tobacco activist Victor J. De Noble and movie director Charles Evans Jr. will be at movie "Addiction Incorporated" after 7 PM show Fri, Sat Jan 27, 28 Landmark Ken Cinema, front-page article by Peter Rowe, Union Tribune San Diego: Rich Murray 2012.01.27

tobacco activist Victor J. De Noble and movie director Charles Evans Jr. will be at movie "Addiction Incorporated" after 7 PM show Fri, Sat Jan 27, 28 Landmark Ken Cinema, front-page article by Peter Rowe, Union Tribune San Diego: Rich Murray 2012.01.27
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http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jan/27/tp-victor-denoble/

Whistle-Blower Still Making Noise
Victor DeNoble [ photo ]
Former cigarette researcher narrates new documentary

Written by
Peter Rowe
12:01 a.m., Jan. 27, 2012
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Also of interest:

Cutting through the smoke
Philip Morris couldn't snuff out Victor DeNoble
FTC voids tobacco testing method
S.F. mayor proposes cigarette-butt tax
Two tobacco firms file suit to block marketing rules

[ What:
Victor DeNoble and director Charles Evans Jr. will answer questions about "Addiction Incorporated"
Running time: 1 hour, 42 minutes
When: After the 7 p.m. screening, Friday and Saturday
Where: Landmark Ken Cinema, 4061 Adams Ave., San Diego
[ 805 N to 15 N, 2 miles to E on Adams Avenue, 200 feet on south side ]
Information:             (619) 819-0236
landmarktheatres.com ]


Philip Morris fired cigarette researcher Victor DeNoble, but that wasn’t enough.

His lab was closed, his lab rats killed, his studies buried.
Company lawyers forced him to sign a lifetime nondisclosure statement.
His work on nicotine addiction was so dangerous, Philip Morris wanted to erase every trace of DeNoble.

How’s that going, Phil?

DeNoble, 62, has become one of the nation’s most prominent anti-smoking campaigners.
The San Diego resident travels constantly, speaks to 350,000 students a year -- delivering up to four talks a day -- and tangles with the tobacco industry in legislative chambers and courtrooms.
Now the star of "Addiction Incorporated," a new documentary that opens here today, is hailed as a whistle-blower whose testimony made possible the $206 billion settlement U.S. tobacco companies approved in 1998.

He has the brains of a Bill Gates and, to hear some critics, the on-screen charisma of a Brad Pitt.
DeNoble “reveals himself to be a born raconteur,” The New York Times’ Jeannette Catsoulis wrote.
“His easygoing, self-deprecating narration is the film’s most valuable asset and the viewer’s best friend.”

Not bad for someone who was supposed to be a nonperson.
But DeNoble’s story is a curious one, full of odd turns and a bizarre quest.
The key chapter begins in 1980, when he was hired by Philip Morris -- the parent corporation of Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Benson & Hedges and many other brands -- to research “safer” cigarettes.
In 1983, he succeeded.

And sealed his fate.

Proof negative

Growing up on Long Island, N.Y., Victor struggled to read and comprehend his school lessons.
No scholar, he assumed he would follow in his father’s footsteps as a plumber.
Dad, though, insisted that Victor apply for college.

“Why?” the teenager asked.

“To meet smart women, stupid.”

At Adelphi University, Victor met women and made another, non-hormone-related, discovery.
He wasn’t dumb; he was dyslexic.
To his eyes, printed words appeared backward.
Victor relearned to read -- and his grades soared.
Studying drug addiction, he earned a bachelor’s degree and then a doctorate.

Recruited by Philip Morris, the young Ph.D. naively accepted assurances that the tobacco giant wanted good science and good works.
“In 1979,” he noted, “smoking had no stigma.
You could smoke anywhere.
They came to me and said,
‘We are killing a whole bunch of people. Can you help us save some people?’ ”

Every year, DeNoble was informed, 138,000 smokers die from nicotine-induced heart attacks and brain strokes.
What if Philip Morris could market a cigarette that caused no cardiovascular damage?

Experimenting with rats in the corporation’s labs, DeNoble found a nicotine substitute, 2 prime methyl-nicotine.
It didn’t damage the heart -- yet was equally addictive.

The news thrilled DeNoble’s bosses, until they realized that cigarettes with chemical additives would be scrutinized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

“Damn it,” DeNoble was told, “you’ve made us into a pharmaceutical company.”

His research, though, was proof positive that nicotine addicted.
With his supervisors’ permission, DeNoble and two co-authors submitted their findings to a professional publication.
It was scheduled for the Journal of Psychopharmacology’s September 1983 issue when DeNoble was forced to withdraw the paper.
In the view of Philip Morris’ lawyers, the scientists’ proof positive was a legal proof negative, damning evidence that cigarettes were drugs.

Still, DeNoble won promotions and more funds for his lab.
When he and a colleague, Paul Mele, were summoned to see their boss on April 5, 1984, he expected good news.

Instead, they were fired and muzzled.
To receive a severance package, they were forced to agree to never discuss their work.

No. 1 whistle-blower

In 1994, a decade after DeNoble’s firing, he was contacted by federal investigators.
FDA Chairman David Kessler, about to appear before a congressional committee investigating tobacco’s health effects, needed experts to brief him.
Could DeNoble help?

Citing the nondisclosure agreement, DeNoble declined.

That wasn’t good enough.
In one of the most dramatic scenes of “Addiction Incorporated,” Los Angeles congressman Henry Waxman presses the CEO of Philip Morris to release DeNoble from this agreement.
After numerous evasions, the tobacco executive finally agrees.

Two weeks later, DeNoble testified that nicotine is addictive, that Philip Morris knew this, and that the corporation -- and, no doubt, its competitors-- sought ways to heighten this effect.

This is all common knowledge -- now.
Then?
“Victor DeNoble was the first whistle-blower,” Waxman said in the documentary.
“I know a lot of people have talked about other whistle-blowers.
But he was the first one.”

As "Addiction Incorporated" notes, DeNoble became a key ally of the state attorneys general who sued the tobacco companies, eventually winning that landmark $209 billion settlement.
Despite this payout, big tobacco is bigger than ever -- Philip Morris, for instance, has seen its stock price climb 51 percent in the past five years.

Will "Addiction Incorporated” further tarnish these corporations?

Philip Morris did not address questions about DeNoble and his research but a company spokesman did comment on the movie.

“This film covers topics regarding smoking that have been in the public domain for some time,” David Sutton, a Philip Morris USA spokesman, said via email Thursday.
“PM USA agrees with the overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that cigarette smoking is addictive and causes serious diseases in smokers.”

“Addiction Incorporated” concludes with President Barack Obama signing a 2009 law expanding the FDA’s oversight to include cigarettes.
“PM USA stood alone among the major cigarette manufacturers in support of FDA regulation over cigarettes,” Sutton noted, “and believes that this regulation can provide significant benefits to tobacco manufacturers and adult tobacco consumers.”

That’s not enough, DeNoble argues.
The movie shows him running on the trails near the Santa Luz home he shares with his wife, Kimi DeNoble, but those jogs are rare occasions.
More often, he’s running to airports or classrooms, preparing to talk to students about science, nicotine and rats -- both four- and two-legged varieties.

How could he ever believe that a tobacco company would want a safer cancer stick?

He smiled.
These days, his close-cropped hair is graying and his face has acquired a few wrinkles.
But there’s still something fresh and idealistic about that smile.

“I was young,” he said, “and I was wrong.”


http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jan/25/philip-morris-couldnt-snuff-out-victor-denoble/

Philip Morris couldn't snuff out Victor DeNoble
New documentary lights up addiction scientist's story

[ photo of face ]
Victor DeNoble moved to San Diego seven years ago -- John R. McCutchen

[ same story ]



http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jan/26/tp-cutting-through-the-smoke/

Movie review

Cutting through the smoke
"Addiction Incorporated" documents the moral and legal conflicts behind the nicotine business
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS NYT News Service
12:01 a.m., Jan. 26, 2012

Also of interest:

Puff, puff, puff, nicotine rises gradually
The U-T's "On the Move" column
White House: Not smoking a struggle for Obama
SDSU candidate fields wide array of questions
“Addiction Incorporated ”

Rating: PG
When: Opens Friday
Where: Landmark Ken
Running time: 1 hour, 42 minutes
***

Straight-shooting, hard-hitting and fuming with contempt for the tobacco industry, “Addiction Incorporated” would be almost too exhausting to watch were it not for the folksy charm of its star witness.
Nestled at the center of this relentless documentary, guiding us through a deluge of scientific evidence and corporate bobbing and weaving, is the scientist and whistle-blower Victor J. DeNoble, who a San Diego resident, who reveals himself to be a born raconteur.
His easygoing, self-deprecating narration is the film’s most valuable asset and the viewer’s best friend.

Hired by Philip Morris in 1980 to test nicotine alternatives for a more heart-healthy cigarette, DeNoble, armed with his Ph.D. in experimental psychology, quickly discovered just how addictive the chemical could be.
When his test rats couldn’t get through their day without an ever-increasing number of nicotine hits -- topping out at an astonishing 90 puff equivalents a day -- DeNoble and his employers were equally shocked, though their reactions to the findings were very different.

Essentially the story of how cigarettes became subject to federal regulation, “Addiction Incorporated” lays out a meticulous, methodical time line of moral and legal conflict.
Wrangling an unwieldy mob of scientists, politicians, journalists and legal experts, the director, Charles Evans Jr., wisely trusts DeNoble to connect dots and provide clarity.
Cheeky animation of anthropomorphized rats  -- and the dash and swagger of a team of Louisiana lawyers -- burn through the factual fog, while familiar video clips remind us of the saga’s heroes and villains.

