FDA "Approved" Aspartame Considered by WHO as Carcinogen. CDC Now Issuing Guidance for Trans Women to "Chest Feed"
#60 The Rowen Report
Dear Subscriber,
The artificial sweetener, aspartame, is again on the chopping block. Many years ago, when the FDA might have been a bit more honest and concerned about humans, it first blocked approval. Why? Because 100% of industry funded studes indicated safety, while 83 of 90 non-industry funded studies found problems. So, what happened?
Enter Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. Secreatary of Defense and former CEO of Searle, aspartame’s maker.
In 2013 Salon reported: (https://www.salon.com/2013/08/31/how_coca_colas_new_ad_campaign_is_hazardous_to_your_health_partner/)
“So how did aspartame get into our food supply? We have Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, to thank. In 1981, Rumsfeld, who had previously served as CEO of Searle, hand-picked Reagan’s new FDA commissioner, Arthur Hayes Hull, Jr. It was Hull who ultimately gave aspartame the green light.
Here’s how it went down. On January 21, 1981, the day after Ronald Reagan's inauguration, Searle re-applied to the FDA for approval to use aspartame as a sweetener in beverages. Hull, the brand new FDA commissioner, recommended by Rumsfeld, appointed a five-person Scientific Commission to review the board of inquiry's prior decision. (A board of inquiry had been formed in 1975 when the FDA first questioned the validity of Searle’s studies on aspartame). When it became clear that the Scientific Commission was on track to uphold the 1975 ban by a 3-2 decision, Hull installed a sixth member on the commission. That led to a deadlocked vote. Hull then personally cast the tie-breaking vote. Voilà. Aspartame was approved.”
“Hull soon left the FDA and eventually landed at Burston-Marsteller, the PR firm for Searle and for years, Monsanto. In 1985, Monsanto bought Searle and later spun off the company under the name NutraSweet. But not before Rumsfeld earned a handsome $12 million bonus, presumably for his role in greasing the wheels for aspartame’s approval.”
Now, the also corrupt, but ‘sometimes’ decent WHO plans to list Aspartame as a possible carcinogen.
One of aspartame’s problems is that it quickly breaks down in the stomach to its constituents: 2 amino acid composition (phenylalanine and aspartic acid) plus methanol.
Please note the “OCH3” to the right above. When hydrolyzed in your stomach, it becomes HOCH3, which is methanol. Methanol is toxic. Your body metabolizes it into formaldehyde a molecule which crosslinks proteins and is often called “embalming fluid”. Now it is true that methyl ester compounds also are found in food so our bodies do create some methanol. And yes, we may generate more methanol that way than through aspartame ingestion. One aspartame cola delivers about 30 mg methanol. The research I’ve seen is that food may carry several times that amount. But these are natural processes. Food methanol might be handled differently. Aspartame does not occur in nature. I trust the “other” funded studies over industry funded studies.
I do not encourage consumption of any artificial sweetener. All of them fool your body into thinking a load of sugar is coming down the pipe, and triggers insulin release as a response. Ultimately, the insulin will drive down your blood sugar as none arrives from the drink. You will then get hungry and eat. Hence, failure of these toxic “DIET” drinks to induce weight loss, and quite possible induce weight gain. To me, the whole industry is a poisonous fraud.
And the above regarding Donald Rumsfeld should tell you more, with a hard example, about the totally corrupt system and how profit, power and corporate interests are put before yours in health matters. That is why I have coined the term for FDA: “Fraud and Deception Administration.”
Now we have some interesting political news as well. Our CDC has come out with suggesting “chest feeding” babies for trans “women”. I want to take a political note on this first.
CDC is a FEDERAL agency. Please read the Constitution on the grant of powers to the federal government. Do you see anything there related to health? I have not. Main power of Congress is to regulate commerce among the states. I don’t see infection as commerce. CDC is “Communicable Disease Center”. In a far-fetched scenario, I can imagine a need for some central authority to monitor transmissible diseases that might be moving across state lines. And then I can imagine that monitoring authority being tied to commerce, in a fashion akin to a corrupt Supreme Court during Roosevelt’s time The court defined interstate commerce as applying to a farmer in the Midwest growing grain for his own cows and NOT for sale. Why? The fact that his growing for his own use “affected” commerce by his not buying interstate grains, he was deemed to be affecting commerce, and so, the cancerous power of government exploded into any aspect of our lives that could have a remote affect in interstate commerce. I’d love to see today’s Supreme Court revisit that issue.
