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#REUTERS BREAKING NOW: NEW STUDY RESULTS SHOW WEIGHT GAIN WHEN EXPOSED TO #ASPARTAME

Drinking diet soda linked to a widening waistline with ageThank you, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio for publishing this study showing negative effects of Aspartame ingestion.

 By Kathryn Doyle23 hours ago

By Kathryn Doyle

(Reuters Health) – - People over age 65 who drink diet soda daily tend to expand their waistlines by much more than peers who prefer other beverages, possibly contributing to chronic illnesses that go along with excess belly fat, according to a new study.

Research in other age groups has directly associated drinking sodas that replace sugar with artificial sweeteners and increased risk of diabetes, metabolic syndrome and preterm birth, said lead author Dr. Sharon P.G. Fowler of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

The new study only observed people over time, and did not test whether drinking diet soda actually caused gains in abdominal fat, she cautioned. "We can't prove causality but there is quite a consistency in observational studies," Fowler told Reuters Health

For older people, who are already at increased risk for heart and metabolic diseases, increasing belly fat with age just adds to health risk, Fowler and her colleagues write.

To see what role diet soda might play, the study team followed people over age 65 for an average of nine years. The study started with physical examinations and questions about daily soda intake among 749 people who were over age 65 when first examined between 1992 and 1996. By 2003-2004, 375 participants were still living and had returned for three more examinations.

People who reported not drinking diet soda gained an average of 0.8 inches in waist circumference over the nine-year period compared to 1.83 inches for occasional diet soda drinkers and more than three inches for people who drank diet soda every day, according to the results in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

The authors had taken other factors like physical activity, diabetes and smoking into account.

"It cannot be explained by the calories," said Dr. Francisco Lopez-Jimenez of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who was not involved in the study.

People who drink diet soda may be more likely to overeat in other areas, he told Reuters Health.

"The main point is for those who drink a lot of soda, diet or not, there may be a relationship with obesity," Lopez-Jimenez said.

"I think it probably is true that for some people, if they are not being really hardcore about losing weight and getting a healthier lifestyle, if they switch over to diet soda that allows them to have an extra slice of pizza or a candy bar," which translates to actually consuming more calories than would have been in a can of regular soda, Fowler said.

But another possibility is that there is a real causal relationship at the molecular level, which she believes is the case.

Diet sodas are very acidic, more so even than acid rain, and the acidity or the artificial sweeteners may have a direct impact on things like gut microbes, which influence how we absorb nutrients, Fowler noted.

"Calorie free does not equal consequence free," she said.

Although it's still unclear if diet soda actually causes dangerous changes to health, Fowler hopes that frequent users will try to wean themselves onto other beverages, like fresh brewed coffee, tea or mineral water with natural juices added.

"It's possible to find things without sweeteners or dose the sweetener themselves," she said.

The study doesn't justify a recommendation to avoid soda, but it does very clearly show that drinking diet soda does not lead to weight loss, Lopez-Jimenez said.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/18ZeLeD Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, online March 17, 2015.

Further information may be found:
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Mary Nash Stoddardmarystod@airmail.net

ASPARTAME ACTIVISTS MAKE A STAND in WASHINGTON DC at SENATE HEARINGS

Thank you, D Magazine for publishing this informative article with a statement from a corporate spokesman re: Out of Court settlements of Lawsuits, by the makers of artificial sweeteners. Plus many more to come. How many more we'll never know, because the records are sealed. Wonder how long the spokesman kept his job after this was published? <http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1988/january/aspartame-activists-make-a-stand>
D MAGAZINE ⋅ JANUARY 1988Aspartame Activists Make A StandBY SARA IVEYFROM D MAGAZINE JANUARY 1988

