Aspartame, Seizures and Sudden death

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For Global Release: Sudden Death Epidemic, Athletes are

dropping like Flies ---- The Aspartame Correlation - Dr. Bowen

discusses death of John Ritter. Contact Betty Martini, 770 242-2599,

Mission Possible intl, www.dorway.com

 

 

The CDC reports that Sudden Cardiac Death, the nation's #1 killer

ended the lives of 460,000 Americans in 1999. SCD is a catastrophe

in which the heart stops abruptly without warning. It kills its

victims within minutes. It is estimated that 95% of victims die

before reaching the hospital. Often SCD happens to outwardly healthy

people with no known heart problems; high school, college and

professional athletes and thousands of children.

 

 

New York State has mandated automatic external defibrillators (AEDs)

be provided for all schools and athletic events on campus or off.

Illinois passed a similar law. In California they talk of making

defibrillators as common as fire extinguishers.

 

 

The Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association donated 73 AEDS so all of

their school gyms and playing fields will be equipped to fight this

devastation. The Philadelphia School District estimates 7,000-10,000

American children and youths die annually from SCD. Said Chief of

Cardiology Victoria Vetter, M.D. at the Children's Hospital " I

diagnose, treat and follow hundreds of children from the

Philadelphia region with cardiac issues. " On 9/12 came the tragic

report of 13 year old Emil Gadjev's collapse and death while playing

soccer here in Atlanta.

 

 

Sudden Cardiac Death is not a " heart attack " or myocardial

infarction, caused by clogged arteries. Its an electrical problem in

which the cardiac conduction system that generates the impulses

regulating the heart suddenly output rapid or chaotic electrical

impulses, or both. The heart ceases its rhythmic contractions, the

brain is starved of oxygen and the victim loses consciousness in

seconds.

 

 

It was only yesterday in a conversation with Dr. James Bowen about

aspartame and sudden death in athletes he said findings were

pointing a finger at this toxin. " Both the shock from strenuous

athletics in combination with aspartame consumption, and stresses

lead to activation of shock mechanism including the elaboration of

Arginine vasopressin in the hypothalamus which results in cerebral

edema and cardiac congestion and pulmonary edema in combination with

severe potassium wastage which is a sure ticket to sudden death,

especially in the face of the many damages inflicted by aspartame.

Since aspartame is already well known for causing neuroendocrine

abnormalities such serotonin elevations and suppression in various

areas of the brain, along with depletion of dopamine, due to its

phenylalanine isolate poisoning and hypothalamic damage from its

extreme neuroexcitotoxin effect and formaldehyde formic acid

poisoning especially focused in the hypothalamus, I would expect

anyone with expertise in these areas could verify the direct effect

of aspartame poisoning in producing the fatal aberrant shock

mechanism in those exposed to it. The mere occurrence of severe

athletic stress does not do so by itself. "

 

 

Aspartame triggers an irregular heart rhythm, and interacts with

cardiac medication. It damages the cardiac conduction system and

causes sudden death. What Dr. Bowen is saying, of course, is that

its not just hitting their hearts but hypothalamus and

neuroendocrine system. It exacerbates the damages to the cardiac

conduction system - it exacerbates the arrhythmia because of the

cardiac conduction system damage, taking down the athletes from both

directions and its synergistic.

 

 

Of interest is the report of the Telegraph in the UK having to do

with an investigation of why children having mild seizures that

normally don't cause death die before they can get to a hospital.

Dr. Bowen responded: " Sudden death during seizures is almost always

from cardiac standstill due to arrhythmias. There are several ways

that this is due to aspartame damage. Aspartame and methyl alcohol

poisoning are noted for damaging myocardium and the specialized form

of myocardium called the cardiac conduction system. This kind of

damage leads to susceptibility to arrhythmias. The aspartame and

methyl alcohol poisoning cause immense damage to the mitochondria

and to MtDNA which perpetuates the mitochondria damage. The

myocardium and cardiac conduction system never get to rest. They are

constantly at work pumping blood, therefore they are very highly

concentrated in mitochondria to accommodate the metabolic needs of

this tremendous work load. Therefore, mitochondrial damage is more

highly reflected in the heart. Damaged mitochondria produce

increased amounts of free radicals and other abnormal metabolites

that produce arrhythmias. The person using NutraSweet may have a

markedly decreased intake of mineral and vitamin co-enzyme factors

which also sensitizes the heart to arrhythmias. Seizures always put

unusual demands on the cardiorespiratory system and seizures due to

NutraSweet occur more frequently and in spite of otherwise adequate

antiseuzure medication. Aspartame creates unusual medical toxicity

from the antiseizure medication. It should be no surprise then that

people are dropping dead from this aspect of aspartame toxicity. "

