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July 22. 2005 :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1528885,00.html

Fresh fears raised about aspartame

Manufacturers dispute study into lab rats fed sweetener

Felicity Lawrence, consumer affairs correspondent
Friday July 15, 2005
The Guardian

The European Food Safety Authority is reviewing "as a matter of high priority" the results of a large new study into aspartame, the artificial sweetener consumed by millions of people worldwide and used in more than 6,000 food and drink products.

The above is from The Guardian - read the entire atticle by clicking on the above link

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Researchers at the Ramazzini Institute for cancer research in Italy say their study shows that aspartame causes lymphomas and leukaemia in female laboratory animals "at doses very close to the acceptable daily intake for humans". The authors of the study also say that while rats fed aspartame ate less food, there was no difference in body weight between treated and untreated animals.

The European Ramazzini Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences Cancer Research Centre in Bolonga, Italy, just released their three year study confirming the link between aspartame and lymphomas and leukemias.
[ You can see this report at: http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_study_14july2005.pdf ]

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."

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.

"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.

"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.

"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."

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." Medical investigator, Dr. Ralph Walton, found 100% of the studies aspartame producers paid for say its safe as rain. A study on 7 infant monkeys where 5 had grand mal seizures and one died was even presented to the FDA as evidence for aspartame approval. Dr. Walton felt research results may be connected with who signs the check, since 92 percent of independent studies he looked into confirm the dangers of aspartame. Make that 100% if you delete ones sponsored by our Fatal Drugs Allowed folks, the FDA.

In this line Dr. Martini said she checked with the Mafia about the crime rate. These impartial experts assured her: "There isn't any crime in the USA. And for a really bright smile, brush with plutonium!"

Read Dr. Walton's full report: http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html. When he did an aspartame study the institution had to stop it when one subject got a retinal detachment, went permanently blind in one eye, and another suffered conjunctival bleeding. Others said they'd been poisoned, just like the rats. The makers couldn't control this independent, unbiased scientific peer reviewed research.

"Whopper! Whopper! Whopper!" says Dr. Martini of industry claims there is no association between aspartame and cancer in humans, "Wow, what a whopper! Cancer is regularly and systematically found in humans and animals taking this poison. And here's the proof:"

The original test results presented to FDA for aspartame approval were doctored to conceal the rat cancers the poison caused according to examining FDA scientists in an FDA Task Force Report which found these deceits:
1. "Excising masses (removing tumors) from live animals in some cases without histologic examination of the masses, in others without reporting them to the FDA." (Schmidt 1976c, page 4 of US Senate l976b). Searle's representatives, when caught and questioned about these actions, stated that "these masses were in the head and neck areas and prevented the animals from feeding." (Buzzard l976a) [In other words, the cancers were so big they choked the animals.]
2. G. D. Searle told the FDA 12 lots of DKP were manufactured and tested in one study, yet only seven batches were actually made. (Gross l985, page S10835) Diketopiperazine is a brain tumor agent which breaks down from the aspartame molecule.
3. In the aspartame (DKP) 115 week rat study the written observations of the pathology report was changed by the supervising pathologist, Dr. Rudolph Stejskal even though he was not physically present during the autopsies and could not have verified the observations of the pathologist who did perform the autopsies. The pathologist who did perform some of the autopsies had no formal training for such procedures. (Gross l985, page S10837 of Congressional Record 1985b)
4. "Contrary to protocol, slides were not prepared of the (unusual lesions from the aspartame (DKP) study tissue for microscopic examination..." (Gross l985, page S10837 of Congressional Record l985b)
FDA Toxicologist and Task Force member, Dr Adrian Gross stated (Wilson l985): "They (G.D. Searle) lied and they didn't submit the real nature of their observations because had they done that it is more likely that a great number of these studies would have been rejected simply for adequacy. What Searle did, they took great pains to camouflage these shortcomings of the study. As I say filter and just present to the FDA what they wished the FDA to know and they did other terrible things for instance animals would develop tumors while they were under study. Well they would remove these tumors from the animals."
An FDA Toxicologist explained why their experiments were invalidated: "It is highly unlikely the FDA Investigative teams found all of the problems with G. D. Searle's studies. G. D. Searle seemed so intent on covering up their misconduct, that it is quite likely that they were able to hide many of the problems from the FDA.
On Jan 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), and the False Reports to the Government Act, 18 U.S.C. 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.
Since everything was all a matter of public record the manufacturer was in deep, er, difficulty, and had to creatively avoid an indictment. Both U.S. Prosecutors, Sam Skinner and William Conlon were hired by the defense lawyers, Sidley and Austin, and the statute of limitations expired. When the district attorney gets a job with the godfather, expect acquittal.
In August 1977 the FDA audit, headed by Jerome Bressler was released. Records for approximately 30 animals showed substantial differences between original observations on pathology sheets submitted to FDA. There were numerous inconsistencies and errors noted. For example, a rat was reported alive, then dead, then alive, then dead again; a mass, a uterine polyp and ovarian neoplasms were found in animals but not reported or diagnosed in Searle's reports. The FDA investigators found dose-related uterine polyps in 15% of 34 animals. Read the entire report at http://www.dorway.com/bressler.txt
As damning as the report is, when I spoke with Jerome Bressler he admitted the worst 20% of his report was removed in retyping by FDA and asked me to try to get two mice studies and his cover letter. Doctors H. J. Roberts and Russell Blaylock both spoke with Jerome Bressler as well after which Dr. Roberts asked his congressman to retrieve the missing condemnatory data that the public has a right to know. The FDA refused.
FDA wouldn't approve aspartame for 16 years because of the cancer and prevarication problems, then Donald Rumsfeld, CEO of the manufacturer, said he would call in his markers. The entire story is told in the aspartame documentary: "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World" www.docworkers.com In a clip you can see Attorney James Turner explains how Rumsfeld got aspartame approved by politics instead of science: http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/Rumsfeld2.html
September 30, l980: FDA's Aspartame Board of Inquiry revoked the petition for approval because aspartame had not been proven safe and there was the question of cancers. Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and the day after he took office appointed Arthur Hayes as FDA Commissioner. Dr. Hayes over-ruled the FDA Board of Inquiry and then went to work for the Public Relations Agency of the manufacturer on a 10 year consultant's contract. Hayes has refused to talk to the press ever since. Who ever heard of a PR guy who won't talk?
Obviously Searle would never sign up humans for a study of aspartame and cancer where it could be known. So their studies were done in 6 other countries in l983/84 where they sacrificed people in poor villages but never published the horrible results. In a notarized affidavit the translator said: "There was the recurring description of tumors, astrocytomas and gliomas." The rats in original studies developed astrocytomas, pituitary adenomas, etc.
Congressional hearings in l985 and l987 told the horrors of what had been going on in the population. Monsanto had already bought Searle. There were so many complaints the FDA didn't want they began referring the victims to the AIDS Hotline, as they later admitted. Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, a former FDA toxicologist and member of the FDA task force told Congress the original studies were "built on a foundation of sand." In a 1987 Senate hearing she testified that flawed tests conducted by Searle - used as the basis of FDA approval - were a "disaster" and should have been "thrown out." She said that even then, years after approval, the safety of aspartame and its breakdown products had not been determined. She emphasized aspartame is in the marketplace without basic toxicity information. Also that there are no data to assess the interactions with DKP, excess phenylalanine, other aspartame metabolites, additives, drugs or other chemicals. Today we know aspartame interacts with all drugs and vaccines and is a chemical hypersensitization agent. In the new Italian study the rats turned yellow from the formaldehyde.
The late Dr. M. Adrian Gross, FDA toxicologist, spoke out against aspartame in the August 1, l985 Congressional Record. Gross, who took part in on-site investigations at Searle laboratories, said the studies carried out by Searle "to a large extent unreliable." He said, "at least one of those studies has established BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT that aspartame is capable of inducing brain tumors in experimental animals and that this ... is of extremely high significance."
Gross testified because aspartame produces brain tumors and brain cancer, FDA should not set an allowable daily intake of the substance at any level: "In view of these indications that the cancer causing potential of aspartame is a matter that has been established way beyond any reasonable doubt, one can ask: What is the reason for the apparent refusal by the FDA to invoke for this food additive the so-called Delaney Amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act?"