To help her lose weight, Mary Nash Stoddard of Dallas drank Tab, which contains a food additive called aspartame, an artificial sweetener marketed under the names of NutraSweet and Equal.
Within a few months, Stoddard says she began to suffer cramping pains all over her body. Then, she says, she experienced a ringing in her ears, muscle spasms, hot sweats at night, numbness in her arms, hives, and acne. One day, she temporarily lost her hearing. Terrified, Stoddard feared she had contracted AIDS.
"My husband had had a recent blood transfusion, so I thought that was how it was transmitted to me," says the forty-nine-year-old mother of three. When an AIDS test came back negative, Stoddard started making appointments with an army of doctors. A battery of tests gave her no answers. Depressed and contemplating suicide, Stoddard did the last thing she could think of. She stopped drinking Tab. To her surprise the symptoms subsided, then disappeared. Her doctor told her she apparently had a low tolerance to aspartame.
Soon, Stoddard discovered she was not alone. She learned of a group called Aspartame Victims and Their Friends, based in Florida and founded by a woman who claims she suffered optic nerve damage from aspartame. By mid-1987 Stoddard had formed a Texas chapter of AVTF, targeting the Food and Drug Administration and the NutraSweet Company, a division of Monsanto and the makers of aspartame.
Both the FDA and NutraSweet insist that aspartame is safe for everyone except a tiny minority who carry a pair of genes that cause the metabolic defect called PKU, which can cause mental retardation in infants. All aspartame products must carry a warning to this group. NutraSweet says that some lawsuits stemming from complaints about aspartame have been settled out of court and others are pending.
A one-day Senate hearing was held in Washington, DC., this past November to discuss these issues. One witness from Dallas, Larry Taylor, testified that he could no longer work as a nurse anesthetist because of seizures caused by aspartame consumption. Senator Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, is drawing up a bill that calls for better labeling, funding for independent research into the effects of aspartame, and a government-supported hotline for complaints.
Meanwhile, Stoddard has turned down an offer from the NutraSweet Company to be tested by its doctors. She also has turned down the company's offer to participate in a double blind study using aspartame capsules and placebos. "I don't trust them to evaluate their own product. Why should they when it's making them millions in profits?" Stoddard says.

ASPARTAME MEDICAL EXPERT WITNESSES - WASHINGTON PRESS CONFERENCE - Psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Walton and Hon. Mary Nash Stoddard

Top Psychiatrist Research on Aspartame/Neotame Safety http://marystod.blogspot.com/2010/11/top-psychiatrist-research-on.html via @marystod
Hon. Mary Nash Stoddard and Dr. Ralph Walton - Panelists at Washington DC BRAIN TUMOR & ASPARTAME PRESS CONFERENCE w/Dr. John Olney; James Turner, Esq.; Sen. Howard Metzenbaum. Stoddard presented cases of Pilots with Brain Tumors from Aspartame ingestion, documented by her Pilot's Hotline in Dallas TX.

OUR 60-MINUTES SERIES ON ASPARTAME SWEETENERS (multiple airings originating from NYC & Sydney Australia)

