ASPARTAME-News

February 16, 2004

Lotta good info packed in here. "It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from the government."-Thomas Paine 'The Rights of Man' circa 1792.---- Dr. Betty Martini02/12/04 17:54:33webmasterSubject: Aspartame: Sweet Anxiety and Demise, Causing so much Depression andSuicide. Stop new American Water Star selling aspartame water. For ImmediateRelease Dear Webmaster, Please see that the Alliance for Human Research Protection gets thisinformation. It will answer a lot of questions they have on why childrenare so depressed and committing suicide. Two thirds of the population and 40% of the children in this country areusing products with aspartame

(NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful/Canderel, Benevia,E951, etc.). It is a neurotoxic drug, a deadly chemical poison, andmasquerading as an additive. The 50% phenylalanine in it as an isolate is neurotoxic and goes directlyinto the brain. It lowers the seizure threshold and depletesserotonin. When you lower serotonin it triggers manic depression orbipolar, mood swings, anxiety, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, panic attacks,paranoia, hallucinations, etc. It also interacts with ALLantidepressants. In fact, it interacts with just about every drug used totreat the problems it causes. This is all discussed in the huge medicaltext, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic by H. J. Roberts,M.D. www.sunsentpress.com or 1 800 827 7991 The concern also in this country right now is obesity anddiabetes. Aspartame is the cause of this in my opinion as it's a drug thatmakes you crave

carbohydrates so you gain weight. See the protest of theNational Soft Drink Association which is part of the congressional record -www.dorway.com Also read Dr. Sandra Cabot's paper: Aspartame Makes youFatter. The Trocho Study in l998 showed the formaldehyde converted fromthe free methyl alcohol in aspartame accumulates in the cells and damagesDNA with most toxicity in the liver. When the liver is this toxic it iseven difficult to lose weight. It also showed substantial toxicity in theadipose tissue or fat cells. If you want to get fat, NutraSweet is whereits at. Dr. Roberts who wrote the medical text and declared aspartame disease to bea global plague is a diabetic specialist. He says aspartame canprecipitate diabetes, aggravates and simulates diabetic retinopathy andneuropathy, destroys the optic nerve and can even cause diabetics to gointo

convulsions. It keeps blood sugar out of control and interacts withinsulin. So the epidemics of obesity and diabetes obviously are aspartame. Someschools want to remove pop machines which is wonderful but they think theobesity is coming from regular soda. Most of the obesity is no doubtcoming from diet soda so when they say it's alright it just misinforms thepublic. Now American Water Stars wants to put aspartame water in theschools. It is a publicly traded company, new and is engaged in thebeverage bottling industry. Their latest product is Hawaiian Tropic, anaspartame tropical drink. And they are using athletes to advertise thisstuff and get it in schools. Go to www.wnho.net and click onaspartame and read how aspartame causes an irregular heart rhythm andinteracts with all cardiac medication, damages the cardiac conductionsystem and causes sudden

death. The athletes no doubt are dropping deadfor this reason. It is not the ephedra which is a wonderful product usedfor thousands of years. The cases were reviewed by Dr. John Olney, one ofthe most renowned neuroscientists in the world today and who founded thefield of neuroscience called excitotoxicity. Read the ephedra story too onwww.wnho.net. In one of the cases of supposedly reactions from ephedra inthe FDA files some parent thought their son had a reaction because hedidn't go to church and left his wife. This is the kind of stupidity theFDA uses to try and get healthful products banned so industry will get theprofits as drugs. The FDA in this country has become an abomination. Theyknow aspartame interacts with most drugs and is also a chemicalhypersensitization agent so it interacts with other toxins and vaccines,fluoride,

etc. Yet they do nothing. They only act when its a benefit toindustry and something that harms consumer's ability to secure thingsneeded for good health. The point is if athletes push American Water Star's aspartame productsthey will use them, as well kids and schools. And little children aredropping dead along with young athletes. In the Daily Herald in Illinoison 2/10/2004, it said "The goal is to detect symptoms of hypertrophiccardiomyopathy, an inherited heart disease that can lead to sudden cardiacdeath. It is a condition affecting roughly one in every 500 people and 90per cent of sudden cardiac deaths involve young athletes." First of all,aspartame can trigger cardiomyopathy and there is an article about it onthe web site of the World Natural Health Organization under aspartame. Andwhile 90% seems a bit high as adult athletes as well as other

