0 German pupils told to keep chewing as scientists applaud the use of Aspartame filled Gum

• Thursday 2 December 2010 18.09 GMT 
  
  There was a time when there was no better way to irk a teacher than to chew gum in the classroom. But German schoolchildren are now being encouraged to do just that under a scheme to increase concentration and encourage learning.
  
  In a pilot project at a primary school in Bavaria pupils are being given sticks of gum and told to chew them during lessons and at break time. It follows research which concluded that continuous chewing stimulates the brain.
  "The positive effect of chewing probably lies in the fact that the part of the brain in the brainstem that keeps us alert is constantly stimulated, as a result of which the attention level rises, as does the flow of blood to the brain and with it the ability to learn," said Siegfried Lehrl, head of the Society of Brain Training and a scientist at the University of Erlangen.
  Hans Dasch, headteacher at the Volkenschwand primary school in Bavaria, said he had decided to introduce active gum chewing because "children need to come to school without any fear and to feel contentment.
  "The learning environment needs to match their needs, which is why we're encouraging them to chew gum during break times and in lessons."
  He said sugar-free gum had an added health benefit in that it kept teeth clean during meals.
  The plan was met with scepticism in some quarters, particularly by those concerned that it would encourage anti-social habits, and by others worried about the disposal of the used chewed gum.
  "Estimates for Germany's towns and communities show that around €900m is spent on cleaning chewing gum from our streets every year," said historian Thomas Paulwitz, who penned his criticism of the project in a newspaper column. He said Germany's inner cities were on average littered with 35 pieces of gum a square metre, with each piece taking two minutes to remove at a cost of more than €1 a time.
  But Dasch insisted his children were being encouraged to abide by certain rules. "They have made a firm agreement with teachers that they will keep their mouths closed while chewing, unless they want to speak, and that they will dispose of the gum in a proper manner."
  Claims have long been made about the benefits of gum on concentration levels. In 2002 scientists from the University of Northumbria found people who chewed gum saw a 35% improvement in their ability to recall words.
  Soldiers of the United States military have been supplied with free gum since the first world war due to the belief that it boosts soldiers' concentration and helps to relieve stress.
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/02/germany-pupils-chewing-gum-bavaria 
   
   There's a big Agenda behind the above story....Aspartame which is now found in every single chewing gum,
  Aspartame is an artificial sweetner used in “sugar-free” products such as diet sodas and chewing gum. Since its discovery in 1965, Aspartame caused great controversy regarding its health risks – primarily causing brain tumors – and was denied its application to be sold to the public by the FDA. Searle, the company attempting to market Aspartame then appointed Donald Rumsfeld as CEO in 1977 … and things changed drastically. In a short period of time, Aspartame could be found in over 5,000 products.
  
  “Donald Rumsfeld was on President Reagan’s transition team and the day after he took office he appointed an FDA Commissioner who would approve aspartame. The FDA set up a Board of Inquiry of the best scientists they had to offer who said aspartame is not safe and causes brain tumors, and the petition for approval is hereby revoked. The new FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull Hayes, over-ruled that Board of Inquiry and then went to work for the PR Agency of the manufacturer, Burson-Marstellar, rumored at $1000.00 a day, and has refused to talk to the press ever since.”
   Scores of Prominent Doctors have warned of the dangers ..including  Dr James Bowen, M.D. who as far back as 2005
  Wrote that,
  Aspartame in chewing gum is absorbed directly though the buccal mucosa of the tongue, mouth, and gums, making it a far worse poisoning than even if it were given intravenously.The nerves serving this area and their vascular supply derive directly from the brain, so the Aspartame absorbed through them goes directly into the brain, by passing the spinal cord and blood brain barrier.
  
  The intact Aspartame molecule and its diketopiperazine form are vastly worse poisonings than any of the other poisonings which arise from it during digestion, and liver processing of the digestive blood, which is delivered directly to the liver via the portal vein. The other poisonings, as mentioned, are indeed horrendous but Aspartame from gum is far worse, making even the smaller amounts contained in chewing gum strikingly dangerous and damaging. This is doubtless why Wrigley placed it in all their products!
  Aspartame, via ingestion into the digestive tract, is made into some ten other poisonings by the digestive processes, and then excepting that which is delivered directly to the pancreas, they are transported straight to the liver via the portal vein, where they then are very partially dealt with, and partially reprocessed. Afterwards, they are sent in somewhat lesser concentration to the entire body, lessening the amount which eventually goes to the brain. The amount getting to the brain from either source is devastating to it in many ways. Aspartame is most certainly devastatingly toxic when ingested, but a like amount is immensely worse when obtained from chewing gum.
  When the CBS Evening News crew visited my Ridgefield Washington clinic, mid January of 1984, and Dan rather forbade them to make a program of what they learned there, one of them reported that she got a roaring headache if she chewed even a half stick of Aspartame gum! This devastation of the human brain is the primary reason why this brain washing agent, designed to keep us from questioning or objecting to what they are doing to our country and our world, is being slipped into us in spite of its horribly failing the toxicity studies, which revealed it to be a very strong carcinogen, indeed the number one brain carcinogen ever discovered by science! (The US brain cancer rate jumped 10% the first six months after Aspartame was added to diet pop!) Three cans of pop per day for only sixty days also caused an immediate 250% increase in visible human illness! Right up front!