From: Jaffe, Lyle D Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 7:49 AM To: Dockets, FDA Subject: FW: Aspartame Detox Center, Activist Extraordinaire! Thank YOU, Dr. Cindy! -----Original Message----- From: Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum. [mailto:Bettym19@mindspring.com] Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 4:03 PM To: Drcindyg@aol.com Subject: Aspartame Detox Center, Activist Extraordinaire! Thank YOU, Dr. Cindy! Dear Dr. Cindy, You're a miracle worker! There is an old saying, if you have saved the life of one person in your lifetime you have done something. You are saving lives everywhere you go! I look forward to meeting you some day. In fact, when you go to Chamblee Dunwoody, you're not very far from my house. I live in Duluth, parallel to the Atlanta Athletic Club in Riverwood, off Medlock Bridge. Cori, incidentally, will be in Atlanta this month. She is still filming for a new movie. I know when you see the movie today you will be impressed. She and JT did the most incredible job, and the documentary is getting rave reviews. Cori did something phenomenal in that in this documentary you can actually get all the facts, and meet the aspartame experts like Doctors Roberts, Blaylock, Walton, and Bowen, and see Dr. Olney's work discussed. There are so many front groups, professional organizations on the take, and government lies that you can understand why the consumer gets confused. In this movie you hear the experts, and you find out what it took to get a deadly chemical poison approved. The FDA never intended to approve it, and in rereading the congressional record recently I found that Searle had actually sued the FDA. Hayes was put there for one reason to get aspartame approved because the FDA had refused to allow it on the market for 16 years. This is even confirmed in the congressional record on page S 5497 (May 7, l985). It says: "Two FDA officials have told Common Cause Magazine that Hayes was determined to push aspartame forward, in part as a signal that the Reagan administration was ushering in a new regulatory era. One official privy to some of the deliberations made at Hayes' level says the "people at the top" were not receptive to important concerns raised about the quality and validity of some of the key tests submitted in support of aspartame." - "There were real questions" about the reliability and interpretation of the data "that were glossed over" at the commissioner's level, this official says, adding that Hayes and his close associates wanted FDA scientists to concentrate on providing rationales for overturning the l980 Public Board of Inquiry instead of focusing on the fact that there were unresolved issues about a number of key tests." It also says on that page: "But as one FDA scientist said in an interview, it doesn't matter how many tests are done on a food additive, the proper question is, how many of them are valid? And do they prove the additive is safe?" "The key element of the controversy is that the vast majority of the tests - 90 of 113 entries - were submitted by Searle in the early to mid l970's. All aspartame tests submitted during that period by Searle and its major contractor, Hazleton Laboratories Corp., were called into question by a l975 FDA special task force investigation. The special task force's findings were so serious that they led the FDA general counsel to request a grand jury investigation of Searle. " In the movie you will see Dr. Olney asked that certain studies be replicated in "his" laboratory. They showed aspartame damages the brain, yet Searle never gave these studies to the FDA. So not only has aspartame "never" been proven safe, but it can't be proven safe as shown by independent, unbiased researched, not controlled by the aspartame manufacturers. (Dr. Ralph Walton's research on http://www.dorway.com) I'm just overwhelmed by your activism and how much good you are doing. I'm going to put this on list so others will have ideas. There is one thing you can do, and that is to tell people to join the Aspartame Information List and Support Group. That way they will always be up-to-date. Everything that goes on the Mission Possible list you are on also goes on this new list. They just have to go to http://www.wnho.net and click on aspartame. At the top of the list you will see some aspartame products. Underneath is information on how to subscribe. So many people don't know there is a way to keep up-to-date and class action information and new articles will always be put on this list. Some of the Mission Possible operations are incredible. There is one lady, Wanda, who actually has made a notebook of all information on http://www.wnho.net , http://www.dorway.com and http://holisticmed.com/aspartame and goes through hospitals showing the records. She has even given away the books by the physicians and the movie. She is not only a victim but even her sister recently dropped dead, and I have a feeling it was from aspartame or its components. Many times they are hidden in products that are labeled artificial and natural flavors. As to President Reagan, no doubt he did lose his memory due to aspartame. Dr. Bowen tells me he was addicted to Equal, and there was a story in the Enquirer where Nancy Reagan was spotted in a restaurant and loaded up on Equal, although leaving a large tip. She must have been out of it! I've also been told that he drank Diet Coke but that has never been verified. Interestingly, some one from Chicago called me last night and said on CNN they told the story of Rumsfeld and about his working for Searle as CEO and Searle suing the FDA to get aspartame approved. I now find it verified in the Congressional Record. They had some gall. And like Dr. Bowen says in his letter to the FDA on labeling (www.dorway.com) everyone having something to do with approval of aspartame and those working to keep it on the market should be criminally prosecuted. Thank you for your kind letter and I do hope we get to meet soon. All my best, Betty From: Drcindyg@aol.com Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:49:20 EST Subject: Happy New Year and Thank You, Betty! Dear Betty, I know it's been ages since we first spoke, but I just wanted to say "Happy New Year" to you...and...to thank you for all of the valuable information you've been sending me regarding aspartame...and for your tireless and diligent efforts to spread the word to those who will listen. Your words do NOT fall on deaf ears!!! As a Doctor of Chiropractic, I meet scores of patients and their families, and am a real pain-in-the-butt about educating them on aspartame's harmful effects, especially on the Nervous System!!! Everyone in my extensive family knows about it as well...and the hundreds of folks on my massive email address list receive this info too! Every patient of mine, and my colleagues' patients, have their email address added to my list...and they receive this info automatically and ask them to forward to everyone they know too! Just to let you know, I have created a one-page list of both MSG and Aspartame's pseudonyms and conditions that each causes, along with some websites that they can check