Rich Murra
Wed, Mar-12-08, 06:15
House Concurrent Resolution #132 for Health Department panel
to decide aspartame ban by early 2010, Hawaii Rep. Josh Green
MD, Health Committee Chair: Murray 2008.03.12
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.htm Wednesday,
March 12, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1525
_____________________________________________________
www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2008/bills/HCR132_.pdf
Hawaii House of Representatives H.C.R. No. 132, Twenty-fourth
Legislature,
State of Hawaii -- House Concurrent Resolution
Requesting the Director of Health to form a work group to
explore the need to ban or better label products containing
the artificial sweetener aspartame.
WHEREAS, discovered in 1965, aspartame was first approved in
the United States in 1981 and is one of the most widely used
artificial sweeteners; and
WHEREAS, when metabolized by the body, aspartame is broken
down into two common amino acids, aspartic acid and
phenylalanine, and a small amount of a third substance,
methanol; and [ Note: the aspartame molecule becomes equal
numbers of aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol
molecules (which although light weight, are more chemically
active by far, being turned quickly into nearly the same
number of molecules of formaldehyde and then formic acid,
enough to have toxic effects in every cell in the body by
binding with and impairing DNA, RNA, and protein molecules. ]
WHEREAS, these three substances occur in similar or greater
amounts in common foods; and [ Note: methanol and formaldehyde
are also supplied by dark wines and liquors (the major cause
of "morning after" hangovers), tobacco and wood smoke, fumes
from faulty furnaces, heaters and stoves, many fruits and
vegetables (when heated in canning, fermented, or degraded by
colonic bacteria), mobile homes and RVs, particleboard, new
buildings new cars, carpets, drapes, and furniture,
mortuaries, medical training and research, many cleaners and
disinfectants, many personal care products ranging from
leather to hair dyes, and more, including many Asian foods. ]
WHEREAS, aspartame continues to be the subject of strong
public controversy regarding its safety; and
WHEREAS, some studies have recommended further investigation
into the possible connection between aspartame and diseases
such as brain tumors, brain lesions, and lymphoma; and [ Note:
the range of symptoms also includes headache, fatigue, poor
memory, irritability, lassitude, mania, anxiety, depression,
"brain fog", insomnia, dizziness, many body pains and muscle
cramps, restless legs, interstitial cystitis, eye and vision
problems, tinnitus, dry eyes and mouth, skin rashes, diarrhea
or constipation, partial paralysis (often confused as
MS), ideopathic seizures, weight gain or loss, blood sugar
swings, craving and addiction, impaired fertility and
pregnancy, "spontaneous" abortion, premature birth, low
birth weight, birth defects, sudden infant death syndrome,
autism, and early diabetes -- this dazzling litany of
outcomes is the natural result of chronic, long-term,
low-level exposure to formaldehyde and formic acid.
Naturally, there are countless interactions with other
drugs and toxins, as well as major and complex individual
genetic variations.
Cheap, safe folic acid protects against formaldehyde toxicity
in most people. ]
WHEREAS, some human and animal studies have found adverse
effects and some have found no adverse effects; and [ Note:
almost all industry and vested interest funded research claims
no evidence of problems, while the opposite is found by
independent teams. ]
WHEREAS, while there have been a number of studies on the
effects of aspartame on people, there is a great deal of
argument by both proponents and opponents on the methods used
in the testing and whether accurate representations of the
consequences of average consumption by people have been
achieved by these studies; and
Note: a major need is to focus on the effects for long-term
heavy users, above 6 12-oz cans daily diet drink, from
vulnerable groups like fetus, infants, kids, teens,
students, difficult critical jobs like police, pilots,
military, and nuclear plant operators, pregnant women,
seniors, obese, diabetic, depressed, violent criminal,
cancer, and, especially, over-worked PR agents lavishly
funded to defend aspartame as, "the most tested food
additive in history".
