The absorption of methanol into the body is sped up considerably when free methanol is ingested. Free methanol is formed nell'aspartame when heated above 30 ° C. This occurs when a product containing aspartame is stored and improperly stored or when it is heated (for example, as part of any food).
inside the body methanol turns into formaldehyde and formic acid. Formaldehyde is a deadly neurotoxin. An evaluation EPA (Environmental Protection Agency - Environmental Protection Agency - USA) on methanol states that methanol "is considered a poison accumulation, due to the low rate of excretion once absorbed. In the body, methanol is oxidized to formaldehyde and in formic acid, both of these metabolites are toxic. " The EPA researchers recommend a maximum consumption of 7.8 mg per day. One liter of aspartame sweetened beverage contains about 56 mg of methanol. The regular consumers of products containing aspartame consume up to 250
mg of methanol per day, 32 times the upper limit suggested by 'EPA.
Problems from methanol poisoning are the most popular issues related to sight. Formaldehyde is a well known carcinogen and causes retinal damage, interferes with DNA replication and causes birth defects. Given the lack of some key enzymes, humans are much more susceptible to the toxic effects of methanol than animals. Consequently, the evidence on aspartame and methanol made at the expense of laboratory animals do not properly reflect the risk to humans. As pointed out by Dr Woodrow C. Monte, director of the Laboratory of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Arizona, "there are no studies on humans or mammals to evaluate possible mutagenic, teratogenic, or carcinogenic effects resulting from the assumption chronic methyl alcohol. "
E 'been pointed out that fruit juices and alcoholic beverages contain small amounts of methanol. It' important to remember that the methanol content in natural products never appears alone. In every case, ethanol is present, usually in quantities greater than that of methanol. Ethanol is a natural antidote for methanol toxicity
in humans. American troops during the Gulf War were quenching with large amounts of beverages sweetened with aspartame, which had been heated over 30 ° C by the sun of Saudi Arabia. Many of them returned home with numerous disorders similar to those seen in people chemically poisoned by formaldehyde. The free methanol in
drinks may have been one of the factors that contributed to the manifestation of these disorders. Other breakdown products of aspartame such as the diketopiperazine (DKP), may have been another factor.
In 1993, an act that can only be described as "irresponsible", the FDA approved aspartame as an ingredient in many food products that can be heated above 30 ° C.
Worse still, 27 June 1996, without public notice, the FDA removed all restrictions on the use of aspartame allowing its use in everything, including foods that are heated or cooked.
The truth about the toxicity of aspartame is very distant and different from what the NutraSweet Company discloses and wants the public to believe. In February 1994, the DHHS (Department of Health and Human Services - Department of Health and Human Services) of the United States has made public the list of side effects reported to the FDA (DHHS 1994).
Aspartame accounted for more 75% of all reported side effects all'ARMS (Adverse Reaction Monitoring System - to check for side effects) of the FDA.
The FDA itself admits that only one percent of those who have problems relating to the consummation of what we shall eat the administration. This means that the 10,000 complaints received could be quantified in fact around one million. However, the FDA has a big problem to maintain and respond to complaints it receives (they never replied to the letter normally recommended by the webmaster of this website ... a major victim!) And also tend to discourage any form of protest. The question is that most victims do not have any evidence or information that could be aspartame cause of many of their problems! Many of the physiological reactions caused from aspartame are very dangerous and should be up to convulsions and death.
These are the reactions and side effects:
- abdominal pain
- to Attachment anxiety
- arthritis
- asthma
- asthmatic reactions
- swelling, edema (fluid retention)
- problems concerning the level of sugar in blood (hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia)
- brain cancer (animal studies carried out before approval)
- breathing difficulties
- burning eyes and throat
- burning on urination
- difficulty thinking logically
- pain in chest
- chronic cough
- chronic fatigue
- confusion
- death
- depression
- diarrhea
- dizziness
- excessive thirst or hunger
- fatigue
- distortion of reality
- facial redness
- hair loss (baldness) or thinning hair
- headache / migraine, dizziness
- hearing loss
- palpitations
- urticaria
- hypertension (pressure high)
- impotence and other sexual problems
- poor concentration
- susceptibility to infection
- insomnia
- irritability
- itching
- joint pain
- laryngitis
- clouding of thought
- marked change of personality
- memory loss
- problems and change in menstrual cycle
- muscle spasms
- nausea and vomiting
- tingling and numbness of the extremities
- allergic reactions and the like
- panic attacks
- phobias
- reduction in memory
- increased heart rate
- skin reactions
- seizures
- pronunciation difficulties
- pain in swallowing
- tachycardia
- tremors
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Tinnitus - Dizziness
- vision loss
- weight gain
Aspartame mimics symptoms or worsens the following diseases:
- Fibromyalgia
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Arthritis - Multiple Sclerosis
- Disease Parkinson
- Lupus
- awareness to many chemicals
- diabetes and diabetic complications
- Epilepsy
- Alzheimer's
- Birth Defects
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Lymphoma
- Lyme Disease
- concentration problems
- Panic attacks
- Depression and other psychological problems
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Methanol, from aspartame, is released in the small intestine when the methyl group of aspartame encounters the enzyme chymotrypsin ( Stegink 1984, page 143). Free methanol begins to form when any liquid product that contains aspartame is heated to a temperature above 30 ° C. .. This also occurs naturally in the human body.
