From: Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum., Bettym19@mindspring.com
To: editor@scoop.co.nz
Date: Mon, Thu, Jun 21, 2007 2:28 am
Subject: Chewing Gum Case Strengthens School Diet Drink Ban - Aspartame Should Be Banned from New Zealand

Dear Editor:

In regards to the article located at: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0706/S00418.htm

Aspartame is masquerading as an additive and is an addictive excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug that interacts with all drugs and vaccines: http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_interacts.htm

The worst product is aspartame gum because as a drug it works like nitroglycerin under the tongue because it's buccal. It goes through saliva straight to the brain. In one case used for a TV expo here in Atlanta a woman had never used aspartame until she was handed one piece of aspartame laced gum. She immediately had a grand mal seizure. There is no safe dose.

H. J. Roberts, M.D., who declared aspartame to be a global plague and wrote the medical text authored this article on absorption:

THE POTENTIAL HAZARD OF ASPARTAME ABSORPTION FROM WITHIN THE MOUTH

http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_absorption.htm

By H. J. Roberts, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.C.C.P.
E-Mail: HJrobertsmd@aol.com

(c)2004 by H. J. Roberts, M.D.

Posted 28 June 2004

Aspartame disease is being increasingly encountered in medical practice. (1-4) Over two-thirds of the population currently consumes the chemical aspartame, most commonly, as "diet" sodas and "sugar-free" products. I have detailed the serious neurological, psychiatric, metabolic, endocrine allergic and addictive aspects of this affliction. (1-5)

The widespread consumption of popular aspartame products that can be absorbed from the mouth and oropharynx should be cause for concern. They include gum, mouthwashes, chewable drugs and vitamins, and rectangular "mouth-freshener" strips placed on the tongue. Sugar-free mints are recommended for low-carbohydrate dieters who experience bad breath.

The prompt and predicable recurrence of symptoms (e.g., headache, dizziness, seizures, confusion, visual features, joint pain) on initial exposure or rechallenge to aspartame in this manner has been impressive. These issues are relevant.

• Persons tend to chew aspartame gum up to five times longer than regular gum.

• The prompt absorption of this neurotoxin from the mouth and oropharynx, with direct transport to the brain by a unique pathway, has clinical confirmation. (see below)

• These products can create an intense craving for sweets due to increased insulin secretion.

• The potential for addiction, related largely to the methyl alcohol component of aspartame, is significant. Scores of patients experienced severe withdrawal reactions after abrupt cessation.

• The response of a previously well woman illustrates this issue. "I suffered a grand mal seizure watching a movie immediately after applying a Listerine Strip. My friend gave me the strip, and it's the last thing I remember. Apparently, I stiffened up, my eyes rolled back in my head, and I bit my tongue and drooled. I regained awareness 1/2 hour later as I was being unloaded from the ambulance. A CAT scan, an MRI, blood work and other tests were all inconclusive."

References:

1. Roberts HJ Reactions attributed to aspartame containing producs: 551 cases. J appl Nutr l988; 40:86-94.
   
2. Robert HJ. Aspartame (NutraSweet): Is It Safe? Philadelphia, The Charles Press, l989.
   
3. Roberts HJ, Sweet'ner Dearest: Bittersweet Vignettes About Aspartame (NutraSweet) West Palm Beach, Sunshine Sentinel Press, l992.
   
4. Robert HJ, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, West Palm Beach, Sunshine Sentinel Press, 2001.
   
5. Roberts HJ. Aspartame (NutraSweet) addiction. Townsend Letter for Doctors 2000: 198 (January): 52-57.

Note from Dr. Betty Martini:

Please note we have notified Wrigley for years about the information Dr. Roberts has reported for this published article. Rather than remove aspartame from their gum they have now put this toxin in almost all their gums, and mixed with other unsafe sweeteners like acesulfame potassium (caused cancer and leukemia in original studies) and sucralose or Splenda which has a chlorinated base like DDT and can cause autoimmune disease. ( http://www.wnho.net (click on aspartame) and http://www.dorway.com ).

We have also notified Pfizer maker of the Listerine Strips since they came out that consumers were reporting seizures including kids, along with other adverse reactions on the FDA list of 92 symptoms. They won't even answer my emails anymore.

