- Before you knowingly eat or drink a product
sweetened with aspartame, read the article below. If you still aren't
convinced of aspartame's lethality, go to the Mission Possible website
at www.dorway.com and follow your investigative senses. If you still
aren't convinced that aspartame is an FDA-approved poison, then it
must be your fate to become sick and eventually succumb to a painful
death after suffering from a variety of chronic illnesses. Of course,
you may luck out and be spared years of ill-health by suddenly,
mercifully dropping dead from aspartame in the prime of your life.
Pardon the harsh comments but there is a war going on and the battle
is being waged in our bodies. Good soldiers don't eat and drink the
enemies' weapons.
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- When 23-year-old Baltimore Oriole's pitcher, Steve
Bechler, died on February 17, 2003 in a Fort Lauderdale, Florida
hospital, a bottle of weight loss supplements containing ephedra was
found in his locker. Rather than doing a thorough investigation into
what this man's dietary habits are, the government immediately began
its attack on ephedra as contributing to this young man's sudden
collapse and death.
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- Without any evidence that ephedra alone could cause
death, tough new labeling laws for dietary supplements containing
ephedra were proposed by the federal Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) on February 28 to warn consumers that it could cause heart
attack, stroke or death.
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- In a March 1, 2003 New York Times article it states
that a Florida medical examiner claimed that the dietary supplement
containing ephedra might have contributed to Bechler's death. When Dr.
Roberts spoke to Broward 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 day, he returned a blank stare indicating he was unaware of the fact
that aspartame containing diet and sports drinks could have caused
this man's untimely death.
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- The FDA's attack on ephedra appeared to ominously
coincide with the blatant attempt by New York Times reporter Robert
Pear to connect Bechler's death with a weight loss supplement
containing ephedrine found in his locker. What Pear and the FDA refuse
to look at is the dietary habits of the increasing number of athletes
who are dying suddenly.
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- Director of Mission Possible, Betty Martini, has
spent the last ten years of her life warning the world about the
dangers of aspartame. People regularly email her from her excellent
comprehensive website www.dorway.com. It is on this website that many
people find the documentation for their ill health being caused by
their consumption of aspartame containing products. Following is one
such query from a young female athlete:
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- "Hi...I am a 26-year-old female athlete. In order to
keep in shape and maximize my training, I have been taking a lot of
sport supplements, protein powders and consuming various other foods
containing a high level of aspartame.
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- I would estimate that I consume approximately 860
mg. of aspartame each day. Over the past year I have stopped
menstruating completely. I am at a healthy weight of 150 lbs and
maintain a healthy percentage of body fat. Other symptoms include
fatigue, weight gain, depression, mood swings, personality changes and
amenorrhea.
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- Could Aspartame be responsible for me losing my
period and experiencing the other related symptoms? Please help
me."
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- Due to several recent articles about sudden death
and the numerous reports of athletes dropping dead who probably are
using diet drinks, proteins drinks, etc. laced with aspartame, Dr.
Bowen has written an in-depth report on aspartame and sudden
death.
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- The full text of this report is on our website at
www.dorway.com. We hope everyone can help by sending this report to
cardiologists, athletic organizations, neurologists, the media and
mass mailing lists to get this information out to the general
public.
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- Because of the length of this report, following is
an excerpted version that deals only with aspartame and sudden death,
and not the politics and influence that has caused what may be one of
the largest plagues in world history, Aspartame Disease. ~ Betty
Martini, Founder, Mission Possible International
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- Epidemic Of Sudden Deaths In Those Exposed To
Aspartame
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- By James Bowen, M.D.
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- The horrendous toxicity of aspartame has been well
documented ever since its inception.
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- Sudden deaths logically arise from several of its
many toxicities. For example, Christina Onassis, Patty Crane, and
Carol Hamm are amongst those that I know of who were using aspartame
and were addicted to it, and visibly deteriorating under its influence
when they suddenly, and unexpectedly, died therefrom.
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- Patty Crane was found dead amongst a litter of diet
Pepsi cans. Her mother, Betty Hayland, was exposing Patty's "Nutra
Death" on TV. She came to me to learn the biochemical basis of its
deadliness. After learning some of the biochemistry, she asked, "Dr
Bowen, how could such a poisonous chemical ever be on the
market?"
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- I answered "Betty! This is organized crime in our
government."
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- She became furious with me! "That I should suggest
there is organized crime in the U.S. government! What a nut!"
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- A few days later they called and threatened her
life. A couple days later two men tried to drag her into a car. She
was able to make her escape by breaking free and running. A couple
days later her husband Dave, who now has no question that organized
crime runs our government, came home and found her shot dead in a
puddle of blood on the floor.
