Stevia wikipedia
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Stevia is a genus of about 240 species of herbs and shrubs in the sunflower family (Asteraceae), native to subtropical and tropical regions from western North America to South America. The species Stevia rebaudiana, commonly known as sweetleaf, sweet leaf, sugarleaf, or simply stevia, is widely grown for its sweet leaves. As a sweetener and sugar substitute, stevia's taste has a slower onset and longer duration than that of sugar, although some of its extracts may have a bitter or licorice-like aftertaste at high concentrations.

With its extracts having up to 300 times the sweetness of sugar, stevia has garnered attention with the rise in demand for low-carbohydrate, low-sugar food alternatives. Medical research has also shown possible benefits of stevia in treating obesity and high blood pressure. Because stevia has a negligible effect on blood glucose, it is attractive as a natural sweetener to people on carbohydrate-controlled diets.

The availability of stevia varies from country to country. In a few countries, it has been available as a sweetener for decades or centuries; for example, stevia is widely used as a sweetener in Japan where it has been available for decades. In some countries, stevia is restricted or banned. In other countries, health concerns and political controversies have limited its availability; for example, the United States banned stevia in the early 1990s unless labeled as a supplement, but in 2008 approved rebaudioside-A extract as a food additive. Over the years, the number of countries in which stevia is available as a sweetener has been increasing.

Aspartame and Lou Gehrigs and Gulf War Syndrome
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Another recent article by Bob Mackle is titled Two Studies Show Gulf War Vets Have Double ALS Risk:

"Two new studies appearing in the journal Neurology, one privately funded, the other federally supported, both report an above-average occurrence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis among Persian Gulf War deployed veterans." (Sept 23rd issue)

"A privately funded study by Robert W. Haley of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and a government-funded study by Ronnie D. Horner of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesa, Md., both depict a roughly two fold risk of ALS development for U.S. veterans who were actively deployed in the Persian Gulf between August 2, 1990, and July 31, 1991, when compared with nondeployed U.S. military personnel."

"With deployed troops developing ALS more frequently and, maybe more importantly, much earlier in life than average, the two studies raise the question of whether an environmental factor could have triggered an early onset of the disease."

How aspartame causes Lou Gehrigs
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Is there a connection? The government sent boatloads of diet drinks to the Gulf where they sat in the Arabian sun for weeks decomposing into formaldehyde cocktails, which the troops drank constantly to avoid dehydration. In September the peer-reviewed journal Neurology published ground-breaking studies by scientists at the Department of Veterans Affairs - concluding that Gulf War veterans, most in their 20's and 30's during the war, are contracting ALS at nearly three times the expected rate for their age group. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a horrible neurological affliction occurring to people in their 60s which gradually destroys all mobility, even the ability to swallow. Nevertheless the victim remains mentally alert, a prisoner in a private hell, his body a degenerating cage, awaiting the inevitable. The sequence is gradual, total: incapacity, humiliation, loss of physical control, paralysis, death. A ghastly reward for patriotism!

James Bowen, M.D. experienced terrible Lou Gehrigs symptoms and was being progressively destroyed, but as an MD and biochemist his research revealed that these symptoms are frequently associated with aspartame poisoning. He discontinued aspartame/NutraSweet/Equal and recovered most of his abilities and he believes many Desert Storm victims are similar aspartame victims, and if they discontinue this recognized neurotoxin in time they may well recover. Dr Bowen describes aspartame poisoning as minute doses of nerve gas that eradicates brain and nerve function. Dr. Russell Blaylock says in Health & Nutrition Secrets To Save Your Life: "In the case of diet drinks in aluminum cans, the very toxic brain aluminum fluoride compound co-exists with multiple toxins found in aspartame, thus creating the most powerful government approved toxic soup imaginable."

Arthur Hull Hayes and aspartame
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ARTHUR HAYES JR. - FDA Commissioner (1981-1983)
Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr. received an M.D. from Cornell in 1964. Hayes served a two-year stint in the Army's Chemical Weapons division under President Richard Nixon.

In 1981, after over 15 years of FDA disapproval of aspartame, G.D. Searle CEO Donald Rumsfeld, in a Searle sales meeting, vowed to "call in his markers" to get aspartame approved. Twenty days later, Ronald Reagan was sworn in as 40th President of the United States, appointing Rumsfeld as Special Envoy to the Middle East and Arthur Hull Hayes Jr. - a friend of Rumsfeld's - to FDA commissioner.

On January 21, 1981, the day after Ronald Reagan's inauguration, Searle re-applied to the FDA for approval to use aspartame in food sweetener. Reagan's new FDA commissioner, Arthur Hayes, appointed a 5-person Scientific Commission to review the board of inquiry's decision.

It soon became clear that the panel would uphold the ban by a 3-2 decision, but Hayes then installed a sixth member on the commission, and the vote became deadlocked. He then personally broke the tie in aspartame's favor. Hayes later left the FDA under allegations of impropriety, served briefly as Provost at New York Medical College, and then took a position with Burson-Marsteller, the chief public relations firm for both Monsanto and GD Searle. Since that time he has never spoken publicly about aspartame (Monsanto bought G.D. Searle in 1984 and the aspartame business become Monsanto subsidiary NutraSweet Co).

Burson-Marsteller also handled Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol crisis publicity campaign.

In November 1983, two months after leaving the FDA, Hayes was hired under a ten-year contract with Burson Marsteller [he received $1,000 per day for each day worked. It's not known how many day he worked.].- Rummy, Aspartame and Swine Flu , Aspartame Timeline , The Artificially Sweetened Times

Media Fraud
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Sunshine Act, enacted in 1976, provides that 'every portion of every meeting of an agency shall be open to public observation.' But the Act includes ten specified exemptions.

