Articles in English 2/28/2008
Generation E 951
There is more than one reason that the Danish Parliament is populated by sweet young girls, who stand up for a fashion show just as well as for at voter's meeting. They are nice and may well attract some votes. Rumour tells that they are even capable of saying some words. I speculate whether our parliament is likewise filled with young boys - but I can only think of one or two. Whether they look good, I will leave to others, but they should also be capable of speaking some words.
It won't sum up to much more, and now I know why.
There are other angles. I, who, via more than one media, works with something that should go for public enlightning, daily wonder how little interest my successors show in understanding their world. On this site, half of the visitors come from search engines. The following search word was on the list this morning: How can one get big breasts?
On another of my sites, mandens.dk, it is much worse. Here, the main interest gathers around shaving the "precious" parts, if it is OK with silicon breasts, if men like stretch marks, about online poker, blowjobs and much more.
I ask myself again and again: Are the heads of the younger part of the Danish population filled with anything? My frustrated answer so far: Obviously not. People are interested in games, sports, sex (of which they only get a touch anyway) and their own egos. My impression has for a long time simply been, that the present young generation is braindead.
Now I know why.
And that made me dub it Generation E 951.
This is the generation which grew up in an ocean of fat-reduced food - and became fatter and fatter. It's the generation being filled with light products, and thereby with E 951, which is EU's codename for the sweetener Aspartame. And has become dumber and dumber.
There has for some years been a lot of turmoil on foreign alternative media on Aspartame. It has obtained the honorable title of being the number one cause of the dumbing down of American children. These children suffer from two things: They are hyperactive to an extend that they must systematically and daily be filled with tranquillizing drugs. And they are incapable of concentrating in school and suffer learning disabilities.
In principle, this can be caused by many things, but a documentary I saw this evening convinced me that Aspartame plays a central role. Other sweeteners might do the same - and should be suspected to, until proved otherwise - but this documentary is about Aspartame: Sweet Misery - A Poisoned World. I found it on the homepage which has a nose for tracking up the most interesting stuff: Nylonmanden (The Nylon Man).
The documentary has a couple of clous. One is about fraudulent reports - which we are now used to from the pharmaceutical world - and fraudulent risk analyses. Another is about the effects of Aspartame on our bodies. Concerning the first, the point is that Aspartame was, in the early 1980'es, on the brink of not being approved in the US. That was by the time when there was still a last resource of honest scientists. Even in CDC, there were people who labeled the reports from the producer G.D. Searle "the lousiest piece of work seen in history". Then, our old friend Donald Rumsfeld came in as a director of Searle. He brought his political friends and his loyers with him, and when comrad Reagan became president, all reservations to Aspartame were swept off the table.
Since then - and by that reason - Aspartame has been legal in the US.
But not here in Denmark, I suppose? Not on such fraudulent grounds?
You don't know how Danish health authorities work. On the homepage of the Sundhedsstyrelsen, you can read that Aspartame was approved for beverages in Denmark in 1983. Since then, "the scope has been extended, and today, Aspartame may be addede to a long list of other nutrients, such as fruit yoghurt, icecream, marmelade and other fruit products, candy, marinade for fish and crayfish, sauces, diet food, vitamin and mineral tablets, beer, cider and certain types of snacks."
How can that happen? Does the Sundhedsstyrelsen not examine the products it approves? Well, as we read along, we learn that "The Danish authotiries approved Aspartame after a health assessment. The assessment was performed ... on the basis of a series of informations which the producer was asked to provide."
The producer??? Did they imagine that Searle should report that the drug was poorly tested, that the reports were manipulated and that Aspartame causes brain defects?
Calm down. Today, we don't need to have such cumbersome expectations. American health authorities are married to the pharmaceutical industry, nice people from FDA and CDC get nice jobs at Searle, and nice people from Searle get nice topjobs at FDA and CDC. They all bring their friends - we are one big (lucrative) family here.
Danish health authorities are now subdivisions of the EU Commission - which is married to the pharmaceutical industry. You can wonder why we still have these local national authorities which do not produce anything. And neither the EU Commission has anything against Aspartame.
The other point of the documentary is the effects of Aspartame on our bodies. Aspartame is, under digestion, broken down to it's three components: Aspargic Acid, Phenyl-alanin and Methanol. All three are affecting our brain - methanol also our sight and our liver. It is the so-called neurotoxic effects that are the most interesting.
In humans, the Phenyl-alanin is crossing the blood-brain barrier and changes the balance between the naturally present Phenyl-alanin and the "signal compound" Serotonin. The increased amount of Phenyl-alanin causes speedyness or even mania. There we have our hyperactive children.
In mouse brains, both amino acids cause destruction of tissue - which simply leaves cavities in the brain. There go our braindead children. Still young and with the stage ahead where brain tumors occur.
There are many more effects - you will learn about them in the documentary.
And then we are back to the beginning. For how come that so many of these young braindead people find their way into the Danish Parliament? I see two reasons: The old politicians, who have now run the show for a generation - and who have not grown up with E 951 - do not wish strong forces in the parliament. The younger, the dumber, the better. That is due to the next: The whole system of national parliaments is under abolition in the western world. Also here, the mantra is: The younger, the dumber, the better. The Danish Parliament has 179 members and present workload for 25. Those 154 shouldn't be too smart.
And the rest of the generation?
Well, let it be up to a test. Explain for some young people about your new knowledge of Aspartame in Cola Light, children's yoghurt, deserts, candy and snacks and see how they react. If you are lucky, they will politely listen until you are finished - and then start talking about how to get bigger breasts, if you think the Danish handball team will win the next VM, if you know this great site of free online poker, what it may cost to get the lips pumped with silicon. Aspartame? Oh, I forgot what you said - it's too boring.
Now I understand it. It is too much to contain for somebody who grew up with it. They probably shouldn't be blamed for it. But at least they should be told. |
