Aspartame has been Renamed and is Now Being Marketed as a Natural Sweetener
Filed Under Food Toxins, Future of Food
by Drew Kaplan
Artificial sweeteners especially aspartame has gotten a bad rap over the years, most likely due to studies showing they cause cancer. But not to worry Ajinomoto the company that makes Aspartame has changed the name to AminoSweet. It has the same toxic ingredients but a nice new sounding name.
And if you or your child happens to be allergic to Aspartame, well don’t take it personally it’s just business.
Despite the evidence gained over the years showing that aspartame is a dangerous toxin, it has remained on the global market . In continues to gain approval for use in new types of food despite evidence showing that it causes neurological brain damage, cancerous tumors, and endocrine disruption, among other things.
Most consumers are oblivious to the fact that Aspartame was invented as a drug but upon discovery of its’ sweet taste was magically transformed from a drug to a food additive. HFA wants to warn our readers to beware of a wolf dressed up in sheep’s clothing or in this case Aspartame dressed up as Aminosweet.
Over 25 years ago, aspartame was first introduced into the European food supply. Today, it is an everyday component of most diet beverages, sugar-free desserts, and chewing gums in countries worldwide. But the tides have been turning as the general public is waking up to the truth about artificial sweeteners like aspartame and the harm they cause to health. The latest aspartame marketing scheme is a desperate effort to indoctrinate the public into accepting the chemical sweetener as natural and safe, despite evidence to the contrary.
Aspartame was an accidental discovery by James Schlatter, a chemist who had been trying to produce an anti-ulcer pharmaceutical drug for G.D. Searle & Company back in 1965. Upon mixing aspartic acid and phenylalanine, two naturally-occurring amino acids, he discovered that the new compound had a sweet taste. The company merely changed its FDA approval application from drug to food additive and, voila, aspartame was born.
G.D. Searle & Company first patented aspartame in 1970. An internal memo released in the same year urged company executives to work on getting the FDA into the “habit of saying yes” and of encouraging a “subconscious spirit of participation” in getting the chemical approved.
G.D. Searle & Company submitted its first petition to the FDA in 1973 and fought for years to gain FDA approval, submitting its own safety studies that many believed were inadequate and deceptive. Despite numerous objections, including one from its own scientists, the company was able to convince the FDA to approve aspartame for commercial use in a few products in 1974, igniting a blaze of controversy.
In 1976, then FDA Commissioner Alexander Schmidt wrote a letter to Sen. Ted Kennedy expressing concern over the “questionable integrity of the basic safety data submitted for aspartame safety”. FDA Chief Counsel Richard Merrill believed that a grand jury should investigate G.D. Searle & Company for lying about the safety of aspartame in its reports and for concealing evidence proving the chemical is unsafe for consumption.
The details of aspartame’s history are lengthy, but the point remains that the carcinogen was illegitimately approved as a food additive through heavy-handed prodding by a powerful corporation with its own interests in mind. Practically all drugs and food additives are approved by the FDA not because science shows they are safe but because companies essentially lobby the FDA with monetary payoffs and complete the agency’s multi-million dollar approval process.
Changing aspartame’s name to something that is “appealing and memorable”, in Ajinomoto’s own words, may hoodwink some but hopefully most will reject this clever marketing tactic as nothing more than a desperate attempt to preserve the company’s multi-billion dollar cash cow. Do not be deceived.
Update: As many comments are being posted by readers who are allergic to Aspartame we ask that you please forward this article to as many people as you can.
Sources:
Ajinomoto brands aspartame ‘AminoSweet’
Aspartame History Highlights
FDA’s approval of aspartame under scrutiny
An Overdue Ban On A Dangerous Sweetener
http://www.naturalnews.com/028151_aspartame_sweeteners.html
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
San Francisico Smart Meter Artile
This article is in today's SF Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/26/BU871C79IM.DTL&type=business
Sebastopol safety concerns over PG&E SmartMeters
David R. Baker, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, February 26, 2010
To the list of complaints lodged against Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s new SmartMeters, add another - potential health risk.
