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February 22, 2017
AVIATION SAFETY RESOURCE FOR PILOTS
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ASPARTAME: WHAT IS IT? WHAT'S IT IN? WHY SHOULD PILOTS & PASSENGERS CARE?
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DEADLY DECEPTION TABLE OF CONTENTS
(Includes this Chapter on the Aspartame Consumer Safety Network's Pilot Hotline):
Flying & Aspartame:
* Aspartame and Flying - Extraordinary Science, March, 1995
* U.S. Air Force Flying Safety - Aspartame Alert
* National Business AircraftAssn. Digest - Bitter Aftertaste
* FAA Medical Examiner's Case Histories (James B. Hays, M.D.)
* Report links aspartame to pilot and driver error
* Aviation Medical Bulletin - Pilots & Aspartame
* Can Aspartame Cause Hypoxia at Altitudes? (G. Leighton)
* Safeguard - The Aviation Consumer
* Fit to Fly - Aspartame and Diet Drinks (CGAN art.)
* Pacific Flyer - This Could Save Your Life
* Letters to Editors (Flying Magazines)
* Gen. Aviation News - NutraSweet ... too good to be true?
* Australia's Aviation Safety Digest - Not for the Dieting Pilot
* Plane & Pilot - High on High (Getting High on Aspartame)
* London's The Food mag. - Aspartame safety review - Pilot safety fears over Aspartame
* Some Still Bitter Over NutraSweet
* "NutraSweet Tests Faked" - London's The Guardian newspaper
* International Council of Air Shows '95
VIDEO INTERVIEWS WITH PILOT HOTLINE FOUNDER MARY NASH STODDARD:
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Why Pilots Should Avoid Consuming Products Containing Aspartame
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Mary Nash Stoddardmarystod@airmail.net
January 24, 2017
REGISTERED DIETITIANS FUNDED BY NUTRASWEET TO PROMOTE UNHEALTHY #SWEETENER (Documented Proof: Photo in Deadly Deception Story of Aspartame)
NUTRITION & HEALING
[Cover story Interview with Mary Nash Stoddard, founder of the Aspartame Consumer Safety Network and author of a source book about the sweetener, aspartame.
Dr. Jonathan V. Wright's NUTRITION & HEALING with Alan R. Gaby, M.D., November 1995 - Vol. 2, Issue 11. Pub. by Nutrition & Healing, Inc., Phoenix, AZ.]
Q: Your important consumer education work on the sweetener "aspartame" is well known and we are delighted to speak to you. Is it true that the large majority of non-drug complaints to the Food and Drug Administration are about adverse reactions to aspartame, also called NutraSweet or Equal?
A: Currently, it's about 78% of all complaints. At one time, the figure was 85%! Yet, this isn't reported in the newspapers or announced through other media. It's a well-hidden secret.
Q: Imagine if it were a vitamin or herbal product, we'd have the federal pill police swarming like angry bees. Would you please list for us some of the symptoms caused by aspartame?
A: Aspartame not only causes individual symptoms, it can mimic entire syndromes! For example, the CFIDS (chronic fatigue and immune deficiency syndrome) newsletter calls it the "sweet poison, NutraSweet," because it can mimic the symptoms of CFIDS. It can also cause grand mal seizures. According to H.J. Roberts, M.D., it can cause decreased vision, pain in the eyes, decreased tears, ringing in the ears, hearing impairment, headache, dizziness and unsteadiness, confusion, memory loss, drowsiness, sleepiness, slurring of speech, numbness and tingling, tremors, depression, irritability, aggression, anxiety, insomnia, phobias, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, high blood pressure, nausea, diarrhea, abdominal pain, itching, hives, menstrual changes, weight gain, hair thinning and hair loss, urinary burning and frequency, excessive thirst, fluid retention, bloating, increased infection, and even death.
Q: Death?
A: Five deaths reported prior to 1987. We don't know the number since then.
Q: What's in this stuff?
A: Among other things, it's about 10% methanol (wood alcohol,) famous for causing blindness in alcoholics. In the body, methanol metabolizes into formaldehyde, a neurotoxin; formic acid, a venom in ant stings; and diketopiperazine, which causes brain tumors in animals. It's so bad that in July of 1983, the National Soft Drink Association presented official objections to putting aspartame in beverages. I'll read you one of their objections: "It is well established under Section 402(a)(3) that a food which contains a decomposed substance...is subject to seizure by FDA." It's thoroughly established that after a number of weeks and at temperatures over 85 degrees F, there's no aspartame left in a soft drink, only breakdown products. So, why isn't FDA seizing it under Section 402 (a)(3)?
