Subject: For Global Release:  Sudden Death Epidemic, Athletes are
   dropping like Flies ---- The Aspartame Correlation   - Dr. Bowen
   discusses  death of John Ritter.  Contact Betty Martini, 770 242-2599,
   Mission Possible intl, www.dorway.com

The CDC reports that Sudden Cardiac Death, the nation's #1 killer ended the
lives of 460,000 Americans in 1999.  SCD is a catastrophe in which the
heart stops abruptly without warning.  It kills its victims within
minutes.  It is estimated that 95% of victims die before reaching the
hospital.  Often SCD happens to outwardly healthy people with no known
heart problems; high school, college and professional athletes and
thousands of children.

New York State has mandated automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) be
provided for all schools and athletic events on campus or off.  Illinois
passed a similar law.  In California they talk of making defibrillators as
common as fire extinguishers.

The Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association donated 73 AEDS so all of their
school gyms and playing fields will be equipped to fight this
devastation.  The Philadelphia School District estimates 7,000-10,000
American children and youths die annually from SCD.  Said Chief of
Cardiology Victoria Vetter, M.D. at the Children's Hospital "I diagnose,
treat and follow hundreds of children from the Philadelphia region with
cardiac issues."  On 9/12 came the tragic report of 13 year old Emil
Gadjev's collapse and death while playing soccer here in Atlanta.

Sudden Cardiac Death is not a "heart attack" or myocardial infarction,
caused by clogged arteries.  Its an electrical problem in which the cardiac
conduction system that generates the impulses regulating the heart suddenly
output rapid or chaotic electrical impulses, or both.  The heart ceases its
rhythmic contractions, the brain is starved of oxygen and the victim loses
consciousness in seconds.

It was only yesterday  in a conversation with Dr. James Bowen about
aspartame and sudden death in athletes  he said findings were pointing a
finger at this toxin.  "Both the shock from strenuous athletics in
combination with aspartame consumption, and stresses lead to activation of
shock mechanism including the elaboration of Arginine vasopressin in the
hypothalamus which results in cerebral edema and cardiac congestion and
pulmonary edema in combination with severe potassium wastage which is a
sure ticket to sudden death, especially in the face of the many damages
inflicted by aspartame.  Since aspartame is already well known for causing
neuroendocrine abnormalities such serotonin elevations and suppression in
various areas of the brain, along with depletion of dopamine, due to its
phenylalanine isolate poisoning and hypothalamic damage from its extreme
neuroexcitotoxin effect and formaldehyde formic acid poisoning especially
focused in the hypothalamus, I would expect anyone with expertise in these
areas could verify the direct effect of aspartame poisoning in producing
the fatal aberrant shock mechanism in those exposed to it.  The mere
occurrence of severe athletic stress does not do so by itself."

Aspartame triggers an irregular heart rhythm, and interacts with cardiac
medication.  It damages the cardiac conduction system  and causes sudden
death.  What Dr. Bowen is saying, of course, is that its not just hitting
their hearts but hypothalamus and neuroendocrine system.  It exacerbates
the damages to the cardiac conduction system - it exacerbates the
arrhythmia because of the cardiac conduction system damage, taking down the
athletes from both directions and its synergistic.

Of interest is the report of the Telegraph in the UK having to do with an
investigation of why children having mild seizures that normally don't
cause death die before they can get to a hospital.  Dr. Bowen
responded:  "Sudden death during seizures is almost always from cardiac
standstill due to arrhythmias.  There are several ways that this is due to
aspartame damage.  Aspartame and methyl alcohol poisoning are noted for
damaging myocardium and the specialized form of  myocardium called the
cardiac conduction system.  This kind of damage leads to susceptibility to
arrhythmias.  The aspartame and methyl alcohol poisoning cause immense
damage to the mitochondria and to MtDNA which perpetuates the mitochondria
damage.  The myocardium and cardiac conduction system never get to
rest.  They are constantly at work pumping blood, therefore they are very
highly concentrated in mitochondria to accommodate the metabolic needs of
this tremendous work load.  Therefore, mitochondrial damage is more highly
reflected in the heart.  Damaged mitochondria produce increased amounts of
free radicals and other abnormal metabolites that produce arrhythmias.  The
person using NutraSweet may have a markedly decreased intake of mineral and
vitamin co-enzyme factors which also sensitizes the heart to
arrhythmias.  Seizures always put unusual demands on the cardiorespiratory
system and seizures due to NutraSweet occur more frequently and in spite of
otherwise adequate antiseuzure medication.  Aspartame creates unusual
medical toxicity from the antiseizure medication.  It should be no surprise
then that people are dropping dead from this aspect of aspartame toxicity."