 

 

In Nov 1984 the Center for Disease Control reviewed 213 of 592 cases

of aspartame complaints. Some of these included cardiac arrest.

seizures, disorientation, hyperactivity, extreme numbness,

excitability, memory loss, loss of depth perception, liver

impairment, severe mood swings and even DEATH. Frederick L.

Trowbridge added an executive summary to the report which conflicted

with the information in the report and said that the complaints were

generally of a mild nature. Obviously experts would disagree that

such things as seizures, cardiac arrest and DEATH are " mild "

problems. Then the CDC put the summary on their web site which is

where you will find it, and left off the investigation so the public

would not get the real facts. But it is on www.dorway.com for anyone

who wants to read the 146 page investigation. When I asked the CDC

why they allowed this phony summary, their only excuse was " Dr.

Trowbridge is now retired " . It would save a lot of lives if

government agencies like the FDA and CDC would give the public the

facts. When those responsible to solve the problem ARE the problem

its a sad commentary. They have become simply branch offices of the

manufacturers of this neurotoxin.

 

 

The sudden death of John Ritter on Sept 12 stunned the nation. It

was discussed on the news by Roy Flood, M.D., that he died from an

undiagnosed dissection of the aorta. While we don't even know if

Ritter used aspartame, Dr. Flood mentioned this is usually triggered

by having hypertension for several years and aspartame causes

this " big time. "

 

 

H. J. Roberts, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.C.C.P. is a world renowned Board

Certified and Recertified Internist who declared Aspartame Disease

to be a global plague and published the medical text, Aspartame

Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com He is an

internationally known medical consultant and independent researcher.

He is the Director of the Palm Beach Institute for Medical Research

since l964 and a member of prestigious medical and scientific

organizations. They include the American College of Physicians, the

Endocrine Society and the American Academy of Neurology. The editors

of a national medical publication selected Dr. Roberts as " The Best

Doctor in the U.S. " He has been knighted by the Order of St. George

for his professional and humanitarian effort. His first text,

Difficult Diagnosis, was used by 60,000 doctors, especially to

prepare for their Board examinations.

 

 

Dr. Roberts says in Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic about

aspartame and hypertension: " Increased brain phenylalanine can

elevate norepinephrine levels becoming clinically manifest as

hypertension. A comparable phenomenon has been demonstrated in

spontaneously hypertensive rats. Another plausible mechanism

involves increased phenylalanine metabolites, especially dopamine,

in the presence of excess insulin. Tourian (l985) demonstrated that

insulin potentiates the synthesis of phenylalanine hydroxylase in

tissue cultures. "

 

 

He also says: " The documentation of essential hypertension in an

insulin-resistant state associated with hyperinsulinemia (Ferrannini

l987), but independent of obesity, is germane because many aspartame

reactors have reactive hypoglycemia. furthermore, phenylalanine

increases insulin release. In the face of continued

hyperinsulinemia, the down regulation of insulin receptors (and

ensuing decreased insulin action), the increased reabsorption of

sodium and sympathetic stimulation can exaggerate hypertension. "

 

 

Dr. Roberts says: " Other clinical observations suggest a

relationship between phenylalanine and tyramine. Severe hypertension

may occur when increased tyramine (present in certain cheeses and

alcoholic beverages) is consumed by persons taking monoamine oxidase

inhibitors and cough cold preparation or appetite suppressants that

continue ephedrine, phenylephrine or phenylpropanolamine. "

 

 

Two-thirds of the population is using aspartame and its hard to

avoid. So while we don't know at this point if John Ritter was

consuming it, Dr. Bowen said: " The death of John Ritter highlights

another possible ill resulting from the ingestion of aspartame.