Yet this heartening tale of good science stomping bad business would be drier than a week-old butt without DeNoble.
I wonder if he has a doppelgänger in the financial services industry?


http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/08/puff-puff-puff-nicotine-rises-gradually/
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer
12:43 p.m., March 8, 2010


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Bio

In July 1984, Peter Rowe was hired as a writer for the San Diego Union.
He has yet to be fired.
At the Union, he wrote feature stories and worked as an editor.
When the Union merged with the Tribune in 1992, he became a Union-Tribune columnist.
A California native, Rowe attended high school in Encinitas (San Dieguito) and college in La Jolla (UCSD).
He is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Northwestern University.
He is a past president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, a former Fulbright scholar (Japan, 2003) and has won a handful of journalism awards. He'd trade them all for a chance to avenge his "Jeopardy!" loss (1994).
He has three sons.
Not one of them reads his stories.
He is married to a terrific woman who often rescues him from errors, in writing and in life.
These days, Rowe writes profiles and features.
He's even paid to review beers, which hardly seems fair.
He does not look like his photograph.


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VICTOR DeNOBLE STATEMENT

Scientists do research with the hope that we will have a positive impact on people’s lives.
I thought I would have that opportunity when I went to work at the Philip Morris Research Center.
I never dreamed that our research would be suppressed for over ten years and that it would take a major federal investigation, congressional hearings, and acts of Congress before my hope would be fulfilled.
Seventeen years ago, when Charlie approached me about doing a documentary, I didn’t think there was even a story.
I did not see the historical value of these events as they were unfolding, Charlie did!
I underestimated Charlie’s commitment and his passion for the project.
Working on this documentary helped me to realize how many hundreds, if not thousands, of people came together with a mission to create this public health policy change.
This documentary weaves together a multitude of events; the result of which will be felt for decades to come.
My parents nurtured in me a desire to help people.
It’s the reason I became a scientist and the reason I teach kids science.
I have dyslexia and ADHD.
When I was a kid, there was no understanding of what they were.
School, learning and just paying attention were always a struggle.
I was told I was stupid and that I may not graduate high school, much less go to college.
I believed it and I was wrong.
What motivates me today, is reaching out to kids who feel they can’t go beyond high school and show them that they have more opportunities open to them than they think.
This documentary isn’t the end of a story;
it’s just the first chapter of the events that led to the changes we’ve seen to the health policy within the United States.
The next chapters have begun to unfold with continued changes, not only in our Nation, but also with changes in public health policy in other nations around the world.

CHARLES EVANS, JR. BIO

At age nine, Charles Evans Jr.’s first film work was clearing 16mm trim bins (reconstituting picture and sound scraps) for his mother, documentarian Frances Evans, while she edited.
Evans earned his undergraduate degree at UC-Berkley with a major in “Short Story Writing.”
His thesis, a collection of short stories, won the University's Eisner Prize For Literature.
Evans went on to complete the production program at University of Southern California’s film school.
He wrote, produced and directed his thesis, “Second Son”.
Shot in 35mm, the film went on to win twelve awards including the Grand Prix at Clermont-Ferrand's competition.
Evans worked for two years at Touchstone Pictures as Director of Development for Randall Kleiser Productions, before founding Acappella Pictures in March, 1993.
Evans produced Johnny Depp's directorial debut, THE BRAVE, based on the novel by Gregory Mcdonald. Johnny and Marlon Brando starred.
he production was an official selection for competition in the 1997 Cannes film festival.
Evans' enduring commitment to produce a film on the life of Howard Hughes resulted in THE AVIATOR (2004, BAFTA, Golden Globes).

In his directorial debut, ADDICTION INCORPORATED, he tells the true story of how Victor DeNoble's unexpected discovery of an addiction ingredient in tobacco leads to both more addictive Marlboro cigarettes and Congressional testimony.
The public revelation of long held tobacco industry secrets leads journalists, politicians, attorneys and whistle blowers into an unexpected alliance, that achieves the first ever federal regulation of the tobacco industry.

“THE CAST”

VICTOR J. DeNOBLE

Dr. DeNoble received his Doctorate degree in 1976 in the field of Experimental Psychology from Adelphi University.
He held postdoctoral fellowships from both the National Institute of Alcohol and Alcohol Abuse at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York and the National Institute of Drug Abuse at the University of Minnesota.
In 1980, while still a postdoctoral fellow, DeNoble was recruited by Philip Morris Inc. to establish a Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory to support a nicotine analogue program to study the behavioral and physiological effects of nicotine.
Following his abrupt dismissal from Philip Morris in 1984, DeNoble worked in drug discovery for the DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company and Ayerst Research Laboratories, specializing in the area of Central Nervous System Diseases.
In 1994, after a congressional release from his confidentiality agreement with Philip Morris, DeNoble became the first “whistle-blower” to begin tearing down the wall of secrecy built by the tobacco industry.
He was a key witness in the federal government’s case against the industry and has testified before Congress, the Food and Drug Administration and former Vice President Al Gore’s Tobacco Settlement Committee.
Currently, DeNoble is the Vice President of Hissho, Inc., a scientific and medical communications company.

PAUL C. MELE [ helped Noble do nicotine addiction research ]

Paul Mele, Ph.D., received a B.S. in biology and psychology from Union College, and a Doctorate in Experimental Psychology from Adelphi University.
He held research positions at the University of Wisconsin, the Philip Morris Inc., and the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute.
In 1995, Dr. Mele moved into technology transfer as Chief, Office of Research and Technology Applications, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), where he guided WRAIR's technology transfer program on the development and commercialization of drugs, vaccines and medical devices in support of the Army's mission.
In 2000, he became the first Director of Technology Transfer for the Army's Medical Research and Materiel Command at Fort Detrick.
In this capacity, Dr. Mele oversees the Army Medical Command's patent licensing program and coordinates technology transfer activities among its component laboratories, hospitals and health care centers.
Dr. Mele is a member of the Association of University Technology Managers, the Federal Laboratory consortium, and the Association of Government Toxicologists.
He has published and presented the results of a variety of scientific investigations, and he is the recipient of the 2005 Department of Defense Technology Transfer Award.

[ photos and bios of 18 other major people in the movie ]


Low doses of ethanol prevent harm from methanol from smoking and aspartame, which otherwise the human body always quickly turns into formaldehyde via the ADH enzyme inside the cells of blood vessels and many tissues.

This is inevitably a co-factor in many diseases of civilization since 1800, ranging from heart disease to Alzheimers to cancers to birth defects like spina befida and autism, which all have been increasing rapidly since the approval of aspartame in 1981.

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Low doses of ethanol prevent harm from methanol from smoking and aspartame, which otherwise, in humans alone, the body always quickly turns into formaldehyde via the ADH enzyme inside the cells of blood vessels and many tissues.

This is inevitably a co-factor in many diseases of civilization since 1800, ranging from heart disease to Alzheimers to cancers to birth defects like spina befida and autism, which all have been increasing rapidly since the approval of aspartame in 1981.

Prof. Woodrow C. Monte (Nutrition, Arizona State University, retired) sent Chapter 12, Autism and Other Birth Defects, to EFSA in early 2011 November, with a hundred mainstream scientific references, available
free as online full texts, in his comprehensive review "While Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills", with 740 references, published January 1 2012.


Try the affordable $ 9.80 Kindle electronic version, readable on any computer with free software

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[ In Chapter 5, two-page Figure 5.2 has only the right page, but has both pages in Chapter 10 --
Table 5.2 Target Organs of Methanol Toxicity (Bad ADH Sites) gives detailed data for 10 organs, 19 diseases that all have increased the last 35 years, with many references for each -- the sites where the ADH enzyme turns methanol into formaldehyde inside cells, harming DNA, RNA, and proteins ]


Product Description

The introduction of aspartame into the food supply of the United States began in the summer of 1981.
Since that time, the incidence of Alzheimer’s deaths has increased 100 fold (10,000%).
Autism has, with no explanation, increased 25 times (2500%).
Autoimmune diseases have reached epidemic proportions,
with Lupus (SLE) up 300%,
and Multiple Sclerosis, Type II Diabetes and Rheumatoid Arthritis headed out of control.
Cancers, the hallmark of formaldehyde exposure, have exploded.
Skin cancer has shot up over 400%,
liver cancer has tripled,
kidney cancer has doubled,
and breast cancer is up 50%.
The list goes on.....


Table of Contents

Chapter 1:
A Time When All the Easy Questions Have Been Answered

Diseases Linked to Diet;
My Research Orientation;
Why Methanol;
Why Are Only Humans Harmed by Methanol?;
Ethanol and Methanol Fight for the Attention of the ADH Enzyme;
What Damage Can a Sip of Diet Soda Do?;
Why Would the Ethanol in Your Blood Vanish?;

Chapter 2:
Methanol: Where is it Found? How Can It Be Avoided?

Environmental Methanol;
Cigarette and Cigar Smoke;
Methanol in the Food Supply;
Bad News about Blackcurrants and Tomatoes;
Canned, Bottled, Jarred, and Aseptically Packaged Fruits and Vegetables and Their Juices;
The Italian and French Exception: Long, Slow Cooking with the Lid Ajar;
Aspartame -- a Very Big No!;
Smoked Foods;
Liquor or Schnapps Made from Rotting Fruit;

Chapter 3:
Man and Methanol: A Tragic History of Mutation and Deceit

A Curious Matter of Some Considerable Consequence;
The Ancient History of Methanol;
The Mutation of Eve;
What Is the Meaning of This Human Mutation?;
The Sordid History of Methanol in the Industrial Age;
The “Real” Killer Is Formic Acid: A Fairy Tale if Ever I Heard One;
The Tortured Toxicology of Methanol;
Minimum Lethal Dose;
Two Ways for Humans to Die from Methanol;
The Hard Way to Die from Methanol;
How Dangerous is Methanol?;
Infant Deaths from a Touch of Methanol;
The Big Lie;

Chapter 4:
Formaldehyde Is the Real Problem

The Look of DOC; [ modern Diseases of Civilization since 1800 ]
Methanol’s Formaldehyde;
An Untraceable and Invisible Killer;
Methanol is the Mother of the DOC, Not Their Cause;
Why is Formaldehyde a Danger?;
Why Is Methanol/Formaldehyde Being Ignored by Science?;
The Production, Use and Nature of Formaldehyde;
Putting Formaldehyde into Perspective: Meet Venus!;
The Two Faces of Formaldehyde: Base or Acid: Bad or Worse;
What Attaches to What and Why: the Many Bonds of Formaldehyde;
What You See Is What You Study!;
What about That Other Aldehyde: the Ethanol Aldehyde?;

