Mary
Nash Stoddard Reseach Findings on Dangers of Aspartame at Tesla
Conference
Author, Mary Nash Stoddard
presented research findings at Tesla Conference, July '95, Colorado
Springs CO before several hundred attendees. Lecture available
on video by contacting ACSN 1-800-969-6050
This article was written
based partially on the evidence presented in these studies/medical
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RADIO INTERVIEW
WITH MARY STODDARD
ERNIE: Thanks for joining
us tonight. We're glad you're with us. All across the state of
Texas and parts beyond, it's good to have you here. Some important
information and some information that will challenge, mystify
and also make you want to maybe think about the things you eat
and drink. Tonight I welcome Mary Stoddard to the microphone.
Mary is here to talk about Aspartame. This is something that we've
been hearing a little bit about in the media, but not a whole
lot yet.
MARY: Yes, that's right.
Based on the latest studies about connecting Aspartame with brain
tumors and a higher incidence of brain tumors since the advent
of Aspartame on the market, we have made the news quite a bit,
all around the world, lately.
ERNIE: Now, when you
talk about Aspartame, you're talking ... is this NutraSweet?
MARY: Aspartame is
known as NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonfuls, DiabetiSweet, etc. It's
known by a number of names around the world: Canderel in Europe.
It's NatraSweet, I believe, in Brazil, and other places around
the world it's called different things, but if you look for Aspartame
on the label, you should be able to find it and be okay.
ERNIE: This is a chemical
substitute for sugar. We find this in diet drinks, and Sweet and
Low type products, things that take sugar out of the diet and
put Aspartame in.
MARY: Right, the only
thing that doesn't have it would be Sweet & Low. However is
is combined with saccharin in some products, such as TAB, for
example, the diet soft drink.
ERNIE: Well, why is
this something to worry about? What is Aspartame all about?
MARY: Because, first
of all, the tests were falsified to get it approved and get it
on the market in the first place. The tests were submitted ...
the lab animals in those tests had seizures. They had brain tumors.
They had pancreatic tumors. They had mammary tumors, and they
had uterine tumors. But, all this was covered up and erased when
the tests were submitted.
ERNIE: Why?
MARY: Because it wouldn't
have been approved.
ERNIE: Right.
MARY: And, it was approved
as a food additive, not a drug. It was discovered as a drug in
the 60's by a scientist who licked his fingers, said it tasted
sweet, so let's make it a sweetener instead of a drug for peptic
ulcers. It was first approved in 1974, but the approval was rescinded
because of the brain tumor issue. That issue remains a very valid
one today.
ERNIE: I remember back
when this first came out, that ... I'm speaking from a very vague
memory here ... but, there was a lot of furor about it. That it
causes cancer, etc., and people didn't use it very much for awhile.
MARY: Yes.
ERNIE: What ever became
of that?
MARY: Well, what became
of it is a major marketing campaign was put into effect. Billions
of dollars were spent on PR and Marketing, and it's been very
effective. I mean, they're very good at that. Not a great products,
but they're good at marketing their product.
ERNIE: Why is Aspartame
bad? What does it do? What are the qualities of it ... the compounds?
MARY: Okay. First of
all, it's a synthetic compound. It's two amino acids: Phenylalanine
50% which lowers the seizure threshold in some individuals, and
the head of Brain Science at MIT said that it causes seizures
and can cause brain tumors. Aspartic Acid is 40% of the molecule
and according to Dr. John Olney, the world expert on Aspartic
Acid, who just held the News Conference in Washington, November
the 18th, in connection with Aspartame and brain tumors, said
that it caused lesions in the brains of lab animals. What's more,
it changed the DNA ... which means that it will affect future
generations. It skipped a generation and went on to the third
generation in the lab animal experiments ... producing morbidly
obese and sexually dysfunctional lab animals.
ERNIE: So, this is
something that people ... I'm sure there are people out there
who drink diet drinks every day trying to lose weight, who are
listening to this thinking: Well, maybe one or two reactions --
I've heard this before. I drink 'em. I don't have any problems.
Or, this is the first time they've heard this and there's: Wait
a second, what is this? They wouldn't put something that's so
deadly on the market.
