The information is all out there: aspartame is harmful to your body. Some people choose to believe it, some people choose to ignore it, and some people are simply unaware of it. The real issue is, how can we change it? Raising awareness is extremely important as a beginning stage, but it must go well beyond awareness to truly make a difference. The more people that know about the dangers of aspartame, the more action should be taken.
Speaking of change, there have been articles written by Obama supporters with hopes for him to appoint a new FDA commissioner that will ban the use of aspartame in products. As said by Steven Fox (http://www.opednews.com/articles/Stephen-Fox-Anti-Aspartam-by-Stephen-Fox-080902-750.html),
“My main hope tonight is that ALL Obama supporters can get off of aspartame, if there are any who are, since it is metabolized as Methanol and Formaldehyde, and that Obama supporters will use their influence to carry through after the election to get a real consumer protectionist appointed as FDA Commissioner.”
“My own personal nomination and hope would be for Dr. Howard Dean, M.D., to take such a position, or as US Secretary of Health, to whom the FDA Commissioner reports.”
Although we can go about change despite the FDA, the most effective way would be going through them. That, however, is much easier said than done. Considering the thousands of complaints by consumers that have been ignored by the FDA, our best bet is to get the right commissioner appointed who has consumer’s best health interests in mind. A new FDA commissioner is to be appointed coming the New Year, so now is our chance to take action toward the change we want to see.
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Stephen Fox // November 16, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Hey, thanks for posting this. Seems like two years ago I wrote those words above!
I have been hammering to try to hopefully see Obama appoint Dr. Howard Dean as FDA commissioner or as HHS Secretary. We will see what happens, and I expect this to be determined within 10 days.
If Obama is only focused on getting his Health Care Package through Congress, his aides, or perhaps only “unidentified sources,” whoever that might be, sometimes find Dr. Dean to be too abrasive to have “good relations” with Congress, which I find to be preposterous.
All of the Congressional schmoozing over the past 16 years has brought us nothing competent or corrective or beneficial at the FDA, whatsoever!
If Obama also wants to see major improvements in American Health, Dr. Dean deserves the job more than anyone else, and would do it better than anyone else, in my humble opinion.
This appointment, to me, signifies a kind of litmus test as to what Obama’s presidency will really be like: really beneficial change or more corporate manipulation of the FDA’s intended regulatory processes, to the point that most of the world has lost all respect for the efficacy and integrity of our FDA, which, after all, controls a full 25% of the US Economy, and as such should be a full Cabinet position reporting to the President, and not a foundling child and drone agency under the United States Health Secretary.
Watch this appointment very carefully, and if time permits, let Obama know what you think by sending him an email through his Senate Office.