GENOCIDE

Aspartame, Splenda, Equal, NutraSweet, Equal Measure, Spoonful, Canderal (E951)

(Sweet 'N Low is still proven to be safe)

Betty Martini web site: http://www.dorway.com

New Mexico Sets Hearing To Ban Aspartame

The Idaho Observer

10-14-5

http://www.rense.com/general68/newmexicosetshearing.htm

Sweetener manufacturer disputes validity of new health research

· Study links aspartame with cancers

· Ingredient used in more than 6,000 products

Felicity Lawrence

Friday September 30, 2005

The Guardian

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,2763,1581639,00.html?gusrc=rss

ED NOTE: Ann and I drove to Lubbock, Texas, over the Labor Day weekend. We stopped at a Furr's Cafeteria (buffet), in Hobbs, New Mexico, to eat dinner. While on the serving line, Ann noticed a sign, professionally done, that warned some dishes might contain Aspartame. That's a first. And, it's a great start!

New Mexico Takes Lead In Banning Aspartame
From Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.
Bettym19@mindspring.com 
Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Thank you for your interest in the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board meeting September 6, regarding a proposed rule change which would ban the neurotoxic sweetener, aspartame, for the state of New Mexico, the first ban of its kind in the USA.

What was scheduled as a 5 minute agenda item, a decision as to whether to have a full scale hearing in the coming months, turned into an 80 minute legal wrangle over whether the EIB has the power to challenge a product with FDA approval, as well as which statutes allowed such a rule change, and where in the Administrative Code the rule change should be inserted.

My reading of the statutes is quite clear; in the Food Act, Chapter 25 of the NM statutes, the power to identify deleterious or poisonous food additives is spelled out in no uncertain terms, and the power is given to the EIB and to no other branch of state government, not the Health Department and not the Governor's office.

There is no equivalent mirror section of the New Mexico Administrative Code to match the very clear language of the statutes, and that was the crux of my proposed rule change, which also added specific language about neurotoxic food additives being prohibited, and clearly identified aspartame as one to be banned in New Mexico.

Three state Senators [Pro Tem Senate President Ben Altamirano, Steve Komadina, M.D., and Jerry Ortiz y Pino], and one state Rep. [Harriet Ruiz] weighed in on this by sending in letters to the EIB, asking the Board to move forward toward a decision to get rid of this neurotoxin; several important physicians [Dr. Grant La Farge, Pediatric Cardiologist; Dr. Ken Stoller, Pediatrician; Dr. H.J.Roberts, Internal Medicine, and Dr. R.G. Walton, Psychiatrist] and numerous victims of aspartame poisoning from all over the United States, all submitted letters to the Board asking them to hold further hearings.

The cautionary and heavy-handed advice of the Board's Counsel, Assistant Attorney General Mary H. Smith, figured heavily into the EIB's reluctance to jump into this new, untested arena of food quality regulation; even though it is quite well know that no other body in New Mexico has the statutory power to control food quality. This counsel to the EIB was in direct contradiction to the advice graciously afforded to me by another Assistant Attorney General, almost as if they were two automobiles going in opposite and diametrically opposed directions!

This is perhaps understandable, because, astonishingly, there is not one iota of case law on this matter, because since the statutes were passed in 1941, no one in New Mexico has ever used these statutes to reject or even question the presence of well-known poisonous and deleterious food additives, even though the statutory mechanisms to delineate the toxins and what to do about them is quite clear in the statutes.

I, as petitioner, (in the next 15 days, in order to comply with the filing schedule requirements) am forced to bring in a greatly expanded circle of legal experts to present the legal facts on this issue at the next EIB meeting in early October, in a presentation limited in toto to one half hour, specifically those jurisdictional questions and statutory clarifications which will satisfy the EIB's concerns so that it can move forward toward resolving these issues decisively, with its highest concern being to protect the health of all New Mexicans.

The FDA pre emption questions will loom large in the considerations by the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board in early October: has any state ever stood up so strongly about getting rid of a product (aspartame) which has been approved for 24 years, yet done so much obvious cumulative neurodegenerative damage on so many millions of people?

Apparently the EIB members were bombarded with many emails, and the Assistant Attorney General, Mary Smith, wrote in her memorandum that "the Attorney General's Office computer system has been flooded with emails about this matter," that she asked "her computer staff to block any unsolicited emails that contain the word "aspartame" in the subject line and to send those to our spam folder for immediate deletion!" (although, curiously, not one of the board members complained in the meeting about the volume of emailed communications---personally, I think the members' medical comprehension of neurotoxic food additives is much clearer now because of physicians' and victims' emails to them).

This might seem like a temporary setback for open and sincere communications on a very serious subject, the neurotoxicity of commonly available food additive, to the very board which has the sole power to do something positive to correct and prevent further neurodegenerative damages from the 5000 products consumed by 70% of Americans.

However, your views on these matters are still very vital, so please ask your friends and family to also write letters asking for a ban on aspartame in New Mexico, and please send them in writing (not Email) to:

Barbara Claire, EIB administrator Department of Environment, N2153 1190 So. St. Francis Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502 email: barbara.claire@state.nm.us, if you have a specific question

with 7 copies, one for each member of the Environmental Improvement Board.

I would also send the same kind of letter directed to both:

The Governor of New Mexico, The Honorable Bill Richardson, The Capitol, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501


The Attorney General of New Mexico, The Honorable Patricia Madrid The Bataan Building, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

Clearly, the Executive branch has enormous powers to bring about our goals, and the Attorney General has enormous powers to initiate suits regarding aspartame's damages similar to the tobacco suits of the Attorneys General in the 1990's. (In a legal causal sense, there really is little difference between tobacco's lung cancer and aspartame's proven neurodegenerative damages.)

Thank you for all of your help, and please keep the unrelenting correspondence to these officials going, in order to get this vital task accomplished, the first ban on neurotoxic aspartame in the United States! I welcome your replies and your insights.

Respectfully,
Stephen Fox
Founder, New Mexico Nutrition Council
217 W. Water St.
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

505 983-2002
stephen@santafefineart.com 

For more information on aspartame: http://www.wnho.net  , http://www.dorway.com  , http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame  (Aspartame Toxicity Center), and http://www.aspartamekills.com

Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, H. J. Roberts, M.D., www.sunsentpress.com or 1 800 827 7991

Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., www.russellblaylockmd.com

Aspartame Documentary: Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, www.docworkers.com

Aspartame Information List for updates - www.wnho.net front page

Athlete Alert - Aspartame & MSG In Sudden

Cardiac Arrest San Francisco 49ers Lineman Collapses, Dies After Preseason Game

By Eddie Pells

The Associated Press

August 23, 2005

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBXT5AZMCE.html 

DENVER (AP) - An offensive lineman for the San Francisco 49ers collapsed in the locker room and died Sunday morning, shortly after the team played the Denver Broncos in a preseason game.

Players had finished listening to coach Mike Nolan address them in a post-game meeting when Thomas Herrion, a 6-foot-3, 310-pound first-year player, collapsed. Medics administered CPR on him and took him to an ambulance that rushed him to a nearby hospital.

About three hours later, 49ers spokesman Aaron Salkin confirmed that Herrion had died. The cause of death was not immediately known.

"This is a colossal tragedy for the 49ers and the entire NFL community," Salkin said. "We still do not know all the details. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Herrion family."

The death comes a little more than four years after offensive lineman Korey Stringer of the Minnesota Vikings died of heatstroke during a training camp practice on a day during which the heat index soared to 110.

Since Stringer's death, NFL teams have increased their efforts to teach players about hydration and how to manage the heat, experimenting with sensors to measure players' core body temperatures.

On Saturday night in Denver, temperatures were in the mid-60s with 50 percent humidity, although experts say heatstroke can occur even in cool conditions.

After the game, Nolan said he had no comments about San Francisco's 26-21 loss to the Broncos.

"There are more important things on our mind than the game," he said. "Right now, our thoughts and prayers are with Thomas Herrion."

Stringer's death was thought to be the first of its kind in the NFL. In 1979, St. Louis Cardinals tight end J.V. Cain died of a heart attack during training camp. Chuck Hughes, a wide receiver for the Detroit Lions, died of a heart attack Oct. 24, 1972, during a game in Detroit against the Chicago Bears.

This story can be found at:

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBXT5AZMCE.html 

Athlete Alert - Aspartame And MSG In Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Contributed By Dr. Betty Martini

Mission Possible International

BettyM19@mindspring.com 

August 23, 2005

Aspartame

Originally Posted At:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/4/prwebxml225071.php 

Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D. explains the relationship between sudden cardiac death, especially in athletes, and excitotoxic damage produced by food additives and artificial sweeteners.

(PRWEB) April 14, 2005 -- Dr. Russell Blaylock, an author and neurosurgeon, explains the relationship between sudden cardiac death, especially in athletes, and excitotoxic damage caused by food additives and artificial sweeteners. -- By Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.

Over 460,000 people annually die of a disorder called sudden cardiac death, according to CDC statistics. This condition strikes otherwise healthy people who have experienced no obvious symptoms of heart disease prior to their abrupt deaths.

An alarming number young athletes are included in these deaths, in high schools and colleges as well as among professional athletes. While in some of these individuals cardiologists found evidence of coronary disease and scars from earlier silent heart attacks, there is one mechanism that's getting no attention at all: the excitotoxin damage caused by food additives and the artificial sweetener aspartame. This is despite growing evidence that the excitotoxic mechanism plays a major role in cardiac disease.

Previously, it was thought that excitotoxic food additives, such as monosodium glutamate and aspartic acid in aspartame, cause their damage in the cardiovascular centers in the brain stem and/or by over-stimulating sympathetic centers in the hypothalamus of the brain. Both mechanisms have resulted in sudden cardiac death in experimental animals.

A particularly deadly combination occurs in young athletes: Low magnesium intake, high calcium intake, low intake of omega-3 fatty acids and excitotoxins in food additives. Strenuous exercise, especially in extreme heat, depletes the body's magnesium stores, as does consumption of carbonated drinks and taking calcium supplements. Also adrenalin secretion, increased during exercise, intensifies heart muscle irritability and further loss of magnesium as well. When calcium supplements are taken in the face of an existing magnesium deficiency, both magnesium and calcium are driven into the bones, producing a sudden magnesium-depletion crisis.

Low magnesium produces seizures and causes sudden cardiac arrest. In a classic experiment it was found that stressing magnesium-deficient animals resulted in an almost 100% mortality from sudden cardiac arrest. Adding magnesium reduced mortality dramatically. A considerable body of evidence has shown that low omega-3 fat intake significantly increases the risk and severity of cardiac arrhythmias, the main cause of sudden cardiac death.

A number of studies have shown that Americans are significantly deficient in these protective fats. Finally, recent research has shown that the brain is not the only tissue having glutamate receptors. Numerous glutamate receptors have been found both within the heart's electrical conduction system and the heart muscle itself.

When an excess of food-borne excitotoxins, such as MSG, hydrolyzed protein soy protein isolate and concentrate, natural flavoring, sodium caseinate and aspartate from aspartame, are consumed, these glutamate receptors are over-stimulated, producing cardiac arrhythmias. When magnesium stores are low, as we see in athletes, the glutamate receptors are so sensitive that even low levels of these excitotoxins can result in cardiac arrhythmias and death.

This is especially so when combined with the other factors mentioned. Under such condition, free radicals and lipid eroxidation products build up within the muscle cells, leading to the same outcome.

High consumption of aspartame adds an additional cardiac muscle toxin: methanol. A number of studies have shown that consuming aspartame and MSG (and similar excitotoxins) together greatly magnifies the toxicity.

Young people live on junk foods, most of which contain a number of excitotoxic additives. Several studies have shown that the levels consumed by our youth equal those that cause damage in experimental animals. Humans are 5X more sensitive to these toxins than any animal.

The same factors operate in older individuals. Most people over age 50 years are depleted of magnesium, have low omega-3 fat intakes, are under stress and take a number of medications which compromise nutrition, especially magnesium levels. Because seniors are more likely to have coronary artery disease plus other medical conditions, their risk of sudden cardiac death is even higher.

Both athletes and those over age 45 should take magnesium supplements, antioxidants, omega-3 oils, eat more vegetables and avoid foods and artificial sweeteners containing excitotoxins such as aspartame and MSG. This accomplishes a lot more than attempting to rescue a victim with an external defibrillator after the fact.

Dr. Blaylock's web site is http://www.russellblaylockmd.com . He is author of "Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills and Health & Nutrition Secrets to Save Your Life." He can be seen in the movie on aspartame, "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World." http://www.docworkers.com 

Case histories now being taken on aspartame and brain tumors from New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Mississippi in the last three years. Send to BettyM19@mindspring.com  Also, The FDA blamed deaths on ephedra and removed it from the market. The FDA records on ephedra were reviewed by the renowned neuroscientist Dr. John Olney who founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity and tried to prevent the approval of aspartame and said ephedra is safe. http://www.wnho.net   

In the movie, "Sweet Misery," Diane Fleming is interviewed from prison. Her husband, an aspartame addict, who played basketball several times a week, died and she was charged with his death. Several experts have written affidavits that Charles Fleming died from aspartame.

http://www.wnho.net/aspartamenews.htm 

Dr. Betty Martini

Founder, Mission Possible International

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097

770-242-2599

http://www.dorway.com 

Aspartame Toxiocity Center: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame 

Aspartame Information List: http://www.wnho.net  

Aspartame-Rumsfeld's Bioweapon Legacy

Dr. Betty Martini, Founder

Mission Possible Intl

8-20-5

http://www.rense.com/general67/rum.htm

Before reading this article everyone should hear James Turner, Atty, explain how Don Rumsfeld called in his markers to get aspartame, a deadly chemical poison approved when the FDA said no: http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages.Rumsfeld2.html  The entire film can be gotten at http://www.docworkers.com 

Among the many ironies of our modern world is that Gerald Ford awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom-America's highest civilian honor-to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on January 19, 1977. Just a few weeks later on March 8, Rumsfeld became the CEO of G.D. Searle to take point on a mission to force the Food and Drug Administration to approve for human consumption a known carcinogen and neurotoxic poison.

Mission accomplished: Today some 9,000 commonly consumed products are laced with this weapon of mass misery and millions of people live with chronic illnesses linked to the artificial sweetener aspartame. It is our belief at The Idaho Observer that if some guy named Parkinson can have a disease named after him, then Donald Rumsfeld ought to have his own disease, too. Hence the term Rumsfeld disease A.

Rumsfeld's Disease

A Politically-Induced Biochemical

Disaster Of Global Proportions

By Don Harkins

The Idaho Observer

8-15-5

Today, Donald Rumsfeld is known throughout the world as the zealous U.S. Secretary of Defense who is waging a global "war on terror" in search of "terrorists" and "weapons of mass destruction." Most people, however, are not aware that Rumsfeld himself unleashed a chemical weapon of mass destruction upon the world in 1981-and it's still out there destroying people all over the world. That "WMD" is aspartame and it has been scientifically and anecdotally linked to millions of chronic illnesses and deaths.

The evidence shows that, with full knowledge of aspartame's neurotoxicity and carcinogenicity, Rumsfeld, as the CEO of G.D.

Searle, Co., "called in his markers" to achieve U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the artificial sweetener aspartame, better known by its trade name "NutraSweet."

