P1: Explain Three Different Approaches To Health Education
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P1 Explain three different approaches to health education
For my health education campaign I have chosen to teach my listeners about sweeteners that are replacing sugar, such as Aspartame.
Aspartame is made up of three chemicals: Aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol.
NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure, all of these are brand names for aspartame, the most popular low-calorie sugar substitute used in more than 90 countries to sweeten foods and beverages. According to aspartame information its use can substantially lower the number of calories in food and beverage products by taking the place of sugar. It is used in many foods and beverages because it is about 200 times sweeter than sugar so you …show more content…
only need a very small quantity of aspartame used that will give the same level of sweetness, with few or even no calories.
This in turn, lowers the calories in the foods or beverages. To top it all off, it does not promote tooth decay, but despite its desirable qualities the use of aspartame has highly debatable due to its possible negative side effects.
There has been a significant growth in the use of Aspartame in the past two decades as the demand for sugar-free options has increased. It is estimated that 250 million people around the world consume aspartame. It is found in over 6000 products such as frozen desserts, gelatines, puddings, fillings, confections, chewing gum, carbonated or powdered soft drinks, tabletop sweeteners or yogurt. Some sugar-free pharmaceuticals like cough drops will also add aspartame.
In January, Dr.
Mercola found that Coca-Cola Co had launched an ad campaign, this time to assure its consumers that it has no or low-calorie beverages containing the artificial sweetener aspartame, a ‘safe’ alternative. According to the ad, aspartame is a “safe, high-quality alternative to sugar." Clearly they’ve not reviewed the hundreds of studies on this artificial sweetener demonstrating its harmful effects.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest’s (CSPI) Executive Director Michael F. Jacobson issued the following statement in response to Coca-Cola’s new ad:
“Aspartame has been found to cause cancer5, leukemia, lymphoma, and other tumors in laboratory animals, and it shouldn’t be in the food supply.”
Phosphoric Acid in Coca-Cola and Diet Coke has been shown to destroy bones by contributing to osteoporosis and destroying teeth. Aspartame, also known as Amino Sweet, has been linked to numerous diseases and health problems. Due to the mass marketing and consumption of Coke products, millions are addicted to these products due to the caffeine, sugar and aspartame.
Perhaps there should be a warning similar to the one on cigarette packages: "Coke Products May Be Hazardous to Your Health."
It would be so much better if companies like Coca Cola would phase out its use of aspartame and accelerating its research into safer, natural sweeteners such as those extracted from the stevia …show more content…
plant.
3 Different approaches
Historical Perspective
Aspartame (APM) is a non-saccharine sweetener; this means non-carbohydrate and differentiates it from other sweeteners like sucrose and glucose. It is also classified as artificial and non-nutritive. It is used as a sugar substitute in some foods and beverages. In 1965, James Schlatter, a chemist for G.D. Searle Company, accidentally discovered aspartames sweet taste when he licked his finger, while conducting tests to create a cure for stomach ulcers.
In 1985 Monsanto purchased G.D.
Searle, the chemical company that held the patent to aspartame, the active ingredient in NutraSweet. Monsanto was apparently untroubled by aspartame 's clouded past, including a 1980 FDA Board of Inquiry, comprised of three independent scientists, which confirmed that it might induce brain tumours. The FDA had actually banned aspartame based on this finding, only to have Searle Chairman Donald Rumsfeld, currently the Secretary of Defence, vow to "call in his markers," to somehow get it approved. On January 21, 1981, Searle re-applied to the FDA for approval to use aspartame in food sweetener, and Reagan 's new FDA commissioner, Arthur Hayes Hull Jr, appointed a 5-person Scientific Commission to review the board of inquiry 's decision. Hull personally broke the tie in aspartame 's favour. Hull later left the FDA under allegations of impropriety, served briefly as Provost at New York Medical College, and then took a position with Burston-Marsteller, the chief public relations firm for both Monsanto and GD Searle. Since that time he has never spoken publicly about
aspartame.
The Role of the Mass Media
Aspartame is the technical name for the brand names, NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure. It was originally approved for dry goods on July 26 1974, but objections filed by neuroscience researcher ‘Dr John W. Olney’ and’ Consumer attorney James Turner’ in August 1974, as well as investigations of G.D. Searle 's research practices caused the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to put the approval of aspartame on hold. In 1985, Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle and made Searle Pharmaceuticals and The NutraSweet Company separate subsidiaries.