The Delaney Amendment makes it illegal to allow any residues of cancer causing chemicals in foods. In his concluding testimony Gross asked, "Given the (cancer causing potential of aspartame) how would the FDA justify its position that it views a certain amount of aspartame as constituting an allowable daily intake or 'safe' level of it? Is that position in effect not equivalent to setting a 'tolerance' for this food additive and thus a violation of that law? And if the FDA itself elects to violate the law, who is left to protect the health of the public."
In original studies aspartame triggered brain, mammary, uterine, ovarian, testicular, pancreatic and thyroid tumors. Today a medical text on the global plague of Aspartame Disease is 1038 pages and documents a host of diseases and tumors triggered by this carcinogenic, neurotoxic poison. http://www.sunsentpress.com or 1-800-827-7991 by H. J. Roberts, M.D.
In the Journal of Advancement in Medicine, Volume 4, Number 4, Winter 1991, Does Aspartame cause Human Brain Cancer http://www.dorway.com/betty/brainc.txt Dr. H. J. Roberts said:
"The increasing frequency of primary brain lymphoma of B cell derivation - including reticulum cell sarcoma, microglioma and histiocytic lymphoma - also requires explanation because this subset was previously rare. Eby et al all reported a nearly threefold rise in its incidence among immunologically normal persons in the l982-l84 SEER data, which they could not explain..."

Dr. Roberts also said that "Hockberg and Miller reported a tripling of incidence of this tumor in non-immunosuppressed persons during the 5 year interval between l980 and l984."
In l996 Dr. John Olney made world news over the Aspartame brain tumor association. Increasing Brain Tumor Rates: Is There a Link to Aspartame? J. Neuropath Exp Neurol, Vol 55, Nov & Dec issues. Dr. Olney discusses the aspartame molecule acquires mutagenic activity when nitrosated and this provides a clue to a possible mechanism by which aspartame could cause brain tumors. He says: "Nitrosation of aspartame or its diketopiperazine breakdown product could result in a nitrosourea-like molecule, and nitrosoureas are THE MOST EFFECTIVE AGENTS KNOWN for producing MALIGNANT BRAIN TUMORS in experimental animals. Some nitrosoureas have broad spectrum carcinogenicity and can induce cancer in both the CNS and several other organs, but other members of this family, particularly alkylated nitrosoureas are organo-specific for the CNS. These agents can act by a direct and relatively rapid mechanism to induce brain tumors, when administered systemically to adult rats. In addition, they are particularly potent in acting by a delayed mechanism involving in utero exposure of the fetus and resulting in a high incidence of malignant brain tumors which do not manifest until adulthood. The malignant tumors induced by either the direct or delayed mechanism are not typically of the childhood type (i.e. medulloblastoma) but rather are predominantly adult tumors (e. g. astrocytomas, glioblastomas, mixed gliomas, oligo-dendrogliomas). Thus, it may be significant that the recent surge in human brain tumor rates involved these various adult types of tumors, whereas childhood medulloblastoma was the singular tumor type that showed no increase."
Neurochemist Dr. Peter Nunn and Geoffrey Pilkington did a study at Kings College about 4 years ago having to do with aspartame and brain tumors which is as yet unpublished. In it was this statement: "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) tumours in the brain."
This agrees with Dr. John Olney who founded the field of neuroscience called Excitotoxicity and tried to prevent aspartame's approval. He is one of the most renowned neuroscientists in the world. His CV can be read on http://www.dorway.com
One would have to wear a blindfold not to see that aspartame is a carcinogen as the FDA's own toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, told congress. If it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck, hangs around with other ducks and everybody in town calls it a duck it probably really is a duck! Old Chinese proverb: "The beginning of wisdom is to call things by the right name." The right name for this merciless plague is Rumsfeld Disease.
Satchel Page warned: Never look back, something might be gaining on you. He was right. It's us! We're taking aspartame brain tumor case histories from New York, New Jersey, Mississippi and Madison County, Illinois for litigation.