Some Sebastopol residents have questioned whether radio frequency radiation from the meters, which transmit their data to the utility via wireless communications, could threaten their health.
Their concerns grow from the heated debate over whether radiation from cell phones, Wi-Fi computers and other wireless devices can cause cancer or other ailments. They want a moratorium on installing the SmartMeters to measure electricity and gas use.
"We are being increasingly exposed to an exponential amount of radio frequency radiation," said Sebastopol resident Sandi Maurer. "Now there are going to be two of these things in every home."
Maurer is the founder of the EMF Safety Network, a clearinghouse for information on the possible dangers of electromagnetic fields. She and other residents persuaded the Sebastopol City Council this month to ask California energy regulators to stop SmartMeter installation while the possible health risks can be assessed.
PG&E has already fielded complaints that the advanced meters aren't accurate, a charge the utility insists isn't true. Other people have complained that the meters make it too easy for PG&E to disconnect customers who have fallen behind on their bills, because now power can be turned off without sending a technician to a customer's house.
g&e defends meters
PG&E says the meters pose no risk to public health. Research cited by the company shows that the meters put out less radiation than cell phones, computers and microwave ovens. Nor do the meters transmit continuously.
"We believe our SmartMeter equipment is completely safe" and falls within all Federal Communications Commission guidelines, spokesman Paul Moreno said. In addition, people won't hold SmartMeters to their heads head for minutes at a time, Moreno said.
"They're in different ballparks," he said.
The possible risk of cell phones and other mobile devices remains in deep dispute. The radiation those devices emit does not carry enough energy to disrupt DNA. Most studies have shown no potential harm to human health, but some have raised doubts - enough that research continues.
"For every report you can find that says it may be a hazard, you can find one that says it isn't," said Sebastopol City Council member Kathleen Shaffer.
uestioning accuracy
Shaffer is more concerned about the meters' reliability. The California Public Utilities Commission, which approved PG&E's SmartMeter installation program in 2006, recently commissioned a study on the meters' accuracy. After a vote of the City Council, Sebastopol Mayor Sarah Glade Gurney sent the commission a letter on Feb. 17 asking for a moratorium on SmartMeter deployment, citing concerns about health, accuracy and interference with other appliances.
"For me, if we're going to pay for them, and we have to have them, they have to work," Shaffer said.
Maurer isn't reassured that PG&E's SmartMeters meet federal standards - she considers those much too low. Two years ago, she helped persuade the Sebastopol City Council to turn down a project to provide free wireless Internet service in the city's downtown.
E-mail David R. Baker at dbaker@sfchronicle.com.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/26/BU871C79IM.DTL
This article appeared on page D - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/26/BU871C79IM.DTL&type=business
Sebastopol safety concerns over PG&E SmartMeters
David R. Baker, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, February 26, 2010
To the list of complaints lodged against Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s new SmartMeters, add another - potential health risk.
Some Sebastopol residents have questioned whether radio frequency radiation from the meters, which transmit their data to the utility via wireless communications, could threaten their health.
Their concerns grow from the heated debate over whether radiation from cell phones, Wi-Fi computers and other wireless devices can cause cancer or other ailments. They want a moratorium on installing the SmartMeters to measure electricity and gas use.
"We are being increasingly exposed to an exponential amount of radio frequency radiation," said Sebastopol resident Sandi Maurer. "Now there are going to be two of these things in every home."
Maurer is the founder of the EMF Safety Network, a clearinghouse for information on the possible dangers of electromagnetic fields. She and other residents persuaded the Sebastopol City Council this month to ask California energy regulators to stop SmartMeter installation while the possible health risks can be assessed.