WHEREAS, the Internet has become a tool for many to spread and
promote the opinion they adhere to as fact whether it is that
aspartame is a neurotoxin derived from toxic sludge or it is a
harmless product enabling a healthy lifestyle; and
WHEREAS, while many may find that the simple answer to the
problem is to not purchase or use any product containing
aspartame in it, there are those who maintain that some
products do not specifically list aspartame as an ingredient,
rather it is hidden under the label of "natural flavors"; now,
therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the
Twenty-fourth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular
Session of 2008, the Senate concurring, that the Director of
Health is requested to form a work group to explore the need
to ban or improve labeling for products containing the
artificial sweetener aspartame; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED the members of the work group
should include:
(1) One member from the House of Representatives appointed
by the Speaker of the House of Representatives;
(2) One member of the Senate appointed by the President of
the Senate;
(3) The Director of Health or the director's designee;
(4) The President of the Calorie Control Council or
the President's designee; and [ the preminent
aspartame lobby ]
(5) The President and Chief Executive Officer of the
American Beverage Association or a designee; [ With
their original name, The National Soft Drink
Association, they condemned aspartame on July 28, 1983
in a detailed critique:
http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?page_id=3D60 ]
(6) The President of the Hawaii Society of Naturopathic
Physicians or a designee;
(7) The Founder of Mission Possible International or a
designee; and
(8) Two consumers appointed by the Director of Health; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED the work group is requested to submit a
report of its findings, as well as any suggested legislation,
to the Legislature no later than 20 days prior to the
convening of the Regular Session of 2010; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this
Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Director of
Health, President of the Calorie Control Council,
webmaster@caloriecontrol.org; President and Chief Executive
Officer of the American Beverage Association,
info@ameribev.org; President of the Hawaii Society of
Naturopathic Physicians, dr_nguyen@msn.com; and Founder of
Mission Possible International, Betty Martini,
bettm19@mindspring.com
Offered by Josh Green, MD March 4, 2008
Honorable Rep. Josh Green, M.D., Chair, Health Committee
repgreen@Capitol.hawaii.gov; 6th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 327 415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813 phone 808-586-9605; fax 808-586-9608
=46rom the Big Island, toll free 974-4000 + 69605
Hawaiian aspartame ban bills in House and Senate challenge
corporate clout, Sen. J. Kalani English & Suzanne Chun
Oakland, Rep. Calvin K.Y. Say & Mele Carroll: Murray
2008.01.25 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm
Friday, January 25, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1505
_____________________________________________________
www.hawaiind.org/index.htm Hawaii Society of Naturopathic
Physicians 750-D Kapahulu Ave Honolulu, HI 96816 808-732-6996
Dr. Ye Nguyen - President dr_nguyen@msn.com;
Ds. Monique Yuen - Vice President: drmoniqueyuen@gmail.com;
Dt. Karen Tan - Treasurer
Du. Madeleine Portuondo madeleine_portuondo@yahoo.com;
_____________________________________________________
methanol impurity in alcohol drinks [ and aspartame ] is
turned into neurotoxic formic acid, prevented by folic acid,
re Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, BM Kapur, DC Lehotay, PL Carlen at
U. Toronto, Alc Clin Exp Res 2007 Dec. plain text: detailed
biochemistry, CL Nie et al. 2007.07.18: Rich Murray 2008.02.24
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.htm Sunday,
February 24, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1524
[ Rich Murray comments: As a medical layman volunteer
information activist for aspartame and related toxicity issues
since January 1999, I note with appreciation the remarkable
exponential progress on all fronts, including a rapidly
emerging consensus about the primary importance of all
toxicity challenges for our world.
This lengthy review features in detail two quite
different, revolutionary contributions, from Canada, and
England and China.
It is indicative of our times that the CL Nie et al. study,
2007 appears in a free, open access journal-- indeed, as all
life and death information must.
Following rather vigorously, indeed blindly, the imperatives
of single-minded, profit-driven capitalist competition --
manipulating adroitly research, education, media, citizens,
governments -- many great global corporations have inevitably
created results that oppose the common good. Alcohol and
tobacco are well known.
Realistically, any further manipulations can only lead to
inevitable and even sudden corporate meltdowns, in the context
of an unfettered, cooperative, democratic global information
forum, the Internet.
Now, it is as easy and cheap to compose and instantly post a
30-page review as 3 pages a decade ago -- and such reviews are
archived forever in multiple collections, open via global
search engines to a billion Net citizens.