Aspartame is well recognized among its victims for causing

connective tissue diseases in their body. Since much of the aorta

consists of fibroelastic connective tissue it would only be logical

aspartame would also cause degeneration of this vital tissue. "

 

 

He also said " Aspartame really doesn't spare any structure or system

in the body so its not logical to try and mentally isolate it to a

few structures or few systems of the body. In fact, the FDA

identified 92 documented symptoms triggered by aspartame including

death, the ultimate symptom. "

 

 

The Atlanta Journal Constitution on 9/11 wrote: " Sudden death in

high school athletes is a topic that has received a lot of attention

recently " . It mentioned some children have serious heart conditions

that have not been diagnosed. Dr. Bowen remarked, " In many cases

aspartame victims may have had pre-existent or congenital

undiagnosed cardiac problems. The fatal abnormalities induced by

NutraSweet would have quicker and greater effect on these

unfortunate individuals. "

 

 

The article in the AJC discusses accidents that may have been caused

by sudden cardiac arrest. It brings to mind the death of Sonny Bono

who had an accident while skiing and hit a tree. The newspaper

reported Bono was not drinking alcohol, only a " Diet Coke " .

Aspartame also causes confusion and disorientation, memory loss,

etc. One pilot who asked that Mission Possible start an Aviation Div

which we did said: " Dumb I'm not but I couldn't make a decision on

aspartame and crashed my plane into a tree. " And yes, there are now

defibrillators on planes. Pilot Neill, American Airlines, was

drinking a diet drink and died in flight. The Captain landed the

plane for the body to be removed and to get a new co-pilot. An

unauthorized autopsy was requested by American but they refused to

allow his widow to see the results.

 

 

The New England Journal of Medicine published the article " Magnitude

of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Risk of Sudden Death in

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. " Dr. Bowen said: " Yes, that is what

aspartame does. "

 

 

One article on Cardiomyopathy and Its Relation to Exercise: Sudden

Death in Athletes " http://www-

unix.oit.umass.edu/`excs597k/carpender/sdathletes.htm

says: " According to the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta

100,000 young athletes die each year from all cardio-vascular

disorders, including cardiomyopathy, as a result of participation in

sports. This is twice as many as due in auto accidents. Of the

100,000 who die annually, 45,000 of them play basketball, not boxing

or football.

 

 

An article in Science in the last year which was discussed in the

Atlanta Journal Constitution said 450,000 people each year are

victims of sudden death. An article back in 2001 by the Journal of

Athletic Training reported: " In the US each year, sudden cardiac

arrest kills 350,000, which is approximately 1000 people per

day. " ..... " The exact incidence of sudden cardiac arrest in

athletes is unknown because no universal, standard surveillances

method is used. " So the figures could even be greater.

 

 

President Bush had a fainting spell and claimed this was due to a

pretzel. Blackouts are common in aspartame victims and President

Bush is constantly drinking Diet Coke. An interesting article on

Medscape is titled Syncope (fainting) as a predictor of sudden

cardiac arrest. Kathy Fulford (now Mission Possible Camilla,

Georgia) was certain she was dying and was having blackouts and one

day almost hit a car head on. Her friend Darlene wanted to find out

what was killing Kathy. Ten doctors were unable to diagnose the

cause of her problems, mainly because the FDA, aspartame

manufactures and professional organizations funded by the

manufacturer push propaganda. She put her symptoms into the Internet

and came up on www.dorway.com She got off aspartame and all problems

disappeared. She said her neighbor, a 46 year old beautician, drank

Diet Coke from the time she got up until she went to bed and her

mind was going. She, too, had blackouts and was found dead on the

floor.

 

 

Probably the worst case is that of Charles Fleming, who drank 10

diet drinks a day and other aspartame products. He became ill after

playing basketball and died. His autopsy was classic of death by

aspartame. It showed the pulmonary edema that is often evident. Dr.

H. J. Roberts wrote an article published in Townsend Letter for

Doctors on this. It also showed the chronic methanol poisoning and

it is this that affects the dopamine system of the brain and causes

the addiction. Methanol is classified as a narcotic, and is one of

the three components of aspartame. It also showed the fatty liver.

