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"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."
- Thomas Edison Cancer is a political problem more than it is a medical problem. "Dr. Gross told Congress that aspartame violated the Delaney Amendment, which had forbid anything being put in food you knew would cause cancer, and this was because without a shadow of a doubt, aspartame can cause brain tumors." "And if the FDA violates the law, who is left to protect the public?" There is new research showing that a sugar called xylitol (pronounced zy-li-tol) can significantly improve oral health, improve calcium absorption, increase bone density and remineralize tooth enamel. Xylitol also helps prevent or eliminate gum disease, cavities, tooth loss, asthma, inner ear infections, chronic throat and sinus conditions, osteoporosis, and cardiovascular disease. Xylitol has only 2.4 calories per gram, compared to 4 calories per gram for sucrose sugar. Xylitol is digested slowly, making it easier on your pancreas and useful for diabetics. You can purchase xylitol in five pound bags and use it in cooking and for all purposes you would ordinarily use sugar. Due to the health benefits from consuming xylitol, we suggest that it is a good substitute for ordinary sugar. The herb stevia is the best no-calorie sweetener. Available in health food stores. Sugar feeds cancer. | RTM: Merisant Co., MSD Capital, Dell Computer Corp., NutraSweet Co.,
JW Childs Assc.: aspartame-neotame toxicity 7.10.2 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/841
http://www.merisant.com/pages/homepage.asp
http://www.merisant.com/pages/about_merisant/biographies.asp
Karl T. Sestak, Communications
The Merisant Company
10 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 850
Chicago, Illinois 60606
312.840.6000 fax 312.840.5146
July 10, 2002 Hello Karl T. Sestak,
I last called and emailed you on 10.18.00.
Since March, 2000, Merisant Company has been a world manufacturer of aspartame products, supplying over a third of the world market in over 100 countries.
On late Friday, July 5, the FDA announced its approval of Neotame (Sweetener 2000), based on its review of "over 113 studies in animals and humans". So, I promptly checked PubMed, which had 5 listings, none of which were about animal or human toxicity or dispositions in the body, whereas for aspartame there are now 701 listings.
You may search among 11 million medical citations on PubMed for any topic or author, and for many studies get an abstract summary: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ .
It is remarkable to me that searches on Google or AllTheWeb reveal no published studies about neotame safety, although Sweetener 2000 is mentioned since 1987. Common sense would appraise that if neotame was soundly safe, the industry would rush to publicize the research. After all, the world sweetener market is fiercely competitive, with billion dollar stakes. It is also notable that few, if any, neotame products are in Australia and New Zealand since the ANZFA approval there last
summer.
I am already contacting groups like Food Intolerance Network of Australia, whose Net newsletter has 955 members, to ask if those who are sensitive to a variety of chemicals, including aspartame, are reporting problems with any neotame products:
failsafe_newsletter-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
http://www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info .
Can a corporation safely survive in this era of publicly disseminated information, save by only selling absolutely safe substances? Wouldn't any strategy of "information management", the longer and more apparently successful it seems to operate,
inevitably result in an even more catastrophic denounment, just as in the recent collapses of Enron and WorldCom?
Obviously, health and safety issues, for the common good, must be thoroughly aired in public arenas. The Net makes this inevitable.
If you provide a list of the 113 studies, abstracts and full texts, many will review them carefully, and be very happy to give them the public approval they surely deserve. This would be the most expeditious way to launch a truly safe substance. Put every word of
every study on a public website, along with a permanent uncensored, public, archived email forum. Or, as in the case of aspartame, equivalent sites will emerge from the dire need of the people: http://www.dorway.com .
http://www.hoovers.com/uk/co/capsule/5/0,2163,100515,00.html
http://www.merisant.com
http://www.merisant.com/pages/contact/index.asp
estimated 2001 revenues over $ 500 million, 700 employees
"With its nearly 20 brands, Merisant has more than just an Equal share of the tabletop sweetener market. Fueled by Equal and its other flagship brand, Canderel, Merisant controls more than one-third of the market. Its aspartame-based products are sold in more than 100 countries; customers outside the US account for more than half of its
sales. Merisant was formed in 2000 when a group of investors (including Pegasus Capital Advisors, MSD Capital, and Brener International) bought the tabletop sweetener operations of biotech firm Monsanto. (Monsanto's NutraSweet-brand aspartame business -- a supplier to Merisant -- was sold to J.W. Childs Equity Partners.) A Searle scientist discovered aspartame in 1965; Canderel debuted in 1979."