Wrigley's and Pfizer have now been sued over poisoning the public with Aspartame. Go to www.wnho.net and right on the front page you will see the information on those companies sued so far for having aspartame in their products with full knowledge.

Dr. Roberts books and tapes can be gotten by going to httyp://www.sunsentpress.com or calling 1-800-827-7991. See Dr. Roberts in the new film on aspartame called Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World! Click here for more information - CLICK HERE

Dr. Betty Martini: Please note we have notified Wrigley for years about the information Dr. Roberts has reported for this published article. Rather than remove aspartame from their gum they have now put this toxin in almost all their gums, and mixed with other unsafe sweeteners like acesulfame potassium (caused cancer and leukemia in original studies) and sucralose or Splenda which has a chlorinated base like DDT and can cause autoimmune disease. ( http://www.wnho.net (click on aspartame) and http://www.dorway.com ).

We have also notified Pfizer maker of the Listerine Strips since they came out that consumers were reporting seizures including kids, along with other adverse reactions on the FDA list of 92 symptoms. They won't even answer my emails anymore.

Wrigley's and Pfizer have now been sued over poisoning the public with Aspartame. Go to http://www.wnho.net and right on the front page you will see the information on those companies sued so far for having aspartame in their products with full knowledge.

Dr. Roberts books and tapes can be gotten by going to http://www.sunsentpress.com or calling 1-800-827-7991. See Dr. Roberts in the new film on aspartame called Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World http://www.amazon.com or Barnes & Noble. End of article:

I've written to Wrigley's for years http://www.wnho.net/wrigley_letter_australia.htm

Instead of removing aspartame they put it in most of their gums with full knowledge, and after suit was filed. Recently, there was also another case where someone almost lost their life.

I'm familiar with what is going on in New Zealand having to do with attempting to ban diet pop laced with aspartame from schools. We are so concerned about what this does to the brains of children that world experts compiled new reports in this REPORT FOR SCHOOLS. http://www.wnho.net/report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm

In fact, I have emailed it to many in the New Zealand Parliament. Anyone who reads this could not in good conscience ever allow a child to use aspartame or allow it in a school.

Food Standards in the UK sponsored a study on additives that found behavioral problems in children, no doubt aspartame, because its been known for a quarter of a century. Immediately, the large food chains in the UK started removing aspartame from all their personal products.

Our Mission Possible Bellingham, Washington, Chelsea Tallman is another horror story about aspartame laced gum. Here is the letter she wrote about her case on March 12, 1999:

Dear Betty:

My name is Chelsea Tallman. I live in Bellingham, Washington, am 24 years old and was a severe aspartame sufferer. I suffered for a little over 12 years of my life and went through the same garbage all the rest of the people who suffer and don't know it went through. I was on the very near verge of dying a little over 1 1/2 years ago. It is remarkable how much my life has changed since then. I feel like I was given a new chance. I have decided to use my new chance to the best of my abilities. On the list of 92 symptoms I personally suffered, severely from 81. The worst part was how much I had to ingest in order to suffer from those 81 symptoms. Mostly it was just one single stick of chewing gum, not most of the intake others use. I am so highly sensitive to this poison that if I chew one stick of gum for 10-15 minutes I will suffer, badly, for 1-2 weeks. I wanted to tell you a little about my background just to let you know that you are so appreciated. I want to thank you every day and all of the other people who help to get this information out. You all saved my life! I want to do the same for others. This is the main reason why I am writing to you after a year and a half have passed since my getting off of the poison. It has taken me this long for my body to return to almost normal. Funny thing is I didn't even know what it felt like until now.

I want to ask you a favor, if you could. I am starting my crusade against aspartame and I am offering my services to you in anyway that I can be useful. I am willing to do all that I can. I have gotten my story out to friends and family, handed out hundreds of dollars of fliers. I tell everyone I meet and know. I am ready to go farther. I don't have much to offer in the way of money, as I work two jobs and am putting my husband through college. So if you could please take a few moments, when you have them to spare, and tell me what I can do to help. I have recently been ready the book, "Aspartame (NutraSweet) Is It Safe?" by Dr. H. J. Roberts and am trying to figure out what I can do to get more actively involved, I mean on a national and worldly level. I am interested in big time stuff, but I am also willing to start small if necessary. I am very fortunate that I have the support of my husband and my parents and we are all very willing to do what we can. so please if you can get back to me and let me know how I can help.

