Tuesday, July 30, 2002
Aspartame is deadly poison - drop that Diet Coke right now!
Posted by Jason Dunn in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 10:34 AM
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/
I don't use this "pulpit" to do much preachin' other than the good news of the Pocket PC, but after being at a BBQ last night and seeing the number of people drinking diet colas pumped up with aspertame, I felt really convicted to pass this URL along to all of you (Ashley found it). The stories from people who used aspertame are very sobering, and thinking of the people I know who are heavy users, I see a lot of commonalities in the stories. Sugar is natural and tasty - but it's better to not drink a can of pop than drink one that will kill you. And if you think it's just about pop, take out that pack of gum you have and look at the ingredients. Wrigleys gum is one of the few types on the market without aspartame in it.
"An analysis of peer reviewed medical literature using MEDLINE and other databases was conducted by Ralph G. Walton, MD, Chairman, The Center for Behavioral Medicine, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. Dr. Walton analyzed 164 studies which were felt to have relevance to human safety questions. Of those studies, 74 studies had aspartame industry-related sponsorship and 90 were funded without any industry money.
Of the 90 non-industry-sponsored studies, 83 (92%) identified one or more problems with aspartame. Of the 7 studies which did not find a problems, 6 of those studies were conducted by the FDA. Given that a number of FDA officials went to work for the aspartame industry immediately following approval (including the former FDA Commissioner), many consider these studies to be equivalent to industry-sponsored research.
Of the 74 aspartame industry-sponsored studies, all 74 (100%) claimed that no problems were found with aspartame. This is reminiscent of tobacco industry research where it is primarily the tobacco research which never finds problems with the product, but nearly all of the independent studies do find problems."
UPDATE: Uh, nevermind... :oops:
I don't use this "pulpit" to do much preachin' other than the good news of the Pocket PC, but after being at a BBQ last night and seeing the number of people drinking diet colas pumped up with aspertame, I felt really convicted to pass this URL along to all of you (Ashley found it). The stories from people who used aspertame are very sobering, and thinking of the people I know who are heavy users, I see a lot of commonalities in the stories. Sugar is natural and tasty - but it's better to not drink a can of pop than drink one that will kill you. And if you think it's just about pop, take out that pack of gum you have and look at the ingredients. Wrigleys gum is one of the few types on the market without aspartame in it.
"An analysis of peer reviewed medical literature using MEDLINE and other databases was conducted by Ralph G. Walton, MD, Chairman, The Center for Behavioral Medicine, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. Dr. Walton analyzed 164 studies which were felt to have relevance to human safety questions. Of those studies, 74 studies had aspartame industry-related sponsorship and 90 were funded without any industry money.
Of the 90 non-industry-sponsored studies, 83 (92%) identified one or more problems with aspartame. Of the 7 studies which did not find a problems, 6 of those studies were conducted by the FDA. Given that a number of FDA officials went to work for the aspartame industry immediately following approval (including the former FDA Commissioner), many consider these studies to be equivalent to industry-sponsored research.
Of the 74 aspartame industry-sponsored studies, all 74 (100%) claimed that no problems were found with aspartame. This is reminiscent of tobacco industry research where it is primarily the tobacco research which never finds problems with the product, but nearly all of the independent studies do find problems."
UPDATE: Uh, nevermind... :oops:
