- Sugar in moderation does not promote weight gain. Aspartame
makes you crave carbohydrates. If you want to get fat, nutrasweet
is where it's at. However, those using sugar should be sure its raw
sugar and not refined sugar. More here:
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- http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/197265.php
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- Aspartame And MSG Have Caused An Epidemic Of Obesity
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- By Dr. Sandra Cabot
- Mission Possible Australia
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- I have been a medical doctor for over 25 years and have
clinical and research interests in the liver and metabolism. I have authored
several best selling health books including the "Liver Cleansing Diet",
"The Body Shaping Diet", "Don't Let Your Hormones Ruin Your
Life", "Women's Health", "Menopause and Natural Hormone
Replacement Therapy" and I lecture internationally on these subjects.
I have been consulted by thousands of patients with weight problems, hormonal
imbalances, fatty liver, sluggish metabolism and chronic ill health. I
have been an advocate and practitioner of nutritional methods of healing
for 30 years. I regularly appear on national television and broadcast on
many radio stations to educate people about the importance of a healthy
liver in achieving good health and weight control!
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- In the interests of public health I am making a position
statement concerning the use of the artificial sweetener called aspartame
and sold most commonly under the names of NutraSweet and Equal. One must
ask, "why do millions of people ingest a toxic chemical like aspartame
everyday"? To me it appears ridiculous and I believe that it is because
people have been brainwashed into thinking aspartame will keep their weight
down and is good for health. It also shows me that we have lost touch with
our own natural senses and instincts.
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- After having been consulted by thousands of overweight
people suffering with problems concerning the liver and/or metabolism I
can assure you that aspartame will not help you in any way, indeed it will
help you to gain unwanted weight. This has been my experience, and there
are logical reasons to explain the fattening and bloating effects of aspartame.
When you ingest the toxic chemical aspartame it is absorbed from the intestines
and passes immediately to the LIVER where it is taken inside the liver
via the liver filter.
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- The liver then breaks down or metabolizes aspartame to
its toxic components - phenylalanine, aspartic acid and methanol. This
process requires a lot of energy from the liver which means there will
be less energy remaining in the liver cells. This means the liver cells
will have less energy for fat burning and metabolism, which will result
in fat storing. Excess fat may build up inside the liver cells causing
"fatty liver" and when this starts to occur it is extremely difficult
to lose weight. In my vast experience any time that you overload the liver
you will increase the tendency to gain weight easily.
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- Aspartame also causes weight gain by other mechanisms
---Causes unstable blood sugar levels, which increases the appetite and
causes cravings for sweets/sugar. Thus it is particularly toxic for those
with diabetes or epilepsy. Causes fluid retention giving the body a puffy
and bloated appearance. This makes people look fatter than they are and
increases cellulite.
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- To discover more about the liver look up my web site
- <http://www.liverdoctor.com>http:// www.liverdoctor.com , and to
learn more about natural sugars that are better for the liver and weight,
read my books "The Liver Cleansing Diet" and "Boost Your
Energy". To order see your book store, or call Ten Speed Press or
call 1-888-75-Liver
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- http:// www.liverdoctor.com
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- COMMENTS BY DR. BETTY MARTINI
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- Also with regard to obesity and aspartame, the Trocho
Study in Barcelona in l998 showed that the formaldehyde converted from
the free methyl alcohol accumulates in the cells and damages DNA with most
toxicity in the liver but substantial toxicity in the adipose tissue or
fat cells. Further a recent epidemiological study by Sharon Fowler at the
University of Texas in 2005 linked diet drinks with obesity.
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- In the Congressional Record, Senate, S - 5511, May 7,
l985, and part of the protest of the National Soft Drink Assn, now American
Beverage, is this Statement:
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- "Aspartame has been demonstrated to inhibit the
carbohydrate-induced synthesis of the neurotransmitter serotonin (Wurtman
affidavit). Serotonin blunts the sensation of craving carbohydrates and
this is part of the body's feedback system that helps limit consumption
of carbohydrate to appropriate levels. Its inhibition by aspartame could
lead to the anomalous result of a diet product causing increased consumption
of carbohydrates."