GENTECH archive 8.96-9760-MINUTES SERIES ON ASPARTAME DANGERSRe: '60 Minutes' Television Program in U.S.A. and Australia - NutraSweet Causes Brain Tumors From: Mary Stoddard To: BRAINTMR@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: '60 Minutes' Program - NutraSweet Causes Brain Tumors DALLAS -- As a respected member of the research and production teams for both the U.S. and Australian versions of Sixty Minutes, I can tell you, we did our background research into the brain tumor/aspartame connection very thoroughly and over a period of many years. You can be very sure the Sixty Minutes legal departments went over the content of these segments with a fine tooth comb,and eliminated everything that could not be verified. As strong as the final product was, it still didn't give the whole story. Many important medical facts were omittedbecause of time or legal constraints. In other words, what these two news shows did is to give viewersa glimpse of the tip of the iceberg in the ongoing aspartame controversy.May I suggest a quick tour of the Aspartame Consumer Safety Network website, which contains a scientific research article explaining the connection, written by world-class scientist, Dr. Erik Millstone of the University of Sussex in Great Britain. Our press release from the Nov. 18th News Conference in Washington with Dr. John Olney, brain scientist and author of the paper published in Nov. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology; Vol.55 No. 11, 1996, is also on the website. <http://aspartamesafety.com> In conjunction with some of the top brain scientists in the country, A.C.S.N. is starting a brain tumor registry for those who developed their brain tumors while using the artificial sugar sweetener, aspartame. (Our website also shows how the animals in the original laboratory studies developed *brain tumors*, mammary (breast) tumors, pancreatic tumors and uterine tumors and the tests were falsified to reflect no deaths or tumors (cancers) when submitted to the FDA for approval.) The lab animals' tumors were primarily astrocytomas and glial cell related tumors, however aspartame ingestion in humans may result in other brain tumor types as well. Mary Nash Stoddard, Founder Aspartame Consumer Safety Network (1987) wife of Mike, dx brain mel. 10/84 Aug. 13, 1942 - Jan. 5, 1985 For those who cannot access our website: NEW STUDY LINKS BRAIN TUMORS TO ASPARTAME DALLAS, TX - USA - November 4, 1996 - (ACSN) -- Doubts about the safety of the artificial sugar sweetener, Aspartame, better-known in the U.S. as NutraSweet and Equal, surfaced anew in this country and Europe, with the release of new research on the issue. Publication of the medical Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, November 1996, Vol. 55, No. 11, pp. 1115-1123, reveals a study, authored by Dr. John Olney et al, titled: "Increasing brain tumor rates: is there a link to aspartame?" Olney, lead author of the paper, is a noted neuropathologist and psychiatrist who has challenged Aspartame's safety since the 1970s. The U.S. increase - about 1,310 cases per year - was marked by rising diagnoses of the same type of highly malignant tumor found in laboratory rats in an Aspartame study in the 1970s, the scientists said. Mary Nash Stoddard, Director of the Aspartame Consumer Safety Network, fighting the FDA and the giant artificial sweetener industry over this issue since 1987, said ACSN's files "contain over 10,000 complaints about the sweetener." Most of them central nervous system related. A number of the complainants - heavy consumers of the sweetener - suffered from brain tumors. One, a commercial airline pilot who lost his medical license to fly, blames Aspartame for the brain tumor resulting in the loss of his flying status. More than 1,000 pilot-related calls have come in since the pilot's hotline was established. Stoddard refers to a 'ticking time bomb' in every cockpit on every flight in the form of diet sodas, packets of 'blue sugar' and chewing gums. Members of ACSN were featured October 24 and 25 on national television, telling of central nervous system related ailments they and their doctors linked to the sweetener. Commercial airline pilots related incidents of grand mal seizures in the cockpit, in flight. The mother of a three year old claimed her daughter suffers permanent neurological damage due to her consumption of Aspartame in children's vitamins. The HARD COPY segments also portrayed a 30-yr-old diabetic male who had experienced a stroke which his doctor blamed on daily use of the sweetener of choice for diabetics, Aspartame. Dr. Russell Blaylock, neurosurgeon author of 'Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills' stated that he sees these problems routinely in his practice. Headaches, Seizures, Blindness, Dizziness, Mental Confusion, Depression, Fatigue, Muscle/Joint pain, Numbness, Hearing Loss, Cramping, Spasms, Skin Problems, Heart Attack Symptoms, Mood Swings are a few of the 92 reported symptoms of Aspartame adverse reactions, including deaths. The London Observer broke the story in Europe,interviewing Anti-Aspartame Activist in the U.K., Dr. Erik Millstone of the University of Sussex. ### Aspartame Consumer Safety Network and Pilot Hotline (1987-present) <http://aspartamesafety.com><https://twitter.com/marystod><http://marystod.blogspot.com/><http://marystod.blogspot.com/2014/10/aspartame-video-urls.html><http://www.worldeducationcouncil.org/the-council/founding-board-members/mary-nash-stoddard/><https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=11240300&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile>

Mary Nash Stoddardmarystod@airmail.net

Neurological Effects of ASPARTAME on Weight Loss; Behavior; Taste; etc. Scientific Study

Behavioral Neuroscience Copyright 2008 by the American Psychological Association 2008, Vol. 122, No. 1, 161–173 0735-7044/08/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.122.1.161
A Role for Sweet Taste: Calorie Predictive Relations in Energy Regulation by RatsSusan E. Swithers and Terry L. Davidson Purdue University
Animals may use sweet taste to predict the caloric contents of food. Eating sweet noncaloric substances may degrade this predictive relationship, leading to positive energy balance through increased food intake and/or diminished energy expenditure. These experiments were designed to test the hypothesis that experiences that reduce the validity of sweet taste as a predictor of the caloric or nutritive consequences of eating may contribute to deficits in the regulation of energy by reducing the ability of sweet-tasting foods that contain calories to evoke physiological responses that underlie tight regulation. Adult male Sprague–Dawley rats were given differential experience with a sweet taste that either predicted increased caloric content (glucose) or did not predict increased calories (saccharin). We found that reducing the correlation between sweet taste and the caloric content of foods using artificial sweeteners in rats resulted in increased caloric intake, increased body weight, and increased adiposity, as well as diminished caloric compensation and blunted thermic responses to sweet-tasting diets. These results suggest that consumption of products containing artificial sweeteners may lead to increased body weight and obesity by interfering with fundamental homeostatic, physiological processes.Keywords: learning, energy balance, cephalic-phase responses, thermic effect of food

