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By
Don Harkins
From the November 2000 Idaho
Observer
Most people are by now aware that the artificial sweetener aspartame
becomes formaldehyde, a dangerous toxin for which neither
the Food and Drug Administration nor the Environmental Protection
Agency has identified a safe level of ingestion for humans. James
Bowen, M.D., a physician who has dedicated a tremendous amount of
time and resources to the study of aspartame, has identified the
neurotoxin to be a catalyst for polychemical hypersensitivity syndrome
(PCS).
PCS is a condition
that effects increasing numbers of people who experience varying
degrees of allergic reactions to chemical exposure.
According to Dr. Bowen, ?The Persion Gulf Syndrome is largely PCS
from the massive NutraSweet [aspartame] exposure experienced by
our men in combat units in the Persian Gulf.?
The Pentagon has repeatedly denied such allegations since they
claim that PCS does not exist. The fact that nothing in orthodox
medicine seems to help soldiers stricken with Gulf War Illness (GWI)
is an indication to orthodox doctors that GWI symptoms are psychosomatic.
?This illustrates the highly significant feature of aspartame poisoning;
that it is an extreme hypersensitization agent which is highly reactive
with other chemicals -- especially toxic ones like the nerve gas
and nitrogen mustard gas to which our troops were exposed in the
gulf when our government tried to destroy the stockpiles of these
gases they had previously supplied to Saddam Hussein. This is a
very poignant part of the NutraSweet issue because those who had
problems with NutraSweet will now experience recurrences of those
same problems when exposed to even the most minute doses of various
toxic agents,? explained Dr. Bowen.
Dr. Bowen's findings are supported by government studies regarding
formaldehyde sensitivity that were conducted many years ago. It
was found then that, once a person becomes hypersensitive
to the toxin, he can experience a violent physical reaction to a
formaldehyde exposure of as little as one
billionth of a gram.
If Dr. Bowen's thesis is correct, the millions of Americans who
habitually drink sodas and eat foods artificially sweetened with
aspartame are not only vulnerable to the entire
menu of 92 aspartame-related complications which range from
impotence, hair loss, obesity and chronic irritability to death,
they are leaving themselves open to a lifetime of multiple chemical
sensitivity.
?The reason I feel it's so important to publish this information
is that those who have been victimized by aspartame really don't
have a good shot at enjoying the health they had before unless they
recognize the problem and know how to deal with it,? Dr. Bowen concluded.
The saddest joke on the American consumer is that aspartame-sweetened
sodas are marketed as ?diet? soft drinks. The truth is that aspartame
suppresses the production of serotonin, which makes them
crave carbohydrates which, in turn, causes them to gain weight.
The Idaho Observer
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Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869
Phone: 208-255-2307
Email: observer@dmi.net
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