consumers arealso dropping dead, it makes an important point - athletes are at risk ofdeath big time. Whoever heard of this and especially being in the newsall the time before aspartame was approved. One recent cartoon showeddefibrillators being distributed from a drive-in restaurant. As the DailyHerald said: "Many high schools have installed automatic externaldefibrillators to assist athletes who go into sudden cardiac arrest. Andso many of the young are dropping dead from SCD there is even anorganization called CRY about it. There is also an organization calledSADD having to do with sudden death. True some cardiac problems can beinherited but few know aspartame can cause such things as cardiomyopathy,attributing to a lot of these deaths. Also, when athletes exercise theyare depleting magnesium and if they only knew to use it, it

would helpprotect the heart. But all athletes need to be warned - DO NOT TOUCHASPARTAME (NUTRASWEET/EQUAL, ETC.) PRODUCTS IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE. The American Water Star Company even has a product for grade school agechildren, Geyser Sport, sugarfree. This company needs to beinvestigated. Because they have made remarks against the anti-aspartamemovement when questioned, it means they know about it and are marketing itanyway. Any new company checking on aspartame would know immediately ofits toxicity. If you search aspartame on google it will bring up 225,000and the first two are the Aspartame Toxicity Center,www.holisticmed.com/aspartame and www.dorway.com which houses the MissionPossible records on this toxin including government records, the damningCenter for Disease Investigation, 8 month investigation by United PressInternational and reports and articles from the world

experts. There is theFDA report of 92 symptoms and even the FDA audit, the Bressler Report. Dr.Roberts and I both spoke to Jerome Bressler who wrote it and he said it wasso bad that when the FDA retyped it they removed the 20% that was the mostdamning. Dr. Roberts asked his congressman to get it but, of course, theFDA refused to release it because it indicts them for covering it up. Nowit becomes "confidential". Today Mission Possible operations and activists are in 50 states and morethan 22 countries of the world warning consumers off the toxin to savetheir life. There are aspartame detoxification centers throughout the USand a couple in other countries. There is a shelf of medical texts on thesubject of aspartame toxicity and dangers. American Water Star, Inc. has toknow what they are doing. They MUST BE INVESTIGATED NOW BEFORE THEIRPRODUCTS CAN CAUSE

GREAT AFFLICTION. How important is it? Since aspartamecan cause sudden death we must stop the "sweet demise" of our children bymanufacturers who want to market this poison because they knowits addictive and a cash cow. They have no concern it is destroying theirbrains. The methanol in aspartame is classified as a narcotic. Thechronic methanol poisoning affects the dopamine system of the brain andcauses the addiction. Imagine for a moment that all children in school were using aspartamewater; they would all be affected and it has been proven that most allusing aspartame would show the effects of consuming the toxin. FromAspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic by H. J. Roberts, M.D., page 504: "The following experience of Dr. Miguel Baret Daniel in the DominicanRepublic (personal communication, Nov 19, l999) underscores the adversemental

effects of aspartame in children: "I have been working with a pediatrician giving nutritional support tochildren with diabetes. Since cow's milk has a specific protein that cancause diabetes, especially in children, I removed milk from the diet of 360children studying in public schools in my country. These 360 children werenot diabetic, but I removed the milk for prevention. The pediatricianstarted noticing that a considerable number were having what I call a kindof "brain allergy" - showing abnormal restlessness, lack of concentration,irritability and depression. In the beginning, I suspected it washappening because of the extreme heat we were having those days. But thenthe weather changed, and the situation didn't get better. So I took a lookat their diet and discovered that ALL of them were drinking a lot of onekind of concentrated juice sweetened with