Chapter 5:
The Silent Battle that Turns Methanol into Disease

Review;
Bad ADH and Good ADH III;
Alcohol Consumption;
The Brain and Alcohol;
The Diversion of Dr. Majchrowicz;
The REAL Lethal Dose of Methanol;
Where Methanol Turns into Disease: the Front Lines of the Battle for Your Life;

Chapter 6:
How Methanol Kills

Acute Methanol Poisoning;
An Experiment to Help Understand Methanol Poisoning;
Using Ethanol to Protect from Methanol;
The Lethal Dose of Methanol;
Hospital Admission;
The Symptoms of Acute Methanol Poisoning;
How does Methanol’s Formaldehyde Kill?;
Hallucinations, Delirium and Maniacal Behavior;
Formic Acid Causes None of These Symptoms;
Murder by Methanol;
The DOC: the Result of Nature and Nurture Working over the Course of a Lifetime;
Where Do the DOC Fit?
Categories of Disease;
Is Ethanol an Essential Nutrient?;
What Are the DOC?;

Chapter 7:
Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (Heart Disease)

The One Unifying Factor of All ACD;
The Long Slow Progression from Atheroma to Full-Blown Heart Disease;
Some Necessary Background;
The Approach that Modern Science Takes to Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease;
Formaldehyde from Methanol is the Cause of ACD;
How Methanol Causes Atheroma;
Where to Now?;
Does Diet Soda Cause Coronary Heart Disease?;
The Proper Interpretation of Animal Experiments to Test Methanol’s Safety;
The Circulatory System is a Target of Methanol Poisoning;
An Alcoholic’s Arteries;
The Girl Who Switched to Aspartame;
The U-Shaped Curve in Depth and Beyond… Far, Far Beyond;
Avoid Ethanol and Risk Disease;
The All-Important U-Shaped Curve;
The Details of the U-Shaped Curve Explained;
Keeping Ethanol in the Blood: The Genetic Bombshell

Chapter 8
Alzheimer’s Disease and its Perivascular Nature

Short History of Alzheimer’s;
The Ignored Epidemic of Alzheimer’s;
Methanol from Aspartame as a Cause of Alzheimer’s;
What Connects Methanol to Alzheimer’s;
The Scene of the Crime;
Quick Review;

Chapter 9:
Multiple Sclerosis

The Conflagration that is Multiple Sclerosis;
Listening to Nature’s Whispers;
The Scene of the Crime;
Location, Location, Location;
Details of Plaque Formation;
The Look, Touch, Taste and Smell of Multiple Sclerosis;
The Kitchen Autopsy;
The Cause of MS is within the Thickening Blood Vessels;
Symptoms Mean Little Unless They Are Identical in All Ways…Then They Mean Everything!;
Learn a Little About Arginine;
Myelin Basic Protein (MBP);
Looking for the Shadow of Formaldehyde;
“Woody… They Have Done Our Experiment for Us.… But They Just Don’t Get It!”;
Finding the Shadow of Formaldehyde in the MS Brain: The Smoking Gun (a Triple Blind Study);
Evidence That Methanol Causes MS;
The Etiology of Multiple Sclerosis -- Follow the Methanol;
A Food Scientist’s Nightmare Called Aspartame;
MS: a Disease of Colder Climates and Flush Toilets -- Before Aspartame;
A World Awash in MS after Aspartame;
Change in Frequency of MS by Sex: the Methanol Source -- Food or Smoke -- Makes All the Difference;
Can Methanol Really Cause MS?;
MS Can Be Found in Some Places, but Cannot be Found in Others;
Industrial Exposure to Methanol -- Jobs that Can Last for an Eternity;
Teachers’ Paradigm;
MS Treatment -- Pharmaceutical Placeboes or Perhaps Worse;
Conclusion and Review;

Chapter 10:
Classic Autoimmune Diseases Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis

The Scene of the Crime: the Antibody;
Autoantibody Production Enhanced Dramatically by Formaldehyde Treatment;
Systemic Lupus (SLE) and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA): Two Sisters of Atherosclerosis;
Cigarette Smoking Increases Risk of Both Lupus (SLE) and Rheumatoid Arthritis;
The U-shaped Curve of Ethanol’s Protection from Autoimmunity;
Is Aspartame the Cause of the Epidemic of Autoimmunity over the “Last Thirty Years”?;
A Few Words about Diabetes;

Chapter 11:
Cancers of Aspartame

Formaldehyde’s Cancer-Causing Prowess is Enhanced when it Comes from Methanol;
Thousands of Carcinogens Exist;
The Sensitive, Vulnerable, and Susceptible Will Be Lost First;
Brain Cancer: the Killing Begins;
Breast Cancer;
Why is the Human Breast Particularly Sensitive to Methanol?;
School Teachers Have Higher Risk of Breast Cancers;
Aspartame Causes Breast Cancer in Human Feeding Study Done by Searle;
The Scene of the Crime;
Matching Epidemics of Breast Cancer and Multiple Sclerosis: the Legacy of Aspartame;
Breast Cancer Increases as Does Popularity of Aspartame;
Genetic Distribution of Slow ADH Verses Fast ADH Linked to Breast Cancer Risk;
Exposure to Organic Solvents and Breast Cancer;
Cigarette Smoking with a U-Shaped Twist;
Cancer of the Kidney (Renal Cancers);
Melanoma and Cancers of the Skin;
Formaldehyde from Aspartame;
Young Women Take the Burden of the Epidemics of Two Skin Cancers;
Cancers of the Liver and Lungs;
The Strange Case of the Female Thyroid Gland;
Limitation of Animal Studies;

Chapter 12:
Autism and Other Birth Defects

Increase in Birth Defects in the U.S. as Aspartame Consumption Rises;
Birth Defects Caused by Aspartame’s Methanol;
What Might Have Been;
The Laboratory;
A Fire of Mysterious Origin;
The Hidden Epidemic of Neural Tube Defects;
Aborted Neural Tube Fetuses -- and Their Statistics -- Incinerated;
The Rush to Mandate Vitamin B9 (Folic Acid) Consumption to “Reduce Neural Tube Birth Defects”;
Folic Acid, the Dangerous Form of a Little-Known Vitamin;
The Chemistry of Folic Acid (Folate) Is Inseparable from Methanol and Formaldehyde;
Birth Defects Caused by Methanol from Cigarette Smoke;
Autism;
Silly Rat Pups;
Autism and Methanol -- the Same Target;
The Chemistry of Autism? One Word: Methylation;
Formaldehyde, or More Correctly, the Methylation It Causes, Is the “Ghost in Your Genes”;
Does Aspartame Cause Autism?;
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: “The American Paradox”;
Frank, the Friendly Face of Big Pharma;
Tidy Up;
Epilogue;


Biography

Dr. Woodrow C. Monte has decades of experience in food science and nutrition as a researcher, teacher, inventor, industry consultant and consumer advocate who is committed to food additive safety and the prevention of food borne diseases.
For over 30 years he has studied the link between artificial sweeteners and the diseases of civilization including Alzheimer's, Heart Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, numerous forms of cancer, Autism and other Birth Defects.

Dr. Monte's testimony before Congress was instrumental in the prevention of Sulfites from receiving status of US FDA GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe) and the implementation of mandatory labeling for most foods that contain this dangerous additive.

Through his research, Dr. Monte has been awarded 22 US patents.
He has shared his technical expertise during hundreds of television and radio appearances including a special feature on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and 60 Minutes.
He is the author of numerous scientific publications and the book While Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills.

Dr. Monte is a dedicated scientist with both a Ph.D. and M.S. in Food Science and Nutrition and a B.S. in Biology.
He has been a Registered Dietician, Certified Nutrition Specialist AIN, professional member of the American Chemical Society and emeritus member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
In 1985, he was chosen by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars as a Senior Fulbright Scholar.

As Professor Emeritus of Nutrition from Arizona State University, Dr. Monte continues his study of the damaging effects of methanol in our food supply.

More information about Dr. Monte and his work can be found on his website: www.WhileScienceSleeps.com .


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ADHD and Food: The Connection Is Tenuous, Judith Warner, Time, JG Millichap, Pediatrics 2012.01.13 -- methanol from smoking or aspartame becomes formaldehyde in brain cells of the fetus via ADH enzyme, Prof. Woodrow C. Monte (Nutrition, retired) Arizona State University: Murray 2012.01.15

ADHD and Food: The Connection Is Tenuous, Judith Warner, Time, JG Millichap, Pediatrics 2012.01.13 -- methanol from smoking or aspartame becomes formaldehyde in brain cells of the fetus via ADH enzyme, Prof. Woodrow C. Monte (Nutrition, retired) Arizona State University: Murray 2012.01.15
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www.whilesciencesleeps.com 
While Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills
Prof. Woodrow C. Monte (Nutrition, retired) Arizona State University
the 740 references are available free online as full text pdfs

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Chapter 12

"Autism and other Birth Defects

Another long-term neurological malfunction has recently been linked to methanol exposure during pregnancy.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common childhood psychiatric disorder that affects between 3% and 5% of school aged children.
The majority of scientific studies identify maternal smoking during pregnancy as a risk factor for ADHD behaviors.
In fact, the risk for a diagnosis of ADHD in those individuals whose mothers smoked during pregnancy is a highly statistically significant two-fold increase.(572)
A liter of diet soda sweetened with aspartame provides to the maternal bloodstream an equal amount of methanol as does smoking a pack of cigarettes.
Aspartame in artificially sweetened soft drinks has now been shown to statistically increase a woman's risk of preterm delivery -- one of the major pregnancy complications and a leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality.(617)"

(572) Indredavik M, Brubakk A, Romundstad P, Vik T.
Prenatal smoking exposure and psychiatric symptoms in adolescence.
Acta Paediatr 2007;96(3):377-82.

