NO HOAX, CRIME OF THE CENTURY By Carol Guilford Question: How long can a corporate, organized crime syndicate keep a plague a secret? Answer: Nineteen years and counting if they own the media and pay off Congress. There is a plague among us. A man-made epidemic that destroys the central nervous system is caused by aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet), manufactured by Monsanto of St. Louis, Mo. U.S.A. Aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet) is an artificial sweetener added to 9,000 food and drink products around the world. Half the population of the United States, 100 million people ‘eat’ aspartame. Aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet) is not just in diet soda and little blue packets, but this poison invades children’s vitamins. In 1995, the FDA released under the Freedom of Information Act, 92 symptoms caused by aspartame including blindness and death. What is aspartame? Two synthetic amino acids, phenylalanine (50%) and aspartic acid (40 %) are bound in methanol (10%) In early testing of phenylalanine (1970), on Rhesus monkeys one died and 5 had grand mal seizures. When the aspartame was stopped, the seizures stopped. Searle Pharmaceuticals, ‘discoverers’ of NutraSweet hid this study to gain FDA approval. Twenty years later, in 1992, "Flying Safety" the U.S Air Force official publication formally warned all pilots to abstain from consuming diet drinks. Pilots were having grand mal seizures in the cockpit just like the monkeys in the lab. Phenylalanine also breaks down into DKP, a tumor-causing agent. Results from a two-year test on experimental rats produced disastrous results for Searle—brain tumors, gross mammary tumors, atrophied testes, birth defects. Although the tests were sabotaged (tumors were removed and the animals returned to the study), Searle scientists left a tissue trail a mile long, uncovered by a FDA Task Force and recorded in the Bressler Report. Experimental animals predict human results. In 1998, there were 14,000 astrocytomas (seven hundred children) the exact kind of brain tumor found in the aspartame dosed rats. Since the 1981 approval of NutraSweet, breast cancer has doubled from 90,000 to 180,000, and 300,000 cases of prostate cancer are expected in 1999. Aspartic acid is an ‘excitotoxin’. Dr. Russell Blaylock explains in "Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills", that compounds such as aspartame and MSG actually ‘excite’ the cells to death. So, for lunch a diet coke and a bowl of Campbell Soup is definitely, Hmm, hmm, bad.. The NutraSweet Company circulates misinformation about aspartame, asserting that the methanol in aspartame is less than in a glass of tomato juice. However, in NutraSweet, the methanol is ‘free’, appearing without ethanol, the antidote for methanol toxicity always present in natural food such as tomato juice. In addition, the methanol breaks down into formaldehyde and formic acid. The latest studies on formaldehyde show that it accumulates in the cells and causes changes in DNA. Commercially, formic acid is used in paint stripper; in humans, is it any wonder it destroys the optic nerve, The media, including all major newspapers remains silent. Ramsey Clark in "The Fire This Time" writes: The TV networks monopolize public access to the events that make the news. Television’s intimate financial relationships with the military and weapons industries, its dependence on major corporate advertising, its political campaign contributions, its close alliances with political parties and leaders, the celebrity status of the major TV news readers … made the American media virtually one with the government. Two reporters have a pending lawsuit against a Tampa, Florida Fox affiliate for pulling, at the last minute, a segment critical of Monsanto’s bovine growth hormone. The station admits that Monsanto lawyers called and promised trouble. The Pepsi generation is ill. Aspartame poisoning mimics MS and rheumatoid arthritis. Fibromyalgia is a catchall term for the excruciating joint pain endured when aspartame dries up the lubricating synovial fluid and turns the joints into plastic. (Dr. H.J. Roberts, F.A.C.P. and Dr. James Bowen) 45 million Americans tolerate recurrent headaches, the No. 1 complaint about aspartame on the FDA list-- 1,862 out of 10,000 citizen reports. NutraSweet produces mood swings, depression and anxiety attacks because the poison suppresses serotonin necessary for good mental health. NutraSweet is also highly addictive because methanol is wood alcohol. Fetal