Aspartaami ja syöpä
lauantai, 17. joulukuuta 2005
What Doctors Don´t Tell You on julkaissut tutkimustietoa aspartaamista.
Ohessa on What Doctors Don´t Tell You:n lähettämä lyhennelmä uusista tuloksista koskien aspartaamin merkittävistä terveyshaitoista. Aspartaamin terveellisyyttä on epäilty pitkään, itse asiassa alunperin sitä ei edes hyväksytty elintarvikekäyttöön sen epäillyn myrkyllisyyden takia. Rohkenen julkaista tekstin täällä koska sen toimittaja on kehoittanut sen levittämiseen.
Tekstin sisältö lyhyesti suomeksi: Englannin parlamentissa on käynnistymässä toimet aspartaamin poistamisesta kaikenlaisesta elintarvikekäytöstä. Aspartaamin(joka hajoaa elimistössä sopivissa olosuhteissa formaldehydiksi ja metanoliksi toim. huom.) on havaittu italialaisessa tutkimuksessa aiheuttavan suorassa suhteessa käytettävään määrään nähden syöpää rotilla. Aspartaamin haittavaikututuksiin kuuluu mm. erilaiset päänsäryt, huimaukset sekä mielialan häiriöt voi myös toimia migreenin laukaisevana tekijänä. Kirjoituksessa tuodaan lisäksi merkittävän seikkana esille se, kuinka aspartaamia käytetään laajalti sekä resepti- että käsikauppalääkkeiden makeutusaineena ja sitä saattaa olla prosentuaalisesti valtaosa lääkkeen koostumuksesta.
"WHAT DOCTORS DON'T TELL YOU E-news broadcast, 16 December 2005
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Aspartame linked to cancer in new research
Fresh fears emerged this week over aspartame, an artificial sweetener found in 6,000 types of food, drink and medicines widely available in every supermarket.
Roger Williams, a member of the parliamentary select committee on food and the environment and Liberal Democrat MP, said any items containing aspartame should be withdrawn from sale as there was 'compelling and reliable' evidence that aspartame can cause cancer.
His comments came after research published by the European Ramazzini Foundation in Italy over the summer linked aspartame to cancer in rats.
"There is strong scientific evidence that the components of aspartame and their metabolites can cause very serious toxic effects on humans," Mr Williams said.
Mr Williams told the House of Commons the additive was potentially 'far more dangerous' than Sudan 1, the banned food dye linked to cancer and found in some products in Britain earlier this year. He claimed aspartame was found in ten times more products.
Leading scientists have joined Mr Williams in calling for products containing it to be taken off the shelves . Erik Millstone, professor of science policy at the University of Sussex, said "There are sufficient grounds for banning aspartame. There are serious problems about how it was approved."
The European Ramazzini Foundation study found the incidence of cancer in female rats rose in direct relation to the dose of the sweetener they were given. The scientists suggested the cancer could be triggered by chemicals created by aspartame as it is broken down in the body.
Regular readers of What Doctors Don't Tell You have known of the potential side effects of aspartame as far back as 1996. Apart from causing headaches, aspartame is also linked to panic attacks, mood changes, visual hallucinations, manic episodes and isolated dizziness, and has been associated with hyperactivity in children.
But what is less well known is the widespread use of aspartame in prescription and over-the-counter medicine. In the What Doctors Don't Tell You special report entitled 'Drug Additives: the not-so-inactive ingredients' we reported . . .
'The concentration of sweeteners in oral solutions and suspensions ranges from 30 to 50 per cent of the formulation. In some antibiotic and cough/cold prep-arations, the sweetener content can be as high as 80 per cent .
Aspartame, an excitotoxin (a central nervous system stimulator), is increasingly being used in chewable tablets and sugar-free formulations of drugs and supplements. Headache is the most common adverse effect linked to aspartame. Up to 11 per cent of patients with chronic migraines report that their headaches are triggered by it . . . '
The report goes on to reveal a whole host of ingredients and excipients that are added to prescription drugs to make them more palatable, yet which trigger as many side effects and reactions as the drugs themselves.
If you're taking prescription medicine - or regularly take over the counter remedies - you need to know what to look out for and what questions to ask your doctor or your pharmacist.
The good news is that you can get this report free (normal price £5-60) when you subscribe to What Doctors Don't Tell You."
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