Aspartame accounts for over 75% of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Many of these reactions are very serious including seizures and death as recently disclosed in a February 1994 Department of Health and Human Services report. A few of the 90 different documented symptoms listed in the report as being caused by aspartame include: Headaches/migraines, dizziness, seizures, nausea, numbness, muscle spasms, weight gain, rashes, depression, fatigue, irritability, tachycardia, insomnia, vision problems, hearing loss, heart palpitations, breathing difficulties, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, loss of taste, tinnitus, vertigo, memory loss, and joint pain.
According to researchers and physicians studying the adverse effects of aspartame, the following chronic illnesses can be triggered or worsened by ingesting of aspartame: Brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, mental retardation, lymphoma, birth defects, fibromyalgia, and diabetes.
Aspartame is under heavy fire. Monsanto knows Aspartame 's days are numbered and in attempts to continue to gain profits by these devious tack ticks, Monsanto is marketing Aspartame under more of the following surnames: D-Aspartic Acid, Neotame, XyloBurst, Sweet Thing, Genuine Joe sweetener, UBA Zerocal sweetener, Moka Mate, Natra Taste, N 'Joy.
Monsanto Chemicals has estimated well over 250 Million people who use Aspartame all day every day. That means there are 250 Million humans who are beginning to suffer, are constantly suffering, who will suffer in the future, who are currently dying and the countless millions of people Monsanto Chemicals has knowingly, already murdered with Aspartame since 1976. Aspartame is the consummate covert "Population Control Device".
National Campaigns
This website I have accessed is particularly aimed at our GP 's and other medical practitioners.
It is a little known fact that the artificial sweetener Aspartame, is 10% methanol by weight, consequently, we have all been consuming small amounts free methanol in our diets every day for the last 27 years. As a result we could all be suffering symptoms of varying levels of methanol poisoning. Everyone needs to be aware of that, especially our medical professionals so they make others aware.
There are hundreds of thousands of cases of people who claim to have suffered harm through their consumption of aspartame - Note: Americans especially have been consuming aspartame for 29 years at a level 25% higher than in the UK. This evidence of harm has been labelled "anecdotal evidence" by our food scientists, which means that in their eyes it is unreliable. GP 's Note: The symptom of “anecdotal evidence” exactly matches that of methanol poisoning - ... could this just be a coincidence?
In the 2009 review of the safety of aspartame, the EFSA National aspartame Experts analysed 1059 aspartame injured cases and attributed the below symptoms to consumption of the following list of foods sweetened by aspartame, they are in order of the number of times mentioned:-
Diet Soft drinks, Diet Coke/Pepsi, Tabletop sweetener, Chewing Gum and sweets, Sweetened coffee/teas, Desserts, Medicines and nutritional supplements, Chocolate mixes, Cereals, Other.
Headaches, dizziness, joint pains, palpitations, skin itching without a rash, stomach pains, low vision or blindness, depression, Irritability and anger, Panic disorder, Nausea and vomiting, Speech disturbances, Reduced mental functionality (forgetfulness etc.), Breathlessness, frequent urination, disturbed sleep.
All the above symptoms and more have been reported by people who are convinced they were caused by the ingestion of aspartame in our diet over a period of time (3 months to 20 yrs.) “We are convinced aspartame was the cause of our suffering since by simply STOPPING consumption of ANY products containing aspartame, most of the symptoms disappeared immediately or significantly improved over time.”
Higher users of aspartame in "diet" products experienced a period of withdrawal after stopping consumption, this can take some time to pass, and since they were likely to have a chemical sensitivity to aspartame, they would react badly if they consumed it again.
References:
Stretch and Whitehouse (2010) Health and Social care Book 2 –Pearson education, Essex
Aspartame information (2014) - http://www.aspartame.org/about/consumer-products/#.VDJ60bd0wdU
Accessed
06/10/2014
Dr. Joseph Mercola. (1997- 2014) http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/28/soda-aspartame.aspx http://killercoke.org/health_issues.php Accessed
06/10/2014
Rich Murray
How Aspartame Became Legal - http://www.rense.com/general33/legal.htm
Accessed
08/10/2014
Marvin J. Rosenthal (2009)
Global Campaign to Ban Aspartame - http://www.globalcampaigntobanaspartame.org/
Accessed
08/10/2014
Dr Betty Martini D. Hum
UK Aspartame awareness campaign - http://www.aspartame-awareness-campaign.co.uk/about.html
Accessed
08/10/2014
Dr. Joseph Mercola (1997-2014)
Most Dangerous Substance On the Market - http://www.mercola.com/article/aspartame/nutrasweet_scandal.htm
Accessed
08/10/2014
James S. Turner
The Aspartame / NutraSweet Fiasco - http://www.stevia.net/aspartame.htm
Accessed
08/10/2014
P1 Explain three different approaches to health education
For my health education campaign I have chosen to teach my listeners about sweeteners that are replacing sugar, such as Aspartame.
