From: Jaffe, Lyle D Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 11:40 AM To: Dockets, FDA Subject: FW: Personal Aspartame Story - Seizures -----Original Message----- From: Dr. Betty Martini [mailto:Bettym19@mindspring.com] Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 11:14 AM To: dmcmahan@newarkinone.com Cc: DHATTAN-CFSAN.FDA.GOV; Jaffe Lyle D Subject: Re: Personal Aspartame Story - Seizures Dear Donna, I've just retrieved my data because of a crash but I can't tell who I have answered and not. So if I'm duplicating bear with me. Aspartame is a seizure triggering drug, of course, and you will see four types of seizures on the FDA report of 92 symptoms triggered by aspartame on www.dorway.com While you're there print out the RAO study that was pivotal in the approval of aspartame. 7 infant monkeys were fed aspartame, 5 had grand mal seizures and 1 died. They used it in the approval of this deadly neurotoxin which not only is a seizure triggering drug but also interacts with anti-seizure medication like Dilantin. Aspartate is 40% of aspartame an an excitotoxin, literally stimulates the neurons of the brain to death. The seizures are discussed in detail in: Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic by H. J. Roberts, M.D., and also in his other books and publications - www.sunsentpress.com Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., www.russellblaylockmd.com Also in his book Health & Nutrition Secrets To Save Your Life. The FDA has always known that aspartame causes seizures and has had more than sufficient information to remove it from the market. They refuse to answer a Citizens Petition for recall and serve above the law. It's been over 2 years and the law only gives them 180 days. Her case reads like thousands of others whose lives have been destroyed by an FDA who betrayed the people and didn't do their job, and the manufacturer who knew they were poisoning the people. The whole story is in the movie Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, cori@soundandfuryproductions.com This is Aspartame Awareness Weekend starting today. See press release below. All my best, Betty Murdering Blacks with Aspartame! Tuskegee Syphilis experiments were Chickenfeed compared to boosting Sickle Cell Crisis! BY JAMES BOWEN, M.D. The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation serves drug companies. They test new drugs, grind out reports and sometimes get patents for drug applications as in the case of aspartame. OMRF found surreal new benefits from this toxic diet chemical, marketed as NutraSweet and Equal now under many other names. Its the sweetener in Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi and thousands of diet foods. In 1996 the Food and Drug Administration published a list of 92 adverse aspartame reactions: seizures, blindness, sex dysfunction and death, from 10,000 consumer complaints. Headache was #1 on the list!. OMRF has patents on it from 6 nations as an analgesic for headaches and other discomforts! Extinguish the fire with Napalm! Aspartame is supposedly a diet sweetener, keeps you slim. OMRF has patented it for appetite enhancement. It keeps you thin by making you crave carbohydrates, as we explained 12 years ago: If you want to be fat, NutraSweet is where its at! USA patents 6156795 & 6326400 Now In 9 countries OMRF has patents to use it to treat SICKLE CELL ANEMIA! It enhances the disease, makes it more deadly and murderous! A dagger in the heart of the black race! How it does the deadly deed: A third of the aspartame molecule digests into wood alcohol, CH4O. The alcohol next loses 2 hydrogens to be the undertakers friend: formaldehyde. CH2O! Add an oxygen and its formic acid, the venom of fire ants which can kill a person a million times larger, also known as formate! CH2O2. Formate is a blister poison that kills and runs, transferring cell to cell, killing as it goes, leaving blisters of dead tissue. It destroys the deformed sickle hemoglobin cells reducing the sickle cell count, but it amplifies the disease inciting a sickle cell crisis. All of these poisons tie up the enzyme cytochrome oxidase P-450, blocking the bodys ability to use oxygen. Many other essential enzymatic functions are inactivated by these poisons; over 85 enzymes are known to be so affected. Like carbon monoxide, formic acid inactivates hemoglobin, reduces oxygen transport to the cells, the most immediate and urgent function of blood circulation. You silently suffocate! Chelating aspartame carries toxic heavy metals into your cells, such as aluminum from the pop can which appears in Alzheimer's neurofibrillary tangles, brain cell graveyards. For 40 years from 1932 terrorists at the U S Public Health Service experimented by infecting Alabama sharecroppers with syphilis to watch them die. Injections were for bad blood lied the doctors who went to extreme lengths to insure their victims received no therapy or medication from any source. 400 innocent American men, their wives, their families, butchered; and hundreds more to whom the agony, blindness and insanity of syphilis have spread to this very day. That heinous crime counts more bodies than the children recently slaughtered in Chechnya. And for what did our countrymen die? For the insane curiosity of remorseless medical maniacs! Aspartame presents an equally sinister atrocity! Million$ spent have convinced the world a poison is safe as rain. A toxin that intensifies sickle cell and will murder multitudes. A more noble motive is here involved than curiosity. Its an invincible greed for fine old American profit! And what colossal lie flies on the banner under which these monsters march? OUR POISON CURES IT! See Dr. Bowens full warning below and on http://www.wnho.net Remove all forms of aspartame from your diet now. A mountain of scientific evidence confirms its an addictive neurotoxin. The National Soft Drink Associations long objection to aspartame approval in the 5/7/85 Congressional Record called it uniquely and inherently unstable [S5505] FDA wont send you their list of 