Now the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) says it will review the study linking aspartame ingestion to lymphomas and leukemias"..as a matter of high priority, in the context of the previous extensive safety data available on aspartame." Mark Gold of the Aspartame Toxicity Center says (www.holisticmed.com/aspartame): "They just told us what the results of the review will be. The review by EFSA (industry consultants) will find no problem with aspartame. That's a guarantee. You read it here first." Read Gold's rebuttal to the EU report, http://wwww.holisticmed.com/aspartame/scf2002.html Martini agrees: I flew to Brussels and gave the EU damning research proving aspartame toxicity. They ignored the facts in their report and published industry propaganda. Their report read like they were making it up as they went along." For the rest of the story: http://www.wnho.net/new_aspartame_studies.htm

Dr. Betty Martini
Founder, Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770-242-2599
http://www.dorway.com
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June 13 2004

BREAKING: MS and ASPARTAME CONNECTION Revealed by Aspartame Expert and Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D. - Movie Released Today

Renowned Neurosurgeon reveals MS Treatment and Exposes the ASPARTAME and MS Connection with Research. This explains the epidemic OF Subclinical MS in the population of 100 countries the World

(PRWEB) June 9, 2004--Connection between MS and aspartame by neurosurgeon Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. http://www.russellblaylockmd.com

Recently, much controversy has surrounded a claim that aspartame may produce an MS-like syndrome. A current review of recent peer-reviewed scientific studies have disclosed a pathophysiological mechanism to explain this connection. As far back as 1996 it was shown that the lesions produced in the myelin sheath of axons in cases of multiple sclerosis were related to excitatory receptors on the primary cells involved called oligodendroglia. Recent studies have now confirmed what was suspected back then. The loss of myelin sheath on the nerve fibers characteristic of the disease are due to the death of these oligodendroglial cells at the site of the lesions (called plaques). Further, these studies have shown that the death of these important cells is as a result of excessive exposure to excitotoxins at the site of the lesions.

Normally, most of these excitotoxins are secreted from microglial immune cells in the central nervous system. This not only destroys these myelin-producing cells it also breaks down the blood-brain barrier (BBB), allowing excitotoxins in the blood stream to enter the site of damage. Aspartame contains the excitotoxin aspartate as 40% of its molecular structure. Numerous studies have shown that consuming aspartame can significantly elevate the excitotoxin level in the blood. There is a common situation during which the excitotoxin exposure is even greater. When aspartate (as aspartame) is combined in the diet with monosodium glutamate (MSG) blood levels are several fold higher than normal. With the BBB damaged, as in MS, these excitotoxins can freely enter the site of injury,greatly magnifying the damage. So, we see that dietary excitotoxins, such as aspartame and MSG, can greatly magnify the damage produced in multiple sclerosis. Likewise, excitotoxins have been shown to breakdown the BBB as well.

Of equal concern is observation that we know that about 10% of the population (based on autopsy studies of elderly) have MS lesions without ever developing the full blown disease, a condition called benign MS. A diet high in excitotoxins, such as aspartame, can convert this benign, subclinical condition into full-blown clinical MS. The amount of excitotoxins consumed in the average American diet is considerable, as shown by several studies. In addition, the toxin methanol is also in the aspartame molecule. Methanol is a axon poison. Combined toxicity of the aspartate and the methanol adds up to considerable brain toxicity and can convert benign, subclinical MS into full-blown MS. Once the MS becomes full-blown, further consumption of excitotoxins magnifies the toxicity, increasing disability and death.

Recent studies have also shown that even single exposures to these food-based excitotoxins can produce prolonged worsening of neurological lesions. In addition, it has been demonstrated that autoimmune reactions (as occurs with MS) greatly magnifies the toxicity of aspartate and glutamate (the excitotoxins). We also know liquid forms of excitotoxins are significantly more toxic because of rapid absorption and higher blood levels. In the face of this connection between excitotoxicity and the pathophysiology of MS, it would be ludicrous to allow further use of this excitotoxin containing sweetener..

References:

1. Sannchez-Gomez MV, Malute C. AMPA and kainate receptors each mediate excitotoxicity in oligodendroglial cultures. Neurobiology of Disease 6:475-485, 1999

2. Yoshika A, et al. Pathophysiology of oligodendroglial excitotoxicity, J Neuroscience Research 46: 427-437, 1996.

3. Singh P, et al. Prolonged glutamate excitotoxicity: effects on mitochondrial antioxidants and antioxidant enzymes. Molecular Cell Biochemistry 243: 139-145, 2003.

4. Leuchtmann EA, et al. AMPA receptors are the major mediators of excitotoxin death in mature oligodendrocytes. Neurobiology of Disease 14:336-348, 2003.

5. Takahashi JL, et al. Interleukin1 beta promotes oligodendrocyte death through glutamate excitotoxicity. Annal Neurology 53: 588-595, 2003.

6. Pitt D, et al Glutamate uptake by oligodendrocytes: implications for excitotoxicity in multiple sclerosis. Neurology 61: 1113-1120, 2003.

7. Soto A, et al. Excitotoxic insults to the optic nerve alter visual evoked potentials. Neuroscience 123: 441-449, 2004.

8. Blaylock RL. Interactions of cytokines, excitotoxins and reactive nitrogen and oxygen species in autism spectrum disorders. Journal of American Nutraceutical Association 6: 21-35, 2003.

9. Blaylock RL. Chronic microglial activation and excitotoxicity secondary to excessive immune stimulation: possible factors in Gulf War Syndrome and autism. Journal American Physicians and Surgeons, Summer, 2004.

TREATMENT FOR MS:

It is now known the cause for the destruction of the myelin in the lesions is overactivation of the microglia in the region of the myelin. An enzyme that converts glutamine to glutamate called glutaminase increases tremendously, thereby greatly increasing excitotoxicity. Mercury also activates microglia, even in subtoxic doses.

Any dietary excitotoxin can activate the microglia, thereby greatly aggravating the injury. This includes the aspartate in aspartame. The methanol adds to this toxicity as well. Now, the secret to treatment appears to be shutting down, or at least calming down, the microglia. It has been found that the antibiotic minocycline powerfully shuts down the microglia. I tried this treatment on a friend of mine who just came down with fulmanant MS. He was confined to a wheelchair. I had him placed on minocycline and now, just a few weeks later, he is walking.

The good news is that other things also calm the microglia-the most potent are: silymarin, curcumin and ibuprophen. Phosphatidylcholine helps re-myelinate the nerve sheaths that are damaged, as does B12, B6, B1, vitamin D, folate, vitamin C, natural vitamin E (mixed tocopherols) and L-carnitine. DHA plays a major role in repairing the myelin sheath. Vitamin D may even prevent MS, but it acts as an immune modulator, preventing further damage - the dose is 2000 IU a day. Magnesium, as magnesium malate, is needed in a dose of 500 mg 2X a day. They must avoid all excitotoxins, even natural ones in foods-such as soy, red meats, nuts, mushrooms and tomatoes. Avoid all fluoride and especially all vaccinations since these either inhibit antioxidant enzymes or triggers harmful immune reactions.