(617) Halldorsson T, Strøm M, Petersen S, Olsen S.
Intake of artificially sweetened soft drinks and risk of preterm delivery: a prospective cohort study of 59,334 Danish pregnant women.
Am J Clin Nutr Doi:10.3945/Ajcn.2009.28968 2010.


http://ideas.time.com/2012/01/13/adhd-and-diet-the-connection-is-tenuous/?xid=gonewsedit

http://ideas.time.com/2012/01/13/adhd-and-diet-the-connection-is-tenuous/

CHILDREN
ADHD and Food: The Connection Is Tenuous
All we can say for sure about controlling a child's diet to treat ADHD is that it makes the parents feel better
By JUDITH WARNER  @judithwarner January 13, 2012

Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2012/01/13/adhd-and-diet-the-connection-is-tenuous/#ixzz1jYFsTjbA

“The Diet Factor in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder,” the much-cited study released by the journal Pediatrics this week, did not make much of a case for using dietary change to treat Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
But it did make an interesting case for using food control to treat parents’ angst about their kids’ ADHD.

The study’s authors, J. Gordon Millichap, a neurologist, and Michelle M. Yee, a nurse-practitioner, who both specialize in ADHD at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, carried out a critical review of all the research literature dating back to 1976 listed by PubMed, the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s database of articles from scientific journals, relating to the use of diet and dietary supplements in treating ADHD.
They found that fish oil, in the right doses and combinations (still to be determined), might help with the cognitive and behavioral impairments associated with the disorder (though it’s still unproven.)
They found that it’s helpful to remove additives and preservatives from the diet of the kids (“a small subgroup”) who are sensitive to them.
Ditto for allergens for children who have food allergies.

(MORE: Warner: Getting Distracted from the Real Issues of ADHD)

They found iron supplements and zinc to be interesting ideas.
Sugar and aspartame?
More or less benign.

Most promisingly, Millichap and Yee reported an association between ADHD and children who ate a Western diet high in saturated fat, refined sugars and sodium, and lacking omega-3 fatty acids, fiber and folate.
They did not say why this association occurred, however, except to acknowledge that the direction of causality between bad food and bad behavior (or bad concentration, or self-regulation or any of the other problems associated with ADHD) could go either way.

“The relationship between a Western dietary pattern and ADHD may be mediated by other factors, such as poor family functioning and emotional distress, leading to a craving for fat-rich snack foods,” they wrote.
 In other words, the stress of having ADHD or being in a family riddled with ADHD, could lead to overindulgence in unhealthy foods.

The only clear result from this exploration of the role of diet in ADHD was uncertainty, except when it came to parent behavior.
Regarding that, the authors noted that, no matter what they reported, parents were going to do what they wanted to do.
Take the longtime one-size-fits-all villain, sugar: “In practice, the link between sugar and hyperactive behavior is so universal in the opinion of parents of children with ADHD that no controlled study or physician counsel is likely to change this perception,” they wrote.

As we all know, cutting sugar can’t hurt.
And, ironically, the authors suggested, for non-dietary reasons, it might even help.
That’s because of the Hawthorne Effect -- a well-known research phenomenon whereby children (or adults) experience improvement in an area precisely because that area has been singled out for observation.
“The specific type of therapy or discipline may be less important than the attention provided by the treatment,” they explained.

(MORE: Warner: Overmedicating Foster Kids: The Cost of Skimping on Care)

The relationship between parents’ feelings and expectations and their perceptions of their children’s ADHD has been proven before. In the National Institute of Mental Health’s Collaborative Multisite Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD, or MTA study, the largest study of comparative ADHD treatments conducted to date, parents reported being most satisfied with their children’s progress when their kids were treated with behavioral therapy without medication -- despite the fact that behavioral therapy alone was nowhere nearly as effective as medication plus therapy (or medication alone) in reducing core ADHD symptoms.
Therapy improved the parent-child interaction, which made everyone feel (and no doubt, behave) better.
I would venture to say that not giving medication may have made parents feel a whole lot better about themselves, which, coupled with the special training they received, may have made them parent more competently, too -- and thus see better results in their kids.

A major problem with testing dietary remedies for ADHD is that factoring out the placebo effect is extremely difficult:
you can’t fake giving a kid a certain food, the way you can give a sugar pill instead of Ritalin.
But maybe, for kids whose symptoms are very mild and not particularly impairing, this doesn’t matter.
If dietary change produces positive alterations in the behavior, cognition and, in particular, self-judgment of parents, it may be a boon for children with ADHD as well.

Warner, a former contributing columnist for the New York Times, is the author, most recently, of We've Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication. The views expressed are solely her own.

Read other related stories about this:

ADHD: Diet Might Matter, But Less Than You Think USA Today

Is There an ADHD Diet? WedMD

Related Topics: ADHD, Diet, eating habits, fish oil, Hawthorne Effect, Millichap and Yee, MTA study, western diet, Children, Health & Science, Life & Style, Medicine, Psychology

Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2012/01/13/adhd-and-diet-the-connection-is-tenuous/#ixzz1jYGEODdH

http://www.judithwarneronline.com/jwarner-perfect-overview.htm

judith@judithwarneronline.com,

Judith Warner is best known for her 2005 New York Times best-seller,
Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety,
and New York Times column, "Domestic Disturbances."

She remains a frequent contributor to the New York Times op-ed page,
and writes for The New York Times Magazine and other publications.

A former special correspondent for Newsweek in Paris,
she hosted "The Judith Warner Show" on XM satellite radio from 2005 to 2007,
and wrote the 1993 bestseller Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story,
as well as several other books.

She lives in Washington, DC with her husband and children.


Pediatrics. 2012 Jan 9. [Epub ahead of print]
The Diet Factor in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
Millichap JG, J. Gordon Millichap, MD, FRCP  gmillichap@childrensmemorial.org,
Yee MM.
Source
Division of Neurology, Children's Memorial Hospital, and Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.

Abstract

This article is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the role of dietary methods for treatment of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) when pharmacotherapy has proven unsatisfactory or unacceptable.
Results of recent research and controlled studies, based on a PubMed search, are emphasized and compared with earlier reports.
The recent increase of interest in this form of therapy for ADHD, and especially in the use of omega supplements, significance of iron deficiency, and the avoidance of the "Western pattern" diet, make the discussion timely.
Diets to reduce symptoms associated with ADHD include sugar-restricted, additive/preservative-free, oligoantigenic/elimination, and fatty acid supplements. Omega-3 supplement is the latest dietary treatment with positive reports of efficacy, and interest in the additive-free diet of the 1970s is occasionally revived.
A provocative report draws attention to the ADHD-associated "Western-style" diet, high in fat and refined sugars, and the ADHD-free "healthy" diet, containing fiber, folate, and omega-3 fatty acids.
The literature on diets and ADHD, listed by PubMed, is reviewed with emphasis on recent controlled studies.
Recommendations for the use of diets are based on current opinion of published reports and our practice experience.
Indications for dietary therapy include
medication failure,
parental or patient preference,
iron deficiency,
and, when appropriate, change from an ADHD-linked Western diet to an ADHD-free healthy diet.
Foods associated with ADHD to be avoided and those not linked with ADHD and preferred are listed.In practice, additive-free and oligoantigenic/elimination diets are time-consuming and disruptive to the household;
they are indicated only in selected patients.
Iron and zinc are supplemented in patients with known deficiencies;
they may also enhance the effectiveness of stimulant therapy.
In patients failing to respond or with parents opposed to medication,
omega-3 supplements may warrant a trial.
A greater attention to the education of parents and children in a healthy dietary pattern, omitting items shown to predispose to ADHD, is perhaps the most promising and practical complementary or alternative treatment of ADHD.
PMID: 22232312

Key Words:
additive-free attention behavior diet elimination hyperactivity iron ketogenic oligoantigenic omega-3 pediatrics sucrose zinc
Abbreviations:
ADHD —
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
EFA —
essential fatty acids
EPD —
enzyme-potentiated desensitization
IGg —
immunoglobulin G
LC —
long chain
PUFA —
polyunsaturated fatty acids
Accepted October 5, 2011.
Published online January 9, 2012
(doi: 10.1542/peds.2011-2199)


"Environmental factors are prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal in origin.
Pregnancy- and birth-related risk factors include maternal smoking and alcohol ingestion, prematurity, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, and thyroid deficiency. Childhood illnesses associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder include virus infections, meningitis, encephalitis, head injury, epilepsy, toxins, and drugs. More controversial factors discussed are diet-related sensitivities and iron deficiency. "


Pediatrics. 2008 Feb;121(2):e358-65.
Etiologic classification of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Millichap JG.
Source
FRCP, Division of Neurology, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60614, USA. gmillichap@childrensmemorial.org

Abstract

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is a neurobiological syndrome with an estimated prevalence among children and adolescents of 5%.
It is a highly heritable disorder, but acquired factors in etiology are sometimes uncovered that may be amenable to preventive measures or specific therapy.
Early reports have described symptoms similar to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder that followed brain trauma or viral encephalitis, and recent MRI studies have demonstrated brain volumetric changes that may be involved in the pathophysiology of the syndrome.
The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic Statistical Manual, introduced in 1968, emphasizes symptomatic criteria in diagnosis.
Here, an overview of environmental factors in the etiology of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is presented to encourage more emphasis and research on organic causal factors, preventive intervention, and specific therapies.
An organic theory and the genetic and biochemical basis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder are briefly reviewed, and an etiologic classification is suggested. Environmental factors are prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal in origin.
Pregnancy- and birth-related risk factors include maternal smoking and alcohol ingestion, prematurity, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, and thyroid deficiency. Childhood illnesses associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder include virus infections, meningitis, encephalitis, head injury, epilepsy, toxins, and drugs. More controversial factors discussed are diet-related sensitivities and iron deficiency.
Early prenatal recognition, prevention, and treatment of environmental etiologies of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder may reduce physician reliance on symptomatic modification with medication, a frequent reason for parental concern.
PMID: 18245408 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Free full text

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/121/2/e358.long

27 Thapar A, Fowler T, Rice F, et al.   thapar@cf.ac.uk,
Maternal smoking during pregnancy and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms in offspring.
Am J Psychiatry. 2003;160(11) :1985 - 1989
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/194/1/62.long

28 Linnet KM, Daisgaard S, Obel C, et al.   kmlinnet@ki.au.dk, co@alm.au.dk,
Maternal lifestyle factors in pregnancy risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and associated behaviors: review of the current evidence.
Am J Psychiatry. 2003;160 (6):1028 - 1040 Abstract/FREE Full Text
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?volume=160&page=1028

