LETTERS OF TESTIMONY TO THE HAWAII HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH CONCERNING ASPARTAME



From: Rich Murray, MA


08 February 2008

House Bill 2680, Room #329

Honorable Rep. Josh Green, M.D. and Honorable John Mizuno, Vice Chair:

Please copy as committee handout for this hearing.

Aspartame -- truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1514

Hello Hawaii,

Now in our mid-60's, my wife and I shared our 4th two-week Kauai vacation in September, always on a 4th floor ocean-view room amidst the coconut grove in Kapaa.

It's been 9 years since I decided to take on the challenge of being a "fair witness" about the mainstream science of aspartame toxicity.

Now, the hotel offers plug-in cable broadband access, as good as my wizz-bang Comcast in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where I've been happily busy, getting by on 3 hours sleep the last 24 hours, sitting on my couch with my laptop on a pillow on my lap, writing up three studies that showed up just in time for the Hawaii House Health Committee hearing re a ban on aspartame 8 AM Friday, Feb. 8.

I delight in sharing such gifts from all over Earth, from wise, able humans, who care enough to give the very best -- truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Morando Soffritti calmly asserts the evident quality of his dedicated team's efforts for decades of tedious studies with thousands of rodents -- in a lab in a castle in Italy, no less -- proving the carcinogenicity of dozens of common chemicals:

Vinyl acetate, ethyl alcohol, or aspartame in womb increases later cancers in adults with lifetime exposure in many studies, M Soffritti et al, Ramazzini Foundation, Basic Clin. Pharm. Toxicol. 2008 Feb.: Murray 2008.02.07
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1511

"But the one-third who ate the most fried food increased their risk by 25 percent, compared with the one-third who ate the least, and surprisingly, the risk of developing metabolic syndrome was 34 percent higher among those who drank one can of diet soda a day compared with those who drank none.

"This is interesting," said Lyn M. Steffen, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota and a co-author of the paper, which was posted online in the journal Circulation on Jan. 22. "Why is it happening? Is it some kind of chemical in the diet soda, or something about the behavior of diet soda drinkers?""

Nothing terrifies corporate "chemical terrorists" more than Lyn, Pam, and June, three ladies with doctorates of epidemiology, whose minds keenly work the mines of truth -- what's this? only one can a day!

Metabolic syndrome is tied to diet soda, PL Lutsey, LM Steffen, J Stevens, Circulation 2008.01.22: role of formaldehyde and formic acid from methanol in wines, liquors, or aspartame?: Murray 2008.02.07
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1513

Here is a large network at the University of Toronto, alerting the world that the methanol in wines and liquors, just one part in ten-thousand, is made in the body into formaldehyde and formic acid, the main poisons that actually cause Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

I alerted them that the same amount of methanol is in diet sodas, for Christ's sake!!!

Folic acid prevents neurotoxicity from formic acid, made by body from methanol impurity in alcohol drinks [ also 11 % of aspartame ], BM Kapur, PL Carlen, DC Lehotay, AC Vandenbroucke, Y Adamchik, U. of Toronto, 2007 Dec., Alcoholism Cl. Exp. Res.: Murray 2007.11.27
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1495

And here is news that never ever made it into the TV and print media in our United States of America --

Why?

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1426
ASDA (unit of Wal-Mart Stores WMT.N) and Marks & Spencer will join Tesco and also Sainsbury to ban and limit aspartame, MSG, artificial flavors dyes preservatives additives, trans fats, salt "nasties" to protect kids from ADHD: leading UK media: Murray 2007.05.15

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNMmessage/1451
Artificial sweeteners (aspartame, sucralose) and coloring agents will be banned from use in newly-born and baby foods, the European Parliament decided: Latvia ban in schools 2006: Murray 2007.07.12

"Of course, everyone chooses, as a natural priority, to enjoy peace, joy, and love by helping to find, quickly share, and positively act upon evidence about healthy and safe food, drink, and environment."

Rich Murray, MA
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