Perforce, and increasingly happily, all societal entities will
have to operate by high and shared voluntary universal
standards for the common good. ]
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1530-0277.-
2007.00541.x
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research Volume 31 Issue
12 Page 2114-2120, December 2007
Bhushan M. Kapur, b.kapur@utoronto.ca; Arthur C.
Vandenbroucke, PhD, FCACB Yana Adamchik, Denis C. Lehotay,
dlehotay@health.gov.sk.ca; Peter L. Carlen
carlen@uhnres.utoronto.ca;
(2007) Formic Acid, a Novel Metabolite of Chronic Ethanol
Abuse, Causes Neurotoxicity, Which Is Prevented by
Folic Acid Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental
Research 31 (12), 2114-2120.
doi:10.1111/j.1530-0277.2007.00541.x
Abstract
Background: Methanol is endogenously formed in the brain and
is present as a congener in most alcoholic beverages.
Because ethanol is preferentially metabolized over methanol
(MeOH) by alcohol dehydrogenase, it is not surprising that
MeOH accumulates in the alcohol-abusing population.
This suggests that the alcohol-drinking population will
have higher levels of MeOH's neurotoxic metabolite, formic
acid (FA).
FA elimination is mediated by folic acid.
Neurotoxicity is a common result of chronic alcoholism.
This study shows for the first time that FA, found in chronic
alcoholics, is neurotoxic and this toxicity can be mitigated
by folic acid administration.
Objective: To determine if FA levels are higher in the
alcohol-drinking population and to assess its neurotoxicity in
organotypic hippocampal rat brain slice cultures.
Methods: Serum and CSF FA was measured in samples from
both ethanol abusing and control patients, who presented
to a hospital emergency department. [ CSF =3D Cerebral
Spinal Fluid ]
FA's neurotoxicity and its reversibility by folic acid were
assessed using organotypic rat brain hippocampal slice
cultures using clinically relevant concentrations.
Results: Serum FA levels in the alcoholics (mean =B1 SE:
0.416 +- 0.093 mmol/l, n =3D 23) were significantly higher
than in controls (mean =B1 SE: 0.154 +- 0.009 mmol/l, n =3D
82) (p < 0.0002).
FA was not detected in the controls' CSF (n =3D 20), whereas
it was >0.15 mmol/l in CSF of 3 of the 4 alcoholic cases.
Low doses of FA from 1 to 5 mmol/l added for 24, 48 or 72
hours to the rat brain slice cultures caused neuronal death as
measured by propidium iodide staining.
When folic acid (1 umol/l) was added with the FA, neuronal
death was prevented. [ umol =3D micromole ]
Conclusions: Formic acid may be a significant factor in the
neurotoxicity of ethanol abuse.
This neurotoxicity can be mitigated by folic acid
administration at a clinically relevant dose.
Key Words: Formic Acid, Folic Acid, Methanol, Neurotoxicity,
Alcoholism.
____________________________________________________
Note: many recent aspartame bans.....
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1426 ASDA
(unit of Wal-Mart Stores WMT.N) and Marks & Spencer will join
Tesco and also Sainsbury to ban and limit aspartame, MSG,
artificial flavors dyes preservatives additives, trans fats,
salt "nasties" to protect kids from ADHD: leading UK media:
Murray 2007.05.15
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNMmessage/1451
Artificial sweeteners (aspartame, sucralose) and coloring
agents will be banned from use in newly-born and baby foods,
the European Parliament decided: Latvia ban in schools 2006:
Murray 2007.07.12
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1341
Connecticut bans artificial sweeteners in schools, Nancy
Barnes, New Milford Times: Murray 2006.05.25
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1369
Bristol, Connecticut, schools join state program to limit
artificial sweeteners, sugar, fats for 8800 students, Johnny J
Burnham, The Bristol Press: Murray 2006.09.22
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1513
metabolic syndrome is tied to diet soda, PL Lutsey, LM
Steffen, J Stevens, Circulation 2008.01.22: role of
formaldehyde and formic acid from methanol in wines, liquors,
or aspartame?: Murray 2008.02.21
"But the one-third who ate the most fried food increased their
risk by 25 percent, compared with the one-third who ate the
least, and surprisingly, the risk of developing metabolic
syndrome was 34 percent higher among those who drank one can
of diet soda a day compared with those who drank none.
