It is an emergency that you find the strength as a man to recall such a deadly substance as Aspartame.
I always thought that I would first get my message through to FDA to remove sodium benzoate from food and drugs. WE BLEED SEVERELY WITH THIS PRESERVATIVE. NOT TO MENTION THE HEADACHES THAT MY SON ALWAYS HAD PRIOR TO A BAD HEMORRHAGE.
However; the fact that I haven’t had success in being heard for sodium benzoate, perhaps you will consider the severe reactions we have had to NutraSweet. Headaches, blurred vision, dull ache in head days following severe headache and poor focus with eyesight during the days following. Nausea, etc.
The MOST IMPORTANT THING I WANT YOU TO KNOW IS THE TERRIBLE THINGS MY BROTHER HAS BEEN THROUGH SINCE THE 80’S WITH A DIET COKE ADDICTION. I FIRST
COMPLAINED TO FDA IN ’85 AND ’86, only to be told there was only information about short-term memory loss related to Aspartame. Nothing about addiction, depression, vision problems, personality changes, or anything else. I was told that FDA would need at least 10 years to study the effects of Aspartame. Following the refusal of FDA to listen to my complaints for both my brother and my family. I knew I had to get someone to listen to me since my brother displayed such Diet Coke addiction that I feared for his life. I found a name back then. Dr. Louis Elsas, Prof of Pediatrics at Emory University. I communicated with him by telephone. He wrote to me, and I felt better once I had found someone who believed me. I knew he was the doctor so talked about at that time in the 80’s as the one who was warning pregnant women to avoid Aspartame to protect their babies brains and
To keep it from babies after birth at least until the babies were 6 months old. He had seen brain damage from the substance in babies in these age groups. He told me that at that time (late 80’s) someone in Washington was tracking NutraSweet Victims. It was a little encouraging finding someone who didn’t think I was crazy to believe in a Diet Coke addiction.
It would be too lengthy to try to explain all that Aspartame DID TO MY BROTHER. But I feel better knowing how hard I worked to convince my family and his doctor of his addiction to Aspartame. I feel even better now that he is off NutraSweet products. Especially happy that his psychiatrist is weaning him off all the big time medications he was on for symptoms that had gotten so out of hand with increased use of Aspartame.
TO WATCH SUCH AN INTELLIGENT COLLEGE GRADUATE GO DOWN THE TUBES AND LOSE MORE THAN A DECADE OFHIS LIFE IS PAINFUL. BUT THANK GOD HE IS ONE OF THE FORTUNATE ONES WHO STILL HAS A LIFE!!! WE FEEL IT WILL TAKE SOMEONE WITH A REAL CONSCIENCE, NOT A NEED FOR GREED OR PRESTIGE WITH ASPARTAME MAKERS, TO STEP UP TO THE MIKE AND ANNOUNCE THE RECALL OF THIS DEADLY NEUROTOXIN.
If anyone backing NutraSweet thinks the whole public can be changed into believing that Aspartame is safe. Let me share with you the answer I got from an ATTORNEY concerning Aspartame safety. We were at a wedding 2 weeks ago. I speak with him often since we were on a cancer board together years ago. I know of his love for flying, so I asked him about his knowledge concerning the Aspartame “unsafety” at high elevations. His answer was that NutraSweet is no longer allowed in his home. He said once he determined that NutraSweet made him depressed and made his wife’s moods bad, he banned it from his house quite some time back. Now maybe you can see that many people are intelligent enough to make healthy decisions for themselves.
WHAT ABOUT OUR KIDS AND OUR GRANDKIDS. WASHINGTON NEEDS TO WAKE UP AND FEED OUR KIDS BETTER FOODS (LESS NUGGETS, HOT DOGS, JELL-O, CHOC MILK, INSTANT POTATOES, ETC).THEY NEED SOME REAL HOMECOOKED AND FRESH FOODS, FREE OF UNNECESSARY ADDITIVES, AND CERTAINLY ASPARTAME SHOULD BE BANNED FROM ALL FOODS AND DRUGS, FIRST AND FOREMOST THOSE WE PUT IN FRONT OF OUR KIDS. LET’S GIVE THEIR BRAINS A CHANCE.
PLEASE STAND WITH THE PEOPLE WHO CRY OUT FOR YOUR HELP IN GETTING THIS DEADLY NEUROTOXIN OFF THE MARKET. RECALL IT PLEASE.