MARY: Well, they actually
would. We compare this to the cigarette issue because it's a very
close parallel. How many cigarettes does it take to cause lung
cancer or a stroke, or a heart attack? How many diet drinks do
you have to consume to get a brain tumor? How many spoonfuls of
Equal do you have to take to have a pancreatic tumor or liver
damage? The answer is: We don't know exactly what amount because
it does not show up in short term testing. It's the long term
effect. I got into this in the first place because of children
and the effect it is having on children. I saw the effects in
my youngest, who began to have migraines when she started drinking
this Kool Aid flavored drink (Crystal Light) that came in sample
packets in the mail to us. She developed chest pains and heart
attack-like symptoms ... which I took her to a Heart Specialist
for. Finally, she was carried in from a school field trip, after
having had a grand mal seizure.
ERNIE: Now, what's
that?
MARY: That is the worst
kind of seizure. You lose consciousness, you fall to the ground
in a fetal position and you're just out of it. That is the worst
kind of seizure. There are many kinds of seizures that people
can experience from Aspartame and from other causes as well, but
the grand mal is the top of the line as far as danger goes. And
so, when I discovered the one thing she was having was causing
all these problems twelve years ago, I got her off of it and she's
been just fine. Very healthy and seizure-free and no problem with
that in the interim.
ERNIE: How did you
know to trace it back to those things?
MARY: Well, it tasted
funny to me. I was used to saccharin. I used the artificial sweetener,
saccharin which has been around for a hundred years and no deaths
reported ... only six complaints about saccharin had been reported
to the FDA as of a couple of years ago, versus thousands and tens
of thousands of complaints reported to the FDA about Aspartame.
In fact, it's the most complained about additive in history. Aspartame
has the most complaints on record. And, yet, the FDA refuses to
do anything. I work with pilots. I have established a pilot's
hotline in regard to this because an F-16 pilot asked me to do
so when we were both in Washington testifying at the Senate Hearings.
Working with pilots is an amazing thing. They lose their jobs.
They lose, in some cases: their marriages, their homes, their
families ... everything. And, in some cases ... their lives. I
just finished filming a 60 Minutes segment for Australian TV for
their 60 Minutes show. In it I had a pilot who was interviewed
because he had a grand mal seizure in the cockpit in flight on
a commuter airline in Alaska. This made national headlines about
three years ago. Since he stopped using the artificially sweetened,
ah, I think he was using Equal in his coffee and some drinks as
well, he's been seizure-free. And, so he's been interviewed by
the TV crew because it's such an astonishing story. Dozens of
pilots have lost their medical certification to fly and one FAA
Medical Examiner said, 'The FDA has its foot caught in a bucket,
and it can't get it out.' And, so they don't know what to do.
So, we're going to try to help them.
ERNIE: Well, now ...
some statistical information on this: You have millions of people
drinking these every day, but you're not getting reports of these
types of things.
MARY: Well, you're
just not getting reports of these types of things because, as
I said to the doctors three weeks ago, when I was the first non-MD
to lecture at Southwest Medical School in their Continuing Medical
Education Series: You are going to find that these things mimic
other syndromes such as MS (which is very difficult to diagnose);
Fibromyalgia, which was never heard of before the advent of Aspartame
and has become epidemic; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ... when I called
the Chronic Fatigue Hotline in 1987, they said to me Chronic Fatigue
symptoms can be changed by changing your diet. I said, well, what
does that mean? They said, do this, this and this .. and eliminate
artificial sweeteners. Then, I said: Oh, you mean saccharin and
Aspartame? They said: No, saccharin's okay. So, they knew back
then that it caused Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. We also have more
cases of brain tumors (10% more); Lupus; Manic Depression: Lou
Gehrig's Disease; Attention Deficit Disorder in children, which
Aspartame is capable of causing (hyperactivity in kids). A University
of North Texas Professor came down with Graves Disease. She was
checked into the hospital. Her doctor said: We must now irradiate
your thyroid, young lady. And, she said, No, I don't think so.
She checked herself out and went to a Nutritionist. He took her
off Aspartame, put her on a healthy diet and she cured her Graves
Disease.
