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At OpEdNews: Lone atrial fibrillation precipitated by MSG and Aspartame
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

Aspartame and MSG cause lone atrial fibrillation, related to heart attacks not connected to heart failure/coronary artery disease: aspartame and MSG, acting independenly in a person with a health heart, can cause heart problems.

At OpEdNews: Duty to Warn: Diet Coke is Poison
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

Glad to see this article which I posted has prompted so much dialogue. Aspartame turns into among other things FORMALDEHYDE. Only a total idiot, or a stooge/hack working for Ajinomoto/Coke/Pepsi/Wrigley's or Monsanto, would argue that that chemical metabolite is "HARMLESS."

Samuel S. Epstein: An Overdue Ban On A Dangerous Sweetener
Source: The Huffington Post

Aspartame, first discovered in 1965 by the pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle, is an artificial sweetener marketed by Ajinomoto Sweeteners under trademark names including Nutrasweet, Equal and Canderel.

Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam
Source: t r u t h o u t

From 1961 to 1971, the US military sprayed Vietnam with Agent Orange, which contained large quantities of Dioxin, in order to defoliate the trees for military objectives. Dioxin is one of the most dangerous chemicals known to man.

At OpEdNews: Searle, Monsanto and Ajinomoto: Three Corporate Miscreants in the Toxic Junk Food Additive and Aspartame Business
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

Corporate miscreants, indeed....very well said. Hopefully, Obama's FDA Commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, MD, will take to heart the growing pile of letters asking her to rescind the FDA approval for Aspartame.

Smokers' Urine May Give Cancer Alert Early Enough to Save Lungs
Source: Bloomberg.com

Smokers with high levels of two chemicals in their urine were more likely than others in a study to get lung cancer, a finding that may lead to a new test to predict risk in time to prevent or treat the disease. More Articles

At OpEdNews: Aspartame Almost Killed Me!
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

This is an important testimony from a jusifiably angry woman who was caught in a tragic downward spiral, just because she trusted the integrity of the FDA and the assurances from corporations making "diet" products that their products were "safe."

At OpEdNews: Hawaii is Leading the US in Getting Aspartame off the Market
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

The leader of the Hawaii Aspartame Banning/FDA Rescinding speaks candidly, inviting Mainland activists and victims to follow suit in your state, and to write your own letter to the FDA Commissioner, Dr.

Pet Food & the End of the World
Source: The New York Times

[In 2000] it took three pounds of wild fish to provide enough food to grow one pound of farmed salmon, environmentalists have been apoplectic.

At OpEdNews: 22 members of Hawaii House of Representatives Sign Resolution asking FDA to Rescind Approval for Neurotoxic Aspartame
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

22 Hawaii House members cosponsor Resolution asking FDA to Rescind Approval for Aspartame/Methanol/Formaldehyde, including 2/3 of House Health Committee Urgent consumer protection/USFDA articles in Japan about Japanese Toxic food additive maker, Ajinomoto, found in 6000 fo …

22 Hawaii Representatives Sign Resolution asking FDA to Rescind Approval for Neurotoxic Aspartame
Source: prlog.org

This is an enormous step forward in Consumer Protection, thanks to Rep. Mele Carroll, of Molokai and East Maui. Consumer protection/FDA article in Japan re: Aspartame maker, Ajinomoto, found in 6000 food and medicines! ________________________________________________

New Mexico Senate President Sides With World's Largest Neurotoxic Additive Maker, Ajinomoto - The Black Ship: Japan News and Forum
Source: The Black Ship (Japan)

I just published a major article in Japan, the first time there in English, and of course your comment would be most welcome, all the way at the bottom under reader rants!!!

At OpEdNews: US Government Fails to Protect Its Citizens from Artificial Sweetener Aspartame
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

There are massive efforts to get the FDA to rescind approval for Aspartame, particularly mine in the Hawaii Senate and the New Mexico Senate, with Resolutions and Memorials directed to Obama, the next HHS Secretary and the next FDA Commissioner.

At OpEdNews: Alert: Hawaii Aspartame Ban Bill Will Die If You Don't Call Chairman Hawaii Senator David Ige Immediately!
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

Aspartame's impact on Hawaiian natives is absolutely devastating: seizures, convulsions, adult on-set diabetes in ten year old kids, early brain tumors and inexplicable (according to Western Medicine) cluster migraine headaches, in that Pacific Island Paradise....

NM Senator Ortiz y Pino Asks FDA's Torti: Rescind FDA Approval for Neurotoxic Carcinogenic Aspartame
Source: prlog.org

New Mexico State Senator Ortiz y Pino asks FDA's Acting Commissioner Frank Torti, M.D., to get neurotoxic carcinogenic artificial sweetener aspartame off the market by rescind the FDA's approval for this poison, still found in 9000 food products and medications, despite extensive …

Oregon Guard contacting soldiers possibly exposed to toxic chemicals

SALEM, Ore. -- The Oregon National Guard is reaching out in February to hundreds of soldiers possibly exposed to a hazardous chemical during a deployment to Iraq in 2003.

Cleaner Air Extending Lives, Study Shows
Source: The New York Times

Researchers at Brigham Young University examined changes in life expectancy in 51 metropolitan areas, comparing those figures with improvements in air quality in each region from the early 1980s to the late 1990s.

Smoking Ban Improves a City's Health
Source: The New York Times

Does banning smoking in public places improve public health? Yes, a new study finds, and the effects are large and long-lasting. More Articles

Coca-Cola to Phase Out Toxic Sodium Benzoate in the U.K.
Source: Natural News

The Coca-Cola Company has announced that it is in the process of phasing out the use of food additive sodium benzoate in the United Kingdom, after a number of studies have linked it to a wide variety of health problems. Coca-Cola said that it had begun removing the chemical from …

Protect against dangers of 3 quiet cancers
Source: msnbc.com

Mouth sores, unexplained fevers or joint pain, or discomfort during sex can be symptoms of three cancers - oral, leukemia, and endometrial - that don't get the attention they deserve.

Tobacco firms kept quiet on polonium 210 in cigarettes
Source: Independent.co.uk

Some of the world's biggest tobacco firms researched the lethal radioactive substance polonium – present in cigarettes – over a 40-year period but never published the results, according to a new scientific article. Experts have examined more than 1,500 internal documents fro …

At OpEdNews: California Suit Against Whole Foods for Carcinogen in Body Care Products
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

SHOCKING SUIT BY STATE OF CALIFORNIA AGAINST WHOLE FOODS FOR KNOWINGLY OR NEGLIGENTLY HAVING CARCINOGEN IN HEALTH CARE PRODUCTS...DETAILS ARE HERE:

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