Dr. Blaylock is a recently retired board-certified neurosurgeon with more than twenty six years experience. He is a recently retired Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Medical University of Mississippi. Author of thirty scientific papers on various medical subjects, chapters in three medical textbooks and a booklet on multiple sclerosis, he recently completed a booklet on bioterrorism and is the author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, Health & Nutrition Secrets to Save Your Life, and Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients. ( www.russellblaylockmd.com ) He serves on the editorial staff of The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, the Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association, and acts as a medical advisor to the American Nutraceutical Association. His excellent newsletter can be gotten at www.blaylockreport.com He lives in Ridgeland, Mississippi.

Note from Dr. Betty Martini :

Cori Brackett, co-owner of Sound and Fury Productions, an MS victim diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic, had a huge lesion in the brain. Cori was a user of the neurotoxic drug Aspartame, marketed as NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, E951, Canderel, Benevia, etc. Off the poison, she too walked out of her wheelchair; the lesion disappeared. Because of what she had endured from aspartame disease she felt a moral obligation to warn others, especially with 70% of the population and 40% of our children using this deadly toxin. Cori Brackett traveled 7000 miles and with 25 hours of footage produced the movie, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World. She says it reveals one of the most pervasive, insidious forms of corporate negligence in the history of the industrial revolution. On this date it is being released to the world. You will get to see the famed Dr. Blaylock and other aspartame experts, as well as hear the horror story of the victims. See Diane Fleming who is wilting in a Virginia prison because her athlete husband died of aspartame. She was sentenced to 50 years for the crime committed by the manufacturer who had the malice to market a poison.

Dont miss this film. Contact Cori Brackett at Cori@soundandfuryproductions.com or 520-624-9710. http://www.soundandfuryproductions.com

For years physicians have written the MS Society to alert them about aspartame. You can read my letter on www.dorway.com/nomarkle.html , never answered, of course. Faced with the choice of warning the public or continuing to receive funding from industry, the MS Society has chosen to sacrifice the victims. And when those responsible to solve the problem ARE the problem it is a sad commentary on greed and lack of concern for humanity. How can anyone set aside professional ethics to allow an MS holocaust, when simply alerting those with MS to avoid aspartame and other excitotoxins could save the lives of thousands. At one MS Society walk-a-thon, they were giving out free Diet Cokes while trying to prevent our activists from giving walkers info that could save the lives of MS victims. I simply turned to the crowd and said: The MS Society does not want you to have this life-saving information on a product triggering this disease. The entire crowd took copies. Later I received several calls of those who had heeded the advice and gotten well. But I shudder to think how many have perished because the MS Society hasnt had the integrity to warn victims.

Contact Information:

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Eleven year old Jennifer Cohen from Oradell, New Jersey, chose an experiment for her 6th grade science project that the FDA and the manufacturer's of aspartame should have found to be an obvious test subject. Using sound principles and double blind testing she developed and ran her tests like a professional. Her goal was simple: What happens to aspartame in diet coke? Upon completion of her experiment a reputable food laboratory performed all the necessary chemical evaluations and presented her with the startling results. The laboratory data proved that aspartame breaks down into formaldehyde and DKP (a brain tumor agent) over a wide range of temperatures, from the Soft Drink Association's suggested test temperature of 104 degrees (and higher) to even in the refrigerator. Dr. H. J. Roberts, world expert on aspartame, said the experiment was very important adding: "Jennifer deserves two gold stars". No wonder the population is rampant with so many of the problems listed in the FDA's acknowledged symptoms of aspartame poisoning (http:www.dorway.com/badnews.html). With results such as this, it is obvious why the pharmaceutical companies never tested their product in this manner!

For those who require independent confirmation of all facts Winston Laboratories located in Ridgefield, New Jersey, (201-440-0022) ran the tests on the diet cokes used in the following experiment.

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7/97 READ Jennifer's reply to Dr. Moser, aspartame industry mouthpiece, when HE broke off the communcations HE started!!! (Side-bar to following page)

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THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT STORAGE TEMPERATURES ON THE TASTE AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF DIET COKE
BY JENNIFER COHEN
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Jennifer Cohen is an eleven-year old student in Mrs. Simmons' sixth grade Oradell, New Jersey class. The principal of Oradell Public School is Scott Ryan. He may be reached at 201 261-1181. Jennifer conducted an experiment proving aspartame, the artificial sweetener in diet soda, breaks down into two deadly neurotoxins when stored at room temperature and under refrigeration.
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ABSTRACT: The level of aspartame in a can of Diet Coke was found to be 0.06% by a food testing laboratory. The remaining cans from one case of Diet coke were stored under three different heat conditions for 10 weeks. Seven cans were stored in an incubator (104 degrees Fahrenheit), seven cans were stored at room temperature (68-70 degrees Fahrenheit). At the end of 70 days samples were tested for levels of aspartame, formaldehyde and DKP (diketopiperazine). The refrigerated sample contained 0.058 percent aspartame, 0.001 percent DKP and 53.5 parts per billion of formaldehyde. The room temperature sample contained 0.051 percent aspartame, 0.002 percent DKP and 231 parts per billion of formaldehyde. The incubator sample contained 0.026 percent aspartame, 0.010 percent DKP and 76.2 parts per billion of formaldehyde. In addition 10 human subjects tasted each soda sample plus a new can of Diet Coke and rated each sample for taste on a 1-4 scale with 1 being the best and 4 being the worst. The new can of Diet Coke received an average rating of 2.0. The sample stored in the refrigerator received an average rating of 2.6. The sample stored at room temperature received an average rating of 2.5. The sample stored in the incubator received an average rating of 3.8. The effects of heat on Diet coke produced the worst taste and the highest amount of loss of aspartame as well as the greatest increase in levels of DKP. The most pleasing taste was for the new can of Diet Coke. The room temperature sample and the refrigerated sample scored almost the same in the taste test. All samples revealed a presence of formaldehyde. However, the highest level of formaldehyde occurred in the room temperature can. There was also formaldehyde present in the refrigerated sample.

BACKGROUND: Aspartame was discovered in l965 by Searle chemist, Jim Schlatter. He was developing this drug for another use and after accidentally licking his finger found that aspartame was sweet. Today aspartame is consumed by more than 100 million people in the United States. This chemical (aspartame) has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who said that an individual can safely consume 97 packets of aspartame every day. Aspartame is in many products including some that children use such as diet soda, light yogurt, Flintstone Vitamins, baked goods, puddings, and Winterfresh gum. It has been known to cause headaches, nausea, vision problems, seizures and cancer in its users.

