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-----Original Message-----
From: Betty Martini [mailto:Bettym19@mindspring.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 12:56 AM
To: aspartame@onelist.com
Subject: Aspartame Awareness Weekend, Sept 7th & 8th - Devastations of
Aspartame Disease ((NutraSweet/Equal/Canderal/ E951, etc.) Class Action,
etc.


As the weekend approaches many have written for information to forward.  We 
do have warning flyers on www.dorway.com  and positions papers by 
physicians, etc.  Today we have a new medical text on the global plague, so 
here are some of the devastations taken from that text as well as other 
information:  Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, 
www.aspartameispoison.com, www.sunsentpress.com  or 1 800 814 - 9800  H. J. 
Roberts, M.D.    Other physicians will also be quoted.

Devastations of Aspartame Disease:

1.  Drug Interaction.  Aspartame is a neurotoxic drug masquerading as an 
additive and interacts with many of the drugs used to treat the problems it 
causes.  Some of those drugs are:  Coumadin, Dilantin, antidepressants and 
other psychotropic agents, Inderal, Aldomet (methyldopa), Synthroid, 
insulin, cardiac medication, hormone replacement therapy such as 
Premarin,thyroid replacement, and even analgesics.

2.  Hazard to Aviation.  Pilots and air traffic controllers have 
experienced confusion, behavioral changes and even convulsions while 
consuming aspartame.  Dr. Roberts says that many have volunteered their 
relevance to the increasing number of collisions and near-collisions in the 
sky and at major airports.  Many have been grounded because of sustaining 
aspartame triggered grand mal seizures in the cockpits of commercial 
airliners.  Several American Airline pilots who were heavy users of 
aspartame have died, one in flight.  One had a stroke.

Mission Possible has an Aviation Division supplying pilots with needed 
warning information.
Russell Blaylock, M.D., author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, 
www.amazon.com says in his position paper on pilots:  "I have reviewed some 
of the reports from airline and private pilots concerning adverse effects 
of aspartame on various physiological systems.  It is interesting to note 
that several of these complaints are related to the nervous system which 
puts this in a category of great concern to the pilot as well as the 
general public.  Some of the more common complaints include disorientation, 
difficulty thinking and concentrating, visual blurring or even monocular 
blindness, seizures and heart failure.  It is well known that the 
ingredients in aspartame as well as its breakdown products, have 
deleterious effects on the nervous system and retina.  For example, 
phenylalanine is a precursor of the catecholamine neurotransmitters in the 
brain and elevated levels in the brain have been associated with 
seizures.  It should also be pointed out that these catecholamines are 
metabolized to form other excitotoxins and peroxide products that can lead 
to elevated free radical formation and lipid peroxidation within the 
neurons.  Likewise, aspartic acid (an excitotoxin) acts as an excitatory 
neurotransmitter and can lower the seizure threshold making a seizure more 
likely.  The additive effect of aspartic acid and phenylalanine would 
significantly increase the likelihood of a seizure, especially under 
hypoglycemic conditions.

3.  Sudden Death:  Dr. Roberts says the underlying mechanisms may include 
changes in heart rhythm, allergic (anaphylactic-like) shock, and severe 
swelling of the mouth and upper respiratory passage.  He says that 
aspartame disease should be considered when an adult in apparent good 
health who had consumed considerable aspartame products is found dead 
without demonstrable cause.  He gives the example of a 50 year old woman 
who unexpectedly died at home.  The only pertinent history obtained from 
her daughter was having "a diet cola in her hand every waking minute of the 
day and night."

Several physicians have written about aspartame and sudden death.  Dr. 
Blaylock says one of the primary sites of action of excitatory substances 
is the hypothalamus and that sudden cardiac death can be induced by 
stimulating the hypothalamus.  "It is entirely possible that excitotoxic 
stimulation of these hypothalamic centers could also lead to cardiac 
arrhythmia and sudden death.  Hypothalamic stimulation has also been shown 
to produce an ECG pattern exactly like that of a myocardial infarction."