The Trocho Study in Spain in 1998 showed that the formaldehyde

converted from the methanol accumulates in the cells and damages DNA

with most toxicity in the liver. It also showed the usual cardiac

damage. The police did not know that aspartame causes chronic

methanol poisoning (one of the reason it mimics MS - destroys the

central nervous system) and thought his wife murdered him even

though she passed their polygraph test which was not admitted in

court. She was sentenced to 50 years in prison where she remains in

Troy, Virginia, so frightened, a woman who was a Sunday School and

helped the homeless. Aspartame caused her to lose her husband, her

home, her children and her freedom. A film production company making

an aspartame documentary recently interviewed her.

 

 

Dr. Bowen wrote: " The death of Charles Flemming, an athlete who died

after consuming very large amounts of aspartame and creatine both of

which lead to the formation and release of large amounts of methanol

in the body upon their consumption has led me to review the medical

literature in related topics because his wife was falsely imprisoned

for poisoning him with methanol which she never had any access to

nor were any proper forensics applied to really identify the source

of the methanol poisoning from which he apparently died. Charles had

used large amounts of Gatorade and dumped in lots of creatine, three

times the recommended dose. Aspartame and Creatine are both N methyl

esters. They are both substrates from which the body by obligatory

mechanism forms methanol and thus they are additive in their effect

of producing the highly destructive methanol - formaldehyde - formic

acid - carbon monoxide toxic axis in the human body. Charles had

engaged in vigorous athletics - basketball. My more complete review

of this, and the topics essential to the biochemical comprehension

of the issues that his death thereupon hinged, and in fact occurred

are posted on my web page at www.bowendrjim.com

 

 

" There have been a lot of similar deaths of well known athletes

after consuming creatine and sports drinks and then engaging in

forced/competitive athletic activities. My article on aspartame and

sudden death gives a good foundation for understanding the condition

your heart and cardiac conduction system are left in if you consume

aspartame. The acute activation of the methanol-formaldehyde-formic

acid-carbon monoxide toxic axis from concurrent use of creatine and

aspartame is, of course, a final blow to the already

decomposed/compromised heart, and its conduction system. We,

however, need sources to come forward and identify the fact that all

or most of the other mentioned suddenly demised athletes were indeed

aspartame consumers. "

 

 

Charles Fleming was also using Ephedra which got a bad rap. It is

not the ephedra but the aspartame, and there is an article about

this on the web site of the Idaho Observer, " Government attack on

ephedra cover for aspartame poisoning. " Of course, aspartame

interacts with most every drug used to treat the problems it causes

and is also a chemical hypersensitization agent so it interacts with

vaccines, toxins, etc. And it will interact with ephedra having to

do with catecholamines. These are biologically achive amines,

epinephrine and norepinephrine. derived from the amino acid

tyrosine. They have marked effect on the nervous and cardiovascular

systems, metabolic rate, temperature and smooth muscle. Tyrosine is

another breakdown product of aspartame. The phenylalanine is

converted to tyrosine by the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase.

Tyrosine undergoes a change to dihydroxphenylalanine (levodopa)

which then is transformed to dopamine. If a product is going to be

taken off the market because it interacts with aspartame, then the

FDA needs to immediately remove all cardiac medication, insulin,

antidepressants, anti-seizure medication, hormones, Lidocaine and

even Coumadin. It doesn't end. And pharmaceutical companies have

been alerted and refuse to even remove aspartame such as Pfizer

making the Listerine Strips which contain aspartame. Over 50 people

have called about having seizures from these strips and Pfizer

refuses to even now answer a note. Maxalt is a treatment for

headaches by Merck, and headache is number one on the FDA list of 92

symptoms from four types of seizures to coma and death. The problem

is that Maxalt has aspartame in it. They have been written to and

about for years, yet appear not to care what they are doing to these

victims. As one lady said yesterday who suffered from Migraines and

other horrendous problems triggered by aspartame, " I use Maxalt but

I always have headaches. " Benadryl chewable for children has

aspartame in it. The toxin triggers urticaria or hives big time,

then they use Benadryl which gives them more of the poison.

Aspartame is escalating asthma and some of the asthma sprays have

aspartame in it. Nobody has a chance. Yet they remove ephedra which

has been used for thousands of years so it can take the rap for what

aspartame is doing.