The ingredients in aspartame are aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methyl alcohol. Methyl alcohol is a chemical that breaks down in high temperatures and turns into formaldehyde and DKP (diketopiperazine), two chemicals known to cause problems in the nervous system. Aspartame's life is 262 days at 77 degrees Fahrenheit, or 25 degrees Celsius. The FDA gets more complaints about aspartame than any other food or drink. The symptoms of aspartame are a lot like the symptoms of multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease. Ever since aspartame was approved in l985, there has been an increase in brain tumors. There is no direct proof that aspartame caused the brain tumors, but there is enough reason to suspect that, and the television show, "60 Minutes" recently did a report linking the increase in brain cancer to aspartame use.

The FDA reviewed Searle's studies of this artificial sweetener in which rats were fed aspartame daily with their meals for one year. There were 12 brain tumors in the 320 rats that were fed aspartame and no brain tumors in the 120 rats that were not fed aspartame. There was also a study done at the University of Wisconsin on rhesus monkeys. they were fed aspartame daily. After day 200 of a one year study the monkeys developed epileptic seizures. After the study ended, the aspartame was discontinued and the monkeys were are fully watched for 60 days. The monkeys had no more seizures.

METHOD: I did my own experiment on aspartame. On January 21, l997, I bought a new case of Diet Coke from the supermarket. I put 7 cans in the refrigerator, 7 cans in my room at room temperature (about 69 degrees) and I put 7 cans in a BOEKEL incubator (80 Watts, 120 AC volts, 0.75 Amps, catalog # 131500) and set the temperature at 40 degrees Celsius which is 104 degrees Fahrenheit. I left them in there for 10 weeks (70 days). I had a thermometer next to each group of cans and I checked the temperatures daily. I took the remaining three cans and brought them to Winston Laboratories in Ridgefield, New jersey to test for a beginning level of aspartame. When I got the test results back, they revealed that there was normally 0.06 per cent of aspartame in the can of diet soda.

I chose that temperature because in l985 the National Soft Drink Association reported a similar experiment in which diet soda stored at that temperature turned into formaldehyde. In that experiment they explained that 104 degrees Fahrenheit was equal to a daytime temperature in Phoenix, Arizona over the summer. The National Soft Drink Association recommended that aspartame not be approved for use by people in soda. They published this experiment and their recommendation in the Congressional Record.

On April 1, I took the cans of aspartame out of the refrigerator, out of my room and out of the incubator. That day I brought the samples to Winston Laboratory for analysis.

I was going to do a taste in my sister's fourth grade class, but the school nurse said that I couldn't because of all the bad things people say about aspartame, so instead I tested the samples on a group of adults.

I performed a double blind experiment. My mother helped to label each sample with a number. I conducted the experiment but I did not know which sample each person was drinking. I put all of the cans in a cooler and covered them with ice sos that they would be served at the same temperature. I gave each person a small cup of the soda from the refrigerator, from the incubator, from my room, and from a new can of soda fresh from the supermarket. I asked them to rate the taste on a scale of one to four, four being the worst and one being the best. The actual results are to be found in table#1.

Table 1

ROOM COLD WARM NEW
TEMP. STORAGE STORAGE CAN
SAMPLE SAMPLE SAMPLE SAMPLE
#517 #502 #540 #563

SUBJECT #1 4 4 4 3
SUBJECT #2 3 2 4 1
SUBJECT #3 2 3 3 2
SUBJECT #4 1 2 4 2
SUBJECT #5 2 2 4 1
SUBJECT #6 2 3 4 1
SUBJECT #7 2 3 3 4
SUBJECT #8 3 2 4 3
SUBJECT #9 3 2 4 1
SUBJECT #10 3 3 4 2

AVERAGE 2.5 2.6 3.8 2.0

Table #2 contains the results of the testing conducted on the samples analyzed by Winston Laboratories. In the sample that was in the refrigerator all that was left of the 0.06 per cent of the aspartame was 0.058 percent. That extra aspartame had turned into 0.001 percent DKP and 53.5 parts per billion of formaldehyde In the sample from my room, all that was left of the 0.06 percent aspartame was 0.051 per cent. The extra aspartame had turned into 0.002 percent DKP and 231 parts per billion of formaldehyde. In the sample that was in the incubator all that was left of the 0.06 percent aspartame was 0.026 percent. The extra aspartame had turned into 0.010 percent DkP and 76.2 parts per billion in the formaldehyde.

Table 2

ASPARTAME DKP FORMALDEHYDE
% % Parts per billion

BASELINE CAN 0.060% **

SAMPLE # 502 0.058% 0.0001% 53.5
(refrigerated)

SAMPLE # 517 0.051% 0.002% 231.0
(room temperature)

SAMPLE #540 0.026% 0.010% 76.2
(incubator)

SAMPLE # 563 * * *
(new can)

* Sample #563 (new can of Diet Coke was not tested by the lab. It was used for the taste test only. The baseline can was not tested for formaldehyde or DKP because it was assumed that FDA would ban any new product containing poison. The total cost of testing was $1250. This may not be a lot of money to a drug company but it is to me. As it is, I will be baby-sitting for the summer of 1997 to pay for this study. -JC

DISCUSSION: There was an obvious preference for the newly purchased sample of Diet Coke. The scores for the sample in the refrigerator and room temperature were similar but were not as high as the new soda. The score for the incubator sample were very low. Nearly everybody hated the taste.

There are taste differences. Ten people preferred the new soda to the other three samples. With 1 being the best and 4 being the worst, their average score for the new soda was 2.0.

The aspartame contained in diet soda stored over time can break down into formaldehyde and DKP, two very dangerous poisons. Taste tests revealed a noticeable difference among tasters. The higher the heat of storage, the worse the taste.

Diet soda stored for ten weeks loses flavor. Aspartame in that soda breaks down into two products, formaldehyde and DKP. The warmer the temperature, the greater the loss of aspartame and the greater the increase in DKP.

Temperature creates two effects. First, the higher the temperature of storage, the higher the level of DKP in the soda. Second, room temperature seems to create the highest levels of formaldehyde in soda. At very high temperatures, the formaldehyde breaks down. However, even stored in a refrigerator at cold temperature, the aspartame breaks down into formaldehyde.

After diet soda containing aspartame is purchased it should not be stored in the heat or under any condition for a long period of time. Further research should be performed with more samples at different temperatures for different time periods so that safety levels can be determined.

