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The untimely death of Sally Clark, a solicitor (lawyer) of the UK, was announced in the UK press on Saturday 15th March. We followed the travesty of Sally’s trial and biased conviction, culminating in her eventual release after four years in prison, following appeal to the High Court which ruled she had been wrongfully and unjustly accused of murdering her two babies, ........

Betty Martini Mission Possible International

So first, let me explain why aspartame causes some of the problems. We have a saying, "If you want to get fat NutraSweet is where its at." It is a drug that makes you crave carbohydrates so you gain weight. You will find that in the congressional record where they added the protest of the National Soft Drink Assn, http://www.wnho.net/congressional_record1.doc You can also read the protest of the National Soft Drink Assn on http://www.dorway.com/nsda.html

Dr. Sandra Cabot, Mission Possible Australia also wrote an article that explains it well called "Aspartame Makes You Fatter". It's been
added to the Report to Schools which is about 40 pages of new articles from the experts to save the children: http://www.wnho.net/report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm
The Trocho Study in Barcelona has shown that the formaldehyde converted from the free methyl alcohol accumulates in the cells and
damages DNA with most toxicity in the liver but substantial amounts in the kidneys, brain, retina and adipose tissue or fat cells. And
when the liver is toxic its even hard to lose weight.

About hypoglycemia, H. J. Roberts, M.D., goes into a great of detail in Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com He says that attacks of hypoglycemia are commonly manifest by these features: (1) prolonged cyclic weakness ("draining of my strength"; "sapping of my energy", "late morning slump"; "afternoon letdown"" that occurs several hours after eating; (2) associated tremors, nervousness, headache, sweats and intense hunger with a craving for sugar; and (3) the prompt subsidence of these features after ingesting food or caloric sweets. A young woman made this analogy concerning her desire for sweets under these circumstances: "It's like sugar is dope."

Dr. Roberts continues that hypoglycemic attacks tend to intensify prior to lunch and during the latter part of the afternoon and evening. This is attributable to the effects of activity, and the accelerated release of insulin as the day progresses. The latter phenomenon may be demonstrable only by the method of afternoon glucose tolerance test.

You should know that hypoglycemia often presents with an array of neurologic and psychiatric features. They include tremors, dizziness, true vertigo, double vision, "pins and needles" (paresthesias), muscular weakness, inability to think or speak properly, convulsions, (e.g. paranoia, mania, depression), delirium and unconsciousness. The nervous system manifestations tend to follow certain patterns for a given individual, being polysymptomatic in most but occasionally monosymptomatic. Haier (1988) reported a correlation between cerebral glucose metabolism and psychological function.

Dr. Roberts explains the adverse effects of glucose deprivation on the brain and nerves (neuroglucopenia) and says the ravages on the brain of recurring severe hypoglycemia, especially when unchanged (as during the night) are readily understood in the light of these facts: (a) the brain is almost totally dependent upon an adequate supply of circulating glucose for normal function: and (b) neither the nervous system nor the body can store glucose and readily - available carbohydrate for more than one day.

He goes into some observations that amplify these issues. They tend to be compounded in aspartame disease.

The developing central nervous system is highly susceptible to the ravages of energy deprivation. This is believed to account for the frequency of narcolepsy, reading disability, migraine and related headaches and abnormal behavior in young persons with severe hypoglycemia. He says that certain neurologic manifestations are importantly influenced by biochemical and enzymic differences within specific areas. In turn they are rendered more vulnerable to hypoglycemia. The adverse effects of glucose deprivation on the central nervous system are enhanced by water retention within nerve cells and myelin. It may result from excessive ingestion of fluids
in the wake of aspartame-indued thirst, hormonal influences and hyperinsulized state itself. Water and sodium are known to migrate into nerve cells following hypoglycemia or the experimental removal of glucose from a perfusing environment. The consequences of combined glucose deprivation and water retention ultimately may disrupt the functional and anatomic integrity of myelin (the sheath that"insulates" nerve fibers). A vicious myelin-destroying cycle might ensue. The frequency with which an initial diagnosis of "multiple sclerosis" was made in many aspartame reactors, especially weight conscious young, is germane.