29 Braun JM, Kahn RS, Froelich T, Auinger P, Lanphear BP.   jbraun@hsph.harvard.edu,  Peggy.Auinger@ctcc.rochester.edu,  bruce.lanphear@cchmc.org,  bruce.lamphear@cchmc.org
Exposures to environmental toxicants and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in U.S. children.
Environ Health Perspect. 2006;114(12) :1904 - 1909
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1764142/?tool=pubmed

30 Aronson M, Hagberg B, Gillberg C.    hagberg@pediat.gu.se,
Attention deficits and autistic spectrum problems in children exposed to alcohol during gestation: a follow-up study.
Dev Med Child Neurol. 1997;39 (9):583 - 587 MedlineWeb of Science

31 Mick E, Biederman J, Faraone SV, Sayer J, Kleinman S.   jbiederman@partners.org,
Case-control study of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and maternal smoking, alcohol use, and drug use during pregnancy.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2002;41 (4):378 - 385 CrossRefMedlineWeb of Science

32 Knopik VS, Heath AC, Jacob T, et al.   Valerie_Knopik@brown.edu,
Maternal alcohol use disorder and offspring ADHD: disentangling genetic and environmental effects using a children-of-twins design.
Psychol Med. 2006;36(10) :1461 - 1471


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new book, concise opus "While Science Sleeps" life saving facts re
aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) -- 740 full text references are
free online -- Woodrow "Woody" C. Monte, retired Prof. of Nutrition,
Arizona State University: Rich Murray 2012.01.03
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-book-concise-opus-while-science.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1631


Martini: Monte: Murray 2012.01.08 Fwd: Open Letter to EFSA - More FDA
Hidden Studies showing aspartame causes birth defects: Parliament
informed
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/martini-monte-murray-20120108-fwd-open.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1632


all diseases of civilization (not just aspartame) -- WC Monte paradigm
re harm to veins, tissues, and DNA via formaldehyde made in spots from
methanol: heart, strokes, cancers, Alzheimers, diabetes, arthritis,
lungs, eyes, lupus, MS, birth defects, autism, liver, kidney, thyroid,
skin  -- easily prevented --  read his site and book "While Science
Sleeps" with 740 free full text references: Rich Murray 2012.01.13
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/all-diseases-of-civilization-not-just.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1633


"Of course, everyone has the fundamental priority to find and quickly
share evidence for healthy and safe diet, drink, and environment."

Rich Murray,
MA Boston University Graduate School 1967 psychology,
BS MIT 1964 history and physics,
254-A Donax Avenue, Imperial Beach, CA 91932
rmforall@gmail.com
                     505-819-7388    
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all diseases of civilization (not just aspartame) -- WC Monte paradigm re harm to veins, tissues, and DNA via formaldehyde made in spots from methanol: heart, strokes, cancers, Alzheimers, diabetes, arthritis, lungs, eyes, lupus, MS, birth defects, autism, liver, kidney, thyroid, skin -- easily prevented -- read his site and book "While Science Sleeps" with 740 free full text references: Rich Murray 2012.01.13

all diseases of civilization (not just aspartame) -- WC Monte paradigm re harm to veins, tissues, and DNA via formaldehyde made in spots from methanol: heart, strokes, cancers, Alzheimers, diabetes, arthritis, lungs, eyes, lupus, MS, birth defects, autism, liver, kidney, thyroid, skin  -- easily prevented --  read his site and book "While Science Sleeps" with 740 free full text references: Rich Murray 2012.01.13
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/all-diseases-of-civilization-not-just.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1633


This is a revolution, as profound and far reaching as the germ paradigm after 1860 -- now inspiring the spontaneous spread of productive research and diagnosis -- allowing treatment and prevention of diseases that harm all families and severely impair world society -- simple, safe, easy, inexpensive, universal, immediate: just avoid all common sources of methanol.


"Of course, everyone has the fundamental priority to find and quickly share evidence for healthy and safe diet, drink, and environment."


new book, concise opus "While Science Sleeps" life saving facts re
aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) -- 740 full text references are
free online -- Woodrow "Woody" C. Monte, retired Prof. of Nutrition,
Arizona State University: Rich Murray 2012.01.03
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-book-concise-opus-while-science.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1631

Martini: Monte: Murray 2012.01.08 Fwd: Open Letter to EFSA - More FDA
Hidden Studies showing aspartame causes birth defects: Parliament
informed
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/martini-monte-murray-20120108-fwd-open.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1632


I welcome a vigorous process of global real-time peer review, including all points of view, allowing unedited public sharing of positively motivated, civil, specific detail oriented, collaborative discussion by fully identified participants, in the free public domain, based on public evidence and reason in the highest tradition of world science, without ad hominem attacks: rmforall.blogspot.com or any other suitable easily accessible venue.


Rich Murray,
MA Boston University Graduate School 1967 psychology,
BS MIT 1964 history and physics,
254-A Donax Avenue, Imperial Beach, CA 91932
rmforall@gmail.com
           505-819-7388
Skype audio, video rich.murray11

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Martini: Monte: Murray 2012.01.08 Fwd: Open Letter to EFSA - More FDA Hidden Studies showing aspartame causes birth defects: Parliament informed

Martini: Monte: Murray 2012.01.08 Fwd: Open Letter to EFSA - More FDA Hidden Studies showing aspartame causes birth defects: Parliament informed
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/martini-monte-murray-20120108-fwd-open.html
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1632


Hi Woody,

Betty Martini is doing pretty good polemics, quoting your opus "While Science Sleeps"...

within mutual service,  Rich Murray


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum.
Date: Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 5:53 PM
Subject: Open Letter to EFSA - More  FDA Hidden Studies showing  aspartame causes birth defects:  Parliament informed
To: food additives , PAQUES Maud


Dear Sandra:

We knew that when you had the call for data  the only thing you would make public was industry studies and propaganda and  not all the investigations  and independent peer reviewed research we sent you.  That's why it was all sent to Parliament at the same time it was sent to you.  They know aspartame was never proven safe, that FDA wanted the company indicted, that studies were stripped from the records, and the only reason aspartame was ever marketed for human consumption was through political chicanery of Don Rumsfeld.  They all have the link to the independent scientific peer reviewed research and the carcinogenic studies that showed aspartame caused cancer from the very beginning.

http://www.mpwhi.com/peer_reviewed_research.htm

Jerome Bressler who worked with the FDA, and author of the infamous Bressler Report requested that I find the two studies FDA stripped from his report because he said it was important that the public be warned about the birth defects.  It took 8 years but here they are and Parliament has seen them:

http://www.mpwhi.com/complete_bressler_report.pdf

The rest of the Bressler Report is on our web site.  You recall the UK Parliament was very concerned about putting a warning for birth defects after the Denmark study showing aspartame can jump preterm births 78%.  Notice these studies FDA sealed and hid from the public in loyalty to industry has the FDA admitting that aspartame causes birth defects.  You can understand now the epidemic in autism. Parliament also knows about all the other recent studies that showed everything from heart attacks, obesity and strokes and elevated fasting blood sugar and cancer.

Now more sealed original studies that were hid from the public and also go into hydrocephalus and cleft palate, etc. were acquired by Dr. Woodrow Monte and are now discussed in his new book on the methanol in aspartame, "When Science Sleeps".  Here are those studies:

[ http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/references/ ]

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/pdf/677.pdf

[ 677.  Collins TFX. Memorandum: Aspartame shown to cause nural tube birth defects in the New Zealand rabit, an animal very resistant to methanol poisoning. Freedom of information: Department of Health Education and Welfare, Food and Drug Administration; 1978.
 8 pages, 7.3 MB September 11, 1978 ]

This makes 6 of the original studies showing beyond a shadow of a doubt that aspartame causes birth defects, with the FDA admitting it.

Now let's read some from the book, which Parliament should get immediately also, because it's on the methanol and formaldehyde issues, which Jim McDonald of the UK Aspartame Awareness Campaign has made public.

[ http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/While%20Science%20Sleeps%20-%20Chapter%2012%20(ref).pdf ]

"In an article published in 1985 warning about potential health dangers posed by the methanol from aspartame, I stated that the scientific literature contained no studies addressing the critical question as to whether aspartame or methanol would cause birth defects.  I was incorrect in saying that, but only because I was purposefully prevented from seeing a key FDA memo dated September 11, 1978 describing the details of birth defects and serious developmental brain damage found in the offspring of laboratory rabbits whose mothers had been fed aspartame during pregnancy.  This memo and the research data it describes were keep secret for over thirty years until January of 2011, when the memo was finally released as the result of  Freedom of information request."

"In that detailed US Food and Drug Administration memo, which was authored by Dr. Thomas Collins of the Animal Toxicology Branch to the Chief of the Food Additive Evaluation Branch, Collins reports the disturbing discovery of "significant" multiple neural tube (and other) birth defects in rabbit pups whose mothers were fed aspartame during the course of several different toxicity studies done by both G. D. Searle and Hazelton Laboratories between 1974 and 1975.  It appeared to be Dr. Collins' assignment to evaluate the studies and his conclusions were stunning:  "In both rabbit studies, aspartame appeared to cause birth defects."

"To my knowledge, this book is the first time this memo has been discussed publicly.  Like most of the scientific community, I had no idea that aspartame had tested positive for producing neural tube birth defects.  It was not until January 16, 2011 that this "smoking gun" memo came into my possession.  This is one of many important that were removed from the aspartame Docket File before I was allowed to review it in 1983.  Figure 12.1 is an image of the ticket that gave me access to the FDA's "complete" collection of aspartame test data and it does confirm that memos had been removed."

IMPORTANCE of the Collins Memo:  Government Collusion Uncovered

"Of the several million chemicals, pesticides and herbicides now in use only an exceedingly small percentage have ever tested positive for causing birth defects.  Barely 800 chemicals are known teratogens, producing birth defects in laboratory animals, and "only about twenty of these are known to cause birth defects in the human.  Nature has numerous methods, the exact details of which are still unknown to us, for protecting the developing infant.  As a last resort she will often call upon the macrophages to destroy a fetus that becomes unfit for life well before the time of birth, in a process called resorption.  This is why the occurrence of a deformed fetus in the testing of any chemical is a rare phenomenon and would normally raise a "red flag" to any scientist concerned with public safety.  It would be particularly significant if that chemical was being tested for use as a food additive."

