LETTER TO ROGER SCHLUETER REGARDING YOUR COMMENTS ON ASPARTAME IN THE BELLEVILLE NEWS-DEMOCRAT

By Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.
Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
Telephone: 770-242-2599
E-Mail: BettyM19@mindspring.com
Web Site: http://www.mpwhi.com



Posted: 14 November 2007


From: Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum., Bettym19@mindspring.com
To: Schlueter@bnd.com
Date: Tue, Nov 13, 2007 9:16 pm
Subject: Regarding your comments on aspartame, Belleville News-Democrat


Dear Mr. Schlueter:

Regarding your comments, please write a retraction. I'm the one who lectured for the World Environmental Conferences. You will see my invitation to speak on http://www.dorway.com/nomarkle.html

Secondly, all the diseases that I lectured on are documented in the medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, http://www.sunsentpress.com by H. J. Roberts, M.D., who testified before Congress and took care of aspartame victims in the trenches of medical practice. Multiple Sclerosis is on the front of the 1000 page text. It is filled with neurodegenerative diseases, symptoms, diabetes and other horrors including drug interaction triggered by aspartame.

Secondly, when Dr. Gaylord of the EPA at this conference made the comment that there was an epidemic of MS and lupus and they couldn't identify the toxin I answered by saying I was there to lecture on MS and lupus and identify the toxin as NutraSweet. On that same page on DORway you will see some of the emails she sent, especially when the EPA refused to give the facts. The email made world news. Monsanto could not put out the fire and sold the NutraSweet Company. MS victims keep walking out of wheelchairs off aspartame and other symptoms completely disappeared. Victims by the thousands found out what poisoned them.

Confirming the epidemic of MS is a new report: http://www.mpwhi.com/new_report_at_neurology_conference.htm Note this contain Dr. Russell Blaylock's paper on the MS and aspartame connection. He is author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, http://www.russellblaylockmd.com Also in this report is the case of Kim Evans who proved to her neurologist it was aspartame by going back on it and have the symptoms recur.

As to Snopes, the man who runs this has seen all the evidence and continues to lie about it. Note this letter to him which contains another letter from Ed Johnson, Atty, who worked in the Justice Department telling him the information he is giving out is false. He was reported to the Justice Department under Title 18, Section 1001, purposely stumbling the public with full knowledge. http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_no_hoax.htm

One woman, Cori Brackett, also walked out of a wheelchair after abstaining from aspartame. She is co-founder of Sound and Fury Productions, http://www.soundandfury.tv She had a very large lesion after being diagnosed with MS, and drank diet pop for years. She could not walk and could barely talk. Eight months after abstaining her large lesion all but disappeared. The same thing happened with Ermelle Martinez who was about wheelchair bound. She also had a very large lesion which disappeared. She is now Mission Possible LA. You can get a copy of this Aspartame documentary with world experts at the above web site. It's titled: Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World.

As to that foolish review in Toxicology it's junk science funded by an aspartame manufacturer. You will find a reply below my signature.

Again, please retract the article trying to make a consumer believe its not true. It is all documented, and I assure you this letter will be posted all over the Internet with the web sites. As to the woman whose sister had MS they got in touch with me years ago. It is true.

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.
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


ASPARTAME REVIEW IN TOXICOLOGY

The Aspartame Review in Toxicology is junk science funded by an aspartame manufacturer, Ajinomoto. As Mike Adams wrote in New Target, "This conclusion was reached by a panel of industry friendly "experts" hired by Ajinomoto, who did no new research but, instead, selectively reviewed previous studies on the safety of aspartame (many of which were funded by aspartame manufacturers in the first place)."

Further he said, "The panel of experts was called together by the Burdock Group, a consulting firm that earns its money from food and grocery manufacturers like Ajinomoto. The Ajinomoto Company was reportedly not allowed to actually choose which panel members would be part of the aspartame safety review, but industry critics like Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), responded by saying, "They say Ajinomoto paid for the study but researchers didn't know who paid. Well, they knew it was industry. And some of these people are longstanding industry consultants."

As an example: Take Ronald Walker (Critical Reviews in Toxicology)

Ronald Walker

  1. Spent seven (7) years as the ILSI's Chairman of their Scientific Committee on Toxicology/Food Safety in Europe. ILSI is funded by Monsanto, Ajinomoto, Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola, Holland Sweetener Company, etc. [See below for more information about ILSI.]

  2. Direct financial conflicts of interest:

    1. Consultant for DSM Nutritional Products: Sells "Twinsweet" from Holland Sweetener Company which is a mixture of aspartame and acesulfame-k.Web site contains aspartame advocacy articles written by Holland Sweetener Company. (Incidentally Holland Sweetener Company no longer makes aspartame. It wasn't profitable anymore. Millions are being warned off aspartame.)

    2. Cantox Health Sciences. A corporate regulatory advocacy company. Helped write Monsanto's Roundup backgrounder (co-authored by president of Cantox) and has numerous corporate clients. Dr. Ian Munro, President of Cantox co-authored by review (along with NutraSweet employees)of aspartame calling the aspartame toxicity debate a "nonissue."

  3. Wrote a glowing review of Ajinomoto product, monosodium glutamate (MSG) for a symposium funded by Ajinomoto trade group, International Glutamate Technical Committee (IGTC). It is of note that the IGTC hid aspartame in drink mixes given to the "control" group in MSG experiments from 1978 through 1993. This was, of course, not mentioned by Dr. Walker in the review.
Any inclusion of Dr. Walker in any discussion or vote related to aspartame is an insult to scientific integrity.

