Quotes from various downloaded sugar-related articles and news
Fresh
fears raised about aspartame
Manufacturers dispute study into lab rats fed
sweetener
Felicity Lawrence, consumer
affairs correspondent
Friday July 15, 2005
The Guardian
The European Food Safety Authority is reviewing "as a matter of high
priority" the results of a large new study into aspartame, the artificial
sweetener consumed by millions of people worldwide and used in more than 6,000
food and drink products.
Researchers at the
Ramazzini Institute for cancer research in Italy say their study shows that
aspartame causes lymphomas and leukaemia in female laboratory animals "at
doses very close to the acceptable daily intake for humans". The authors
of the study also say that while rats fed aspartame ate less food, there was no
difference in body weight between treated and untreated animals.
Aspartame promotes grand mal seizures, say health experts
Posted Jun
27, 2005 PT by
Dani Veracity
A nursing infant developed convulsions after his mother
drank an aspartame-sweetened soft drink. A 19-year-old woman went into grand
mal convulsions within minutes of chewing a piece of aspartame-flavored gum. A
small amount of toxin can push the human body into near-fatal
conditions, regardless of whether the toxin is considered "safe" and
sold on grocery and convenience store shelves around the world. Aspartame, the
artificial sweetener that often flavors sugar-free drinks and foods, has been
known to induce convulsions and grand mal seizures in certain individuals.
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Adult-onset diabetes, which afflicts 17 million Americans, is caused by
the body either becoming resistant to insulin or not producing enough
of it.
"Rates of diabetes are skyrocketing. At the same time,
over the last couple of decades, consumption of sugar-sweetened
beverages has increased," said Meir Stampfer of the Harvard School of
Public Health in Boston, one of the authors of a study examining the
link.
Between 1977 and 1997, U.S. soft drink consumption
rose 61 percent among adults and more than doubled among children, the
study said. The increased incidence of diabetes has also paralleled the
growing obesity epidemic, the report said.
"Soft drinks are the
leading source of added sugar in the American diet. They provide a
large amount of excess calories and no nutritional value," said
Matthias Schulze, the study's lead author.
Sarah Boseley,
health editor
Monday April 21, 2003
The sugar
industry
in the US is threatening to bring the World Health Organisation to its
knees
by demanding that Congress end its funding unless the WHO scraps
guidelines
on healthy eating, due to be published on Wednesday.
The threat is being
described
by WHO insiders as tantamount to blackmail and worse than any pressure
exerted
by the tobacco lobby.
In a letter to Gro
Harlem
Brundtland, the WHO's director general, the Sugar Association says it
will
"exercise every avenue available to expose the dubious nature" of the
WHO's
report on diet and nutrition, including challenging its $406m
(£260m)
funding from the US.
Note on the use of sugar and honey
How sugar is made. Most sugar sold in grocery stores is made from beets
or sugarcane. The sugarcane plant is cut, crushed to release juice, and
then boiled into syrup. This syrup is then processed to make the final
sugar product (molasses, white sugar, turbinado sugar, confectioner's
sugar, brown sugar, etc). To make white sugar white, the liquid sugar
syrup is filtered through a charcoal or chemical resin filter. After
this, the sugar is granulated: that is, crystallized and milled into
homogenous grains. Sometimes, cheap varieties of "brown sugar" are made
from refined white sugar with molasses added back in. Confectioner's
sugar is white sugar ground to a powder.
Refined Sweeteners
Also indexed as: Beet Sugar, Brown Sugar, Cane Sugar, Confectioner’s
Sugar, Corn Syrup, Demerera, Dextrose, Granulated Sugar, Grape Sugar,
Molasses, Muscavado Sugar, Raw Sugar, Refined Sugar, Sucrose, Table
Sugar, Turbinado Sugar, White Sugar
Sugar is the number-one food additive in the United States.
Immune function - Nearly all forms of sugar (including honey) interfere with the ability
of white blood cells to destroy bacteria.
(Think MIGRAINES, MEMORY LOSS, SEIZURES, OBESITY, PAIN,
INFERTILITY
92 FDA listed symptoms INCLUDING DEATH!)
Last modified: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 01:48:37 GMT
(07/98) A few words by Dr. Julian Whitaker on the FDA's
STEVIA BOOK BURNINGS
Stevia is a natural, non-caloric,
sweet-tasting plant used around the world for its pleasant taste, as
well as for its increasingly researched potential for inhibiting fat
absorption and lowering blood pressure. Despite its
centuries-old use without reported toxicity in Latin America and Asia,
including Japan, the FDA decided in 1991 that Stevia was an unsafe food
additive and ordered all imports seized. The U.S. sugar
industry
breathed easier, and the market for non-caloric sweeteners was made
once
more safe for the chemical producers. The consumer was left
with
the choice of the empty calories of sugar, or the high side effects of
the
chemical substitutes.
