From: Jaffe, Lyle D Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 8:04 AM To: Dockets, FDA Subject: FW: Letter to Mr. Jeffrey Diket - diabetic - Aspartame and Splenda -----Original Message----- From: Dr. Betty Martini [mailto:Bettym19@mindspring.com] Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 4:16 PM To: bettym19@mindspring.com Cc: RXH@CFSAN.FDA.GOV; DHATTAN-CFSAN.FDA.GOV; Jaffe Lyle D; inforeply@cdc.gov Subject: Letter to Mr. Jeffrey Diket - diabetic - Aspartame and Splenda Mr. Jeffrey Diket 5623 Forest Isles Drive Apartment 37 New Orleans, Louisiana 70131 Dear Mr. Diket: In answer to your letter, first of all if Splenda gave you a seizure you should report it to the FDA. It should be on the record even though they won't do anything about it. As Dr. Roberts says in his medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, 1 800 827 7991 - Sucralose or Splenda is a trichloro derivative of sucrose produced from selective chlorination of the hydroxyl groups. For the FDA to approve a chlorinated hydrocarbon for human consumption shows beyond a shadow of a doubt they are the last people in the world to look to for safe food and drugs. I call them the Fatal Drugs Allowed folks because they don't care what they put on the market or what it interacts with. Even Ed Horton of the Lancet wrote that they endanger the lives of the people because they take money from industry. Dr. Roberts continues about sucralose that "animal research indicates that sucralose causes shrinking of the thymus gland, enlargement of the liver and kidneys, renal mineralization, diarrhea, reduced growth rate, decreased red blood cell count, aborted pregnancy and decreased placental weight. It was also found to be weakly mutagenic in a mouse lymphoma mutation assay." Stevia which helps in the metabolism of sugar you can get in any health food store. It is used in Brazil to aid diabetics and is very sweet. As to the product you sent me Diabetic Tussin that says contains phenylalanine, that means it has aspartame in it. In fact, it says so on the back. The vitamin you sent doesn't have Splenda or aspartame. Enclosed is Dr. Roberts position paper on aspartame and diabetes and hypoglycemia. Aspartame can precipitate diabetes, keeps blood sugar out of control, aggravates and simulates diabetic retinpathy and neuropathy and even interacts with insulin. Diabetic professional groups push it because they funded by industry, usually the manufacturer or one of their front groups like ILSE or a manufacturer who uses the poison. September is Aspartame Awareness Month. Be sure to get the movie Sweet Poison: A Poisoned World, contact cori@soundandfuryproductions.com Information also in the Idaho Observer 24 page brochure on aspartame enclosed, the Artificially Sweetened Times. You can get more for distribution at the number in the brochure. Be sure to write to the Cooking Club of America Magazine and tell them to stop pushing this poison on diabetics. That's why we have an epidemic of diabetes and also of obesity. Aspartame is a neurotoxic drug that makes you crave carbohydrates so you gain weight as the affidavit by Dr. Richard Wurtman states in the protest of the National Soft Drink Association, part of the congressional record. The Trocho Study shows the formaldehyde which is converted from the free methyl alcohol accumulates in the cells and damages DNA with most toxicity in the liver but also in the adipose tissue - fat cells. That's why the Cheeseburger laws were written to try and take responsibility away from the manufacturers who have caused this epidemic. All my best, Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible Intl, 9270 River Club Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097 770 242-2599 www.wnho.net and www.dorway.com P.S. I'm sending a copy of this to the FDA but be assured they don't care. They serve above the law. They are the handmaiden of the pharmaceutical industry. When an organization allows the planet to be poisoned by a neurotoxin like aspartame which interacts with just about every drug used to treat the problems it causes, you know they are not on the side of the consumer. They have shown in this last 20 years when many petitions have been written for ban, they could care less about safe food and drugs. This is why Mission Possible Intl was started, to alert the world. As their own toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, told Congress: "And if the FDA violates its own laws who is left to protect the public."