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- Carol Hamm was a close friend, but not my patient so
medical confidentiality does not prevent my discussing her tragedy. We
played cards together a couple of times per week and she constantly
had diet drinks in her hands while she played. She, over a short
period of a few weeks use, visibly deteriorated physically right in
front of my eyes, and mentally. Her card playing deteriorated as
well.
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- She would defiantly look me right in the eye as she
drank diet to let me know that she didn't care that I had warned her
of what I knew about aspartame. She was going to satisfy her
addiction, by damn! Come what may! What came was that, one night she
didn't show for cards, and her daughter Debby called the police. When
we arrived at her house she was lying dead in bed with bloody fluid
running out of her mouth. In all three cases the autopsy report
revealed only "unexplained pulmonary edema."
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- This is the difference between death from aspartame
metabolism and regular alcoholism: You can't smell it on the breath,
and medical politics forbids attributing anything evil to "Nutra
Sweet."
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- Jim Krossik was an employee at Searle's first
aspartame plant in Phoenix. He developed neural toxicity from
breathing the aspartame dust in the air in the plant and passed out on
the plant floor. When he recovered and returned to work, he found that
all employees were required to wear a facemask lest they breathe the
deadly Nutra Sweet dust.
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- He complied, but absorbed enough through his skin
that he passed out on the floor dead. The autopsy report revealed a
"severe alcoholic cardiomyopathy" as its only finding. Jim used no
alcoholic beverages.
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- I have published extensively on
<http://www.dorway.com>www.dorway.com. My articles such as
"Sperm Warfare," "Aspartame and methanol revisited," etc., enlarge
upon the unique methanol toxicity from aspartame. It metabolizes in a
toxic axis of aspartame to methanol, to formaldehyde, to formic acid,
to carbon monoxide. Aspartame, to a striking degree, carries toxic
heavy metals into the body, as well as generating toxic super-oxide
free radicals in the metabolic channels that are poisoned by it. A
good overview of the aspartame problem is my book "Billions of
Victims" which is available as free advice at many
educational/informational sites on the net. Since it educates about
Chemical Hypersensitivity, (CHz), it is essential reading for a full
understanding of the issue of sudden deaths from aspartame.
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- The heart muscle is very sensitive to alcohol
poisonings. Such alcoholic cardiomyopathies frequently terminate in
sudden death. The Aspartame molecule is an alcohol poison about 20,000
times as toxic a poison as ethanol, (regular old sipping or beverage
alcohol) on a per weight basis. Moreover, the myocardium (heart
muscle) never gets to rest except between heart beats, so the methanol
from Aspartame that becomes more or progressively toxic upon
metabolism is especially damaging to muscles. The myocardium is
especially rich in mitochondria to serve this metabolic need. The
mitochondria and their DNA (Mt DNA) are especially subject to these
damages, and Mt DNA lacks the repair mechanisms of nuclear DNA, so
damage to it is cumulative, even being passed onto the fetus by the
mother. The Cardiac Conduction System is a specialized kind of tissue
that is a hybrid of neuronal and muscle tissues, which is even richer
in mitochondria, and it never gets to rest. It is the metabolic clock
that generates and effectively coordinates heartbeats, heart rhythms
and contractions. Many various malfunctions of it precipitate sudden
death. The heart's extreme mitochondrial concentration, and its
dependence upon mitochondrial metabolism for its unresting labors make
it a site intensely generative of aspartame's poisonous byproducts and
extremely subject to their resultant chemical, immune, mitochondrial
and CHz damages.
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- When the methanol from aspartame is metabolized, it
has an obligatory first-step metabolism to formaldehyde, the strongest
organic base. This is a polymerizing agent which cross links sites on
DNA so it can't reproduce or function to transmit genetic information
nor essential metabolic instructions.
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- The next step in Aspartame's metabolism is to formic
acid which is a chromosome-shattering agent (along with cyanide and
fluoride, it is called a "blister poison" because it is so damaging
that it leaves blisters of dead tissue behind).
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- Formate is also recognized as fire ant poison. The
whole, entire toxic axes are severe sensitizing agents. A fire ant
can, because of the sensitivity it engenders, kill a human being that
outweighs it billions of times. Thus, the myocardium and conduction
system are rendered highly subject to attack both from the direct
actions of the aspartame poisons and their metabolic derangements
along with the free radicals they generate via the impaired metabolic
competence and are highly susceptible to other toxics and "sick
environments" via CHz, (Chemical Hypersensitivity).
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- Damaged Mt DNA, its resultant mitochondrial
dysfunction along with dysfunctions by and from immune and
hypersensitivity reactions (CHz) are all associated with sudden
deaths. Cardiomyopathies from damaged Mt DNA are also well known to be
passed to the child from the mother.