PG&E has already fielded complaints that the advanced meters aren't accurate, a charge the utility insists isn't true. Other people have complained that the meters make it too easy for PG&E to disconnect customers who have fallen behind on their bills, because now power can be turned off without sending a technician to a customer's house.
g&e defends meters
PG&E says the meters pose no risk to public health. Research cited by the company shows that the meters put out less radiation than cell phones, computers and microwave ovens. Nor do the meters transmit continuously.
"We believe our SmartMeter equipment is completely safe" and falls within all Federal Communications Commission guidelines, spokesman Paul Moreno said. In addition, people won't hold SmartMeters to their heads head for minutes at a time, Moreno said.
"They're in different ballparks," he said.
The possible risk of cell phones and other mobile devices remains in deep dispute. The radiation those devices emit does not carry enough energy to disrupt DNA. Most studies have shown no potential harm to human health, but some have raised doubts - enough that research continues.
"For every report you can find that says it may be a hazard, you can find one that says it isn't," said Sebastopol City Council member Kathleen Shaffer.
uestioning accuracy
Shaffer is more concerned about the meters' reliability. The California Public Utilities Commission, which approved PG&E's SmartMeter installation program in 2006, recently commissioned a study on the meters' accuracy. After a vote of the City Council, Sebastopol Mayor Sarah Glade Gurney sent the commission a letter on Feb. 17 asking for a moratorium on SmartMeter deployment, citing concerns about health, accuracy and interference with other appliances.
"For me, if we're going to pay for them, and we have to have them, they have to work," Shaffer said.
Maurer isn't reassured that PG&E's SmartMeters meet federal standards - she considers those much too low. Two years ago, she helped persuade the Sebastopol City Council to turn down a project to provide free wireless Internet service in the city's downtown.
E-mail David R. Baker at dbaker@sfchronicle.com.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/26/BU871C79IM.DTL
This article appeared on page D - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Super Brain Yoga
This is incredible ....just cut and paste and watch this you tube a must see for everyone...
http://secretsofnaturalhealing.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-is-superbrain-yogaand-can-it.html
What is Superbrain Yoga?
Superbrain yoga is a quick and easy exercise improves poor memory, lack of concentration, clumsiness and emotional instability.
It stimulates intelligence in everyone, and can offer real help for those with learning difficulties, autism and Alzheimer’s disease.
On the CBS news story video clip above, a teacher, doctor, neurobiologist, occupational therapist, and parent discuss how this one easy exercise…
· Stimulates neural pathways via acupressure points in the earlobes
· Synchronizes the right and left side of the brain to improve function
· Sharpens intelligence in seniors, juniors, mums, dads and kids
· Helps those with autism, Asperger's syndrome, learning difficulties and behavioral problems
· Is fast and simple to do - takes just 1 to 3 minutes a day
· Benefits anyone of any age
Watch the short video explaining how to do this quick, easy (and just a little bit quirky) exercise, by clicking here.
Regards, and great health!
Steve Barwick
http://secretsofnaturalhealing.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-is-superbrain-yogaand-can-it.html
What is Superbrain Yoga?
Superbrain yoga is a quick and easy exercise improves poor memory, lack of concentration, clumsiness and emotional instability.
It stimulates intelligence in everyone, and can offer real help for those with learning difficulties, autism and Alzheimer’s disease.
On the CBS news story video clip above, a teacher, doctor, neurobiologist, occupational therapist, and parent discuss how this one easy exercise…
· Stimulates neural pathways via acupressure points in the earlobes
· Synchronizes the right and left side of the brain to improve function
· Sharpens intelligence in seniors, juniors, mums, dads and kids
· Helps those with autism, Asperger's syndrome, learning difficulties and behavioral problems
· Is fast and simple to do - takes just 1 to 3 minutes a day
· Benefits anyone of any age
Watch the short video explaining how to do this quick, easy (and just a little bit quirky) exercise, by clicking here.
Regards, and great health!