In Nov 1984 the Center for Disease Control reviewed 213 of 592 cases of
aspartame complaints.  Some of these included cardiac arrest. seizures,
disorientation, hyperactivity, extreme numbness, excitability, memory loss,
loss of depth perception, liver impairment, severe mood swings and even
DEATH.  Frederick L. Trowbridge added an executive summary to the report
which conflicted with the information in the report and said that the
complaints were generally of a mild nature.  Obviously experts would
disagree that such things as seizures, cardiac arrest and DEATH are "mild"
problems.  Then the CDC put the summary on their web site which is where
you will find it, and left off the investigation so the public would not
get the real facts.  But it is on www.dorway.com  for anyone who wants to
read the 146 page investigation.  When I asked the CDC why they allowed
this phony summary, their only excuse was "Dr. Trowbridge is now
retired".  It would save a lot of lives if government agencies like the FDA
and CDC would give the public the facts.  When those responsible to solve
the problem ARE the problem its a sad commentary.  They have become simply
branch offices of the manufacturers of this neurotoxin.

The sudden death of John Ritter on Sept 12 stunned the nation.  It was
discussed on the news by Roy Flood, M.D., that he died from an undiagnosed
dissection of the aorta.  While we don't even know if Ritter used
aspartame, Dr. Flood mentioned this is usually triggered by having
hypertension for several years and aspartame causes this "big time."

H. J. Roberts, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.C.C.P.  is a world renowned Board
Certified and Recertified Internist who declared Aspartame Disease to be a
global plague and published the medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored
Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com  He is an internationally known medical
consultant and independent researcher.  He is the Director of the Palm
Beach Institute for Medical Research since l964 and a member of prestigious
medical and scientific organizations.  They include the American College of
Physicians, the Endocrine Society and the American Academy of
Neurology.  The editors of a national medical publication selected Dr.
Roberts as "The Best Doctor in the U.S."  He has been knighted by the Order
of St. George for his professional and humanitarian effort.  His first
text, Difficult Diagnosis, was used by 60,000 doctors, especially to
prepare for their Board examinations.

Dr. Roberts says in Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic about
aspartame  and hypertension:   "Increased brain phenylalanine can elevate
norepinephrine levels becoming clinically manifest as hypertension.  A
comparable phenomenon has been demonstrated in spontaneously hypertensive
rats.  Another plausible mechanism involves increased phenylalanine
metabolites, especially dopamine, in the presence of excess
insulin.  Tourian (l985) demonstrated that insulin potentiates the
synthesis of phenylalanine hydroxylase in tissue cultures."

He also says:  "The documentation of essential hypertension in an
insulin-resistant state associated with hyperinsulinemia (Ferrannini l987),
but independent of obesity, is germane because many aspartame reactors have
reactive hypoglycemia.  furthermore, phenylalanine increases insulin
release.  In the face of continued hyperinsulinemia, the down regulation of
insulin receptors (and ensuing decreased insulin action), the increased
reabsorption of sodium and sympathetic stimulation can exaggerate
hypertension."

Dr. Roberts says:  "Other clinical observations suggest a relationship
between phenylalanine and tyramine.  Severe hypertension may occur when
increased tyramine (present in certain cheeses and alcoholic beverages) is
consumed by persons taking monoamine oxidase inhibitors and cough cold
preparation or appetite suppressants that continue ephedrine, phenylephrine
or phenylpropanolamine."

Two-thirds of the population is using aspartame and its hard to avoid.  So
while we don't know at this point if John Ritter was consuming it, Dr.
Bowen  said:  "The death of John Ritter highlights another possible ill
resulting from the ingestion of aspartame.  Aspartame is well recognized
among its victims for causing connective tissue diseases in their body.  Since much of the aorta consists of fibroelastic connective tissue
it would only be logical aspartame would also cause degeneration of this vital tissue."

He also said  "Aspartame really doesn't spare any structure or system in
the body so its not logical to try and mentally isolate it to a few
structures or few systems of the body.  In fact, the FDA identified 92
documented symptoms triggered by aspartame including death, the ultimate
symptom."