Consumer advocate attorney Jim Turner, who was instrumental in the 1969 banning of cyclamate in the U.S. for its link to various forms of cancer, met with representatives of aspartame approval petitioner Searle in 1974. The main topic of discussion was neuroscientist Dr. John Olney's 1971 study which showed that aspartic acid caused lesions in the brains of infant mice. According to Turner, arguably the world's foremost authority on aspartame's dubious legal history, Rumsfeld was apparently hired by Searle for one specific purpose: To obtain FDA approval for aspartame.

Betty Martini is the director of Mission Possible, a worldwide consumer advocacy organization formed in 1992 as a voice for those demanding that the FDA reverse its approval of aspartame and order its removal from foods, beverages and medical preparations. Martini is even more bold in her charges against Rumsfeld. Martini believes the Washington insider, former three-term U.S. Rep. From Illinois (1962-1968), secretary of defense (1975-1977) and executive assistant to President Gerald Ford, was hired by Searle because, "He was willing to get a deadly chemical poison, aspartame, approved for human consumption"

Background

In December, 1965 Searle chemist James Schlatter discovered aspartame while working on an ulcer drug. The substance, comprised of 50 percent synthetic phenylalanine, 40 percent synthetic aspartic acid and 10 percent methanol, was about 200 times sweeter than sugar by weight and had no calories. By spring, 1967, Searle began conducting safety trials in preparation for petitioning the FDA for product approval.

Soon after the trials began, lab animals (monkeys and mice) began experiencing adverse effects ranging from brain lesions and tumors to seizures and death. Yet Searle petitioned the FDA for aspartame approval in February, 1973. According to Turner, Searle provided the FDA with over 100 studies claiming they proved aspartame was "safe." Independent analyses of these studies, however, proves conclusively that aspartame is actually a dangerous, neurotoxic, carcinogenic and highly-addictive drug.

Trusting Searle's promise that aspartame was safe, the FDA approved the limited use of aspartame in dry goods on July 26, 1974. Turner and Dr. Olney formally objected to the approval. Their petition triggered an FDA investigation of Searle's lab practices which proved that Searle had provided the FDA with inaccurate conclusions resulting from manipulated data derived from poorly-designed studies. The FDA reversed its decision to approve aspartame in dry goods.

On January 10, 1977, the FDA formally requested that the U.S. Department of Justice convene a federal grand jury to determine if Searle should be criminally indicted for "concealing material facts and making false statements" with regard to its petition for aspartame approval.

Among the many charges FDA investigators made about Searle's shoddy lab practices was how rats that developed tumors would undergo surgical removal of the tumors and then be placed back into the study as if nothing had happened to them.

The grand jury investigation was led by U.S. Attorney Samuel Skinner. In July 1, 1977, while the investigation was being conducted, Skinner left the Justice Department and took a job with Sidley & Austin-the law firm representing Searle. The statute of limitations eventually ran out and the grand jury disbanded without reaching any conclusions regarding Searle and its lab practices.

Amid this controversy, Rumsfeld was hired as Searle CEO on March 8, 1977 and immediately began cleaning house. Rumsfeld, who had no previous business executive experience before becoming CEO of Searle, reorganized several departments in the company and fired many of its high-level managers, replacing them with other politically-connected Washington, D.C., insiders.

Though the controversies deepened and the evidence proving the poisonous nature of his company's product continued to accumulate, Rumsfeld and his team continued to push for FDA approval of aspartame.

A team of FDA investigators headed by Jerome Bressler attempted to block Rumsfeld, et. al, by publishing what has become known as the "Bressler Report" on August 1, 1977. The report cited several instances where Searle intentionally mislead the FDA in its petition for marketplace approval of aspartame. The FDA then formed a public board of inquiry (PBOI) in 1979 to rule on the myriad safety issues surrounding aspartame.

By this time, FDA investigators and independent scientists had exhaustively reviewed the Searle studies and additional studies had been conducted. There was no doubt, based upon objective analyses of evidence that had accumulated for over a decade, that aspartame was deathly poisonous to lab animals and caused a statistically significant number of them to develop tumors.

On September 30, 1980, the PBOI concluded that aspartame should not be approved pending further investigation of its link to the formation of brain tumors and that the FDA "has not been presented with proof of reasonable certainty that aspartame is safe for use as a food additive."

The coup

Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president January 21, 1981. Rumsfeld, while still CEO at Searle, was part of Reagan's transition team. This team hand-picked Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr., to be the new FDA commissioner. Dr. Hayes, a pharmacologist, had no previous experience with food additives before being appointed director of the FDA. He, like Rumsfeld, did, however, have experience with chemical warfare studies while connected to the Department of Defense. According to The Washington Post, Hayes was, "one of a number of doctors who conducted drugs tests for the Army on volunteers. to determine the effect of a mind-disorienting drug called CAR 301,060," at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

The Post further explained why Hayes was the perfect choice to politically force the approval of aspartame: "According to a declassified 1976 report prepared by the Army Inspector General, Hayes had planned a research study to develop the mind-altering CAR 301,060 as a crowd control agent."

The report, detailing Hayes activities beginning in 1972, further indicated that Hayes was involved in similar biochemical mind control research studies until being named FDA director.

One of Hayes, first official acts as FDA chief was to approve the use of aspartame as an artificial sweetener in dry goods July 18, 1981. In order to accomplish this feat, Hayes had to overlook the scuttled grand jury investigation of Searle, overcome the Bressler Report, ignore the PBOI,s recommendations and pretend aspartame did not chronically sicken and kill thousands of lab animals. Hayes, left his post at the FDA in November, 1983, amid accusations that he was accepting corporate gifts for political favors. Just before leaving office in scandal, Hayes approved the use of aspartame in beverages. According to The Post, Hayes, next job was in the private sector where he served as a high-paid senior medical advisor for Searle's public relations firm.

The aftermath

Within weeks of aspartame's approval for use in beverages, cans of diet sodas and other sweet drinks were on the market. To help sell Americans on using the artificial sweetener, intense advertising campaigns began programming the public to believe that sugar has lots of calories; calories make us fat and NutraSweet has no calories-therefore it won't make us fat.

Based upon this almost universally-accepted oversimplification of biochemical reality, aspartame has enjoyed 22 years of marketplace success and is now in an estimated 7,000 to 9,000 commonly-consumed products in at least 100 countries. When Searle was absorbed by Monsanto in 1985, Rumsfeld reportedly received a $12 million bonus.

Not surprisingly, the same adverse reactions seen in lab animals in the 60s and 70s are now being seen in the general population. In his first book on aspartame (1990), Dr. H.J. Roberts stated that in five or 10 years we would have a worldwide plague on our hands if we do not remove aspartame from our food supply. With the printing of "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic (2001), Dr. Roberts declared that the world is, indeed, plagued by a global epidemic of symptoms associated with aspartame use.

* Aspartame is being identified by a growing number of researchers and physicians as an underlying cause of chronic ill health in America and other countries throughout the world.

* It interacts with other substances such as pharmaceutical drugs to produce adverse reactions.

* All metabolites of aspartame (formaldehyde, methanol, diketopiperazine and formic acid) are toxic to the human body and are especially toxic to the brain.

* Aspartame comprises over 80 percent of consumer complaints filed with the FDA.

* The FDA has generated a list of 92 symptoms associated with aspartame consumption that include nausea, dizziness, irritability, insanity, blindness, deafness, weight gain and death.

* The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claim that 500,000 people each year simply "drop dead" for no apparent reason from what it labels "sudden cardiac death."

* Dementia among all ages (especially the elderly) and learning disabilities among children, in the U.S. and abroad, have been skyrocketing since 1981.

As of today, the number of scientific and studies showing that aspartame is, indeed, an underlying cause of chronic physical and mental illness and death out number studies proving its safety by at least 400 to zero. Proof of this fact can also be determined by what happens in many cases when people stop using aspartame: Their chronic symptoms disappear.

The legacy

Defense Secretary Rumsfeld was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Gerald Ford-the highest civilian honor in America-on January 19, 1977. A few months later, Rumsfeld became the CEO of Searle to secure political approval for a product that science had proven to be a highly-addictive neurotoxic drug that causes chronic ill health, brain tumors and death. The evidence indicates that FDA approval for aspartame was a high-level political priority undoubtedly connected to its capacity to adversely effect the minds and bodies of those consuming it.

Because Rumsfeld placed politics above public health and safety, hundreds of millions of people throughout the world cannot think clearly and suffer from a variety of chronic illnesses. It is, therefore, fitting that symptoms associated with aspartame use be known as "Rumsfeld's disease."

Caption: The search of a suitable picture of Donald Rumsfeld turned up this image from Portland Indy Media. Though it may seem satirical, is it? What goes through the mind of a man who knowingly poisons his own people?

End of Article

Note from Betty Martini:

Only yesterday in national news we learned diet and low calorie pop will be left in schools which will poison our children. As an example, Coke Zero has aspartame. Aspartame is a chemical hypersensitization agent because it is a neurotoxic drug/chemical poison. It not only interacts with all drugs but all vaccines and other toxins and unsafe sweeteners like Splenda, a chlorocarbon poison. So our children don't have a chance. Only a few weeks ago an epidemiological study by Sharon Fowler at the University of Texas based on 8 years data links diet drinks with obesity. Aspartame also can precipitate diabetes, simulates and aggravates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, destroys the optic nerve and interacts with insulin.

In July a 3 year Italian study was released by the European Foundation for Oncology and Environmental Sciences which revealed it causes leukemia, lymphoma and malignant brain tumors. Their July 14 05 report declares: "The results demonstrate ... that aspartame is a carcinogenic agent." How many mothers knowing this would want their children drinking an addictive carcinogenic agent. Aspartame liberates free methyl alcohol which causes chronic methanol poisoning. This affects the dopamine system of the brain and causes addiction. Now understand why the pop companies want this poison in your schools which causes Rumsfeld Disease.

Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., one of the world's leading authorities on aspartame neurotoxicity, extensively reviewed the Soffritti report. "This study confirmed the previous study by Dr. Trocho and co-workers (l998), which also found the formaldehyde breakdown product of aspartame to be damaging to cellular DNA and that this damage was cumulative. The type of damage was a duplicate of that associated with cancers. These two studies strongly indicate that drinking a single diet cola sweetened with aspartame every day could significantly increase one's risk of developing a lymphoma or leukemia."

Dr. Blaylock said further "This study should terrify mothers and all those consuming aspartame sweetened products. This was a carefully done study which clearly demonstrated a statistically significant increase in several types of lymphomas and Leukemias in rats. Both of these malignancies have increased significantly in this country since the widespread use of aspartame."

Only the animals exposed to aspartame developed malignant brain tumors and we are now taking aspartame brain tumor cases for litigation in New York, New Jersey, Madison County, Illinois and Mississippi. Simply contact me at Bettym19@mindspring.com

Dr. Blaylock also said "They found that even lower doses of aspartame could cause these malignancies, yet the higher the dose, the more cancers that were seen. Since aspartame can increase obesity and may even cause the metabolic syndrome that affects 48 million Americans, there is no reason to ever consume this product. At the least, it should be immediately banned from all schools."

Any mother reading this article with children in school should immediately take this to their principal, children's teacher and PTA along with the movie, Sweet Misery, and demand that all products with aspartame (NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful, E951/Canderel/Benevia, etc.) and especially pop with this poison be removed - period, no if's, no and's and no but's. And Board of Educations should also remove the lobbyists and those who would offer money to keep poisoned pop in schools. How much is the brain of your child worth. Remember this is the cause of the epidemic of ADD, ADHD, autism, Tourettes, and behavioral problems.

For documentation of this read the experts books:

Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic

H. J. Roberts, M.D.

www.sunsentpress.com 

or 1 800 827 7991

Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills and Health & Nutrition Secrets

By neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D.

www.russellblaylockmd.com 

Web sites: http://www.wnho.net  and http://www.dorway.com  Aspartame Toxicity Center, http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame 

Aspartame Information List, http://www.wnho.net  Get involved

Rumsfeld Disease may become one of the largest plagues in world history. The list of horrors is unending. Thanks to despicable and greedy Big Pharma/Codex, in England supplements from industry now contain aspartame. Diane Fleming still remains in a prison in Virginia because methanol was found on her husband's autopsy and they thought she poisoned him even though she passed their lie detector test. Doctors affidavits state he died from aspartame which causes methanol poisoning. Athletes like Fleming are dying because aspartame damages the cardiac conduction system and causes sudden death, although his was not sudden.

Enough is enough. Eradicate Rumsfeld Disease from our schools and from our planet.

Don Harkins of the Idaho Observer has given permission to have this republished. To help the effort the Idaho Observer - www.idaho-observer.com publishes 24 page booklets for distribution on Rumsfeld Disease called the Artificially Sweetened Times. Distribute them throughout your schools, offices and churches to help eradicate Rumsfeld Disease. And if you think the pop companies didn't know the gum was loaded be sure to read the protest of the National Soft Drink Assn. on www.dorway.com 

Dr. Betty Martini, Founder

Mission Possible International

9270 River Club Parkway,

Duluth, Georgia 30097

770 242-2599

Idaho Observer

Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869

Phone 208-255-2307

Email observer@coldreams.com 

Web http://idaho-observer.com

Aspartame And Fluoride Bone Cancer Coverup

From Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.

Bettym19@mindspring.com

Saturday, July 30, 2005

Dear Taylor,

I would be more than happy to put this on my lists for you. You are right, I know about fluoride and if you will go to http://www.dorway.com  you will see Dr. Russell Blaylock's paper on the interaction of aspartame, MSG, fluoride and RBGH. It's discussed also in the doctor's books. I'll send you another post by private email of recent press releases that will have all the resources.

We also have an Aspartame Information List you can subscribe to on http://www.wnho.net  And I'll see if I can get this put on some web sites.

All my best,

Betty

Dear Dr. Martini,

As I have taken note that you are also not a supporter of forced artificial fluoridation of municipal water sources, I want to call something to your attention, even though it's likely you already know.

Recently a Harvard Oral Epidemiologists was caught red-handed covering up the very negative results of a fluoridation/bone cancer connection to boys between the ages of 5 to 10.

This dental researcher reported to federal officials and the National Academy of Sciences that there was no connection between drinking fluoridated water and osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer in males. However, this same individual, as supervisor and advisor to a key PhD student studying this problem, signed off in 2001 on the epidemiological work carried out by the doctoral subordinate that showed a robust correlation between drinking fluoridated water and much higher rates of osteosarcoma in boys.

In fact, this cover-up on the part of an esteemed dental researcher has recently hit the mainstream press, some of which can be easily accessed from the home page of www.fluorideaction.net  or www.fluoridealert.org . (Warning: don't type in fluoridealert.com , because doing so routs you to the ADA).

The reason that I am contacting you is to encourage you to mention something about this cover-up in any of your online submissions.

Thank you for all of your work on behalf of the public through your drive to educate consumers about the awful truth regarding aspartame. There will be reason to celebrate if the tragedy of aspartame and water fluoridation ends some day.