ERNIE: I've heard this
before. I have two friends who are Nutritionists. They have both
told me the same thing about the diet drinks. They said: Don't
drink them, because when they get hot, for example, the compounds
that they break down into ... could you give us a little detail
on that?
MARY: Right. They're
(Phenylalanine and Aspartic Acid) are held in chemical bond by
Methanol. Aspartame's 10% Methanol by weight. But, Methanol breaks
down further into Formic Acid (the venom in ant stings), Formaldehyde
(embalming fluid) and Diketopiperazine, the brain tumor agent
... the thing that kept it off the market, remember, back in 1974,
when it was first approved by the FDA. The DKP kept it off the
market because it causes brain tumors and the National Soft Drink
Association complained bitterly about having to put Aspartame
in soft drinks. They didn't want it. They didn't want the brain
tumor issue associated with their product. And, you know it's
a funny thing ... Monsanto is the parent company now of NutraSweet
and Aspartame. Just a couple of weeks ago, they split their company
in half. They split the Food part, which is the part that produces
Aspartame, away from the Agricultural and other products part.
And, when people say: Why did they do that? One reason, I think
is because there are going to be lawsuits. I can't stop people
from bringing suit against the company. I don't encourage it ever.
But, I can't stop it on the other hand, and they know this is
coming. They've hired big law firms. But, they falsified their
tests to begin with.
ERNIE: Is that provable?
MARY: Yes. A U.S. Prosecutor
... and, this is all in our book, "Deadly Deception"
... there's a timeline and a history of Aspartame and the approval
process, showing that Samuel Skinner, the U.S. Prosecutor, recused
himself at the last minute. He was prosecuting the Pharmaceutical
Company (G.D. Searle) for illegal acts. For falsifying their test
results and turning in the tests tumor-free. And, not showing
that some of the lab animals actually died and on paper, they
were shown to be alive. We call it the Case of the Resurrected
Rats. You know, these things really occurred, and they are criminal
acts. And, so, they were being prosecuted and at the last minute,
Samuel Skinner, the U.S. Prosecutor, went over to the Pharmaceutical
Law Firm side and went to work for them (Sidley & Austin).
He ended up in the White House as Bush's Chief of Staff, Samuel
Skinner. His wife continued to work for Sidley & Austin, the
NutraSweet law firm, while her husband, Skinner was in the White
House. A former Monsanto attorney is now on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Judge Clarence Thomas is a former Monsanto attorney. So, they
have their Gate Keepers. They have people in high places. The
company hired Donald Rumsfeld as its President. Now, Donald Rumsfeld
was Chief of Defense in the Ford Administration, and has been
very high up in many offices in many administrations. Now, why
was he hired as head of a pharmaceutical company? It was political.
This was gotten on the market by political and PR means, and has
nothing to do with Science.
ERNIE: We're talking
to Mary Stoddard tonight about Aspartame and I have to say that
I have the information in front of me and I can't vouch for its
accuracy or inaccuracy. I'm merely presenting a point of view,
and if you want to present another side, I want you to do that.
Or, if you agree or you have had incidents that you think are
related to Aspartame, I'd like you to join the program. We have
lines open for you on Texas U.S.A. Take the time, join us at 800-765-1080
tonight. This hour it's about your health. Let's go ahead and
take some calls. First up in Glen Heights Texas on a car phone:
Barbara. What's on your mind?
BARBARA: I'd like to
know what other food should I look for with Aspartame, other than
the cold drinks and the sweeteners?
MARY: Yes, that's a
very good question, because it is in things that you wouldn't
even believe. We were in Washington doing the taping recently
and they said: Mary, go through the super market and fill a basket
full of Aspartame sweetened products. Then, they said: Oh, wait
a second, you'd better grab some other stuff too 'cause you won't
fill a basket. I said: I'll bet I can. I came up with things like
bottled water with Aspartame in it. There are flavored bottled
waters that have Aspartame. I came up with, of course, children's
vitamins, children's kool aid and Crystal Light, and fruit flavored
drinks, juice drinks ... I had Alka Seltzer Plus, a lot of the
Tylenol medications have it, Fiber One cereal and a lot of the
fiber cereals have it. In fact, a lot of people call me. You know,
we have a consumer hotline for the Aspartame Consumer Safety Network,
and they'll say: Mary, I got off those diet drinks and I'm still
feeling really lousy. Those headaches just won't go away. And,
I say: What are you eating and drinking?Well, I cut out diet soft
drinks with Aspartame, and I'm drinking TAB now with saccharine.