"It was not until 20 years after the 1978 FDA memo that methanol was first tested again and found to cause neural tube birth defects in rats and eventually in many other species of laboratory animal.  To this day aspartame is not listed as a teratogen because the FDA and G. D. Searle covered up the tests that were performed in 1974 and 1975.  Worse yet, during the time they were in possession of this proof of aspartame's teratogenicity, Searle paid to have a faux scientific paper written by one of their employees published in an international fertility journal (which is read by many gynecologists and pediatricians) stressing the safety of aspartame and falsely proclaiming that "aspartame posed no risk" from consumption during pregnancy." ..........

"Tragically, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) kept the Collins memo secret from the Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR) throughout its entire two year investigation of methanol's potential to cause birth defects.  This was done despite the fact that both the FDA and the CERHR are part of the same public agency -- the Department of Health and Human Services.  The final CERHR report published in September of 2009 mentions aspartame no fewer than 93 times and raises many questions about its potential for teratogenicity.  These questions could have been answered by giving the committee access to the Collins memo and other studies to which the Collins memo refers that are still hidden in the vaults of the FDA.  It is noteworthy that two of the 11 voting members of the expert panel, both representing the US Environmental Protection Agency, refused to sign off on the summary of the CERHR methanol report and, in fact, initiated a formal dissent that warned of "a greater risk to vulnerable populations of pregnant women" than the compromised final report of the CERHR expert panel alleged.  The most senior of the dissenting scientists, J. Michael Davis, Ph.D. reveals in his strongly worded five page formal dissent that "factual errors and omissions" prompted him not to sign the final report.  He goes on:

"As just one example, the missing pages from the 1986 NEDO (New Energy Development Organization) report, which I identified and provided to the CERHR contractor, were evidently never provided to members of the Panel.  The pages in question included a table showing reductions in brain weight in a two generation rat study that had been replicated in a special ancillary study... if nothing else, omission of this information creates the impression that the Panel failed to consider all relevant information."  (I must point out here that autistic children often present with a reduced brain size at birth.)"  [  end of this part of the book ]

Methanol is one very big reason for birth defects but the 50% phenylalanine is another reason, and Dr. Louis Elsas testified before Congress in this regard.  There was such an outrage because so many of the population were being poisoned from aspartame, there were three congressional hearings between 1985 and 1987.  Politics and power prevented Senator Metzenbaum's bill from getting out of committee, a story in itself.  He wanted a moratorium put on aspartame while NIH did independent studies on the problems being seen in the population such as with the fetus, behavioral problems in children, drug interaction, seizures, etc.  You might want to read the Report For Schools:

http://www.mpwhi.com/report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm

So babies never had a chance.  Think how many women grow up wanting a family and can't have children, never knowing that aspartame is an endocrine disrupting agent, stimulates prolactin, changes the menses and causes infertility.  Then if they get off aspartame and get pregnant and get back on it, its also an abortifacient and a teratogen:

http://www.rense.com/general/asp.htm

THREATENING RESEARCHERS AND MYSTERIOUS ACCIDENTS:

We're all kind of sick of death threats and mysterious accidents.  If you read the UPI investigation which was sent to Parliament:

http://www.mpwhi.com/upi_1987_aspartame_report.pdf

Note that Dr. Richard Wurtman was threatened by the Vice President of Searle if he did studies on aspartame and seizures his research funds would be rejected, they were.  Today MIT gets research funds but Dr. Wurtman no longer speaks out about aspartame.

Dr. James Bowen has been threatened so many times and had so many accidents, break-ins and such he could write a book on it.  He has ALS from aspartame.

Dr. Maria Alemany who did the Trocho study, which proved the formaldehyde converted from the free methyl alcohol embalms living tissue and damages DNA, by which you can destroy humanity, told me when I was in Barcelona, that the aspartame manufacturers tried to assassinate his character because he did the study.   He also said that after doing the study he knew aspartame would kill 200 million people. Tephly tried to rebut the study but later admitted he used the wrong test.  The aspartame industry are scholars at that.  In the protest of the National Soft Drink Assn. it was even admitted that Searle used the wrong test that wouldn't pick up the aspartic acid (the excitotoxin in aspartame that stimulates the neurons of the breath to death causing brain damage -- Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D.)  Industry later even got to them and they turned around and lobbied for NutraSweet which is why the protest was added to the congressional record which is on www.mpwhi.com-- scroll down to banners.

When I lectured in the UK I was amused that Immigration locked me up for 3 1/2 hours after confiscating all material on aspartame.  Their questions were not the usual ones immigration asks such as, "If we allow you in England, how many people will find out about the dangers of aspartame?"  They then took me to a physician  to see if I was in condition to be interrogated because they said I had been on a plane for 12 hours.  They made the mistake of putting Dr. Roberts medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, 1000 pages, on the doctor's desk.  He looked at it and said, "I use aspartame".  I said, 'Well, you're going to die!"  He said, "But I'm diabetic!"  I responded, "Then you will die first? "  Dr. Roberts is a diabetic specialist and after reading the chapter he told Immigration:  "Give this woman back everything you confiscated on aspartame and let her go."

When I lectured in Shrewsbury Shropshire, the manufacturer's legal department sent a mole to record my lecture.  The second time I lectured in the UK the mainstream press didn't write more articles and some told me the newspapers had been intimidated by attorneys from the aspartame industry.  My goodness, are they scared!

Now let's get back to the book and talk about Dr. Monte:

"A Fire of Mysterious Origin":

"All that remains with me of the night my home exploded in flames is the aftermath.  I have a recurring memory of lying on a gurney in a hospital emergency room in Tempe, Arizona, with a physician repeatedly jabbing me in my left hand with a large gauge hypodermic needle.  He was looking for an artery from which to extract a blood sample in order to prove that I had actually been in a fire, despite the fact that an ambulance had taken me directly from the fire to the hospital.  The pain was excruciating, far worse than my burns.  The rude awakening brought clarity to the fact that I had barely escaped a possible attempt on my life that had to be taken seriously.  I vowed then that I would stay alive long enough to reveal the truth about aspartame and resolve the question of whether Joy had been killed by this deadly component of diet sodas."

Joy was a baby who died from aspartame's birth defects.

Then there was my trip to New Zealand when Abby Cormack became very sick on aspartame. She is fine now since she abstained.   First my bags with lecture material mysteriously disappeared.  Read the story:  Dying for a Diet Coke:

http://www.rense.com/general78/dying.htm

There was so much publicity that people would stop you in the street and say, "I had the problems Abby had and got off aspartame my symptoms disappeared."

Then the New Zealand Food Safety Authority put out releases, that read like they were written by Ajinomoto, trying to get people not to listen to Abby or me and just get on their web site and read about aspartame's safety.  They actually wanted them to get back on aspartame so they would get sick again.

Well, it didn't work, so Coke sent an aspartame flack to New Zealand to try and get their profits back up.  Abby did a brilliant job of debating her. While I was there, the aspartame industry actually got into my web site and added a note not to believe me.  It could only be read by those in New Zealand, who alerted me.

Then the NZFSA had a consumer meeting for information on aspartame and called for material to show the damage.  I had it and was standing at their door.  They refused to let me in so the information would not be heard, even though I had come 10,000 miles.

When I was in St. Louis giving out flyers I was stopped by a man who said, "I know more about aspartame than you do."  We got in a conversation and it turns out a physician admitted that doctors there were threatened if they told anyone that aspartame causes Alzheimers, they would be sued.

Also, an informant said the National Soft Drink Association did a 10 year study, and never published i,t proving aspartame causes birth defects, Alzheimers and blindness.  When I met someone from NSDA (now American Beverage) she said, "You couldn't possibly have those studies."

I could go on and on!

After getting all information to Parliament I sent them this report with quotes from the experts:

http://www.mpwhi.com/efsa_cheats_about_aspartame.htm

Here is an article that was just published in a UK paper about a woman with lymphoma and notice the Diet Coke in her hand:
 Also note the comment by Jim McDonald of the UK Aspartame Awareness Campaign.
What are methanol and formaldehyde known to cause?  Lymphoma and leukemia!
What did Dr. Morando Soffritti find on one of his aspartame studies showing it to be a multipotential carcinogen?  Lymphoma and leukemia.

Many years ago Dr. H. J. Roberts sent me a picture of Jacqueline Kennedy with a Diet Coke.  What did she die of?  Lymphoma, same disease as this woman has.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2083131/Fake-tan-saved-life-Girl-discovers-lump-neck-getting-glammed-night-out.html

“The illustration of beautiful young Kathryn Fish, clutching a bottle of diet coke with both hands is a frightening picture to me. I wonder if this young lady is a heavy user or even dependant on (addicted to) this very popular carbonated product? If so, the many other comments here regarding the artificial sweetener aspartame are absolutely correct. What is not well known is aspartame’s best kept secret -- 10% of aspartame METHANOL.

Very few people, including practically all our GP’s and other medical practitioners are aware of this. Methanol is a severe metabolic poison in humans, it is a slow stealthy poison which builds up over time 0-20 years, eventually causing neurological, organ and tissue damage. Anyone reading this post who is, or knows someone who is a heavy user of  chewing gum, diet drinks or flavoured water containing aspartame should contact their GP and advise them of the heavy use –- GP’s need to question the FSA about the methanol in aspartame. The best of luck, Kathryn.”
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 So why have I written you and let you know we notified the UK and Scottish Parliament, UK media and others of what you intended to do in advance (give only industry's side and propaganda)?  Because it's over, Sandra.  The information is all over the Internet and all over the world. Aspartame facts are in more medical texts and  books than I can count, and this last one on the free methyl alcohol by Dr. Woodrow Monte just hammered the last nail in the coffin.  If EFSA dares to try and say aspartame is safe in this review, with all the evidence it will only come back on EFSA.  They also have the article about how many of you have links to the aspartame industry, more than half.