The  Atlanta Journal Constitution on 9/11 wrote:    "Sudden death in high
school athletes is a topic that has received a lot of attention
recently".  It mentioned some children have serious heart conditions that
have not been diagnosed.  Dr. Bowen remarked, "In many cases  aspartame
victims may have had pre-existent or congenital undiagnosed cardiac
problems.  The fatal abnormalities induced by NutraSweet would have quicker
and greater effect on these unfortunate individuals."

The article in the AJC discusses accidents that may have been caused by
sudden cardiac arrest. It brings to mind the death of Sonny Bono who had an
accident while skiing and hit a tree.  The newspaper reported Bono was not
drinking alcohol, only a "Diet Coke".  Aspartame also causes confusion and disorientation,
memory loss, etc. 

One pilot who asked that Mission
Possible start an Aviation Div which we did said:  "Dumb I'm not, but I
couldn't make a decision on aspartame and crashed my plane into a
tree."  And yes, there are now defibrillators on planes.  Pilot Neill,
American Airlines, was drinking a diet drink and died in flight.  The
Captain landed the plane for the body to be removed and to get a  new
co-pilot.    An unauthorized autopsy was requested by American but they
refused to allow his widow to see the results.

The New England Journal of Medicine published the article "Magnitude of
Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Risk of Sudden Death in Hypertrophic
Cardiomyopathy."   Dr. Bowen said: "Yes, that is what aspartame does !"

One article on Cardiomyopathy and Its Relation to Exercise:  Sudden Death
in Athletes
"http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/`excs597k/carpender/sdathletes.htm
says:  "According to the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta 100,000
young athletes die each year from all cardio-vascular disorders, including
cardiomyopathy, as a result of participation in sports.  This is twice as
many as due in auto accidents.  Of the 100,000 who die annually, 45,000 of
them play basketball, not boxing or football.

An article in Science in the last year which was discussed in the Atlanta
Journal Constitution said  450,000 people each year are victims of sudden
death.  An article back in 2001 by the Journal of Athletic Training
reported:   "In the US each year, sudden cardiac arrest kills 350,000,
which is approximately 1000 people per day." ..... "The exact incidence of
sudden cardiac arrest in athletes is unknown because no universal, standard
surveillances method is used."  So the figures could even be greater.

 *** President Bush had a fainting spell and claimed this was due to a
pretzel.  Blackouts are common  in aspartame victims and President Bush is
constantly drinking Diet Coke.  An interesting article on Medscape is
titled Syncope (fainting) as a predictor of sudden cardiac arrest.  Kathy
Fulford (now Mission Possible Camilla, Georgia)  was certain she was dying
and was having blackouts and one day almost hit a car head on.  Her friend
Darlene wanted to find out what was killing Kathy.  Ten doctors were unable
to diagnose the cause of her problems, mainly because the FDA, aspartame
manufactures and professional organizations funded by the manufacturer push
propaganda.  She put her symptoms into the Internet and came up on
www.dorway.com  She got off aspartame and all problems disappeared.   She
said her neighbor, a 46 year old beautician, drank Diet Coke from the time
she got up until she went to bed and her mind was going.  She, too, had
blackouts and was found dead on the floor.

Probably the worst case is that of Charles Fleming, who drank 10 diet
drinks a day and other aspartame products.  He became ill after playing
basketball and died.  His autopsy was classic of death by aspartame.  It
showed the pulmonary edema that is often evident.  Dr. H. J. Roberts wrote
an article published in Townsend Letter for Doctors on this.  It also
showed the chronic methanol poisoning and it is this that affects the
dopamine system of the brain and causes the addiction.  Methanol is
classified as a narcotic, and is one of the three components of
aspartame.  It also showed the fatty liver.  The Trocho Study in Spain in
1998 showed that the formaldehyde converted from the methanol accumulates
in the cells and damages DNA with most toxicity in the liver.  It also
showed the usual cardiac damage.  The police did not know that aspartame
causes chronic methanol poisoning (one of the reason it mimics MS -
destroys the central nervous system) and thought his wife murdered him even
though she passed their polygraph test which was not admitted in
court.  She was sentenced to 50 years in prison where she remains in Troy,
Virginia, so frightened, a woman who was a Sunday School teacher and helped the
homeless.  Aspartame caused her to lose her husband, her home, her children
and her freedom.  A film production company making an aspartame documentary
recently interviewed her.