I said, Go to the label. It has Aspartame, too. You just have
to read labels, Barbara. Very, very carefully. It's in things
you would never imagine ... like cold remedies, you know, Alka
Seltzer Plus, and things like that. I think it's even in some
lipsticks as well.
ERNIE: Anything, I
guess, with a sweet flavor to it?
MARY: Yes, it can be.
It's even in things for infants. Oh, it's even in Metamucil. A
Pediatrician the other day prescribed Metamucil for an infant
that had a little constipation. He said: Be sure to get the orange
kind, because it tastes sweet. It's flavored. And, of course,
it had Aspartame in it.
ERNIE: Yeah, it's odd
with you think of where Aspartame is that we worry so much about
four calories, five calories, ten calories, you find Aspartame
in a Rolaids or a Tums type of product. You think ... for goodness
sakes, are you counting every little bitty calorie? That makes
no sense that you have to put dietary things in something that
has four or five calories.
MARY: That's right.
You know, what's happened is that we've become paranoid about
a little bit of sugar or sucrose, and we've run right into the
waiting jaws of the artificial stuff. We've done the same thing
with the fat. It's laudable to get the fat foods out of your diet,
but watch out when they talk about Simpless and that other fake
fat, Olestra.
ERNIE: Olestra. What
a nightmare!
MARY: Oh, it's just
scary. People had rather die than eat sugar or fat. And, in some
cases, that's the lesser of the two evils ... the real thing.
ERNIE: Ruth in Midland.
Welcome to Texas U.S.A. for Mary Stoddard.
RUTH: My sister has
been using Aspartame for quite some time now. She has developed
some behaviors that are not characteristic of her. She's very
irritable. She'll bite your head off. She's depressed. She developed
real bad heart trouble, I don't know if that has anything to do
with it or not.
MARY: It could. A lot
of the pilots tell us that they stay away from diet drinks because
it spikes the EKG. But, the psychological effects are probably
the most insidious of all. It causes suicidal depression. That's
a given. Anybody knows that Methanol (wood alcohol) can cause
depression. It's a depressant. But, it also affects the brain
in some very strange ways. It depletes or blocks production of
Serotonin, which is the thing we all need for our moods to be
level. The thing we need for our sleep patterns to be normal.
And, in women, it regulates the menstrual cycle. Well, when Serotonin
is blocked, then people can go into rages. Out of control. If
these people were on steroids - anabolic steroids - you know people
would say: Oh, yeah, that's a side effect of that. Well, they
don't realize Aspartame can have similar effects. In fact, I knew
a young man who wrote a book called, I Plead Insanity. He actually
did plead insanity. He shot at three squad cars full of officers
because he was hallucinating. He was heavily into the diet drinks.
He drank a lot of them to get to that point, but he was literally
committed to a mental institution because of his heavy consumption,
and his predisposition to that sort of thing, but I think he never
would have been driven over the edge into it (committing criminal
acts) if something ain't messed with his brain. Serotonin is very
interesting. Three Marines were released from the Marine Corps
because they were said to be too aggressive. Now, how aggressive
do you have to be to be kicked out of the Marine Corps! I thought
the Marines were supposed to be. But, they tested these guys.
They had low levels of Serotonin. I'm telling you. Serotonin is
very important. When you deplete or block that production, you're
looking for all kinds of bizarre - and, I do mean bizarre - psychological
effects.
ERNIE: Is Serotonin
something you buy artificially? I was just wondering if Serotonin
is one of those new miracle things you can buy at the Health Food
Stores.
MARY: No, Melatonin
is somewhat akin to Serotonin, but Prozac, for example, is a stimulant
of Serotonin. Now, why do all these people need to be on Prozac?