"This is interesting," said Lyn M. Steffen, an associate
professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota and a
co-author of the paper, which was posted online in the journal
Circulation on Jan. 22. "Why is it happening? Is it some kind
of chemical in the diet soda, or something about the behavior
of diet soda drinkers?""
"The diet soda association was not hypothesized and deserves
further study."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1143
methanol (formaldehyde, formic acid) disposition: Bouchard M
et al, full plain text, 2001: substantial sources are
degradation of fruit pectins, liquors, aspartame, smoke:
Murray 2005.04.02
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1511 vinyl
acetate, ethyl alcohol, or aspartame in womb increases later
cancers in adults with lifetime exposure in many studies, M
Soffritti et al, Ramazzini Foundation, Basic Clin. Pharm.
Toxicol. 2008 Feb.: Rich Murray 2008.02.07
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1016
President Bush & formaldehyde (aspartame) toxicity: Ramazzini
Foundation carcinogenicity results Dec 2002: Soffritti: Murray
2003.08.03 rmforall
p. 88 "The sweetening agent aspartame hydrolyzes in the
gastrointestinal tract to become free methyl alcohol, which
is metabolized in the liver to formaldehyde, formic acid,
and CO2. (11)" Medinsky MA & Dorman DC. 1994; Assessing
risks of low-level methanol exposure. CIIT Act. 14: 1-7.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1453 Souring
on fake sugar (aspartame), Jennifer Couzin, Science
2007.07.06: 4 page letter to FDA from 12 eminent USA
toxicologists re two Ramazzini Foundation cancer studies
2007.06.25: Murray 2007.07.18
30 female pet store rats drinking lifelong 13.5 mg aspartame,
2008/3 packet of Equal, had 33% with obvious tumors -- also
bulging, sick, and missing eyes, paralysis, obesity, skin
sores -- agrees with Ramazzini Foundation results,
Victoria Inness-Brown: Murray 2008.02.15
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.htm
Friday, February 15, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1521
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1490 details
on 6 epidemiological studies since 2004 on diet soda (mainly
aspartame) correlations, as well as 14 other mainstream
studies on aspartame toxicity since summer 2005: Murray
2007.11.27
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1340
aspartame groups and books: updated research review of
2004.07.16: Murray 2006.05.11
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1469 highly
toxic formaldehyde, the cause of alcohol hangovers, is made by
the body from 100 mg doses of methanol from dark wines and
liquors, dimethyl dicarbonate, and aspartame: Murray
2007.08.31
old tiger roars -- Woodrow C Monte, PhD -- aspartame causes
many breast cancers, as ADH enzyme in breasts makes methanol
from diet soda into carcinogenic formaldehyde -- same in dark
wines and liquors, Fitness Life 2008 Jan.: Murray 2008.02.11
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.htm Monday,
February 11, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1517
"Alcohol dehydrogenase ADH is required for the conversion of
methanol to formaldehyde (112).
ADH is not a common enzyme in the human body -- not many cells
in the human body contain this enzyme.
The human breast is one of the few organs in the body with a
high concentration of ADH (190b), and it is found there
exclusively in the mammary epithelial cells, the very cells
known to transform into adenocarcinoma (190c) (breast cancer).
The most recent breast cancer scientific literature
implicates ADH as perhaps having a pivotal role in the
formation of breast cancer, indicating a greater incidence of
the disease in those with higher levels of ADH activity in
their breasts (190a)."
role of formaldehyde, made by body from methanol from foods
and aspartame, in steep increases in fetal alcohol syndrome,
autism, multiple sclerosis, lupus, teen suicide, breast
cancer, Nutrition Prof. Woodrow C. Monte, retired, Arizona
State U., two reviews, 190 references supplied, Fitness Life,
New Zealand 2007 Nov, Dec: Murray 2007.12.26
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.htm Wednesday,
December 26 2007
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1498
bias, omissions, incuriosity =3D opportunity, aspartame safety
evaluation, Magnuson BA, Burdock GA, Williams GM, 7 more, 2007
Sept, Ajinomoto funded 98 pages html [ $ 32 pdf ]: Murray
2007.09.15 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.htm
Saturday, September 15, 2007
MSG and Aspartame -- A Personal Story, TV health reporter Dick
Allgire (vegetarian) healed of migraines and panic attacks:
Murray 2008.02.12
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.htm Tuesday,
February 12, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1520
"Of course, everyone chooses, as a natural priority, to enjoy
peace, joy, and love by helping to find, quickly share, and
positively act upon evidence about healthy and safe food,
drink, and environment."