Dr. Bowen wrote:  "The death of Charles Flemming, an athlete who died after
consuming very large amounts of aspartame and creatine both of which lead
to the formation and release of large amounts of methanol in the body upon
their consumption has led me to review the medical literature in related
topics because his wife was falsely imprisoned for poisoning him with
methanol which she never had any access to nor were any proper forensics
applied to really identify the source of the methanol poisoning from which
he apparently died.  Charles had used large amounts of Gatorade and dumped
in lots of creatine, three times the recommended dose.  Aspartame and
Creatine are both N methyl esters.  They are both substrates from which the
body by obligatory mechanism forms methanol and thus they are additive in
their effect of producing the highly destructive methanol - formaldehyde -
formic acid - carbon monoxide toxic axis in the human body.   Charles had
engaged in vigorous athletics - basketball.  My more complete review of
this, and the topics essential to the biochemical comprehension of the
issues that his death thereupon hinged, and in fact occurred are posted on
my web page at www.bowendrjim.com

"There have been a lot of similar deaths of well known athletes after
consuming creatine and sports drinks and then engaging in
forced/competitive athletic activities.  My article on aspartame and sudden
death gives a good foundation for understanding the condition your heart
and cardiac conduction system are left in if you consume aspartame.  The
acute activation of the methanol-formaldehyde-formic acid-carbon monoxide
toxic axis from concurrent use of creatine and aspartame is, of course, a
final blow to the already decomposed/compromised heart, and its conduction
system.  We, however, need sources to come forward and identify the fact
that all or most of the other mentioned suddenly demised athletes were
indeed aspartame consumers."

Charles Fleming was also using Ephedra which got a bad rap.  It is not the
ephedra but the aspartame, and there is an article about this on the web
site of the Idaho Observer, "Government attack on ephedra cover for
aspartame poisoning."  Of course, aspartame  interacts with most every drug
used to treat the problems it causes and is also a chemical
hypersensitization agent so it interacts with vaccines, toxins, etc.  And
it will interact with ephedra having to do with catecholamines.  These are
biologically achive amines, epinephrine and norepinephrine. derived from
the amino acid tyrosine.  They have marked effect on the nervous and
cardiovascular systems, metabolic rate, temperature and smooth
muscle.  Tyrosine is another breakdown product of aspartame.  The
phenylalanine is converted to tyrosine by the enzyme phenylalanine
hydroxylase.  Tyrosine undergoes a change to dihydroxphenylalanine
(levodopa) which then is transformed to dopamine. If a product is going to
be taken off the market because it interacts with aspartame, then the FDA
needs to immediately remove all cardiac medication, insulin,
antidepressants, anti-seizure medication, hormones, Lidocaine and even
Coumadin.  It doesn't end.  And pharmaceutical companies have been alerted
and refuse to even remove aspartame such as Pfizer making the Listerine
Strips which contain aspartame.  Over 50 people have called about having
seizures from these strips and Pfizer refuses to even now answer a
note.  Maxalt is a treatment for headaches by Merck, and headache is number
one on the FDA list of 92 symptoms from four types of seizures to coma and
death.  The problem is that Maxalt has aspartame in it.  They have been
written to and about for years, yet appear not to care what they are doing
to these victims.  As one lady said yesterday who suffered from Migraines
and other horrendous problems triggered by aspartame, "I use Maxalt but I
always have headaches."   Benadryl chewable for children has aspartame in
it.  The toxin triggers urticaria or hives big time, then they use Benadryl
which gives them more of the poison.  Aspartame is escalating asthma and
some of the asthma sprays have aspartame in it.  Nobody has a chance.  Yet
they remove ephedra which has been used for thousands of years so it can
take the rap for what aspartame is doing.

In March, 2003 when the Idaho Observer wrote that article on ephedra  as a
cover for aspartame poisoning they were writing about another athlete who
died, Baltimore Oriole's pitcher, Steve Bechler.  He died on February 17,
2003 and when Dr. Roberts spoke to Brown county medical examiner, Dr.
Joshua Perper, he was told the cause of death was hyperthermia which caused
multiple organ failure.  Bechler's temperature had reached a high of 108
degrees.  When Dr. Perper was asked how many diet drinks Bechler drank a
diet, he returned a blank stare indicting he was unaware of the fact
aspartame containing diet and sports drinks could have caused this man's
untimely death.  We have since researched the issue and found that Belcher
was concerned about his fluctuating weight, and drink lots of diet
drinks.  Dr. Bowen wrote an indepth report on aspartame raising temperature.

