Dangers of Aspartame‏

On Jul 29, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Eric trauntvein wrote:

A guy was talking to me at work telling me how dangerous my soda was, I told him his diet was worse because the body treats Aspartame the same as sugar. I was wrong! the following attachments I am sending will tell you why I was wrong. there are just a few but there is a lot of solid proof send it around . Yes, I was wrong about the body treating Aspartame the same as sugar, how can one confuse poison with sugar, love eric

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David wrote: Your first statement was right in some regards. I heard this on the radio asone of the latest medical discoveries.

http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20050613/drink-more-diet-soda-gain-more-weigh

Eric wrote: I just wish that, someday, something I decide to do will be right. Sugar became the enemy in the '80s and now aspartame is the bad guy. I should have stayed with water.


Aspartame, a high intensity sweetener marketed under brands such as Equal, NutraSweet and Canderel, was first discovered in 1965. But because of initial cancer concerns, it was not approved for use in dry goods until the early 1980s. Over the next score of years, its use slowly expanded to beverages and other food products, until all restrictions for its use were removed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1996.


Although industry now keenly points to over 200 studies that prove its safety, aspartame has not fully rid itself of the black spot tainting its image.


Two years after one of the world's few comprehensive cancer-testing programs, the European Ramazzini Foundation (ERF), published its first study linking aspartame to cancer, the foundation last month (July 2007) again flagged up the dreaded link. And this second study has - again - resulted in a whirlwind of comment and controversy.


The Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that there is a link between sugar sweetened sodas and diabetes. Analysis of the eight year Nurses' Health Study II shows that women who increased their sugar sweetened soft drink consumption from one soda per week to one or more sugar sweetened soft drinks per day gained weight and had a higher risk of type II diabetes. Women who decreased their consumption of sugar sweetened sodas tended to lose weight and had a lower frequency of type II diabetes.


The best solution is to drink water. Drink at least half of your body weight in ounces of pure water every day.

Thanks to DRT Family

Myrna wrote: It is a great photo and I appreciate the good job of sending the news. What's to edit? It is great! Do you know, if we had as much water (as a state) as
you do, we would not be burning up! Love, M

Did the kids get the package? I'll bet the cookies were just crumbs but Dad (Gramps) insisted they needed to be mailed. Love, M

Arbree wrote: They loved the package and the cookies were still intact...they lasted about a day and the kids got maybe 2 or three. I think I got 1. You should have put David's name on the cookies. We love you too!!!

I believe that about the water.  I think Southern Utah might be in alot of trouble again as far as water is concerned.  What to do?  Tell people they don't need such green lawns.  Desert deserves desert landscaping.  Here you have to cut the lawn 3-4 times a week it grows so fast.  What to do...our next big investment a lawnmower. Hah hah hah!


Myrna wrote: Next time, I will send four packages of cookies--one for Bree, one for  David, one for Erin and one for Donovin. Do you think that will work? Love, M

Arbree wrote: Or you can send three to David and 1 fo me and the kids...Love you!


Myrna wrote: Thanks for the photos.

Also, thanks for the new phone number and the e-mail address. It was just in the nick of time. Melanie wanted to stop and see you and could not get in touch with you on the old phone number I gave her. I guess it was the REALLYold one.

I love you all.

That would be true in this house.

After watching the movie Cinderella, five-year-old Sarah started using her 
pinwheel as a magic wand, pretending she was a fairy godmother. "Make three 
wishes," she told her mother, "and I'll grant them."

Her mom first asked for world peace. Sarah swung her wand and proclaimed the

request fulfilled. Next, her mother requested for a cure for all ill 
children. Again, with a sweep of the pinwheel, Sarah obliged. The mother, 
with a glance down at her rather ample curves, made her third wish, "I wish 
to have a trim figure again."

The miniature fairy godmother started waving her wand madly. "I'll need more power for this!" she exclaimed.

Ann Olsen wrote:  It definitely would be true in my house!

From Charlotte Kilfoyle

Hello and how are all of you? Just printed the July Newsletter and plan to read it this evening.

With all the heat and our part time jobs (between) we must keep that water going on the beets, zuchs, tomatoes and cukes. All are harvesting in astounding numbers. The ground hogs have caused my purchase of gas bombs, they have severed many bean plants at the stem.

I do hope you are feeling better and the shoulder is mending. We have a visit with the
Abdominal Doc at this months end in SLC. Wally seems to be doing well overall. Take care, E-mail us.

Love, Charlotte

Kimo's Words

Kimo prepared the following to hand out and the viewing and the funeral services for Marie. He gave this out along with the program and obituary.