 

 

In March, 2003 when the Idaho Observer wrote that article on ephedra

as a cover for aspartame poisoning they were writing about another

athlete who died, Baltimore Oriole's pitcher, Steve Bechler. He died

on February 17, 2003 and when Dr. Roberts spoke to Brown county

medical examiner, Dr. Joshua Perper, he was told the cause of death

was hyperthermia which caused multiple organ failure. Bechler's

temperature had reached a high of 108 degrees. When Dr. Perper was

asked how many diet drinks Bechler drank a diet, he returned a blank

stare indicting he was unaware of the fact aspartame containing diet

and sports drinks could have caused this man's untimely death. We

have since researched the issue and found that Belcher was concerned

about his fluctuating weight, and drink lots of diet drinks. Dr.

Bowen wrote an indepth report on aspartame raising temperature.

 

 

Dr. H. J. Roberts who was nominated for another prestigious award in

recognition for " important research accomplishment in the broad

field of metabolism, endocrinology, nutrition or for research which

contributes to a better understanding of the chemical changes

occurring in disease " has written for years on aspartame and sudden

death. In his medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic,

www.sunsentpress.com he said having to do with aspartame and

abnormal heart action: " 190 (16%) reactors experienced detectable

changes in their heart rate or rhythm after consuming aspartame -

including gum - and products that did not contain caffeine. They

consisted of " fluttering " (palpitations), skipped beats and rapid

heart action (tachycardia). A number underwent heart monitoring

(Holter testing) and other studies, especially when there had been

associated weakness and faint. "

 

 

" One patient developed a slow pulse and complete heart block within

hours after consuming an aspartame drink for the first time. His

attack spontaneously subsided within one day (without requiring a

pacemaker). There has been no recurrence with aspartame avoidance. .

This subject has relevance to reports of UNEXPLAINED SUDDEN DEATH in

persons who had been consuming considerable aspartame. "

 

 

Of hypertension he said that " 64 aspartame reactors were found to

have elevation of their blood pressure - systolic, diastolic, or

both. Some were in their twenties. While aspartame products

unequivocally cause headache, superimposed hypertension can be a

contributing factor. .. Other patients who had been treated for

hypertension could not be adequately controlled on their maintenance

medication as long as they used aspartame. This reflects its

interaction with various drugs. " ...

 

 

" The rapid heart action and the elevation of blood pressure

presumably reflect the effects of phenylalanine (an aspartame

component) and its metabolic products - dopamine, norepinephrine and

epinephrine. " ..... " 85 aspartame reactors (7%), experienced

unexplained pain in the chest. (Many others have atypical pain

elsewhere in the body). A number were subjected to stress tests and

angiograpy for coronary heart disease which proved normal in the

majority. "

 

 

Dr. Roberts was recently published in Townsend Letter for Doctors an

article on " Aspartame Induced Dyspnea and Pulmonary Hypertension. "

Dyspnea is labored breathing. This is what Charles Fleming suffered

with for about 30 days before he died. In Dr. Roberts medical text

under Shortness of Breath he says that 110 aspartame reactors (9%)

who complained of otherwise unexplained " shortness of breath "

promptly improved after avoiding these products. They predictably

suffered a recurrence on rechallenge. Had he only known he was

killing himself with aspartame and quit, Fleming would be alive

today.

 

 

Dr. Roberts first text, Difficult Diagnosis, was used by 60,000

doctors, especially to prepare for their Board examinations. It was

Dr. Roberts who coined the phrase Aspartame Disease because its use

is consistent with Hippocratic writings. The symptoms are

predictable and there is a pattern. " When a large number of people

all catch the same disease at the same time, the cause must e

ascribed to something common to all. " (Rosenberg 1992). It is

appropriate because this affliction fulfills these four Koch-like

postulates:

 

 

* There is an identifiable cause.

* Symptoms and signs follow such exposure and are reproducible in a

given

individual.

* Improvement occurs after avoiding aspartame products (not always

an easy

feat).

* The same complaints usually promptly recur on challenge.

 

 

At Dr. Roberts first press conference quoted in his first book on

aspartame in 1990 he said that if something wasn't done then in 5 or

10 years we would have a world plague on our hands. And this

prophecy has come to pass. People today are literally dropping likes

flies. He told Congress that the current wholesale ingestion of

aspartame products by over half the population constitutes

an " imminent public health hazard " because of the frequency and

severity of reactions. He says this warning should be of particular

concern for high risk groups - most notable, patients with diabetes

and hypoglycemia, pregnancy women, children, patients with epilepsy,

liver, heart, kidney disease and eating disorders, older persons

with memory impairment, the relatives of aspartame reactors and

patients having phenylketonuria.