Dr. H. J. Roberts who was nominated for another prestigious award in
recognition for "important research accomplishment in the broad field of
metabolism, endocrinology, nutrition or for research which contributes to a
better understanding of the chemical changes occurring in disease"  has
written for years on aspartame and sudden death.  In his medical text,
Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com he said having
to do with aspartame and abnormal heart action:  "190 (16%) reactors
experienced detectable changes in their heart rate or rhythm after
consuming aspartame - including gum - and products that did not contain
caffeine.  They consisted of "fluttering" (palpitations), skipped beats and
rapid heart action (tachycardia).  A number underwent heart monitoring
(Holter testing) and other studies, especially when there had been
associated weakness and faint. "

   "One patient developed a slow pulse and complete heart block within
hours after consuming an aspartame drink for the first time.  His attack
spontaneously subsided within one day (without requiring a
pacemaker).  There has been no recurrence with aspartame avoidance.  . This
subject has relevance to reports of UNEXPLAINED SUDDEN DEATH in persons who
had been consuming considerable aspartame."

Of  hypertension he said that "64 aspartame reactors were found to have
elevation of their blood pressure - systolic, diastolic, or both.  Some
were in their twenties.  While aspartame products unequivocally cause
headache, superimposed hypertension can be a contributing factor.  .. Other
patients who had been treated for hypertension could not be adequately
controlled on their maintenance medication as long as they used
aspartame.  This reflects its interaction with various drugs." ...

  "The rapid heart action and the elevation of blood pressure presumably
reflect the effects of phenylalanine (an aspartame component) and its
metabolic products - dopamine, norepinephrine and epinephrine."  ....."85
aspartame reactors (7%), experienced unexplained pain in the chest.  (Many
others have atypical pain elsewhere in the body).  A number were subjected
to stress tests and angiograpy for coronary heart disease which proved
normal in the majority."

Dr. Roberts was  recently  published in Townsend Letter for Doctors an
article on "Aspartame Induced Dyspnea and Pulmonary Hypertension. " Dyspnea
is labored breathing.  This is what Charles Fleming suffered with for about
30 days before he died.  In Dr. Roberts medical text under Shortness of
Breath he says that 110 aspartame reactors (9%) who complained of otherwise
unexplained "shortness of breath" promptly improved after avoiding these
products.  They predictably suffered a recurrence on rechallenge.  Had he
only known he was killing himself with aspartame and quit, Fleming would be
alive today.

Dr. Roberts first text, Difficult Diagnosis, was used by 60,000 doctors,
especially to prepare for their Board examinations.  It was Dr. Roberts who
coined the phrase Aspartame Disease because its use is consistent with
Hippocratic writings.  The symptoms are predictable and there is a
pattern.  "When a large number of people all catch the same disease at the
same time, the cause must be ascribed to something common to
all."  (Rosenberg 1992).   It is appropriate because  this affliction
fulfills these four Koch-like postulates:

*  There is an identifiable cause.
*  Symptoms and signs follow such exposure and are reproducible in a given
     individual.
*  Improvement occurs after avoiding aspartame products (not always an easy
    feat).
*  The same complaints usually promptly recur on challenge.

At Dr. Roberts first press conference quoted in his first book on aspartame
in 1990 he said that if something wasn't done then in 5 or 10 years we
would have a world plague on our hands.  And this prophecy has come to
pass.  People today are literally dropping likes flies.  He told Congress
that the current wholesale ingestion of aspartame products by over half the
population constitutes an "imminent public health hazard"  because of the
frequency and severity of reactions.  He says this warning should be of
particular concern for high risk groups - most notable, patients with
diabetes and hypoglycemia, pregnancy women, children, patients with
epilepsy, liver, heart, kidney disease and eating disorders, older persons
with memory impairment, the relatives of aspartame reactors and patients
having phenylketonuria.

It was the famed Dr. John Olney who founded the field of neuroscience
called excitotoxicity when he did studies on aspartic acid, 40% of
aspartame, in l970 and found lesions in the brains of mice.  An excitotoxin
is a product that literally stimulates the neurons of the brain to death
causing brain damage of varying degrees.  This definition is written across
the back of the book Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by neurosurgeon
Russell Blaylock, M.D.  who wrote on the deadly effects of aspartame and
MSG.  MSG another excitotoxin has a synergistic and additive effect with
aspartame.  And you have to consider this when you think of all the
products these athletes are using like MSG that interact with aspartame.

