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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. 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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Has Southwest Airlines banned aspartame from the cockpit?
G.R. Patterson III extrapolated from data available...
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. Let's begin the head count, then.... One, two.......and at what number do you want the world to stop serving peanuts? Do you want the airlines to be barred from serving an inexpensive and at least filling snack beloved by many? Millions of folks, any number of them legitimately, but a vast number of them mostly in their imaginations, are at risk from reactions to a variety of substances from every corner of the natural and laboratory spectrum. Aside from those items which bear potential harm to a vast majority of folks who may encounter them, it's simply ridiculous to attempt to quarantine the "world" from substances which may endanger a few. The positive contribution of peanuts to nutrition, the relief of hunger, or the world's economies certainly outweighs the risk to the relatively small population segment allergic to them. ......Unless you subscribe to the sort of world-view which favors exterminating cobras, fer de lance and rattlesnakes because of the bad reactions displayed by those bitten. S hucks, I want to ban California Reds because they make me sneeze...but since I certainly can't drink French Reds these days, wouldn't drink German reds short of desperation, and am faced by shelves stocked with less than the optimal choices of Italian reds, I guess I'll have to switch to the oligarchic, nearly slave-labor produced right wing wines of Chile, accept the narrow spectrum of somewhat over-priced but drinkable local Texas reds, or do as I do, just keep on sneezing. TMO |
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G.R. Patterson III extrapolated from data available...
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. Let's begin the head count, then.... One, two.......and at what number do you want the world to stop serving peanuts? Do you want the airlines to be barred from serving an inexpensive and at least filling snack beloved by many? Millions of folks, any number of them legitimately, but a vast number of them mostly in their imaginations, are at risk from reactions to a variety of substances from every corner of the natural and laboratory spectrum. Aside from those items which bear potential harm to a vast majority of folks who may encounter them, it's simply ridiculous to attempt to quarantine the "world" from substances which may endanger a few. The positive contribution of peanuts to nutrition, the relief of hunger, or the world's economies certainly outweighs the risk to the relatively small population segment allergic to them. ......Unless you subscribe to the sort of world-view which favors exterminating cobras, fer de lance and rattlesnakes because of the bad reactions displayed by those bitten. S hucks, I want to ban California Reds because they make me sneeze...but since I certainly can't drink French Reds these days, wouldn't drink German reds short of desperation, and am faced by shelves stocked with less than the optimal choices of Italian reds, I guess I'll have to switch to the oligarchic, nearly slave-labor produced right wing wines of Chile, accept the narrow spectrum of somewhat over-priced but drinkable local Texas reds, or do as I do, just keep on sneezing. TMO |
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Has Southwest Airlines banned aspartame from the cockpit?
"Peter Duniho" wrote in message ...
"Rutger" wrote in message om... 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. True. But how do we determine if we are part of that small segment? As a pilot, I don't want to put my medical in jeprody by taking a chance on having an unexplained seizure. -- Gene Seibel Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html Because I fly, I envy no one. |
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"Peter Duniho" wrote in message ...
"Rutger" wrote in message om... 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. True. But how do we determine if we are part of that small segment? As a pilot, I don't want to put my medical in jeprody by taking a chance on having an unexplained seizure. -- Gene Seibel Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html Because I fly, I envy no one. |
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Has Southwest Airlines banned aspartame from the cockpit?
In article , Gene
Seibel wrote: Aspartame has some very real, well-documented medical issues with it. But only for a relatively small segment of the population. True. But how do we determine if we are part of that small segment? As a pilot, I don't want to put my medical in jeprody by taking a chance on having an unexplained seizure. If you have phenylketonuria, I think you'd know already. And it doesn't cause seizures. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/disease/Phenylketo.html -- Garner R. Miller ATP/CFII/MEI Manchester, CT =USA= |
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In article , Gene
Seibel wrote: Aspartame has some very real, well-documented medical issues with it. But only for a relatively small segment of the population. True. But how do we determine if we are part of that small segment? As a pilot, I don't want to put my medical in jeprody by taking a chance on having an unexplained seizure. If you have phenylketonuria, I think you'd know already. And it doesn't cause seizures. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/disease/Phenylketo.html -- Garner R. Miller ATP/CFII/MEI Manchester, CT =USA= |
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In article , Gene
Seibel wrote: Aspartame has some very real, well-documented medical issues with it. But only for a relatively small segment of the population. True. But how do we determine if we are part of that small segment? As a pilot, I don't want to put my medical in jeprody by taking a chance on having an unexplained seizure. If you have phenylketonuria, I think you'd know already. And it doesn't cause seizures. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/disease/Phenylketo.html -- Garner R. Miller ATP/CFII/MEI Manchester, CT =USA= |
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Has Southwest Airlines banned aspartame from the cockpit?
86% of all statistics are made up on the spot, and 76.3% of people believe
them without question.... "C J Campbell" wrote in message ... "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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"Gene Seibel" wrote in message
om... True. But how do we determine if we are part of that small segment? What Garner said. It's one of those "if you need to ask, it doesn't apply" things. |
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