tissue cannot tolerate methanol. "Aspartame ‘babies’ have symptoms of autism and attention deficit disorder. NutraSweet breaks down faster in heat. In 5 years, 280 federally funded scientists have not discovered that Gulf War veterans who have offspring with rare diseases (ABDC) drank diet soda metamorphosed by the 120 degree Arabian sun into a ‘toxic cocktail’’. The unkindest fact of all is that NutraSweet makes you fatter. Dr. Sandra Cabot, author of "The Liver Cleansing Diet," explains that aspartame causes unstable blood sugar levels which increase the appetite and cause a craving for sweets, a puffy, bloated appearance and increased cellulite. "You got the wrong one, baby, uh huh." The approval process for NutraSweet unfolds like ‘The Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Searle pharmaceuticals (bought by Monsanto in 1985) made pod people of scientists, senators, prosecutors and the FDA. Prosecutors that were told by the Justice Department to convene a grand jury to investigate Searle crime instead went to work for Searle’s own law firm. A former Congressman and White House Chief of Staff, Donald Rumsfeld went to work for Searle and bragged he would "call in all his markers" to get aspartame approved. Orrin Hatch, senator from Utah, took money from and lobbied for Searle. The whitewash was complete when President Reagan hired Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA Commissioner. Hayes approved NutraSweet despite the negative findings of three Boards of Inquiry. Soon after the signing, Hayes went to work as a consultant to Searle’s public relations firm. David Kessler who approved aspartame for use in hot foods in 1993, and in 1996 authorized blanket approval for NutraSweet is now Dean of the Yale School of Medicine. The National Soft Drink Association wrote a 30-page protest before the 1983 approval of NutraSweet in carbonated beverages. The soft drink companies knew aspartame was unstable in heat, but they never filed the protest. (dorway.com). In a 1986 letter to Orrin Hatch, former Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio writes: "I urge you, Orrin, to hold oversight hearings… about NutraSweet." "…how in good conscience can you say, ‘ no’?" Hatch killed the hearings in committee. I went to Atlanta to meet Betty Martini; founder of Mission Possible, an international organization dedicated to informing the world population about the dangers of aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet). I sorted two thousand letters by disease. My thickest stacks were memory loss and diabetes/vision loss with the return of sight after abstention from NutraSweet. Coca-cola wouldn’t do this to us. PepsiCo either. Well, they are. A high hope appeared this year as an uncanny Paul Revere in cyberspace fired an e-mail shot heard ‘round the world, heralding the festering facts of NutraSweet poisoning. An anonymous humanitarian calling herself Nancy Markle cadged from the Web a lecture Betty Martini gave at a World Environmental Conference. NutraSweet users recognized their ailments, as described by Betty. Now, more phone calls and e-mail pour into Mission Possible headquarters. Truly, it is impossible for thousands of people to make up matching stories of symptoms and descriptions of the rough detox when NutraSweet is discontinued. The NutraSweet Company assures us aspartame is safe while it wages a molecular holocaust. . An Associated Press release labels anti-aspartame consumer activists, toxic terrorists without even checking their side of the story. What kind of unbiased reporting is that? Time Magazine’s ‘health reporter’ calls the revealed truth about NutraSweet a hoax and the Internet a "Web of Deceit." In truth, the Web via e-mail is the last refuge of free communication. . For 1500 years, a natural sweetener from a shrub, stevia, has been used safely in South America. Stevia is sold under strict FDA (Monsanto’s Storm Troopers) regulation at health food stores as a food supplement, not as a sweetener. Here is a win/win situation. The chemical companies give up all interest in the food industry. When the people’s court rules, (some suggest the evildoers eat a diet rich in NutraSweet) the guilty may choose to live on farms, work in the fields and return the good earth to ‘we the people.’ Carol Guilford is the author of The New Cook’s Cookbook; The Diet Book; Carol Guilford’s Main Course Cookbook; The Easiest Cookbook; Artificial Sweetener, Aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet) Linked To Breast Cancer And Gulf War Syndrome.