Thanks so very much,

Chelsea Tallman

Bellingham, WA

And schools want to use diet soda because they are trying to prevent obesity, not realizing its aspartame that has caused this epidemic. Read Dr. Sandra Cabot's report on this in the Report For Schools. She is Mission Possible Australia. Here is the worst-case scenario where a school in Yorkshire did change to diet soda only. This case was so heart breaking that I sent it to Prince Charles:

December 26, 2006

His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales St James Palace
St Jamess Palace
London SW1A 1BS, UK

Your Royal Highness:

I'm writing again to Your Royal Highness about aspartame. [Canderel/NutraSweet/Equal/ E951] Forty-seven MPs have signed to have it banned.

From Yorkshire comes this vivid example of the damage this addictive excitoneurotoxic carcinogen does to the brains of children. Specifically Matthew Hobson, a victimized English boy. Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006:

Subject: Accused Of Drug Use By School - Aspartame Allergic Reaction

Aspartame ruined my relationship with my family and I wasn't trusted at school, now I hate them for what they put me through. The school decided that sugar soft drinks were bad for the students health so decided to remove all but the diet products from the cafeteria, I personally enjoy a sugar infused cola that has a taste diet drinks lack, they taste too artificial.

I started to drink the diet cola, I had no bad effects for a couple of days. Then by the next week, half an hour after lunch I would get severe itching in my legs and arms, so much so that it left blood marks in scratch lines across my limbs, I tried so hard not to start scratching as I couldn't stop them for about an hour if I started.

To make matters worse I would also slur my speech, still unaware of what was going on. The second week my parents were called in and I was told that I would be under supervision at all times in school and my parents were not going to let me leave the house, they proceed to rip apart my room and have me sleep on the floor in their room.

Why? I was being accused of using Crystal Meth !!! I hope you can even imagine how I felt about all this, I huddled up in a corner crying at one point wishing I wasn't born. I spent lunch in the corner of the staff room with a bag of crisps and my diet coke, again as soon as I left the room for lessons I itched like crazy. I have to miss out some details here because they upset me so much.

After being drug tested for a couple of days, police interrogating me, asking me who the dealer was and referring me to a shrink which I saw for another week, all this was going on, my life was so bad I just wanted to die.

This is where I met someone I will never forget, The Janitor. He saw me and said "are you alright there son"? I just started crying, so he took me to the supply room, sat me on a box and I poured out my heart to him, I clicked the ring pull on my drink and took a large gulp, He just stared at the can for what seemed like forever.

He snatched it off me, grabbed my shirt and pulled me up to the Headmasters office, he kicked in the door and started screaming at the headmaster. I was all over the place I felt so dizzy, emotional, tired and out of it and I still didn't really know what the hell was going on. He smashed down the can and the diet coke sprayed all over the Head's desk.

I caught bits of the conversation, - It's the xxxx in these drinks - It doesn't take a genius to work that out for God's sake - Don't you know what's in this. From here on he started on about his daughter having PKU and aspartame, he finished with reminding the head in front of about 20 staff surrounding outside the door where i was now stood, that the school in fact was responsible for my problems by removing sugar drinks from the cafeteria and was liable, and should expect to be sued.

He calmed down came out and walked me outside, he gave me his phone to ring my parents who then came to the school. The rest is history!!! I would like to thank Mark Winslow, the Janitor who actually saved my life, God knows what I would have done if he hadn't stepped in. We did gain a settlement from the school and gave a generous sum to Mark as he did lose his job and was unemployed for a couple of weeks. He and his family now regularly meet up with us in the summer for BBQ's and we couldn't ask for better friends.

I hope my experience is of benefit to others, I think my reaction must have been very severe but if it can do that to you then it shouldn't be in our foods.

Matthew Hobson

When you visited Florida you dined with Dr. H. J. Roberts and his wife, Carol, who gave The Princess of Wales the key to the city of West Palm Beach. Dr. Roberts is the world expert on aspartame, declared it a global plague and published the 1038 page medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, which he dedicated to me.

