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Has Southwest Airlines banned aspartame from the cockpit?
"Rutger" wrote in message
om... It sounds pretty silly on the face of it. Aspartame is consumed in vast quantities - if it was dangerous, it'd have shown up by now. Peanuts have been consumed in vast quantities for a long time too. I've *never* personally known or even heard of anyone having having any peanut allergy problems, yet we see all kinds of warnings labels on products containing peanuts these days. They haven't banned them from the cockpit though. Aspartame has some very real, well-documented medical issues with it. But only for a relatively small segment of the population. The issues should be used to educate potentially susceptible people, but it wouldn't make sense to base a global ban on aspartame on those issues. Pete |
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"Rutger" wrote in message
om... It sounds pretty silly on the face of it. Aspartame is consumed in vast quantities - if it was dangerous, it'd have shown up by now. Peanuts have been consumed in vast quantities for a long time too. I've *never* personally known or even heard of anyone having having any peanut allergy problems, yet we see all kinds of warnings labels on products containing peanuts these days. They haven't banned them from the cockpit though. Aspartame has some very real, well-documented medical issues with it. But only for a relatively small segment of the population. The issues should be used to educate potentially susceptible people, but it wouldn't make sense to base a global ban on aspartame on those issues. Pete |
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Has Southwest Airlines banned aspartame from the cockpit?
"Rutger" wrote in message om... Dylan Smith wrote in message ... In article , Paul G wrote: Let's keep out of the debate over aspartame's safety. This is an exercise in getting some primary source evidence. I just want to find out if SWA does indeed have such a policy. Are there any crew out there who can confirm or deny? It sounds pretty silly on the face of it. Aspartame is consumed in vast quantities - if it was dangerous, it'd have shown up by now. Peanuts have been consumed in vast quantities for a long time too. I've *never* personally known or even heard of anyone having having any peanut allergy problems, yet we see all kinds of warnings labels on products containing peanuts these days. My wife's college roommate's 12 year old son was allergic to peanuts. He died from it. No bull. There's one. JB |
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"Rutger" wrote in message om... Dylan Smith wrote in message ... In article , Paul G wrote: Let's keep out of the debate over aspartame's safety. This is an exercise in getting some primary source evidence. I just want to find out if SWA does indeed have such a policy. Are there any crew out there who can confirm or deny? It sounds pretty silly on the face of it. Aspartame is consumed in vast quantities - if it was dangerous, it'd have shown up by now. Peanuts have been consumed in vast quantities for a long time too. I've *never* personally known or even heard of anyone having having any peanut allergy problems, yet we see all kinds of warnings labels on products containing peanuts these days. My wife's college roommate's 12 year old son was allergic to peanuts. He died from it. No bull. There's one. JB |
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Has Southwest Airlines banned aspartame from the cockpit?
Jim Baker wrote: My wife's college roommate's 12 year old son was allergic to peanuts. He died from it. No bull. There's one. The Knoxville News Sentinel has a columnist named Sam Venable. His son is violently allergic to them. That's two. George Patterson If you want to know God's opinion of money, just look at the people he gives it to. |
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Jim Baker wrote: My wife's college roommate's 12 year old son was allergic to peanuts. He died from it. No bull. There's one. The Knoxville News Sentinel has a columnist named Sam Venable. His son is violently allergic to them. That's two. George Patterson If you want to know God's opinion of money, just look at the people he gives it to. |
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Has Southwest Airlines banned aspartame from the cockpit?