Dr. Roberts goes into great detail on aspartame-induced hypoglycemia. He says that many influences can aggravate hypoglycemia or precipitate hypoglycemic attacks in nondiabetics. They commonly include severe caloric restriction and the missing of meals by weight conscious persons, fever, the use of oral contraceptives, various drug including aspirin and unaccustomed exercise, especially in hot weather. He says aspartame should be added to this list. You will be interested in his comments that several patients with severe hypoglycemia had concluded that aspartame made them ill, and resumed sugar containing products or took saccharin. When sugar was taken in small amounts, along with adequate protein and fat, most fared well. He says the desire for sweetness, whether an inborn or acquired trait, poses a challenge for most persons with reactive hypoglycemia. Paradoxically, they should avoid sugar (sucrose) because it stimulates insulin secretion and can precipitate an attack.

There is lots more on hypoglycemia but this gives you some interesting facts.

Joint paint is so common because aspartame hardens the synovial fluids. The mechanisms include direct effects of its three ingredients, aspartic acid, phenylalanine and methanol. Headaches are #1 on the FDA report of 92 symptoms which is on www.dorway.com As to addiction, aspartame liberates free methyl alcohol classified as a narcotic. It causes chronic methanol poisoning which affects the dopamine system of the brain.

Remember that aspartame destroys the central nervous system and you would expect many of the symptoms you describe. But I notice you say"just hours ago I suffered a severe attack to drinking two Diet Coke fountain sodas".. I know you are addicted but you need to get off of this toxin right away. When you cease you likely will suffer withdrawal symptoms with many of your problems getting worse before getting better. But usually within a couple of weeks you feel much better. You may wish to subscribe to the Aspartame Information List, first banner on www.wnho.net . This way we can help you as you have questions. Incidentally, usually in those diet Coke's in the machine they have a small amount of aspartame but mostly saccharin, and the reason is aspartame can destroy the equipment.

Most doctors are clueless and we continue asking physicians to set up aspartame detox centers so victims will see someone who knows how to get a victim well. Some like Dr. Carolyn Dean give telephone consultations - holeopharm@pol.net

Dr. Roberts says victims go from physician to physician spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for useless diagnostic studies and surgery when nothing is going to help until they get off aspartame. You ask" is there a supplement to help ease some of my current symptoms?"..Here is Dr. Roberts detox program www.wnho.net/wtdaspartame.htm Notice he says to use magnesium, which is extremely important because it helps protect the heart and brain from excitotoxins. The aspartic acid is the excitotoxin in aspartame. Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., www.sunsentpress.com On the bottom of his
detox paper are all his books and the one "Health & Nutrition Secrets To Save Your Life" tells you how to get well. Many times the magnesium will help the headaches.

The doctors mentioned can be in the aspartame documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, www.sunsentpress.com Dr. Blaylock has a new lecture that will really educate you on aspartame. www.Atavistik.com

Aspartame triggers irritable bowel syndrome and Dr. Dean even wrote a book about it, IBS For Dummies. Aspartame does cause an irregular heart rhythm and interacts with all cardiac medication. It damages the cardiac conduction system.

Keep in touch, Jen, and let me know when you have more questions. Also, aspartame effects the eyes because the free methyl alcohol converts to formaldehyde and formic acid and destroys the optic nerve. It also causes dry eye and many other eye problems. Go to www.dorway.com, scroll down to Dr. Roberts under experts and read "What's Blinding The World?" I can understand the heartburn because of the phosphoric acid in pop. Also aspartame binds to calcium. I hope I've answered all your questions and look forward to hearing of your improvement.

All my best,
Betty

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
Mission Possible International

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Betty Martini also writes:-

Here is the article from the Guardian. No studies were ever done in the UK. Searle knew if they found out the FDA had tried to have them indicted for fraud they would never get it approved in other countries. So they made a business deal with Paul Turner of Food Standards. He approved it without anyone knowing. Then Parliament had a big blow out but did not rescind the order. Once approved here it was then rubberstamped around the world. Aspartame was never proven safe, and can't be. This is why the manufacturers have threatened researchers, like the VP of Searle when he threatened Dr. Richard Wurtman if he did studies on aspartame and seizures his research funds would be rejected. They were. ILSI is a front research group. As someone said who worked there - "If you want payola you have to roll over". Today MIT receives research funds but Dr. Wurtman no longer speaks out against aspartame. This is what goes on to keep poisons on the market.

February 13, l984, The Guardian

CHARITY LINKED TO MAKERS OF SUSPECT DRUG
ASPARTAME CONTROVERSY
by Andrew Veltch
Medical Correspondent

"Professor Paul Turner, head of the Government committee which approved the controversial artificial sweetener, aspartame, has an indirect link with its manufacturer, G. D. Searle.

Synthelabo, Searle's major partner in Europe, is behind the funding of Professor Turner's research at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London.