Why government organizations like yourself have loyalty to industry is beyond me.  Don't you know it will affect your own families.  There are no perks or jobs or money that are worth poisoning the world, as aspartame has done.  The FDA's excuse to me by phone was "so what, we need to depopulate".   Anyone this evil has to be possessed.  No normal human would make such a remark.

I hope you understand now, its over.  Nobody in the EU or Parliament are going to believe it, if you try to make them believe aspartame is safe.

New movies continue to come out exposing more and more information that has been hidden.  Stay tuned.   Some think its been protected because of the power of  Donald Rumsfeld who through political chicanery when he worked for G.D. Searle got aspartame marketed.

Why the government would protect a manufacturer who is guilty of Title 18 of the Domestic Genocide code is beyond me.  Think of those in prison for methanol poisoning when the victim unknowingly poisoned himself because he wasn't aware of the methanol in aspartame.   For those reading this that want the whole story they can email me at bettym19@mindspring.com and ask for the Aspartame Resource Guide.

Think of the epidemic of autism and read about it in Dr. Monte's book.

The ADD people, Feingold, said in one of the movies, "before aspartame approval we didn't even use the terms ADD and ADHD".  Think of our precious children, those with autism, those victims who live with MS because of it, those who have gone blind, and those who have perished.  That doesn't even discuss all the other horrors mentioned in the medical texts.

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770 242-2599
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new book, concise opus "While Science Sleeps" life saving facts re
aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) -- 740 full text references are
free online -- Woodrow "Woody" C. Monte, retired Prof. of Nutrition,
Arizona State University: Rich Murray 2012.01.03

http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-book-concise-opus-while-science.html

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1631

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about 240 pages text, with 740 full text references free online
$ 37.98 paperback -- see:

www.WhileScienceSleeps.com

http://www.amazon.com/review/RNGG3O7U33VCV

Customer Review

life saving facts -- the life work of an earnest, careful, caring,
bold expert, December 30, 2011
By Mr. Richard T. Murray "rmforall"

This review is from: While Science Sleeps (Paperback)

This work is the culmination of a professional lifetime dedicated to
elucidating the key biochemical details of methanol (formaldehyde)
toxicity, starting with a comprehensive warning review in 1984, with
62 references, by the earnest, careful, bold Woodrow "Woody"
C. Monte, retired Prof. of Nutrition, Arizona State University.

He has been sharing his research with me since 1999, including
parts of this masterpiece, as it evolved during the last three years.

Aspartame is indeed 11% methanol (wood alcohol), which the
human body quickly turns into formaldehyde via the ADH enzyme,
concentrated in many tissues: liver, kidney, brain, retina, skin,
muscle, lung, prostate, breast, womb, fetus -- forming cumulative
micro lesions, binding to and disabling DNA, RNA, and proteins,
and so causing a wide variety of symptoms.

Other methanol (formaldehyde) sources include wood and tobacco
smoke, dark wines and liquors, fruits and vegetables heated in
sealed metal and glass containers, and aspartame, as well as a
variety of products ranging from medicines to new carpet, drapes,
and furniture to mobile homes.

People vary enormously in individual vulnerability.

Google "While Science Sleeps" to reach his website, where you
can download for free his 1984 and 2010 reviews, and the final
chapter 12 re birth defects and autism type diseases.

1. Monte WC. Aspartame; Methanol and the Public Health.
Journal of Applied Nutrition 1984;36(1):42-58. 16 pages

586. Monte W. Methanol: A chemical Trojan horse as the root of
the inscrutable U.
Med Hypotheses 2010;74(3):493-6. 4 pages.

Download free Chapter 12 of the book "While Science Sleeps", re
methanol, formaldehyde, birth defects, autism type diseases, with
100 mainstream full text research paper references -- 25 pages.

Then, search Google for other research and news:

Amid health fears, Diet Coke sweetener [aspartame] in safety
spotlight, Sean Poulter, UK Daily Mail 2011.05.27, 141 comments:
Rich Murray 2011.05.30

Pass the good words, friends !

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/references/

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/While%20Science%20Sleeps%20-%20Chapter%2012%20(ref).pdf


Amid health fears, Diet Coke sweetener [aspartame] in safety
spotlight, Sean Poulter, UK Daily Mail 2011.05.27, 141 comments:
Rich Murray 2011.05.30

http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/05/amid-health-fears-diet-coke-sweetener.html

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1625


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MA Boston University Graduate School 1967 psychology,
BS MIT 1964 history and physics,
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new book, concise opus "While Science Sleeps" life saving facts re aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) -- 740 full text references are free online -- Woodrow "Woody" C. Monte, retired Prof. of Nutrition, Arizona State University: Rich Murray 2012.01.03

new book, concise opus "While Science Sleeps" life saving facts re
aspartame (methanol, formaldehyde) -- 740 full text references are
free online -- Woodrow "Woody" C. Monte, retired Prof. of Nutrition,
Arizona State University: Rich Murray 2012.01.03

http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-book-concise-opus-while-science.html

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1631

http://www.amazon.com/While-Science-Sleeps-Woodrow-Monte/dp/1452893675/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1325344126&sr=8-2

about 240 pages text, with 740 full text references free online
$ 37.98 paperback -- see:

www.WhileScienceSleeps.com

http://www.amazon.com/review/RNGG3O7U33VCV

Customer Review

life saving facts -- the life work of an earnest, careful, caring,
bold expert, December 30, 2011
By Mr. Richard T. Murray "rmforall"

This review is from: While Science Sleeps (Paperback)

This work is the culmination of a professional lifetime dedicated to
elucidating the key biochemical details of methanol (formaldehyde)
toxicity, starting with a comprehensive warning review in 1984, with
62 references, by the earnest, careful, bold Woodrow "Woody"
C. Monte, retired Prof. of Nutrition, Arizona State University.

He has been sharing his research with me since 1999, including
parts of this masterpiece, as it evolved during the last three years.

Aspartame is indeed 11% methanol (wood alcohol), which the
human body quickly turns into formaldehyde via the ADH enzyme,
concentrated in many tissues: liver, kidney, brain, retina, skin,
muscle, lung, prostate, breast, womb, fetus -- forming cumulative
micro lesions, binding to and disabling DNA, RNA, and proteins,
and so causing a wide variety of symptoms.

Other methanol (formaldehyde) sources include wood and tobacco
smoke, dark wines and liquors, fruits and vegetables heated in
sealed metal and glass containers, and aspartame, as well as a
variety of products ranging from medicines to new carpet, drapes,
and furniture to mobile homes.

People vary enormously in individual vulnerability.

Google "While Science Sleeps" to reach his website, where you
can download for free his 1984 and 2010 reviews, and the final
chapter 12 re birth defects and autism type diseases.

1. Monte WC. Aspartame; Methanol and the Public Health.
Journal of Applied Nutrition 1984;36(1):42-58. 16 pages

586. Monte W. Methanol: A chemical Trojan horse as the root of
the inscrutable U.
Med Hypotheses 2010;74(3):493-6. 4 pages.

Download free Chapter 12 of the book "While Science Sleeps", re
methanol, formaldehyde, birth defects, autism type diseases, with
100 mainstream full text research paper references -- 25 pages.

Then, search Google for other research and news:

Amid health fears, Diet Coke sweetener [aspartame] in safety
spotlight, Sean Poulter, UK Daily Mail 2011.05.27, 141 comments:
Rich Murray 2011.05.30

Pass the good words, friends !

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/references/

http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/While%20Science%20Sleeps%20-%20Chapter%2012%20(ref).pdf


exploring While Science Sleeps at amazon.com: Monte: Murray 2012.01.21

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$ 37.98
click on book image on left to Look Inside!
[  at top center, zoom - , zoom + ]
front cover art by Becky Miller -- grieving mother hugs child,
second page, While Science Sleeps art --
depressed science collapsed helpless in bed
as angel waits to offer shining knife of inquiry,
about the author,
table of contents 2 pages,
1-6 start of text,
try random surprise! samples: maybe
25-26,
31-35,
161-164,

217-221 index,
rear cover with charts for USA aspartame sold vs
Alzheimer's deaths ( grew 100 times 1981 to 2000 ) and
autism cases ( grew 2,000 to 140,000 cases 1985 to 1996, adjusted to birth date )

use the search box and enter "multiple sclerosis"
to see a list of 71 results as page numbers and phrases,
with blue color indicating full pages to read,
for instance, Introduction iii-vi, 9-17, 20-21 --
enough to learn quite a lot.

It's really easy to get hooked !



Amid health fears, Diet Coke sweetener [aspartame] in safety
spotlight, Sean Poulter, UK Daily Mail 2011.05.27, 141 comments:
Rich Murray 2011.05.30

http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011/05/amid-health-fears-diet-coke-sweetener.html

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1625


aspartame water in rats for 6 months causes liver harm,
RH Nair et al, Mahatma Gandhi U, Food Chem Toxicol 2011.03.02:
Rich Murray 2011.03.12

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1620

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21376768

Food Chem Toxicol. 2011 Mar 2. [Epub ahead of print]
Effect of long term intake of aspartame on antioxidant defense
status in liver.
Abhilash M, Paul MV, Varghese MV, Nair RH,
School of Biosciences,
Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India, 686560.
harikumarannair@hotmail.com, harinair@fastmail.fm,


careful expert lifetime study on mice shows liver and lung cancers
from aspartame, M Soffritti et al, Ramazzini Institute, Italy, checked
by US National Toxicology Program experts, confirms many
previous studies from 2001 on: Rich Murray 2011.02.27

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1619


re GC Ebers study, females harmed more by body making
methanol into formaldehyde in brain via ADH enzyme:
589 references, WC Monte, retired Prof. Nutrition:
Rich Murray 2011.01.08

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1614


aspartame abstinance cures fibromyalgia chronic pain in 2 French
adults: R Ciappuccini et al, Clin Exp Rheumatol 2010 Nov:
Rich Murray 2010.02.19

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formaldehyde from 0.2 mg daily methanol from aspartame in
Singulair (montelukast) chewable asthma medicine causes severe
allergic dermatitis in boy, SE Jacob et al, Pediatric Dermatology
2009 Nov: Rich Murray 2010.09.27