 

 

It was the famed Dr. John Olney who founded the field of

neuroscience called excitotoxicity when he did studies on aspartic

acid, 40% of aspartame, in l970 and found lesions in the brains of

mice. An excitotoxin is a product that literally stimulates the

neurons of the brain to death causing brain damage of varying

degrees. This definition is written across the back of the book

Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock,

M.D. who wrote on the deadly effects of aspartame and MSG. MSG

another excitotoxin has a synergistic and additive effect with

aspartame. And you have to consider this when you think of all the

products these athletes are using like MSG that interact with

aspartame.

 

 

I wrote Gatorade which Charles Fleming was using and several of the

athletes who dropped dead, and asked what was in the natural

flavors, and was it aspartate, L-Cysteine (another excitotoxin) or

glutamic acid. They have refused to answer me.

www.truthinlabeling.org for info on MSG.

 

 

Dr. Blaylock is another world expert on aspartame who has written on

sudden death. In his article on www.dorway.com, Aspartame, MSG and

other Excitotoxins and the Hypothalamus he talks about the effect of

excitotoxins on the sympathetic nervous system controlling centers

in the hypothalamus. " Over stimulation could result in cardiac

electrical abnormalities leading to sudden death. This has been

demonstrated by hypothalalamic stimulation experiments. There have

been clinical reports of cardiac related emergency room visits

following a meal high in excitotoxin additives. Sudden deaths

following such meals have also been reported. Since most hospitals

rarely consider this in their differential diagnosis, we have no

accurate data as to the number of ER visits and deaths related to

this event. I suspect the numbers would be quite high. "

 

 

He said in conclusion, " There is compelling evidence to indicate

that food additive excitotoxins, such as aspartame, pose a serious

danger to our well being, especially so in the case of children and

the elderly. It has been demonstrated that excitotoxins in the diet

can dramatically elevate free radical generation for prolonged

periods of time and that once induced, it triggers a viscous cycle

that ends in neurons death. Most authorities now agree that elevated

free radical generation is associated with virtually all

degenerative diseases as well as most injuries and toxins. It makes

little sense to expose the general public to a product that we know

increases free radical generation so dramatically and is associated

with laboratory proven injuries to the nervous system. "

 

 

Another autopsy report we have is of a woman who ingested so much

aspartame she went blind from the wood alcohol or methanol (converts

to formaldehyde and formic acid in the retina of the eye and

destroys the optic nerve). She went to the ER to find out what she

had lost her sight and dropped dead. Her autopsy is very much like

others including the pulmonary edema.

 

 

You may remember Flo Jo, a Diet Coke drinker who had a seizure and

dropped dead, no doubt another victim of aspartame, as aspartame is

a seizure triggering drug. Elton John drags his 6 pack of diet pop

on stage as he staggers with slurred speech from the methanol. Will

he be next? Several current athletes are using aspartame and showing

severe health problems already. Anna Kournikova, tennis player, is

one of them. She always seems to be having injury problems. It's

terrible for an athlete to be drinking a slow poison along with the

phosphoric acid that leeches calcium from the bones. Another

athlete, American's second best cyclist after Lance Armstrong, uses

Diet Coke and looks to be in worse and worse health.

 

 

Mark Gold of the Aspartame Toxicity Center,

www.holisticmed.com/aspartame wrote: " I always seem to run across

articles or TV shows where athletes are using aspartame and having

health problems. One female pro athlete is so addicted that in

answer to the question, " What one thing would you want with you if

stranded on a desert island, " she said, " Diet Coke. " Unfortunately

for her, her health and career has gone down the tubes. Diet Coke

still sponsors some sports events. The biggest tennis tournament in

the world, Wimbledon (in the UK). This helps addict a lot of people

in the U.K. Diet Coke is a sponsor of the WNBA (the women's version

of the NBA - National Basketball Association), Etc.