I have to agree. During the summer time where I live, I gets hot enough that I consume incredble quantities of soda, mostly diet, and I do not suffer any ill effects. "Dylan Smith" wrote in message ... In article , Paul G wrote: Let's keep out of the debate over aspartame's safety. This is an exercise in getting some primary source evidence. I just want to find out if SWA does indeed have such a policy. Are there any crew out there who can confirm or deny? It sounds pretty silly on the face of it. Aspartame is consumed in vast quantities - if it was dangerous, it'd have shown up by now. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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I have to agree. During the summer time where I live, I gets hot enough that I consume incredble quantities of soda, mostly diet, and I do not suffer any ill effects. "Dylan Smith" wrote in message ... In article , Paul G wrote: Let's keep out of the debate over aspartame's safety. This is an exercise in getting some primary source evidence. I just want to find out if SWA does indeed have such a policy. Are there any crew out there who can confirm or deny? It sounds pretty silly on the face of it. Aspartame is consumed in vast quantities - if it was dangerous, it'd have shown up by now. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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I have to agree. During the summer time where I live, I gets hot enough that I consume incredble quantities of soda, mostly diet, and I do not suffer any ill effects. "Dylan Smith" wrote in message ... In article , Paul G wrote: Let's keep out of the debate over aspartame's safety. This is an exercise in getting some primary source evidence. I just want to find out if SWA does indeed have such a policy. Are there any crew out there who can confirm or deny? It sounds pretty silly on the face of it. Aspartame is consumed in vast quantities - if it was dangerous, it'd have shown up by now. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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Has Southwest Airlines banned aspartame from the cockpit?
"Rutger" wrote in message om... Dylan Smith wrote in message ... In article , Paul G wrote: Let's keep out of the debate over aspartame's safety. This is an exercise in getting some primary source evidence. I just want to find out if SWA does indeed have such a policy. Are there any crew out there who can confirm or deny? It sounds pretty silly on the face of it. Aspartame is consumed in vast quantities - if it was dangerous, it'd have shown up by now. Peanuts have been consumed in vast quantities for a long time too. I've *never* personally known or even heard of anyone having having any peanut allergy problems, yet we see all kinds of warnings labels on products containing peanuts these days. Aspartame metabolizes into 10% methyl alchohol, a potent neurotoxin, in the human body. Methanol, as we know, then metabolizes into formaldehyde. Nice stuff. Here's just one of thousands of references: You have fallen victim of a hoax. The 'thousands' of references are in fact not written by any of the people who are claimed as the authors. They can be traced to an individual calling herself "Nancy Markle" who invented a non-existent world conference and wrote a bunch of bogus scientific papers that were supposedly presented at the conference. It appears that this person is a Sevia dealer who was disappointed that 'her' product was not approved by the FDA and who has created a huge conspiracy theory where the FDA has conspired with Monsanto in order to conceal the truth about aspertame. You can find more than 6000 sites and studies on the internet trashing aspertame. None of the studies are real. TI: Neuropsychological and biochemical investigations in heterozygotes for phenylketonuria during ingestion of high dose aspartame (a sweetener Phenylketoneurics are the only people that have a legitimate cause to worry about aspertame, but such persons must also avoid many other more common foods such as milk, eggs, and hamburgers. From The American Academy of Pediatrics: http://www.aspartame.net/media/opinion/op_aspint.html "Although a 330 ml can of aspartame-sweetened soft drink will yield about 20 mg methanol, an equivalent volume of fruit juice produces 40 mg methanol, and an alcoholic beverage about 60-100 mg. The yield of phenylalanine is about 100 mg for a can of diet soft drink, compared with 300 mg for an egg, 500 mg for a glass of milk, and 900 mg for a large hamburger (1). Thus, the amount of phenylalanine or methanol ingested from consumption of aspartame is trivial, compared with other dietary sources. Clinical studies have shown no evidence of toxic effects and no increase in plasma concentrations of methanol, formic acid, or phenylalanine with daily consumption of 50 mg/kg aspartame (equivalent to 17 cans of diet soft drink daily for a 70 kg adult) (1, 2). The anti aspartame campaign purports to offer an explanation for illnesses that are prominent in the public eye. By targeting a manufactured chemical agent, and combining this with pseudo-science and selective reporting, the campaign makes complex issues deceptively simple. Sensational web site names (eg, aspartamekills.com) grab the browser's attention and this misinformation is also widely disseminated via chat groups and chain e-mail." This hoax has also been debunked by the FDA, the American Academy of Health and Science, and every other reputable health organization. If you have a problem with aspartame, rest assured that you have a problem with a great many other foods that people normally eat. |
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