Rich Murray, MA Room For All rmforall@comcast.net 505-501-2298
1943 Otowi Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/messages group with
120 members, 1,525 posts in a public archive
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartame/messages group with
1,080 members, 22,439 posts in public archive
_____________________________________________________
to decide aspartame ban by early 2010, Hawaii Rep. Josh Green
MD, Health Committee Chair: Murray 2008.03.12
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.htm Wednesday,
March 12, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1525
_____________________________________________________
www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2008/bills/HCR132_.pdf
Hawaii House of Representatives H.C.R. No. 132, Twenty-fourth
Legislature,
State of Hawaii -- House Concurrent Resolution
Requesting the Director of Health to form a work group to
explore the need to ban or better label products containing
the artificial sweetener aspartame.
WHEREAS, discovered in 1965, aspartame was first approved in
the United States in 1981 and is one of the most widely used
artificial sweeteners; and
WHEREAS, when metabolized by the body, aspartame is broken
down into two common amino acids, aspartic acid and
phenylalanine, and a small amount of a third substance,
methanol; and [ Note: the aspartame molecule becomes equal
numbers of aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol
molecules (which although light weight, are more chemically
active by far, being turned quickly into nearly the same
number of molecules of formaldehyde and then formic acid,
enough to have toxic effects in every cell in the body by
binding with and impairing DNA, RNA, and protein molecules. ]
WHEREAS, these three substances occur in similar or greater
amounts in common foods; and [ Note: methanol and formaldehyde
are also supplied by dark wines and liquors (the major cause
of "morning after" hangovers), tobacco and wood smoke, fumes
from faulty furnaces, heaters and stoves, many fruits and
vegetables (when heated in canning, fermented, or degraded by
colonic bacteria), mobile homes and RVs, particleboard, new
buildings new cars, carpets, drapes, and furniture,
mortuaries, medical training and research, many cleaners and
disinfectants, many personal care products ranging from
leather to hair dyes, and more, including many Asian foods. ]
WHEREAS, aspartame continues to be the subject of strong
public controversy regarding its safety; and
WHEREAS, some studies have recommended further investigation
into the possible connection between aspartame and diseases
such as brain tumors, brain lesions, and lymphoma; and [ Note:
the range of symptoms also includes headache, fatigue, poor
memory, irritability, lassitude, mania, anxiety, depression,
"brain fog", insomnia, dizziness, many body pains and muscle
cramps, restless legs, interstitial cystitis, eye and vision
problems, tinnitus, dry eyes and mouth, skin rashes, diarrhea
or constipation, partial paralysis (often confused as
MS), ideopathic seizures, weight gain or loss, blood sugar
swings, craving and addiction, impaired fertility and
pregnancy, "spontaneous" abortion, premature birth, low
birth weight, birth defects, sudden infant death syndrome,
autism, and early diabetes -- this dazzling litany of
outcomes is the natural result of chronic, long-term,
low-level exposure to formaldehyde and formic acid.
Naturally, there are countless interactions with other
drugs and toxins, as well as major and complex individual
genetic variations.
Cheap, safe folic acid protects against formaldehyde toxicity
in most people. ]
WHEREAS, some human and animal studies have found adverse
effects and some have found no adverse effects; and [ Note:
almost all industry and vested interest funded research claims
no evidence of problems, while the opposite is found by
independent teams. ]
WHEREAS, while there have been a number of studies on the
effects of aspartame on people, there is a great deal of
argument by both proponents and opponents on the methods used
in the testing and whether accurate representations of the
consequences of average consumption by people have been
achieved by these studies; and
Note: a major need is to focus on the effects for long-term
heavy users, above 6 12-oz cans daily diet drink, from
vulnerable groups like fetus, infants, kids, teens,
students, difficult critical jobs like police, pilots,
military, and nuclear plant operators, pregnant women,
seniors, obese, diabetic, depressed, violent criminal,
cancer, and, especially, over-worked PR agents lavishly
funded to defend aspartame as, "the most tested food
additive in history".