Aspartame Causes Diabetics to Lose Control of Blood Sugar Levels

Aspartame Causes Diabetics to Lose Control of Blood Sugar Levels

Aspartame Elevates Blood Sugar Levels in Humans
(published Letter to Editor Globe and Mail newspaper)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/can-artificial-sweeteners-raise-your-blood-sugar/article1817419/
As founder of the pioneer aspartame awareness campaign, Aspartame Consumer Safety Network, in 1987, and having qualified in Court as a Medical Expert Witness, I've worked as an unpaid volunteer, collecting over 10,000 Aspartame Adverse Reaction Reports from all corners of the world. A hefty percentage of these Adverse Reactions were from diabetics who could not control their blood sugar levels while depending on aspartame sweeteners for their substitute sugar. When following our specific advice to cease all use of aspartame for 4 to 6 weeks, the blood sugar levels miraculously return to normal levels.
Our advice prompted one diabetic friend to test herself. When her blood sugar levels were well within normal range, according to the finger stick test, she proceeded to drink 3 Diet Sodas, one right after another. Upon repeating the finger stick test approximately 1 hr. after the 3rd Diet Drink, she found her blood sugar levels to be extremely elevated. This was in the late eighties or early nineties and this self testing method has been our recommendation for diabetics ever since that time. By the way, this is independent of a high carb meal, so carbs seemed to play no part in this particular test.
When my co-founder, Jas. Turner, Esq. and I gave testimony at the Senate Hearing in Washington, D.C., we met with Turner's ex-boss, Ralph Nader. after the Hearings. He told us at that time, aspartame served to heighten consumer's addiction to 'sweet taste,' attempting to 'trick the pancreas' in the process. He believed that to be the cause of loss of control of blood sugar levels in diabetics and non-diabetics alike. In the case of the new aspartame-clone, Neotame, the sweet taste is 13,000 times the power of sweetness of table sugar. 
If readers wish more information on the sweetener, I invite them to visit our official Aspartame Consumer Safety Network and Pilot Hotline website: www.aspartamesafety.com.
Thank you for your kind consideration of our 25 year research findings regarding all aspects of the harmful effects associated with use of aspartame/Neotame artificial sweeteners. We work with top researchers and scientists all over the globe to better understand the issue and to disseminate our combined findings, regarding the many reported Adverse Reactions to aspartame sweeteners.
Respectfully,Mary Nash Stoddard, FounderAspartame Consumer Safety Network and Pilot Hotline [1987-present]Dallas, Texas USA

Mary Nash Stoddard
marystod@gmail.com

WHO KILLED THE SUGAR PLUM FAIRY? - THE ASPARTAME FAIRY? (Low Carb and Atkins Monthly article published Dec. 2005)

WHO KILLED THE SUGAR PLUM FAIRY? (Low Carb and Atkins Monthly article published Dec. 2005)