92 reactions any more. See it on http://www.dorway.com Dr. Bowen's complete report: Researcher Carl Manion has claimed that a single dose of aspartame lowered the sickle cell count in the blood. We've known that for 20 years because aspartame causes the sickle cells to break down as in a sickle cell crisis. Then there are few of them to count. Aspartame metabolizes into formic acid, a blister poison that transfers from cell to cell killing all and leaving a blister of dead tissue. It blocks the body's ability to utilize oxygen by tying up an enzyme called cytochrome oxidase P-450. Many other essential enzymatic functions are disabled by this class of poison, 85 are now known to be so damaged. Formic acid or formate is such a potent sensitization agent that a sting by a fire ant can kill a human being which demonstrates the enormous immune system damage from aspartame derivatives. Like its sister, carbon monoxide, formate inactivates the hemoglobin molecule, so it can no longer pick up oxygen to supply the body, a vast injury to the metabolism. Aspartame grievously and rapidly damages the MtDNA, and the mitochondria with formaldehyde and formate poisoning, as well as by chelating and carrying heavy metals into the body. This leaves the mitochondria insufficiency, and inefficiency which generates large amounts of harmful super oxide free radicals, as well as diseases like diabetes. Super oxide free radicals aggravate many disease processes, and rapidly age the person. In my personal experience, I had a full head of dark brown hair. After 6 weeks of using the low cal Kool-Aide with aspartame, in June l983 I was fully and immediately grayed. I looked like I had dyed my hair brown and now the gray roots were showing! I also suffered severe degeneration of my cartilages, fracturing the largest cartilage in my right knee. Had I been on aspartame a few more weeks I would have destroyed all my cartilages. I have seen it do this to other people with a few weeks of use! Figure how much that would add to the joint destruction from sickle cell! I found that taking my diabetic patients off aspartame led to an immediate improvement in their disease, many did not even have diabetes once off aspartame. All were spared the tremendous complications they had been experiencing from aspartame, which they thought were inherent complications of their diabetes. The notion aspartame would in any way benefit those with sickle cell disease is sheer nonsense/genocide. Aspartame also consumes folic acid on a molecule per molecule basis. This consumes immense amounts of folic acid, leading to even greater carbon monoxide poisoning of the body. Folic acid is critically needed for the sickle cell patient to heal their injury. Deficiencies of folic acid also lead to birth defects in the children of those who consume aspartame. Aspartame is a synergistic methanol poison. Methanol also produces grievous birth defects and pervasive developmental disorders such as autism and attention deficient in the offspring of aspartame users. The IQ of the average high school graduate has fallen 10% since the l950's because of chemicals like aspartame, MSG, and fluoride being pushed into our youth, along with an inexcusably, damaging and scientific unsound immunization program. The US military is now having trouble finding youth bright enough to man its high tech weaponry. Every step in the human fertility cycle is destroyed by aspartame, starting with the gleam in daddy's eye and the response from mamma. See Genocide/Aspartame Murders Infants on http://www.dorway.com Aspartame is a potent brain washing agent, and a highly addictive neurotoxin. If started on it, few will question what its really doing to them. The fact I'm a physician with an outstanding knowledge of applied biochemistry, did not protect me from being brainwashed and devastated by aspartame. James Bowen, M.D. From Martini: This is Aspartame Awareness Month. Please do your part to save lives. The Idaho Observer (http://www.idaho-observer.com) is providing 24 page booklets for distribution called the Artificially Sweetened Times. Special Offer from Sound and Fury Productions on the release of the new movie on aspartame (Nutrasweet/Equal/Canderel/E951) Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World to alert the globe: "Now available! DVD of Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World with added special features including Dr. Russell L. Blaylock's description of dangers of aspartame in pregnancy and Dr. HJ Roberts describing his 1000 page medical text on aspartame disease. Just in time for Aspartame Awareness Weekend, September 10-12. Order now. Copies are just $25.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling. As a special promotion for Aspartame Awareness Month, Sound and Fury Productions is offering the following through its website: www.soundandfuryproductions.com "Order a Copy for yourself and a copy we'll send to your Senator, Congressman or Doctor for $40.00, including shipping and handling! That's two copies at a savings of $17.50. And we can make your voice heard. Click on "Aspartame Awareness Weekend Special" when ordering. But hurry. We can only offer this through September 15th, 2004." Cori Brackett ___ Be sure to alert schools. Congress has admitted US children are poisoned and given NIH 2.7 billion to find the culprit. (Letter on www.wnho.net click on aspartame) This neurotoxic drug triggers birth defects, learning problems, and behavioral problems. It interacts with all antidepressants, insulin, all cardiac Rx, anti-seizure Rx, hormones and L-dopa, for starters. As a chemical hypersensitization agent it even interacts with vaccines and other toxins. It has an additive and synergistic effect with MSG. (www.truthinlabeling.org) Government documents were requested by the NEA, National Education Association. When damning records were sent showing aspartame to be unsafe J. Newberry wrote: "HIN is not able to pursue this issue at this time." Please sign petition to free Diane Fleming on www.wnho.net Husband