Dr. James Bowen explains that the heart muscle is very sensitive to alcohol 
poisonings.  Such alcoholic cardiomyopathies frequently terminate in sudden 
death.  He says: "The aspartame molecule is an alcohol poison about 20,000 
times as toxic a poison as ethanol (regular old sipping, or beverage 
alcohol) on a per weight basis!  Moreover, the myocardium never gets to 
rest except between heart beats, so things like the methanol from aspartame 
which become more or progressively toxic upon metabolism in muscles are 
especially damaging to it.  The myocardium is especially rich in 
mitochondriae to subserve this metabolic need.  The mitochondriae and their 
DNA (MtDNA), are especially subject to these damages, and MtDNA lacks the 
repair mechanisms of nuclear DNA, so damage to it is highly cumulative and 
is even passed on to the fetus by the mother!  The Cardiac Conduction 
System is a specialized kind of tissue that is a hybrid of neuronal and 
muscle tissues, which is even richer in mitochondriae, and it never gets to 
rest.  It is the clock that generates and effectively coordinates 
heartbeats and heart rhythms and contractions.  Many various malfunctions 
of it precipitate sudden death.  Its extreme mitochondrial concentration, 
and its dependence upon mitochondrial metabolism for its unresting labors 
make it a site intensely generative of the poisonous aspartame cogeners and 
extremely subject to their resultant chemical, immune, mitochondrial and 
chemical hypersensitization damages."  And, of course, aspartame interacts 
with cardiac medication.

4.  Suspected multiple sclerosis.  Aspartame destroys the central nervous 
system.  Searle did studies in South America which showed this and did not 
publish the studies.  The affidavit of the translator, N. Vera, is on 
www.dorway.com   Mission Possible is swamped with victims who have MS 
symptoms or have been misdiagnosed with MS.  Dr. Roberts says: "The 
selective localization of lesions in multiple sclerosis requires 
comment.  I have attributed them in large measure to energy (glucose) 
deprivation and fluid retention within the central nervous 
system.  Aspartame disease involves both, as well as direct 
neurotoxicity.  Indeed, aspartame induced dysfunction of nerve cells and 
their axons may have greater importance than myelin changes.

"Significant biochemical differences are known to exist in various central 
tracts, even though they may appear identical histologically.  The 
concentration of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity, for example, 
is three to four times greater in the heavily myelinated central tracts 
than the lightly myelinated ones, whereas the reverse applies for glutamic 
aspartic transminase (McDougal 1961, 1964).

"This orientation is germane because fluid retention is enhanced by the 
hyperinsulinized state and impaired water metabolism.  The ingress of water 
into myelin can disrupt its intermolecular cohesion and function 
integrity.  (Vanderheuvel 1964).

"An autoimmune response may be triggered by aspartame.  The possible 
mechanisms include formaldehyde-induced protein changes and increased 
leukotrienes, 15-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid, and other arachidonic acid 
metabolites after the exposure of macrophages to aspartame (Hardcastle 
1997)."

5.  Eye Deterioration and Blindness.   Aspartame and its 
components/metabolites can damage the optic nerves, retina and other areas 
of the eyes.  Dr. Roberts says that many of the severe visual changes are 
consistent with methanol toxicity.  "Studies of methanol effects in monkeys 
emphasized edema of the optic disc (Hayreh 1977), and degeneration of the 
retinal ganglion cells (Baumbach 1977).  there is considerable evidence 
that methanol is converted from formaldehyde to formate in the eye, even 
from chronic low level exposure (Eclos 1996).

"In addition to blindness from optic atrophy, patients with methanol 
intoxication have developed cerebral edema, parkinsonism, dementia, and 
other neurologic abnormalities.  (McLean 1980).

"The late Dr. Morgan B. Raiford, a prominent Atlanta ophthalmologist, 
became interested in impaired vision due to methyl alcohol toxicity.  He 
described his findings in a young aspartame reactor who had suffered marked 
visual damage attributed to aspartame products.

"There are profound ocular effects of formaldehyde and formate derived from 
the free methanol in aspartame.. Alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde 
dehydrogenase are the enzymes involved in methanol metabolism.  The retina, 
cornea and liver have high alcohol dehydrogenase activity.  The highly 
reactive formaldehyde molecule, which becomes bound to proteins and nucleic 
acids, forms adducts that are difficult to eliminate through the usual 
metabolic pathways.  Formate, an inhibitor of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), 
probably induces retinal damage through energy depletion."

Aspartame eye deterioration and blindness are included in the class action.

6.  Lupus.  Aspartame can trigger lupus and it can also mimic lupus.   Dr. 
Roberts explains that another amino acid N-canavanine has been identified 
with both the development of a lupus-like disease in monkeys and the 
aggravation of pre-existing systemic lupus erythematosus in humans.