Steve Barwick
FULL SIGNAL MOVIE LINK
Full Signal filmmaker Talal Jabari is very willing to work with any community wanting to screen Full Signal. If anyone in Santa Cruz or other areas wants to work on this I can send you his contact information. I did suggest the film to the SCFF, however I later heard that Jane Sullivan is no longer the director so I do not know the status.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Angela Flynn
Wireless Radiation Alert Network
WRAN
301-229-0282
FAX 301-229-4752
CELL TOWERS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS – LIVING WITH RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24352550/Cell-Tower-Rpt
http://portlandobserver.com/?p=830
Written on February 17, 2010 at 6:21 pm by admin
Film: Wireless technology endangers our health
Written on February 17, 2010 at 6:21 pm by admin
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Angela Flynn
Wireless Radiation Alert Network
WRAN
301-229-0282
FAX 301-229-4752
CELL TOWERS AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS – LIVING WITH RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24352550/Cell-Tower-Rpt
http://portlandobserver.com/?p=830
Written on February 17, 2010 at 6:21 pm by admin
Film: Wireless technology endangers our health
Written on February 17, 2010 at 6:21 pm by admin
BRAIN YOGA EXCERISE
This is incredible ....just cut and paste and watch this you tube a must see for everyone...
http://secretsofnaturalhealing.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-is-superbrain-yogaand-can-it.html
What is Super brain Yoga?
Super brainyoga is a quick and easy exercise improves poor memory, lack of concentration, clumsiness and emotional instability.
It stimulates intelligence in everyone, and can offer real help for those with learning difficulties, autism and Alzheimer’s disease.
On the CBS news story video clip above, a teacher, doctor, neurobiologist, occupational therapist, and parent discuss how this one easy exercise…
· Stimulates neural pathways via acupressure points in the earlobes
· Synchronizes the right and left side of the brain to improve function
· Sharpens intelligence in seniors, juniors, mums, dads and kids
· Helps those with autism, Asperger's syndrome, learning difficulties and behavioral problems
· Is fast and simple to do - takes just 1 to 3 minutes a day
· Benefits anyone of any age
Watch the short video explaining how to do this quick, easy (and just a little bit quirky) exercise, by clicking here.
Regards, and great health!
Steve Barwick
http://secretsofnaturalhealing.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-is-superbrain-yogaand-can-it.html
What is Super brain Yoga?
Super brainyoga is a quick and easy exercise improves poor memory, lack of concentration, clumsiness and emotional instability.
It stimulates intelligence in everyone, and can offer real help for those with learning difficulties, autism and Alzheimer’s disease.
On the CBS news story video clip above, a teacher, doctor, neurobiologist, occupational therapist, and parent discuss how this one easy exercise…
· Stimulates neural pathways via acupressure points in the earlobes
· Synchronizes the right and left side of the brain to improve function
· Sharpens intelligence in seniors, juniors, mums, dads and kids
· Helps those with autism, Asperger's syndrome, learning difficulties and behavioral problems
· Is fast and simple to do - takes just 1 to 3 minutes a day
· Benefits anyone of any age
Watch the short video explaining how to do this quick, easy (and just a little bit quirky) exercise, by clicking here.
Regards, and great health!
Steve Barwick
Friday, February 19, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
My Connection magaizne Smart Meter Article
PG&E SMART METER'S HUGE HEALTH RISKS
On January 15th PG&E installed the new Smart Meter on our home in Aptos.
I was not home at the time and had no idea it was installed.
I arrived home from a great workout at the gym feeling like the peak of health.
As soon as I got back home I started to feel horrible and had no idea why.
The first thing I noticed was the worst pressure in my head and ears ever.
Then my heart started to beat really fast and then my brain felt wired.
Within 15 minutes I started to get really dizzy, nauseous and weak.
Within 20 minutes my whole body began to ache like nothing I had ever experienced before.
When I got on my computer my whole face and hands started to burn and hurt.
My husband arrived home 30 mintutes later and asked how I was and I said the worst ever.
He then said he was going to check the work out the electrican did and saw PG&E installed The new Smart Meters.