Q: Your book, Deadly Deception reports that initially FDA had started investigations of the G.D. Searle Company, makers of aspartame.
A: Yes. In 1977 an FDA task force submitted a 15,000 page document covering their investigation. Here are two quotes:
"We have uncovered serious deficiencies in Searle's integrity..."
"The cumulative findings of problems within and across the studies we investigated reveal a pattern of conduct which compromises the scientific integrity of the studies."
Q: These are from FDA's own task force report on Searle's aspartame research?
A: Exactly. Your readers may not know that aspartame was originally approved in 1974, but when the brain-tumor issue arose, the approval was withdrawn.
Q: Tell us about the "brain-tumor issue."
A: Many of the test animals fed aspartame developed large tumors. These were actually cut out, and the animals returned to the study. In some cases, the tumors weren't even examined for malignancy, and the tumors weren't reported to FDA. In several cases, animals were reported as dead and later reported as alive again.
Q: No wonder FDA's task force "uncovered serious deficiencies in Searle's integrity!"
A: The results of the task force investigation of aspartame and other Searle drugs were presented to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Labor and Public Welfare. Senator Edward Kennedy said that "the extensive nature of the almost unbelievable range of abuses discovered by the FDA on several major Searle products is profoundly disturbing."
Q: So, how did aspartame ever get approved and progress so far into our food supply?
A: Well, for one thing, a former member of Congress and Chief of Staff in the Ford Administration, Donald Rumsfeld, was hired as President of Searle in 1977. Rumsfeld was paid $2 million in salary and $1.5 million in bonuses between 1979 and 1984.
Q: Oh-oh.
A: Also, in 1977, Senior Assistant U.S. Attorney, William Conlon was assigned to the Searle case. He took no action, despite repeated prodding by Richard Merrill, Chief Counsel to the FDA. One year later, Conlon took a position with Sidley and Austin, the law firm representing Searle.
Q: A pattern seems to be emerging.
A: Rumsfeld, now Searle president, hired: John Robson as Executive Vice-President - he had been a spokesman of the Civil Aeronautics Board; William Greener as Chief Spokesman for Searle - he had been a spokesman in the Ford White House; and, Robert Shapiro as General Counsel, who later became head of Searle's NutraSweet Division - he had been a Special Assistant in the Department of Transportation. But, here's the pay-off!
Q: No pun intended?
A: The facts are interesting, aren't they? In 1983, the Commissioner of the FDA, Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr. approved NutraSweet for soft drinks two months before leaving office. Two-to-three months later, he accepted a position as Senior Medical Advisor to Searle's public relations firm, Burson Marsteller. He was paid $1,000 per day as consultant.
Q: Really, $1,000 a day? This is a matter of public record?
A: A matter of public record. And, Michael Taylor was also involved in the approval of aspartame.
Q: Michael Taylor, the Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) man, who worked for FDA, lawyered for Monsanto to get rBGH approved, then went to work for FDA writing their BGH regulations?
A: The very same. Didn't you know that G. D. Searle is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Monsanto, with Robert Shapiro as current CEO?
Q: What a surprise. And a not unfamiliar pattern. But, tell us about aviation and aspartame.
A: The official Air Force safety magazine, FLYING SAFETY, and the Navy's flight magazine, NAVY PHYSIOLOGY, have both published warnings about using aspartame and flying.
Q: Will you give us an example?
A: A pilot called ACSN's Pilot Hotline two nights ago and told me about his experience. Flying for Peninsula Airlines in Alaska, he had a seizure in flight at 10,000 feet and was grounded. He had been drinking eight to ten cups of coffee a day sweetened with Equal, another aspartame compound. Since he quit aspartame, he's been seizure-free, but he hasn't been allowed to fly.
Q: We need to know more about this.
A: In my book, Deadly Deception, there's a reprint of a scientific paper showing that aspartame aggravates abnormal brain waves in children with epilepsy (Neurology 1992;42:1000-1003.)
Q: Maybe airline passengers should question pilots about aspartame use before boarding! What about those U.S. Senate hearings during which pilots testified about the adverse effects of aspartame on their flying abilities?
A: There have actually been three hearings.
Q: Here we go again!
