Nevertheless, as the tobacco industry soft-peddles the hazards of smoking, so do Nutrasweet executives insist that aspartame are safely absorbed by the body. The late Dr. Morgan Raiford, a specialist in methanol toxicity, circulated a fact sheet in l987 deploring the sweetener's adverse effects on eyesight and the central nervous system. Once this destructive process has developed there is no visual restoration. Over the past year the writer has observed the fact that any portion of the central nervous system can and is affected. This can and will in time cause problems in learning.
Laboratory rats turn their noses up to any food with aspartame in it.
Yet every single morning, millions wake up to a steaming cup of coffee, RNA derivatives and methane. Pass the ant poison, please. Notes 1 Betty Martini, Mission Possible, private correspondence forwarded to author, July 9, 1996. 2 Martini, correspondence with author, July 9, 1996. 3 Company public relations release.