HAWAII MOVES TO BAN ASPARTAME (NUTRASWEET)
Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.
Mission Possible World Health International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
23rd January 2008
Senate Bill 2506 introduced by Senator Kalani English, and also signed by Senator Suzanne Chun-Oakland, as well as House Bill 2580 sponsored by Representative Millie Carroll will move to ban aspartame from the State of Hawaii.
Efforts continue to ban this deadly excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug that is addicting the public and triggering so many symptoms and diseases from MS, lupus and seizures to Parkinson's, diabetes, obesity and even blindness and death. An aspartame documentary, "_Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World_ (http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html)", explains how Donald Rumsfeld got this marketed when the FDA said no.
Masquerading as an additive it's a deadly drug that interacts with other drugs and vaccines. No one can forget the gallant efforts of Senator Gerald Ortizy Pino who sponsored the Senate bill to ban aspartame in New Mexico. One picture that remains in my mind is addressing the Senate with Senators sipping Diet Coke. Dr. Ken Stoller said "It's hard to believe we are going to get anywhere with you drinking this but consider the children (my emphasis). _"Aspartame is a teratogen triggering birth defects and mental retardation, reducing IQ, and triggering all types of behavioral and psychiatric problems."_ (http://www.mpwhi.com/report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm)
There is more but you get the idea. I found out about this from an enthusiastic post to our local homeschooling list. Here was the response I posted:
There definitely is a move to introduce this bill in Hawaii.
However, Snopes.com says that claims that research has shown aspartame to be a neurotoxin or carcinogen are false.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp
Perhaps Snopes is outdated. If so, and if people know of scientifically-verifiable studies that demonstrate that aspartame really is the generally-deadly drug that it's being claimed to be (as opposed to something that might cause adverse affects in a small number of aspartame-sensitive individuals), I hope they alert Snopes. The Snopes folks are generally very energetic about searching for objectively-verifiable material.
I, personally, am wary of attempts to ban things like this, especially when the scientific/medical community has yet to demonstrate conclusive findings. I'm generally an anti-rubber-room mentality person, as it is.
It makes good discussion material for home education, on the other hand! What is evidence? How do we know things? How do we draw proper conclusions? How are various chemicals processed by the human body? What is the role of the liver? What is good nutrition? How does one select the most nutritious things to eat (and balance that with the most delicious things to eat)? What is the proper role of government in the lives of individuals? Does the fact of Congress declaring something to be true necessarily make it true? All great stuff to talk about, and doing so leads to the kinds of thinkers we home educators are trying to help our children become.
--Deb
"Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom."
--Louis the Swan to the Zoo Director
--The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White
Remember, I have to be diplomatic around Rochester. Most of those parents in the homeschooling list also read KidsOutAndAbout.com, and one of my goals is to be seen as Everywoman with whom people just want to agree.
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