The methanol is then converted to formaldehyde. The formaldehyde results in the formation of formic acid, the venom of the ant. L 'formic acid is toxic and is used as an activator of strippers for urethane and epoxy coatings. Imagine what it does to your tissues!
Phenylalanine and aspartic acid account for 90% of aspartame, and these amino acids, when taken with food, normally used by the body for the synthesis of protoplasm. But when unaccompanied by other amino acids that would normally eat in a normal protein meal [we use about 20], become neurotoxins.
This is the reason for which we find on the label of EQUAL and other aspartame products, the warning for phenylketonuria (PKU). 2% of the population suffers from this disorder that results in extreme sensitivity to this substance, unless it comes from the power. This causes problems to the brain and other birth defects! In the end, phenylalanine becomes DKP (diketopiperazine), a substance that causes cancer of the brain.
In other words, L 'Aspartame converts to dangerous byproducts for which no natural countermeasures. The empty stomach of a person on a diet accelerates these conversions and amplifies the damage. Components of aspartame go straight to the brain, causing severe headaches, mental confusion, seizures and balance problems. Rats and other animals used as guinea pigs are then died of brain cancer.
Despite defense claims of Monsanto and other companies:
1. Methanol alcohol and juices does not is converted to formaldehyde in any significant degree. There are strong scientific evidence to confirm this fact for alcoholic beverages on reasonable grounds and evidence for juices.
2. Formaldehyde obtained from methanol is very toxic even in very low doses * * as evidenced by recent scientific research.
3. The chronic toxicity and the reactions from aspartame and damage resulting from the conversion of methanol to formaldehyde and other products of its metabolism even if the industries are trying to prove otherwise with research in the short term using an experimental substance that is chemically different and that is absorbed differently than the original substance that is put up for sale.
Almost all independent studies, however, "strangely" indicate that the 'aspartame can cause serious health problems.
4. A loophole commonly used by Monsanto is to claim that 'aspartame is "safe" but which some people may have "allergic" reactions. This kind of nonsense is typical of Monsanto. The tests conducted by them shows that aspartame does not cause "allergic" reactions. This is their way of trying to minimize and hide
number and severity of toxic reactions that people are suffering as a consequence of long-term use of aspartame.
Summary
Given the following arguments for researchers becomes definitely too early to discard the role of methanol in the effects of 'aspartame:
1. The amount of methanol ingested with aspartame is unprecedented in human history. The methanol is ingested from fruit juice is not anywhere near the amount of methanol ingested with the intake of aspartame, particularly for people who ingest every day one to three liters (or more) of diet drinks. Unlike the methanol derived from aspartame, methanol from natural products is probably not absorbed or not converted into its toxic metabolites in significant measure as discussed earlier.
2. The lack of scientific evidence relating to changes in the levels of formic acid and formaldehyde in the plasma not prevent the damage caused by these toxic metabolites. Changes in levels often can not be found if the intake of methanol occurs for a short period.
3. Products that contain aspartame in most cases provide little or no nutrients that can protect dall'avvelenamento chronic methanol and are often consumed between meals. People who ingest these products to follow a diet low calorie nutritional deficiencies more often than people who drink fresh juices.
4. People with certain health problems or who use certain drugs may be more susceptible to chronic methanol poisoning.
5. A slow poisoning due to prolonged intake of these substances will lead to chronic disease and side effects. Many chronic diseases that seem to appear suddenly in reality they are acquired gradually in the body for many years.
6. A growing body of research indicates that many people are highly sensitive even to low doses of formaldehyde in the environment. The 'Environmental exposure to formaldehyde and ingestion of methanol (which converts to formaldehyde) from aspartame likely has a cumulative deleterious effect.
7. E 'was found that the' formic acid tends to accumulate slowly in various parts of the body. L 'formic acid inhibits (according to some studies) the metabolism of' oxygen.
8. A growing number of people when they ingest products containing aspartame to an extended period of time, an exhibition of chronic health problems similar to side effects chronic poisoning from methanol. This includes many cases of eye damage similar to the type of lesion found in cases of poisoning
methanol.
Additional note on the toxic effects of aspartame: often it takes at least sixty days without any intake of aspartame (NutraSweet) to see a significant improvement. Check all labels very carefully (including vitamins and pharmaceuticals). Search for the word "aspartame" on 'label and avoid it. (Also avoid "Acesulfame-k" or "Sunette") Finally, do all the nutrition information from organizations that manage the public relations of the food industries that produce "junk foods" such as IFIC or organizations that accept funding from the food industry and chemical of junk foods like Dietetic Association Americana.
If you are a consumer of any product containing aspartame and have physical, visual, or mental ... Take a test: do not take aspartame for 60 days. If, after two months with no aspartame your symptoms are gone, or decreased, join with us to eliminate this neurotoxin from the market. Write a letter to the FDA, sent a copy to Betty Martini (to prove that the FDA does not keep the complaints it receives). Write to your politicians. Returned products that contain the 'aspartame where you bought them ... and ask for a full refund. Make a big mess if not full refund! Convince all your friends and family ... that will be better off if they stop using aspartame ... Involve them in and do the same.
Aspartame has become an "approved sweetener" by a few greedy and dishonest people who speculate trampling the lives and health of the people. Since both the FDA that politicians are largely compromised in the scandal, only a public information and activities can obtain the reclassification of this "food additive" in toxic and its removal from the human food chain.
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