Sincerely, 

Mr. Taylor Moore

The Cause Of The Enormous Diabetes Epidemic

From Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum

Bettym19@mindspring.com

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Dear Dr. Fairchild:

The article below quoting you was forwarded to me by Mission Possible UK. We're a global volunteer force warning all consumers off the deadly neurotoxin, aspartame, marketed as NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, E951,Canderel, etc. This is the answer to the epidemic of diabetes. First of all, aspartame is reportedly used by 70% of the US population and 40% of the children. It's not an additive but a deadly neurotoxin that can precipitate diabetes, simulates and aggravates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, keeps blood sugar out of control, destroys the optic nerve, causes diabetics to go into convulsions and even interacts with insulin. This is the recipe to kill a diabetic. A report recently spoke of 65% of diabetics already having Alzheimer's. Diabetic specialist and world expert on aspartame, H. J. Roberts, M.D., says aspartame is escalating Alzheimer's (Defense Against Alzheimer's Disease, www.sunsentpress.com ). Indeed memory loss is so prevalent that it is #9 on the FDA list of 92 symptoms you will find on www.dorway.com 

Aspartame is a molecule of three ingredients, aspartic acid, (40%), an excitotoxin, a methyl ester which immediately becomes methanol (10%), and phenylalanine (50%) which as an isolate is a neurotoxin, goes directly into the brain, lowering the seizure threshold and depleting serotonin. Lowered serotonin triggers manic depression or bipolar, suicidal tendencies, mood swings, insomnia, hallucinations, panic attacks, etc. The molecule breaks down to a witches brew of toxins including diketopiperazine, a brain tumor agent.

An Italian Study (3 years) just recently released on aspartame proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that aspartame is a carcinogen. It caused malignant brain tumors, leukemia and lymphoma. You can read the entire study on http://www.wnho.net  click on aspartame.

This product liberates free methyl alcohol which converts to formaldehyde and formic acid even in the retina of the eye and destroys the optic nerve. It triggers in victims everything from retinal detachments and optic neuritis to macular degeneration and blindness. The late Dr. Morgan Raiford who was the "the specialist in methanol toxicity" in this country tried desperately before his death to get aspartame removed from the market. He said if vision is in the "wet stage" it can return and, indeed, in many we have warned in time who were legally blind, we have seen their vision return. So when a diabetic goes blind, the physician may think, well he's a diabetic so he went blind. But the cause most of the time is aspartame in those who use it. It's a given. To make matters worse aspartame is very addicting. The methanol causes chronic methanol poisoning. This effects the dopamine system of the brain and causes the addiction. A report on addiction and aspartame can be read on www.dorway.com  In l986 the Community Nutrition Institute in Washington, D.C. petitioned the FDA to ban aspartame because so many people were going blind and having seizures. The FDA refused.

Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, www.russellblaylockmd.com  wrote a paper on sudden cardiac death explaining that aspartame damages the cardiac conduction system and causes this. You can also read this on www.wnho.net  Aspartame triggers an irregular heart rhythm and interacts with all cardiac medication. In fact, because it damages the mitochondria or life of the cell it also interacts with all drugs and vaccines. You can now understand why the athletes are dropping dead. One athlete and body builder who played basketball three or four times a week was addicted to aspartame laced diet drinks and other products. His autopsy showed methanol poisoning. Even though his wife took a lie detector test and the police admitted she was truthful and didn't kill her husband she was indicted and sentenced to 50 years in prison, 20 and 30 to be served concurrently. You can hear her story in the documentary on aspartame, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, www.docworkers.com 

In this movie you will also see Doctors H. J. Roberts and Russell Blaylock.  

Dr. Roberts realized aspartame was a poison when it was approved because his diabetic patients began going blind, being confused and their blood sugar could not be controlled. He testified before Congress and in his first press conference said if something was not done then in 5 or 10 years we would have a global plague on our hands. Indeed, it was Dr. Roberts who declared aspartame disease to be a global epidemic and published the 1038 page medical text on it. Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com  or 1 800 827 7991. In this masterpiece you can read exactly the mechanisms by which aspartame destroys the diabetic.

The FDA never wanted to approve this poison and even attempted to have the original manufacturer indicted for fraud. Both U.S. Prosecutors hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations expired. The FDA refused for 16 years to allow aspartame on the market but at the time Don Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle and said he would call in all his markers and get it approved anyway. See and hear the incredible story of how that was done in the movie, Sweet Misery, as told by James Turner, Washington Atty. Turner along with Dr. John Olney attempted to prevent the approval of aspartame.

And as to obesity, we have a saying: "If you want to get fat NutraSweet is where its at." The Trocho study has proven that the formaldehyde converted from the methanol accumulates in the cells and damages DNA with most toxicity in the liver but substantial amounts in the adipose tissue (fat cells), kidneys, brain and retina. In the protest of the National Soft Drink Association you will read that aspartame is really a drug that makes you crave carbohydrates so you gain weight. It's on www.dorway.com  This is an affidavit by Dr. Wurtman at MIT. Dr. Wurtman was threatened by the VP of Searle if he did studies on aspartame and seizures his research funds would be rejected, and they were. But today MIT gets research funds and Dr. Wurtman no longer speaks out against aspartame. He was, however, a tiger in Congress and left a paper trail he can't destroy. However, MIT has now withdrawn his book, and they are probably trying to get it off the market.

Likewise, the manufacturers fund the professional organizations like the American Diabetes Assn and American Dietetics Assn and they push their propaganda with full knowledge of the toxicity of aspartame. Those responsible to solve the problem are the problem. We walk with the diabetics at the diabetic walk sponsored in part by Equal and give out material to save their lives. See Dr. Roberts position paper on aspartame and diabetes and hypoglycemia on www.dorway.com  One year I met a young girl addicted to Diet Coke wearing an insulin pump. I finally told her I would give her a doctors packet on the toxin if she would agree to abide by what her physician told her. Most physicians have no knowledge because so many are funded by the manufacturer who could alert the medical community. Hospitals are full of this toxin. Instead the young girl gave the packet to the ADA.

Dr. Roberts practiced medicine for 50 years graduating medical school when he was about 21. He's a brilliant physician who was selected at the Best Doctor in the US in the l980's. His first text on medical diagnosis was used by 60,000 doctors, especially to prepared for their Board examinations. You only have to take your Boards once and its a compliment to a physician if he does it again years ago to show he is current with medicine. Dr. Roberts is Board Certified and Recertified in Internal Medicine. The ADA saw that on his stationery and actually told the young girl I was trying to get off aspartame that it meant he had lost his license. That's how far these professional organizations will go to keep being funded by industry. They simply sacrifice the consumer.

There are front groups all over the Internet that lie and deny. It's awfully hard to find a virgin in a domicile of illicit pleasures.

The aspartame obesity issue has now been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. Sharon Fowler's study (University of Texas) just recently released has proven diet drinks link to obesity using 8 years of data. The sweetener in those drinks all these years has been aspartame, Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi. In the Italian aspartame study release on www.wnho.net  you can click on WebMD to read this.

On Fox News Sunday, Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld, reported the Italian study on aspartame while Michael Jacobson of CSPI actually said there should be warnings on soda pop, one to drink diet soda. We've written him too for years. Makes no difference how much data you give him he still pushes diet soda. CSPI stands for Center for Science in the Public Interest. They ought to call it NSANPI, No Science And No Public Interest. It's absolutely sickening.

And diabetics and the rest of the world needs to be warned about Splenda going into diet drinks because it is a chlorocarbon poison. See the report on www.wnho.net  The Lethal Science of Splenda.

Dr. Fairchild, everything is a matter of public record. We are now taking case histories for aspartame brain tumors in New York, New Jersey, Mississippi, and Madison County, Illinois. The diabetes and obesity epidemics are now explained. See if you can get the FDA to explain their loyalty to industry. I filed a Citizens Petition to the FDA over 3 years ago based on the fact I have their records showing aspartame to be a chemical poison and they continue to lie to the public. The law states they have to answer in 180 days. When asked why they hadn't answered they said they had more important things to do. And so diabetics as well as other consumers continue to be disabled by aspartame and I shudder to think of the amount of deaths from the symptoms and diseases it triggers. We are looking at what may be one of the largest plagues in world history! While Big Pharma now wants our supplements, the only thing we have to fight the diseases they cause.

Respectfully,

Dr. Betty Martini,

Founder, Mission Possible International

9270 River Club Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097

770 242-2599

http://www.wnho.net  and http://www.dorway.com 

Big Brother Wants To Be Diet Cop

Wired News

July 25, 2005

http://wired.com/news/medtech/0%2C1286%2C68301-2%2C00.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1

(AP) -- At least half a million New Yorkers have diabetes, many of them at risk for blindness, kidney failure, amputations and heart problems because they are doing a poor job of controlling their illness. The question is, how much privacy are they willing to give up for a chance at better health?

A century after New York became the first American city to track people with infectious diseases as a way to halt epidemics, officials here propose a similar system to monitor people with diabetes, a non-contagious foe. Conceived after a sharp rise in diabetes deaths over the past 20 years, the plan would require medical labs to report to the city the results of a certain type of test that indicates how well individual patients are controlling their diabetes.

"There will be some people who will say, 'What business of the government is it to know that my diabetes is not in control?'" said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the city's health commissioner. The answer, he said, is that diabetes costs an estimated $5 billion a year to treat in New York and was the fourth leading cause of death in the city in 2003, killing 1,891.

By pinpointing problem patients, then intervening ever so slightly in their care, Frieden said the city can improve thousands of lives. "I don't think we can afford not to do anything," he said. The Board of Health vote on the proposal isn't likely until at least September, but it has already attracted attention from other public health experts and privacy advocates.

The list of illnesses reported to public health authorities has grown over the years, but it still is almost entirely contagious diseases, like HIV, or conditions related to environmental toxins, like lead poisoning. Diabetes is different, threatening no one but the people who have it.

"This isn't smallpox," said James Pyles, an attorney who represents health-care groups concerned with medical privacy. "The state, or the city in this case, does not have a compelling interest in the health of an individual that overrides that individual's right to privacy." Pyles praised the intent of the program, but said unless diabetics are asked for their consent, it would be "an outright violation of the constitutional right to privacy" for the government to obtain their identities.

The city's program wouldn't initially get consent to collect data, but would allow patients to opt out later. The database would also be tightly controlled, off limits to anyone but department staff, the patients and their doctors, health officials say.

Over time, doctors could receive letters, telling them whether their patients have been getting adequate care. People who skip checkups might get a note from their doctors, reminding them of the dangers of untreated diabetes.

The plan is akin to the surveillance system put in place in 1897 to fight tuberculosis. At first, doctors were outraged they had to report TB cases to the government, but it became a model after deaths plummeted. The American Diabetes Association supports New York's plan. It could be a great tool for doctors who find it difficult to track patients over long periods, said the ADA's Dr. Nathaniel Clark. Currently, he said, people who aren't aggressive about their care can easily fall through the cracks. Some switch health-care providers, and many people living in poor neighborhoods where diabetes is common don't have a regular doctor.

Dr. Paul Simon, of Los Angeles County's public health department, said other big cities could follow New York's lead. "Some people are uncomfortable with public health departments expanding their scope beyond infectious disease, but I would say we have to do it," he said. "Chronic disease really accounts for the major portion of years of life lost to illness these days." New York's program would involve collecting the results of A1c tests, which indicate blood glucose control over a few months, unlike the daily glucose tests diabetics give themselves.

The A1c test is given for both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, the latter linked to obesity and accounting for about 90 percent of American diabetics. The program would cost between $1 million and $2 million a year, the health department said. Dr. Amy Fairchild, an expert on public health ethics at Columbia University, said disease-monitoring programs have historically been able to overcome privacy worries if the health threat is sufficiently frightening.

"We respond with surveillance when we believe something has reached epidemic proportions," Fairchild said. "And this may fit the profile. Have we become a nation of obese people who are all going to get diabetes?" The program's success, she said, may depend partly on how patients respond. "It's not necessarily that someone has that information. It's that they're pestering you: 'The next thing I know, you'll be telling me what I can and can't eat,'" she said.

Nationally, diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It afflicts about 18.2 million Americans. Sandye Poitier-Johnson, 57, a public school principal in Harlem who was diagnosed with diabetes a few years ago, said most people could use help monitoring their condition. "People say diabetes is serious, but they don't take it seriously," she said. "I wouldn't think that this was Big Brother or Big Sister watching me. I would welcome the help." She urged the city, though, to get patient consent first. "There is enough privacy invasion already in our society," she said.

Kentucky  Aspartame Death Capital Of The US

From Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum

Bettym19@mindspring.com

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

The letter below is from Sharon Bevins, Mission Possible, Pound, Virginia. An extremely interesting point is she says leukemia should be included in the diseases triggered by aspartame, not knowing that the Italian Study has just proven the point. Here is her research: Regards, Betty

My name is Sharon Bevins, Mission Possible Pound, Virginia. I have been an elementary teacher in Wise County, Virginia for twenty-four years. I have been interested in nutrition for years, solely to obtain better health for myself. I had gone through a traumatic divorce in l980 and ate very little food during this time. About the time I started a teaching career, I came down with various ailments such as asthma, chronic fatigue, chronic sinusitis, nasal polyps, etc. After being kept on steroids for several years by regular doctors, I decided there had to be a better way. I found a regular doctor in Marion, Virginia that practiced alternative methods. He put me on a strict diet of nothing but limited meats, fruits, vegetables and water. Basically, what I was doing was a low glycemic diet, getting all of the toxins and poisons out of my body. He also put me on an anti-yeast regimen and put me on some good high powered vitamins and minerals. Within two months every symptom I had left me, and I was completely well. Needless to say it took me years to adjust to a strict diet, but now I do know how to get well!

Two years ago, I met a couple of women at a natural health food store, that basically changed my life. They introduced me to a book called "Death by Diet" by a bio-chemist called Robert Barefoot. The book explained all the functions that calcium did in the body and that it could even prevent and cure cancer! I started giving some of this information out to my friends and relatives who were sick with various ailments, such as lupus, fibromyalgia, MS, different types of cancer. I noticed that almost all on my list were women! I wondered why?

I had read an article in a women's magazine that said that women were dying across America at twice the rate of men on almost every disease, especially autoimmune diseases. I started taking informed surveys across the region I lived in (southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky), to see if I could come up with some answers. I knew that women were dieting all the time, this was obvious! I found they were not big meat eaters and milk drinkers like men, losing major sources of protein and calcium. The women at the health food store showed me a brochure about the damaging effects of aspartame in diet products. I knew it was bad, but I had no idea at the time just how bad!!

I started calling everyone on my list to ask if they drank diet soda. Every one of them did, except one or two. Could there be a connection? It seemed too coincidental. I stepped up my surveys to see just how prevalent the usage of diet sodas were in this area, and if all the symptoms on this brochure could be true!! What I discovered was astounding to say the least! A cold chill went over me. American was being poisoned on a national level!! How could this be? How could something so devastating be on the market?

I discovered regular doctors were recommending it, especially for diabetics. Every person I met that had diabetes, drank diet soda. They trusted their doctor and thought they were doing a good thing. Except all the ones I talked to, were so sick and their blood sugar was out of control. They were losing their eyesight, and attributing it to the diabetes. I began to suspect diet soda was causing the diabetes epidemic. Heavy people that you would think would have diabetes, that didn't drink diet pop, didn't have diabetes. Skinny people who should not have it, were drinking diet sodas and had diabetes. I started going back to every case in my hometown of people that had died prematurely, and subsequently found they were all heavy diet pop drinkers. Even my own best friend, who had died at age 47, seven years ago with diabetes complications. I was just now connecting the dots. Every case of cancer, big diet soda drinkers. The list goes on and on. (I wouldn't have believed it, if I had not been in the trenches working with so many people.)

