Subject:  (Gordon) (Lundquist) Aspartame & EMF (fwd)
Date:     Mon, 1 Feb 1999 075511 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 08:26:00 -0500
From: jeff.gordon@wellnow.com
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Re: (emf) (Lundquist) Aspartame & EMF (fwd)

Hi, Roy --

>-An experiment to test for this interaction should be done, I think,
>-because however useful the data that Betty Martini has assembled may be
>-to individuals, the fact is that lots of people consume aspartame
>-without getting ill.  And there is also reason to suspect there may be
>-an association between diseases like M.S. and exposure to certain types
>-of EMF.

I agree with Marjorie on this point but would mention:  

The fact that "lots of people consume" anything without getting ill (that
we know of, during the time we're watching them, etc.) is a reasonable
notion, but it's also one that's often raised by conventional medical
scientists whenever a natural medicine proponent might mention, for
example, "fluoridation of our water supply is not a good idea".  It
partakes of the "risk assessment" model and the "one ailment, one
microcritter" model, neither of which appear to have served us very well.

I happened to mention to my father one day that my best information was
that fluoride was not very user-friendly, and maybe we should look into
getting him some water for drinking that hadn't come straight from the
tap.  

He replied, "I've been drinking this all my life and it hasn't hurt me
yet!"  

He said this, while undergoing chemo for prostatic cancer, while having
intermittent claudication in one leg, while taking digoxin for irregular
ventricular heart rhythm. 

While it's true that we don't see a large-scale pattern of college
youngsters turning up with seizures or MS-symptoms directly from aspartame
use, it's probably incorrect to think this means there's no effect from
such use.  

Several of the ailments that appear related to or aggravated by aspartame
ingestion are less "flashy" than those, including Fibromyalgia, for
example, which apparently has taken a sharp rise during the past decade or
so, and often among younger people.  That would be another candidate for
the potbellied pig experiment if we could figure how to measure it,
because it's known Fibromyalgia worsens with a shortage of decent sleep --
suggesting an EMF connection by way of melatonin, perhaps.

 -- Jeff --    http://www.wellnow.com

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