DONALD RUMSFELD AND ASPARTAME
Posted: May 9, 2004
12:18 AM Eastern
by NWV Staff Writer

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Aspartame is an additive found in diet soft drinks and over 5,000 foods, drugs
and medicine. It was approved in 1983 for use in carbonated beverages. However,
there may be more sour than sweet when it comes to aspartame.
In reality, aspartame is a drug, not an additive in the sense many people
associate with that word. It interacts with other drugs, has a synergistic and
additive effect with MSG, and is a chemical hyper-sensitization agent. Dr. John
Olney, who founded the field of neuoscience called excitotoxicity, attempted to
stop the approval of aspartame with Attorney James Turner back in 1996. The
FDA's own toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross told Congress that without a shadow of
a doubt, aspartame can cause brain tumors and brain cancer and violated the
Delaney Amendment which forbids putting anything in food that is known to cause
Cancer. Detailed information on this can be found in the Bressler Report (FDA
report on Searle).

Dr. Olney isn't alone in attempting to reach out to the medical community and
warn the American people about this drug. 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.
According to the top doctors and researchers on this issue, 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. Further dangers
highlighted is that 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.
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."

Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, MD, author of "Excitotoxins: The Taste That
Kills," wrote about the relationship between aspartame and macular degeneration,
diabetic blindness and glaucoma (all known to result from excitotoxin
accumulation in the retina).
The medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, by Dr. H. J. Roberts
is 1038 pages of symptoms and diseases triggered by this neurotoxin. The claim
is made that aspartame has even caused the epidemic of obesity because it makes
you crave carbohydrates so you gain weight, and the formaldehyde accumulates in
the adipose tissue (fat cells) according to the Trocho Study. Further
accusations are that aspartame is also responsible for the epidemic of diabetes
as it not only can precipitate diabetes but simulates and aggravates diabetic
retinopathy and neuropathy, can cause diabetics to go into convulsions and
interacts with insulin.

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. It appears 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, 1980 the Board of Inquiry of the FDA concurred and denied the petition for
approval.

In 1981, 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.

Dr. Betty Martini has worked in the medical field for 22 years. She is the
founder of Mission Possible International, working with doctors around the world
in an effort to remove aspartame from food, drinks and medicine. According to
Dr. Martini, aspartame has brought more complaints to the American Food and Drug
Administration than any other additive and is responsible for 75% of such
complaints to that agency. From 10,000 consumer complaints FDA compiled a list
of 92 symptoms, including death.
The history of aspartame and its approval has a political history as well as a
scientific one. According to Dr. Martini,

"When Donald Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle, that conglomerate manufactured
aspartame. For 16 years the FDA refused to approve it, not only because its not
safe but because they wanted the company indicted for fraud. Both U.S.
Prosecutors hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations
expired. They were Sam Skinner and William Conlon. Skinner went on to become
Secretary of Transportation squelching the cries of the pilots who were now
having seizures on this seizure triggering drug, aspartame, and then Chief of
Staff under President Bush's father. Some of these people reach high places.
Even Supreme Justice Clarence Thomas is a former Monsanto attorney. (Monsanto
bought Searle in 1985, and sold it a few years ago). When Ashcroft became
Attorney General, Thompson from King and Spalding Attorneys (another former
Monsanto attorney) became deputy under Ashcroft. (Attorneys for NutraSweet and
Coke).

"However, the FDA still refused to allow NutraSweet on the market. It is a
deadly neurotoxic drug masquerading as an additive. It interacts with all
antidepressants, L-dopa, Coumadin, hormones, insulin, all cardiac medication,
and many others. It also is a chemical hyper sensitization drug so that it
interacts with vaccines, other toxins, other unsafe sweeteners like Splenda
which has a chlorinated base like DDT and can cause auto immune disease. It has
a synergistic and additive effect with MSG. Both being excitotoxins, the
aspartic acid in aspartame, and MSG, the glutamate people were found using
aspartame as the placebo for MSG studies, even before it was approved. The FDA
has known this for a quarter of a century and done nothing even though its
against the law. Searle went on to build a NutraSweet factory and had $9 million
worth of inventory.

"Donald Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and the day after he
took office he appointed an FDA Commissioner who would approve aspartame. The
FDA set up a Board of Inquiry of the best scientists they had to offer who said
aspartame is not safe and causes brain tumors, and the petition for approval is
hereby revoked. The new FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull Hayes, over-ruled that
Board of Inquiry and then went to work for the PR Agency of the manufacturer,
Burson-Marstellar, rumored at $1000.00 a day, and has refused to talk to the
press ever since.

"There were three congressional hearings because of the outcry of the people
being poisoned. Senator Orrin Hatch refused to allow hearings for a long time.
The first hearing was in 1985, and Senator Hatch and others were paid by
Monsanto. So the bill by Senator Metzenbaum never got out of committee. This
bill would have put a moratorium on aspartame, and had the NIH do independent
studies on the problems being seen in the population, interaction with drugs,
seizures, what it does to the fetus and even behavioral problems in children.
This is due to the depletion of serotonin caused by the phenylalanine in
aspartame."



According to a press release put out by the National Justice League on April 26,
2004, 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: Defendants in the lawsuits include
Coca-cola, PepsiCo, Bayer Corp., the Dannon Company, William Wrigley Jr.
Company, Walmart, ConAgra Foods, Wyeth, Inc., The NutraSweet Company, and Altria
Corp. (parent company of Kraft Foods and Philip Morris).

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 (including Yoplait) and children's aspirin
with the full knowledge that aspartame, the sweetener in them, is neurotoxic.
Dr. Martini recommends that consumers read all labels on any food, medicine ordrinks they intend to consume.
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