WHEREAS, the Internet has become a tool for many to spread and
promote the opinion they adhere to as fact whether it is that
aspartame is a neurotoxin derived from toxic sludge or it is a
harmless product enabling a healthy lifestyle; and
WHEREAS, while many may find that the simple answer to the
problem is to not purchase or use any product containing
aspartame in it, there are those who maintain that some
products do not specifically list aspartame as an ingredient,
rather it is hidden under the label of "natural flavors"; now,
therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the
Twenty-fourth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular
Session of 2008, the Senate concurring, that the Director of
Health is requested to form a work group to explore the need
to ban or improve labeling for products containing the
artificial sweetener aspartame; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED the members of the work group
should include:
(1) One member from the House of Representatives appointed
by the Speaker of the House of Representatives;
(2) One member of the Senate appointed by the President of
the Senate;
(3) The Director of Health or the director's designee;
(4) The President of the Calorie Control Council or
the President's designee; and [ the preminent
aspartame lobby ]
(5) The President and Chief Executive Officer of the
American Beverage Association or a designee; [ With
their original name, The National Soft Drink
Association, they condemned aspartame on July 28, 1983
in a detailed critique:
http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?page_id=3D60 ]
(6) The President of the Hawaii Society of Naturopathic
Physicians or a designee;
(7) The Founder of Mission Possible International or a
designee; and
(8) Two consumers appointed by the Director of Health; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED the work group is requested to submit a
report of its findings, as well as any suggested legislation,
to the Legislature no later than 20 days prior to the
convening of the Regular Session of 2010; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this
Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Director of
Health, President of the Calorie Control Council,
webmaster@caloriecontrol.org; President and Chief Executive
Officer of the American Beverage Association,
info@ameribev.org; President of the Hawaii Society of
Naturopathic Physicians, dr_nguyen@msn.com; and Founder of
Mission Possible International, Betty Martini,
bettm19@mindspring.com
Offered by Josh Green, MD March 4, 2008
Honorable Rep. Josh Green, M.D., Chair, Health Committee
repgreen@Capitol.hawaii.gov; 6th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 327 415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813 phone 808-586-9605; fax 808-586-9608
=46rom the Big Island, toll free 974-4000 + 69605
Hawaiian aspartame ban bills in House and Senate challenge
corporate clout, Sen. J. Kalani English & Suzanne Chun
Oakland, Rep. Calvin K.Y. Say & Mele Carroll: Murray
2008.01.25 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm
Friday, January 25, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1505
_____________________________________________________
www.hawaiind.org/index.htm Hawaii Society of Naturopathic
Physicians 750-D Kapahulu Ave Honolulu, HI 96816 808-732-6996
Dr. Ye Nguyen - President dr_nguyen@msn.com;
Ds. Monique Yuen - Vice President: drmoniqueyuen@gmail.com;
Dt. Karen Tan - Treasurer
Du. Madeleine Portuondo madeleine_portuondo@yahoo.com;
_____________________________________________________
methanol impurity in alcohol drinks [ and aspartame ] is
turned into neurotoxic formic acid, prevented by folic acid,
re Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, BM Kapur, DC Lehotay, PL Carlen at
U. Toronto, Alc Clin Exp Res 2007 Dec. plain text: detailed
biochemistry, CL Nie et al. 2007.07.18: Rich Murray 2008.02.24
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.htm Sunday,
February 24, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1524
[ Rich Murray comments: As a medical layman volunteer
information activist for aspartame and related toxicity issues
since January 1999, I note with appreciation the remarkable
exponential progress on all fronts, including a rapidly
emerging consensus about the primary importance of all
toxicity challenges for our world.
This lengthy review features in detail two quite
different, revolutionary contributions, from Canada, and
England and China.
It is indicative of our times that the CL Nie et al. study,
2007 appears in a free, open access journal-- indeed, as all
life and death information must.
Following rather vigorously, indeed blindly, the imperatives
of single-minded, profit-driven capitalist competition --
manipulating adroitly research, education, media, citizens,
governments -- many great global corporations have inevitably
created results that oppose the common good. Alcohol and
tobacco are well known.