A: Speaking of contributions... watch out diabetics! The NutraSweet company has given money, money, money to the American Diabetic Association. And, remember when you hear a registered dietitian say aspartame is safe for pregnant women, children, and everyone else, the Registered Dietitian's professional association has been given $75,000 to expound on the virtues of aspartame. The American Dietetic Association has even stated that the NutraSweet company writes their "Fact Sheets."
Q: So, there's money everywhere...to members of Congress, former regulatory bureaucrats, professional associations...
A: Absolutely. Aspartame approval and persistence on the market has everything to do with money and politics, and almost nothing to do with science and reason. Even the FDA's own reviewers were against aspartame until those political/financial events I've mentioned.
Q: Is there any hope to reverse all this?
A: Each of us will have to do it ourselves, one at a time and by spreading the word. Fortunately, it appears that the public pays more attention to this issue when they're given access to the information I've been outlining. The last TV show I appeared on about this issue, received 100,000 calls over the next three days.
Q: Thank you so much for devoting your time and energy to spreading the word about the hazards of aspartame.
A: Your readers can call the ASPARTAME CONSUMER SAFETY NETWORK at (214)352-4268 for more information as well as many suggestions for helping to make known the truth about aspartame.
*(U.S. Attorney, Samuel Skinner was prosecuting G.D. Searle for falsifying ests submitted for approval of aspartame, but recused himself at the last minute to join Searle's law firm, Sidley & Austin. Skinner then went back into Government, becoming head of the Dept. of Transportation - over the FAA. From there he was appointed Chief of Staff in President Bush's White House. Recently, he was nominated Man-of-the-Year by the Epilepsy Foundation in Chicago. Ironically, aspartame is reported to "trigger" epilepsy in a number of Epileptics. Also, former Monsanto Attorney, Clarence Thomas was appointed Supreme Court Judge amidst swirling controversy over his appointment! Ed.)
November 11, 2016
A Bridge Too Far Theme
Veteran's Widow Celebrates VETERANS DAY Today with gratitude to ALL who serve (Past & Present) so valiantly to keep our great country safe and free from Tyranny. God Bless America's Brave Veterans! -- With Great Gratitude -- Hon. Mary Nash Stoddard (TX Radio Hall of Fame Inductee and "SAMMY" AWARD Winner 2013)
August 17, 2016
Stoddard's POV: Taken From Keynote Speech by ACSN Founder Sept. 8, 2005 at Nutrition Conference in Detroit MI
Hotline gets warnings about pilots and aspartame
Jennifer Tryon, CTV Food Specialist
Over the past eight years, sporadic warnings from consumer groups have appeared in Canadian aviation magazines, suggesting airline pilots call a hotline. There, they can confidentially report problems they've been having from eating or drinking the artificial sweetener aspartame.
"We've had hundreds and maybe thousands of calls that are pilot-related," said Mary Nash Stoddard, who has answered the Aspartame Pilots Hotline for more than a decade from her home in Dallas, Texas.
Stoddard is the founder of the Aspartame Consumers Safety Network, a group she founded when her daughter had a seizure after ingesting aspartame.
CTV News discovered the hotline number in a Health Canada Access to Information request. It was buried in a document submitted to Health Canada in 1995, warning health officials about the risks pilots may be under by consuming aspartame. The document warned of more than 90 symptoms that could be attributed to aspartame. More disturbingly, it also warned that pilots could suffer grand mal seizures in the cockpit after consuming the artificial sweetener.
In a letter obtained by CTV News, one Transport Canada doctor blames aspartame for a former Air Canada pilot’s grand mal seizure. The doctor fought his own department to have the pilot's licence reinstated. The doctor states: "Since his grounding, [the pilot] has eliminated foods containing aspartame... He has not experienced any further episodes of vision disturbances..."
One former Air Canada pilot told CTV News he saw memos on a bulletin board suggesting pilots not consume diet drinks. There was no scientific proof attached, just a warning.
So why aspartame and why pilots?
Some believe it's a coincidence. But others, such as Stoddard, say the amino acids that make up the sweetener, phenylalanine and aspartic acid, cause a reaction in the brain at high altitudes. The reaction can lead to hypoxia, also called "the bends," and sometimes seizure.
Aspartame is made up of two amino acids that form methanol ester, which becomes the substance known as Nutrasweet or Equal. It's 180 times sweeter than sugar and safe for diabetics. Repeated studies have found it to be safe.