http://www.hoovers.com/uk/co/capsule/3/0,2163,58863,00.html
http://www.msdcapital.com
http://www.msdcapital.com/management.html
MSD Capital LP 50 staff in 2001
645 Fifth Avenue, 21st Floor
NY, NY 10022-5910
212-303-1650 fax 212-303-1620 recruiting@msdcapital.com
"Poor, poor Michael Dell: too much money and nowhere to put it. That's where MSD Capital comes in. Taking its name from Dell's initials, the investment firm handles the Dell Computer founder's personal investments in companies outside his namesake business, allowing him to focus on making PCs. Dell bankrolled MSD with approximately $1 billion in seed money in 1998 with the mandate to invest in promising technology startups and other companies; it has backed online bridal service
WeddingChannel.com, among others. In addition to VC investing, MSD Capital invests in public stocks and private equity deals, including LBOs and MBOs. The firm will occasionally invest in other investment firms' limited partnership funds."
http://www.dell.com/us/en/gen/default.htm
Dell Computer Corporation
512-728-4100 Media Relations Team
http://www.hoovers.com/uk/co/capsule/4/0,2163,101064,00.html
http://www.nutrasweet.com
The NutraSweet Company
10 S. Wacker Dr., Ste. 3200 Chicago, IL 60606 USA
Phone: +1 312-873-5000 Fax: +1 312-873-5050
$ 260 million revenues in 2000
375 employees in 2001, + 7.1% growth in a year.
Chairman Tim Healy
President and CEO Nick E. Rosa [former Monsanto Senior Vice President]
CFO William Schumacher
Investment firm J.W. Childs bought NutraSweet from Monsanto in 2000;
NutraSweet management also has a stake in the company.
http://www.jwchilds.com/
J. W. Childs Associates, L.P.
111 Huntington Avenue - Suite 2900
Boston, MA 02199-7610
617-753-1100 617-753-1101 info@jwchilds.com
Rich Murray, MA Room For All rmforall@att.net
1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe NM USA 87505 505-986-9103
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RTM: NutraSweet Co.: Neotame toxicity questions 7.9.2 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/830
RTM: Tholen: Diet Coke has 5 ppm formaldehyde from aspartame 5.29.2 rmforall
For 6 cans of diet soda, this is 5 times the daily limit of 1 PPM for formaldehyde in drinking water, set by the EPA and the California Dept. of Health Services, Div. Drinking Water and Environmental Management (916) 323-2308
Drinking Water Action Levels: Contaminants of Current Interest
Last Update: May 2, 2002
http://www.dorway.com/tldaddic.html 5-page review
"Aspartame (NutraSweet) Addiction"
H.J. Roberts in "Townsend Letter", Jan 2000 HJRobertsMD@aol.com
http://www.sunsentpress.com/ sunsentpress@aol.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 $ 85.00 postpaid data from 1200 cases
available at http://www.amazon.com
over 600 references from standard medical research
http://www.aspartameispoison.com/contents.html 34 chapters
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/790
RTM: Moseley:
review Roberts "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" 2.7.2 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/652
Ann Pharmacother 2001 Jun;35(6):702-6
Relief of fibromyalgia symptoms following discontinuation of dietary excitotoxins.
terpening@fpmg.health.ufl.edu cterpeni@ufl.edu
Smith JD, Terpening CM, Schmidt SO, Gums JG.
Malcolm Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, FL, USA.
gums@fpmg.health.ufl.edu siggy@hands.ufl.edu
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/782
RTM: Smith, Terpening, Schmidt, Gums:
full text: aspartame, MSG, fibromyalgia 1.17.2 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/804
RTM: Hetle & Eltervaag: 2001 thesis
abstract: aspartame brain damage in mice:
Sonnewald 1995 study full text 2.17.2 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/752
Headache 2001 Oct;41(9):899-901
Migraine MLT-Down: An Unusual Presentation of Migraine
in Patients With Aspartame-Triggered Headaches.