 

 

Don Harkins who owns the Idaho Observer added a supplement, The

Artificially Sweetened Times, to the paper, 8 pages, for Aspartame

Awareness Weekend. It includes the Sudden Death issue and the

Fleming case. He doesn't mince words and says: " Admittedly, the

research we had already conducted on aspartame convinced us that

it's devastating to the human body. Since millions of people consume

this government approved, carcinogenic, mutagenic, neurotoxic, non-

nutritive synthetic sweetener every day, we were also convinced

aspartame is helping to DESTROY ENTIRE NATIONS. This is the real

reason this paper had to be published. " These papers can be secured

by the hundreds for distribution by contacting the Idaho Observer, a

newspaper dedicated to truth in journalism. (Idaho Observer, P. O.

Box 457, Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869, 208 255 - 2307).

 

 

And what about so much of the main stream media who for advertising

reasons don't publish so much of this issue like the story of

Charles Fleming, even though aspartame experts have written

affidavits stating the man died from aspartame without a shadow of a

doubt. Are manufacturers like Coke and Pepsi worth their protection.

You can read the protest of the National Soft Drink Association on

www.dorway.com, part of the congressional record, where they even

quoted the law stating it was illegal to put anything in carbonated

beverages that decomposes or adulterates the drink. They stated

aspartame decomposes at 86 degrees. And it decomposes into deadly

poisons! Yet, they turned around and put it in pop anyway, the

reason it was added to the congressional record. They knew the gun

was loaded when they sent it to the Persian Gulf to sit in 120

degree Arabian sun for as long as 8 weeks. 40,000 of the troops

perished. What aspartame products are they now using in Iraq? We can

see them chewing the gum, no doubt sugarfree. Its buccal so it works

like nitroglycerin, goes through saliva straight to the brain.

Wrigley has been written for years and refuses to stop the

poisoning. Even the Enquirer hasn't written about Fleming.

 

 

Rage must rise up in the nostrils of Almighty Jehovah God as these

monsters who knowingly poison the population turn their backs on

consumers. Aspartame was originally marketed by Searle, and the FDA

wanted them indicted for fraud but both U.S. Prosecutors hired on

with the defense team and the statute of limitations expired. The

Board of Inquiry of the FDA said aspartame was not safe and to

revoke the petition for approval. CEO of Searle at the time, Don

Rumsfeld, said he would call in his markers and get it approved. It

didn't matter to him that aspartame was a deadly poison. He was on

President Reagan's transition team and the day after Reagan took

office he appointed Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA Commissioner

because no FDA Commissioner in 16 years would approve aspartame. Dr.

Hayes over-ruled this Board of Inquiry of the FDA and then went to

work for the PR firm of the manufacturer and has refused to talk to

the press ever since.

 

 

If you read the 8 month investigation of aspartame by United Press

International on www.dorway.com you will see that doctors were

threatened about doing research. This will help you understand why

92% of independent peer reviewed research on aspartame shows the

problems. And if you remove 6 studies the FDA had something to do

with and one pro-industry summary, 100% of independent, peer

reviewed research on aspartame shows the problems. Read Ralph

Walton, M.D. 's report on this web site having to do with research

and funding. Dr. Walton himself did a study on aspartame which the

institution had to stop because of the problems caused by this

toxin. You can understand why Monsanto refused to sell him the

aspartame. And in the UPI investigation read about ILSE, where

research funds are sought. ILSE is funded by Coke, Pepsi, Monsanto

and the like putting pressure on Universities not to tell about

aspartame or do studies. Cynthia Crossen who wrote the book " The

Tainted Truth " says the road to hell was paved with research funds.

Front groups are paid to call the whole issue a hoax, and vital

information that physicians need to diagnose and save the lives of

the people is withheld. The propaganda put out on aspartame reads

like it was written by Mother Goose. Even physicians themselves who

use aspartame and have problems don't know where to turn. Read the

story of Richard Sabates, M.D. on web.

 

 

And as I write this a sweet, frightened Sunday School teacher, Diane

Fleming, remains in prison in Troy, Virginia because her husband

Charles killed himself with large amounts of aspartame. It is this

chronic methanol poisoning mentioned in the autopsy that also is

responsible for the addiction of aspartame because it effects the

dopamine system of the brain. To add insult to injury prisons will

not allow sugar and are serving this deadly toxin to inmates. Diane

herself was using it until we convinced her to go without anything

sweet. No wonder she said she had health problems. Her headaches are

now gone.