Pilots are typically health-conscious and often choose to drink diet drinks to stay hydrated in the air and keep their weight down. Many say the reports on aspartame have been anecdotal in nature. The hundreds who call Stoddard's hotline every year are considered to be misdiagnosing themselves or part of a radical online movement to ban aspartame.
But Hanes Dunn, a former U.S. Air Force and Continental Airlines pilot, now living in Texas City, Texas, believes aspartame cost him his career. In 1990, he suffered a grand mal seizure which resulted in automatic termination of his flying status. Dunn says he's not epileptic and only has seizures when he ingests foods containing the sweetener.
"I've never had an abnormal EEG [brain scan]," says Dunn who, until he started using diet drinks to lose weight, boasted a clean bill of health. "I can't prove it one way or another. But all I know is that all my problems started once I started using diet drinks that were sweetened with aspartame."
Dunn says he believes that, ironically, the diet drinks he drank to keep his weight down to ensure he didn't lose his pilot's licence ended up costing him his licence.
"What I feel like I did was, basically, I committed occupational suicide," Dunn says.
Dunn says being grounded cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars in income, and contributed to his divorce. He says he now refuses to ingest aspartame of any kind and often has to carefully read labels on some foods and drink to ensure it's not in them.
Dunn is just one pilot CTV News found who had suffered seizures and attributed them to aspartame use. Two former Air Canada pilots wouldn't talk on the record. One said it was because he was still flying and didn't want to jeopardize his licence. But Dunn wanted to talk about the problems he's had with the sweetener.
Dunn took part in a clinical test to gauge his reaction to aspartame. He ingested 12 cans of diet cola and was seizure-free. However, he did break out in a rash.
Health Canada is firm in its decision that aspartame is safe in average amounts. Some studies show it would take 16 cans of diet cola for aspartame to become harmful.
John Salminen, Health Canada chief of the Chemical Health Hazards Division, said: "We don't rule out the possibility that there are individuals who cannot tolerate aspartame, I mean that is a possibility."
August 15, 2016
August 5, 2016
ASPARTAME CONSUMER SAFETY NETWORK AND WORLDWIDE PILOT HOTLINE (TALKING POINTS, FAQs AND REFERENCES)
"NutraSweet - Health and Safety Concerns"Stoddard, Mary Nash, 1987. Testimony Senate Hearing 100-567, pg. 428-429Hearing before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, U.S. Senate - One Hundredth Congress - First Session on: Examining The Health and Safety Concerns of NutraSweet (Aspartame). November 3, 1987 (Information for this article was provided courtesy Mary Nash Stoddard, Founder Aspartame Consumer Safety Network and Pilot Hotline - author of toxicology sourcebook: Deadly Deception Story of Aspartame (Odenwald Press 1998)http://marystod.blogspot.comhttps://www.facebook.com/marystod/https://plus.google.com/102490430362362085891/postshttp://www.goodreads.com/author/show/661834http://www.aspartamesafety.com/https://youtu.be/4KN1gUifLTYhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-stoddard-9789203http://www.worldeducationcouncil.org/the-council/founding-board-members/mary-nash-stoddard/https://www.google.com/#q=Mary+Nash+Stoddard&tbm=vidhttps://www.google.com/#q=Mary+Nash+Stoddard+Pilot+Hotlinemarystod@gmail.com
MEET THE FIRST LADY OF TEXAS BROADCASTING - MARY "SAM" STODDARD (KVIL DALLAS)
Formal Portrait from TX_Radio_Hall_of_Fame Induction Ceremony Program, Nov. 2013 for the 1st Named Award ever given by TRHoF, honoring the First Lady of Dallas Radio. The "SAMMY" is now given each year at the annual Awards Banquet, to a woman who has made significant contributions in the field of Radio Broadcasting. I am honored to be the 1st recipient of this named-award and to be able to recognize those great women who followed me, after 1965, the year I went on the air from Midnight to Dawn on KVIL Radio, as KVIL's Girl-Named-SAM. This November, I will see another woman in Broadcasting receive this Award. It's both humbling and a great responsibility I never took lightly, being the First. Thank you TRHoF. I am forever grateful. "Breaking The Broadcasting Glass Ceiling wasn't easy, but was very much worth the effort!" Mary "SAM" Stoddard aka Mary Nash Stoddard Award-Winning Journalist
July 16, 2016
CBN TV NEWS "ASPARTAME REPORT"
[Crediting aspartame group moderator, Rich Murray for the following Transcription from the Show, along with his comments: I happened to turn on my satellite TV for the first time in months, and within a half-hour, found myself watching (shortly after 9 PM MST, for over 20 minutes) the following news show, followed by a detailed discussion between Totheroh (a tall, thin, intense young man with a quick smile, brown hair, blue eyes and glasses) and the very genial, articulate Pat Robertson. They unequivocably, firmly, pointedly warned the public about Aspartame toxicity, and even mentioned that Donald Rumsfeld, now Secretary of Defense, had been hired by Searle from his previous work in Washington, DC for a salary of $ 1.2 million to get aspartame approved decades ago.]