He says:  "The lupoid and other inflammatory dermatoses induced by 
aspartame products may result from the generation of leukotrienes.  These 
biologically active compounds are derived from arachidonic acid, and 
released from a variety of humans cells (macrophages; monocytes; 
polymorphonuclear leukocytes; mast cells).  There is a three fold rise of 
leukotrienes B4 and C4 and of 15-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid, along with 
other arachidonic acid metabolites, when macrophages are exposed to 
aspartame (Hardcastle 1997.

"An additional hypothesis for the initiation of an autoimmune response by 
aspartame metabolites involves the "ambling" of proteins by formaldehyde 
thereby making them strange and antigenic to the person's immune system."

Dr. James Bowen explains it this way:  "The ability of methyl 
alcohol/formaldehyde to create antigenicity, especially as combined in 
aspartame molecules is so great as to cause severe autoimmune reactions to 
the tissues deformed by formaldehyde polemerization, adduct formation.  The 
immune system turns against the victim's tissues:  Lupus."

Usually if an aspartame victim has been on the toxin for quite awhile or 
using a good bit of it he will say:  "My physician says I should be checked 
for MS and lupus."  Both are now epidemic because of this deadly neurotoxin.

7.  Epidemic of Diabetes.  Dr. Roberts who is a diabetic specialist says 
that aspartame may adversely influence control of diabetes, precipitate 
clinical diabetes and aggravate or simulate complications referable to the 
eyes, kidneys and peripheral nerves.  It also interacts with insulin!  He 
even says:  "Several diabetic patients unequivocally attributed more 
frequent and severe insulin reactions to the use of aspartame.  A 
contributory factor in some may have been marked confusion and memory loss, 
causing them to repeat doses of insulin or to forget their interval 
feedings."  Under legal ramifications he says that aspartame related 
hypoglycemia may have caused or contributed to the "dead-in-bed syndrome" 
in diabetics with hypoglycemia unawareness.

Dr. Roberts writes on the mechanisms of aspartame's diabetogenic potential 
and discusses the adverse metabolic, hormonal, toxic and other undesirable 
effects of aspartame and its components in his book.  He says:  "Many could 
contribute to the aggravation of diabetes and its complications.  They 
encompass the wasting of insulin, impaired insulin-stimulated glucose 
transport, increased growth hormone and glucagon release after 
phenylalanine administration, other effects of its amino acids and 
additional pharmacologic activities.  Another mechanism whereby 
aspartame-induced stimulation of insulin could aggravate diabetes involves 
the generation of insulin receptor antibodies capable of blocking the 
access of insulin to liver receptors (Dozio 2001).

8.  Seizures.  Aspartame is a seizure triggering drug.  SC-18862, a 52 week 
oral toxicity infant monkey study, was pivotal in the approval of 
aspartame.  Seven infant monkeys were fed aspartame, five had grand mal 
seizures and one died.  It was stated that the convulsions in the monkeys 
were attributed to high serum phenylalanine levels.  This study thusly 
shows that aspartame does get in the blood even though the NutraSweet 
Company denies it, in an attempt to defend their chemical poison.

After researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology surveyed 80 
people who suffered brain seizures after eating or drinking products with 
aspartame, the Community Nutrition Institute said:  "These 80 cases meets 
the FDA's own definition of an imminent hazard to the public health, which 
requires the FDA to expeditiously remove a product from the market. "  In 
l986 the Community Nutrition Institute petitioned the FDA to ban aspartame 
because of these seizures and the fact that consumers were going 
blind.  The FDA refused.

Dr. Richard Wurtman of MIT wanted to do seizure studies on aspartame but a 
Searle VP threatened him that if he did his research funds would be 
rejected.  This is documented in the 8 month investigation by United Press 
International on www.dorway.com   Dr. Wurtman no longer gives interviews on 
aspartame but his many papers on the phenylalanine in aspartame which 
lowers the seizure threshold are documented in the book Dietary 
Phenylalanine and Brain Function edited by Richard J. Wurtman and Eva 
Ritter-Walker.

 From Cynthia Crossen's book, THE TAINTED TRUTH; THE MANIPULATION OF FACT 
IN AMERICA:  "The road to hell was paved with the flood of corporate 
research dollars which in 1991 had burgeoned to over $2.1 
billion.  Researchers are working for people who don't like negative 
findings and who aren't likely to fund further research by those who 
produce them.  ... In today's corporate-dominated information market truth 
has become to belong to those who commission it."