ASPARTAME. They drank about 6oz. twice a day. "I talked to their parents, and asked them to impress upon the childrenthat they should not drink that juice anymore for awhile. The results wereas astonish. Their symptoms disappeared within 4-5 days in ALL of them!" Dr. Baret Daniel also called me at the time this happened. He told me thatwhen the kids went from milk to aspartame sweetened juice it was anincredible thing to see because almost all were afflicted with theseproblems. Had a few demonstrated these handicaps it would have been hard tofind the trigger but since almost all developed the complications he knewit had to be aspartame. That was the only change made in the diet of thechildren. He got on the Internet and started researching and seeing thataspartame was known for causing the reactions he was seeing he knew he hadfound what he was looking

for. He asked for more research and when hecalled again he said: "I had the children stop taking aspartame juice andin about 4 days all their problems had ceased and they returned tonormal. How could this stuff be approved and allowed for children? " Dr. Roberts has also said you must consider aspartame when you think ofchildren killing children. And he said in his text with reference todepression and suicide that the following points warrant emphasis: * An estimated ten percent of teenagers suffer significant depression.* The relation between "junk food" and depression in children seemsconvincing.* The superimposition of aspartame-induced emotional reactions uponexisting social and medical problems among children and teenagers couldhave tragic consequences.* The rate of suicide among teenagers, especially white males, isincreasing. This was underscored by the

l986 annual Morbidity andMortality Weekly report. Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D. has a lecture on www.dorway.com andmentions the reactions to aspartame are not allergic but toxic like arsenicand cyanide. If you don't want your children consuming arsenic youcertainly need to educate them not to use aspartame. At this point we do not know if fluoridated water is being used in theseplastic bottles, but fluoride does interact with aspartame as does theplastic bottles. In a discussion with Dr. James Bowen about this"Destruction Water" he said: "The technologically advanced US military is having problems findingsoldiers who can even correctly operate the weaponry. The reason for thisis a 15% FALL IN THE AVERAGE high school graduate's IQ: Due to theineffective, medically unsound immunization program, fluoridation of thewater supply, and Aspartame. We have a whole new tier of

diseasesengendered by these neurological damaging agents. Prominent amongst theseare the MtDna diseases like Diabetes, Autism and other "PervasiveDevelopmental Disorders." Many high school graduates now cannot correctlyperform even basic math calculations! Not only does Aspartame damage the immune system, but genetics also,especially the Mt DNA. This has resulted in an immense epidemic of CHz,"Chemical Hypersensitivity disease." This makes it difficult or impossibleto learn in much of the indoor air, as in our schools, for example. Theplastics which leach into bottled waters contribute to this Aspartameengendered problem. Banning pop machines is a step in the right direction,but replacing pop with plastic bottles of Aspartame water will mean onlygreater intake of Aspartame, and more plastic tainted water. The Schoolsneed to educate, and provide a proper learning environment by protectingthe

students from all such agents, and having them drink pure water fromfluoride free drinking fountains." Let's turn things around. For a moment imagine all aspartame productsremoved from the schools and the children only consuming nutritiousfood. Like Dr. Baret Daniel's case where all children were consumingaspartame, this is an example where all kids were not consumingaspartame. It is often called Miracle in Wisconsin. The ADD people tookthe worst school in Wisconsin with the most learning problems andbehavioral problems and removed pop machines and vending machines with allthe junk and additives. Then they put "real food" in the schools. At theend of the program the worst school in Wisconsin became the best schoolwith zero learning problems or behavioral problems. I believe the story ison the Safe Harbor web site. Aspartame is also a teratogen and causes

birth defects and mentalretardation. Aspartame has a synergistic and additive effect withMSG. Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., wrote Excitotoxins: The TasteThat Kills about aspartame and MSG., www.russellblaylockmd.com His newbook Health & Nutrition Secrets to Save Your Life reveals all theinteractions, exposes lies from industry, and tells you how to get well andimprove the immune system. It's a book hard to put down. His paper onwhat to do if you have used aspartame is on www.wnho.net You will find itunder the registry of articles. The FDA once tried to get the manufacturer of aspartame indicted underTitle 18, Section 1001, as they were lying and giving misinformation, etc.Today the FDA is guilty themselves of Title 18, Section 1001. The FDA didtry to keep it off the market. Searle was not indicted because both