It's because they have a blockage of Serotonin levels. And, so
a lot of the things that we're doing today and tests that are
being conducted on people medically are not even necessary. What
I asked that group of doctors that I lectured to recently, is
to think of this and use this in your history-taking. Ask about
Aspartame consumption. It may be that this patient doesn't need
an MRI or CAT SCAN or PET SCAN.
ERNIE: Right.
MARY: Get the patient
off Aspartame (because it clouds the diagnosis) for a period of
four to six weeks and then start to test. There may literally
be something wrong. But, you'll never know as long as Aspartame
is a part of the picture, because physiologically and psychologically,
it's gonna mess you up sooner or later.
ERNIE: Jennifer in
Irving, welcome to Texas U.S.A. for Mary.
JENNIFER: My OB/GYN
told me that Aspartame is perfectly safe. It's a natural substance,
or it copies a natural substance that sweetens cow's milk.
MARY: Oh, dear.
JENNIFER: Why would
he tell me that?
MARY: I think you should
change OB/GYNs. When I went to mine - it's interesting - I had
a life threatening blood disorder develop in 1985 when I started
going to Weight Watchers and using heavily, using diet drinks
and the Weight Watcher's products. I went to my OB/GYN for a couple
of things I couldn't figure out and he said ... Well, I said,
could it be the NutraSweet and the new diet drinks and the things
I'm eating and drinking? He said: Oh, no. What else do you eat
and drink? I said: Well, this, this and this and cheese. He then
went into a rampage over cheese. It was pure fat and women were
killing themselves eating cheese. He just totally dismissed the
thing that was really killing me literally. And, that's the Aspartame.
So, he didn't know. I don't really blame him because he didn't
know. My doctor of fifteen years didn't know. (My General Practitioner.)
I still go to him. I think he's a great doctor. He tried. He even
went to the Medical School and brought back one study and said:
Mary, it looks like you have to drink gallons of this stuff (Aspartame)
to have a seizure even. And, you've never even had a seizure.
It's just the muscle spasms and joint pain and muscle cramps that
I was having and other things associated with it. But, it was
very severe and major. Finally, I went to the Medical School and
a by-product of my spending hours, and days, and weeks, and years
in the the Medical School Library book stacks is our 200 page
report, Deadly Deception - The Story of Aspartame.
ERNIE: You're with
Texas U.S.A. Ernie Brown is my name. Our guest, Mary Stoddard.
We're talking about Aspartame. Let me go to caller Mary in Fort
Worth. Welcome to the program.
CALLER M.: I drink
diet drinks. I'd like to know if there are any that do not have
Aspartame. And, what about Frosted Shredded Wheat, too?
MARY: Frosted Shredded
Wheat as far as I know does not have it. The fiber cereals: Fiber
One and maybe some other new ones, Sun Flakes has it and Sun Flakes
is a little bit hard to find. But, about diet soft drinks: What
you need to do if you are really serious about your quality of
life (and, I think this is a quantity of life issue as well as
quality of life) but, let's say it's just the quality of life
issue. If you're serious about it, I would like to see you get
off these things for four to six weeks and instead of diet soft
drinks, if you've got to have something fizzy, get yourself some
Club Soda and put a little bit of fruit juice in it. Try the bottled
water.
ERNIE: Not diet fruit
juice!
MARY: Oh, no, no, no,
no, no. The real. Listen, I'm for real food. I'm for whole food,
not unnatural. Not artificial things. And so, squeeze an orange
in a glass of Club Soda or something and have that if you want
a fizzy drink. I know you can't buy it in a soft drink machine,
but they do have iced teas and juices and things that you can
buy that would be a lot healthier than the soft drinks. And you
know, I was telling Ernie during the break, I don't drink diet
or regular soft drinks on a daily basis. And, when I do have one
... it's the real thing. And, I know it's a real treat. It just
explodes in your mouth and the flavor is just wonderful. When
people mindlessly drink six, eight, twelve drinks a day, whether
they are diet or regular, they do it without even thinking and
they're wasting all treat money. They are doing something that's
not good for them. Not nutritious. And, I think that if we treated
ourselves more and have them less often that would be something
that would change our lives and we'd save so much money.