I'm enclosing a copy of the prestigious Ecologist with a 17 page feature on it, and I believe you already have the aspartame documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World. In it attorney James Turner explains how Rumsfeld got it approved after the FDA said no. As late as 1995 FDA published a list of 92 reactions to aspartame from over 10,000 volunteered complaints. Aspartame can precipitate diabetes, aggravate and simulate diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, destroy the optic nerve, cause diabetic convulsions, and interacts with insulin. It also makes you crave carbohydrates so you gain weight.

The Trocho Study shows 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 fat cells, kidneys, brain and retina. Last month I visited a researcher in Barcelona who was threatened by the NutraSweet Company for exposing the pre-embalming by aspartame.

Schools mistakenly advocate diet drinks exclusively. Matthews case is no doubt repeated by thousands of innocent children in UK schools. Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., explains that reactions to aspartame are not allergic but toxic like arsenic and cyanide. I'm enclosing his lecture on aspartame.

This isn't a rare case. Dr. Baret called me from the Dominican Republic. He changed the diet of 360 small children from milk to aspartame juice and almost all of them responded with abnormal behavior, cognitive problems. Knowing this was the only change he had made he re-searched aspartame and called me. I had him remove the toxin from their diet and four days later all the children returned to normal. It is clear that if this insane practice is not stopped Matthews case will become the norm.

Because of the horror of this decision several authorities have written new reports on the effects of aspartame on the brains of the unborn and children. They're on http://www.wnho.net/report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm

We email these 42 pages of articles to schools, pediatricians and OB-GYN the world over. Aspartame is a teratogen and causes birth defects and mental retardation. If the child survives and it damages the thymus gland it can have autoimmune problems all the days of his life and the DNA is probably damaged generations to come. It lowers IQ and triggers psychiatric and behavioral problems, and also interacts with medications. So no drug is safe for an aspartame consumer. The Italian Ramazzini Study has confirmed what FDA knew from the beginning, that aspartame is a multipotential carcinogen. They have a new study on Coca Cola and cancer. This is a foremost European research center.

The tale of how aspartame got approved in England may be unknown to Your Royal Highness: G. D. Searle Co knew they couldn't get it in other countries if it was known our FDA tried to have them indicted for fraud. They made a deal with a Professor Paul Turner in Food Standards who approved aspartame without anyone knowing. No studies were ever done in the UK. Parliament discovered it, and their dismay was reported in The Guardian. Nevertheless, approval wasn't rescinded Today there are efforts worldwide to recall aspartame. I'm enclosing my just released story in Health Freedom News which magazine goes to all Congressmen. Robin Goodwins Falkland Island heartrending story is attached. His wife had an aspartame brain tumor and his daughter suffered seizures daily for 18 years until they learned aspartame caused them.

Your Royal Highness, I ask you to save many lives in the UK by removing aspartame and the aspartame manufacturers. I know you are against genetic engineering. This is a GM product. I look forward to your reply and help for the people of England.

Respectfully,

Dr. Betty Martini
Founder, Mission Possible World Health International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770-242-2599
E-Mail: BettyM19@mindspring.com
http://www.wpwhi.com
http://www.whno.net
http://www.dorway.com

Aspartame Toxiocity Center: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

Dr. James Bowen began slurring his words and was thought to either be on alcohol or drugs. He was admitted to a mental hospital but in the hospital he was no longer on aspartame and the symptoms disappeared. He wrote:

I started using Aspartame in April 1983, when the Aspartame Lo Cal Kool Aid was first marketed. In 2 days it gave me a toxic cardiomyopathy so severe I had to then stop swimming. I then immediately lost my balance, so also had to immediately also stop going off the diving board. Deep chemical depression followed, terminating in Lou Gehrig's disease. In just six weeks of use it aged me thirty years! When I stopped using it I had many severe withdrawal symptoms, and was then diagnosed as Bulbar Palsy.

MY RN wife was screaming at me: "Jim get off the Aspartame! It is killing you!" (I was so completely brain washed by Aspartame, that I could not even believe her!

Aspartame is very highly crafted poison, cleverly combining about ten different poisons, including : 1. Phenylalanine isolate poisoning. (Not all alike with dietary sources!), 2. The methyl ester-formaldehyde-formic acid- carbon monoxide toxic axis. 3. Methylated aspartic acid, (An extreme excitotoxin, implemented in many and vast brain damages! Including the common neural degenerative diseases!) 4. Diketopiperazine poisoning: Which the first toxicity studies (at 1/1000 the FDA legally requisite test dosage for only sixty days,) caused the highest incidence of brain tumor in rats that any chemical ever tested at any dosage ever caused.(The first 6 months of Aspartame soft drinks, saw a 10% increase in USA human brain cancers rates, and a 30% jump of our diabetes occurrence rate!)