Realistically, any further manipulations can only lead to
inevitable and even sudden corporate meltdowns, in the context
of an unfettered, cooperative, democratic global information
forum, the Internet.
Now, it is as easy and cheap to compose and instantly post a
30-page review as 3 pages a decade ago -- and such reviews are
archived forever in multiple collections, open via global
search engines to a billion Net citizens.
Perforce, and increasingly happily, all societal entities will
have to operate by high and shared voluntary universal
standards for the common good. ]
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1530-0277.-
2007.00541.x
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research Volume 31 Issue
12 Page 2114-2120, December 2007
Bhushan M. Kapur, b.kapur@utoronto.ca; Arthur C.
Vandenbroucke, PhD, FCACB Yana Adamchik, Denis C. Lehotay,
dlehotay@health.gov.sk.ca; Peter L. Carlen
carlen@uhnres.utoronto.ca;
(2007) Formic Acid, a Novel Metabolite of Chronic Ethanol
Abuse, Causes Neurotoxicity, Which Is Prevented by
Folic Acid Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental
Research 31 (12), 2114-2120.
doi:10.1111/j.1530-0277.2007.00541.x
Abstract
Background: Methanol is endogenously formed in the brain and
is present as a congener in most alcoholic beverages.
Because ethanol is preferentially metabolized over methanol
(MeOH) by alcohol dehydrogenase, it is not surprising that
MeOH accumulates in the alcohol-abusing population.
This suggests that the alcohol-drinking population will
have higher levels of MeOH's neurotoxic metabolite, formic
acid (FA).
FA elimination is mediated by folic acid.
Neurotoxicity is a common result of chronic alcoholism.
This study shows for the first time that FA, found in chronic
alcoholics, is neurotoxic and this toxicity can be mitigated
by folic acid administration.
Objective: To determine if FA levels are higher in the
alcohol-drinking population and to assess its neurotoxicity in
organotypic hippocampal rat brain slice cultures.
Methods: Serum and CSF FA was measured in samples from
both ethanol abusing and control patients, who presented
to a hospital emergency department. [ CSF =3D Cerebral
Spinal Fluid ]
FA's neurotoxicity and its reversibility by folic acid were
assessed using organotypic rat brain hippocampal slice
cultures using clinically relevant concentrations.
Results: Serum FA levels in the alcoholics (mean =B1 SE:
0.416 +- 0.093 mmol/l, n =3D 23) were significantly higher
than in controls (mean =B1 SE: 0.154 +- 0.009 mmol/l, n =3D
82) (p < 0.0002).
FA was not detected in the controls' CSF (n =3D 20), whereas
it was >0.15 mmol/l in CSF of 3 of the 4 alcoholic cases.
Low doses of FA from 1 to 5 mmol/l added for 24, 48 or 72
hours to the rat brain slice cultures caused neuronal death as
measured by propidium iodide staining.
When folic acid (1 umol/l) was added with the FA, neuronal
death was prevented. [ umol =3D micromole ]
Conclusions: Formic acid may be a significant factor in the
neurotoxicity of ethanol abuse.
This neurotoxicity can be mitigated by folic acid
administration at a clinically relevant dose.
Key Words: Formic Acid, Folic Acid, Methanol, Neurotoxicity,
Alcoholism.
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Artificial sweeteners (aspartame, sucralose) and coloring
agents will be banned from use in newly-born and baby foods,
the European Parliament decided: Latvia ban in schools 2006:
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Connecticut bans artificial sweeteners in schools, Nancy
Barnes, New Milford Times: Murray 2006.05.25
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Bristol, Connecticut, schools join state program to limit
artificial sweeteners, sugar, fats for 8800 students, Johnny J
Burnham, The Bristol Press: Murray 2006.09.22
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metabolic syndrome is tied to diet soda, PL Lutsey, LM
Steffen, J Stevens, Circulation 2008.01.22: role of
formaldehyde and formic acid from methanol in wines, liquors,
or aspartame?: Murray 2008.02.21
"But the one-third who ate the most fried food increased their
risk by 25 percent, compared with the one-third who ate the
least, and surprisingly, the risk of developing metabolic
syndrome was 34 percent higher among those who drank one can
of diet soda a day compared with those who drank none.