Aspartame is made up of three chemicals: Aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol.
NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure, all of these are brand names for aspartame, the most popular low-calorie sugar substitute used in more than 90 countries to sweeten foods and beverages. According to aspartame information its use can substantially lower the number of calories in food and beverage products by taking the place of sugar. It is used in many foods and beverages because it is about 200 times sweeter than sugar so you …show more content…
only need a very small quantity of aspartame used that will give the same level of sweetness, with few or even no calories.
This in turn, lowers the calories in the foods or beverages. To top it all off, it does not promote tooth decay, but despite its desirable qualities the use of aspartame has highly debatable due to its possible negative side effects.
There has been a significant growth in the use of Aspartame in the past two decades as the demand for sugar-free options has increased. It is estimated that 250 million people around the world consume aspartame. It is found in over 6000 products such as frozen desserts, gelatines, puddings, fillings, confections, chewing gum, carbonated or powdered soft drinks, tabletop sweeteners or yogurt. Some sugar-free pharmaceuticals like cough drops will also add aspartame.
In January, Dr.
Mercola found that Coca-Cola Co had launched an ad campaign, this time to assure its consumers that it has no or low-calorie beverages containing the artificial sweetener aspartame, a ‘safe’ alternative. According to the ad, aspartame is a “safe, high-quality alternative to sugar." Clearly they’ve not reviewed the hundreds of studies on this artificial sweetener demonstrating its harmful effects.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest’s (CSPI) Executive Director Michael F. Jacobson issued the following statement in response to Coca-Cola’s new ad:
“Aspartame has been found to cause cancer5, leukemia, lymphoma, and other tumors in laboratory animals, and it shouldn’t be in the food supply.”
Phosphoric Acid in Coca-Cola and Diet Coke has been shown to destroy bones by contributing to osteoporosis and destroying teeth. Aspartame, also known as Amino Sweet, has been linked to numerous diseases and health problems. Due to the mass marketing and consumption of Coke products, millions are addicted to these products due to the caffeine, sugar and aspartame.
Perhaps there should be a warning similar to the one on cigarette packages: "Coke Products May Be Hazardous to Your Health."
It would be so much better if companies like Coca Cola would phase out its use of aspartame and accelerating its research into safer, natural sweeteners such as those extracted from the stevia …show more content…
plant.
3 Different approaches
Historical Perspective
Aspartame (APM) is a non-saccharine sweetener; this means non-carbohydrate and differentiates it from other sweeteners like sucrose and glucose. It is also classified as artificial and non-nutritive. It is used as a sugar substitute in some foods and beverages. In 1965, James Schlatter, a chemist for G.D. Searle Company, accidentally discovered aspartames sweet taste when he licked his finger, while conducting tests to create a cure for stomach ulcers.
In 1985 Monsanto purchased G.D.
Searle, the chemical company that held the patent to aspartame, the active ingredient in NutraSweet. Monsanto was apparently untroubled by aspartame 's clouded past, including a 1980 FDA Board of Inquiry, comprised of three independent scientists, which confirmed that it might induce brain tumours. The FDA had actually banned aspartame based on this finding, only to have Searle Chairman Donald Rumsfeld, currently the Secretary of Defence, vow to "call in his markers," to somehow get it approved. On January 21, 1981, Searle re-applied to the FDA for approval to use aspartame in food sweetener, and Reagan 's new FDA commissioner, Arthur Hayes Hull Jr, appointed a 5-person Scientific Commission to review the board of inquiry 's decision. Hull personally broke the tie in aspartame 's favour. Hull later left the FDA under allegations of impropriety, served briefly as Provost at New York Medical College, and then took a position with Burston-Marsteller, the chief public relations firm for both Monsanto and GD Searle. Since that time he has never spoken publicly about
aspartame.
The Role of the Mass Media
Aspartame is the technical name for the brand names, NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure. It was originally approved for dry goods on July 26 1974, but objections filed by neuroscience researcher ‘Dr John W. Olney’ and’ Consumer attorney James Turner’ in August 1974, as well as investigations of G.D. Searle 's research practices caused the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to put the approval of aspartame on hold. In 1985, Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle and made Searle Pharmaceuticals and The NutraSweet Company separate subsidiaries.