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1613


http://www.whilesciencesleeps.com/references/

617.  Halldorsson T, Strøm M, Petersen S, Olsen S.
Intake of artificially sweetened soft drinks and risk of preterm
delivery: a prospective cohort study of 59,334 Danish pregnant women.
Am J Clin Nutr Doi:10.3945/Ajcn.2009.28968 2010.  full  text PDF

sweeteners (aspartame), methanol (becomes formaldehyde), and premature
babies in Denmark, TI Halldorsson et al 2010.06.30 AmJClinNutr: Erik
Millstone: Betty Martini: Rich Murray 2010.07.08

http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010/07/sweeteners-aspartame-methanol-becomes.html

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1609

Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 Jun 30. [Epub ahead of print] 8 pages
Intake of artificially sweetened soft drinks and risk of preterm
delivery: a prospective cohort study of 59,334 Danish
pregnant women.
Halldorsson TI, lur@ssi.dk;
Strøm M, mrm@ssi.dk;
Petersen SB, marp@sund.ku.dk;
Olsen SF. sfolsen@hsph.harvard.edu;
Centre for Fetal Programming, Division of Epidemiology,
Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark, Reykjavik,
Iceland.
Thorhallur I Halldorsson,
Marin Strøm,
Sesilje B Petersen,
and Sjurdur F Olsen

Abstract

BACKGROUND:
Sugar-sweetened soft drinks have been linked to a number
of adverse health outcomes such as high weight gain.
Therefore, artificially sweetened soft drinks are often
promoted as an alternative.
However, the safety of artificial sweeteners has been
disputed, and consequences of high intakes of artificial
sweeteners for pregnant women have been minimally
addressed.
OBJECTIVE:
We examined the association between intakes of
sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened soft drinks
and preterm delivery.
DESIGN:
We conducted prospective cohort analyses of 59,334
women from the Danish National Birth Cohort (1996-2002).
Soft drink intake was assessed in midpregnancy by using a
food-frequency questionnaire.
Preterm delivery (<37 wk) was the primary outcome measure.
Covariate information was assessed by telephone interviews.
RESULTS:
There was an association between intake of artificially
sweetened carbonated and noncarbonated soft drinks and an increased
risk of preterm delivery (P for trend:  0.001, both variables).

In comparison with women with no intake of artificially
sweetened carbonated soft drinks,
the adjusted odds ratio for women who consumed  1 to 3
serving of artificially sweetened carbonated
soft drinks/d was 1.38 (95% CI: 1.15, 1.65).

The corresponding odds ratio for women who consumed  4 to more
servings of artificially sweetened carbonated
soft drinks/d was 1.78 (95% CI: 1.19, 2.66).

The association was observed for normal-weight and
overweight women.

A stronger increase in risk was observed for early preterm
and moderately preterm delivery than with late-preterm
delivery.

No association was observed for sugar-sweetened
carbonated soft drinks (P for trend: 0.29)
or for sugar-sweetened noncarbonated soft drinks
(P for trend: 0.93).

CONCLUSIONS:
Daily intake of artificially sweetened soft drinks may increase
the risk of preterm delivery.
Further studies are needed to reject or confirm these findings.
PMID: 20592133

1. From the Centre for Fetal Programming,
Division of Epidemiology,
Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
(TIH, MS, SBP, and SFO);
the Unit for Nutrition Research,
Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition,
School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland (TIH),
Reykjavik, Iceland;
and the Department of Nutrition,
Harvard School of Public Health. Boston, MA (SFO).

2 Supported by the European Union (EU)
Integrated Research Project
EARNEST (FOOD-CT-2005-007036).
The EU project EARNEST
http://www.metabolic-programming.org receives financial
support from the Commission
of the European Communities under the FP 6 priority 5:
food quality and safety.
The Danish National Birth Cohort has been financed by the
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation,
the Danish Heart Association,
the Danish Medical Research Council,
and the Sygekassernes Helsefond,
Danish National Research Foundation,
Danish Pharmaceutical Association,
Ministry of Health, National Board of Health,
Statens Serum Institut.

3 Address correspondence to TI Halldorsson,
Centre for Fetal Programming,
Division of Epidemiology, Statens Serum Institut,
Artillerivej 5, Building 206, DK-2300
Copenhagen S, Denmark. E-mail: lur@ssi.dk;
Received November 19, 2009.
Accepted for publication June 3, 2010.
doi: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.28968.

Of the 59,334 pregnant women,

over 4 artificially sweetened
carbonated soft drinks daily __ 340 0.6 %

noncarbonated soft drinks __ 1,753 3.0 %

2-3 cans daily artificially
carbonated _______________ 834 1.4 %

noncarbonated ___________ 3,643 6.1 %


So, over 3% of pregnant women in 1996-2002
used 4 or more artificially sweetened soft drinks daily,
while over 6 % had 2-3 drinks daily.

This does not include aspartame from other foods.

"A monitoring survey from 2005 quantified artificial
sweeteners in 76 soft drinks from the Danish market (30).
For carbonated soft drinks, aspartame and
acesulfame-K were primarily used in products from the
major international brands, and the average concentration of
these 2 sweeteners was around 2--3-fold higher
in carbonated than in noncarbonated soft drinks (30)."

"After ingestion, aspartame is broken down into aspartic acid,
phenylalanine, and methanol.
Methanol is oxidized into formaldehyde and then to
formic acid, which is considered responsible
for the toxic effects of methanol.
Despite arguments that aspartame intake should not affect
blood methanol concentrations (34), animal studies have
reported the accumulation of formaldehyde adducts derived
from aspartame in tissue components (22).
This might be one explaining factor for reports on headaches
linked to the intake of aspartame (10).
More relevant to our findings, a study in low dose methanol
exposure through inhalation in nonhuman primates observed
a significant decrease in the length of gestation in exposed
animals compared with control animals (21).
A shortening of gestation was even observed at methanol
vapor concentrations that barely affected blood methanol
concentrations in these animals (200 ppm; 2.5 h/d).
Furthermore, 5 out of 28 exposed animals needed medical
intervention and were delivered by cesarean delivery either
because of vaginal bleeding (n = 4) or unproductive labor
(n = 1).
None of the 9 control animals required cesarean delivery.
The authors suggested that the observed shortening of
gestation could either be related to the effects of methanol
on the fetal neuroendocrine system
(hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis) or an indirect
action of methanol on the maternal uterine environment.
The latter explanation would be more compatible with our
findings of an increased risk of medically induced preterm
deliveries."

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Fernandez-Lopez. J;
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(Macaca fascicularis): reproductive performance and
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"Formaldehyde, aspartame, and migraines:
a possible connection", Dermatitis 19(3):E10-1

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum."

To:
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 11:19 AM
Subject: Fwd: Sweeteners, methanol and
premature deliveries - new study

Dear Erik,

Thank you so much.

Of course, fetal tissue does not tolerate methanol and
aspartame triggers birth defects and mental retardation.
http://www.rense.com/general/asp.htm

Interestingly, in restaurants so many times you see these
signs, "If you're pregnant, don't use alcohol -- can cause birth
defects".
If just alcohol is known to cause birth defects, anyone of
intelligence knows that methanol or wood alcohol, a severe
metabolic poison, would be worse.

Then you have the phenylalanine
www.mpwhi.com/louis_elsas_testifying_to_congress.htm

Yet, government agencies refuse to put a warning for
pregnant women.
There is only a PKU warning.
Big Pharma still runs government agencies.
I remember about 15 years ago I spoke with somebody
who worked for Monsanto and was told one of their people
said, "When we say something the FDA jumps. They do
what we say!"
So innocent babies are born autistic, with Tourettes, mentally
retarded and more, because the FDA are cowards,
and the manufacturers are criminals.

Glad to see this.

All my best, Betty

www.mpwhi.com
www.dorway.com
www.wnho.net
Aspartame Toxicity Center www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

Subject: Sweeteners, menthanol and premature deliveries
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Dear Jim and colleagues

Please find attached a copy of a paper that has just come out
in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
It is a huge study of Danish women, indicating that women
who consumed artificially sweetened beverages were
significantly more likely than women who consumed
sugar-sweetened to have premature deliveries of their
babies.
You will be interested in particular because they suggest
that methanol may be implicated in an underlying mechanism
This may therefore be grist to your mill,

with best wishes from Erik

Prof Erik Millstone
SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research
Freeman Centre
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QE, ENGLAND
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[ Adequate folic acid protects most mothers from having
children with birth defects from methanol and
its products in their bodies, formaldehyde and formic acid. ]

Food Nutr Bull. 2008 Jun;29(2 Suppl):S205-9.
Folic acid for the prevention of neural tube defects:
the Danish experience.
Olsen SF, Knudsen VK.
Maternal Nutrition Group, Division of Epidemiology,
Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
sfolsen@hsph.harvard.edu;

Abstract

Evidence from controlled trials suggests that ingestion of
0.4 mg of folic acid per day in the periconceptional period
is effective in preventing neural tube defects (NTD).
For this reason, most countries recommend that women
planning pregnancy take folic acid supplements in the
periconceptional period, and some countries even fortify
stable foods with folic acid.
Denmark exemplifies a country with a relatively conservative
attitude with respect to taking action in these matters.
In 1999, a national information campaign was launched that
recommended women planning pregnancy take 0.4 mg of
folic acid periconceptionally, but with the moderation that
women who eat a healthy diet do not need to take folic acid
supplement.
The campaign was repeated during 2001.
The results of the latter campaign were evaluated by using
data from a national survey among pregnant women
conducted simultaneously with the campaign by the
Danish National Birth Cohort.
An increase in the proportion of folic acid users took place
concomitantly with the launching of the information events,
but the increase was limited.
Among women who did not plan their pregnancy, a small
proportion had taken folic acid supplements
periconceptionally, and this proportion did not change
concomitantly with the campaign.
Young age and low education were factors associated
with low likelihood of taking folic acid.
It seems that different and more efficient actions are
needed if a more substantial proportion of Danish women
and their fetuses are going to benefit from the knowledge
that folic acid supplementation in the periconceptional
period can prevent NTD.
PMID: 18709894


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