Kelly, try STEVIA as sweetner from health food stores
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----- Original Message -----
From: Kelly Grant <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: aspartame and dopamine


> Nancy thanks for the info.  I'm diabetic (& PD) and have been using alot
of
> aspartame over the years and am now wondering if I should stop
> Kelly in Calgary
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nancy Burnham <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 10:18 AM
> Subject: Re: aspartame and dopamine
>
>
> > Here is some information that is in a book "Surviving the Toxic Crisis"
> > written by Dr. Wm Kellas.  Dr Kellas has a PhD in Nutritional
> Biochemistry.
> >
> > Aspartame, a relatively recently introduced artificial sweeterner, is
made
> > up of the amino acids phenylalanine and aspartic acid.  It tastes more
> like
> > sugar than either cyclamate or saccharin, and does not have the bitter
or
> > salty aftertaste associated with saccharin.  It is the most prevalent
> > artificial sweeterner in uses today, and is used in a wide variety of
diet
> > products, esspecially diet sodeas.  It cannot be ued to cooked or baked
> > goods since it will decompose with heat.
> >
> > The manufacturers tout the fact that their product is made of these
> natural
> > ingredients, the two amino acids.  However, when chemically combined
they
> > are not the same as they would be individually, and their breakdown
> > products, such as methanol and its metabolic byproduct formaldehyde, can
> be
> > toxic.
> >
> > There have been a number of health problems associated with aspartame
use.
> > About 6000 consumers have called the FDA and volunteered information on
> side
> > effects, including hundreds of cases of convulsions.  Other side effects
> > reported include:
> >
> > Headaches, depression, hyperactivity, nausea, confusion, disiness,
rashes,
> > insomnia, impaired bision, miuscle weakness, memory loss and diarrhea.
> >
> > Asparatame can ironically, cause weight gain, the opposite of the reason
> > most people use the additive.  The sweet taste, althought not due to
> sugar,
> > can stimulate the relase of insulin, which increassed the appetite and
> leads
> > to more food consumption.  The insulin reaction can also cause control
> > problems for diabetics and hypoglycemics.
> >
> > Aspartame caused severe joint pain in 58 of 551 (10.5%) aspartame
reactor.
> > This pain is sometimes mistaken for arthritis, but goes away when
> aspartame
> > use is discountinued.  Headaches and particular sensitivity to aspartame
> > among those with mood disorders were also linked to aspartame use under
> > placebo-controlled clinical conditions.
> >
> > BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!       I  believe it.
> >
> > Nancy B  cg for Don 66/17
> >