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ILSI Information:

On January 9, 2003, The Guardian reported that they obtained a confidential report relating to the food industry experts "infiltrating" the World Health Organization (WHO) Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) committees (Guardian 2003). The report found that:

"One industry-led organization, International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), has positioned its experts and expertise across the who spectrum of food and tobacco policies: at conferences, on FAO/WHO food policy committees and within WHO, and with monographs, journals and technical briefs." (Guardian 2003)

The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is an industry group founded in 1978 by Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Heinz Foundation, General Foods, Kraft Foods (owned by Philip Morris), and Proctor & Gamble. Manufacturers of aspartame, Monsanto and Ajinomoto, have branches in various parts of the world that have separate memberships in the ILSI. Holland Sweetener Company, another company that sells aspartame, is a member of ILSI (ILSI 2003, Guardian 2003). The ILSI funds research on aspartame and other industry concerns. The ILSI Aspartame Committee is made up of the NutraSweet Company, Ajinomoto Co., Coca Cola Co., Pepsico, Inc., Royal Crown Co., Seven-Up, Inc., and other manufacturers of aspartame-containing products [Gordon 1987].

As Mike Adams continued, "What we have here is a case of yet more pro-aspartame propaganda being paraded around as legitimate science. It's really more of a junk science fraud fest designed to prop up the aspartame industry a little longer even as new science keeps coming out showing the chemical sweetener to be potentially quite dangerous to health.

"For the Ajinomoto Company to fund a review by paying money to an industry-friendly consulting groups that coincidentally happens to find aspartame to be perfectly safe strains credibility to such a degree that only a fool would put any weight in this announcement. It's like the R. J. Reynolds Company announcing nicotine is not addictive or Coca-Cola declaring that high fructose corn syrup does not promote obesity.

"Of course aspartame is dangerous to human health. The chemicals it breaks down into (which includes small amounts of formaldehyde) are documented as nervous system toxins. In the natural health industry, aspartame is well known to be an "excitotoxin" -- a substance that harms and kills nerve cells. On top of that, there are literally hundreds of thousands of accounts of people suffering with aspartame consumption. No other food or beverage ingredient has generated more consumer complaints to the FDA that aspartame."

Today there is a 1000 page medical text on the world plague - Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, http://www.russellblaylockmd.com Even a movie that exposes Don Rumsfeld for being responsible for getting this toxin marketed when the FDA said "no". He was CEO of Searle at the time. After the FDA revoked the petition for approval http://www.mpwhi.com/fda_petition1.doc and even tried to have the manufacturer indicted for fraud (Defense team hired the US Prosecutors) Rumsfeld said he would call in his markers and get aspartame marketed. He was on President Reagan's transition team, and the day after Reagan took office he appointed Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA Commissioner to do the deadly deed. Knowing it would take about 30 days to get Hayes to the FDA he actually wrote an executive order making the FDA powerless to do anything about aspartame until Hayes got there. He over-ruled the Board of Inquiry and then went to work for the PR Agency of the manufacturer for $1000.00 on a ten year contract. See it all in Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, http://www.soundandfury.tv

Mike Adams at News Target summed it up this way: "TRYING TO PROP UP A CHEMICAL THAT WILL SOON BE ILLEGAL: The days of aspartame's dominance as a sweetener are nearly over." .....

Splenda is a chlorocarbon poison: http://www.wnho.net/splenda_chlorocarbon.htm Stay away from it as well.

In many countries they now have Just Like Sugar which is safe and made from chicory and orange peel, http://www.justlikesugarianc.com

So don't be fooled by this review in Toxicology, its just junk science, another attempt to stumble the public into using a product that once was listed with the pentagon in an inventory of prospective biochemical warfare weapons submitted to Congress. Read it in NutraPoison on http://www.dorway.com It's also in the Ecologist with a time line: http://www.mpwhi.com/ecologist_september_2005.pdf

When you call Ajinomoto on lying they simply don't answer because they can't. Read the Open Letter to Ajinomoto: http://www.wnho.net/ajinomotoletter.htm

Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.
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


Q. Someone just sent me one of those chain e-mails in which a woman claims she has a sister who thought she was developing multiple sclerosis only to find she was being poisoned by aspartame. As soon as the woman stopped drinking diet soda, her symptoms disappeared. The letter goes on to blame the artificial sweetener for a litany of health woes, including lupus, fibromyalgia, depression, blurred vision and birth defects. Any truth to this?

-- S.I., of Edwardsville

A. You couldn't have written at a better time. The largest study yet of the substance was published just last month in Critical Reviews of Toxicology and the findings were sweet for aspartame users.

Looking at more than 500 toxicological, clinical and epidemiological studies from the past 30 years, international experts from 10 universities concluded that aspartame does not promote cancer; does not cause memory or learning problems; has no effect on behavior, thinking or seizures; and does not affect reproduction or lactation.

The e-mail you received and ones like it have been orbiting in cyberspace since 1995. Many are filled with accounts of people who don't exist and conferences that cannot be documented and talk about disease processes that aren't fully explained.

Not that I expect this will be the last word on the subject by any means. In fact, I fully expect many irate messages this week accusing the researchers and me of being shills for the aspartame industry. All I can do is point out that the bulk of scientific evidence does not support such a link.

Now, in fairness, I must point out this latest study was funded by the Ajinomoto Co., which manufactures aspartame. But over the years, any number of independent experts have come to the same conclusion, including the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, the United Kingdom Food Standards Agency and doctors at MIT and Johns Hopkins University. Check out both sides of the study at urban legends.about.com or http://www.snopes.com

Send your questions to Roger Schlueter, Belleville News-Democrat, 120 S. Illinois St., P.O. Box 427, Belleville, IL 62222-0427 or email to Schlueter@bnd.com