- As VRP reported in the October 2005 VR News President's
Desk, the people of New Mexico spearheaded a movement to try to ban the
sale and distribution of aspartame-containing foods in New Mexico. Stephen
Fox's New Mexico Nutrition Council and the people of his state won a substantial
victory when the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) agreed
to hear the aspartame rule change proposal, which would ban its sale in
that state. The Board voted 4-2 to convene five days of hearings in July.
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- After Governor Bill Richardson commented last week that
he supports the EIB's decision, Stephen Fox's New Mexico Nutrition Council
asked both him and Attorney General Patricia Madrid to issue a kind of
Executive Order to remove aspartame products in the New Mexico schools,
far in advance of the EIB hearings, based on the extensive medical evidence
to warrant removing it from children's consumption. Neither the governor
nor the attorney general has yet replied to Mr. Fox's request.
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- On November 14-15, Mr. Fox and several physicians, led
by Dr. Ken Stoller M.D., pediatrician, founder of the New Mexico Hyperbaric
Chamber, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of New
Mexico School of Medicine, will present a similar petition to the New Mexico
Board of Pharmacy, to request a ruling to prohibit two neurotoxic additions
to pharmaceutical preparations consumed in New Mexico. Fox and the physicians
are asking the Board of Pharmacy to ban aspartame in hundreds of children's
medications as well as children's vitamins. In addition, they are calling
for a ban on Thimerosal, the mercury preservative found in vaccinations.
New Mexico statutes delegate precise powers to the Pharmacy Board giving
it authority to ban poisonous and deleterious additives to pharmaceutical
preparations even when there is prior FDA approval of those same additives.
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- Some New Mexicans have been diagnosed with neurodegenerative
afflictions that disappeared when they stopped consuming aspartame. In
fact, 80 percent of the complaints the FDA receives are on aspartame. Due
to its metabolized byproduct, formaldehyde, aspartame is a toxic substance
that has caused brain lesions, seizures, tumors and death in mice.
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- A safe alternative for individuals who want to avoid
aspartame is xylitol, a natural, low-calorie, low-glycemic sweetener that
also plays a role in supporting oral health.
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- For more information on aspartame go to www.dorway.com
and www.wnho.net Join the Aspartame Information List on www.wnho.net
- Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible International,
9270 River Club Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097 770 242-2599
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