A MORAL IN THE LAND OF THE SUGAR PLUM FAIRY
Mary Nash Stoddard
Once upon a time in a land far, far away, a little old chemist toiled over his hot beaker, trying to find a good medicine to cure very bad tummy aches. The mixture boiled over and spilled onto his finger. He licked his finger and it tasted sweet. Very, very sweet. Mmmmmmmm.
Because it was very, very sweet, he knew everone would love it. For, you see, he lived in the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Everyone worshipped her and her sweetness. But, they were all getting fatter and fatter, and could not climb two consecutive flights of stairs if their lives depended upon it. They wondered why.
The people were ripe for a sweet new product on which they and their children could gorge. The company the little old chemist worked for, W.E. Swirl, could make millions and billions of dollars. But, the bad news was that they would have to tell all the people in Sugar Plum Fairyland that the Sugar Plum Fairy, whom they all loved and worshipped, was bad for them. How could they get the people to believe them and change their ways? So, they thought and they thought . . .
Aha! They could invent a new fairy for the people and their children to worship. They could call her the Sweetener Plum Fairy. But, they would have to make the people of Fairyland think she would be good for them. She would make them skinny and fit, and not hurt them . . . not one little bit. Yes, that's it - make them skinny and fit!
Before the folks at W.E. Swirl could present the Sweetener Plum Fairy to all the people, they would have to get approval of a special government agency in the capital city of Fairyland. In their rush to get the Auspicious Governmental Agency [AGA] to approve this good/bad new fairy, they would have to first prove that she would harm no on in the sweet kingdom.
That was when everything started to fall apart. Oh, dear me. The results of some of the scientists' lab tests of the new Sweetener Plum Fairy were quite alarming. She made a lot of little lab creatures very, very sick. Some of them, she even made very, very DEAD! But, oh dear, the results of those tests were covered up in a gossamer blanket. 
Finally, the fellows at W.E. Swirl, were able to cut through all that big bad inconvenient, bureaucratic red tape. Now, did their actions set a President, oh, I meant precedent, in dealing with government agencies? Only time would tell.
Then one day, [big sigh], the Sugar Plum Fairy died. She was immediately replaced in the hearts and minds of the people by the new Sweetener Plum Fairy. The deed was done. At last, W.E. Swirl began to reap its vast rewards. Things looked so rosy. Even the great TV god was taught to sing the praises of the new, improved [?] Sweetener Plum Fairy. Repeatedly!
In the home of one of the fellows from W.E. Swirl, a little boy said that the Sweetener Plum Fairy's swirly new trademark looked just like a picture of a big, bad storm. Everyone glared at him, and he never said that again. Not ever.
But, wait - what's this? Some folks in Sweetener Plum Fairyland started to get sick from eating and drinking things that contained the new sweetener! They began to complain and report their symptoms to the AGA. Ever so slowly, a series of symptoms began to emerge. They sounded vaguely familiar to the folks at W.E. Swirl. Where had they heard of these symptoms before? They thought and they thought. And, they thought some more! Then, it came to them like a vision - those poor little creatures in the lab tests. Oops.
Not to worry. After all  the company had been through to win approval of all the people in Fairyland, they were not about to have it fall down around their dirty little feet now. Why, their product was selling really well. There were even new plans in the works for the sweetener to be added to: dog food, motor oil, shoe polish and sticky, artificial confectioner cafes.
Was the swirly stuff recalled when people started getting very sick? Did the AGA "ban" it? Don't be silly! Instead, the company and the AGA decided it was a perfectly dandy idea to approve the swirly stuff for even more products.
But, what about all those poor people in Fairyland who began to feel like all those poor little lab creatures did? Too bad some of them never stopped to think that maybe, just maybe, the Sweetener Plum Fairy, whom they had come to love and depend on, might be the reason they were getting so sick.
In order to save the folks at W.E. Swirl, the AGA confused the poor fairy-folk with windy words and daffy definitions, saying that deaths linked to the swirly stuff were merely "symptoms!" Some folks wondered why "death" was listed under "other" in the AGA reports. Perhaps the AGA officials had been dipping too deeply into the swirly stuff themselves?
Some of the folks at the government AGA tried hard to cut through all the icky, sticky, ticky-tacky tape. One director, who was acting, suggested that they regulate all sweet substances like medicines. Now, wasn't that what the little old Swirl chemist was making, when, in the very beginning, he licked the accidental sweet spill from his fingers? Oh, bother!!!
Meanwhile, the swirly stuff twirled and swirled out of the land of the Sweetener Plum Fairy, until it encircled the entire world. And, the little boy who said the swirly symbol looked like a big, bad storm, just sat there and watched quietly, with big, sad eyes. But, he never said that again - ever.
There are those who say that the Sugar Plum Fairy may not have been perfect, but maybe she wasn't all that bad, either. [Sigh!] If only the people in Fairyland hadn't worshipped her quite so much. Then again, maybe she's only asleep for awhile, awaiting the kiss of a handsome prince to awaken her.
Now, wasn't that a fun fantasy, children? But, sooooo silly! Something like that could never happen in real life, now could it? Sweet dreams, my precious darlings. (Or, COULD IT?)
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Journalist, Mary Nash Stoddard, authored a toxicology sourcebook: Deadly Deception Story of Aspartame (Odenwald Press 1995), after founding the first non-profit organization to promote Aspartame Awareness around the globe. Aspartame Consumer Safety Network and Pilot Hotline (1987-present) co-founders, James Turner, Esq. and the Hon. Mary Nash Stoddard continue to document the myriad of reported risk factors associated with Aspartame ingestion, as they call for a "recall and retesting as a drug" of the sweetener now known by many names. (Aspartame/NutraSweet/AminoSweet/Canderel/Neotame/Equal/NatraTaste, etc.) <http://marystod.blogspot.com/>