I know it is not the factor in every case of sickness. Smoking and high sugar consumption plays a part. But diet soda consumption seem to be the major factor! I was seeing women miscarrying, doing everything they thought was healthy, but drinking diet sodas. I was seeing children that I taught that were slow learners, or irreparably brain damaged where they could learn nothing, after some investigation found that all the mothers had drunk diet soda when they were pregnant. I think this makes the baby be born with a compromised immune system, and the vaccinations are pushing them over the edge to autism, asthma, diabetes, cancer and death!! This would explain why many children escape the ill effects of the vaccines. Most women that I see that are very sick, are smokers and soda drinkers.

I believe I have added another disease to the 90 list of symptoms: leukemia, (of course, most of these diseases are aspartame poisoning, just misdiagnosed by regular doctors). I started noticing that all the cases in my hometown where people had been diagnosed with leukemia was connected to diet soda. Some were dead. Those that I could reach with my information were getting well. When I hear of a celebrity or world leader with a mysterious blood disorder, I automatically think: diet soda!! (MARTINI: See news release on the recent new studies on aspartame showing aspartame triggers leukemia, lymphoma and malignant brain tumors - http://www.wnho.net/new_aspartame_studies.htm )

Arafat was never really diagnosed with anything for sure, but I suspect it was diet soda. Whenever I see anyone with seizures, palsy, paralysis in the legs, this is what I suspect. I started questioning people in buggies that couldn't walk at various stores and guess what? All heavy diet pop users, almost without exception. (IN my research on aspartame, I discovered it destroyed the vitamin B complex, which controls the central nervous system). One particular man in my hometown that I graduated with, was so gaunt looking, palsied and almost near death, was on a feeding tube. It took me awhile, but I discovered he lived on diet sodas for years. My suspicions were true! One man, who had brain cancer, that I've been working with, is now beating the cancer, but his short term memory is gone!! The only liquid he put in his body was diet sodas for fifteen years!!!

I am finding that women are substituting milk, for diet soda. Certain patterns are emerging. They don't eat a good breakfast, they don't eat many fruits and vegetables, they don't drink milk, eat little meat, and are huge diet soda consumers. It is so addictive. I've met women who told me, it would have to kill them before they would give it up! It is their life!! I always tell them, it most assuredly will do so. One man I met was drinking sixteen to eighteen a day!! Needless to say, these people are all terribly sick. I am seeing some people who have drink it for years, and seem to be in good health. They are meat eaters, with the protein protecting them from the poison. A protein will kick out sugars, toxins, lessening the damage to the cells. It keeps the toxins from spiking the blood sugar.

I read an article a few years ago, about an adjoining county to mine, Harlan County, Ky. This area had the highest amount of autoimmune diseases in the nation, and I found out recently they had the highest rate of soda consumption, especially diet soda. No one has made the connection until now.

I met a nurse from this area that said MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS WAS RAMPANT. I have been trying to canvas this area and give out the brochures about the effects of aspartame poisoning. I feel like this problem is greater in this area of Appalachia than other parts of the nation, because of the poor diets of the people, and the high amount of cigarette consumption.

I have been to over 300 businesses, schools, libraries, hospitals, etc. with the information on aspartame. The message is getting out!! ....But knowing this information, I cannot stand idly by, and let people suffer and die needlessly when I know the answer. .------ All I know is that something drastic has to be done. I am doing my part!! "One person can change a lot" has always been my motto.

I am working on my degree in nutrition and have written a book called the Alternative Underground, with a special section on "What's Killing The Women?" I have people that are helping me give out these brochures, so hopefully I won't have to fight this problem alone. I am giving seminars in churches to spread the message. I pray that this research will sound the alarm across the nation to get this horrific poison off the market!!

_____

Note from Martini: Sharon Bevins is the new Mission Possible Pound Virginia. She did this research on her own. She was unaware that aspartame can precipitate diabetes, simulates and aggravates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, causes diabetics to go into convulsions, and interacts with insulin. Some reports say 65% of diabetics have Alzheimer's. Memory loss is #9 on the FDA list of 92 symptoms.

See http://www.wnho.net/whopper.htm 

Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible International, 9270 River Club Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097 770 242-2599 http://www.wnho.net  and http://www.dorway.com

Aspartame Proven To Cause Cancer

From Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.

Bettym19@mindspring.com

Director - Mission Possible

Thursday, July 21, 2005

A three year Italian study on Aspartame in rats revealed a connection between the artificial sweetener and leukemia, lymphoma and malignant brain tumors. It conclusively * proved * that aspartame is a carcinogen, say the study's authors.

A famous neurosurgeon calls for the complete removal of aspartame-laden products from all schools. These claims completely refute and destroy those of Aspartame manufacturers. -- Betty Martini

ATLANTA (PRWEB) -- The European Ramazzini Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences Cancer Research Centre in Bologna, Italy, just released their three year study confirming the link between aspartame and lymphomas and Leukemias.

The report by Morando Soffritti "Aspartame induces lymphomas and Leukemias in rats" is in the European Journal of Oncology for July, 2005. Dr. Soffritti and his team carefully set the conditions whereby genetically-uniform test rats were treated equally with the exception of being divided into groups given varying levels of the toxic chemical sweetener.

Rats are deemed appropriate subjects for testing aspartame on humans because both humans and rats metabolize the methyl ester in aspartame into methyl alcohol, then formaldehyde then formic acid - all deadly poisons. The carcinogenicity of substances in rats and mice is a consistent predictor of cancer risk in humans exposed to those substances.

The study commenced with 8 week old rats and continued until the last one died at 159 weeks. Their physical status and behavior were examined three times daily and detailed records of their growth were kept. Every two weeks each of the 3,600 rats were "clinically examined for gross changes." As each rat died, a complete autopsy was performed. Organs, tissues and bones were preserved for further study.

"In our experimental conditions, it has been demonstrated that APM [aspartame] causes a dose-related statistically significant increase in lymphomas and Leukemias in females at dose levels very near those to which humans can be exposed," the authors wrote in their conclusion. The number of cancers that developed in rats given zero aspartame was zero.

Increases of lymphomas and Leukemias at the lowest exposure level was 62 percent and "an increase in the incidence of these types of neoplasias was also observed in males exposed to the highest dose," as stated in the study.

Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, MD, one of the world's leading authorities on aspartame neurotoxicity, extensively reviewed the Soffritti report. "This study confirmed the previous study by Dr. Trocho and co-workers (1998), which also found the formaldehyde breakdown product of aspartame to be damaging to cellular DNA and that this damage was cumulative. The type of damage was a duplicate of that associated with cancers. These two studies strongly indicate that drinking a single diet cola sweetened with aspartame every day could significantly increase one's risk of developing a lymphoma or leukemia," Blaylock said.

"This study should terrify mothers and all those consuming aspartame sweetened products," he continued. "This was a carefully done study which clearly demonstrated a statistically significant increase in several types of lymphomas and Leukemias in rats. Both of these malignancies have increased significantly in this country since the widespread use of aspartame."

"They also found an increased incidence of malignant brain tumors, even though it was not statistically significant. This does not mean there is no association to brain tumors, since ONLY the animals exposed to aspartame developed the tumors. With children and pregnant women drinking the largest amount of diet colas, this puts their children at the greatest risk of developing one of these horrible diseases. Their found that even lower doses of aspartame could cause these malignancies, yet, the higher the dose, the more cancers that were seen," said Blaylock.

"Since aspartame can increase obesity and may even cause the metabolic syndrome that affects 48 million Americans, there is no reason to ever consume this product. At the least, it should be immediately banned from all schools," said Blaylock.

Aspartame was approved for use in dry goods in 1981 under extremely controversial circumstances. The artificial sweetener is currently found in more than 6,000 products-soft drinks, chewing gum, candy, desserts, table sweeteners and even pharmaceutical drugs and is responsible for more than 80 percent of consumer complaints filed with the FDA each year. The FDA itself has published a list of 92 potentially adverse reactions to aspartame that includes weight gain, blindness, chronic headaches, insanity and death.

Soffritti et al conducted this study because they wanted to determine whether or not the ADI for aspartame (50 and 40 milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day in the U.S. and Europe respectively) was an appropriate limit. Their report concludes with these words: "Results of our study call for urgent reexamination of permissible exposure level of aspartame in both food and beverages, especially to protect children."

Here comes the Whopper. Makers and sellers of aspartame tried to rebut this impeccable European research saying: "With billions of man-years of safe use, there is no indication of an association between aspartame and cancer in humans."

For the rest of the story go to: http://www.wnho.net/whopper.htm 

For more information http://www.whno.net or http://www.dorway.com   

Contact Information

Dr Betty Martini

MISSION POSSIBLE INTERNATIONAL

http://www.wnho.net 

770 242-2599

Aspartame Induces Lymphomas, Leukemias In Rats

"Since the results of carcinogenicity bioassays in rodents,

mainly rats and mice, have been shown to be a consistent

predictor of human cancer risk15-17, the first results of our study

call for urgent re-examination of permissible exposure

levels of (Aspartame) APM in both food and beverages,

especially to protect children."

From Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum

Bettym19@mindspring.com

Thursday, July 14, 2005

"The occurrence of brain malignancies is shown in Table 3. Sparse malignant brain tumors were observed among males and females in the treated groups and none in the controls."

Mission Possible International is taking case histories on aspartame brain tumors in New York, New Jersey, Mississippi, and Madison County, Illinois. Contact Dr. Betty Martini: Bettym19@mindspring.com and web sites: http://www.wnho.net  click on aspartame, http://www.dorway.com 

Original studies - General topic

Eur. J. Oncol., vol. 10, n. 2, pp. 00-00, 2005 IN PRESS

Aspartame induces lymphomas and leukaemias in rats a

Morando Soffritti, Fiorella Belpoggi, Davide Degli Esposti, Luca Lambertini

Cancer Research Centre, European Ramazzini Foundation of

Oncology and Environmental Sciences, Bologna, Italy

Received 15.3.2005 - Accepted 11.4.2005

Research supported by European Ramazzini Foundation of

Oncology and Environmental Sciences, Bologna, Italy

Introduction

Aspartame (APM) is a widely used artificial sweetener consumed by hundreds of millions of people around the world1, 2. It is found in more than 6,000 products, including soft drinks, chewing gum, candy, yoghurt, tabletop sweeteners and some pharmaceuticals such as vitamins and sugar-free cough drops2.

Dietary surveys, performed among APM consumers, have shown that the average APM daily intake in the general population ranged from 2 to 3 mg/kg b.w. and was even more in children and pregnant women1. The Accept-

Summary

Aspartame, a widely used artificial sweetener, was administered with feed to male and female Sprague-Dawley rats (100-150/sex/group), 8 weeks-old at the start of the experiment, at concentrations of 100,000; 50,000; 10,000; 2,000; 400; 80 and 0 ppm. Treatment lasted until spontaneous death of the animals. In this report we present the first results showing that aspartame, in our experimental conditions, causes a statistically significant, dose-related increase in lymphomas and leukaemias in females. No statistically significant increase in malignant brain tumors was observed among animals from the treated groups as compared to controls. Eur. J. Oncol., 10 (2), 00-00, 2005 Key words: aspartame, artificial sweetener, carcinogenesis, rats, lymphoma, leukemia

Daily Intake (ADI) both in the US and in Europe is 50 and 40 mg/kg b.w., respectively1. In rodents and humans, APM is metabolized in the gastrointestinal tract into three constituents: aspartic acid, phenylalanine and methanol3.

Three long-term feeding carcinogenicity bioassays on APM were performed on rats, and one on mice, during the 1970s. Overall, the carcinogenicity studies were considered negative4, but it must be noted that these studies did not comply with the basic requirements which must nowadays be met when testing the carcinogenicity potential of a chemical or physical agent. Because of these limitations, we decided to perform a mega-experiment following the currently accepted Good Laboratory Practices. In the present paper we are reporting our first results on the incidence of haemolymphoreticular malignancies (lymphomas and leukaemias) and malignant brain tumors.

Materials and methods

The APM used was produced by NutraSweet and supplied by Giusto Faravelli S.p.A., Milan, Italy. As an active ingredient, its purity was more than 98%. To simulate an assumed daily intake by humans of 5,000; 2,500; 500; 100; 20; 4; or 0 mg/kg b.w., APM was added to the standard Corticella diet, used for 30 years at the laboratory of the Cancer Research Centre (CRC) of the European Ramazzini Foundation (ERF), at concentrations of 100,000; 50,000; 10,000; 2,000; 400; 80; or 0 ppm. APM-treated feed was administered ad libitum to Sprague-Dawley rats (100-150/sex/group), 8 weeks old at the start of the experiment, and the treatment lasted until spontaneous death. Control animals received the same feed without APM. The plan of the experiment is shown in Table 1. Male (M) and female (F) rats from the colony of the CRC were used. This colony of rats has been employed2 M. Soffritti, F. Belpoggi, D. Degli Esposti, et al.

IN PRESS

Table 1 - Long-term carcinogenicity bioassay on aspartame administered with feed supplied ad libitum to male (M) and female (F) Sprague-Dawley rats from 8 weeks of age until spontaneous death. Plan of the experiment.

Groups Animals Treatment

Number Age at start Sex No. Dose Duration

(weeks) ppm mg/kg b.w. a Human ADI

equivalent b

I 8 M 100

F 100 100,000 5,000 100X Life span

M+F 200

II 8 M 100

F 100 50,000 2,500 50X Life span

M+F 200

III 8 M 100

F 100 10,000 500 10X Life span

M+F 200

IV 8 M 150

F 150 2,000 100 2X Life span

M+F 300

V 8 M 150

F 150 400 20 0.4X Life span

M+F 300

VI 8 M 150

F 150 80 4 0.08X Life span

M+F 300

VII 8 M 150

F 150 0 - - Life span

M+F 300

a The daily assumption in mg/kg b.w. was calculated considering the average weight of a rat for the duration of the experiment as 400 g, and the average consumption of feed as 20 g per day, both for males and females b Considering the Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) of 50 mg/kg b.w. for humans for various experiments in the CRC Laboratory for nearly 30 years. Data are available on the tumour incidence among untreated Sprague-Dawley rats. These animals were monitored for feed, water consumption, and body weight, for their life span and, at death, underwent complete necropsy and histopathological evaluation (historical controls).

The experiment was conducted according to the Italian law regulating use of animals for scientific purposes 5. After weaning, at 4-5 weeks of age, the experimental animals were identified by ear punch, randomized in order to have no more than one male and one female from each litter in the same group, and housed in groups of 5 in makrolon cages (41x25x15 cm), with stainless-steel wire tops and a shallow layer of white wood shavings as bedding. The animals were kept in one single room, at 23 ± 2°C and 50-60% relative humidity.

Once a week for the first 13 weeks, then every two weeks until 110 weeks of age, the mean daily drinking water and feed consumption were measured per cage, and body weight individually. Body weight continued to be measured every 8 weeks until the end of the experiment. Status and behaviour of the animals were examined 3 times daily, and they were clinically examined for gross changes every 2 weeks. All animals were kept under observation until spontaneous death.3

Aspartame, a leukaemogenic compound

IN PRESS

Fig. 1. Mean daily water consumption in male Sprague-Dawley rats

Fig. 2. Mean daily water consumption in female Sprague- Dawley rats

The biophase of the experiment terminated after 151 weeks, with the death of the last animal at the age of 159 weeks.