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- So as far as product liability is concerned you have
companies marketing an addictive excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug to
the population as a sugarfree diet product knowing full well this is causing
obesity. They also know that aspartame is addictive and that the methanol
component is classified as a narcotic. Aspartame liberates free methyl
alcohol causing chronic methanol poisoning. This affects the dopamine system
of the brain causing the addiction.
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- Dr. Betty Martini
- Founder, Mission Possible International
- http://www.mpwhi.com
- http://www.wnho.net
- http://www.dorway.com
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- Aspartame Toxicity Center: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
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- Aspartame And Depression
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- By Dr. Ralph Walton
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- Depression is obviously a highly complex phenomenon,
but oer the past several years there has been overwhelming evidence that
one factor in the development of major depressive illness is decreased
availability of serotonin. Serotonin is one of many so called neurotransmitters
- chemical substances released into the synapse, or space, between brain
cells.
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- Information is transmitted from one cell to the other
both chemically, via neurotransmitters such as serotonin and electrically,
antidepressants such as Prozac work by increasing the availability of serotonin
in the synapse. The synthesis, or manufacture of serotonin in the brain
is very much dependent on the availability of an amino acid building block,
L-tryptophan. Multiple studies demonstrate that tryptophan depletion
is associated with the development of depressive symptoms. Work done
in Richard Wurtman's laboratory has demonstraqted that aspartame decreases
the availability of L-tryptophan to the brain.
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- The neurochemical impact of aspartame on the brain is
fairly complicated. Not only does it decrease the availability of
the building block for serotonin (l- tryptophan), but one of the two amino
acids that comprise aspartame, phenylalanine, is a precursor for another
very important neurotransmitter, norepinephrine. Papers which i published
in 1986 and 1993 discuss what i believe is the clinical impact (accentuating
depressive illness) of altering the balance between these 2 neurotransmitters
(norepinephrine and serotonin).
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- There is evidence that the therapeutic effect of antidepressants
can be blocked by parachlorophenylalanine - a form of phenylalanine- one
of the major constituents of aspartame. Administration of this substance
has also been associated with aggression and binging.
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- Aspartame and weight gain
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- Food seeking behavior and satiety are driven by an area
of the brain known as the hypothalamus. Stimulation of the medial
hypothalamus in a laboratory rat leads to eating. Stimulation of the lateral
hypothalamus leads to satiety and cessation of eating. Placing a
lesion in the lateral hypothalamus produces an obese rat. The lateral
hypothalamus is driven by serotonin. there are many papers in the
current literature demonstrating that antidepressants which increase
serotonin (but not antidepressants which act on other neurotransmitters)
are useful in treating binge eating disorders. I believe that
consuming large amounts of aspartame decreases the availability of serotonin
and is thus analogous to placing a lesion in the lateral hypothalamus.
Although much of this work is recent, clinical suggestions that aspartame
can lead to paradoxical increased appetite date back to blunder's work
of 1986.
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- An evolving view in modern psychiatry is that although
depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, impulse control
disorders and eating disorders have historically been viewed as separate
entities, in fact they should be viewed as a continuum of disorders all
involving some degree of dysregulation of serotonin. I believe that
at this time there is overwhelming evidence that aspartame contributes
to this dysregulation.
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- Ralph Walton, M.D.
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- For those needing a safe sweetener they can use Just
Like Sugar which is made from food and not additives - chicory which has
been used for 70 years to improve he health of diabetics, orange peel,
vitamin c from organic oranges and calcium. www.justlikesugarinc.com
or whole foods - soon safe cookies and gum.
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- Also remember that aspartame (Ajinomoto has changed the
name to AminoSweet to confuse you), Nutrasweet, Equal,Spoonful, E951, Canderel,
etc. has caused an epidemic of diseases such as autism: http://www.mpwhi.com/autism_chart.htm
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- The medical text Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic,
by H. J. Roberts, M.S. is 1000 pages of horrors, www.sunsentpress.com
Also read Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by neurosurgeon Russell
Blaylock, M.D. on aspartame and MSG.
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- The first weekend after Labor Day is Aspartame Awareness
Weekend. See the documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, cori@soundandfury.
tv
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- Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
- Mission Possible Intl
- 9270 River Club Parkway
- Duluth, Georgia 30097
- 770 242-2599
- www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com, www.wnho.net
- Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
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