ERNIE: Let's go to
Carrollton. Jay, welcome to Texas U.S.A. for Mary.
JAY: Hi Ernie. My daughter,
Katrina, when we were living in Indianapolis, she was three years
old and we had been giving her Flintstones vitamins and some other
products that had NutraSweet in them, and we found her comatose
and not breathing in bed one morning. And, so we got her to the
hospital and about two hours later, they didn't know whether she
was going to make it or not, because they didn't know what was
wrong with her. After about three months of hospitalization, they
never could really tell us what was wrong with her. Even after
a battery of different types tests. For the longest time, we couldn't
figure it out. She is semi-retarded because of it and since then,
right after she got out of the hospital, my wife ... not knowing
what the problem was, started to give her Flintstone vitamins
again, thinking we were doing the right thing. She started having
some of the same symptoms that she had had before she got ill.
We immediately took a look at the bottle, and there was Aspartame
in it. So, my wife called the company to find out more about it,
and they said: Oh, no, don't worry about it. It's safe. You can
feed it to them all day long. What we found out later, it was
the Aspartame, and that my daughter was poisoned. My point is:
if you're feeding your children anything with Aspartame in it,
get them off of it ... because you're killing them. I mean literally,
you're killing your children and taking away a chance to live
a healthy life.
MARY: You're destroying
their brains ... neurologically. That is such a powerful story.
Just imagine being a parent in a case like that. Knowing now what
caused it and having people not believe you when you say, Aspartame
caused my child's problems.
ERNIE: Tell me the
connection between Gulf War Syndrome that's getting a lot of attention
these days.
MARY: Well, Aspartame
breaks down into these neurotoxins. That means nerve poisons.
Breakdown products of Aspartame.
ERNIE: Is there a certain
amount of heat?
MARY: Anything above
85 degrees Fahrenheit. Now, think about it. Thousands of cases
of diet drinks, according to Business Week and Mother Jones magazine,
and a lot of other publications, were shipped free of charge -
it was a PR campaign for the manufacturers ... to the desert.
In 85 degrees heat it begins to break down into Methanol, Formic
Acid, Formaldehyde, Diketopiperazine, the brain tumor agent. So,
that after a number of days or weeks, there's no Aspartame left.
I want to ask your listeners ... have you ever had a diet soft
drink that didn't taste sweet? What you were drinking was the
breakdown products. You weren't even drinking the sweetener. There
was no Aspartame left. It was broken down, and I laughingly tell
people - I had Gulf War Syndrome in 1985. I had all the symptoms:
depression, chronic fatigue, skin lesions. All kinds of bizarre
things were happening. Getting off of it got me well. But, I just
wonder how many of our Military have been affected by this and
we're covering that up as well. I do believe it is a factor. It
may not be the only factor and cause -- because they did have
some pretty exotic shots and vaccinations and stuff, too. But,
I believe it's being covered up. I think that is the cause of
a lot of their problems and the cause of the wives' problems.
In our book, Deadly Deception, we have a whole section on children
and one of the things is that it causes birth defects and we've
got research studies that it caused birth defects in the lab animals.
I have a newsletter from the Association of Birth Defect Children,
the organization of note in birth defect studies, showing that
it causes birth defects in children. It causes all kinds of things
to happen. I believe it could be implicated in Gulf War Syndrome.
I wish they would take a serious look at it. I sent it (the info)
to Ross Perot, we faxed the Pentagon, the White House and to date
no one has taken a real serious look at that.
ERNIE: Jackie in Grand
Prairie, you are on Texas U.S.A. with Mary
JACKIE: Hi Mary. I
just caught the tail end of your show here and I have a question.
How much Aspartame consumed by a person affects them? Is it immediately
if you had a diet drink?
MARY: Not everyone
is affected immediately. It took me a period of months before
I started. Mine started with a knee joint problem and progressed
into severe muscle and joint pain ... like Fibromyalgia. Mine
was medically diagnosed as Eosinophiliamyalgia Syndrome - which
is a life threatening blood disorder. But, some children can chew
one stick of chewing gum, Jackie, and go into seizure. That's
been medically documented. Others can go for years and seemingly
be alright just as smokers can go for years and not come down
with lung cancer.