Upon death, the animals underwent complete necropsy. Histopathology was routinely performed on the following organs and tissues of all animals from each group: skin and subcutaneous tissue, mammary gland, the brain (3 sagittal sections), pituitary gland, Zymbal glands, salivary glands, Harderian glands, cranium (five sections, with oral and nasal cavities and external and internal ear ducts), tongue, thyroid, parathyroid, pharynx, larynx, thymus and mediastinal lymph nodes, trachea, lung and mainstem bronchi, heart, diaphragm, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, adrenal glands, oesophagus, stomach (fore and glandular), intestine (four levels), urinary bladder, prostate, gonads, interscapular brown fat pad, subcutaneous and mesenteric lymph nodes and other organs or tissues with pathological lesions.

All organs and tissues were preserved in 70% ethyl alcohol, except for bones which were fixed in 10% formalin and then decalcified with 10% formaldehyde and 20% formic acid in water solution. The normal specimens were trimmed, following the Standard Operating Procedures at the CRC Laboratory: i.e. parenchymal organs were dissected through the hilus to expose the widest surface, and hollow organs were sectioned across the greatest diameter.4 M. Soffritti, F. Belpoggi, D. Degli Esposti, et al.

IN PRESS

Fig. 3. Mean daily feed consumption in male Sprague-Dawley rats

Fig. 4. Mean daily feed consumption in female Sprague-Dawley rats

Any pathological tissue was trimmed through the largest surface, including normal adjacent tissue. Trimmed specimens were processed as paraffin blocks, and 3-5 micron sections of every specimen were obtained. Sections were routinely stained with haematoxylin-eosin. Statistical analyses were performed using the poly-k test (k = 3). This test is a survival-adjusted quantal-response procedure that modifies the Cochran-Armitage linear trend test to take survival differences into account 6-8.

Results

During the experiment no differences were observed among the various groups in mean daily water consumption (figs. 1 and 2). A dose-related difference in feed consumption was observed between the various treated groups and the control group in both males and females (figs. 3 and 4). No differences in mean body weight were observed among treated and control groups in either males or females (figs. 5 and 6). No substantial difference in survival was observed among treated and control groups, males or females (figs. 7 and 8). Yellowing of the coat was observed in animals exposed to APM, mainly at the highest concentrations. This change was previously observed in our laboratory in rats exposed to formaldehyde administered with drinking water9. The occurrence of lymphomas and leukaemias among male and female rats in treated and control groups is5 Aspartame, a leukaemogenic compound

IN PRESS

Fig. 5. Mean body weights in male Sprague-Dawley rats

Fig. 6. Mean body weights in female Sprague-Dawley rats shown in Table 2. The data indicate that APM causes a statistically significant increase in the incidence of lymphomas and leukaemias in females, at concentrations of 100,000 (p= 0.01); 50,000 (p= 0.01); 10,000 (p= 0.05); 2,000 (p= 0.01) and 400 (p= 0.01) ppm as compared to untreated controls. This increase is dose-related (p= 0.05).

Although not statistically significant, an increase was also observed in females treated with 80 ppm and in males treated with the highest dose.

The haemolymphoreticular neoplasias observed in the experiment include: lymphoblastic lymphoma and leukaemia, lymphocytic lymphoma, lymphoimmunoblastic lymphoma, histiocytic sarcoma and monocytic leukaemia, myeloid leukaemia. The most frequent type of neoplasia was the lymphoimmunoblastic lymphoma (figs. 9 and 10). Lymphomas and leukaemias are considered together, since both solid and circulating phases are present in many lymphoid neoplasms, and distinction between them is artificial10.

The occurrence of brain malignancies is shown in Table 3. Sparse malignant brain tumours were observed among males and females in the treated groups and none in the controls. 6 M. Soffritti, F. Belpoggi, D. Degli Esposti, et al.

IN PRESS

Fig. 7. Survival in male Sprague-Dawley rats

Fig. 8. Survival in female Sprague-Dawley rats7

Aspartame, a leukaemogenic compound

IN PRESS

Fig. 9. Lymphoimmunoblastic lymphoma in a female rat administered

80 ppm aspartame in feed (lung). HE X 25

Fig. 10. A detail of the lymphoimmunoblastic lymphoma shown

in fig. 9. HE X 400

In our historical controls over the last 20 years, when we consider groups of 100 or more animals per sex (1934 males and 1957 females), the overall incidence of lymphomas and leukaemias in males is 21.8% (8.0-30.9) and in females 13.4% (7.0-18.4). The overall incidence of malignant brain tumours is 1.7% (0-5.0) in males and 0.7% (0-2.0) in females respectively.

Conclusions

In our experimental conditions, it has been demonstrated, for the first time, that APM causes a dose-related statistically significant increase in lymphomas and leukaemias in females at dose levels very near those to which humans can be exposed. Moreover, it can hardly be overlooked that at the lowest exposure of 80 ppm, there was a 62% increase in lymphomas and leukaemias compared to controls, even though this was not statistically significant. When compared to the concurrent control group, an increase in the incidence of these neoplasias was also observed in males exposed to the highest dose; even though not statistically significant, this observation confirms and extends the result in females.

The significance of the increase in haemolymphoreticular neoplasias is further reinforced by the following considerations, based on the results of experiments performed in the CRC laboratory.

These experiments demonstrate that the increase in lymphomas and leukaemias, observed in the APM study, could be related to methanol, a metabolite of APM, which is metabolized to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, both in humans and rats3. In fact we have shown that: 1) methanol administered in drinking water increased the in-8 M. Soffritti, F. Belpoggi, D. Degli Esposti, et al.

IN PRESS

Table 2 - Long-term carcinogenicity bioassay on aspartame administered with feed supplied ad libitum to male (M) and female (F) Sprague-Dawley rats from 8 weeks of age until spontaneous death.

Incidence of lymphomas and leukaemias

Group Animals Treatment Animals with No. lymphomas and leukaemias

Age at start Sex No. Dose Duration Number %

(weeks) ppm mg/kg b.w.a Human ADI

equivalent b

I 8 M 100 29 29.0

F 100 100,000 5,000 100X Life span 25 25.0**

M+F 200 54 27.0

II 8 M 100 20 20.0

F 100 50,000 2,500 50X Life span 25 25.0**

M+F 200 45 22.5

III 8 M 100 15 15.0

F 100 10,000 500 10X Life span 19 19.0*

M+F 200 34 17.0

IV 8 M 150 33 22.0

F 150 2,000 100 2X Life span 28 18.7*

M+F 300 61 20.3

V 8 M 150 25 16.7

F 150 400 20 0.4X Life span 30 20.0**

M+F 300 55 18.3

VI 8 M 150 23 15.3

F 150 80 4 0.08X Life span 22 14.7

M+F 300 45 15.0

VII 8 M 150 31 20.7

F 150 0 - - Life span 13 8.7

M+F 300 44 14.7

a Considering the life-span average weight of a rat (male and female) as 400 g and the average consumption of food as 20 g per day

b Considering the Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) of 50 mg/kg b.w. for humans

* Statistically significant p= 0.05; ** Statistically significant p= 0.01 using poly-k test (k = 3) cidence of lymphomas and leukaemias in female rats11; 2) the same effect was induced in females treated with the gasoline oxygenated additive methyl-tert-butyl-ether (MTBE), which is also metabolized to methanol12 ; and finally

3) an increase in the incidence of lymphomas and leukaemias was also observed in females treated with formaldehyde9, 13.

These results further highlight the important role that formaldehyde has on the induction of hematological malignancies in rodents. Moreover, in a recent reevaluation of the carcinogenicity of formaldehyde by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), strong, although not considered sufficient, evidence of an association with leukaemias in humans was found14.

Since the results of carcinogenicity bioassays in rodents, mainly rats and mice, have been shown to be a consistent predictor of human cancer risk15-17, the first results of our study call for urgent re-examination of permissible exposure levels of APM in both food and beverages, especially to protect children.

References

1. Butchko HH, Stargel WW, Comer CP, et al. Preclinical safety

evaluation of aspartame. Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 2002; 35:

S7-S12.

2. Aspartame Information Center. Available on http://www.aspartame.org  , 2004.

3. Ranney RE, Opperman JA, Maldoon E, et al. Comparative metabolism

of aspartame in experimental animals and humans.

Toxicol Environ Health 1976; 2: 441-51.

4. Food and Drug Administration. Aspartame: Commissioner's Final

Decision; 1981 Fed Regist 46, 38285-308.

5. Repubblica Italiana. Decreto Legislativo 116. Attuazione della

direttiva n. 86/609/CEE in materia di protezione degli animali

9

Aspartame, a leukaemogenic compound

IN PRESS

Table 3 - Long-term carcinogenicity bioassay on aspartame administered with feed supplied ad libitum to male (M) and female (F) Sprague-Dawley rats from 8 weeks of age until spontaneous death.

Incidence of malignant brain tumours

Group Animals Treatment Animals with

Number malignant brain tumoursa

Age at start Sex No. Dose Duration Number %

(weeks) ppm mg/kg b.w.b Human ADI

equivalent c

I 8 M 100 1 1.0

F 100 100,000 5,000 100X Life span 1 1.0

M+F 200 2 1.0

II 8 M 100 2 2.0

F 100 50,000 2,500 50X Life span 1 1.0

M+F 200 3 1.5

III 8 M 100 0 -

F 100 10,000 500 10X Life span 1 1.0

M+F 200 1 0.5

IV 8 M 150 2 1.3

F 150 2,000 100 2X Life span 1 0.7

M+F 300 3 1.0

V 8 M 150 0 -

F 150 400 20 0.4X Life span 0 -

M+F 300 0 -

VI 8 M 150 2 1.3

F 150 80 4 0.08X Life span 1 0.7

M+F 300 3 1.0

VII 8 M 150 0 -

F 150 0 - - Life span 0 -

M+F 300 0 -

a The malignancies observed were: 10 malignant gliomas or mixed gliomas, 1 medulloblastoma, and 1 malignant meningioma

b Considering the life-span average weight of a rat (male and female) as 400 g and the average consumption of food as 20 g per day

c Considering the Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) of 50 mg/kg b.w. for humans

utilizzati a fini sperimentali o ad altri fini scientifici. Supplemento

ordinario alla Gazzetta Ufficiale 1992; 40: 5-25.

6. Bailer AJ, Portier CJ. Effects of treatment-induced mortality

and tumor-induced mortality on tests for carcinogenicity in

small samples. Biometrics 1988; 44: 417-31.

7. Portier CJ, Bailer AJ. Testing for increased carcinogenicity using

a survival-adjusted quantal response test. Fundam Appl

Toxicol 1989; 12: 731-7.

8. Piergorsh WW, Bailer AJ. Statistics for environmental biology

and toxicology. London: Chapman, 1997.

9. Soffritti M, Belpoggi F, Lambertini L, et al. Results of long-term

experimental studies on the carcinogenicity of formaldehyde

and acetaldehyde in rats. In Mehlman MA, Bingham E,

Landrigan PJ, et al. Carcinogenesis bioassays and protecting

public health. Commemorating the lifework of Cesare Maltoni

and colleagues. Ann NY Acad Sci 2002; 982: 87-105.

10. Harris NL, Jaffe ES, Vardiman JW, et al. WHO Classification of

tumours of haematopoietic and lymphoid tissues: Introduction.

In Jaffe ES, Harris NL, Stein H, et al. Tumours of haematopoietic

and lymphoid tissues. Lyon: IARC Press, 2001, 12-3.

11. Soffritti M, Belpoggi F, Cevolani D, et al. Results of long-term

experimental studies on the carcinogenicity of methyl alcohol

and ethyl alcohol in rats. In Mehlman MA, Bingham E, Landrigan

PJ, et al. Carcinogenesis bioassays and protecting public

health. Commemorating the lifework of Cesare Maltoni and

colleagues. Ann NY Acad Sci 2002; 982: 46-69.

12. Belpoggi F, Soffritti M, Maltoni C. Methyl-tertiary-butyl ether

(MTBE), a gasoline additive, causes testicular and lymphohaematopoietic

cancers in rats. Toxicol Ind Health 1995; 11:

119-49.

13. Soffritti M, Maltoni C, Maffei F, et al. Formaldehyde: an experimental

multipotent carcinogen. Toxicol Ind Health 1989;

5: 699-730.

14. International Agency for Research on Cancer. Monographs

on the evaluation of the carcinogenic risk of chemicals to

humans. Formaldehyde, 2-Butoxyethanol and 1-tert-Butoxy-

2-Propanol. Vol. 88 (in press). Available on http://www.iarc.fr .

15. Huff J. Long-term chemical carcinogenesis bioassays predict

human cancer hazards. Issues, controversies, and uncertainties.

In Bailer JA, Maltoni C, Bailar III JC, et al. Uncertainty in the

risk assessment of environmental and occupational hazards.

Ann NY Acad Sci 1999; 895: 56-79.

16. Tomatis L, Aitio A, Wilbourn J, et al. Human carcinogens so

far identified. Jpn J Cancer Res 1989; 80: 795-807.

17. Rall DP. Can laboratory animal carcinogenicity studies predict

cancer in exposed children? Environ Health Perspect 1995;

103 suppl 6: 173-5.

10

M. Soffritti, F. Belpoggi, D. Degli Esposti, et al.

More Information on aspartame -

http://www.wnho.net  and

http://www.dorway.com 

Join the Aspartame Information List on http://www.wnho.net  to keep up-to-date.

Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible International, 9270 River Club Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097 770 242-2599

You can contact Dr. Erik Millstone for more information (e.p.millstone@sussex.ac.uk) on this study. 

Ritalin-Aspartame-Chromosome Damage - Killing Kids For Money

From Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.

Bettym19@mindspring.com

Monday, July 04, 2005

What they should know about the aspartame connection:

1. Before the approval of aspartame (NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful, E951, Canderel) there was no epidemic of Ritalin use or epidemic of learning disorders and behavioral problems. Renowned neuroscientist, Dr. John Olney, predicted what would happen to the brains of our children if aspartame was approved, especially in combination with MSG. He founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity when he did studies on aspartic acid, (40% of aspartame) and found it caused lesions in the brains of mice. Aspartic acid is an excitotoxin, that stimulates the neurons of the brain to death causing brain damage. Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., wrote the book on it, "Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills". www.russellblaylockmd.com  Dr. Olney's report to the Board of Inquiry of the FDA explaining what would happen to the brains of our kids can be gotten on CD from Bob Flint, Mission Possible Maine, greatfalls@gwi.net  It also has the Board of Inquiry report of the FDA that revoked approval of aspartame. Learn how it finally got approved by seeing the film Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, www.docworkers.com . On the film Washington Attorney James Turner explains how Don Rumsfeld then CEO of G. D. Searle Co. called in his markers to get approval of a deadly neurotoxic drug masquerading as an additive. Mr. Turner along with Dr. John Olney tried to prevent approval.