Partial List of topics discussed:
Fraud in aspartame tests on rats
FDA condemnation and eventual reinstatement of saccharin
Ongoing FDA condemnation of cyclamates (approved in Canada)
Stevia products
a fruit flavored liquid sweetener
Diet Rite soda with its "no aspartame" label (from the makers of Royal Crown sodas)Pat Robinson's own memory problems from aspartame
Other CBN staff members having memory and other problems
Listings of the many symptoms, memory loss, IQ reduced 10-15%,
aches and pains, seizures, death
Emphasized that only 6 grams of methanol (wood alcohol, as in old-time
illicit "White Lightning" liquor) can kill an adult
Many sources of aspartame in a day could provide hundreds of milligrams
of methanol, a cumulative poison, eventually creating illnesses
FDA, having committed itself to approval of this terrible drug, was
resisting admitting its mistake about a billion-dollar product.
The role of the Internet was featured, as Aspartame Awareness Campaign Founder/Pioneer: <Mary_Nash_Stoddard> was shown at her computer, very serious, with long black hair and green eyes, and her organization's web page URL <www.aspartamesafety.com> was shown on camera.
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HEALTH: The Bitter Truth About Aspartame
By Gailon Totheroh Science & Medical Reporter February 13, 2002
The controversial sweetener called aspartame, also known as NutraSweet, has become the subject of a decades-long safety controversy.
CBN.com - The American public's long love affair with sweets has not been good for our health. From obesity to diabetes, sugar has left its mark. In response, Americans came up with artificial sweeteners without all the calories, and a bitter diet of public health safety battles then ensued.
The controversial sweetener called aspartame, also known as NutraSweet, has become the subject of a decades-long safety controversy. It is a war that pits consumer groups and scientists against the food industry and their experts.
The fuel of the aspartame controversy has been the thousands of consumers complaining of mild to serious health problems they attribute to the artificial sweetener.
One of them is pioneer aspartame activist, since 1987, Mary Nash Stoddard. She suffered from suicidal depression, a painful life-threatening blood disease (eosinophilia,) nerve damage, and a traumatized daughter. "After many months of migraine headaches, heart attack symptoms, my youngest daughter was carried in from a school field trip after a grand mal seizure," Stoddard said.
CBN News contacted two major industry groups which advocate aspartame's safety. The International Food Information Council and the Calorie Control Council were unable to find an available expert by our deadline.
They, along with the NutraSweet Company, the major producer of the sweetener, do provide their side of the story on the Internet.
For over 15 years, Stoddard has been fighting aspartame with her Aspartame Consumer Safety Network, asking dozens of government and elected officials to listen, "To listen seriously to what we have to say and the tens of thousands of reports we have in our files," she explained.
While the government may not be listening, some companies appear to the getting the message. [image of Diet Rite soda (from makers of Royal Crown sodas) can with "no aspartame" label]
Stoddard says everyone should listen to the neurological/brain problems her group has logged: Headaches, seizures, hallucinations, ringing in the ears, memory problems, aggravation of brain diseases like multiple sclerosis, parkinsons, epilepsy and even brain tumors have been reported. (Stoddard's husband succumbed to Brain Cancer at age 42, January 5, 1985, leaving her a widowed, single Mom with three children.)
The NutraSweet Company calls those, who attack aspartame, "alarmists" using "scare tactics" that have "distorted" public perception. (Head of public relations at NutraSweet, Richard Nelson, called Stoddard a "nice lady," but "very misguided!")
But whose side is science on?
The industry generally claims over 200 research articles supporting the safety of aspartame. In other words, their research claims it is safe to consume aspartame at will. (Not unlike the Tobacco Industry in defense of the safety of cigarettes.)