Aspartame accounts for over 75% of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Many of these reactions are very serious including seizures and death as recently disclosed in a February 1994 Department of Health and Human Services report. A few of the 90 different documented symptoms listed in the report as being caused by aspartame include: Headaches/migraines, dizziness, seizures, nausea, numbness, muscle spasms, weight gain, rashes, depression, fatigue, irritability, tachycardia, insomnia, vision problems, hearing loss, heart palpitations, breathing difficulties, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, loss of taste, tinnitus, vertigo, memory loss, and joint pain.
According to researchers and physicians studying the adverse effects of aspartame, the following chronic illnesses can be triggered or worsened by ingesting of aspartame: Brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, mental retardation, lymphoma, birth defects, fibromyalgia, and diabetes.
Aspartame is under heavy fire. Monsanto knows Aspartame 's days are numbered and in attempts to continue to gain profits by these devious tack ticks, Monsanto is marketing Aspartame under more of the following surnames: D-Aspartic Acid, Neotame, XyloBurst, Sweet Thing, Genuine Joe sweetener, UBA Zerocal sweetener, Moka Mate, Natra Taste, N 'Joy.
Monsanto Chemicals has estimated well over 250 Million people who use Aspartame all day every day. That means there are 250 Million humans who are beginning to suffer, are constantly suffering, who will suffer in the future, who are currently dying and the countless millions of people Monsanto Chemicals has knowingly, already murdered with Aspartame since 1976. Aspartame is the consummate covert "Population Control Device".
National Campaigns
This website I have accessed is particularly aimed at our GP 's and other medical practitioners.
It is a little known fact that the artificial sweetener Aspartame, is 10% methanol by weight, consequently, we have all been consuming small amounts free methanol in our diets every day for the last 27 years. As a result we could all be suffering symptoms of varying levels of methanol poisoning. Everyone needs to be aware of that, especially our medical professionals so they make others aware.
There are hundreds of thousands of cases of people who claim to have suffered harm through their consumption of aspartame - Note: Americans especially have been consuming aspartame for 29 years at a level 25% higher than in the UK. This evidence of harm has been labelled "anecdotal evidence" by our food scientists, which means that in their eyes it is unreliable. GP 's Note: The symptom of “anecdotal evidence” exactly matches that of methanol poisoning - ... could this just be a coincidence?
In the 2009 review of the safety of aspartame, the EFSA National aspartame Experts analysed 1059 aspartame injured cases and attributed the below symptoms to consumption of the following list of foods sweetened by aspartame, they are in order of the number of times mentioned:-
Diet Soft drinks, Diet Coke/Pepsi, Tabletop sweetener, Chewing Gum and sweets, Sweetened coffee/teas, Desserts, Medicines and nutritional supplements, Chocolate mixes, Cereals, Other.
Headaches, dizziness, joint pains, palpitations, skin itching without a rash, stomach pains, low vision or blindness, depression, Irritability and anger, Panic disorder, Nausea and vomiting, Speech disturbances, Reduced mental functionality (forgetfulness etc.), Breathlessness, frequent urination, disturbed sleep.
All the above symptoms and more have been reported by people who are convinced they were caused by the ingestion of aspartame in our diet over a period of time (3 months to 20 yrs.) “We are convinced aspartame was the cause of our suffering since by simply STOPPING consumption of ANY products containing aspartame, most of the symptoms disappeared immediately or significantly improved over time.”
Higher users of aspartame in "diet" products experienced a period of withdrawal after stopping consumption, this can take some time to pass, and since they were likely to have a chemical sensitivity to aspartame, they would react badly if they consumed it again.
References:
Stretch and Whitehouse (2010) Health and Social care Book 2 –Pearson education, Essex
Aspartame information (2014) - http://www.aspartame.org/about/consumer-products/#.VDJ60bd0wdU
Accessed
06/10/2014
Dr. Joseph Mercola. (1997- 2014) http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/28/soda-aspartame.aspx http://killercoke.org/health_issues.php Accessed
06/10/2014
Rich Murray
How Aspartame Became Legal - http://www.rense.com/general33/legal.htm
Accessed
08/10/2014
Marvin J. Rosenthal (2009)
Global Campaign to Ban Aspartame - http://www.globalcampaigntobanaspartame.org/
Accessed
08/10/2014
Dr Betty Martini D. Hum
UK Aspartame awareness campaign - http://www.aspartame-awareness-campaign.co.uk/about.html
Accessed
08/10/2014
Dr. Joseph Mercola (1997-2014)
Most Dangerous Substance On the Market - http://www.mercola.com/article/aspartame/nutrasweet_scandal.htm
Accessed
08/10/2014
James S. Turner
The Aspartame / NutraSweet Fiasco - http://www.stevia.net/aspartame.htm
Accessed
08/10/2014