Aspartame Warning - Multiple Sclerosis Society

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Ms. Paula Cortner
Multiple Sclerosis Society
4606 E. 67th Street
Suite 103
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74136

Dear Ms. Cortner:

You spoke to my husband about the World Environmental Conference at
which I lectured in l995. You're the first person from the MS Society
to contact me in the 6 years since then. Enclosed is my invitation to
speak and you can go to www.dorwway.com/nomarkle.html for additional
confirmation, including my correspondence with the keynote speaker, Dr.
Clarice Gaylord, who said: "We have an epidemic of MS and lupus and
can't identify the toxin." I responded, "I'm Betty Martini of Mission
Possible and I'm here to lecture on MS and lupus and identify the toxin
as NutraSweet."

The MS Society has had the facts for years, yet calls the conference and
my lectures a "hoax". After the conference I wrote a report to Dr.
Rivner on a neurological list and explained we indeed have an epidemic
of MS, and listed other diseases and symptoms on the FDA list of 92
deadly symptoms, including death, from 10,000 consumer complaints. You
can't get the report from FDA anymore since they protect the producers
of this poison, but its also on www.dorway.com with my complete
original post: www.dorway.com/nomarkle.html.

In l998 this post saturated the globe. Someone named Nancy Markle
changed the title, made some additions and published it under her name.
Markle's post was sent to Shoshanna Allison who's divorce was induced
by her husband's mood swings and lupus triggered by aspartame. He
ballooned to 400 lbs. She didn't want it to happen to anyone else and
put it on 450 networks and the Markle post became world news.

It didn't take long for people to learn I was the original author and
now my phone rings day and night with calls from NutraSweet victims.
The post was recently published in a Mexican newspaper as it has in many
other papers, newsletters and magazines. This fire cannot be put out
because Aspartame Disease is a plague in 100 countries. 2/3rds of the
US population use it. Victims go from doctor to doctor with mysterious
diseases that are undiagnosed Searle/Monsanto, FDA and professional
organizations funded by them, including the MS Society, lie about this
poison and pass it off as a safe additive. Doctors don't correlate
aspartame symptoms and diseases to the poison because they're told its
a safe FDA approved additive and, as required by law, is "inert". But
our laws have been trampled upon, violated to approve NutraSweet. Some
are outlined in a letter to the Justice Department enclosed. In 2,000
Monsanto sold NutraSweet which had been called their "cash cow", no
doubt because even with front professional organizations they bribe
defending them, they couldn't put out the fire.

As the post spread round the world people suffering read their symptoms
and found the answer to their suffering or that of their friends. They
figured they might as well get off it to see what happens. As their
symptoms disappeared they published the post, often with their case
histories.

Now the corporate guns leveled at this public information campaign.
Christine Gorman of Time Magazine wrote to discredit Markle's post,
calling it a scare program, but confessing: "I learned that Markle's
message is almost identical to an anti aspartame screed first penned
under a different name in l995." She had been on www.dorway.com , knew I
was the author, but didn't trouble to call me for verification or
evidence of aspartame toxicity. She was swamped with mail, but most
told me they got an auto-responder reply that she was too busy with the
mail to reply." Gorman knew the truth before she penned her smear. We
gave Time Magazine the l999 Irresponsible Journalism Award. Callers
were outraged that she lied, and some were stumbled like Phyllis who
resumed it and with it the grand mal seizures that stopped when she
first quit because of the Markle post.

Lauran Neergaard of the Associated Press wrote Debunking Internet Health
Alarms. So I called Ms. Neergaard who said: "But Mrs. Martini, we
didn't use your name." So the Associated Press lied, knowing all along
I was the author and could have called me for verification. Since she
knew I lectured for the World Environmental Conference she could have
used my name and given me the opportunity to explain to the press. But
facts are the last thing that interest our national press. They write
what their advertisers like. I answered many articles and sent
irrefutable evidence, but none wrote a retraction.

David Squillacote, M.D., Advisor of the MS Foundation published
misinformation on the MS web site, where it remains. I wrote him many
times and rebutted the deception of information on aspartame. He
refuses to answer or even acknowledge my correspondence. Yet aspartame
victims with MS symptoms tell me the outrageous things the MS Society is
saying. One man said "They told me their lawyers were looking for you."
I replied, "They shouldn't have any problem finding me - all they have
to do is answer my letters. Furthermore, if people in Hong Kong can
find me what is their problem?. My phone number is even on web."

Aspartame destroys the central nervous system and mimics MS. Because of
the cries of victims who found out, four support groups were set up on
line. As victims misdiagnosed with MS got off the toxin and got well, I
sent the case histories to the MS Society. Not a peep, they prefer to
lie! I founded Mission Possible International in l993 and have sent
them pounds of damning documentation. World Famous H. J. Roberts, M.D.
has declared Aspartame Disease a global plague, and wrote the position
paper attached, Multiple Sclerosis or Aspartame Disease? Dr Roberts
informed the MS Society years before I got started. They turn a blind
eye to the facts. How much payola did they get over the years from
Searle, Monsanto, Coke, NutraSweet, etc to kill the truth as well as
thousands of victims? At an MS walk here in Atlanta they fought to stop
us from distributing medical documents on aspartame and MS while they
gave walkers Diet Coke.