To the rescue, the 1994 DSHEA legislation gave
the (previous) leading importer of Stevia enough leverage to place a
legal Hobson's choice before the FDA: Admit Stevia was safe (which
would expose the food additive market) or admit it as a previously-sold
dietary supplement with no evidence of toxicity. The FDA
took the line of least
resistance and declared it admissible as a dietary supplement, but not
as
a food additive. When the cheering of the sugar industry
and
the producers of Nutrasweet and Sweet'N Low dies down, it will be
interesting
to see how the FDA can maintain that a natural product deemed safe as a
supplement
can be unsafe as a food additive, especially for a market dominated by
notoriously
high side-effect chemical products.
Sidebar "Stevia Leaf - Too Good To Be Legal?" article.
White Sugar
Brown Sugar -- Brown sugar is
usually white sugar mixed
with molasses or sprayed
with caramel coloring.
Raw Sugar -- Raw sugar is often
white sugar with coloring.
Fructose -- Betware the
"natural" products with fructose.
It's not much better than
white sugar (IMO).
Corn Syrup
Dextrose
Artificial Sweeteners (Nutrasweet
(aspartame), Equal,
Spoonful, Sunette
(Acesulfame-k), Splenda (Sucralose),
Sweetener 2000), Neotame
MORE ON SPLENDA (5/28/97 Source Mark Gold)
Animal research has shown up to 40% shrinkage in thymus glands, caecal
enlargement and renal mineralization.
Stevia rebaudiana is a plant native to northeastern Paraguay
Nutritional and Medicinal Uses, by Daniel Mowrey, Ph.D. ("Life with
Stevia: How Sweet It Is!")
What Doctor's Are Saying About Stevia
Castleweb on stevia and diabetes
ASPARTAME: An artificial sweetener (Nutrasweet and Equal are some brand
names). The University of Arizona says it causes seizures in
humans.
The University of Washington says it causes brain tumors in humans.
BUTTER YELLOW: An artificial coloring. Causes cancer in test
animals.
CARRAGEENAN: A thickening agent. Causes ulcers in guinea pigs.
DIETHYLSTILBESTROL (DES): Used to fatten steers. Causes cancer in
test animals. Many countries do not permit the importation of
beef
from the United States because of diethylstilbestrol contamination.
HERBICIDES: Used to destroy weeds and undergrowth. Cause
miscarriages, chromosome damage, congenital deformities and birth
defects in humans. The National Cancer Institute classifies
herbicides as carcinogens.
MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE (MSG): A flavor enhancer. (Accent is a brand
name). Produces brain lesions in newborn rats. In humans,
it
causes headaches, asthma, chest pain, heart palpitations, burning
sensation,
swelling stomachs, dizziness, weakness and excessive sleeping; and to
immature
infants, irreversible brain damage. There are food additives that
have
hidden sources of monosodium glutamate. MSG is always contained
in
hydrolyzed protein or hydrolyzed vegetable protein; and can be
contained
in autolyzed yeast, sodium caseinate and natural flavor(s) or natural
flavoring(s).
NITRATES: Artificial color enhancers and chemical fertilizers.
Destroy vitamins A and E and cause cancer in mice. By being
changed into nitrites within the gastrointestinal tract, have caused
the deaths of infants by reacting with the red color in blood cells and
preventing them from carrying oxygen. By being changed into
nitrosamines in the body, can produce cancers in many organs of a wide
variety of species. As fertilizers, nitrates destroy or decrease
the vitamin C content of plants.
PESTICIDES: DICHLORODIPHENYLTRICHLOROETHANE (DDT) A powerful
insecticide. It is continuously used in the United States on
strawberries and most imported fruits and vegetables. Even more
toxic are ALDRIN, DIELDRIN, ENDRIN and THIODAN.
RED DYE NUMBER ONE: An artificial coloring. Causes cancer in test
animals.
SACCHARIN: An artificial sweetener. Causes tumors in test animals.
In order to extend the shelf life of their products, manufacturers
remove or inactivate essential fatty acids by using chemical processes
that render their food products harmful to the body. These
harmful fats go by a number of names, including “hydrogenated”,
“partially hydrogenated” and even “polyunsaturated”.
“THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION [FDA] HAS DECIDED TO ALLOW TINY
AMOUNTS OF CANCER CAUSING SUBSTANCES IN FOOD.”
Discover, January 1986
“ASPARTAME, THE LOW CALORIE SUGAR SUBSTITUTE MARKETED AS NUTRASWEET AND
EQUAL, CAN CAUSE SKIN HIVES AND SWELLING OF THROAT TISSUE, ACCORDING TO
A
MEDICAL RESEARCHER AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN SAINT LOUIS.”
Science
News, June 28, 1986
“NUTRASWEET LINKED TO CONFUSION AND MEMORY LOSS.”
“STUDIES CONDUCTED BY G. D. SEARLE, THE CREATOR OF NUTRASWEET,
AND SUBMITTED TO THE FDA [FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION] SHOW THAT
ASPARTAME MAY INDUCE BRAIN TUMORS IN RATS. LATER MEDICAL STUDIES
AND REPORTS TO THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL SUGGEST THAT ASPARTAME
MAY CAUSE A HOST OF SIDE EFFECTS IN HUMANS RANGING FROM HEADACHES TO
SEIZURES. FURTHER, RECENT RESEARCH INTO DIET AND BRAIN CHEMISTRY
INDICATES THAT ASPARTAME DOES NOTHING TO CONTROL WEIGHT; AND, IN FACT,
MAY ACTUALLY HEIGHTEN APPETITE.” Technology Review, January
1990
“METHODS FOR PREVENTING HEADACHES INCLUDE EATING AT LEAST EVERY SIX
HOURS AND AVOIDING FOODS CONTAINING AMINES, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE AND
ASPARTAME.”
Ladies Home Journal, September 1996
“MSG [MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE] HAS A REPUTATION AS A SERIOUS ALLERGEN THAT
CAN CAUSE HEADACHES AND INTESTINAL PROBLEMS.” Maclean’s,
October 27, 1997
“SENSITIVITY TO MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE CAN CAUSE HEADACHE, FLUSHING AND
INTESTINAL UPSET.” British Medical Journal, April 25, 1998
“THE UNITED STATES WILL SOON RESUME TESTING MEAT FOR THE ILLEGAL
HORMONE DES [DIETHYLSTILBESTROL] AFTER SWISS HEALTH INSPECTORS REPORTED
FINDING TRACES OF IT IN IMPORTED AMERICAN BEEF.” The Washington
Post, February 11, 2000
“CAN DIET THERAPY RELIEVE FIBROMYALGIA? IN A SERIES OF CASE
STUDIES, FLORIDA RESEARCHERS REPORTED DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENT IN PATIENTS
WHO ELIMINATED MSG [MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE], ASPARTAME, FOOD ADDITIVES,
AND/OR A VARIETY OF ALLERGENS.”
Contemporary OB/GYN, August 2001
“ASPARTAME IS AN ARTIFICIAL SWEETNER THAT CAN LEAD TO CHRONIC
DEGENERATIVE ILLNESSES OR ACUTE HEALTH PROBLEMS. IT DESTROYS
NEURONS (NERVE CELLS) AND CAN CONTRIBUTE TO BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM
DISORDERS. IF YOU VALUE YOUR EYESIGHT, STOP USING
ASPARTAME. EATING LARGE QUANTITIES CAN LEAD TO DEGENERATIVE BRAIN
DISORDERS SUCH AS ALZHEIMER’S, PARKINSON’S, HUNTINGTON’S AND ALS
[AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS].”
Women’s Health Letter, November 2002
TOXIC FOOD ADDITIVES
by Robert A. Kroboth www.citizengadfly.com
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NOV 2003
SS: I used to have...... Since I stopped eating sugar I seldom have it.
Could
this be
the end of cereal aisle showdowns between parents and sweet-toothed
tots? New
reduced-sugar versions of popular children's breakfast cereals —
everything
from Froot Loops to Frosted Flakes — certainly sound promising, but
consumers
might want to hold off chiming in when Tony the Tiger says, "They're
Gr-r-reat!"
Experts
who
reviewed the lower-sugar versions of six major brands of sweetened
cereals at
the request of The Associated Press found they have no significant
nutritional
advantages over their full-sugar counterparts.
Nutrition
scientists at five universities found that while the new cereals do
have less
sugar, the calories, carbohydrates, fat, fiber and other nutrients are
almost
identical to the full-sugar cereals. That's because the cereal makers
have
replaced sugar with refined carbohydrates to preserve the crunch.
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