By Dr. James Bowen
July 28, 2000
(From Betty Martini <Mission-Possible-USA@altavista.net>)
The fact that aspartame fattens people is
generally well known. We have all seen the post cards and comics that depict
an overweight person with a Diet Coke in one hand while reaching for a
bowl of corn chips with the other hand. The reason aspartame so strikingly
stimulates the appetite is it provides over half of its content in a form
of a phenylalanine isolate.
The amino acid phenylalanine outcompetes all the other at enzyme
sites in the body. This suppresses the formation of dopamine from tyrosine
and the formation of serotonin from tryptophan. The serotonin is the neurotransmitter
that reports carbohydrate metabolism. When your serotonin levels are not
allowed to raise as they normally do when you eat carbohydrates you crave
more and more food. The dopamine is the neurotransmitter that lets you
feel satisfied, so when you use aspartame you have unsatisfiable cravings.
The aspartame also poisons your metabolism so you cannot burn calories.
One of the major components of the aspartame molecule is methyl
alcohol. Methyl alcohol has long been recognized in medicine for its
ability to block metabolism. For this reason when doctors see somebody
who has been poisoned by ingesting methyl alcohol or methyl esters they
can accurately predict the patient will develop a severe acidosis because
the food cannot be metabolized in the normal manner and the breakdown products
of the methyl alcohol in addition to the acids developed from the blocked
metabolism gravely endanger the patients life. NutraSweet, is a very aggravated
form of methyl alcohol poisoning.
Moreover, the neuroexcitotoxins act in the brain to stimulate appetite.
This is why manufacturers put it into foods. It does not actually change
the taste of food at all, but the food taste better to you because your
appetite has been stimulated.
Arsenic is routinely included in chicken food when the chickens
are being raised for meat production because it poisons the metabolism
and the chickens don't burn off the calories, they turn it into fat, and
thus they produce rapid weight gain for the farmer.
When the FDA first looked at this molecule they held aspartame off
the market for many years because it is a potent chelating agent which
carries many heavy metals including arsenic into the body. The heavy metal
poisoning from Nutrasweet also poisons your metabolism, blocks the burning
of calories and on the long haul this virtually irreversible poisoning
from heavy metals will continue to encourage weight gain."
Dr James Bowen, M.D.
More information on aspartame at:
http://www.dorway.com See last page of protest of National Soft Drink Assoc - on aspartame
making you crave carbohydrates Also see Dr. Sandra Cabot's position paper
titled Aspartame Makes You Fatter
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