2. Aspartame interacts with all anti-depressants and psychiatric medication including Ritalin, of course. Our children are medicated instead of educated. And aspartame triggers behavioral and psychiatric problems to begin with. The 50% phenylalanine as an isolate is neurotoxic and goes directly into the brain lowering the seizure threshold and depleting serotonin. Lowered serotonin triggers manic depression or bipolar, suicidal tendencies, mood swings, panic attacks - all types of behavioral and psychiatric problems. Aspartame knows no age. Time Magazine ran an article some years ago with bipolar on the cover. An epidemic of children have bipolar and why does this point to aspartame? Because children don't get bipolar, its an adult disease. Psychiatrist and medical director of the Safe Harbor Behavioral Health Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, Ralph Walton, M.D. has been concerned about the bipolar and aspartame connection for years and actually did a study on aspartame which can be found on http://www.wnho.net  He was concerned if aspartame triggers depression what will it do to those already compromised with these types of problems. Monsanto who owned NutraSweet at the time told Dr. Walton they would supply the aspartame but changed their mind because they could not control the study, no doubt. In the study one subject suffered a retinal detachment while another had conjunctival bleeding. Many from the compromised group said they felt they were being poisoned. The institution stopped the study. Read Dr. Walton's research on scientific peer reviewed studies and funding. 92% of independent, unbiased research showed the problems, yet industry "controlled and financed studies" always said it was safe. This was discussed on 60 Minutes by Dr. Walton when Dr. Olney made world news about the aspartame/brain tumor association in l996. We are now taking aspartame brain tumor cases from New York, Madison County, Illinois, New Jersey and Mississippi for litigation. Aspartame breaks down to a brain tumor agent, diketopiperazine. You have only to read the Secret Trade Information, last paragraph on http://www.dorway.com  to know the manufacturer knew it would do this and wanted it approved anyway. They mentioned they had to consider almost conversion to DKP and if they told the FDA they wouldn't get it approved. To check this out in humans Searle sacrificed people in poor villages in 6 countries. The studies showed that aspartame destroys the brain and central nervous system, and hardens the synovial fluids, according the horrific joint pain aspartame victims suffer. Some developed brain tumors and others seizures. Searle did not publish the findings but we have the sworn affidavit from the translator.

3. The July 2005 First For Women has the issue of aspartame and anxiety and irritability on the cover as an alert. On page 24 and 25 Dr. Walton is quoted as saying: "Just a sip of diet soda can bring on symptoms like headaches, sluggishness, anxiety, depression and irritability" .... Lorena Murray, our Mission Possible Hickory, N.C. is being interviewed and she can be seen in the movie, Sweet Misery. What the article didn't go into is that Lorena used aspartame during pregnancy and has aspartame affected children with learning and behavioral problems. This neurotoxin almost destroyed her life and family.

4. How can aspartame destroy families? Because of damage of the hypothalamus and mitochondria this neurotoxin triggers male sexual dysfunction and ruins female response. Being an endocrine disrupting drug it stimulates prolactin, changes the menses and causes infertility. This is discussed in detail in the medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, by H. J. Roberts, M.D., www.sunsentpress.com  or 1 800 827 7991 There is also a report by biochemist, Dr. Madelon Price, who worked with Dr. John Olney for 30 years, and it can be found on http://www.dorway.com  A Japanese Study some years ago also showed aspartame can cause infertility in the male, and the DNA damage. If a woman gets off aspartame and does get pregnant aspartame is an abortifacient, the reason for so many miscarriages. It is also a teratogen and triggers birth defects and mental retardation. And even if a live child is born it may have heinously damaged DNA for generations to come.

5. Has it been proven that aspartame causes these problems in children. Absolutely! Go to the Safe Harbor web site and read Miracle in Wisconsin . The ADD folks sponsored a program for the worst school in Wisconsin. All vending and soda pop machines were removed and the children were given nutritional food. At the end of the program this was the best school in Wisconsin with zero learning and behavioral problems. In September the ADD people, Feingold, banned aspartame.

Normally nobody would do a study on aspartame and children because after a quarter of a century we know without a shadow of a doubt how this aspartame destroys brains. In fact, some years ago a Norway University did a study and found aspartame destroys the brain, especially in the area of learning. However, a study was accidentally done in children by Dr. Baret of the Dominican Republic. Knowing that small children drinking milk could trigger diabetes, Dr. Baret changed their diet to replace milk with aspartame laced juice. It affected immediately almost all 360 children with anxiety, irritability, etc. Knowing the only thing he did was add aspartame to their diet he called. He then removed the aspartame laced juice and within 4 days all the children went back to normal. More information about this is in Dr. Roberts medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic.

6. Has DNA damage been proven? Beyond a shadow of a doubt. Dr. Russell Blaylock discussed the Trocho Study done in l998 in Barcelona to the Minneapolis Neuropathy Association in l999. He said: "A recent study by Trocho, Pardo and co-workers, have demonstrated that following aspartame ingestion, significant amounts of formaldehyde accumulate in the tissues. Formaldehyde is known to bind strongly to proteins and nucleic acids, forming adducts that are extremely difficult to eliminate through normal metabolic pathways.

"In this study, they demonstrated that labeled methanol ( as formaldehyde) accumulated in high concentrations in the liver (50%) and in lower, but substantial, concentrations in the kidney, adipose tissue, brain and retina. Within the cell, they found large amounts located within the DNA. It was interesting to note that these doses were lower than that used in toxicity studies. Previous studies have shown that very high doses of aspartame may not cause acute symptomalogy. This study indicates the damage may necessitate longer periods of time to manifest itself and that the eventual effects can be quite deleterious." 

Having spoken to many people in the media who have tried to interview the researchers in Barcelona, I can tell you they won't be doing more studies on aspartame and they won't talk. They have been threatened. This is one of the damning scientific peer reviewed studies done on aspartame. When you damage DNA you can destroy humanity.

7. Why do not all physicians and consumers known the above information? Because of the most wicked propaganda. There are many front groups on the Internet like the Calorie Control Council who had the audacity to write the Miami Herald and with full knowledge push aspartame on pregnant women. See Dr. Blaylock's letter to the Miami Herald on http://www.wnho.net  click on aspartame. Does the Miami Herald know aspartame is a deadly neurotoxin? Absolutely. They picked up propaganda from another front group two years earlier. They were written by physicians like Dr. Roberts and overwhelmed with aspartame victims testimonies. And since the front group was writing about me I sent them proof they were wrong. This had to do with lecturing for the World Environmental Conference and I even sent them my invitation to speak. In both cases the Miami Herald printed none of the letters nor did they write a retraction . They refused to tell me which reporter published the propaganda. Obviously since they were writing about me in the first place they should have contacted me, so intent was made clear. And while they said they would publish they did not showing they did not want the public to have the real facts. Shame on the Miami Herald. One caller reported a woman reading the propaganda in the Miami Herald got back on aspartame, had a grand mal seizure and died. Professional organizations also push the manufacturer's propaganda because they receive their funding. You could write a book on the propaganda mills and the lobbyists. Dr. Louis Elsas, Pediatric Professor, Genetics, testified before Congress about what aspartame and birth defects. His excellent testimony is on http://www.dorway.com  and http://www.wnho.net  

8. What you can do to help save the children. What is most important at the present time is that the Alabama Board of Education on July 12 will vote on a health plan for the Alabama schools to deal with obesity. And there are some that want to allow caffeinated diet drinks in the schools for 2005/06 school year. Keep in mind it's the diet drinks that cause obesity because of the aspartame and a new study has proven it. http://my.webmd.com/content/article/107/108476.htm 

Also read Dr. Sandra Cabot's paper on http://www.dorway.com  Aspartame Makes You Fatter and Dr. Ralph Walton's paper on Aspartame and Depression and Obesity. It also can precipitate diabetes, simulates and aggravates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy and interacts with insulin as diabetic specialist H. J. Roberts, M.D., discusses in his medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic. The soft drink industry in Alabama is lobbying hard. We need everyone's help to stop them. Read the recent article below about lobbying:

The Junk Food Lobby Wins Again

By Michele Simon, AlterNet.

Posted June 17, 2005.

The junk-food industry's lobbyists are working hard to make sure sodas, candy and fast food are cheap and plentiful in the nation's schools. Tools

More stories by Michele Simon

On Tuesday, Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell vetoed what would have been the nation's strongest school-based nutrition law. With one stroke of the pen, she put to rest an extremely contentious three-year battle to rid Connecticut schools of soda and junk food.

Similar scenarios are being played out in state capitals all over the nation, where high-paid lobbyists of multi-national corporations such as Coca-Cola are swooping in to foil the efforts of local nutrition advocates, educators. With rising rates of childhood obesity and diabetes, state legislatures have become a major battleground over the sale of junk food in public schools.

Ironically, the most common argument made against such bills is that schools should maintain "local control" over nutrition policy. But Governor Rell's reasoning is hard to swallow. She invoked the word "local" no fewer than 16 times in her 3-page veto message. However, many school policies are made at the state and even national level. Perhaps the governor has heard of President Bush's "No Child Left Behind" policy?

But Rell is not alone. All over the country, politicians deep in the pockets of the junk food lobby are using the excuse of "local control" to defend their indefensible positions on school nutrition. Trouble is that local school districts are lured by the much-needed cash generated by soda and junk food sales. Yet, as many parents are realizing, no amount of money can justify sacrificing children's health.

Same Story Elsewhere

Recent examples of similar corporate influence include how in March, the Kentucky state legislature passed a compromise bill that bans soda only in elementary schools. Kentucky nutrition advocates were worn down after battling Coca-Cola lobbyists for four years. Allowing companies to continue to sell soda in middle and high schools was the only way the bill could possibly pass.

Also, Arizona passed a law in April that bans the sale of soft drinks and candy during the school day, but only in kindergarten through eighth grade. The provision that would have extended the ban to high schools was added and removed from the bill several times, but ultimately, the junk food lobby got its way.

And in May, a strong piece of legislation was completely gutted in Oregon thanks to corporate lobbying. The bill would have banned carbonated soft drinks, candy, and fried pastry products in schools. But the law that passed calls only for schools to have "wellness policies." The Oregon Soft Drink Association donated $91,000 in campaign contributions to state politicians last fall. Three key lawmakers--members of the education committee--received $2,000 each.

High-powered Lobbying Tactics

The showdown in Connecticut involved an eight-hour House debate in which lawmakers engaged in such stall tactics as relating memories of being deprived of candy as a child. (Who cares and why is this is a basis for policymaking?) The original bill would have allowed only water, juice, and milk to be sold during the school day, but a compromise reached at the end of the marathon session allowed diet soda and sports drinks to be sold in high schools. Then the bill had to go back to the Senate, where it had already passed. But this time, lawmakers there attempted to delay the process by adding no fewer than 10 unrelated amendments, such as requiring smoke detectors in school bathrooms.

And in a particularly underhanded move, while the bill awaited the governor' s signature, a sign mysteriously appeared on the inside of a high school vending machine that read "Let the state know how you feel about the state getting into your lunch program", followed by Governor Rell's e-mail and phone number. The sign was not approved by the school, as is required for all public postings.

To do its bidding, Coca-Cola hired Patrick Sullivan, of Sullivan & LeShane, which the Hartford Courant has called "the most influential lobbying firm in the state." For his services, Sullivan is paid $80,000 annually by Coca- Cola 's New York division, plus an additional $7,350 a month by its New England subsidiary.

What Connecticut Governor Rell failed to mention in her veto message was her own possible conflict of interest: The other co-founder of this lobbying firm, Patricia LeShane, has served as the governor's campaign advisor.

Proposals to rid schools of unhealthy food and beverages are currently pending in several other states where similar battles are being fought. For example, in California, nutrition advocates are back asking lawmakers to get soda out of high schools, which were exempted from a measure passed two years ago thanks to soda industry lobbying. How many years must go by and how many precious resources must be spent on accomplishing what should be common sense policy? And when will politicians begin to show real leadership by placing the health of our children above corporate profit?

Michele Simon, a public-health attorney who teaches health policy at UC Hastings College of the Law, is director of the Center for Informed Food Choices, a nonprofit in Oakland, Calif.

- end of this article -

The Idaho Observer publishes the Artificially Sweetened Times, 24 page booklets to distribute to friends and families on aspartame. The front page is titled "What Is Happening To Our Children". You can get your copies from www.idaho-observer.com  You can distribute to PTA's and schools to alert parents and teachers.

You can also show the movie, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, www.docworkers.com  at PTA meetings and at lectures in school systems.

Remember that aspartame interacts with vaccines and is a chemical hypersensitivity agent. So when children get off aspartame on to such things as Splenda which is a chlorcarbon poison they can react. Dr. Blaylock's book Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills brings out even when a life child is born of an aspartame user and appears normal, by the time they reach puberty you can see the problems especially behavioral.

Unfortunately, Dr. John Olney's prophecy has been fulfilled. Help save the children. Read below: Report of Ritalin Risks Prompts a Federal Study.

Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible International, 9270 River Club Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 770 242-2599 http://www.wnho.net  and http://www.dorway.com  Aspartame Toxicity Center, http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame 

Report of Ritalin Risks Prompts a Federal Study

By GARDINER HARRIS

New York Times July 1, 2005
 

ROCKVILLE, Md., June 30 - Federal health officials said Thursday that they were looking into a suggestion by a small Texas study that Ritalin and other stimulant drugs given to children might increase their risk of cancer later in life.

A team of experts from the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency went to Texas on May 23 to examine the methods used by the researchers, who found damage to the chromosomes of 12 children who took Ritalin for three months.

Ritalin, which entered the market in 1955, has been used for decades to treat children for attention or hyperactivity problems.

Dr. David Jacobson-Kram of the Office of New Drugs at the food and drug agency said that the study, by researchers at the University of Texas and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, had flaws in its methodology but that its results could not be dismissed. Drugs that are known to cause cancer cause similar chromosomal changes, Dr. Jacobson-Kram said.

But other scientists cautioned that the study was far too small and its finding far too preliminary to cause alarm. The study did not include a comparison group of children who had not taken Ritalin. And federal officials said there was no reason for children currently taking Ritalin or other stimulants to stop taking them.

Dr. Lawrence Greenhill of Columbia University, an expert on Ritalin and other stimulant drugs used for children, questioned why the government was devoting so many resources to following up on the study's findings. Dr. Greenhill, like many other academic researchers, serves as a consultant for companies that make the drugs.

Several research teams are trying to reproduce the study on a larger scale, using better controls. And federal officials are examining millions of health records to determine if children who took Ritalin decades ago now have higher rates of cancer. The drug agency has also asked the makers of Ritalin-like stimulants to provide it with any information about their drugs' effects on chromosomes.

"I would say that if these data are reproducible, then that would be very concerning," Dr. Jacobson-Kram said.

He added that it would be at least a year before the results of those studies were known.

It is unclear, Dr. Jacobson-Kram said, how Ritalin might damage chromosomes.

"There's no obvious mechanism by which these drugs should be doing this," he said. "And there is nothing about them by which they clue us that they are DNA damaging."

About 29 million prescriptions were written last year in the United States for Ritalin and similar drugs to treat attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity, 23 million of them for children. The drugs are among the most widely prescribed medicines in the world.

Controversy has long surrounded their use, however, with critics saying that the medications are greatly over prescribed.

Dr. Jacobson-Kram made his presentation before an F.D.A. advisory committee called to examine the most recent reports of adverse events among children taking Concerta, a long-acting form of Ritalin. The committee found nothing new or unusual about the reports, which included cases of children who had become psychotic and others who had developed heart problems.

The drug agency said no committee members had conflicts of interest that would prevent them from evaluating the drug's safety in an independent manner.