Monsanto funded the Rowen study in 1995 to try and show aspartame doesn't 
cause seizures.  Sixteen of the 18 subjects were taking anti-seizure 
medication during the study.  And the only gave one single dose of 
aspartame in capsule form.  Sort of tantamount to smelling the 
bottle.  Also capsule administration of aspartame slows the absorption of 
methanol and may reduce its toxicity somewhat similar to the way ingestion 
of food with methanol may slightly reduce its toxicity (Posner 
1975).  Capsule administration of aspartame also eliminates the quick 
absorption of the excitotoxin, aspartic acid (Stegink l987).  When aspartic 
acid is absorbed quickly it can be excitotoxic (Blaylock 1994, Olney l980) 
especially in conjunction with formaldehyde derived from methanol.

Dr. Roberts says that aspartame and its metabolites may cause or aggravate 
convulsions through various mechanisms.  The importance of altered 
neurotransmitter concentrations within the brain (especially serotonin and 
norepinephrine), the effects of methyl alcohol and exaggerated hypoglycemia 
(low blood sugar attacks) are discussed in his book.  He says, for example, 
that aspartame and its breakdown products can suppress the synthesis of 
several neurotransmitters that tend to prevent seizures.

"Other mechanisms could contribute to aspartame-induced 
seizures.  They  include formaldehyde toxicity (from methanol), altered 
monoamine receptors in the cerebral cortex, and loss of the protective 
effect of L-DOPA.

"Alterations in brain water, sodium and potassium also may play a 
role.  They were noted in both humans and animals after methanol intake, 
along with vascular stasis.  These assume considerable pertinence in view 
of the multiple cellular interactions involving calcium, sodium, potassium 
and chloride that are known to trigger focal epilepsy (Dichter l987).

"Additionally, altered extracellular fluid concentrations of various amino 
acids, notably glutamate and aspartate, play an important role in the 
pathogensis of hypoxemic and epileptic brain injury."

Dr. Roberts also mentions that Florence Griffith-Joyner, the Olympic gold 
medalist, suffered an unexpected and fatal epileptic seizure at the age of 
38.  Witnesses had previously seen her drinking a diet cola while jogging 
with President Clinton.

There are four types of seizures listed on the FDA report of 92 documented 
symptoms triggered by aspartame.  This issue is well documented that 
seizures are included in the class action.

9.  Male Sexual Dysfunction.  Aspartame damages the hypothalamus.  The 
hypothalamus produces gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GRG).  The GRH goes 
down the stalk between the hypothalamus and pituitary and causes the 
pituitary then to produce gonadotropins.  The ganglia goes to the testicles 
and causes them to produce testosterone.  When you're causing hypothalmic 
destruction with neuroexcitotoxins like NutraSweet you're suppressing the 
formation of male hormone without which there is no sexual drive or 
pleasure for either.  In original studies aspartame triggered atrophied 
testes and testicular tumors.  It is by this route.  The rest of this 
report by Dr. James Bowen is on web.

10.  Epidemic of Obesity.  From the Congressional Record, Senate S5511, 
Protest of National Soft Drink Association, May 7th, l985:  "Aspartame has 
been demonstrated to inhibit the carbohydrate induced synthesis of the 
neurotransmitter serotonin (Wurtman affidavit).  Serotonin blunts the 
sensation of craving carbohydrates and thus is part of the body's feedback 
system that helps limit consumption of carbohydrates to appropriate 
levels.  Its inhibition by aspartame could lead to the anomalous result of 
a diet product causing increased consumption of carbohydrates."

Translation:  If you want to get fat NutraSweet is where it's at!  Dr. 
Sandra Cabot, Mission Possible Australia says:  .."There are logical 
reasons to explain the fattening and bloating effects of aspartame.  When 
you ingest the toxic chemical aspartame it is absorbed from the intestines 
and passes immediately to the liver where it is taken inside the liver via 
the liver filter. The liver then breaks down or metabolizes aspartame to 
its toxic components - phenylalanine, aspartic acid and methanol.  This 
process requires a lot of energy from the liver which means there will be 
less energy remaining in the liver cells.  This means the liver cells will 
have less energy for fat burning and metabolism, which will result in fat 
storing.  Excess fat may build up inside the liver cells causing "fatty 
liver" and when this starts to occur it is extremely difficult to lose 
weight.  In my vast experience any time that you overload the liver you 
will increase the tendency to gain weight easily. "

Dr. Cabot also says that aspartame causes weight gain by other 
mechanisms  --  "Causes unstable blood sugar levels, which increases the 
appetite and causes cravings for sweets/sugar.  This it is particularly 
toxic for those with diabetes or epilepsy.  Causes fluid retention giving 
the body a puffy and bloated appearance.  This makes people look fatter 
than they are and increases cellulite."    Her excellent book on cleansing 
the liver is on web.