U.S.Prosecutors hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitationsexpired. They refused to approve it for 16 years but CEO of Searle was DonRumsfeld, now Secretary of Defense. He said he would call in his markersand get it approved anyway. He was on President Reagan's transition teamand the day after he took office he appointed Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes as FDACommissioner. No FDA Commissioner would ever approve aspartame but Dr.Hayes was there to do just that. So the FDA set up a Board of Inquiry oftheir best scientists and it was the decision of the Board that aspartamewas not safe and caused brain tumors. They said to revoke the petition forapproval as you will see in the summation on www.dorway.com Dr. Hayesover-ruled the Board of Inquiry and then went to work for the PR Agency ofthe manufacturer and has refused to talk to the press ever

since. He hadaccomplished what he was sent to the FDA to do. Rumor has it Dr. Hayeswas paid by Burson-Marsteller $1000.00 a day, but I'm sure it can bechecked out. What does an FDA Commissioner do in a PR firm? Perhaps sendpostcards home from Bermuda. Yes, Dr. Hayes was paid for his crime inallowing the marketing of a deadly chemical poison for human consumption. Some years ago Fox news, Washington DC, went to Dr. Hayes home for acomment. He shut the door in face and told them to go back to the FDA. Youcan hear the audio of it on www.dorway.com No doubt millions haveperished from aspartame as it is a trigger of what Dr. Blaylock calls -creeping death, the neurodegenerative diseases. In original studies itcaused brain, mammary, uterine, ovarian, testicular, pancreatic and thyroidtumors - for starters. It is a Class A carcinogen and

violated the DelaneyAmendment as FDA toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross told congress in l985. TheDelaney Amendment forbid putting anything in food you know will causecancer. Now the Delaney Amendment has been conveniently repealed. Justwho decided it was okay to put components in food that would cause cancer??Dr. Gross' last words to Congress will always be remembered "And if the FDAviolates its own laws who is left to protect the public?" Dr. Gross wasthe FDA toxicologist who wanted Searle indicted, as did FDA toxicologistDr. Jacqueline Verrett who told congress all studies were built on afoundation of sand and should be thrown out. There is no protector for the people, the reason for Mission PossibleInternational, an unpaid global volunteer force alerting the publicaspartame is a deadly chemical poison, a neurotoxic drug. Millions of babies are murdered in their

mother's womb by aspartame and theFDA and industry refuse to allow a warning for pregnant women. Dr. JamesBowen says in Aspartame Murders Infants, "Aspartame is sold as NutraSweetand Equal and is in thousands of foods and diet drinks. At every point inthe fertility process aspartame destroys, beginning with the gleam in Momand Pop's eyes. It ruins female sexual response and induces male sexualdysfunction. Beyond this, aspartame disrupts fetal development by abortingit or inducing defects. And if a live child is born aspartame may haveheinously damaged the DNA of the baby, cursing future generations." AndAmerican Water Star would like school children drinking aspartamewater. Dr. Roberts says in his text under cognitive problems that thedeterioration of intelligence and learning skills in aspartame reactors isevidenced by slippage in school performance. "It may

take a generation orlonger to ascertain the full extent of this problem." The symptoms and diseases triggered by aspartame fill a 1038 page medicaltext. Dr. Roberts talks about the high concentrations of phenylalanine ininfancy can interfere with the synthesis of myelin. They inhibit specificATP-sulfurylase activity within the central nervous system (Hommesl987). He says this issue is relevant to the simulation or aggravation ofmultiple sclerosis by aspartame. Of course, aspartame destroys the centralnervous system and causes methanol toxicity. However, Dr. Roberts says itsthe whole chemical mess. The FDA actually allows a product to be marketedwith free methyl alcohol. It's called insanity. Cori Brackett is a woman who used lots of aspartame and was diagnosed bythe Mayo Clinic as having MS, and with the largest lesion ever diagnosed inan MS

patient at the clinic. Cori decided to do her own research and readthe reports on www.dorway.com She got off aspartame and walked out of herwheelchair. The lesion in her brain has now disappeared. She also made anaspartame documentary called Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World. It can bepre-ordered now and those interested can contact me and I'll forward yourinformation. To tell you how serious these problems with aspartame are, Cori filmedDiane Fleming in a prison in Troy, Virginia. Diane Fleming is a sweetSunday School teacher who helped the homeless. Her husband Charles was abody builder and played basketball about four times a week. He also was anaspartame addict using at least 10 diet drinks a day along with Metrex withaspartame, Equal and lots of prescription drugs, Gatorade andcreatine. She tried to get him to cut down on things she