When the FDA first refused licensure for Aspartame they did so, because it rapidly chelates poisonous metals out of containers and then carries them on in a totally absorbable condition, it couldnt be proven safe and triggered brain tumors. It also triggered many other types of tumors from mammary to testicular. It should be noted that Pepsi and Coke delivery drivers certify that sugar pops never damage their cans, while Aspartame beverages frequently do.)

James D. Bowen MD
POB 988
Kapaau, HI 96755

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With regard to the Ramazzini Studies showing aspartame is a multipotential carcinogen, and that it causes cancer even in small doses, here is the latest press release: http://www.wnho.net/new_soffritti_study_on_aspartame.htm

Here is a summary of the first study and the second:

The first ERF study (2005) was conducted on 1800 Sprague-Dawley rats (100-150/per sex/per group). In order to simulate daily human intake, aspartame was added to the standard rat diet in quantities of 5000, 2500, 100, 500, 20, 4, and 0 mg/Kg of body weight. Treatment of the animals began at 8 weeks of age and continued until spontaneous death. The results show that APM causes a statistically significant, dose-related increase of lymphomas/leukemias and malignant tumors of the renal pelvis in females and malignant tumors of peripheral nerves in males. These results demonstrate for the first time that APM is a carcinogenic agent, capable of inducing malignancies at various dose levels, including those lower than the current acceptable daily intake (ADI) for humans (50 mg/kg of body weight in the US, 40 mg/kg of body weight in the EU).

The second ERF study (2007) was conducted on 400 Sprague-Dawley rats (70-95/per sex/per group). In order to simulate daily human intake, aspartame was added to the standard rat diet in quantities of 100, 20, and 0 mg/Kg of body weight. Treatment of the animals began on the 12th day of fetal life until natural death. The results of the second study show an increased incidence of lymphomas/leukemias in female rats with respect to the first study. Moreover, the study shows that when lifespan exposure to APM begins during fetal life, the age at which lymphomas/leukemias develop in females is anticipated. For the first time, a statistically significant increase in mammary cancers in females was also observed in the second study. The results of this transplacental carcinogenicity bioassay not only confirm, but also reinforce the first experimental demonstration of APMs multipotential carcinogenicity.

Aspartame is illegal for these reasons:

1. Aspartame is adulterated and admitted by the National Soft Drink Association (now American Beverage) and in the Congressional Record. http://www.wnho.net/open_letter_dick_adamson.htm

2. Because you cannot ship an adulterated product for sale it violates Interstate Commerce, at least in the US. You can check your statutes. I would imagine they are the same.

3. Because aspartame is a carcinogen and admitted by FDA themselves: http://www.wnho.net/the_fda_fable.htm

4. It violates the Delaney Amendment in the US: http://www.wnho.net/delaney_lives.htm

5. In America an additive must be inert by law, or non-reactive, no biologic effects. Aspartame is a drug that interacts with all drugs and vaccines. It has a synergistic and additive effect with MSG. http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_interacts.htm

A safe sweetener has been approved in the US and New Zealand called Just Like Sugar. An analysis showed it to only contains chicory (used for 70 years to improve the health of the diabetic) and orange peel, as well as Vitamin C and Calcium. More information about it is on http://www.mpwhi.com I understand it won't be long until gum is made with this safe product.

I will be on New Zealand Radio today (Thursday, 21 June 2007) at 3:15 P.M., EST, here in Atlanta. It's KIWI FM.

Please do add this to your newsfeed so that more people will understand the seriousness of using aspartame laced gum. Please contact me if I can help further. Here is the timeline and history of aspartame from the UK Ecologist. It will take time to load, cover story, and 17 pages: http://www.mpwhi.com/ecologist_september_2005.doc

Sincerely,

Dr. Betty Martini
Founder, Mission Possible World Health International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770-242-2599
E-Mail: BettyM19@mindspring.com
http://www.wpwhi.com
http://www.whno.net
http://www.dorway.com

Aspartame Toxiocity Center: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame