Subject:  (Lundquist) Aspartame & EMF (fwd)
Date:     Mon, 1 Feb 1999 061558 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 05:14:45
From: marjlundquist@usa.net
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Cc: marjlundquist@netscape.net
Subject: Aspartame & EMF

Several years ago I made the acquaintance of Betty Martini over the Internet and learned of the health problems that aspartame causes, according to the information she has assembled.  I thought it curious that airline pilots experience adverse health effects from consuming diet beverages, but the students on college campuses (who consume a good deal of aspartame-laced beverages) don't seem to be affected.  I know that pilots work in an environment that exposes them to quite a bit of RF radiation (e.g., airport radar) and wondered if this might explain why pilots seem to experience the adverse effects, but college students don't.
You see, one scenario for how RF fields exert adverse effects upon mammalian health postulates that they tend to catalyze chemical (and biochemical) reactions.  So I thought maybe people who drink diet soft drinks and are exposed to RF a lot are more actively metabolizing the aspartame than people who consume just as much, but don't have as much RF exposure.
Anyway, with this idea in mind, I wrote to the head of the FDA about two years ago and proposed that the FDA arrange for an experiment to be done to simultaneously test the effects of cellular telephones on the brain, and the effect of this RF exposure on aspartame bioeffects.  (I outlined an experiment using Vietnamese potbellied pigs, because the physiology of pigs is pretty close to that of human beings, and the test of the cellular phones would need to continue for an extended period of time.)
Of course, I never heard back from the FDA.  Since it has already approved aspartame, it is not likely to want to reverse that approval; and we know it is not spending any money on cellular phone studies.  But I thought it was a neat idea to try testing two concepts with one experiment.  (I would have had half the test pigs and half the control pigs on a normal diet, and half consuming aspartame, so as to test for an interaction effect between RF and aspartame, vs. RF control pigs and aspartame control pigs.)
Now that I reflect on it, maybe the RF should be whole-body pulsed microwave irradiation combined with aspartame, instead of cellular phone irradiation combined with aspartame.  Then it could be done on rats or mice, which would be cheaper than pigs.
But the basic idea is a good one.  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. -- Marjorie
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Marjorie Lundquist, Ph.D., C.I.H.
Bioelectromagnetic Hygienist
P. O. Box 11831
Milwaukee, WI  53211-0831  USA
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