The 1982 Tylenol murders investigation, like most murder investigations, was never closed. But it was effectively inactive by early 1984. So, as we entered 2009, the 25 year FOIA exemption had come to an end. Nevertheless, the FBI might, as they are known to do, refuse to comply with a FOIA request, lose important documents, or produce documents so heavily redacted they would be of little use.

Wayne Nelson and the Tylenol Murders
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Wayne K. Nelson was the founder, President and Chairman of McNeil Consumer Products Company. He was promoted to Group Chairman of J&J International in September 1982, just days before the Tylenol murders. His replacement at McNeil was a lawyer who'd grown up in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago and who had many lawyer friends living in the Chicago area. Nelson was credited with launching the Tylenol programs that made it the top selling analgesic in the U.S. Nelson was a Member

Tylenol and McNeil (tylenol.com)

Tylenol Recall
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MCNEIL CONSUMER HEALTHCARE ANNOUNCES VOLUNTARY RECALL OF ONE PRODUCT LOT OF TYLENOL® 8 HOUR CAPLETS 50 COUNT SOLD IN THE UNITED STATES AND PUERTO RICO

October 18, 2010 - Fort Washington, PA – McNeil Consumer Healthcare, Division of McNEIL-PPC, Inc., is recalling one product lot of TYLENOL® 8 Hour caplets 50 count bottles to the retail level. McNeil is taking this action following a small number of complaints of a musty or moldy odor. The uncharacteristic odor is thought to be caused by the presence of trace amounts of a chemical called 2,4,6-tribromoanisole. This voluntary action is being taken as a precaution and the risk of adverse medical events is remote. To date, observed events reported to McNeil for this lot were temporary and non-serious.

The product lot number for the recalled product can be found on the side of the bottle label.
FULL RECALLED PRODUCT LIST:

triggered nausea, stomach pain, vomiting and diarrhea. J&J described the reactions as "temporary" and "non-serious" in its Dec. 18 release, saying then it believed the contamination was due to the breakdown of a chemical in the wooden pallets used for shipping.

Chicago Tylenol murders wikipedia
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During the initial investigations, a man named James W. Lewis sent a letter to Johnson & Johnson demanding $1 million to stop the cyanide-induced murders. Police were unable to link him with the crimes, as he and his wife were living in New York City at the time. He was convicted of extortion, served 13 years of a 20-year sentence, and was released in 1995 on parole. WCVB Channel 5 of Boston reported that court documents, released in early 2009, "show Department of Justice investigators concluded suspect James W. Lewis, who now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was responsible for the poisonings, despite the fact that they did not have enough evidence to charge him." Lewis continues to deny responsibility for the poisonings.[4][5]

A second man, Roger Arnold, was investigated and cleared of the killings; however, the media attention caused him to have a nervous breakdown, and he blamed a bar owner, Marty Sinclair, for the police investigation of him. In the summer of 1983, he shot and killed John Stanisha, whom he mistook for Sinclair, but who was, in fact, an innocent man who did not know Arnold.[6] Arnold was convicted in January 1984 and served 15 years of a 30-year sentence for second degree murder. He died in June 2008.

Laurie Dann, who poisoned and shot victims in a May 1988 rampage in and around Winnetka, Illinois, was briefly considered as a suspect, but no direct connection was found.[7]

Tylenol Murders/J&J hires retired FBI agents
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On February 4, 2009, the FBI reactivated the 1982 Tylenol murders investigation. A few days later officials in Yonkers, NY tagged along, stating they'd reactivated the 1986 Tylenol murder investigation.

The Daily Herald - Feb. 4, 2009: On Wednesday, FBI agents searched the Cambridge, Mass., home of former accountant and convicted extortionist James W. Lewis, who authorities have long considered a prime suspect in the slayings. It marked the first recent movement in the stone-cold case that triggered a nationwide panic and prompted police officers and firefighters to drive through suburban towns using bullhorns to warn residents against taking Tylenol.

Stevia still banned FDA conspiracy
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When Ronald Reagan was sworn in as President of the United States, Reagan’s transition team, (incl. Rumsfeld), picked Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes Jr. to be the new FDA Commissioner. In one of his first official acts as the new FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hayes approved Aspartame. Dr. Hayes resigned two years later and took a job with Burson-Marsteller, Searle’s public relations firm, as a senior scientific consultant. Burson-Marsteller also represented several of Aspartame’s major corporate users.

Burson- Marsteller Global Leadership
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Mark Penn is worldwide CEO of Burson-Marsteller, a leading global public relations and public affairs agency, and President of Penn Schoen Berland (PSB), a strategic research firm. He has served as a senior adviser to corporate leaders like Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Bill Ford, and helped to elect over 25 leaders around the world, including serving as senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. Mark is also author of the best-selling book “Microtrends” and a regular guest on cable television and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

Mr. Penn has been called “Master of the Message” by Time Magazine; “The king of polls” by The London Times; an “incandescent intellect” by The New York Times; “the modernizer” by PR Week. On his wall are notes saying “you were brilliant” from Tony Blair after his historic third win and “thanks” from Bill Clinton after his impeachment acquittal along with photos of Penn working with CEOs including Bill Gates and Bill Ford, Jr. The Washington Post, in “Politics and Policy by the Numbers” summed up his influence in the White House and the corporate boardroom as a “unique vantage point: adviser to the preeminent innovator of the past decade in the realm of politics, Bill Clinton, and the preeminent innovator in the realm of business and technology, Bill Gates.” In 2008 he was chief strategist for Hillary Clinton.