Professor Turner told the Guardian on Friday: "The Department of Health and Social security are aware of any commercial relationships I have, including my relationship with Synthelabo and the Charterhouse Unit. These were declared several years ago."

His research is funded by a charity called the Synthelabo Foundation, which receives it money from a limited company called the Charterhouse Clinical Research Unit. The share capital for that company was provided by Lers, a subsidiary of Synthelabo.

Studies have shown that aspartame would seriously damage some children.

Page 4 continued:

The head of the Government committee responsible for approving the controversial new artificial sweetener aspartame - sold as Canderel and NutraSweet - has an indirect but significant link with the manufacturers, G. D. Searle.

A charity set up by Professor Paul Turner, chairman of the toxicity committee, to fund his research at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, is backed by Searle's biggest partner in Europe, Synthelabo.

Chairman and members of expert committees which examine potentially hazardous substances are obliged to declare their commercial interests when they are appointed, and in practice, before each meeting. Although Professor Turner's interest may not qualify as a"commercial interest," senior members of the medical establishment consider it to be in the public interest for such matters to be declared.

The junior health minister, Mr. John Patten, wrote in a letter during the parliamentary row over aspartame in October that Professor Turner had never had any connections with Searle.

Professor Turner's charity is the Synthelabo Foundation, of which he is one of two trustees. The other is the vice-president in charge of research at Synthelabo. Professor Guiseppe Bartholini.

Searle and Synthelabo, the fourth biggest drugs company in France, have set up three joint companies in the last two years --one, called Lorex, in the UK last year.

Four years ago a Synthelabo subsidiary, Lers, provided the share capital to set up a limited company to fund Professor Turner's charity, the company is called the Charterhouse Clinical Research Unit.

Professor Turner is a consultant to Charterhouse, whose chairman, Mr. Paul Barclay, is the English lawyer for the Synthelabo group. The Charterhouse medical director, Dr. Steven Warrington, is an honorary lecturer in Professor Turner's pharmacology department at St. Bartholomew's.

Mr. Patten said in a letter to the Labour MP, Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours, in October: "Professor Turner has never had any connections with Searle, nor has he or anyone in his department been funded by them."

Professor Turner told the Guardian: "The Department of Health and Social Security is aware of any commercial relationships I have, including my relationship with Synthelabo and the Charterhouse Unit. These were declared several years ago."

Both aspartame and the partnership with Synthelabo are considered essential to Searle's survival, according to City analysts.

When the l983 results are in, they are likely to show that Searle's operating profits from drugs have "plunged by as much as 75 per cent," while profits from aspartame may have "more than quadrupled," according to the US brokers, Kidder Peabody. Searle is expected to sell nearly $600 million worth of aspartame worldwide this year.

The decline in Searle's drug business has been caused by a lack of new products. The Synthelabo connection gives Searle access to high-grade European research. The first joint company was Lorex, set up in the United States in l982. Lorex has since formed a Canadian subsidiary. The other two joint companies were set up last year -- one in Holland, the other in the UK.

Synthelabo, based in Paris and owned by the beauty firm L'Oreal (which is itself owned by Nestle) was until a few years ago a medium-sized company investing heavily in research.

The Searle deals form what is thought to be the largest single sector of am ambitious expansion programme that has made it the fourth biggest drugs firm in France. The Searle connection has given Synthelabo the status of an international company, as well as a new outlets, for its producers. It is in Synthelabo's interests to ensure that Searle thrives.

Professor Turner and his colleague. Dr. Warrington, have worked on the development of Synthelabo's beta blocker, Betazolo. They have published several papers on the drug in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.

Charterhouse was heavily criticized last month for paying unemployed people and students ₤250 Pounds or more to act as guinea pigs in the first trials of a cancer drug, which, it was feared might itself promote the growth of certain tumours.

Professor Turner told the Guardian in a statement last month that Charterhouse was an independent company. Mr Barclay, the Charterhouse chairman, explained: "It was setup by Lers (Synthelabo's research subsidiary), it was their idea, and they subscribed the initial share capital. In l981 most of their interest was transferred to the charity. It was a way of having a research facility in England for them and for other pharmaceutical companies."

Professor Turner also told the Guardian last month that "any profits" from Charterhouse went to his charity. According to the last accounts filed by Charterhouse, in l982 the firm paid ₤10,131 Pounds "under covenant to the trustees of Synthelabo Foundation. After this payment was made, the firm recorded a profit of ₤40,464 Pounds. In l981, Charterhouse paid ₤5,294 Pounds to the trustees.