F.D.A. officials told the committee that the agency planned to change Concerta's label to make the risks of such side effects clearer. Among the mental side effects reported among children taking Concerta were hallucinations, thoughts of suicide, psychotic behaviors and aggression.

"It's not that this is something new or that this is something that's happening at a higher incidence than before," Dr. Paul Andreason, a psychiatrist who is part of the agency's division of neuropharmacologic drug products, told the committee.

But, Dr. Andreason said, descriptions of these problems in the labels of Concerta, Ritalin and similar stimulants are often written in technical language. So the F.D.A. has decided that descriptions of the drugs' potential side effects must be stated more clearly, he said.

Still, agency officials and several committee members said they were not convinced that Concerta caused mental problems like hallucinations and psychosis. Rather, the children taking the drug may also suffer from other mental disorders.

"The agency believes that it is not yet possible to determine whether these events, especially the more serious ones, are causally associated with these treatments," said Dr. Dianne Murphy, director of the Office of Pediatric Therapeutics at the drug agency.

The most common side effects of Ritalin, Concerta and similar drugs are appetite suppression, headaches, abdominal pain and sleep disturbances. Children who take these drugs chronically often weigh less and are shorter in stature as a result.

Aspartame Interacts With ALL Drugs Vaccines And Toxins FCA Put On Notice

From Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.

Bettym19@mindspring.com

February 23, 2005

Who knows more about the toxicity of aspartame than the FDA. Their toxicologists, Doctors Adrian Gross and Jacqueline Verrett strenuously objected to aspartame approval for 16 years. It wasn't just that aspartame is not safe and in original studies triggered brain tumors, seizures and all sorts of other tumors, it was that the manufacturer filtered out what they didn't want FDA to see.

(January 10, l977 in a 33 page letter, FDA Chief Counsel Richard Merrill recommended to U.S. Attorney Sam Skinner that a grand jury investigate Searle for "apparent violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C.331(e), Act 18 USC 1001, for "their willful and knowing failure to make reports to the Food and Drug Administration required by the Act 21, U.S.C. 355 (i) and for concealing material facts and making false statements in reports of animal studies conducted to establish the safety of (aspartame)," The FDA called special attention to studies investigating the effect of NutraSweet on monkeys and hamsters. ) Both U.S. Prosecutors hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations expired. Still the FDA kept saying loudly no - no - no!

FDA's Jerome Bressler wrote the brilliant FDA audit, the Bressler Report on http://www.dorway.com in regard to Searle's testing. In speaking with Bressler he told me personally the studies were so bad the worst 20% was removed by FDA when retyped. He also told this to Doctors H. J. Roberts and Dr. Russell Blaylock. Dr. Roberts asked his congressman to get the rest of the report from the FDA who promptly refused.

In the incredible aspartame documentary, Sweet Misery, A Poisoned World, from the very mouth of Attorney James Turner who assisted the famed Dr. John Olney in trying to prevent approval came mind boggling facts! Don Rumsfeld, currently Secretary of Defense, was CEO of Searle and said he would call in his markers and get aspartame approved. To Rumsfeld the fact the FDA said "no" meant only he would have to use politics instead of science to get this neurotoxin approved, knowing full well it would poison the public, causing in humans the injuries seen in lab animals, brain tumors and seizures. He was on Reagan's transition team and the day after Reagan took office Arthur Hull Hayes was appointed to approve this toxin, since no former FDA Commissioner had been willing to do so.

ASPARTAME WAS APPROVED BY PRESIDENTIAL ORDER

President Reagan knew it would take 30 days to get Hayes to FDA so he wrote an executive order making the outgoing FDA Commissioner powerless to oppose aspartame. From the congressional record, Senate, page S5497, May 7, l985:

"Two FDA officials have told Common Cause Magazine that Hayes was determined to push aspartame forward, in part as a signal that the Reagan administration was ushering in a new regulatory era. One official privy to some of the deliberations made at Hayes' level says the "people at the top" were not receptive to important concerns raised about the quality and validity of some of the key tests submitted in support of aspartame."

"There were real questions" about the reliability and interpretation of the data "that were glossed over" at the commissioner's level, this official says, adding that Hayes and his close associates wanted FDA scientists to concentrate on providing rationales for overturning the l980 Public Board of Inquiry instead of focusing on the fact that there were unresolved issues about a number of key tests." 

John Hoey, M.D. in reviewing Marcia Angell's book, "The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It" (10/7/2004) says:

"By Angell's account, the current slide toward the commercialization and corruption of clinical research coincided with the election of President Ronald Reagan in l980 and the passage of the Bayh-Dole Act, a new set of laws that permitted and encouraged universities and small businesses to patent discoveries from research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Research paid for by the public to serve the public instantly became a private and salable, good, one that is producing drug sales of more than $200 billion a year."

Further, Dr. Hoey in discussing research commercialization said: "The broader effects are felt in the commercialization of universities, medical faculties, and our profession. In 2000, in a letter written in response to Angell's Journal editorial, Is Academic Medicine for Sale?" a reader supplied the answer: No. The current owner is very happy with it. The increasing intrusion of industry into medical education and the almost complete domination of continuing medical education (especially regarding drugs) by the marketing departments of large pharmaceutical companies are a scandal."

When Arthur Hull Hayes got to the FDA a Board of Inquiry was set up with the finest scientists FDA had. They declared: " ..the Board concludes that approval of aspartame for use in foods should be withheld at least until the question concerning its possible oncogenic potential has been resolved by further experiments. The Board has not been presented with proof of a reasonable certainty that aspartame is safe for use as a food additive under its intended conditions of use. "

"ORDER: The foregoing constitutes the Board's findings of fact and conclusions of law. Therefore, it is ORDERED that: (1) Approval of the food additive petition for aspartame (FAP 3A2885) be and it is hereby withdrawn. (2) The stay of the effectiveness of the regulation for aspartame, 21 CFR 172.804, is hereby vacated and the regulation revoked."

--- This PBOI report on 9/3/80 was signed by Walle J. H. Nauta, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman, Peter W. Lampert, M.D., and Vernon R. Young, Ph.D., Member

Dr. Hayes wouldn't take "no" because he was there to get aspartame approved. As the Congressional Record continues, Senate, S5497, May 7, l985: "Hayes decisions to approve aspartame for use in dry foods such as cereals in l981 and soft drinks in l983 does not square with the role of the FDA is supposed to play. The FDA is the government agency that reviews and approves all tests submitted by companies before allowing food additives on the market. The law requires a manufacturer - in this case Searle - to prove to the satisfaction of the FDA that there is a "reasonable certainty" that a food additive is safe. The government does not have to prove that it is harmful - an important distinction. If tests are inconclusive, an additive is not suppose to be approved by the FDA."

When Hayes finished his job to get a neurotoxic drug on the market he hired on with the public relations firm, Burston Marsteller, who represented NutraSweet, for $1000.00 per day as a consultant. Hayes refused to talk to the press since. He had no excuse for approving a toxic drug whose petition was revoked by FDA scientists. Hayes had full knowledge that its a carcinogen in violation of the Delaney Amendment which forbid adding carcinogens to food and drugs.

WHEN FDA WAS PUSHED OFF ITS PEDESTAL: Imagine an intact FDA which tried to do its job of protecting the public, having to proclaim that a horrendous neurotoxic drug is safe. Would could FDA say when asked if aspartame was safe? Could they say "we approved it but its poison"? Probably the only thing they could say was "Ask us no questions and we will tell you no lies." Even today when journalists ask the FDA to comment on aspartame they say: "No comment. See our web site." The web site is just lying industry propaganda. Beginning with Reagan and Hayes the pharmaceutical cartel had the power to get approved the worst drugs. FDA seemed to care not. Their bulletin, the FDA Consumer continued to tout the safety of aspartame and letters to victims whose lives were destroyed said aspartame was the most tested additive in history. Even letters to congressmen lied and lied.

Dr. John Olney knew what aspartame would do to the brains of our children. and discussed it in his report to the Board of Inquiry. In l999 Parents Magazine asked "What's Happening to our Children", announcing that families all over America were experiencing so much depression it was estimated that 1 out of 4 had contemplated suicide. The 50% phenylalanine in aspartame lowers the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin, and can trigger bipolar or manic depression, mood swings, paranoia, hallucination and suicidal tendencies. So our children are medicated instead of educated. Seventy per cent of consumers use aspartame and 40% of the children. Dr. Olney's prophecy is fulfilled.

To get a copy of the congressional record, Board of Inquiry Report and Dr. Olney's Report to the Board of Inquiry on CD you can contact Bob Flint at bobflint@greatfallspro.com . The web site would be www.greatfallspro.com 

Three congressional hearings were held by Senator Howard Metzenbaum who wrote a bill to have independent studies done on the problems from aspartame, effect on the fetus, behavioral problems in children, seizures and drug interactions. The producers saw to it that the bill never got out of committee. The last of the heroes of FDA toxicologists Adrian Gross and Jacqueline Verrett testified to no avail. Dr. Adrian Gross said without a shadow of a doubt aspartame causes brain tumors and brain cancer, and violates the Delaney Amendment. His last words were : "And if the FDA violates its own laws who is left to protect the public?"

We are now taking case histories on brain tumors and seizures starting in New York and New Jersey. Dr. Verrett said: "All studies were built on a foundation of sand and should be thrown out." Today's FDA is the handmaiden of the pharmaceutical/chemical cartel. The revolving door is so busy they need a bridge for the traffic. I told all this to Acting Commissioner Dr. Michael Friedman. He defended Monsanto on 60 Minutes when Dr. Olney made world news about the aspartame brain tumor association. Then Friedman hired as Vice President of Searle for big bucks - crime pays well.

In l986 the Community Nutrition Institute in Washington, D.C. petitioned FDA to ban aspartame because so many were having seizures and going blind from the free methyl alcohol in the drug. Aspartame is sold as an additive but it's a neurotoxic drug. FDA law requires an additive be inert or non-reactive. The medical text on aspartame disease lists countless diseases and symptoms and drug interactions by the toxin.

ASPARTAME DISEASE RAGES, INTERACTS WITH ALL DRUGS, VACCINES AND TOXINS.

When aspartame was news, Dr. H. J. Roberts in a press conference foretold that in 5 or 10 years we would have a global plague. And it was Dr. Roberts who declared Aspartame Disease to be a global plague and published the medical text in 2001, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com  or 1 800 827 7991.

His chapter on drug interaction goes into Coumadin, Dilantin, antidepressants and other psychotropic agents, Inderal, Aldomet, hormones and insulin. He says aspartame interacts with all cardiac medication and even discusses drug reactions after the cessation of aspartame. 

In his general considerations he discusses that aspartame may either reduce or potentiate drug action by various mechanisms. He lists a few of the possibilities.

* Alteration of the blood proteins to which drugs attach.

* Alteration of drug receptors on cell membranes.

* Changes in the sites at which impulses are transmitted along nerves and to muscle.

* Metabolic abnormalities in the elderly that are known to enhance their vulnerability to drug reactions (Weber l986). This problem increases in the case of persons taking multiple drugs ("polypharmacy") prescribed by several physicians.

* Interference with drug action by amino acids and protein. An example is the erratic therapeutic effects when patients with parkinsonism who were controlled on levodopa began to use aspartame products. The antagonism of levodopa by dietary protein presumably reflects impaired transport from serum across the blood brain barrier by neutral amino acids (Pincus l986).

Dr. Roberts also discusses Lidocaine (Xylocaine) which he says is an important drug used for local anesthesia and the treatment of ventricular arrhythmias in intensive care units. Alterations of its pharmacology by aspartame require study. He says: "Kim et al (l987) reported that the intraperitoneal administration of aspartame significantly reduced the 50% convulsion dose of lidocaine. They indicated that PKU patients and asymptomatic PKU heterozygotes may be more sensitive to the toxic effects of this and related local anesthetics."

Today Dr. Roberts explained: "An interaction should be suspect with virtually every drug if the patient is using aspartame."

This goes along with conversations with Dr. James Bowen who says because aspartame damages the mitocondria of the cell it will interact with all drugs and as a chemical hypersensitization agent will interact with vaccines, unsafe sweeteners like Splenda or sucralose ( chlorinated hydrocarbon) and toxins.

Dr. Bowen wrote about the biochemical interactions between aspartame and other poisons including many pharmaceuticals illustrated in Dr. Roberts medical text and said Dr. Mercola's web site has them as well. Further he wrote: "Because aspartame in the processes of digestion and metabolism, forms about ten other known severe poisonings, and intermediate metabolites, it's potential for drug related interactions is immeasurable. To top that off, the aspartame molecule is so heinously poisonous in different ways that it never passed a single FDA standard toxicity test! So Donald Rumsfeld, CEO of aspartame manufacturer Searle employed political power to get it approved, after the FDA for 16 years refused to allow it on the market because of aspartame toxicity. Then Reagan took direct executive measures to paralyze FDA from further action against aspartame.

Our FDA has never been the same since. Deadly chemicals now being blessed by FDA are marketed as wholesome pharmaceuticals, are just the tip of the iceberg, and result of Rumsfeld's damage to FDA. If any concern whatsoever for human welfare still existed, aspartame would be immediately pulled from the market! The reasonable FDA lawful standard is that a chemical must pass all toxicity tests at one hundred times the "maximum human dose," in order to pass as a food additive. What the original tests showed is that at a dose of three cans of pop per day, scaled to the weight of the animal, aspartame releases DKP, a recognized virulent brain carcinogen. No other chemical causes the brain cancer rate to jump as much."

Dr. Bowen continues, "Aspartame is a known destroyer of DNA. The mitocondrial DNA (MtDNA) is especially damaged, yielding the present epidemic of diseases aspartame consuming mothers pass on to all future generations. Aspartame also directly damages the mitochondria, thus having a "double whammy" effect on mitochondrial function! The summation of these many known severe toxicities and its immune, genetic, mitochondrial, and metabolic damages, make clear that aspartame will not only cause many diseases, which the FDA and CDC have already noted but it has pathways of approach to interact adversely with every conceivable pharmaceutical. My forth coming book: "Sweet Mystery in The Present Darkness: Whatever Happened to We Scientists Who First Spoke Out Against Aspartame?" will delve into all of this in greater detail and more specificity."

The Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste wrote in the spring of l996 the article: "The Rising Rates of Health Problems - Is There A Toxic Connection? Stephen Lester.

It might as well have been written about aspartame because the diseases it lists are all ones that have been written about as triggered by aspartame, from birth defects to chemical sensitives. Under the title Cancer Lester says:

"When has gone wrong with our way of thinking when it is considered "normal" that 1 in 3 people get cancer? IT IS NOT NORMAL.. Cancer is not a natural disease and even if it were, it wouldn't be "normal" for cancer to claim the lives of 25% of the population. " Again, one can only think of aspartame when in original studies it triggered brain, mammary, uterine, ovarian, testicular, thyroid and pancreatic tumors and violated the Delaney Amendment. The Pharmaceutical and Chemical cartel know aspartame violates the law, so one would ask is that why the Delaney Amendment was repealed? When a law for the safety of the public gets in their way of marking poison they simply do away with the law.

