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REVIEWS SWEET POISON in NEXUS 2/28-3/01 and website.) She How the World's Most Popular came across the damning evidence that the Artificial Sweetener is Harming Us FDA knew of aspartame's health dangers by danet Starr Hull back in the mid-1970s, yet approved it for Vision Paperbacks, UK, 2001 use as a "table-top sweetener" in 1981. ISBN 1-901 250-45-8 (227pp tpb) Sweet Poisons both a personal account of Price: A$33.95; NZ$39.95; £9.99 Any yan hang a stem Sam 5 . - - 1(07 ing about the severe risks associated with area AWakeh ald Press tcl (08) eho consuming aspartame-laced food and drink. 8800; NZ—NEXUS Office, tel (09) 405 ra UNDERWATER AND 1963; UK—Vision Paperbacks/Satin Publications, tel +44 (0)20 7928 5599, UNDERGROUND BASES website www.visionpaperbacks.demon. by Richard Sauder, PhD co.uk; TBS Ltd, tel 01206 255637 Adventures Unlimited Press, USA, 2000 ISBN 0-932-813-88-7 (257pp tpb) Price: AUD$35.00; NZD$49.00; £15.50; NLG#47,90; US$16.95 + US$2.50 s&h in USA, US$3.00 to Canada Available: Australia/NZ/UK/Europe— . NEXUS offices; USA—Adventures Unlimited, tel (815) 253 6390, email F o Ss o N auphq@frontiernet.net, website www.adventuresunlimitedpress.com his new book from Richard Sauder, How the Word's Mos! Pooular PhD, is a sequel to Underground Bases Annichi Swesener and Tunnels: What is the government trying ip Hamming Us to hide? (AUP, 1995; see 2/26) Here, Sauder considers the technical feasibility of constructing secret, massive, offshore under- water bases as well as vast underground Janet Starr H ull installations, thousands of feet deep, con- nected by tunnels. The technology has been t's hard to believe that an environmental around for decades—as have many of these scientist with some knowledge of chemi- secret bases, supposedly—and has only cals and their effects could take a year to become more sophisticated. The tunnels are realise the cause of her piercing migraines, rumoured to criss-cross continental USA, dizzy spells, hair loss and erratic periods, the underground facilities connected by but at least Janet Starr Hull eventually did. very-high-speed MagLev trains. After a bout in hospital and being diagnosed Dr Sauder draws on data obtained under with Graves' disease, she decided to check Fol and includes anecdotal accounts with a the labels of the "sugar-free" and "diet" good sprinkling of his own speculation processed foods and drinks at home and then _ based on circumstantial evidence. Some of realised the cause of her woes: her intake it is particularly compelling, e.g., notes from over the previous year of copious quantities US Army engineering tenders and manuals, of the artificial sweetener NutraSweet, the an appendix of tunnels built by the Bureau active ingredient known as aspartame. of Reclamation in the western states, and a Janet discovered a growing body of knowl- __ list of private companies involved in tunnel- edge on the health dangers of aspartame and boring projects. Much of this kind of under- was amazed to learn that she was not alone ground work, if not conducted by the mili- in her life-threatening symptoms. She radi- tary (army, navy and air force) and federal cally changed her dietary intake, eliminating agencies like the CIA, NSA and FEMA, is all "diet" drinks and processed foods in undertaken by contractors who are bound by favour of pure, whole foods. Sure enough, national security restrictions. The existence her symptoms went away and her health of undersea/underground projects and instal- returned. Then she presented her findings to Jations is thus enormously difficult to verify her dumbfounded doctor who had wanted to and document, considering their highly clas- irradiate and destroy her thyroid to treat her _ sified nature and the likelihood that the bulk incurable "Graves' disease". of the funding comes from "black budgets" In her studies, Janet discovered that the that are not disclosed through the usual con- FDA acknowledges 92 side effects of aspar-_gressional processes. tame and that this toxic substance, which Dr Sauder would never have written this should never have been allowed into the book if he'd waited around for all the details food supply, can be found in 5,000-odd to be declassified. We just have to be con- foods on the grocery shelves. (See articles tent with the peripherals for now. SWEET POISON How the World's Most Popular Artificial Sweetener is Harming Us by Janet Starr Hull Vision Paperbacks, UK, 2001 ISBN 1-901250-45-8 (227pp tpb) Price: A$33.95; NZ$39.95; £9.99 Available: Aust—NEXUS Office, tel (07) 5442 9280; Wakefield Press, tel (08) 8362 8800; NZ—NEXUS Office, tel (09) 405 1963; UK—Vision Paperbacks/Satin Publications, tel +44 (0)20 7928 5599, website www.visionpaperbacks.demon. co.uk; TBS Ltd, tel 01206 255637 SWEET POISON How the Workd’s Mos! Popular Antic! Swestaner is Hamming Us Janet Starr Hull t's hard to believe that an environmental scientist with some knowledge of chemi- cals and their effects could take a year to realise the cause of her piercing migraines, dizzy spells, hair loss and erratic periods, but at least Janet Starr Hull eventually did. After a bout in hospital and being diagnosed with Graves' disease, she decided to check the labels of the "sugar-free" and "diet" processed foods and drinks at home and then realised the cause of her woes: her intake over the previous year of copious quantities of the artificial sweetener NutraSweet, the active ingredient known as aspartame. Janet discovered a growing body of knowl- edge on the health dangers of aspartame and was amazed to learn that she was not alone in her life-threatening symptoms. She radi- cally changed her dietary intake, eliminating all "diet" drinks and processed foods in favour of pure, whole foods. Sure enough, her symptoms went away and her health returned. Then she presented her findings to her dumbfounded doctor who had wanted to irradiate and destroy her thyroid to treat her incurable "Graves' disease". In her studies, Janet discovered that the FDA acknowledges 92 side effects of aspar- tame and that this toxic substance, which should never have been allowed into the food supply, can be found in 5,000-odd foods on the grocery shelves. (See articles JUNE — JULY 2001 NEXUS + 77 www.nexusmagazine.com