Mr. Barclay explained: "The taxable profits went to the charity. They are the profits upon which, if they had not been covenanted in this way, tax would have to be paid."

The charity's file at the Charity Commissioner contains only one set of accounts (for 1983). They have not been audited. The trustees are required by the Commission t file accounts every year. According to the unaudited 1983 accounts, the charity received ₤15,425 (Pounds) under covenant from Charterhouse and gave St. Bartholomew's Medical College ₤21,206 (Pounds).

The two trustees, Professor Turner and Professor Bartholini, of Synthelabo, are empowered according to the charity's records, to use the money to fund research into clinical pharmacology and allied fields, for education and "for the relief of sickness" not necessarily at St. Bartholomew's. The trustees may, if they wish, invest the money.

The Guardian asked Professor Turner if he had been aware of the Searle/Synthelabo connection, and if so whether he considered it might have influenced his views on the products. He was also asked if he agreed that people in positions such as his had an ethical duty to declare their interests. He did not answer.



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Betty Martini's email to B Q

Obviously you used industry propaganda and forgot to research before you wrote this story telling pregnant women to use aspartame and other toxins which could stumble hundreds of thousands of women causing the death or disability of thousands of babies. You cannot let this stand. Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., just recorded an excellent lecture on aspartame and says it all on the issue of aspartame and birth defects. You should get a copy: http://www.atavistik.com He also explains how it can damage the thymus gland of the baby, if the baby survives at all, and this is the seat of immunity. It's a primary lymphoid organ, located in the superior mediastinum and lower part of the neck, that is necessary in early life for the normal development of immunologic function. If it damages the thymus gland then its irreversible and the child will have autoimmune problems all its life. When I say if it survives many women using aspartame have reported losing as many as 8 babies, the reason being its an abortifacient. Read this article by Dr. Bowen, Aspartame Murders Infants:
Subscriber Services http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_murders_infants.htm

Aspartame can trigger all kinds of birth defects including autism, and then interacts with all drugs and even vaccines that also can trigger autism. So the child doesn't have a chance. http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_interacts.htm
Aspartame also triggers ADD and ADHD. Feingold, the ADD people who have now banned aspartame recently commented that even the name ADD was only begun to be used around 1981 when aspartame was approved.

This is so documented here are some references:

Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic,
www.sunsentpress.com by H. J. Roberts, M.D., 1038 page medical text.
Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock,. M.D., www.russellblaylockmd.com

Dr. Roberts also has a CD called Mommylinks about this on this same web site. Dr. Blaylock has a DVD on a lecture he gave on Nutrition and Behavior you can get at the web site above that has his lecture on aspartame.

Some years ago the University of Norway did a study showing aspartame destroys the brain, especially in the area of learning. This goes along with studies by Searle in l983/84 in 6 countries showing aspartame destroys the brain, never published by the manufacturer, of course. We have an affidavit from the translator.

I know the American Dietetics Assn takes money from industry and pushes their propaganda but you had no right with millions of posts on the Internet on this issue with references, to not research this important issue. We are use to professional organizations and front groups pushing poisons. Dr. Blaylock wrote the Miami Herald this excellent letter after the Calorie Control Council wrote a letter to them pushing aspartame on pregnant women: http://www.wnho.net/mh_aspartame_letter.htm

And to put a stop to this madness the world experts on aspartame have written new articles on the subject, about 40 pages of this
document: Report For Schools: http://www.wnho.net/report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm that are constantly being sent to schools all over the world, Board of Educations, OB-GYN and pediatricians. We're trying to save the children while organizations like the American Dietetics Assn, other professional organizations and front groups, the FDA who parrots industry to whom they gave their loyalty instead of the people, and the aspartame manufacturers have damaged a generation of children with their propaganda. Millions of babies have been murdered in their mother's womb because of propaganda like you just published.

Furthermore, aspartame can precipitate diabetes, simulates and aggravates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, destroys the optic nerve, causes diabetics to go into convulsions and even interacts with insulin. Dr. Roberts is a diabetic specialist, who wrote the medical text. He was also a member of the American Diabetes Assn and wrote them for years about this situation. They refused to publish his abstract on aspartame diabetic reactors because they couldn't take money from aspartame manufacturers and warn the people about their product at the same time. Dr. Roberts paper was published in Clinical Research. The American Diabetes Assn
was even sued for racketeering for pushing aspartame on diabetics even though they had the power to get it dismissed.