What happened on Saturday July 14, 2007

Marie and I were hiking Knotted Rope Canyon on the San Rafael Swell. While crossing a ledge around a pothole 20 feet across and 20 feet down, she fell. The rope she was on saved her from falling 20 feet but not from swinging and hitting the wall and breaking her arm and hurting her back. She then lowered herself down to the bottom into the water which happened to be over her head. I was supposed to bring her back up where I was. I had been able to protect, help and assist her in any situation she had been in since we were married. This time it was different. I was unable to lift her more than a few feet, she was still in the water up to her waist. I tried for 4 hours to get her up but failed. At 9 p.m. she succumb(ed) to pain, hypothermia & fatigue and couldn't keep her head out of the water and passed away.

President Spencer W. Kimball said in the Ensign December 1985 "It has been said that the of a righteous man is never untimely because our father sets the time. I believe this with all my soul."

Even though I'm torn up inside and can't imagine my life without Marie. I know now it was her time to go. She went doing what she loved. Exploring the beautiful wonders of the outdoors. There is a heavenly purpose in this experience and blessing will come to many in this life and the spirit world.

Kimo Coray

July '07 Newsletter

Myrna, 

What  a great job you do on this newsletter. Thanks so much for including me. I would love to come to visit you and learn about the family geneology. When would be a good time for you? 

Peggy Ann Self Olsen

How to get my Ged.com

Go to ancestry.com

Type in MyrnaTrauntvein (note the connection between names) and use the password I gave you on the phone and the e-mail address of mandlht@msn.com

When the page comes up it will say: "Looking for your family tree?" In the white box will be the following:
Go to "Myrna's .GED" and an arrow. Click on that and you have the whole thing. It is not finished but I am working on it almost every day trying to get it to the point where I have my ged that cannot open.

Hobble Creek Smith Reunion

The one Smith family reunion was in Hobble Creek Canyon. I had been there many times with Pearle and Fred. I think they liked the Rotary pavilion, but at least it was one of those. I was looking closely at the photos and then compared them with a couple I had of just my kids in that area. I am certain I am right. I wonder if Pearle and Fred arranged that reunion.

 To get there: take the 400 South Springville exit (260) from I-15, turning east on U-77. Go straight through Springville. As you begin to climb the foothills, you'll come to a 4-way stop. Turn right (southward) towards Hobble Creek Canyon. Springville City has three parks located in Hobble Creek Canyon. There are ten pavilions in these parks that can be reserved for a nominal fee. Parks are open April – September, weather permitting. Camping Loop is open through October, weather permitting. The canyon parks are watered and mowed at least once weekly. Your group may be asked to accommodate these activities. In an area where tents are pitched, tents will need to be moved every two days to preserve the grass. Ample parking areas are available. Parking vehicles, trailers or motor homes on the grass is not allowed. The camping loop at Jolley’s Ranch is never included with a pavilion reservation. If you choose to camp there, you will pay the camping fee. Camping in Kelly’s Grove and Rotary Park is only allowed with a pavilion reservation.

I Found a Description

Thanks for letting me know where the Hobble Creek Canyon is.

I've found one more direct ancestor. Thomas Mason, who was a taylor in
Bicester, was born 9 Jan 1789 in Bucknell, which is a village next to
Bicester. The register says: "1789 Jan 11 (privately; admitted Jan
18)(born Jan 9) - Thomas, son of Hannah MASON & Thomas FARRIN". So he
was illigitimate. I can't find either parent's ancestry at all. But they
were both married about 1891 to other people. The Bucknell register also
shows that Hannah MASSON (x, otp) married Thomas POWELL (x, otp) on 30
May 1791.[The x means they had to sign with a mark and otp means "of this
parish".] 

I found that Hannah and Thomas Powell had five children, and was able to
trace three of them - half siblings to Thomas Mason - and about 80 of
their descendents. I had a few of the descendents already in my PAF as
they had married people I had traced before. Quite a bit of intermarriage
in those little parishes.

Donnette

To Donnette Smith

Myrna wrote: Our family is lucky to have you! Thanks so much for the new information you have found. I think you have a genius for research and, in addition, are guided to the records of those wanting to be found. I wonder how you do it. I just marvel at what you find. How do you even know what record to search? As I said, I am certain you are guided.

You mentioned there had been a lot of intermarriage in some of the small parishes. I think that there was a lot of intermarriage in our church among the early saints. I am surprised to find relatives (on the Pitts and Edwards lines) with the same ancestry back a few generations. In other words, the lines meld. However, on the Edwards' line, I think there may have been some creative genealogy toward the end of the list of families. They claim to date back to Adam. A professional genealogist once asked me: "If you were the genealogist for the king and he told you to trace his ancestry to Adam, what would you do?" You would, to preserve your head, arrive at Adam through Julius Caesar. Which is exactly what they did. At least, up to the king, the genealogy is correct. I will be interested to see, in the final outcome, what is right.