out. Every single person who walks through our office door receives this page. I even put it in our "welcome package" when we have a new patient come in. I also tell them to take it shopping with them and check all of the ingredients of the "food" items they usually buy. I tell them about how amazed they will be to find that just about everything that comes in a bag, box, can, or container, has one or both of these toxic and harmful chemicals in them. I also inform them about HOW aspartame was approved. Believe me...they are shocked and dismayed by what they hear! Not only do my patients, friends, colleagues, students, and family members get this list, but I have handed it out to strangers....at airports, businesses, and anytime I see someone drinking a can of Diet Coke or Pepsi! (My cousin told me that I must come off like a Hari Krishna...especially at the airport!) While making copies of this list, whether at school or at someplace like Staples or Office Depot, I hand it out to people there as well! Even my hair stylist has a pile of these at his front desk. Months ago, I went to have body work done, and when I went up to the desk to sign in, lo and behold, MY one-page list was sitting right there! My friend, who does the body work, gave it to the doctors in her office to hand out to their patients! I have sent this info around the world...and everyone to whom I have sent it, has sent it to everyone on their email address list...and so on and so on! Between you, me, Cori, and all of the folks at Mission Possible around the world, just about everyone on this planet will hear the truth about aspartame! Hopefully, we'll raise enough awareness that no one will buy any products containing aspartame, and the companies will HAVE to stop adding it to their products...or they'll lose zillions of dollars...and isn't money what they really care about? After all...the love of money is the root of all evil...right? (Don't you think it's very interesting and ironic that Ronald Reagan died from Alzheimer's disease, knowing that aspartame causes it? Perhaps all those jelly beans he ate had aspartame in them! I wonder what will happen to Rumsfeld eventually? And if not on this planet, then when he sits before God to be judged! Isn't it true that "what comes around, goes around?") Having just gotten your email about Aspartame & Gum and Wrigley's in Australia, I am forwarding it to my stepchildren who live in Melbourne, Australia! Hopefully their mother (my husband's ex-wife) will be decent enough to give it to them...read it herself...and pass it on to her friends and family as well. One could only hope! I actually wrote to Wrigley's myself a while back. A couple of years ago, I read the list of ingredients on their Doublemint gum. At that time, it did NOT have Aspartame in it. But after receiving the updated info on aspartame, I decided to reread the ingredients, and of course, aspartame had been added...even though it's not a sugar-free gum! I was very upset and immediately wrote to them...but I never got a response...typical! When people ask me why aspartame is used so much, I tell them that it's cheaper to use than sugar...and that Stevia is illegal in this country to be added to food...that they can buy it only as a supplement...and that's because it competes with the sugar and aspartame industries! Even though I make it very plain how horrific aspartame is, and offer up factual research proving this, you would not believe how resistant to giving it up are the folks who drink Diet Coke and Pepsi! They are addicted to this chemical...just like cigarette smokers are addicted to smoking! It's unbelievable to me that intelligent, educated, and informed people do not see that they're slowly killing themselves...just like smokers! Many of our patients are NURSES too....and overweight, of course! I tell them that diet soda does not make you lose weight! I tell them to drink water instead...but so many people say that they don't like water...which is the ONLY NATURAL BEVERAGE ON EARTH!!!!! Some go as far as to say, "Well, something's going to get ya!" To which I respond, "Yes, that's true...we're all going to die...but why be sick until then...and cause our families and loved ones much grief and pain...and make some people rich in the process?" These particular folks just don't get it...or they don't want to...or they are so chemically dependent on this stuff that they literally do not have a choice! It's very frightening...and extremely sad! And to the very religious folks I know, I mention how they are disrespecting the body that God gave to them by using these toxic substances! However, if there's one thing I've learned as a doctor during the last 5 years, it is this: We can only inform, educate and make suggestions...we cannot control what people do...that we must "let go and let God"....pray for these folks...and continue to care for people the best way we know how....regardless of whether they do as we recommend! I just received the movie "Sweet Misery" and my husband and I will be sitting down this evening to watch it. I plan on showing it in my office to everyone who wishes to view it...and invite folks for "health talks" and show it to them as well...and to my students too. I teach a Clinical Pathology class at the Rising Spirit School of Massage in Chamblee-Dunwoody, and my students always receive this one-page handout...as well as constant lectures and reminders. I teach them about diseases and conditions...but also that most of these are preventable!!! Many of my students are open-minded enough to really hear what I have to say. As an example: One day, a student sat right in front of me with a can of Diet Coke on her desk. As soon as I saw it, I went off! I said, "Haven't you been listening to me? Don't you know that this is poison?!!!" To which everyone started laughing. Apparently they wanted to elicit a reaction from me...knowing full well that they'd get one! We all had a good laugh! Two weeks ago was the first day of the new term for my class. I told my new students about aspartame and offered my list to them. However, they said that they already had it...that another teacher had given it to them! Apparently, I made a whole bunch of copies at school and left the original in the copier. Another teacher found it, read it, and decided to hand it out to his students! What a blessing!!!!! Well, I know you have many more emails to read...and write...so I'll finish this now. I just wanted to let you know what a tremendous impact you have had...on me...my practice...my friends, family, patients, students, colleagues, neighbors, local business owners, their customers, and many, many strangers across the globe! Thank you for everything, Betty! You are an incredible woman, and I hope one day to meet you and shake your hand....or better still...give you a great big hug!!!! Yours in good health, Dr. Cindy Gale Dr. Cindy Gale Clinic Director Marietta Chiropractic Specialists 2483C Powder Springs Road Marietta, GA 30064 (770) 222-0665 (Office) (770) 222-8717 (Fax) (404) 245-5342 (Cell) DrCindyG@aol.com (Email) -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.4 - Release Date: 1/25/2005