And Splenda is a chlorocarbon poison: http://www.wnho.net/splenda_chlorocarbon.htm

Life After Aspartame: http://www.redorbit.com/news/display/?id=229690

How they make it: http://www.wnho.net/chemical_processing_of_splenda.htm

Do you want pregnant women to use this?

Furthermore, Attorney James Turner, and Citizens for Health have already petitioned the FDA to recall Splenda, and it also mentions it
can't be used for diabetics. Frankly, nobody should use it - its poison. We call it DDT-Lite.

And Neotame is just another aspartame sold by the company. How many poisons do you want pregnant women to take? When anyone writes an irresponsible article like this you can expect to only cause disability and death to more babies, and if you read Dr. Roberts position paper on aspartame and pregnancy so you will see even a man can cause birth defects in his own child if used at the time of conception. After over a quarter of a century on the market do you really think we wouldn't know what this deadly chemical poison causes? How long did it take to learn about Thalidomide? Irresponsible writers many times don't have the integrity and concern for
humanity to retract false information, so you can be sure I will see to it the public knows. Let's see how much integrity you have because the references above are unrefutable, and you now have the information. I would also add that you should see the aspartame documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, www.amazon.com And here is the Board of Inquiry of the FDA revoking
the petition for approval of aspartame. See the clip in the commentary as to how it got on the market - it certainly wasn't because it was proven safe. You can't do an honest study on aspartame and have it show safety because its a poison. http://www.wnho.net/fda_petition1.doc

Now read Dr. John Olney's testimony to the Board of Inquiry of the FDA who agreed with him, telling what would happen to the brains of our children if aspartame were approved. Unfortunately, the prophecy has been fulfilled. Dr. Olney is one of the most renowned
neuroscientists on the planet today and founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity:
http://www.wnho.net/dr_olney1.doc Also, why do you recommend acesulfame potassium which caused cancer and leukemia in original studies? Don't you research anything? Also, aspartame is a multipotential carcinogen and there are many efforts for its recall: http://www.wnho.net/project_recall_aspartame.htm

There are safe sweeteners like Stevia and Just Like Sugar sold in Whole Foods and Wild Oats. We are already taking aspartame brain tumor cases in New York and New Jersey. Babies have been born with brain tumors because their mother's used aspartame during pregnancy. And if you had done a little research you would know aspartame breaks down to DKP, a brain tumor agent.

Below my signature is an article I wrote on aspartame and birth defects for the Sentinel.

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway
www.wnho.net and www.dorway.com
Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

ASPARTAME CAUSES BIRTH DEFECTS AND MENTAL RETARDATION

Aspartame, AKA NutraSweet, Equal, E951 and under numerous other aliases is an addictive excitoneurotoxic carcinogen masquerading as an additive. The chemical liberates methyl alcohol, (methanol} the deadliest of the alcohols, commonly known as wood alcohol. It's so toxic a single ounce can kill or blind an adult, and it's a cumulative poison that alters the dopamine system of the brain creating addiction. The methanol, CH4O, loses two hydrogens to become CH2O, formaldehyde, which is next metabolized to create CH2O2, formic acid: fire-ant venom. But that's just the beginning.

Half of aspartame is phenylalanine, which floods the brain, a neurotoxin, lowering the seizure threshold. It depletes serotonin triggering psychiatric and behavioral problems and interacts with all drugs and vaccines.
http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_interacts.htm
Today our children are medicated instead of educated.


Dr.Louis Elsas, an eminent Pediatric Professor, Genetics, told Congress on 11/3/87 he had spent 25 years in the biomedical sciences "trying to prevent mental retardation and birth defects caused by excess phenylalanine. And herein lies my basic concern, that aspartame is in fact a well known neurotoxin and teratogen which, in some as yet undefined dose, will both reversibly in the adult and irreversibly in the developing child or fetal brain, produce adverse effects."

The third component is aspartic acid, a powerful neurotransmitter that excites the brain's neurons into hyperactivity until they exhaust and die. So there you have it, a bouquet of brain and neurological destroyers packed in little blue envelopes, sitting on every restaurant table in the western world, harvesting enough money to buy whatever bureaucratic blessings are necessary to kill us.

Aspartame produces the deadly brain tumor agent diketopiperazine. Such malignancies now sprout like mushrooms across America. In original studies it also triggered uterine, ovarian, pancreatic, thyroid and testicular tumors. The 3-year Italian Ramazzini Study on 1,800 rats confirmed original FDA findings that this chemical is "a multipotential carcinogen" causing leukemia, lymphoma, cancer of the kidney and peripheral nerves. Only rats fed aspartame developed malignant brain tumors. It was peer reviewed by 7 world experts. This excellent research was exceptional in that it did not kill the rats at the customary 24 months, but allowed them to die naturally. Cancer is a disease common to the final third of life.