I wrote Gatorade which Charles Fleming was using and several of the athletes who dropped dead,  and asked what was in the natural flavors, and was it aspartate, L-Cysteine (another excitotoxin) or glutamic acid. 

They have refused to answer me.  www.truthinlabeling.org for info on MSG.

Dr. Blaylock is another world expert on aspartame who has written on sudden
death.  In his article on www.dorway.com, Aspartame, MSG and other
Excitotoxins and the Hypothalamus he talks about the effect of excitotoxins
on the sympathetic nervous system controlling centers in the
hypothalamus.  "Over stimulation could result in cardiac electrical
abnormalities leading to sudden death.  This has been demonstrated by
hypothalalamic stimulation experiments.  There have been clinical reports
of cardiac related emergency room visits following a meal high in
excitotoxin additives.  Sudden deaths following such meals have also been
reported.  Since most hospitals rarely consider this in their differential
diagnosis, we have no accurate data as to the number of ER visits and
deaths related to this event.  I suspect the numbers would be quite high."

He said in conclusion, "There is compelling evidence to indicate that food
additive excitotoxins, such as aspartame, pose a serious danger to our well
being, especially so in the case of children and the elderly.  It has been
demonstrated that excitotoxins in the diet can dramatically elevate free
radical generation for prolonged periods of time and that once induced, it
triggers a viscous cycle that ends in neurons death.  Most authorities now
agree that elevated free radical generation is associated with virtually
all degenerative diseases as well as most injuries and toxins.  It makes
little sense to expose the general public to a product that we know
increases free radical generation so dramatically and is associated with
laboratory proven injuries to the nervous system."

Another autopsy report we have  is of a woman who ingested so much aspartame she went blind from the wood alcohol or methanol (converts to formaldehyde and formic acid in the retina of the eye and destroys the optic nerve).  She went to the ER to find out what she had lost her sight and dropped dead.  Her autopsy is very much like others including the pulmonary edema.

You may remember Flo Jo, a Diet Coke drinker who had a seizure and dropped
dead, no doubt another victim of aspartame, as aspartame is a seizure
triggering drug.   Elton John drags his 6 pack of diet pop on stage as he
staggers with slurred speech from the methanol.  Will he be next?  Several
current athletes are using aspartame and showing severe health problems
already.  Anna Kournikova, tennis player, is one of them.  She always seems
to be having injury problems.  It's terrible for an athlete to be drinking
a slow poison along with the phosphoric acid that leeches calcium from the
bones.  Another athlete, American's second best cyclist after Lance
Armstrong, uses Diet Coke and looks to be in worse and worse health.

Mark Gold of the Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
wrote:  "I always seem to run across articles or TV shows where athletes
are using aspartame and having health problems.  One female pro athlete is
so addicted that in answer to the question, "What one thing would you want
with you if stranded on a desert island," she said, "Diet
Coke."  Unfortunately for her, her health and career has gone down the
tubes. Diet Coke IS addictive !!  Diet Coke still sponsors some sports events.  The biggest tennis
tournament in the world, Wimbledon (in the UK).  This helps addict a lot of
people in the U.K.  Diet Coke is a sponsor of the WNBA (the women's version
of the NBA - National Basketball Association), Etc.

Don Harkins who owns the Idaho Observer added a supplement, The
Artificially Sweetened Times, to the paper, 8 pages, for Aspartame
Awareness Weekend.  It includes the Sudden Death issue and the Fleming
case.  He doesn't mince words and says:  "Admittedly, the research we had
already conducted on aspartame convinced us that it's devastating to the
human body.  Since millions of people consume this government approved,
carcinogenic, mutagenic, neurotoxic, non-nutritive synthetic sweetener
every day, we were also convinced aspartame is helping to DESTROY ENTIRE
NATIONS.  This is the real reason this paper had to be published. "  These
papers can be secured by the hundreds for distribution by contacting the
Idaho Observer, a newspaper dedicated to truth in journalism.  (Idaho
Observer, P. O. Box 457, Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869, 208 255 - 2307).