died of aspartame and she was sentenced to 50 years for poisoning him. Several doctors have signed affidavits his autopsy showed aspartame was the culprit. It liberates free methyl alcohol. Damages the cardiac conduction system causing sudden death. Medical books: www.sunsentpress.com by H. J. Roberts, M.D, including Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic www.russellblaylockmd.com by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., including Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible Intl, 9270 River Club Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097 770 242-2599 http://www.wnho.net (note lawsuits) and http://www.dorway.com (For full story, Discovery may hold Sweet Relief, see The Oklahoman, article by Jim Stafford) At 12:31 PM 8/30/2004, dmcmahan@newarkinone.com wrote: >Betty, > >I've sent this in before but I'm not sure that I sent it to this site or to >you. My daughter, Delphine, had Petit Mal or absence seizure from the time >she was about 3. Another child born to her aunt had seizure from birth. >Delphine's seizures, and her cousin's seizures, were controlled with >medication until Delphine was about 12 or 13. By that time she had begun to >have a Grand Mal seizure per month in conjuction with her menstrual cycle. > >Gradually she started having more and more Grand Mal seizures, Petit Mal >seizure, complex partial seizures, seizures of every kind. This was just >about the time products with Nutrasweet were released into the market. Being >a teen-aged girl, naturally she watched her weight, as did I, and we both >drank only diet soft-drinks. By the time Delphine was 17, she was having >between 150 and 200 seizures in a 24-hour day. She had a partial >right-frontal lobotomy at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's hospital to remove >the focal point of the seizures and, hopefully, control them. Her doctor, >Dr. Michael Smith, said the portion of her brain that they removed didn't >even have obvious grooves any longer due to the number and strength of the >seizure she'd been having for so long. > >To our dismay, the surgery did not stop the seizures. It did slow them down >initially. Then we watched as they began to escalate again. During all this >time, she continued to use products with Nutrasweet. We had no idea of any >connection. Finally, when she was about 20, she entered the drug trials for >Lamictal. For the first time, she was taking a drug that offered some >seizure control without sedating her. (She'd been taking 185 mg of >phenobarbitol per day WITH 700 mg of dilantin.) When I asked her doctor how >this medication was different than the rest in it's mechanism, he just told >me I wouldn't understand. By this time the internet was now generally >available, so I looked the drug up there. I found that among other things >the drug prevented the uptake of ASPARTATE, which is the metabolized form of >aspartic acid. I called Dr. Smith to ask him in what way aspartate was >related to Aspatame. Again he dismissed by saying that just because the >words were alike, didn't mean the drugs were. Well, I'm a mechanical >engineer and had 4 years of Latin language. I knew that if the names were >similar there was a reason. So I continued to research and began coming up >with all of these horrible stories. Worse yet, I found that the executives >at Searle, and subsequently at Monsanto, knew about the potential dangers, >especially to those who already had epilepsy or a genetic inclination to it. >They'll have to stand before God one day and answer for this evil they >perpetrated, for money, against their fellow human beings. > >I immediately took all products that might possibly contain Nutrasweet away >from Delphine. Her seizures stopped that week. She remained on Lamictal, but >she was able to get off Dilantin and Phenobarb. We did have to add Topamax >to the Lamictal but she's living a much better life than previously. > >The surgery affected her short term memory, her cognitive ability, and her >developmental functioning. She's now 30 and she's living in a residential >facility about 90 miles west of Chicago. It took me a long time to let her >go but she's much happier there, more independent and living her own life. >However...before her seizures began to escalate so drastically, she was a >year ahead of her age-peers in math and reading. She was an exceptionally >bright and talented child, attending a special school for children gifted in >the arts. Now her IQ is 74 and functionally she's reached an age-level of >about 17. We don't know how much farther she will progress. And it's a huge >credit to her courage, strength of character, and personal determination >that's she's come this far. > >I won't say that Nutrasweet, Searle, and Monsanto ruined her life because >she's made her life over with purpose and grace and courage. I just can't >help but wonder what her life would have been like if she'd never tasted the >stuff. She'd have epilepsy, yes, but we would have been able to control the >seizures right from the beginning. She'd have been able to finish high >school, gone on to college, have a career, a marriage, children, drive a >car. None of this will ever be now. I'm grateful to God that she's >accomplished what she has. I work hard not to dwell too much on what might >have been. Ultimately, we're all in the hands of God and I have to believe >there's a reason for what happened to her. > >Her doctor has subsequently become a believer and now tells all his patients >not to touch Nutrasweet. None of us ever should. It's poison for everyone. I >hope you nail not just the companies, but the executives as well. They bear >a personal responsibility for their decisions and it's time they were made >to accept that responsibility. Based on the people who've died and been >crippled for life, they're guilty of manslaughter at the least. > >Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. > >Donna McMahan >Sales Operations Manager > >Newark InOne >T 773-290-8045 >E dmcmahan@newarkinone.com >W www.newark.com