thought dangerousbut he told her "more is better". He paid with his life. When he died thepolice seeing the methanol poisoning on autopsy thought she poisoned him,even though she tried to help the police and she passed her polygraph withflying colors. In talking to one policeman yesterday, however, who was onthe case he said: "I know Diane Fleming is an innocent woman. I've put alot of people in prison and some were executed but I always knew I hadgotten a killer off the sheet. I would not have allowed this innocentwoman to be indicted but I was promoted and couldn't prevent it. How couldI have ever slept if I had caused a guiltless woman to be imprisoned." Diane is an aspartame victim herself because she was lied to by the FDA andindustry and the professional organizations they fund and thought it wassafe. She went through depression when she lost

her husband and was put onZoloft. Zoloft interacts with aspartame. So even at her trial she couldshow no emotion, she was drugged by the very same poison that killed herhusband. I hope you are enraged when you read this. Diane thought she wasso blessed by having a wonderful husband and happy life that she wanted togive something back. She taught the word of God, and she bought clothesfor the homeless and helped them once a week in a hands on matter. Doesthe FDA know about this? Of course, they do and could care less. Thisdoesn't effect the industry they are so loyal to. To them its just anothervictim and they have turned their back on the victims of aspartamedisease. It was even mentioned in congressional hearings the FDA wasgetting so many complaints on aspartame they referred them to the AIDSHotline to get rid

of them. I filed a Citizens Petition to ban aspartame based on the fact the FDA'srecords show it to be a chemical poison and they lie to the public. TheFDA has 180 days by law to answer. It will be two years in June andtheir last letter said they have competingpriorities. Translation: "Since we're guilty and you're right, we justwon't answer and continue to serve above the law." Then we have to deal with front groups who mislead the public which is acrime under Title 18, Section 1001. The Calorie Control Council, as anexample is registered to the Aspartame page. Their lies are legend butrecently they crossed the line of human dignity by writing the Miami Heraldand saying aspartame is safe for pregnant women knowing full well it cankill the baby. They know the Trocho Study shows how much toxicity aspartamecauses in the liver, so it can cause

advanced liver disease. Yet they alsosaid people with advanced liver disease can use aspartame. Even the FDAhas a prohibition against those with phenylketonuria using aspartamebecause they can't metabolize the phenylalanine in aspartame. It can causebrain damage or even be fatal. Yet, Calorie Control Council also saidpeople with PKU can use this toxin. The interesting thing about aspartame is its toxicity is a matter of publicrecord. If we don't know what a deadly poison can cause after over 20years we're in bad shape. The CCC even said aspartame doesn't get in theblood stream when an aspartame manufacturer has shown that it can in theirown study. As an example, in Aspartame, Physiology and Biochemistry,Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, L.D. Stegink and L. J. Filer, Jr., l984(Pro-industry, Significantly corporate Sponsored), on page 161 it showsthis study by

Ajinomoto, an aspartame manufacturer: TISSUE DISTRIBUTION OF ORALLY ADMINISTERED ISOTOPICALLY LABELED ASPARTAMEIN THE RAT Yoshimasa Matsuzawa and Yuichi O'Hara, Life Science Laboratory,Central Research Laboratories, Ajinomoto Company, Inc. Yokohama, Japan. Page 162: RESULTS: Phenylalanine Moiety: "The pattern of distribution of(U-14CPhe) aspartame following its oral administration was very similar tothat of (U-14C) phenylalanine after 0.5, 2.6 and 24 hr and 7 days. Thirtyminutes after administration of these compounds, very high levels ofradioactivity were observed in the lumen of the stomach and upper smallbowel. Significant uptake of radioactivity was observed in the pancreas,gastrointestinal mucosa, hair follicles, salivary gland andliver. Radioactivity was observed in the kidney, adrenal gland, bonemarrow, spleen and eye. Some radiolabel was observed in