Concerning aspartame, the FDA says, "we believe that based on all the information that we received to date that this is a safe product." I say, "Decide for yourself." Jennifer Cohen

Bibliography

1) Artificial Sweeteners. "The World Book Encyclopedia" 1997
2) Azarnoff, Daniel. "Aspartame" McGraw-Hill. Encyclopedia of Science and Technology 1987
3) Constantine, Alex. "The NutraPoison" http://www.dorway.com/possible.html (items 26 and 27) March 13, 1997
4) Jibrin, Janis. "How Sweet It Is." American Health December 1995: 84-85
5) Jibrin, Janis. "Is Sugar Poison?" Mademoiselle December 1995: 84-85
6) Lepke, Janet. "A Dieter's Guide To Sugar Substitutes." Consumer's Digest May/June 1995: 71-74
7) Rao, K.S., McConnell, R.G., Waisman, H.A. SC-18862 52 Week Oral Toxicity Study In The Infant Monkey
8) Roberts, H.J. Aspartame (Nutra Sweet) Is It Safe? Philadelphia: The Charles Press, 1990]
9) Roberts, H.J. Sweetener Dearest. West Palm Beach: The Sunshine Sentinel Press, 1992

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COMMENT: Ms. Cohen did an excellent report in all respects. Dr. Roberts, renowned expert on aspartame and its toxic effects gives her two gold stars. From the viewpoint of an informed layman, I give her FIVE gold stars and a heart-felt "Thank you!"

I understand that the Jewish faith forbids the use of formaldehyde and the act of embalming. I also understand that somehow Nutrasweet was placed on a list of "Kosher" foods. It doesn't make sense that it is Kosher to EMBALM oneself while alive, on a dose by dose basis, but NOT Kosher to be embalmed after death. Did Nutrasweet lie once again, this time to the Jewish faith? Will their lies and disinformation EVER cease?

Coke has a new advertising campaign where they state that Diet Coke is: "You are what you drink". Congratulations, Coca Cola, for finally getting it right! As Jennifer Cohen just proved, diet coke drinkers are consuming formaldehyde and diketopiperazine (DKP, a brain tumor agent) with each and every sip.

The aspartame to methanol to formaldehyde to formic acid conversion of this chameleon substance (with a side-order of DKP and perhaps other tumor agents) makes an excellent toxic soup that gives rise to the 92 FDA acknowledged symptoms of aspartame poisoning.

When their record-keeping was still honest, the FDA stated that it was the most complained about substance, comprising over 75% of their complaints. Then they stated that less that one (1) % of the consumers file complaints. The stated 10,000 complaints (in the early 80's) would then translate to over 1,000,000 potential complainers of the LESSOR effects of aspartame poisoning, ... headaches, hives, vision and memory problems. That would seem to be a significant figure.

Most important, this does NOT include the even larger number of people suffering from long-term problems such as arthritis- like pains, vision loss, and problems that lead to a misdiagnosis of MS, CFS, Fibromyalgia or a whole host of other "diseases", because doctors have been brainwashed into believing that aspartame is as pure as the driven snow!

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Here are some of the more important of my 149 pages now totalling over 4 megabytes of TEXT... mostly on aspartame!

http://www.dorway.com/badnews.html Most of the 92 FDA acknowledged symptoms of aspartame poisoning, and how it does its dirty deeds [think methanol (wood alcohol that makes skid row drunks go blind), formaldehyde (do-it-yourself embalming) and formic acid (better known as ant sting poison)]. It should be noted that a Freedom of Information Act request was required to obtain this document from the DHHS/FDA. Most of those symptoms are listed below in a pamphlet.
http://www.dorway.com/barua.html An excellent overview by two Indian doctors, complete with many references. This article was published in the Journal Of The Diabetic Association Of India 1995 :Vol. 35, No. 4. so a doctor should feel more comfortable with the information.

In addition... the following pages are also significant:

One new addition is a Mission Possible reply to Coca-Cola located at:
http://www.dorway.com/heycoke.html
Mission Possible Files located at http://www.dorway.com/possible.html

Mission Possible Files Get them all, see below!
1. Response! Typical NutraSweet Industry DisInformation Response! (by Dave Rietz)
2. Nelson A rebuttal to Mr. Nelson of Nutrasweet on aspartame
3. Burne Message to J. Burne on aspartame and brain damage.
4. 87hear.txt Senate Hearing 100-567 in 1987.
5. blindns.txt NUTRASWEET/BLINDNESS, Chi-Sun Times (Oct. 96)
6. brainc.txt DOES ASPARTAME CAUSE HUMAN BRAIN CANCER?
7. casehist.txt Jack Thomas Testimonial
8. complain.txt FDA Complaints on NutraSweet 4/20/95
9. consent.txt INFORMED CONSENT PART 1
10. consentt.txt INFORMED CONSENT PART 2
11. deserts.txt Is Desert Storm Syndrome NutraSweet Disease?
12. devesta.txt UK Government Report on Obesity Withheld
13. diabetes.html H. J. ROBERTS, M.D. ON ASPARTAME
14. dr-elsas.txt Dr. Elsas Statement for U.S. Senate Committee
15. drbowen.txt JAMES D. BOWEN, M.D. ON FOOD LABELING
16. embalm.txt TO EMBALM..OR NOT TO EMBALM
17. environ.txt WORLD CONFERENCE & MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
18. eye.txt H. J. ROBERTS, M.D on aspartame and the eye
19. fdainves.txt BITTERSWEET (former FDA Investigator)
20. headach.txt James B. Hays, M.D. Clinical with Aspartame
21. jointpan.txt H. J. Roberts, M.D. JOINT PAIN and ASPARTAME
22. metzbill.txt Metzenbaums Bill and Letter to Ruggles
23. minntrib.txt NUTRASWEET SUSPECT IN BRAIN TUMORS
24. morgraif.txt Dr. Morgan Raiford on aspartame
25. ms.txt H. J. Roberts, M.D. on MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS/aspartame
26. nutrap1.txt The NutraPoison by Alex Constantine Part 1
27. nutrap2.txt The NutraPoison by Alex Constantine Part 2
28. panicat.txt PANIC ATTACKS AND ASPARTAME INGESTION
29. pregnanc.txt H. J. Roberts, Pregnancy and aspartame
30. refer1.txt Aspartame/Diabetes/References Part 1
31. refer2.txt Aspartame/Diabetes/References Part 2
32. review1.txt Aspartame: Literature Review Part 1
33. review2.txt Aspartame: Literature Review Part 2
34. robrtfrm.txt H. J. Roberts, M.D. VOLUNTARY QUESTIONNAIRE
35. safeswet.txt Specific Sweetener Ideas
36. steviaap.txt Stevia Approved 9/18/95
37. testing.txt ASPARTAME TESTING - MALICE IN BLUNDERLAND
38. theyk2.txt Reuter's news release on aspartame and brain cancer
39. toxictim.txt Neurotoxic Potential of Aspartame (Newman and Mullarkey)
40. whitakr.txt Dr. Whitaker's Article of November 1995/Stevia
41. drprice.html Short Email by Dr. Price concerning Infertility
42. Dr. Olney The Original Dr. Olney Brain Cancer article
43. olneyup1 (part 1 Dr. Olney Feb. '97 Response to THEIR articles
44. olneyup2 (part 2) Additional information on article
45. olneyup3 (part 3) Symptoms and additional dialog