Said Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock M.D., author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, "The new study released in the European Journal of Oncology by Morando Soffritti and co-workers 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.

"This study confirmed the previous study by Dr. Trocho and co-workers, which also found the formaldehyde from aspartame to be damaging to cellular DNA and that this damage was accumulative. The type of damage was a duplicate of that associated with cancers. Along with this most recent study, this means that drinking a single diet cola sweetened with aspartame every day could increase one's risk of developing a lymphoma or leukemia."

An army of renowned MDs and researchers have verified the cry of alarm, one deliberately smothered by the heartless monsters making and selling the poison.

Aspartame destroys families. Its an endocrine disrupting agent, stimulates prolactin, changes the menses and causes infertility. Women who desperately want children throng fertility clinics sipping Diet Coke, the reason they're there. Dr. Madelon Price, Biochemist, explains this infertility: "I was concerned about aspartic acid, one of the major breakdown products. Aspartic acid, like glutamic acid
(mono sodium glutamate, MSG, Accent) readily passes from the blood into the circumventricular organs of the brain. .Sexual dysfunction is associated with aspartame and MSG. If enough arcuate neurons are lost, that dysfunction is irreversible. Rodents that ingest high levels of aspartate or glutamate when young become infertile adults."

So many parents never have the children they long for because aspartame is peddled without even the decency of a warning. But let's say the woman stops using it for a time and does get pregnant. Dr. James Bowen says, "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."

Psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Walton said "Aspartame is a multipotential toxin and carcinogen. The dipeptide component of the molecule can alter brain chemistry, significantly changing the ratio of catecholamines to indolamines, with resultant lowering of seizure threshold, production of carbohydrate craving and in vulnerable individuals leading to panic, depressive and cognitive symptoms."

From the aspartame documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, is this clip with Dr. Russell Blaylock, neurosurgeon discussing aspartame and pregnancy:http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/blaylock.html
Available from amazon.com or Barnes & Noble. Soon to be released, Sweet Remedy.

In an effort to save the children, aspartame experts have written new reports on how it destroys their brains so we can email the vital
information to schools, pediatricians and OB-GYN.

Here's the "Report to Schools": http://www.wnho.net/report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm
These articles include information from the ADD folks who banned aspartame a couple of years ago. Many pediatric Rx and over-the-counter drugs contain this toxin as well as pediatric vitamins. Pediatricians need to be alerted so they won't prescribe these drugs.

Be particularly concerned with Wrigley's gum as most of their brands contain aspartame and sometimes blended with other dangerous sweeteners such as Splenda, a chlorocarbon poison, and acesulfame potassium, which caused cancer and leukemia in original studies. According to Dr. H. J. Roberts because it's buccal and goes directly into the mouth, it works like nitroglycerin, goes through saliva straight to the brain.

Dr. Roberts wrote the medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic,
http://www.sunsentpress.com,
and discusses children's abnormal behavior from this toxin. "Irritability, aggression, hyperactivity ("the need to keep moving"),
crying, whining, impulsivity, slurred speech, and learning problems have been associated with or aggravated by the use of aspartame products. Some concerned teacher-correspondents attributed the increased frequency of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and declining school grades to their widespread consumption. These changes have been various referred to as "Jekyll and Hyde behavior" and"the Halloween effect." His CD "Mommy Links" will also help young mothers.

Be sure to monitor what your children eat during the holidays. Keep your little ones far from harms way. For children who cannot use sugar there are safe substitutes like the herbal sweetener, Stevia, which helps in the metabolism of sugar. And the new Just Like Sugar is available in Whole Foods. A recent analysis showed it to be free of MSG and aspartic acid, excitotoxins. It's made of only chicory, orange peel, calcium and Vitamin C. No need for anyone to consume deadly chemical sweeteners.

Recently released is Dr. Blaylock's DVD on"Nutrition and Behavior" -http://www.atavistik.com
This will help parents and schools understand how damaging some of these additives are. Dr. John Olney wrote a 49 page report to the FDA Board of Inquiry a quarter of a century ago explaining what would happen if aspartame was approved. Unfortunately his prophecy has been fulfilled.
http://www.wnho.net/dr_olney1.doc
Our children must be saved from this toxin.

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
Mission Possible International