Also, as to the liver, aspartame triggers steato hepatitis.  See report by 
Dr. James Bowen on web.

11.  Birth Defects, miscarriages and mental retardation.  Dr. Bowen states 
that at every point in the fertility process aspartame destroys, beginning 
with the gleam in mom and pop's eyes; it ruins female sexual response and 
induces male sexual dysfunction.  Beyond this, aspartame disrupts fetal 
development by aborting it or inducing defects.  And if a live child is 
born aspartame may have heinously damaged the DNA of the baby, cursing 
future generations.

Be sure to read this entire report: Aspartame Murders Infants.  Also Dr. 
Roberts position paper on aspartame and pregnancy and small children, and 
Dr. Louis Elsas (pediatric professor, Emory University, genetics) testimony 
before congress on web.

Aspartame has caused an epidemic of autism and ADD.  One has to but read 
the famed Dr. John Olney's testimony to the Board of Inquiry of the FDA 
telling them what will happen to the brains of our children if they approve 
aspartame, to understand the prophecy has been fulfilled.  You will find 
this report on www.greatfallspro.com but it requires equipment to download 
it, mentioned on this web site.  Dr. Olney founded the field of 
neuroscience called excitotoxicity.  Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D. 
wrote the book on it, Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills.  It was Dr. Olney 
who did the studies in l970 on aspartic acid which is 40% of aspartame and 
found that it causes lesions in the brains of mice.  It is an 
excitotoxin,  a product that literally stimulates the neurons of the brain 
to death causing brain damage of varying degress, as written across the 
back of Dr. Blaylock's book.

12.  Brain Tumors.  Aspartame breaks down to diketopiperazine, a brain 
tumor agent, and it triggered astrocytomas, pituitary adenomas, etc. in 
original studies.  It was on this basis that the Board of Inquiry of the 
FDA said not to approve aspartame, and the fact that it had never been 
proven safe.   The FDA had not only not wanted to approve this neurotoxin 
but wanted the original manufacturer, Searle, indicted for fraud.  However, 
two U.S. Prosecutors, Sam Skinner and William Conlon, hired on with the 
defense team and the statute of limitations expired.  Searle hired Don 
Rumsfeld, now Secretary of Defense, who said he would call in his markers 
and get aspartame approved, as discussed in the UPI investigation.  The day 
after President Reagan took office he appointed Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes to 
get aspartame approved.  Dr. Hayes over-ruled the Board of Inquiry and then 
went to work for the PR agency of the manufacturer and has refused to talk 
to the press ever since.    Dr. John Olney made world news in l996 over the 
aspartame/brain tumor association.   Brain tumor cases are included in 
class action.

13.  Gulf War Syndrome.  After the National Soft Drink Association wrote a 
30 page protest which was included as 6 pages in the congressional record, 
admitting that aspartame decomposes at 86 degrees, the pop companies with 
full knowledge sent diet pop to the Persian Gulf.  The NSDA had even quoted 
the law that made it a crime to use any product in carbonated beverages 
that decomposed or adulterated the drink.  The troops were also given 
Anthrax vaccine and aspartame is a chemical hypersensitization agent and 
interacts with vaccines.  Symptoms of Desert Storm Syndrome are identical 
to Aspartame Disease.  Aspartame Disease mimics MS and causes Lou Gehrigs 
symptoms.  Dr. James Bowen himself is a victim and has Lou Gehrigs having 
consumed a lot of Diet KoolAide when he practiced in the desert.  A study 
has now been done on Gulf War illness with the result of Lou 
Gehrigs.  Forty thousand innocent men and women have perished.  And yet the 
pop companies sent this chemical poison to the Gulf with full knowledge!

14.  Chemical Hypersensitization.  Aspartame is a literal chemical poison 
and as such triggers polychemical sensitivity syndrome which is really the 
same as multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome.  Dr. James Bowen has 
several reports about this on web.  Consider the seriousness of this as it 
relates to interaction with vaccines.  Consider, for instance, that 
vaccines can trigger autism and aspartame can trigger autism, and aspartame 
interacts with vaccines.  What chance do babies and children have 
today.  Today there is a bill in Congress which if passed will grant full 
immunity to the vaccine companies so that if a vaccine kills their child 
the company can't be sued.