Mary Nash Stoddard

#ASPARTAME MAKES YOU GAIN WEIGHT! (Weight Loss Advisory Video)

#ASPARTAME VIDEO SERIES with Shocking Secrets Revealed



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRgOkSWw-OE&feature=youtu.be



DALLAS TX: The former Texas State Judge who gave Sworn Testimony at the Senate Hearings in Washington DC and got International Media Coverage breaks her silence and talks about the FDA History of Lies about the artificial sweetener we were told was safe as eating "bananas & milk!" They knew it was a lie. Biggest lie of all is "Aspartame Helps You Lose Weight!" In this exclusive video, the anti-aspartame campaign Pioneer tells all. Prepare to hear the 'bitter' truth about the sweetener you thought was harmless. Not just harmless, but beneficial! Now, manufacturers like Yoplait, are advertising products as "Aspartame Free." Pepsi has even gone back to using real Sugar in their regular sodas! Next time you reach for a sugarfree treat or a Diet Soda, remember what you heard here. This Aspartame Awareness campaigner has spent the past 3 decades sounding the alarm. Will you allow the truth about the sweetener that's harming people to be shared by you, now that you know? Knowledge is power. Tell a friend!





Mary Nash Stoddard

marystod@airmail.net

ASPARTAME VIDEO URLS

MEET THE ACCLAIMED WINNER OF TOP AWARDS IN BROADCASTING - THIS PIONEER FEMALE NEWSMAKER WAS THE FIRST BROADCASTER TO BREAK THIS SENSATIONAL FOOD SAFETY STORY ON INTERNATIONAL MEDIA: (1987-present)





"ASPARTAME IN COLD MEDICINE"

http://youtu.be/Cq6ZFRBgH_g



"ARE ASPARTAME SWEETENED FOODS MAKING YOU GAIN WEIGHT?"

http://youtu.be/pRgOkSWw-OE



AWARD-WINNING PIONEER DALLAS BROADCASTER/NEWSMAKER MAKES HISTORY WITH BREAKING FOOD SAFETY NEWS: (1987 - Present)



"ASPARTAME AND KIDS WHAT ALL PARENTS NEED TO KNOW"

http://youtu.be/0WNOO24ffeQ



"THE DANGEROUS EFFECTS OF ASPARTAME WHEN FLYING"

http://youtu.be/4KN1gUifLTY



"DIET SODA KILLS AND IT MAKES YOU FAT" (PART ONE)

http://youtu.be/LgBiw_Il5YM



"DIET SODA KILLS AND IT MAKES YOU FAT" (PART TWO)

http://youtu.be/2mVA03IzsFM



"DIET SODA KILLS AND IT MAKES YOU FAT" (PART THREE)

http://youtu.be/I-vO8aY-I4Y



"DIET SODA KILLS AND IT MAKES YOU FAT" (PART FOUR)

http://youtu.be/cSx2E9iz36w



"MARY NASH STODDARD THE ARTIFICIAL BEVERAGE FACADE"

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theorganicview/2012/09/21/mary-nash-stoddard-the-artificial-beverage-faade



"FIRST FEMALE DJ IN DALLAS RADIO - MARY SAM STODDARD"