In June it will be 3 years since I petitioned the FDA to ban aspartame because I have the FDA records and they lie to the public. The law states they have 180 days to answer. Their letter to me states they have more important things to do. So the FDA continues to recall drugs that interact and leave the poison aspartame on the market. Aspartame triggers an irregular heart rhythm and interacts with all cardiac Rx. It damages the cardiac conduction system and causes sudden death. With people dropping dead so fast that defibrillators are now sold over the counter, they took the opportunity to pull ephedra (Chinese MaHaung )off the market when an athlete died who was using Diet coke. Dr. John Olney reviewed the FDA records on ephedra and found it to be safe. One attorney said, "it wasn't Chinese Mahaung at all, but the drug that caused some problems." So what does the FDA do, leave the drug on the market causing the problems and snatches a safe supplement in their continuing loyalty to the pharmaceutical cartel.

MSG has an additive and synergistic effect with aspartame. Is that why the glutamate industry used aspartame as their placebo, so they could show that one excitotoxin does not react more than the placebo when, in fact, the aspartic acid in aspartame is also an excitotoxin. They started doing this before aspartame was approved, so it was well known in the industry that aspartame would react. The records found in the FDA files by Jack Samuels (www.truthinlabeling.org) who filed suit against the FDA on labeling of MSG, showed the FDA had known all along and the industry had been doing this for 25 years against the law. While the FDA had to admit it was wrong they did nothing, again giving their loyalty the glutamate industry.

One can only remember the words of Dr. James Bowen to the FDA over 18 years ago: "Aspartame is mass poisoning of the American public and over 70+ countries of the world". What does it take to save the people from this poison when government lies?

Dr. John Hoey, writing about the book The Truth About the Drug Companies says according to Angell, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the pharmaceutical industry's U.S. trade association has "the largest lobby in Washington," which in 2002 employed 675 lobbyists (including 26 former members of Congress) at a cost of more than $91 million. The result has been above-average growth in corporate profits during both Republican and Democratic administrations.

The most recent and perplexing lobbying effort caused Congress explicitly to prohibit Medicare from using its huge purchasing power to get lower prices for drugs, thus opening up a dollar pipeline, in the form of higher drug prices, directly from taxpayers to corporate coffers. These changes, along with the cave-in by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in l997 that permitted direct-to-consumer advertising to bypass mention in their ads of all but the most serious side effects, have further augmented profits. The overall effect has been a corruption not only of science but also of the dissemination of Science." No wonder new books keep being published like Dr. Carolyn Dean's "Death of Medicine".

Dr. Betty Martini

Founder, Mission Possible Intl

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097

770 242-2599

http://www.wnho.net  and http://www.dorway.com 

New Aspartame Information List - click on banner on www.wnho.net 

Books on aspartame, including medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com  or 1 800 827 7991 by H. J. Roberts, M.D.

Books on aspartame by Dr. Russell Blaylock, M.D., www.russellblaylockmd.com 

Movie on aspartame - contact cori@soundandfuryproductions.com 

Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World

FDA Studies Show Aspartame Link To Brain Tumors

From Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.

Bettym19@mindspring.com

April 12, 2005

ATLANTA (PRWEB) April 12, 2005 -- Consumer rights advocacy group Mission Possible is leading a campaign to fill a product liability lawsuit with New York and New Jersey residents whose brain tumors may be linked to the consumption of the artificial sweetener aspartame (NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful, etc.).

"Neither congressional hearings or repeated petitions calling for a ban have stopped aspartame manufacturers from exposing the public to this sweet poison. In fact, aspartame producers are reporting increased sales and boasting the marketplace addition of 'neotame,' a new aspartame product," explained Mission Possible International Founder Betty Martini.

For 16 years, the FDA resisted pressure to approve aspartame due to safety studies linking the artificial sweetener to numerous adverse reactions, including the development of brain tumors in animal studies. In 1977, FDA investigator Jerome Bressler released a report describing how, in clinical studies submitted to the FDA, Searle removed aspartame-induced brain tumors that developed in lab rats and placed them back into the study. If the rats died, Bressler reported, Searle would resurrect them on paper.

In a personal conversation with Martini and prominent aspartame experts, Doctors H. J. Roberts and Russell Blaylock he admitted the studies were so bad FDA removed 20% of the most damaging data of his report.

Three years after Donald Rumsfeld became CEO of Searle, aspartame was approved for use in dry goods. To find out how he accomplished this feat, click into the new movie, "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World and hear the words of renowned Washington Consumer Attorney James Turner as he speaks about President Reagan's Executive Order: http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/Rumsfeld2.html 

Since its 1981 approval, the FDA has published a list of 92 symptoms of aspartame poisoning, which includes headaches, vision loss including blindness, seizures, neurological problems, cardiovascular problems and death. The FDA admits adverse reactions to aspartame comprise about 80 percent of consumer complaints it receives each year. Martini has been networking victims, scientists, and physicians under an umbrella of scientific data and published medical literature that has been growing since Mission Possible formed in 1992.

Having exhausted her executive and administrative remedies regarding the removal of aspartame from the marketplace, Martini is convinced that, "Litigation is the only way to spare consumers the misery of aspartame poisoning." Martini's reasoning is supported in the outcomes of recent product liability controversies. It was class action lawsuits -- not government agency intervention -- that forced the epidemic of Vioxx-induced heart attacks out into the open where the FDA had to take administrative action, banning sales of the dangerous pain relief drug. Information from the experts and in medical texts show aspartame is actually a neurotoxic drug that interacts with other drugs and vaccinations.

The story of how aspartame was discovered and approved by the FDA has been pieced together over the years through documents obtained by Mission Possible. That aspartame overcame FDA neurotoxicity concerns and is now found in over 7,000 commonly consumed foods, beverages and medical preparations is a case study of how power politics trumps science and public safety in the product approval process.

In one set of documents, aspartame producer G.D. Searle used poor people from six third-world countries as test subjects for a study conducted in 1983/84. The data shows that, over the 18-month duration of the study, some of the subjects developed brain tumors; others began to experience seizures. In one case, a pregnant woman spontaneously aborted, began hemorrhaging and then disappeared from the study.

The study showed that the numbers of people whose brains and central nervous systems are adversely affected by aspartame are statistically significant enough to warrant a review of its status as an FDA-approved artificial sweetener. But the FDA was not provided with the results of the Searle study nor was it allowed to review the clinical data.

A study was done at Kings College in England by Dr. Peter Nunn in 1999 on aspartame and brain tumors. Monsanto insisted that aspartame could not cause brain tumors because it doesn't get in the blood stream even though Martini says industry's own studies shows it does and released this information in a report, which can be read at: http://www.rense.com/health3/asptumor.htm .

In the result of this study it said: "Interestingly, when we exposed human brain tumor cells to nitrosated DKP the cells became more motile and their rate of proliferation was significantly elevated. While it is somewhat early to speculate, it is possible that the aspartame breakdown product may be capable of enhancing the rate of malignant progression of pre-existing (and possibly clinically silent, undiagnosed) tumors in the brain." This was exactly what the famed neuroscientist Dr. John Olney said when he made world news in l996 over the aspartame/brain tumor association.

Monsanto, the maker of the controversial bovine growth hormone that has been linked to the development of cancer in humans and cattle, bought Searle (and the rights to produce aspartame) in 1985. They sold in l999 to other companies.

The prevalence of brain tumors in the U.S. has been increasing steadily since the early 1980s. Today, about 70 percent of adults and 40 percent of children are regular consumers of products that contain aspartame.

"There is not one shred of evidence to suggest that aspartame is safe. Yet, our files are overflowing with studies and reports proving that aspartame is a not a food additive but a neurotoxic drug that breaks down to a brain tumor agent, DKP. And now, 25 years later, we have epidemic proportions of people developing brain tumors and a full spectrum of other neurological disorders," Martini said.

Aspartame's road to marketplace approval and its effect on public health is extremely well documented. The aspartame story has been described in the 1,038-page medical text

'Aspartame Disease - An Ignored Epidemic' by H.J. Roberts, MD. http://www.sunsentpress.com 

'Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills' by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., also describes these problems. http://www.russellblaylockmd.com 

Former aspartame-induced multiple-sclerosis sufferer Cori Brackett traveled over 7,000 miles to interview physicians, scientists, attorneys and FDA investigators about aspartame neurotoxicity and how then former (and now current) Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld used his political muscle to achieve aspartame's FDA approval. The result is the powerful video documentary "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World" http://www.soundandfuryproductions.com 

The largest collection of aspartame-related studies, reports and case histories available anywhere in the world can be found online at http://www.dorway.com , the Mission Possible website. Aspartame Toxicity Center is http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame 

New York and New Jersey residents who believe they may qualify as a plaintiff in a product liability lawsuit against aspartame producers are encouraged to contact Mission Possible at (770) 242-2599. To qualify, one must be able to establish themselves as an aspartame consumer prior to developing a brain tumor and fall within the three-year statute of limitations.

Contact

Dr. Betty Martini

770 242-2599

Mission Possible International

9270 River Club Parkway

Duluth, Georgia 30097

Contact Information

Betty Martini

Mission Possible International

http://www.rense.com/health3/asptumor.htm 

770 242-2599

Disclaimer: If you have any questions regarding information in these press releases please contact the company listed in the press release. Please do not contact PR Web. We will be unable to assist you with your inquiry. PR Web disclaims any content contained in these releases. Our complete disclaimer appears http://www.prweb.com//disclaimer.php  here.

The Lethal Science Of Splenda  A Poisonous Chlorocarbon

From Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum

Bettym19@mindspring.com

By James Bowen, M.D.

May 8, 2005

James Bowen, M.D., A physician, biochemist, and survivor of aspartame poisoning warns about yet another synthetic sweetener, Splenda.

HAWAII -- The chemical sucralose, marketed as "Splenda", has replaced aspartame as the #1 artificial sweetener in foods and beverages. Aspartame has been forced out by increasing public awareness that it is both a neurotoxin and an underlying cause of chronic illness worldwide. Dr. James Bowen, Researcher and biochemist, reports:

"Splenda/sucralose is simply chlorinated sugar; a chlorocarbon. Common chlorocarbons include carbon tetrachloride, trichlorethelene and methylene chloride, all deadly. Chlorine is nature's Doberman attack dog, a highly excitable, ferocious atomic element employed as a biocide in bleach, disinfectants, insecticide, WWI poison gas and hydrochloric acid.

"Sucralose is a molecule of sugar chemically manipulated to surrender three hydroxyl groups (hydrogen + oxygen) and replace them with three chlorine atoms. Natural sugar is a hydrocarbon built around 12 carbon atoms. When turned into Splenda it becomes a chlorocarbon, in the family of Chlorodane, Lindane and DDT,

"It is logical to ask why table salt, which also contains chlorine, is safe while Splenda/sucralose is toxic? Because salt isn't a chlorocarbon. When molecular chemistry binds sodium to chlorine to make salt carbon isn't included. Sucralose and salt are as different as oil and water.

"Unlike sodium chloride, chlorocarbons are never nutritionally compatible with our metabolic processes and are wholly incompatible with normal human metabolic functioning. When chlorine is chemically reacted into carbon-structured organic compounds to make chlorocarbons, the carbon and chlorine atoms bind to each other by mutually sharing electrons in their outer shells. This arrangement adversely affects human metabolism because our mitochondrial and cellular enzyme systems are designed to completely utilize organic molecules containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and other compatible nutritional elements.

"By this process chlorocarbons such as sucralose deliver chlorine directly into our cells through normal metabolization. This makes them effective insecticides and preservatives. Preservatives must kill anything alive to prevent bacterial decomposition."

Dr. Bowen believes ingested chlorocarbon damage continues with the formation of other toxins: "Any chlorocarbons not directly excreted from the body intact can cause immense damage to the processes of human metabolism and, eventually, our internal organs. The liver is a detoxification organ which deals with ingested poisons. Chlorocarbons damage the hepatocytes, the liver's metabolic cells, and destroy them. In test animals Splenda produced swollen livers, as do all chlorocarbon poisons, and also calcified the kidneys of test animals in toxicity studies. The brain and nervous system are highly subject to metabolic toxicities and solvency damages by these chemicals. Their high solvency attacks the human nervous system and many other body systems including genetics and the immune function. Thus, chlorocarbon poisoning can cause cancer, birth defects, and immune system destruction. These are well known effects of Dioxin and PCBs which are known deadly chlorocarbons."

Dr. Bowen continues: "Just like aspartame, which achieved marketplace approval by the Food and Drug Administration when animal studies clearly demonstrated its toxicity, sucralose also failed in clinical trials with animals. Aspartame created brain tumors in rats. Sucralose has been found to shrink thymus glands (the biological seat of immunity) and produce liver inflammation in rats and mice.

"In the coming months we can expect to see a river of media hype expounding the virtues of Splenda/sucralose. We should not be fooled again into accepting the safety of a toxic chemical on the blessing of the FDA and saturation advertising. In terms of potential long-term human toxicity we should regard sucralose with its chemical cousin DDT, the insecticide now outlawed because of its horrendous long term toxicities at even minute trace levels in human, avian, and mammalian tissues.

"Synthetic chemical sweeteners are generally unsafe for human consumption. This toxin was given the chemical name "sucralose" which is a play on the technical name of natural sugar, sucrose. One is not the other. One is food, the other is toxic; don't be deceived."

Dr. Bowen also calls attention to another seldom recognized and deadly permanent effect of these chemicals: "Aspartame, sold as NutraSweet, Equal, E951, Canderel, Benevia and under other names, is a hypersensitization agent which causes Polychemical Sensitivity syndrome. Chlorocarbons strongly induce uncurable hypersensitivity diseases which are now becoming rampant." (James Bowen, M.D.)

Doctor Bowen has spent 20 years researching artificial sweeteners after his use of aspartame resulted in being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease. Dr Bowen's intention is to warn the world of the toxicity of tabletop poisons like aspartame, Splenda and Neotame.

For more information on aspartame and Splenda click on the Aspartame Information List on http://www.wnho.net . Dr. Bowen can be seen in the movie "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World" For the movie call 1 818 349 8822 or email cori@soundandfuryproductions.com  See how aspartame was approved by clicking on http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/Rumsfeld2.html 

Aspartame and Splenda Toxicity Centers,

http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame 

Aspartame and brain tumors cases for litigation contact Dr. Betty Martini at Bettym19@mindspring.com  or 770 242-2599. Currently taking states New York, New Jersey, Madison County, Illinois and Mississippi

A medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic by H. J. Roberts, M.D. presents, 1038 pages of aspartame horrors. http://www.sunsentpress.com  or 1 800 827 7991

Russell Blaylock, M.D., has published Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills on the

subject, http://www.russellblaylockmd.com 

Dr. Betty Martini says "the controversy rages over Splenda (sucralose). Is it safe and natural like sugar or is it a chlorinated hydrocarbon? As lawsuits fly, consider the chemistry of this artificial compound."

She adds: "The FDA denied approval of aspartame for 16 years, then caved in to political/economic pressure when Don Rumsfeld, CEO of the manufacturer, was brought to Washington by Ronald Reagan. A new FDA Commissioner was appointed to approve it then became a consultant for NutraSweet's public relations firm for $1,000/day on a 10 year contract. Forthcoming has been a global epidemic of disability and death. One might expect FDA to be more cautious next time, yet FDA approved the toxic chlorocarbon Splenda without hesitation and without any long term testing on human subjects."

Dr. Betty Martini

MISSION POSSIBLE INTERNATIONAL,

9270 River Club Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097

http://www.wnho.net  and http://www.dorway.com 

770 242-2599

Bettym19@mindspring.com