But the "mandating" of vaccines is an abomination.  Dr. James Bowen 
wrote:  "There are many overriding reasons not to violate our inherent 
rights and not allow assaults upon our bodies without our permission.  Such 
violation of our bodies by a mass immunization program is a form of 
rape.  Should some bureaucracy choose to believe that a mass immunization 
is in order, they have no right to do so, except by our individual 
consent.  This is the only safe approach to immunization because in most 
cases, the individual remains the most competent gatekeeper and decision 
maker concerning which preventative and therapeutic modalities should enter 
his body."

Aspartame also has a synergistic effect with MSG, fluoride and RBGH.  Four 
support groups for aspartame victims exist on line and they are also 
reacting to GM products.

15.  Behavioral and Psychiatric Problems:  Dr. Ralph Walton, Psychiatrist, 
Chairman of the Center for Behavioral Medicine said:  "We have known for 
years that when aspartame is ingested with a carbohydrate rich meal the 
usual physiologic increase in tryptophan is blocked, while brain 
phenylalanine and tyrosine concentrations are increased.  These changes in 
amino acid neurotransmitter precursors could, I believe, alter 
indolamine/catecholamine balance, and thus have a profound effect on mood 
and cognition --- depressed mood, anxiety, dizziness, panic attacks, 
nausea, irritability, impairment of memory and concentration."

Time Magazine recently wrote that bipolar (manic depression) use to be in 
adults but now is on the rise in children.  Forty per cent of our children 
are now consuming aspartame which triggers manic depression, suicide 
tendencies and the rest of the problems mentioned above by Dr. 
Walton.  Parents Magazine in Sept 1999 wrote an article titled: "What's 
Happening To Our Children?" and said most all families are affected.  They 
also said that by the time a child reaches the 4th level of high school, 
one out of four has contemplated suicide.

The FDA has full knowledge of all these problems listed above and in the 
medical text by Dr. H. J. Roberts.  And with this full knowledge has now 
approved Neotame, a more potent aspartame.  The public must be alerted to 
prevent this from ever hitting the food market.  The FDA has steadfastly 
even refused to put a warning on aspartame for pregnant women!  This is 
emphatically obscene.

If you think these are all the devastations of aspartame disease, I would 
suggest you get the medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, 
www.sunsentpress.com  This report would be too lengthy to list all the 
devastations listed  in this text and include other things such as 
headache, atypical peripheral neuropathy, intellectual deterioration, 
atypical and unexplained pain, joint pain (hardens the synovial fluids), 
myasthenia gravis, pseudotumor cerebri, unexplained blackouts, personality 
changes, addiction (methanol classified as a narcotic), urticaria or hives, 
eat problems, hypo and hyperthyroidism (read the book Sweet Poison by Janet 
Starr Hull), gastrointestinal reaction, infertility, all types of tumors, 
liver dysfunction, increased susceptibility to infection, blood and lymph 
node disorders, altered folic acid metabolism, confusion and memory loss, 
Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases, sleep apnea, etc.

For those on aspartame support groups who are too ill to give out flyers or 
have walks, etc. over Aspartame Awareness Weekend, please forward this 
paper to your physician, family, friends, email lists, medical personnel 
and other physicians.  Remember for each physician who understands 
aspartame he can save the lives of thousands of patients.   Let 
neurologists, oncologists and opthalmologists know about the class action 
so they can not only forward the cases but get their patients off 
aspartame.  Send this and your case history to the media because for every 
article written thousands of people find out.

Mission Possible is a hands around the world campaign and volunteer force 
warning the world off aspartame on a humanitarian basis.  Remember that 
aspartame damages DNA and can destroy the human race.

The reports mentioned above are on the web site www.dorway.com  which links 
to many other sites including the Aspartame Toxicity Center, 
www.holisticmed.com/aspartame , and aspartame support groups such as 
www.presidiotex.com/aspartame and asparspan in Spanish.   There is a full 
book list and many government documents on web.  Every aspartame victim 
should complete the Medwatch form to the FDA and send me a copy.  Aspartame 
Detoxification Centers are also listed on www.dorway.com/nomarkle.html  and 
warning flyers, www.dorway.com/handouts.html

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