I then called PG&E in a panic sinc ei was feeling so awlful and filed a complaint and asked them to take it off right away since it was making me so sick.
Sanat cruz is not schdueled until July to get these Meters.
We left and went out of town and I felt better in 3o minutes.
When we arrived hoem Sunday I felt horrible l again and could not sleep that night.
I called PG&E first thing Monday morning and pleated to have it taken off right away since I felt so sick form it all.
Monday night at 8pm a PG&E installer came and took it off and put an old meter back on. Within 15-20 minutes I felt 90% better.
I have been electrical senitive now for 4 years and these form of radiation ws teh worst that I ever felt in my life.
These devices emilt millions of new electromagnetic radiation (RF) wireless signals throughtout the day and night.
This is a huge amount of electrosmog.
Exposture to electrosmog has been docmumeneted to have major biological effects on living tissue.
The expontial increase in teh use of wireless techologies presents serious public health risks.
Please check out the Bioinitiative Report at www.bioinitative.org which is regonized by the European Parliamnent demonstartes RF health effects:DNA breaks,free radical productuion,cell stress, premature aging,memeory loss, sleep disturbance, camncers and memeory loss and headaches.
PG&E has not provided crtical evdience of health & safety they claim to have commissioned.
At this time we can not opt out so we all must act qucikly.
Please sign the petetion on my web site at www.tammiedonnelly.com
Tammie Donnely has spent the last 4 years educating hefrself and others and on the many health challanges associated with WI-FI, cell phones, cell towers and
Other form of Electro Smog.
She lives in Aptos Ca and can be reached at 831-476-1526 or email her at emfhelp@yahoo.com
On January 15th PG&E installed the new Smart Meter on our home in Aptos.
I was not home at the time and had no idea it was installed.
I arrived home from a great workout at the gym feeling like the peak of health.
As soon as I got back home I started to feel horrible and had no idea why.
The first thing I noticed was the worst pressure in my head and ears ever.
Then my heart started to beat really fast and then my brain felt wired.
Within 15 minutes I started to get really dizzy, nauseous and weak.
Within 20 minutes my whole body began to ache like nothing I had ever experienced before.
When I got on my computer my whole face and hands started to burn and hurt.
My husband arrived home 30 mintutes later and asked how I was and I said the worst ever.
He then said he was going to check the work out the electrican did and saw PG&E installed The new Smart Meters.
I then called PG&E in a panic sinc ei was feeling so awlful and filed a complaint and asked them to take it off right away since it was making me so sick.
Sanat cruz is not schdueled until July to get these Meters.
We left and went out of town and I felt better in 3o minutes.
When we arrived hoem Sunday I felt horrible l again and could not sleep that night.
I called PG&E first thing Monday morning and pleated to have it taken off right away since I felt so sick form it all.
Monday night at 8pm a PG&E installer came and took it off and put an old meter back on. Within 15-20 minutes I felt 90% better.
I have been electrical senitive now for 4 years and these form of radiation ws teh worst that I ever felt in my life.
These devices emilt millions of new electromagnetic radiation (RF) wireless signals throughtout the day and night.
This is a huge amount of electrosmog.
Exposture to electrosmog has been docmumeneted to have major biological effects on living tissue.
The expontial increase in teh use of wireless techologies presents serious public health risks.
Please check out the Bioinitiative Report at www.bioinitative.org which is regonized by the European Parliamnent demonstartes RF health effects:DNA breaks,free radical productuion,cell stress, premature aging,memeory loss, sleep disturbance, camncers and memeory loss and headaches.
PG&E has not provided crtical evdience of health & safety they claim to have commissioned.
At this time we can not opt out so we all must act qucikly.
Please sign the petetion on my web site at www.tammiedonnelly.com
Tammie Donnely has spent the last 4 years educating hefrself and others and on the many health challanges associated with WI-FI, cell phones, cell towers and
Other form of Electro Smog.
She lives in Aptos Ca and can be reached at 831-476-1526 or email her at emfhelp@yahoo.com
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