From Betty Martini
Subject Dr. James Bowen on Aspartame and Weight Loss
7-28-00
"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."
James Bowen, M.D.
More information on aspartame 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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Diet products are everywhere. Diet pop, diet gum, diet cookies, diet mints, diet shakes, diet candy, diet meal replacements...the list is goes on.
And in most diet products, aspartame is found.
Aspartame goes under the common names of Nutrasweet, Equal and Spoonful. It is also found as a tabletop sweetener for coffee or tea.
Aspartame is used in diet products because it has less calories than sugar and thus the thinking is that by cutting calories using these products, you will lose weight.
But hold on there. If that's the case then why are most North Americans getting heavier?
Obviously many factors contribute to the rising rates of obesity however there have been several doctors, medical researchers and aspartame victims that have started to speak out about the damaging effects of aspartame, including the effects on weight loss.
While it would take forever to cover the growing evidence on the negative effects of aspartame, I'm going to focus here on the effects that aspartame seems to have on weight loss.
With all of the research piling up, I believe that yes, for some people, aspartame indeed may be hindering their weight loss. Here are the top 3 reasons why.
#1) Aspartame can make you actually crave MORE sugary sweets.
According to the book "Dieting Secrets that the Government Doesn't Want You To Know" by Astrid Lasco, B.Sc. M.Sc.,
"Aspartame is by far the most dangerous substance on the market that is added to foods"
She then goes on to quote several resources including Richard Wurtman, an MIT neuroscientist, whose studies have shown that aspartame makes you crave even more carbohydrates!
According to some experts, this is because the taste of aspartame (which is 180 times sweeter than sugar) in your mouth actually fools your body into thinking that sugar or high glucose carbs are coming it's way.
Your body then readies itself to receive that high glucose foods...but nothing comes. This then causes your body to crave that sugar or high-calorie carbs that it was expecting to get in the first place.
While this theory has not been proven (to my knowledge), it does make sense.
#2) Aspartame is difficult for your body to break down, which stresses your digestive system and causes it to store more of your food as fat.
This is a theory that seems to be supported by what happens AFTER people give up all aspartame. According to Dr. H.J. Roberts, people getting off aspartame completely lose an average of 15 pounds.
I've read several aspartame forum posts where people have said that after giving up aspartame completely, they lost pounds without changing anything else.
#3) Aspartame fools you into thinking that you can eat more than your body really needs.
This is more of a psychological problem involving diet products in gerneral. Diet products still do have calories (even though there are technically less calories than similar non-diet products).
When people consume diet products (including those with aspartame), they tend to think they can keep eating since they are eating diet foods.
Thus it's easy to eat a little more than usual since they think that the diet products have saved them calories. This results in actually more calories consumed and thus weight gain instead of loss.
Those are several reasons why aspartame can actually hinder your weight loss. If you'd like to see for yourself if aspartame is slowing down your weight loss, just try cutting it out for 2-3 months and see if that makes a difference.
Keep in mind the everyone is different and I encourage you to do your own research on this topic and make your own conclusions.
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From: Annette
I used to eat Lite Yogurt sweetened with Nutrasweet. It was great because it only had 60 cal for 6 oz, but it kinda tasted like medicine. Now I eat Cascade Fresh brand yogurt that is sweetened with fruit juice. It tastes so much better and is so much better for me (110 cal, though, but it's worth it to me).
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