Here we see the cancerous CDC jumping into medical social issues of a personal level having no relation to any central government function. And worse, it could be quite dangerous. Do you think that any development of mammary tissue in XY “women” could produce the kind and quality of milk as the mammary glands of an XX woman who has had natural and normal hormones to develop these glands over months and years as the Creator intended? What might this do to a poor hungry baby “nursing” at the “chest” of an XY woman? Remember – “Trust the Experts”. But the CDC political scientists “experts” have no science on this.
This post is not to hit on the desire of a trans person to raise a child, or bond to a child “they” might be raising. It is a hit on the improper lunacy of the CDC in jumping into a political matter with no science to back up what appears, to me, to be some really bad information. To me, this is an example of the infection of “trans” into the media and government and politicizing an unfortunate and growing situation of gender dysphoria. I’ve not seen one iota of attempt of government, media, politicians or scientists to try to explain and halt what must be a nightmare to the afflicted individuals.
It is my humble opinion that an XY fetus can have “his” brain improperly wired due to the tens of thousands of chemicals that will enter his placenta. That soup then makes that individual think, feel and behave like a woman. Totally understandable to me.
We need empathy for these people. But, I don’t believe they are helping their cause with a month of Pride for gender dysphoria. I’d rather them do what HIV infected people did a few decades ago. They stormed the FDA demanding action. And, they got it. Trans could similarly storm Congress and the EPA seeking political ANSWERS for the intoxication of the environment so that future children will not similarly suffer gender identity issues. But the media (and government) seeks to divide, not guide.
I believe that trans people are the canary in the coal mine.
To Your Excellent Health,
Robert Jay Rowen, MD
Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12262959/CDC-advice-says-trans-women-safely-breastfeed-babies-doesnt-mention-health-risks.html
The problem is, AIDS was recognized as a deadly disease--those with gender dysphoria sing "I'm on the right track, baby, I was born this way".
I have only drunk something with aspartame a few times, and it makes me thirsty and crave sweets. Other artificial sweeteners don't do that, not that I use them very often. I did experiment a couple years ago with making my own version of the Sweet 'n' Low that is sold in Canada as a tabletop sweetener, a mixture that is sold of the rest of the world except for United States and South Korea, which is 10 parts sodium cyclamates to one part saccharin, which is what was used in sodas in the United States for a few years in the late 1960s until the the FDA banned cyclamates. That combination seems to have less artificial taste and aftertaste than other artificial or nonnutritive sweeteners. But you have to use more because sodium cyclamate is a lot less sweet than most other artificial sweeteners. The European Union has changed it's recommendations downward of couple times as to what is a safe amount, which would be the equivalent of drinking about a liter and a half of a half sweetened soda a day, or maybe about three-quarter teaspoon of this sweetener mixture. Although that's conservative people can easily consume more than that level. The study showing it caused because bladder cancer in rats was not applicable to humans, they later determined, but there was a less reported effect that in monkeys and dogs given large amounts most of their lives, a small percentage developed irreversible testicular atrophy. That's probably what really got it banned, even though it wasn't publicized. Some people can metabolize it quite differently so it it's breakdown products might be more dangerous in some than others, but who's going to get tested for that? Plus sodium cyclamate and other artificial sweeteners can interfere with intestinal microorganisms. Those issues are in addition to the problem you mention with increasing insulin secretion and causing hypoglycemia.
So they put a target on aspartame, but there are a couple of aspartame derived or analog chemicals, which have been approved for use in many types of food In the United States: neotame, which is about 8000 to 10,000 times sweeter than sucrose; and avantame, which is 20,000 times sweeter than sucrose. The thing about these is they are used in such small amounts that the FDA deems them safe. What's more it is claimed that they not only sweeten, but extend sweetness of other things, and alter flavors, so they can be classified as flavorings and not listed as sweeteners--how convenient. Fits right in with something in the industry called a "clean label". Which means, thanks to the FDA, they don't have to specifically list some ingredients, or call them sweeteners.
My uncle’s wife drank diet Dr Pepper and developed waking seizures from aspartame. She had 2 major wrecks before her license was revoked. Pilots were warned for years about this effect. Sucralose gave my wife chlorine poisoning when it first hit the market and it took 6 months for her whole body rash to go away.