Noted psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Walton analyzed the relevant research articles and had a rather different story to tell. "What I found was 100 percent of the industry-sponsored research attested to the safety of the product, whereas 92 percent of the studies that had independent funding identified some type of problem," he explained.
Walton's chart of industry-funded research shows 74 articles, and every single one supports safety, while other apparently more objective researchers found adverse reactions in 85 studies. To some, this sounds like corporate tampering with science to deceive the public.
"We need a better process with regard to medical research, that people doing the research should not have a vested interest in the outcome of that research. Unfortunately, with NutraSweet we do have that situation," Walton said.
Walton's analysis finds support from Dr. Woodrow Monte of Arizona State University. Monte was wary of aspartame from the beginning, because it contains a toxic alcohol also known as wood alcohol or methanol.
"This never, never, ever should have been approved," Monte said. "It has done tremendous damage to the population and is doing more damage. I am one hundred percent behind stopping it from being consumed,
especially by women who are pregnant and children. Or anyone really. There's nothing good about it, absolutely positively nothing good about NutraSweet."
But industry defenders correctly state that fruits also contain this same alcohol, and fruit is safe.
Walton explained why he disagrees. "In fruit you have the antidote along with it. And also the methanol component is bound to something called pectin, in fruit. We humans don't
have the enzyme to split methanol off from pectin. So, in fruit it's perfectly harmless, but that's not the case in aspartame," he said.
Yet groups from the World Health Organization to the American Medical Association say there is no problem consuming even large quantities.
Walton compares the sweetener to how the medical field used to treat tobacco. "Physicians would indeed urge patients to smoke, so it took quite a long time for there to be, first, medical awareness, then public awareness of the hazards of smoking," he said.
"I think we're in an analogous situation with aspartame."
For consumers, there are a couple of straightforward questions to consider: Who is the most credible on the safety issue? If unsafe, how unsafe? And what are the alternatives? How good are they? All these questions may require a lot more personal thought and investigation, even if the truth is hard to swallow.###
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Today CBN is a multifaceted institution that comprised of several national and international broadcasting entities, a 24-hour telephone prayer line, and a hotel and conference center. Chief among CBN's broadcasting components is The 700 Club, a daily television program featuring Pat Robertson. On the air continuously since 1966, The 700 Club is one of the longest-running programs in broadcast history. The show's news/magazine format presents a lively mix of information, interviews, and inspiration to an average daily audience of more than 1,000,000 viewers. An international edition of The 700 Club and other CBN television and radio programs air in more than 90 countries in 46 languages from Chile to Iceland and from the West Indies to the Far East.****************************************************************
Gailon Totheroh CBN News Medical Reporter
Over the years, CBN viewers have come to recognize reporter Gailon Totheroh as a valuable authority on current health and science issues. Among his most recent stories were his in-depth reports on cancer and arthritis; each multi-part series focused on prevention, nutrition, and alternative treatments.
He has also done several investigative reports on such controversial medical and moral issues as the development of "designer" embryos and the use of such excitotoxins as MSG and aspartame.
Before working for CBN News, Totheroh served in various areas throughout the Christian Broadcasting Network. As a graduate student, he was hired by CBN's human resources department in 1984. He later worked as a specialist in the media and public relations departments for four years. In 1988, he joined the news department as a field producer, and shortly thereafter was promoted to reporter. His emphasis on science and medicine earned him the official title of medical reporter in 1996. His work has earned him
CBN's President's Award for Excellence in 1990 and 1997.
When he arrived at CBN, Totheroh brought experience in a variety of fields, including business management, education, and journalism. While living in Phoenix, Arizona, he worked as an employment manager for Manpower Services, a researcher for The Trilateral Observer, an employment specialist for Coca-Cola, and an apartment manager for the Royal Suites Hotels. He also obtained his teacher certification in 1981, and traveled to the Soviet Union for a study tour.
A native of Arizona, Totheroh earned an A.A. in chemistry from Phoenix College in 1972 and a B.A. in German from the University of Arizona two years later. In 1988, he earned an M.A. in Public Affairs Journalism from Regent University.
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July 5, 2016
MY KARL MALDEN TRIBUTE ON 7th ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH
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Mary Sam Stoddard Here's the magnificent Theme Music from "PATTON," starring George C. Scott and Karl Malden: Enjoy this Patriotic rendition:https://youtu.be/mu11QRO9BrQ
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