And what about so much of the main stream media who for advertising reasons
don't publish so much of this issue like the story of Charles Fleming, even
though aspartame experts have written affidavits stating the man died from
aspartame without a shadow of a doubt.  Are manufacturers like Coke and
Pepsi worth their protection.  You can read the protest of the National
Soft Drink Association on www.dorway.com, part of the congressional record,
where they even quoted the law stating it was illegal to put anything in
carbonated beverages that decomposes or adulterates the drink.  They stated
aspartame decomposes at 86 degrees.  And it decomposes into deadly
poisons!  Yet, they turned around and put it in pop anyway, the reason it
was added to the congressional record.  They knew the gun was loaded when
they sent it to the Persian Gulf to sit in 120 degree Arabian sun for as
long as 8 weeks.  40,000 of the troops perished.  What aspartame products
are they now using in Iraq?  We can see them chewing the gum, no doubt
sugarfree (Aspartame sweetened).  Its buccal so it works like nitroglycerin, goes    through saliva straight to the brain.  Wrigley has been written for years and refuses to
stop the poisoning.  Even the Enquirer hasn't written about Fleming.

Rage must rise up in the nostrils of Almighty Jehovah God as these monsters
who knowingly poison the population turn their backs on
consumers.  Aspartame was originally marketed by Searle, and the FDA wanted
them indicted for fraud but both U.S. Prosecutors hired on with the defense
team and the statute of limitations expired.  The Board of Inquiry of the
FDA  said aspartame was not safe and to revoke the petition for
approval.  CEO of Searle at the time, Don Rumsfeld, said he would call in
his markers and get it approved.  It didn't matter to him that aspartame
was a deadly poison.  He was on President Reagan's transition team and the
day after Reagan took office he appointed Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA
Commissioner because no FDA Commissioner in 16 years would approve
aspartame.  Dr. Hayes over-ruled this Board of Inquiry of the FDA and then
went to work for the PR firm of the manufacturer and has refused to talk to
the press ever since.

If you read the 8 month investigation of aspartame by United Press
International on www.dorway.com  you will see that doctors were threatened
about doing research.  This will help you understand why 92% of independent
peer reviewed research on aspartame shows the problems.  And if you remove
6 studies the FDA had something to do with and one pro-industry summary,
100% of independent, peer reviewed research on aspartame shows the
problems.  Read Ralph Walton, M.D. 's report on this web site having to do
with research and funding.  Dr. Walton himself did a study on aspartame
which the institution had to stop because of the problems caused by this
toxin.  You can understand why Monsanto refused to sell him the
aspartame.  And in the UPI investigation read about ILSE, where research
funds are sought.  ILSE is funded by Coke, Pepsi, Monsanto and the like
putting pressure on Universities not to tell about aspartame or do studies.
Cynthia Crossen who wrote the book "The Tainted Truth" says the road to
hell was paved with research funds.    Front groups are paid to call the
whole issue a hoax, and vital information that physicians need to diagnose
and save the lives of the people is withheld.  The propaganda put out on
aspartame reads like it was written by Mother Goose.  Even physicians
themselves who use aspartame and have problems don't know where to
turn.  Read the story of Richard Sabates, M.D. on web.

And as I write this a sweet, frightened Sunday School teacher, Diane
Fleming, remains in prison in Troy, Virginia because her husband Charles
killed himself with large amounts of aspartame.  It is this chronic
methanol poisoning mentioned in the autopsy that also is responsible for the addiction of aspartame because it effects the dopamine system of the brain. 

To add insult to injury prisons will not allow sugar and are
serving this deadly toxin to inmates.  Diane herself was using it until we
convinced her to go without anything sweet.  No wonder she said she had
health problems.  Her headaches are now gone.

Drop her a line and let her know people care about this horrible injustice,
have not forgotten her and are working to reunite her with her
children.  This woman had spent one day a week helping the homeless and
even buying them clothes.  Now lets help Diane Fleming.

Diane Fleming #311655
FCCW 3D 207A
Box 1000
Troy, Virginia 22974

They will only allow a letter no longer than 5 pages that goes on  a 37
cent stamp.  You cannot send her stamps to write you back but she can
accept a money order made out to her with the number - #311655.

Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting Don Harkins who wrote the
Artificially Sweetened Times for Aspartame Awareness Weekend at the Atlanta
Airport on his way to Austria.  I gave out a couple to people waiting for
rides who read about Sudden Death and Aspartame, and the Fleming Case.  One
man said:  "And so its true.  I mentioned to my physician that I had
friends who just dropped dead.  He said he had seen too many cases himself
and did a search on the Internet.  When he read about aspartame he decided
to get his patients off of it, especially those suffering with cardiac
problems.  He was surprised to find the palpitations and other problems
disappeared.  He said:  "There is so much controversy on this product but
with the thousands of posts about its dangers they have to be keeping
something from physicians."   Indeed, what they have kept from physicians
is "the truth" about the toxicity of this poison.  Help to get the word out
about this toxin, as you let Diane Fleming know she is not
forgotten.  Prayerfully we work to reunite her with her children.

We are facing what may be one of the largest plagues in world
history.  Aspartame has resulted in a blizzard of sudden deaths to the athletes. 
Our children are falling like snow flakes.  Forward this to
everyone you know, and media we ask you publish the issue to
thousands.  The life you save may just be someone in your family or one of
your children.

I have filed with the FDA a Citizens Petition for ban based on the fact
their records show aspartame to be a deadly poison and they are lying to the public and physicians. 

 The law requires they answer in 180 days.  It
has been over a year and they refuse to answer.  The front groups have been
reported to the Attorney General based on Title 18, Section 1001, that is
against he law to knowingly misinform the public.  He has done nothing.

Perhaps someone should remind all these government agencies who don't have
the courage to act that Henry Clay (1777 - 1852) said:  "Government is a
trust, and the offices of the government are trustees, and both the trust
and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people."  Even the
FDA's own toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, told Congress:  "And if the FDA
violates its own laws who is left to protect the people."

Mission Possible International is a worldwide, unpaid, volunteer force
warning planet earth off aspartame, and forwarding medical facts from the
aspartame experts to the medical community who have been lied
to.  Aspartame Detoxification Centers are now available in some
cities.  Case histories on brain tumors, seizures, blindness and eye
deterioration are now been transferred to class action attorneys.   There
are four support groups on line to care for the sick and disabled.

Monsanto sold NutraSweet to Michael Dell's Investment Company,  Childs in
Boston, Ajinomoto, their Siamese twin, another aspartame manufacturer and
Monsanto's investment company of Monsanto managers.  All these companies
are listed on www.dorway.com  In the words of Mohammed Ali, "They can run,
but they can't hide."

Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible Intl, 9270 River Club Parkway,
Duluth, Georgia 30097  www.dorway.com

P.S.  There is a large book list on aspartame on the above web site.  For
Dr. H. J. Roberts' many books on aspartame, go to
www.sunsentpress.com   For Dr. Russell Blaylock's books go to
www.russellblaylockmd.com  His new book Health & Nutrition Secrets to Save
Your Life is excellent on what to do if you have used aspartame, and he has
written a paper for Aspartame Awareness Weekend on what to take, step by
step, if you have ever used it.  Remember, brain cells cannot rejuvenate; once they are gone,    they are GONE !               


These brilliant and courageous physicians mentioned above have been
exposing this deadly neurotoxic drug for years, and the fact that it can
take your life.  Dr. Bowen told the FDA years ago that aspartame is mass
poisoning of the American public and more than 70+ countries of the
world.  He also said that everyone involved in the marketing of this poison
including those who keep it on the market should be criminally
prosecuted.  Dr. Bowen is a victim himself and suffers from Lou Gehrigs
disease like many of those who served in the Persian Gulf.  He was working
in the desert drinking gallions of Diet Kool Aide.

There is a conspiracy against our health !

And it is way past time for the people to rise up against it and take back their lives !

We need to bombard, scream, march, call and write our congressmen, senators, etc. against the FDA for allowing these toxic poisons to be placed in vertually ALL our foods, drinks, and products !

Simple things like a cup of hot cocoa is even loaded with the stuff under the guise of "flavorings"; and that Ovaltine commercial with all the kids screaming for more of the stuff is down right child abuse !!  USING kids help to destroy all the other kids of the nation !  Ovaltine, like most of all the products on our shelves today, is loaded with this toxic stuff, as is diet drinks like Slim Fast !  You cannot even chew a stick of gum without Aspartame assaulting your body and brain !!!

These toxins are NOT put on the lable so as you would know what they are; they are put in disguise under ingredience you'd never guess was a cover for them !!  THAT is how desperate this conspiracy against our health and minds is to control YOU !

This is very serious stuff people !!

We are fighting for our very lives here !!!