the pancreas,gastrointestinal mucosa, hair follicles, salivary gland andliver. Radioactivity was observed in the kidney, adrenal gland, bonemarrow, spleen and eye. Some radiolabel was localized to the brain, spinalcord, heart, thymus, lung and testes." In one of the original manufacturer's pivotal studies, a 52 Week Oraltoxicity Infant Monkey Study (SC-18862) where 7 infant monkeys were fedaspartame, 5 had grand mal seizures and 1 died. The data revealed by thispivotal study submitted to FDA renders false the CC's assertion thataspartame does not enter the blood stream. Elevated levels ofphenylalanine in the blood of monkeys fed medium and high levels ofaspartame prove that the compound is absorbed in the blood stream. Thebrain seizures followed. We must stop the disability and death to our children by this deadlypoison. It's all a matter of public record and ANYONE who wants

to seethese records a lot of them are available on www.dorway.com andwww.wnho.net and www.holisticmed.com/aspartame as well as otherlinks. You can go to www.greatfallspro.com and get a CD of the ENTIREBoard of Inquiry saying aspartame is not safe and the petition for approvalis revoked. It also contains Dr. John Olney's testimony to the Board ofInquiry telling them what would happen to the brains of our children ifaspartame is approved. Unfortunately, that prophecy has beenfulfilled. Also on the CD is the entire l985 congressional record withscientists and victims testifying on how deadly it is. If you read someonetrying to get away with saying its safe it will be like a professionalorganization, like the ADA's who are funded by themanufacturer. Monsanto's media flacks are the dietitians. So many timeswhen the news get out the dietitians will come to the defense

of themanufacturer. Monsanto has sold NutraSweet but as Mohammed Ali once said"They can run but they can't hide". On www.aspartame.ca which is Mission Possible Canada you can read a newreport on why these isolated amino acids in aspartame are so deadly. Ithas been written by Dr. James Bowen and Arthur Evangelista, a former FDAInvestigator who acknowledges that aspartame is a deadly chemical poison. Dr. Ralph Walton has written a report that is on www.dorway.com onscientific peer reviewed research and funding showing that 92% of allindependent studies not controlled or funded by the manufacturers ofaspartame show the problems it causes. And he says if you eliminate 6studies by the FDA because of the controversy (linked to industry) and onepro-aspartame summary, 100% of independent scientific peer reviewed studiesshow the problems aspartame causes. What more is

necessary to prove howdeadly this toxin is as the epidemics it causes skyrocket. And there isinformation on the flawed studies of industry and how they get away with it. Our kids are getting a high on Listerine strips and havingseizures. Pfizer doesn't care and no longer answers my mail. I guess theyare making too much money. Walmart as well sells aspartame water as wecontinually get the complaints from the victims. They simply send back thepropaganda even though they are told and told and told it is not valid andgiven references and medical texts, etc. that reveal the truth. Wrigleywho we have written for years about the danger of aspartame in gum insteadof removing it has put it in almost all their gums. When aspartame isbuccal, and being a neurotoxic drug, works like nitroglycerin under thetongue, goes through saliva straight to the brain. And it causes so

manyseizures. Obviously Wrigley doesn't care. Our kids are being medicated in school instead of educated, and if you readDr. Olney's report to the Board of Inquiry of the FDA you will see what hesaid would happen to the brains of our kids has happened. The Idaho Observer wrote the Diane Fleming story and you will also see iton www.wnho.net, click on aspartame. They have also published theArtificially Sweetened Times which contains the story of Diane Fleming andmore in order to help the effort. When 192 people dropped dead for noapparent reason the Idaho Observer wrote the Center for Disease Control acertified letter to investigate. They didn't even care enough toanswer. Stay tuned for the new Artificially Sweetened Times which iscontinually being published to alert the public and get this poison off themarket. www.Idaho-Observer.com We ask that you pass

this article on to the ends of the earth to helpalert the public and stop this genocide. Help save the children! Thereare four aspartame support groups on line to help the victims. Remember the words of Senator Abraham S. Ribicoff in l971: "The chemicalswe ingest may affect more than our own health. They affect the health andvitality of future generations. The danger is that many of these chemicalsmay not harm us, but will later do silent violence to our children." Inthe case of aspartame it can affect anyone who consumes it because itspoison. Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible International, 9270 River ClubParkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097 770 242-2599 www.dorway.com andwww.wnho.net