Studies been done proving aspartame destroys the central nervous system.
In South America in l983/84 Searle sacrificed people in poor villages,
some of whom did not survive the studies. The studies were translated
and an affidavit from the translator is attached. Neither Searle or
Monsanto will publish negative studies on aspartame. Ralph Walton,
M.D., explained on 60 Minutes that only studies funded by the
manufacturer said aspartame was safe but 92% of independent peer
reviewed research showed problems, and if you skip one pro-aspartame
review and 6 studies by the FDA whose loyalty is to the manufacturer,
not the consumer - 100% of independent research on aspartame is
negative.

Cynthia Crossen in her book THE TAINTED TRUTH; THE MANIPULATION OF FACT
IN AMERICA, says "The road to hell was paved with the flood of corporate
research dollars which in 1991 had burgeoned to over $2.1 billion.
Researchers are working for people who don't like negative findings and
who aren't likely to fund further research by those who produce them.
.. In today's corporate-dominated information market truth has become to
belong to those who commission it." It couldn't have been said any
better. Monsanto funded the aspartame for Dr. Dianna Dow-Edwards to do
a study on aspartame and birth defects. But when the study turned
disastrous Monsanto withdrew their aspartame and refused to accept it as
did their loyal FDA. This May, 2001, Ed Horton, Editor of the England's
prestigious Lancet wrote that the FDA has become a servant of industry.

See on the FDA report attached that dizziness is so prevalent it is #2
of 92 symptoms. Note the many other neurological symptoms triggered by
this neurotoxin. The MRI and Cat Scan business is booming! Doctors
seeing aspartame victims with MS symptoms scratch their head, often
saying: "Your cat scan and MRI are negative but you have the symptoms
of MS." Many are misdiagnosed as having MS as was Joyce Wilson, history
attached. She went blind on aspartame, was misdiagnosed as having MS.
Had her doctor known the truth and warned her off she might be alive
today. Too late she was correctly diagnosed as dying of methanol
toxicity from aspartame by Dr. Morgan Raiford, a specialist in methanol
toxicity. I have her last letter to Senator Metzenbaum, pleading "It's
too late for me, please warn others." She did not live to see her
grandchildren.

MS Society could have warned consumers off aspartame for years, instead
of handing them Diet Cokes while possessing full proof of toxicity.
That's close to murder! Corporate-funded organizations funded don't
warn us because they are fronts, paid to deceive us! Recently Rutgers
University had a conference on mysterious diseases - doctors simply
could not understand. You will be happy to know Dr. H. J. Roberts took
care of the problem by publishing a 1038 page medical text: ASPARTAME
DISEASE; THE IGNORED EPIDEMIC, 800-814-9800 or www.sunsentpress.com .

The chapter on drug interaction explains aspartame is not an inert
additive. It interacts with insulin, antidepressants, Coumadin,
Dilaudid, Cardiac Rx and even L-dopa. A chapter advises physicians how
to treat aspartame victims. Suspected Multiple Sclerosis is on page 231
where Dr. Roberts says: "My observations justify the conviction that no
patient suspected of having multiple sclerosis (MS) who consumes
aspartame products should have the diagnosis finalized until being
observed many months after abstaining from them."

More than 50 aspartame reactors had presumed multiple sclerosis. Dozens
of case reports validate the Doctor's notation of what could be called
"sham MS". Aspartame disease whole neurologic features are accompanied
by visual symptoms (Chapter IV). Roberts' emphasis upon this issue is
greatly significanct in view of recent consensus statements recommending
vigorous drug intervention therapy for early MS including patients with
"clinically isolated syndromes" such as an attack of optic neuritis.
These agents - including interferon beta 1b, interferon beta 1, and
glatiramer acetate - can have serious side effects.

Several diagnostic pitfalls are emphasized. For example, the finding of
minor abnormalities in a few small areas by a CT scan or MRI studies is
NOT necessarily diagnostic of multiple sclerosis (see Case IV-19). The
engineer-father of a young female aspartame reactor who had been
misdiagnosed as having MS carefully scrutinized the available medical
and biochemical literature, including the alteration of myelin after
injection of synthetic peptides.

He wrote:

"I am identifying aspartame as a possible causal factor of central
nervous system problems because of the inexplicable outbreak of MS-like
symptoms across the nation. Can aspartame be initiating a chemical
process in the body that could subsequently produce some of the same
symptoms that would otherwise be attributed to MS?

Can aspartame cause the body to attack its own myelin, thereby
generating CNS lesions and MS-like effects in people that could be
mistakenly diagnosed as MS? Perhaps the molecular mimicry premise
provides the key to understanding MS."