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Next is the text of a double-sided tri-fold pamphlet that provides just about everything one NEEDS to know, with pointers to the rest of it. If arranged in three columns per side it makes a nice handout.

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After MUCH investigation, I believe...

Aspartame... = BAD NEWS!

What's it IN?
Equal Over 9000 products Nutrasweet and growing fast!
Spoonful ????
Is it SAFE?
NO!

Why NOT? It breaks down into phenylalanine, asparatic acid, methyl alcohol (wood alcohol), formaldehyde (embalming fluid), formic acid (ant sting poison) and other toxic chemicals.
In BRIEF!

Aspartame is NOT a natural substance!
Aspartame is NOT a diet product!
Aspartame is NOT safe... for ANYONE!
Aspartame is NOT a food "additive", it is an UNREGULATED and UNSAFE DRUG!
Aspartame is even worse for DIABETICS!
Aspartame poisoning is cumulative... (it adds up!)
Excess formaldehyde from its breakdown... gets stored in your FAT!
Aspartame has 92 "official" side effects... (Including DEATH!)
Aspartame MIMICS many diseases!
Aspartame TOXIC effects are... USUALLY MISS-DIAGNOSED!
Aspartame's approval by the FDA...is a SHAMELESS travesty!
FDA approval for use in EVERYTHING is criminal!
The ONLY "CURE"... is total exclusion from the diet!
(Aspartame lawyers hired the Federal prosecutor who were after them!)
Aspartame is unfit for human consumption!

OUTSIDE MIDDLE PANEL

Link to a printable report form: http://www.dorway.com/reprtfrm.html

Send Complaints to:
FDA Commissioner
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, Maryland 20857

Send PROOF copy to:
Mrs. Betty Martini
Mission Possible
5950 H State Bridge Road, Suite 215
Duluth, Georgia 30155
Internet E-mail: bettym19@pop.mindspring.com

Links to Additional Sites:
http://www.dorway.com Front door to the FULL STORY... everything!
http://www.dorway.com/possible.html Mission Possible Files
http://www.dorway.com/asprlink.html Links to more sites/source information
http://www.tiac.net/users/mgold/aspartame/aspartame.html Information
http://www.tiac.net/users/mgold/aspartame/aspart.p20 References
http://www.cco.net/~trufax/menu/food.html#aspartame Good articles

Links to Books on aspartame:
http://www.dorway.com/books.html

OUTSIDE LEFT PANEL

Aspartame poisoning... RECOVERY!

If you use products with aspartame, and have physical, visual, mental problems; ailments the doctors can't seem to cure... then please try the 60-day no aspartame test. When your symptoms disappear please get involved in an international effort to get this deadly neurotoxin off the market. Write a letter to the FDA, with a copy to Betty Martini (for proof of how the FDA doesn't keep proper records). Write your congressmen.

Return products containing aspartame to the point of purchase... for a FULL refund. Make a big stink if they WON'T give you a full refund!

Tell all your friends and family... and if they stop using aspartame and also "wake up well"... then get them involved, too!

Aspartame is an "approved sweetener" because of a few greedy and dishonest people who placed personal wealth and corporate profits above human life and well-being.

With the FDA and our Congress culpable, only an INFORMED and ACTIVE public will affect its reclassification from "food additive" to TOXIC DRUG, and cause its removal from the human food chain.

INSIDE LEFT PANEL

Aspartame... The chameleon drug!

How it happens:

Methanol, from aspartame, is released in the small intestine when the methyl group of aspartame encounters the enzyme chymotrypsin (Stegink 1984, page 143). Free methanol begins to form in liquid aspartame-containing products at temperatures above 86 degrees F.. also within the human body.

The methanol is then converted to formaldehyde. The formaldehyde converts to formic acid, ant sting poison. Toxic formic acid is used as an activator to strip epoxy and urethane coatings. Imagine what it does to your tissues!

Phenylalanine and aspartic acid, 90% of aspartame, are amino acids normally used in synthesis of protoplasm when supplied by the foods we eat. But when unaccompanied by other amino acids we use [there are 20], they are neurotoxic.

That is why a warning for Phenylketonurics is found on EQUAL and other aspartame products. Phenylketenurics are 2% of the population with extreme sensitivity to this chemical unless it's present in food. It gets you too, causing brain disorders and birth defects! Finally, the phenyalanine breaks down into DKP, a brain tumor agent.

In other words: Aspartame converts to dangerous byproducts that have no natural countermeasures. A dieter's empty stomach accelerates these conversions and amplifies the damage. Components of aspartame go straight to the brain, damage that causes headaches, mental confusion, seizures and faulty balance. Lab rats and other test animals died of brain tumors.

INSIDE CENTER PANEL

Do you want to bet your brain on its safety?
Monsanto says "Aspartame is the most tested product in history". Are you sure!

On 12/29/96 60 MINUTES reported on 164 studies. ALL of the 74 studies paid for by NutraSweet showed it was healthy as rain. 83 of the 90 studies by independent labs found problems. FDA commissioner Arthur ull Hayes approved NutraSweet over the protests of his own Board of Inquiry, then took a lush consultant contract with NutraSweet's public relations firm while he was under investigation for accepting gratuities. Think if it this way: Money paid under the table put the little blue envelopes on the table!

COKE and PEPSI KNEW IT WAS POISON... BEFORE they started to use it!