 

 

Drop her a line and let her know people care about this horrible

injustice, have not forgotten her and are working to reunite her

with her children. This woman had spent one day a week helping the

homeless and even buying them clothes. Now lets help Diane Fleming.

 

 

Diane Fleming #311655

FCCW 3D 207A

Box 1000

Troy, Virginia 22974

 

 

They will only allow a letter no longer than 5 pages that goes on a

37 cent stamp. You cannot send her stamps to write you back but she

can accept a money order made out to her with the number - #311655.

 

 

Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting Don Harkins who wrote the

Artificially Sweetened Times for Aspartame Awareness Weekend at the

Atlanta Airport on his way to Austria. I gave out a couple to people

waiting for rides who read about Sudden Death and Aspartame, and the

Fleming Case. One man said: " And so its true. I mentioned to my

physician that I had friends who just dropped dead. He said he had

seen too many cases himself and did a search on the Internet. When

he read about aspartame he decided to get his patients off of it,

especially those suffering with cardiac problems. He was surprised

to find the palpitations and other problems disappeared. He

said: " There is so much controversy on this product but with the

thousands of posts about its dangers they have to be keeping

something from physicians. " Indeed, what they have kept from

physicians is " the truth " about the toxicity of this poison. Help to

get the word out about this toxin, as you let Diane Fleming know she

is not forgotten. Prayerfully we work to reunite her with her

children.

 

 

We are facing what may be one of the largest plagues in world

history. Aspartame has resulted in a blizzard of sudden deaths to

the athletes. Our children are falling like snow flakes. Forward

this to everyone you know, and media we ask you publish the issue to

thousands. The life you save may just be someone in your family or

one of your children.

I have filed with the FDA a Citizens Petition for ban based on the

fact their records show aspartame to be a deadly poison and they are

lying to the public and physicians. The law requires they answer in

180 days. It has been over a year and they refuse to answer. The

front groups have been reported to the Attorney General based on

Title 18, Section 1001, that is against he law to knowingly

misinform the public. He has done nothing.

 

 

Perhaps someone should remind all these government agencies who

don't have the courage to act that Henry Clay (1777 - 1852)

said: " Government is a trust, and the offices of the government are

trustees, and both the trust and the trustees are created for the

benefit of the people. " Even the FDA's own toxicologist, Dr. Adrian

Gross, told Congress: " And if the FDA violates its own laws who is

left to protect the people. "

 

 

Mission Possible International is a worldwide, unpaid, volunteer

force warning planet earth off aspartame, and forwarding medical

facts from the aspartame experts to the medical community who have

been lied to. Aspartame Detoxification Centers are now available in

some cities. Case histories on brain tumors, seizures, blindness and

eye deterioration are now been transferred to class action

attorneys. There are four support groups on line to care for the

sick and disabled.

 

 

Monsanto sold NutraSweet to Michael Dell's Investment Company,

Childs in Boston, Ajinomoto, their Siamese twin, another aspartame

manufacturer and Monsanto's investment company of Monsanto managers.

All these companies are listed on www.dorway.com In the words of

Mohammed Ali, " They can run, but they can't hide. "

 

 

Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible Intl, 9270 River Club

Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097 www.dorway.com

 

 

P.S. There is a large book list on aspartame on the above web site.

For Dr. H. J. Roberts' many books on aspartame, go to

www.sunsentpress.com For Dr. Russell Blaylock's books go to

www.russellblaylockmd.com His new book Health & Nutrition Secrets to

Save Your Life is excellent on what to do if you have used

aspartame, and he has written a paper for Aspartame Awareness

Weekend on what to take, step by step, if you have used it.

 

 

 

These brilliant and courageous physicians mentioned above have been

exposing this deadly neurotoxic drug for years, and the fact that it

can take your life. Dr. Bowen told the FDA years ago that aspartame

is mass poisoning of the American public and more than 70+ countries

of the world. He also said that everyone involved in the marketing

of this poison including those who keep it on the market should be

criminally prosecuted. Dr. Bowen is a victim himself and suffers

from Lou Gehrigs disease like many of those who served in the

Persian Gulf. He was working in the desert drinking gallions of Diet

Kool Aide.

 

 

 

 

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Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible Intl, www.dorway.com 770

242-2599