JACKE: So, it can affect
people differently?
MARY: Oh, absolutely.
And, it even affects the same person differently each time it's
used, because if you think about how the breakdown products react,
these products can be broken down to a different degree each time
you have it. That's because they're not kept a a constant temperature.
You might store them in your trunk or your garage, or they're
in a warehouse. They're not always fresh and perfectly kept in
storage.
JACKIE: That was my
concern. I drank diet soft drinks for a number of years. Not on
a daily basis, but maybe on a weekly basis, and I do have a hypothyroid
condition. I was wondering if it had any effect on that?
MARY:It does affect
the thyroid. It affects the thyroid, pituitary, the hypothalamus
and the pineal gland.
ERNIE: Now, let's go
to Betty in Fort Worth.
BETTY: My husband and
I are both diabetics in our early sixties. I've always been very
careful about the diabetic cooking and everything. I've used the
NutraSweet and the Sugar Twin. Is there any sugar substitute that
is safe?
MARY: Saccharin is
one that we don't have a problem with. Other sweeteners, such
as honey, 100% pure maple syrup, Turbinado Sugar, not the refined,
but the unrefined sugars are not going to harm you. I'll bet diabetics
can do their own finger stick test. When your blood sugar levels
are well within normal range, test your levels and then drink
two or three diet sodas one right after the other, preferably
room temperature. Then, test yourself an hour later. I guarantee
your blood sugar levels are going to be out of control. Off the
charts. This (Aspartame) is not allowing diabetics to keep their
blood sugar levels within control.
BETTY: Now, you mentioned
honey and what kind of sugar?
MARY: Turbinado Sugar,
which is the unrefined sugar. You can buy it in the Health Food
Stores. You can buy Stevia, which is an herbal sweetener. A lot
of people like that. It's very beneficial and it is approved now
by the FDA for general use. So, there are a lot of other sweeteners.
I'd use just about anything, before I'd use Aspartame.
ERNIE: Let's see if
we can take one more call. Steve in Euless, you're on Texas U.S.A.
STEVE: Thanks. Mary,
could you give that number again?
MARY: Yes. 1-800-969-6050.
If you want that report, it's the Deadly Deception and our free
information is on our web site. Just look up Mary Stoddard on
the internet, or go to and you'll see we've got wonderful stuff
on brain tumors and flying and Aspartame and the pilot issue.
If you are a pilot, that's a must.
ERNIE: Are you a pilot,
Steve?
STEVE: Yes. And, my
wife's an R.D. (Registered Dietitian) also. Are you an R.D., Mary?
MARY: No, I'm not.
STEVE: I used to drink
a ton of that stuff, and she slowly weaned me off of it.
MARY: Oh, good for
her. She may have saved your life. Anyway, you're a lucky guy,
and I'm glad she did that. You know more of us need to tell other
people.
ERNIE: Thank you. When
I told people about what I had learned from my nutritionist friends
about it, they just, with a wave of their hand, they dismissed
me. You don't know what you're talking about. It doesn't bother
me. I feel fine, etc., etc.,etc.
MARY: Same thing you
hear from smokers. I'm not going to get lung cancer. It's denial.
I want people to get the report. It's not what I said. I haven't
written it. I have edited and compiled it. It's from peer-reviewed
Medical and Science Journals for a $25 donation. They can call
right now and leave their names and phone numbers and they will
be called back tomorrow during office hours. It's 1-800-969-6050.
Call it today.
ERNIE: Al right, thank
you. Mary Stoddard is her name. Mary, we'll have you back when
we have more time to spend with you about this. There are a lot
of issues we didn't get a chance to cover. It's good to see you,
though.
MARY: Thanks, Ernie.
I've loved it.
KRLD RADIO (1080 AM)
DALLAS & TEXAS STATE NETWORK TRANSCRIPT: TEXAS U.S.A. TUESDAY,
FEBRUARY 18, 1997 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM HOST: ERNIE BROWN GUEST:
MARY NASH STODDARD, FOUNDER ACSN, DALLAS TX
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