The Congressional Record of May 7, 1985 printed 6 pages of objections prepared by the National Soft Drink Association: "Aspartame is uniquely unstable ... as the temperature increases the ratio of degradation becomes more pronounced ... at 104 degrees for 20 weeks less than 10% of the original aspartame remained ... soft drinks displayed at a service station may reach 120 degrees." EVERY KNOWN BREAKDOWN PRODUCT OF ASPARTAME IS A POISON! Formaldehyde cocktail anyone

It Mimics Diseases:

(Aspartame Disease Mimics Symptoms or makes Worse the Following Diseases)

Fibromyalgia, Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's Disease, Lupus, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS), Diabetes and Diabetic Complications, Epilepsy, Alzheimer's Disease, Birth Defects, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Lymphoma, Lyme Disease, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Panic Disorder, Depression and other Psychological Disorders.

INSIDE RIGHT PANEL

Symptoms: (the more common in bold type) Abdominal Pain, Anxiety attacks, Arthritis-like pain, Asthmatic Reactions, Bloating, Blood Sugar Control Problems, Brain Cancer (Pre-approval studies in animals), Breathing difficulties, burning eyes or throat, Burning Urination, Chest Pains, chronic cough, Chronic Fatigue, Confusion, Death, Depression, Diarrhea, Dizziness, Excessive Thirst or Hunger, fatigue, feel unreal, flushing of face, Hair Loss (Baldness) or Thinning of Hair, Headaches/Migraines, Hearing Loss, Heart palpitations, Hives (Urticaria), Hypertension (High Blood Pressure), Impotency and Sexual Problems, inability to concentrate, Infection Susceptibility, Insomnia, Irritability, Itching, Joint Pains, laryngitis, Marked Personality Changes, Memory loss, Menstrual Problems or Changes, Muscle spasms, Nausea or Vomiting, Numbness or Tingling of Extremities, Other Allergic-Like Reactions, Panic Attacks, Phobias, poor memory, Rapid Heart Beat, Rashes, Seizures and Convulsions, Slurring of Speech, Swallowing Pain, Tachycardia, Tremors, Tinnitus, Vertigo, Vision Loss, and Weight gain. Aspartame is NOT a "food additive". It IS a dangerous neurotoxin that MUST be removed from our food chain. BUT, WE MUST DO IT!

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http://www.dorway.com/asprout.html Outside three panels
Download this pamphlet in Wordperfect 6+ format, along with a second pamphlet on references (same as the asprref.html but as a pamphlet). http://www.dorway.com/pamp-wp6.zip
Should you need a list of references on aspartame... there are quite a few at this URL: http://www.dorway.com/asprref.html

April 9-15 1997: The FDA RECALL LETTER of 9 April, some smoking guns (cancer types) by Dr. Gross, one of the FDA toxicologists who sought to indict Searle for submitting fraudulent tests, and more.

http://www.dorway.com/97recall.html Recall letter
http://www.dorway.com/gross1.html Dr. Gross memo on proposed bad procedures
http://www.dorway.com/gross2.html Oct/87 Dr. Gross letter to Sen. Metzenbaum
http://www.dorway.com/gross3.html Nov/87 Dr. Gross letter to Sen. Metzenbaum
http://www.dorway.com/wsjprosc.html '86 Wall Street Journal on two US prosec.
http://www.dorway.com/deadbill.html Original 1985 Metzenbaum bill (asked for more tests)

Aspartame has what is called "acceptable daily intake" or "ADI" applied to it. Had I known about this term when it came to market I would have wondered why, because water, chicken soup, sugar, tea, coffee and a whole lot of other items do NOT have this term applied to them. I believe that I would never have used the product; never have had to endure eleven years of increasing pain and disabilities; never have wasted eleven years visiting clueless doctors to receive expensive misdiagnosis and drugs that are useless against aspartame disease; and I might not be five years into prostate cancer treatments with NO history of the disease in my family!

In summary: Aspartame is a U.S. National disgrace. It is a cumulative toxic poison; a medical time-bomb coming to fruition. Why was it necessary for a sixth-grader to do what the FDA/DHHS/NIH/WHO and a lot of others should have done? Why are victims like myself having to present this information to the public?

Review the list of 92 FDA acknowledged symptoms of aspartame poisoning... that small list I credit with saving my life and restoring my well-being and usefulness. Look around and about... more evidence is probably as close to you as the next person you approach. I say this because now that I know about it, and mention it in conversations, I have met hundreds who had, or know of people who have had problems with this substance. I had a few of my pamphlets in my shirt pocket one day when I went into Sam's Club. The fellow at a stand hawking the local newspaper tried to sell me a subscription... and while talking, he notice the word aspartame in large letters on that pamphlet. He then volunteered that he has a relative in Chicago who still works for Searle, and who told him years ago to stay away from it because it was poison. He also volunteered that he thought it would be of little use telling folks about it because he thought that they "really didn't care about things like that!".

The brain cancer aspect is bad enough, and with respect to the Delany ammendment it should have been enough to keep aspartame off the market. However, it is the Pandora's box of ailments that take years to develop... that may well break the back of our medical system. There is strong evidence that this is part of the "gulf war syndrome", perhaps a major part.

I credit aspartame for giving me a strong sweetened taste of hell. I didn't like it! I do what I do now because I wouldn't wish my last eleven years on my worst enemy. I do it because if someone had done this several years ago I wouldn't be a recovering victim, with prostate cancer that may have been triggered by this substance.

Last, but NOT least. The latest information is that a Monsanto VP by the name of Dr. Virginia Weldon is considered a TOP contender to be the new FDA commissioner! We think this is a terrible idea and there is a big push to get the word out, why this is a bad idea, and to get ANY drug/chemical employee OFF the list of possible candidates. The revolving door MUST stop! The payoffs, dishonesty and disinformation MUST stop. The FDA MUST be held accountable... or be disolved! Serve the PUBLIC, or no one!
The FULL story at: http://www.dorway.com/messages.html

New addition: Permission was granted to post a Star Tribune story on aspartame written by Greg Gordon and published on 22 November, 1996. That page is at: http://www.dorway.com/startrib.html

I say "Preserve YOUR right to be embalmed, but only AFTER you die!"

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

I hope you have found this message to be both informative and useful.

If I can be of further assistance please let me know.

Regards...

Dave Rietz... Mission Possible, South Carolina dorietz@awod.com
***** http://www.dorway.com ***** ICQ 206773
aspartame??? NO! NEIN! NON! NIX! NEJ! NJET! OXI!
Say "NO!" to methanol, formaldehyde, and DKP (a tumor agent), and to embalming... until AFTER you die!

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