April
6, 2004
SACRAMENTO,
California,
Lawsuits
were filed in three separate
California courts against twelve companies who either produce or use
the artificial sweetener aspartame as a sugar substitute in their
products. The suits were filed in Shasta, Sonoma and Butte County,
California.
The
suits allege that the food companies
committed fraud and breach of warranty by marketing products to the
public such as diet Coke, diet Pepsi, sugar free gum, Flintstone's
vitamins, yogurt and children's aspirin with the full knowledge that
aspartame, the sweetener in them, is neurotoxic.
Aspartame
is a drug masquerading as an
additive. It interacts with other drugs, has a synergistic and additive
effect with MSG, and is a chemical hyper-sensitization agent. As far
back as 1970, Dr. John Olney founded the field of neuroscience called
excitotoxicity when he did studies on aspartic acid, which makes up 40%
of aspartame, and found it caused lesions in the brains of mice. He
made world news on the aspartame/brain tumor connection in l996. Dr.
Ralph Walton, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry,
Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine has written of the
behavioral and psychiatric problems triggered by aspartame-caused
depletion of serotonin.
Aspartame
causes headache, memory loss,
seizures, vision loss, coma and cancer. It worsens or mimics the
symptoms of such diseases and conditions as fibromyalgia, MS, lupus,
ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue and depression.
Aspartame
liberates free methyl alcohol. The
resulting chronic methanol poisoning affects the dopamine system of the
brain causing addiction. Methanol, or wood alcohol, constitutes
one-third of the aspartame molecule and is classified as a severe
metabolic poison and narcotic.
Recent
news is full of reports of world-class
athletes and other healthy consumers of aspartame suddenly dropping
dead. Sudden death can occur from aspartame use because it damages the
cardiac conduction system.
Dr.
Woodrow Monte in the peer reviewed journal,
Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Health, wrote: "When diet sodas and
soft drinks, sweetened with aspartame, are used to replace fluid loss
during exercise and physical exertion in hot climates, the intake of
methanol can exceed 250 mg/day or 32 times the Environmental Protection
Agency's recommended limit of consumption for this cumulative poison."
The
effects of aspartame are documented by the
FDA's own data. In 1995 the agency was forced, under the Freedom Of
Information Act, to release a list of ninety-two aspartame symptoms
reported by thousands of victims. This is only the tip of the iceberg.
H. J. Roberts, MD, published the medical text "Aspartame Disease: An
Ignored Epidemic" -- 1,000 pages of symptoms and diseases triggered by
this neurotoxin including the sordid history of its approval.
Since
its discovery in 1965, controversy has
raged over the health risks associated with the sugar substitute. From
laboratory testing of the chemical on rats, researchers have discovered
that the drug induces brain tumors. On Sept 30, l980 the Board of
Inquiry of the FDA concurred and denied the petition for approval. In
l981, the newly appointed FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull Hayes, ignored
the negative ruling and approved aspartame for dry goods. As recorded
in the Congressional Record of 1985, then CEO of Searle Laboratories
Donald Rumsfeld said that he would call in his markers to get aspartame
approved. Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and a day
after taking office appointed Hayes. No FDA Commissioner in the
previous sixteen years had allowed Aspartame on the market.
In
1983, aspartame was approved for use in
carbonated beverages. Today it is found in over 5000 foods, drinks and
medicines.
Neurosurgeon
Russell Blaylock, MD, author of
"Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills" (http://www.russellblaylockmd.com)
wrote about the relationship between aspartame and macular
degeneration, diabetic blindness and glaucoma (all known to result from
excitotoxin accumulation in the retina).
All
of these neurodegenerative diseases are
worsened by aspartame. In addition, we now have evidence that
excitotoxins play a major role in exacerbation of MS and other
demyelinating disorders including trigeminal neuraliga. Blaylock says
that new studies show excitotoxins trigger significant elevation of
free radicals in the lining (endothelial cells) of arteries, which
means that aspartame will increase the incidence of heart attacks and
strokes (atherosclerosis).
In
original studies, aspartame has triggered
brain, mammary, uterine, ovarian, testicular, thyroid and pancreatic
tumors.
Defendants
in the lawsuits include Coca-cola,
PepsiCo, Bayer Corp., the Dannon Company, William Wrigley Jr. Company,
ConAgra Foods, Wyeth, Inc., The NutraSweet Company, and Altria Corp.
(parent company of Kraft Foods and Philip Morris).
Plaintiffs have asked for an injunction to
stop companies from producing, manufacturing, processing, selling or
using aspartame.
Plaintiffs
in all three cases are seeking a
jury trial.
If
you would like to schedule someone from the
National Justice League for an interview, please call or fax at
208-246-1171.
This
release is issued by courtesy of: WORLD
NATURAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION
(for
further information on this Breaking News
and History of Aspartame)
http://www.wnho.net
NATIONAL
JUSTICE LEAGUE
http://www.nationaljusticeleague.com
2205
Hilltop Dr. Ste. 2022 Redding, Ca 96002
Phone
208-246-1171 E-mail:
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