"This is interesting," said Lyn M. Steffen, an associate
professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota and a
co-author of the paper, which was posted online in the journal
Circulation on Jan. 22. "Why is it happening? Is it some kind
of chemical in the diet soda, or something about the behavior
of diet soda drinkers?""
"The diet soda association was not hypothesized and deserves
further study."
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methanol (formaldehyde, formic acid) disposition: Bouchard M
et al, full plain text, 2001: substantial sources are
degradation of fruit pectins, liquors, aspartame, smoke:
Murray 2005.04.02
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acetate, ethyl alcohol, or aspartame in womb increases later
cancers in adults with lifetime exposure in many studies, M
Soffritti et al, Ramazzini Foundation, Basic Clin. Pharm.
Toxicol. 2008 Feb.: Rich Murray 2008.02.07
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President Bush & formaldehyde (aspartame) toxicity: Ramazzini
Foundation carcinogenicity results Dec 2002: Soffritti: Murray
2003.08.03 rmforall
p. 88 "The sweetening agent aspartame hydrolyzes in the
gastrointestinal tract to become free methyl alcohol, which
is metabolized in the liver to formaldehyde, formic acid,
and CO2. (11)" Medinsky MA & Dorman DC. 1994; Assessing
risks of low-level methanol exposure. CIIT Act. 14: 1-7.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1453 Souring
on fake sugar (aspartame), Jennifer Couzin, Science
2007.07.06: 4 page letter to FDA from 12 eminent USA
toxicologists re two Ramazzini Foundation cancer studies
2007.06.25: Murray 2007.07.18
30 female pet store rats drinking lifelong 13.5 mg aspartame,
2008/3 packet of Equal, had 33% with obvious tumors -- also
bulging, sick, and missing eyes, paralysis, obesity, skin
sores -- agrees with Ramazzini Foundation results,
Victoria Inness-Brown: Murray 2008.02.15
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Friday, February 15, 2008
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on 6 epidemiological studies since 2004 on diet soda (mainly
aspartame) correlations, as well as 14 other mainstream
studies on aspartame toxicity since summer 2005: Murray
2007.11.27
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aspartame groups and books: updated research review of
2004.07.16: Murray 2006.05.11
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1469 highly
toxic formaldehyde, the cause of alcohol hangovers, is made by
the body from 100 mg doses of methanol from dark wines and
liquors, dimethyl dicarbonate, and aspartame: Murray
2007.08.31
old tiger roars -- Woodrow C Monte, PhD -- aspartame causes
many breast cancers, as ADH enzyme in breasts makes methanol
from diet soda into carcinogenic formaldehyde -- same in dark
wines and liquors, Fitness Life 2008 Jan.: Murray 2008.02.11
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.htm Monday,
February 11, 2008
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"Alcohol dehydrogenase ADH is required for the conversion of
methanol to formaldehyde (112).
ADH is not a common enzyme in the human body -- not many cells
in the human body contain this enzyme.
The human breast is one of the few organs in the body with a
high concentration of ADH (190b), and it is found there
exclusively in the mammary epithelial cells, the very cells
known to transform into adenocarcinoma (190c) (breast cancer).
The most recent breast cancer scientific literature
implicates ADH as perhaps having a pivotal role in the
formation of breast cancer, indicating a greater incidence of
the disease in those with higher levels of ADH activity in
their breasts (190a)."
role of formaldehyde, made by body from methanol from foods
and aspartame, in steep increases in fetal alcohol syndrome,
autism, multiple sclerosis, lupus, teen suicide, breast
cancer, Nutrition Prof. Woodrow C. Monte, retired, Arizona
State U., two reviews, 190 references supplied, Fitness Life,
New Zealand 2007 Nov, Dec: Murray 2007.12.26
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.htm Wednesday,
December 26 2007
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bias, omissions, incuriosity =3D opportunity, aspartame safety
evaluation, Magnuson BA, Burdock GA, Williams GM, 7 more, 2007
Sept, Ajinomoto funded 98 pages html [ $ 32 pdf ]: Murray
2007.09.15 http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.htm
Saturday, September 15, 2007
MSG and Aspartame -- A Personal Story, TV health reporter Dick
Allgire (vegetarian) healed of migraines and panic attacks:
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February 12, 2008
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