martini

Kilde: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00214.htm

Scoop independent News, 19 July:

Press Release: Soil and Health Association:

The Soil & Health Association and Safe Food Campaign are calling for the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) to meet with visiting aspartame expert Dr Betty Martini.

"Dr Martini has been refused entry at NZFSA today, even though Alison White of Safe Food Campaign has an aspartame presentation along with aspartame sufferer Abby Cormack. NZFSA have also discounted any future possible meeting with senior staff or scientists by Martini, which calls into question the purpose of NZFSA said Soil & Health spokesperson Steffan Browning". (les resten av artikkelen)

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Aspartame in chewing gum

By James Bowen, M.D., 27 may 2006

http://wwwwnho.net/aspartame_chewing_gum.htm

Aspartame in chewing gum is absorbed directly though the buccal mucosa of the tongue, mouth, and gums, making it a far worse poisoning than even if it were given intravenously. The nerves serving this area and their vascular supply derive directly from the brain, so the Aspartame absorbed through them goes directly into the brain, by passing the spinal cord and blood brain barrier.

The intact Aspartame molecule and its diketopiperazine form are vastly worse poisonings than any of the other poisonings which arise from it during digestion, and liver processing of the digestive blood, which is delivered directly to the liver via the portal vein. The other poisonings, as mentioned, are indeed horrendous but Aspartame from gum is far worse, making even the smaller amounts contained in chewing gum strikingly dangerous and damaging. This is doubtless why Wrigley placed it in all their products!

Aspartame, via ingestion into the digestive tract, is made into some ten other poisonings by the digestive processes, and then excepting that which is delivered directly to the pancreas, they are transported straight to the liver via the portal vein, where they then are very partially dealt with, and partially reprocessed. Afterwards, they are sent in somewhat lesser concentration to the entire body, lessening the amount which eventually goes to the brain. The amount getting to the brain from either source is devastating to it in many ways. Aspartame is most certainly devastatingly toxic when ingested, but a like amount is immensely worse when obtained from chewing gum.

When the CBS Evening News crew visited my Ridgefield Washington clinic, mid January of 1984, and Dan rather forbade them to make a program of what they learned there, one of them reported that she got a roaring headache if she chewed even a half stick of Aspartame gum! This devastation of the human brain is the primary reason why this brain washing agent, designed to keep us from questioning or objecting to what they are doing to our country and our world, is being slipped into us in spite of its horribly failing the toxicity studies, which revealed it to be a very strong carcinogen, indeed the number one brain carcinogen ever discovered by science! (The US brain cancer rate jumped 10% the first six months after Aspartame was added to diet pop!) Three cans of pop per day for only sixty days also caused an immediate 250% increase in visible human illness! Right up front!

The potential hazard of Aspartame absorption from within the mouth

By H. J. Roberts, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.C.C.P

28 June 2004

http://wwwwnho.net/aspartame_absorption.htm 

Aspartame disease is being increasingly encountered in medical practice. (1-4) Over two-thirds of the population currently consumes the chemical aspartame, most commonly, as "diet" sodas and "sugar-free" products. I have detailed the serious neurological, psychiatric, metabolic, endocrine allergic and addictive aspects of this affliction. (1-5). The widespread consumption of popular aspartame products that can be absorbed from the mouth and oropharynx should be cause for concern. They include gum, mouthwashes, chewable drugs and vitamins, and rectangular "mouth-freshener" strips placed on the tongue. Sugar-free mints are recommended for low-carbohydrate dieters who experience bad breath.

The prompt and predicable recurrence of symptoms (e.g., headache, dizziness, seizures, confusion, visual features, joint pain) on initial exposure or rechallenge to aspartame in this manner has been impressive. These issues are relevant.

 - Persons tend to chew aspartame gum up to five times longer than regular gum.

 - The prompt absorption of this neurotoxin from the mouth and oropharynx, with direct transport to the brain by a unique pathway, has clinical confirmation. (see below)

 - These products can create an intense craving for sweets due to increased insulin secretion.

 - The potential for addiction, related largely to the methyl alcohol component of aspartame, is significant. Scores of patients experienced severe withdrawal reactions after abrupt cessation.

 - The response of a previously well woman illustrates this issue. "I suffered a grand mal seizure watching a movie immediately after applying a Listerine Strip. My friend gave me the strip, and it''s the last thing I remember. Apparently, I stiffened up, my eyes rolled back in my head, and I bit my tongue and drooled. I regained awareness 1/2 hour later as I was being unloaded from the ambulance. A CAT scan, an MRI, blood work and other tests were all inconclusive."

Persons at high risk for aspartame reactions ought to be warned against using these products. They include pregnant women, children and patients with seizures, migraine, diabetes, hypoglycemia and weight disorders.