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Physicians have observed many symptoms synonymous with diseases that are the result
of neuron damage. Many believe these symptoms are the result of excitotoxin damage that has
resulted from the overconsumption of aspartame. Among the diseases which these symptoms
mimic are multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Lou Gehrig's
disease.
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Methyl ester promptly becomes methanol (wood alcohol) in the body. Methanol is a
poison that occurs naturally in nature and is present in food that we eat but when it naturally
occurs in fruit, it is bound to pectin and the enzymes within the human digestive tract are not
able to brake the bond between the pectin and methanol. Therefore, the methanol is passed safely
out of the body. Additionally, in nature, when you get methanol, you also get equal or greater
amounts of ethanol which acts as an antidote to methanol. Ethanol is used by doctors to treat
methanol poisoning.
“The symptoms of methanol poisoning include headaches, tinnitus, dizziness, nausea,
digestive disturbances, weakness, vertigo, chills, vision problems, retinal damage and blindness,
memory lapses, numbness and shooting pains in the extremities, behavioral problems and
neuritis.” In heavy enough doses, methanol can also cause death.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognizes methanol as a “cumulative”
poison and has established a recommended consumption limit of 7.8 mg/day. A one-liter
(approx. 1 quart) aspartame-sweetened beverage contains about 56 mg of methanol. Thats over 7
times the EPA limit in one liter of pop. Heavy users of multiple aspartame-containing products
(pop, candy, cereal, cookies, etc.) may consume as much as 250 mg of methanol daily or 32
times the EPA limit.
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The body further breaks down methanol into
formaldehyde (embalming fluid), then
formic acid (used as an insecticide) and DKP (known to cause brain tumors). Formaldehyde is
5,000 times more toxic than ethanol (drinking alcohol). Formaldehyde is also a known
carcinogen, it causes retinal damage, it interferes with the replication of DNA and causes birth
defects.
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The established EPA limit for formaldehyde in drinking water is 1 ppm. This amounts
to 2 mg daily for a typical daily consumption of 2 liters of water. “[A]bout 30% of the methanol
remains in the body as cumulative durable toxic metabolites of formaldehyde and formic
acid.”
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A one-liter aspartame-sweetened beverage would amount to nearly 17 mg of retained
formaldehyde per day, over 8 times the daily EPA limit. This adds up to 504 mg per month or 6
grams per year.
Formic acid is a major component of fire ant venom. A human is billions of times the size
of a fire ant, yet the ant is capable of killing a human with its sting.
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Death is not the typical
reaction to a fire ant sting but it does happen. In 1989, 32 people were reported to have died from
fire ant stings in Texas, Florida, Louisiana, and Georgia.
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Aspartame's Approval
Aspartame was discovered by a G.D. Searle scientist by accident in 1965 when he licked
his finger while doing research. G.D. Searle began safety tests on aspartame in 1967. From the
very first test, aspartame showed very extreme safety concerns. In a 52-week study, seven infant
monkeys were fed aspartame mixed with milk (milk is known to slow the absorption of certain
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