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- Many other Mt DNA diseases are inherited from
mothers who have damaged Mt DNA. Because the Mt DNA is not in the
nucleus but rather is located in the mitochondria of the cell, its
transmission in the case of a given ovum is haphazard and random, so
that infants from such mothers usually display varied, random, and
often dissimilar disease patterns. One may be diabetic, another may
have a cardiomyopathy, another pervasive developmental disorders such
as autism, another, metabolically generated diseases like
steato-hepatitis, hypotonic obesity, etc.(see my article on
<http://www.dorway.com>www.dorway.com "Steato
Hepatitis".)
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- Another related area is the damage done to the
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. Repeated poisonous assaults, such
as CHz, cause the activation of the anti-shock mechanisms of the
adrenal glands leading to either adrenal fatigue or a chronic
turned-on status, both being conducive to sudden death, especially in
response to toxic or other shock inducing states such as the CHz
response.
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- The hypothalamus, along with many other brain
structures is severely damaged by the dicarboxylic amino acid
neuroexcitoxin component of the aspartame poisoning. This alone can
cause adrenal insufficiency and resultant sudden death. The
phenylalanine isolate poisoning from aspartame also leads to serotonin
and dopamine depletion in some areas of the brain, and elevation of
serotonin in others, leading to neuro-endocrine disruptions
contributing to all of the above, as well as depression and
schizophrenic episodes often leading to aspartame-related
suicides.
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- Aspartame is a potent epileptogenic agent, causing
seizures directly from its toxic effect, as well as when in withdrawal
from same, along with seizures induced by the CHz when the patient is
exposed to even minute amounts of sensitizing agents such as chemical
contaminants. Some of these contaminants are sulfites from pulp mills
(or the universally practiced new world order environmental abuse of
illegally burning high sulfur coal in power plants), pollens, fungal
blooms, and other "sick" environments, and food chemicals. Such
seizures can result in sudden death, especially if the subject is
alone and suffering from the other aforementioned Aspartame risk
factors.
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- The Atlanta Journal Constitution recently published
an article about sudden death referring to Science magazine. It
reported that 450,000 people drop dead each year and discussed
consumers with an irregular heart rhythm. Aspartame notoriously
triggers an irregular heart rhythm. Frankly, this is probably an
understatement as to deaths. On Dec 16, 2001, the Sunday Telegraph in
the UK wrote an article on sudden death and epilepsy. Aspartame is
also a seizure triggering drug as proven on a pivotal study that
approved it, a 52 week oral toxicity study where seven infant monkeys
were fed the toxin. Five had grand mal seizures and one died. The FDA
report of 92 symptoms lists four types of seizures triggered by this
neurotoxin. To make matters worse, aspartame interacts with
anti-seizure medication such as Dilantin and similar drugs.
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- Additional passages from the article above said
"...many people, including doctors, have little idea that a disturbing
number of patients, many of them young and in good health, die
unexpectedly, often in their sleep." Further it states that "The
unpredictable death syndrome has become known as Sudden Unexpected
Death in Epilepsy or "Sudep." In 1996, there were 969 epilepsy related
deaths, twice as many as from sudden infant or 'cot' syndrome, which
is the subject of widespread inquiry."
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- Dr. James Bowen wrote at the time, "Sudden death
during seizures is almost always due to cardiac standstill due to
cardiac 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 Mt DNA 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. So
mitochondrial damage is more highly reflected in the heart. Damaged
mitochondria produce increased amounts of free radicals and other
abnormal metabolites that produce arrhythmias."
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- Dr. Bowen continues about the unusual demands on the
cardio-respiratory system and notes that seizures due to NutraSweet
occur more frequently and in spite of otherwise adequate anti-seizure
medication.
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- Furthermore, aspartame interacts with pharmaceutical
drugs and anti-seizure medication creating yet another unknown toxic
byproduct. He says it should be no surprise then that people are
dropping dead from this aspect of aspartame toxicity.
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- On www.dorway.com you will see two reports about
aspartame and sudden death:
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- Aspartame and cardiac and chest problems by H. J.
Roberts, M.D.
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- Aspartame, MSG and Other Excitotoxins and the
Hypothalamus by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D.
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- Both have written books that discuss sudden death
syndrome:
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- Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic by H. J.
Roberts, M.D., www.aspartameispoison.com or www.sunsentpress.com or
800-814-9800.
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- Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by neurosurgeon
Russell Blaylock, M.D., www.amazon.com
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- Mission Possible is currently seeking case histories
for class action on aspartame-triggered seizures, brain tumors, eye
deterioration and blindness. For more information, contact:
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- Mission Possible International, 9270 River Club
Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097, 770-242-2599 www.dorway.com
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- Some common products that contain aspartame are
Gatorade, all diet soft drinks, sugar-free gum, Celestial Seasonings
herbal teas (under natural flavorings -- thanks to the FDA).
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- The Idaho Observer
- P.O. Box 457
- Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869
- Phone: 208-255-2307
- Email: observer@coldreams.com
- Web:
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