Calls for nutra-sweet to be banned

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Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:00a.m.

Attempts to ban the artificial sweetener aspartame - found in chewing gum and diet coke among other foods - have taken a political turn.

MPs have been presented with a petition signed by more than 8,000 people demanding that the food additive commonly known as nutra-sweet be banned from schools and the public be warned about it.

But others argue the scientific evidence against it just doesn't stack up.

Alison White is from the safe foods campaign and she spoke to Sunrise

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31 Jul 2008 04:37a.m.

Rich, Santa Fe, New Mexico wrote:

formaldehyde, aspartame, and migraines, the first case series, Sharon E Jacob-Soo, Sarah A Stechschulte, UCSD, Dermatitis 2008 May: Rich Murray 2008.07.18
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.htm
Friday, July 18, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1553

Dermatitis. 2008 May-Jun; 19(3): E10-1.
Formaldehyde, aspartame, and migraines: a possible connection.
Jacob SE, Stechschulte S.
Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA.

Aspartame is a widely used artificial sweetener that has been linked to pediatric and adolescent migraines.

Upon ingestion, aspartame is broken, converted, and oxidized into formaldehyde in various tissues.

We present the first case series of aspartame-associated migraines related to clinically relevant positive reactions to formaldehyde on patch testing. PMID: 18627677

formaldehyde from many sources, including aspartame, is major cause of Allergic Contact Dermatitis, SE Jacob, T Steele, G Rodriguez, Skin and Aging 2005 Dec.: Murray 2008.03.27
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.htm
Thursday, March 27, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1533

"For example, diet soda and yogurt containing aspartame (Nutrasweet), release formaldehyde in their natural biological degradation.

One of aspartame's metabolites, aspartic acid methyl ester, is converted to methanol in the body, which is oxidized to formaldehyde in all organs, including the liver and eyes. 22

Patients with a contact dermatitis to formaldehyde have been seen to improve once aspartame is avoided. 22

Notably, the case that Hill and Belsito reported had a 6-month history of eyelid dermatitis that subsided after 1 week of avoiding diet soda. 22"

Sharon E. Jacob, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Dermatology), University of California, San Diego 200 W. Arbor Drive #8420, San Diego, CA 92103-8420 Tel: 858-552-8585 ×3504 Fax: 305-675-8317 sjacob@contactderm.net;

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