SWEETENER SCARE HITS HOME WITH MILLIONS Los Angeles, CA - October 26, 1996 - (ACSN) -- Millions watched as Paramount Pictures' HARD COPY TV show took on the makers of the artificial sweetener, Aspartame, and the FDA, two days in a row, on national television this week. Anti-Aspartame Activists from Dallas based Aspartame Consumer Safety Network were featured telling their stories. Pilots with seizures from aspartame (who lost their medical certification to fly) were seen and heard telling the world about the "Ticking Time Bomb" in every cockpit on every flight. It's Aspartame... in the form of gums, breath mints, Equal,[now, Neotame and AminoSweet],diet soft drinks, kool aid type drinks and foods laced with the sweetener. ACSN's leaders have been featured previously on: ABC TV's NIGHTLINE, 60-Minutes,
LARRY KING LIVE, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, CBN NEWS, THAMES TV, warning the world of the hushed up Aspartame Epidemic. Two Commercial Airline Pilots were featured talking about their grand mal seizures. One in the cockpit, in flight. Both lost their "medical certification to fly" as dozens of other pilots have, they blame their medical problems on Aspartame. Worldwide Pilot's Hotline has also heard from other airline pilots who've reported grand mal seizures in the cockpit in flight. A huge audience watched incredulously as Senior NutraSweet Medical Consultant, Robert Moser, M.D., extolled the virtues of Aspartame (a well documented neurotoxin) for use by: "children, pregnant women and lactating mothers ... " One interviewee, the mother of a four year old who died and was brought back to life in the ER, believes her daughter has suffered irreparable brain damage from consumption of the sweetener in the form of children's vitamins. A 30 year old diabetic described a debilitating stroke after his heavy consumption of the sweetener. His doctor then told him to stay away from it. Well-known Neurosurgeon/Author, Dr. Russell Blaylock, told of treating patients in his practice who have sustained serious neurological damage from their use of this "Excitotoxin." A University Professor who suffered from Graves Disease after beginning to use the sweetener in shakes and soft drinks in lieu of meals, to lose a few pounds, was shown also. Mary Nash Stoddard, Founder of the Aspartame Consumer Safety Network (1987), has successfully reached millions around the world following life threatening experiences in her life, due to exposure to Aspartame. Now, with the advent of her WorldWide Pilots Hotline in 1988, following a request from a famous F-16 pilot who can no longer fly, she reaches out to Commercial Airline Pilots, Military Pilots and others to educate them regarding the reported dangers to pilots of consuming the sweetener. Her warnings were published a few years ago in the official USAF Flying Safety publication, and in dozens of flying publications around the world. Stoddard claims Aspartame is "The Ticking Time Bomb" in every cockpit, on every flight. And, no amount of heightened airport security can stop it. Only vast volumes of information contained in her files can. The flying public needs to know. Airlines need to send memos to their pilots, as one has already reportedly done. The FAA should formally advise their members of this danger. Thousands of adverse reactions have been documented by ACSN and the Pilot's Hotline. In these first few hours following this week's HARD COPY expose' of Aspartame's effects on the consuming public (Pilots, Children, Diabetics, etc.), emails, phone calls, and frantic requests for more documentation are flooding the Aspartame Consumer Safety Network office in Dallas, Texas, USA. ACSN's website: http://www.aspartamesafety.com/ has had thousands of "hits" from people searching for more information on Aspartame's deadly effects on members of the flying community as well as the general public. People are stepping forward with their own "horror stories" and negative experiences they've associated with ingestion of a neurotoxin. Founder of ACSN, Mary Nash Stoddard, well known to pilot's as their "Guardian Angel" was the only consumer activist invited to present findings at the first International Conference on Sweeteners this past July in Jerusalem. (She has qualified in court proceedings as an Expert Witness on the subject.) Increasingly in demand as a speaker and vital resource for members of the media and others investigating this issue, Stoddard's world network, Aspartame Consumer Safety Network, is finally receiving the credibility and legitimate status she has worked so hard for well over 2 decades to achieve. "Saving lives through education and information" is their motto. Aspartame Consumer Safety Network (1987) WorldWide Pilots Hotline (Div. of ACSN) http://www.aspartamesafety.com/