http://youtu.be/RQoOajjC8GE





Mary Nash Stoddard

marystod@airmail.net

US #SENATE HEARING ON #ASPARTAME SAFETY - HISTORICAL TESTIMONY TRANSCRIPT

ASPARTAME PIONEER WHISTLEBLOWER'S SWORN TESTIMONY TO U.S. SENATE IN WASHINGTON
Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources"NutraSweet Health and Safety Concerns"November 3, 1987
STATEMENT BY HON. MARY NASH STODDARD, FOUNDERASPARTAME CONSUMER SAFETY NETWORK AND PILOT HOTLINE
My name is Mary Nash Stoddard. I live in Dallas, Texas and I am founder of the Aspartame Consumer Safety Network. Since going public with my story about the drastic reaction I had to aspartame in 1985-86, (see article Dallas Times Herald, 7/27/87), I have had an opportunity to reach thousands of people via TV interviews, guest appearances on radio talk shows, and personal experiences on behalf of the national Aspartame Consumer Safety Network. I have supported my endeavors strictly with my own limited private funds, because of my strong personal commitment.
One of my main concerns is that the number of people who are being affected by this chemical are not getting their reactions reported and officially tallied by the proper government agency, the Food and Drug Administration. Callers are being mislead or misinformed by individuals in the Regional FDA office in Dallas/Fort Worth. For example:
Debbie B. - Diagnosed this year with a brain tumor. Drank 8-10 cans of Diet Coke daily. She called the Dallas FDA. They told her NutraSweet could not possibly be her problem, although she believes it is.
Joye J. - Told by FDA representative that NutraSweet was very safe. She had a bad reaction to it and knew better.
Larry Taylor, CRNA - Anesthetist who has had seizures related to aspartame use. FDA in Dallas gave him the National AIDS Hotline number to call for more information. (see separate testimony transcript)
Gail F. - Experienced a drastic aspartame reaction. When she called the Dallas FDA in October, 1987, they told her it was safe and that Mary Stoddard was working for the Sugar Lobby! (a provable lie!)
Mary Nash Stoddard - My own personal experiences with the FDA are a virtual horror story. My first call to their Dallas office put me in touch with a Mrs. Hazel Wallace, their Consumer Affairs Officer. Her official line was that a very few people were 'sensitive' to aspartame, similarly to people who are 'allergic' to shellfish, etc. However, Wallace went on to relate to me the story of her own college-age daughter, who drank lots of Diet Coke and two years was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The daughter had two surgeries for it, after blacking out, having seizures, etc. This once-aspiring concert pianist is left with one hand that is useless and draws up to her shoulder at off times. The daughter was dieting heavily, using aspartame, to fit into her wedding dress. Off the record, she thought aspartame might be responsible for her medical problems. Mrs. Wallace promised to set up a public meeting between our group (ACSN) and the Regional FDA Director this fall. So far, nothing has come of that,  After the article was published in the Dallas Times Herald newspaper, July 27, 1987, I was invited to do a Dallas radio talk show, with Host David Gold and another guest, Dallas FDA Regional Director, D. Helton. During the course of that popular show, with thousands of listeners that day, FDA Director Helton lost his composure, calling me a 'liar' On the Air, accusing me of making serious libelous statements when I said, 'Arthur Hull Hays, Jr. went to work for Burson Marsteller, the NutraSweet public relations firm, mere months after approving aspartame for aqueous solution, in 1983.' This is a matter of public record, which Helton flatly denied.
In August of 1987, I decided, out of curiosity, to call the Dallas Regional FDA Office, to see what they were telling people at that time. Ramona Farchee told me 'don't worry''NutraSweet is perfectly safe - like bananas and milk - consisting of two amino acids, which are the Building Blocks of Life.' She could not remember getting more than a 'few' complaints in all her years with the FDA. She 'drinks it herself' and almost sounded like the TV commercial for the NutraSweet products.
My concern is that most individuals would never pursue registering a complaint after this sort of treatment during a call to the FDA office. 

How many patients with reactions are going to associate their reaction to something our government (FDA) has approved. Doctors, for the most part, certainly do not make the connection, so how then, could the patient? Most often it occurs from an accidental re-exposure to aspartame, and a distinct return of the symptoms, as happened in my case. 
Respectfully yours,Mary Nash StoddardAspartame Consumer Safety NetworkDallas Texas 75229214-352-4268 ( New Number: 214-387-4001)
Senate Hearing 100-567, pg. 428-429
"NutraSweet - Health and Safety Concerns"Hearing 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
Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Human ResourcesU.S. Government Printing Office - Washington: 1988 83-178_________________________________________________________________For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402
COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCESEdward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts, Chairman
Clairborne Pell, Rhode IslandHoward M. Metzenbaum, OhioSpark M. Matsunaga, HawaiiChristopher J. Dodd, ConnecticutPaul Simon, IllinoisTom Harkin, IowaBrock Adams, WashingtonBarbara A. Mikulski, MarylandOrrin G. Hatch, UtahRobert T. Stafford, VermontDan Quayle, IndianaStrom Thurmond, South CarolinaLowell P. Weicker, Jr., ConnecticutThad Cochran, MississippiGordon J. Humphrey, New Hampshire