[Merck 10-mg Maxalt-MLT, for migraine, has 4 mg aspartame,
while 12 oz diet soda has 200 mg.]
Newman LC, Lipton RB. RLipton@IMRInc.com
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/346
WebMD: Barclay: Barth:
survey shows aspartame hurts memory in students 11.9.00
http://www.psy.tcu.edu/psy/barth.htm
Timothy M. Barth Department of Psychology t.barth@tcu.edu
Texas Christian University TCU Box 298920 Fort Worth, TX 76129
Chairman, Physiological Psychology 817-921-7410
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/760
Magnes Res 2001 Sep;14(3):189-94
The effect of oral aspartame administration on the
balance of magnesium in the rat.
Kovatsi L, Tsouggas M.
Laboratory of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece kovatsi@med.auth.gr
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/689
Measurement of molecular interaction of aspartame and
its metabolites with DNA. Clin Biochem. 1998 Jul;31(5):405-7.
Karikas GA, Schulpis KH, Reclos GJ, Kokotos G.
Dept. of Chemistry, University of Athens, Greece
http://www.chem.uoa.gr gkokotos@atlas.uoa.gr
http://www.presidiotex.com/barcelona/index.html
Life Sci June 26 1998; 63(5): 337-49
Formaldehyde derived from dietary aspartame binds to tissue
components in vivo. ["Trok-ho"]
Trocho C, Pardo R, Rafecas I, Virgili J, Remesar X,
Fernandez-Lopez JA, Alemany M, Departament de Bioquimica i
Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona,
Spain. http://www.presidiotex.com/barcelona/index.html
Maria Alemany, PhD alemany@porthos.bio.ub.es
Two teams find hot aspartame releases DKP, a potent carcinogen:
Food Addit Contam 2000 Oct; 17(10): 821-7
Simultaneous formation and detection of the reaction product of
solid-state aspartame sweetener by FT-IR/DSC microscopic system.
Lin SY, Cheng YD
Biopharmaceutics Laboratory,
Department of Medical Research & Education
Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, Shih-Pai, Taiwan,
Republic of China. sylin@vghtpe.gov.tw
and
J Pharm Sci 1998 Apr; 87(4): 508-13
Hydration and dehydration behavior of aspartame hemihydrate.
Leung SS, Padden BE, Munson EJ, Grant DJ
Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455-0343, USA.
Sophie S. Leung, PhD
Dolores J. Grant, PhD grant1@niehs.nih.gov
http://www.medscape.com/MedGenMed/braintumors
Lennart Hardell, M.D., PhD, in 1999 reported in Sweden that both
cell phone use and heavy aspartame use correlate with increased
brain cancers lennart.hardell@orebroll.se +46 19 602 15 46
http://www.dorway.com/blayenn.html dodd@netdoor.com
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. russell@misnet.com 601-982-1175
"Excitotoxins, Neurodegeneration and Neurodevelopment"
The Medical Sentinel Journal Fall, 1999 , (95 references)
http://www.dorway.com/barua.html
Journal Of The Diabetic Association Of India
1995 Vol. 35, No. 4. Emerging Facts About Aspartame
Dr. J. Barua (ophthalmic surgeon), Dr. Arun Bal (surgeon)
(79 references) barua@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in
"...the total amount of methanol absorbed will be approximately 10% of aspartame ingested. An EPA assessment of methanol states that methanol "is considered a cumulative poison due to the low rate of excretion once it is absorbed." The absorbed methanol is then slowly converted to formaldehyde..."
"Reaction of formaldehyde with DNA has been observed,
by spectrophotometry and electron microscopy, to result in
irreversible denaturation."
"DKP has been implicated in the occurence of brain tumors."
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Rich Murray: Professional House Doctors: Singer: EPA: CPSC:
formaldehyde toxicity 6.10.1 rmforall
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Rich Murray: 18 recent formaldehyde toxicity [Comet assay] abstracts
6.25.1 rmforall
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Rich Murray: Gold: Koehler: Walton: Van Den Eeden: Leon:
aspartame toxicity 6.4.1 rmforall
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/623
Rich Murray: Simmons: Gold: Schiffman: Spiers:
aspartame toxicity 6.4.1 rmforal
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