Page 236 - MECHANISMS: The selective localization of lesions in
multiple sclerosis require comment. I have attributed them in large
measure to energy (glucose) deprivation and fluid retention within the
central nervous system (Roberts l966b,c). Aspartame disease involves
both, as well as direct neurotoxicity. Indeed, aspartame-induced
dysfunction of nerve cells and their axons may have greater importance
than myelin changes.

"Significant biochemical differencees are known to exist in various
central tracts, even though they may appear identical histologically.
The concentration of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity, for
example, is three to four times greater in the heavily myelinated
central tracts than the lightly myelinated ones, whereas the reverse
applies for glutamic aspartic transaminase (McDougal l961, l964).

"This orientation is germane because fluid retention is enhanced by the
hyperinsulized state (Chapter XIV) and impaired water metabolism
(Chapter IX-F). The ingress of water into myelin can disrupt its
intermolecular cohesion and functional integrity (Vanderheuvel l964).

"An autoimmune response may be triggered by aspartame (Chapter VIII).
The possible mechanisms include formaldehyde-induced protein changes
(Chapter XXl), and increased leukotrienes, 15-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic
acid, and other arachidonic acid metabolites after the exposure of
macrophages to aspartame (Hardcastle l997)."

Sites on the Internet mislead the public to think aspartame is a safe or
that my post was a hoax. Included are David Emery's Urban Legends,
David of Snopes and Dr. Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch. Dr. Barrett has
recently been sued including even racketeering. This issue was
recently in the Miami Herald who used Urban Legends misinformation. I
have written David Emery many times and he has seen my invitation to
speak and the facts on www.dorway.com/nomarkle.html I answered his
questions but he continues to mislead the public. Under Title 18,
Section 1001 it is a crime to mislead the public. Ed Johnson, former
U.S. Attorney has written both David Emery of Urban Legends and David of
Snopes. The Miami Herald has the facts and were told by many people.
However, they too refuse to retract, preferring to peddle lies. Was the
reporter ashamed of having not checked out the issue so did not retract
his erroneous information because then the public would be apprised of
his inferior skill? Or, is it industry influence?

Noted critic A. J. Liebling acidly observed that "Freedom of the Press
belongs only to those who own one."

But death and disability aren't acceptable costs of business. J P
Hobson wrote to Dr. Doris Derelian, President of the American Dietetic
Association: "Your sellout to commercial profiteers shames the ADA and
all it's members. The stench of hypocrisy is so unendurable I must
resign my 21 year Registered Dietitian status as an act of conscience.
I'll be no part of an organization that pimps poisons in the name of
nutrition."

Susan was a woman with MS before she began using aspartame. After she
quit she wrote: "I can feel my limbs for the first time in years." Dr.
Russell Blaylock, Neurosurgeon, said in the attached letter: "Second
there is good reason to suspect that aspartame can exacerbate the
symptoms of MS being that it contains at least two toxins - aspartate
and methanol. We now know that exacerbations of MS symptoms is
associated, in most cases, by the activation of plague formation. And
that around these plaques the blood brain barrier (BBB) is disrupted."

Many aspartame victims were misdiagnosed as having MS. Dave Q wrote
after he quit: NutraSweet:: "I was lucky, I eventually recovered. I
went from CPMS wheelchair phase to biking the LA Marathon." Ermelle
Martinez began aspartame in medical school. She was diagnosed as
having MS and was ready for a wheelchair, barely able to walk.

Fortunately a nurse gave her Dr. Roberts position paper MS or Aspartame
Disease? Today Ermelle is 90% improved and can run and swim. She has
remarried because her ex-husband divorced her because he thought she
could not have children. Aspartame changes the menses and triggers
infertility . At 46 she is ovulating off aspartame but its too late for
children. Aspartame shattered her life, prevented her from being either
physician or parent.

Lawyer Richard Almon wrote "I was eventually diagnosed with MS -- a
diagnosis my neurologist later recanted when I made a complete
recovery." Alicia Morris, who drank 3 Diet Cokes a day was
misdiagnosed as having MS by two physicians. Five weeks off aspartame
all symptoms disappeared in l994 and have never returned. The text,
Aspartame Disease: The Ignored Epidemic by H. J. Roberts, M.D., and the
pak of information enclosed gives you the facts on aspartame with regard
to MS. I sincerely hope you will make a difference.

For many years I wore rose colored glasses, believing people would do
the right thing when they knew the truth.

I could not even conceive there could be so much wickedness in this
country that corporations and government agencies would willingly
destroy the truth and sacrifice our lives for lucre. Allen L. Forbes,
M.D., former Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, FDA, wrote: "When
we sit back and look at it, we live in a sea of nutrition misinformation
directed to the general public." FDA turned its back on the bitter
agony of millions, disabled, destroyed, divorced, childless, parents to
chldren with horrible defects, condemned to grieve and suffer innocently
and die decades too soon as the consequence of their venal pride, greed,
careerism and blindness.

So now, Paula, you know our mission: To cry the alarm till no table
bears blue paks of rat poison, and no lives are mangled by this
mercenary malevolence. I hope with this knowledge you too will help.

All my best,
Mrs. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible International
bettym19@mindspring.com
770 242-2599
www.dorway.com

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