Comments on: Digest - The Animal Edition, Leukemia, Strawberries, Grapes, Aging, and Seasonality http://www.modernforager.com/blog/2008/03/31/digest-331/ Respect Your Food. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:00:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: John E. Garst, Ph.D. (Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Toxicology) http://www.modernforager.com/blog/2008/03/31/digest-331/#comment-4431 John E. Garst, Ph.D. (Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Toxicology) Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:16:58 +0000 http://www.modernforager.com/blog/2008/03/31/digest-331/#comment-4431 This quoted 'Myaspartameexperiment' has been done incorrectly. You just cannot do this type of experiment using a simple control versus treated experimental design. The problem is that the aspartame in the treated animals hydrolyzes to methanol, which during any long term exposure depletes the vitamin folate, but only in treated rats. That she saw tumors merely confirms that folate deficiency causes tumors, which is already very well known. To do the experiment properly you would need a control group (fed 0 aspartame, that is feed), a treated group (fed varying doses of aspartame in the feed) and a folate supplemented, treated group (fed the same varying doses of aspartame in the feed). Unfortunatley this was not done, nor has it ever been done. All experiments showing any tumors from aspartame have been done incorrectly and this includes the recent Soffritti et al work (2006,2007) that found leukemia, lymphoma, and mammary tumors (which are exactly three tumors caused by folate deficiency) and also the original Searle studies that have been criticized for finding tumors too and have falsely become the basis for this aspartame internet conspiracy. No studies have considered the importance of folate depletion nor taken it into account. Thus no studies have in any way shown aspartame to have any adverse effect in animals or humans. (The previous information was just presented in Seattle iin mid-March at the 2008 meeting of the Society of Toxicology)! This quoted ‘Myaspartameexperiment’ has been done incorrectly. You just cannot do this type of experiment using a simple control versus treated experimental design. The problem is that the aspartame in the treated animals hydrolyzes to methanol, which during any long term exposure depletes the vitamin folate, but only in treated rats. That she saw tumors merely confirms that folate deficiency causes tumors, which is already very well known. To do the experiment properly you would need a control group (fed 0 aspartame, that is feed), a treated group (fed varying doses of aspartame in the feed) and a folate supplemented, treated group (fed the same varying doses of aspartame in the feed). Unfortunatley this was not done, nor has it ever been done.

All experiments showing any tumors from aspartame have been done incorrectly and this includes the recent Soffritti et al work (2006,2007) that found leukemia, lymphoma, and mammary tumors (which are exactly three tumors caused by folate deficiency) and also the original Searle studies that have been criticized for finding tumors too and have falsely become the basis for this aspartame internet conspiracy. No studies have considered the importance of folate depletion nor taken it into account. Thus no studies have in any way shown aspartame to have any adverse effect in animals or humans. (The previous information was just presented in Seattle iin mid-March at the 2008 meeting of the Society of Toxicology)!

]]> By: sarena http://www.modernforager.com/blog/2008/03/31/digest-331/#comment-4421 sarena Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:07:15 +0000 http://www.modernforager.com/blog/2008/03/31/digest-331/#comment-4421 Off to teach my seniors w early onset alzheimers yoga class! Off to teach my seniors w early onset alzheimers yoga class!

]]> By: Bryanth Holman http://www.modernforager.com/blog/2008/03/31/digest-331/#comment-4415 Bryanth Holman Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:48:47 +0000 http://www.modernforager.com/blog/2008/03/31/digest-331/#comment-4415 Check out this private study on the artificial sweetener, asparatame (Equal,NutraSweet) http://myaspartameexperiment.com Check out this private study on the artificial sweetener, asparatame (Equal,NutraSweet)

http://myaspartameexperiment.com

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