TO MEMBERS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, New Mexico, SB
498. Aspartame has caused an epidemic of obesity and diabetes.

Below my signature you will see a letter that was just sent to you by
Dr. Jeremy Gleeson of Albuquerque, NM trying to convince the
legislature that aspartame is needed because of the epidemic of
diabetes and obesity. His letter is exactly the reason why aspartame
needs to be banned. I will explain.

Physicians must have the facts because everyday they are involved in
life and death. Without those facts patients die.

Apparently Dr. Gleeson doesn't know aspartame interacts with all
drugs and vaccines, so no drug is safe where aspartame is
consumed. http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_interacts.htm Dr. Gleeson
says: "You undoubtedly know, there is a virtual epidemic of obesity
and diabetes in our state." Do you think that Dr. Gleeson knows it's
aspartame (Equal/NutraSweet/Spoonful, etc.) that has caused those
epidemics? Yes, it's provable. Take the epidemic of obesity. From
the Congressional Record, Senate, Page S5511 (protest of the National
Soft Drink Assn against the use of aspartame):

"Aspartame has been demonstrated to inhibit the carbohydrate induced
synthesis of the neurotransmitter serotonin (Wurtman
affidavit). Serotonin blunts the sensation of craving carbohydrates
and thus is part of the body's feedback system that helps limit
consumption of carbohydrate to appropriate levels. Its inhibition by
aspartame could lead to the anomalous result of a diet product
causing increased consumption of carbohydrates."

Aspartame is no additive as by law they must be inert. Aspartame is
an addictive excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug. "If you want to get
fat, NutraSweet is where its at." The scientific peer reviewed
study, Trocho, done in Barcelona in l998 showed the formaldehyde
accumulates in the cells and damages DNA. Most toxicity in the liver
but substantial amounts in the kidneys, adipose, brain and
retina. In Dr. Roberts medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored
Epidemic, http://www.sunsentpress.com the title is Pre-Embalming! Aspartame
embalms living tissue and damages DNA. And it causes toxicity of the
adipose tissue or fat cells.

Dr. Sandra Cabot, Mission Possible Australia, lectures on NutraSweet
all over the world and particularly on the epidemic of obesity it has
caused. In her paper "Aspartame Makes You Fatter", she says: "There
are logical reasons to explain the fattening and bloating effects of
aspartame. When you ingest the toxic chemical aspartame it is
absorbed from the intestines and passes immediately to the liver
where it is taken inside the liver via the liver filter. The liver
than breaks down or metabolizes aspartame to its toxic components -
phenylalanine, aspartic acid and methanol. This process requires a
lot of energy from the liver which means there will be less energy
remaining the liver cells. This means the liver cells will have less
energy for fat burning and metabolism, which will result in fat
storing. Excess fat may build up inside the liver cells causing
"fatty liver" and when this starts to occur it is extremely difficult
to lose weight. In my vast experience any time that you overload the
liver you will increase the tendency to gain weight
easily. Aspartame also causes weight gain by other mechanisms -
causes unstable blood sugar levels, which increases the appetite and
causes cravings for sweets/sugar. Thus it is particularly toxic for
those with diabetes or epilepsy. Causes fluid retention giving the
body a puffy and bloated appearance. This makes people look fatter
than they are and increases cellulite."

Dr. Cabot is author of "The Liver Cleansing Diet" and "Boost Your
Energy". Her speciality is OB-GYN and she is also a pilot, often
called the Flying Doctor as she warns pilots everywhere they must not
use aspartame as it triggers seizures, blindness, flicker vertigo,
cardiac problems and sudden death.

Aspartame can precipitate diabetes, aggravates and simulates diabetic
retinopathy and neuropathy, interacts with insulin, and causes
diabetics to go into convulsions. You might like to read the Journal
of the Diabetic Association of
India: http://www.dorway.com/barua.html That's why we have an
epidemic of diabetes, and an epidemic of diabetic deaths. Dr.
Gleeson is an endocrinologist and he doesn't know that!

Even on the FDA list of 92 documented symptoms from 4 types of
seizures to coma and death listed is BLOOD GLUCOSE DISORDERS.

Endocrinologist, Dr. H. J. Roberts in Aspartame Disease: An Ignored
Epidemic, http://www.sunsentpress.com, medical text on the global
plague, writes about the adverse metabolic, hormonal, toxic and
other undesirable effects of aspartame and its components. He says
many could contribute to the aggravation of diabetes and its
complications. They encompass the wasting of insulin, impaired
insulin-stimulated glucose transport, increased growth hormone and
glucagon release after phenylalanine administration, other effects of
its amino acids and additional pharmacologic activities. Another
mechanism whereby aspartame-induced stimulation of insulin could
aggravate diabetes involves the generation of insulin receptor
antibodies capable of blocking the access of insulin to liver
receptors. (Dozio 2001).

Dr. Roberts also says that with reference to aspartame induced
insomnia, sleep debt has a detrimental impact on carbohydrate
metabolism and endocrine function - including decreased glucose
tolerance, and altered thyrotropin and cortisol concentrations.

Pages and pages and pages explain why a diabetic should never, never
use aspartame.

Neurosurgeon Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. in a letter to the Minneapolis
Neuropathy Association said:
"Finally, in the diabetic, great concern must be expressed about the
danger of toxin damage to already weakened peripheral nerves in the
diabetic situation. With the buildup of accumulated concentrations
of formaldehyde and formic acid in nervous tissue, long term damage
and rapid progression of diabetic peripheral neuropathy is almost a
given. We know that all of the components of aspartame are
neurotoxic as well as most of its breakdown products, such as
diketopiperazine, phenylethalamine, phenylalanine, aspartic acid and
methanol (formaldehyde and formic acid). Aspartic acid is a known
excitotoxin and in the body is converted to glutamic acid, an even
more powerful excitotoxin. Experimentally, the same widespread brain
lesions produced by MSG exposure can be produced by high dose
aspartame exposure."

Dr. Gleeson says the proposal to restrict aspartame is based on no
credible medical or scientific evidence. He even says there is no
evidence of harm, despite widespread use. Even though physicians are
lied to by the FDA, front groups, professional organizations funded
by the manufacturer, the manufacturers and many paid prostitutes who
have sold their soul, you would think the good doctor would at least
do some research.

Here's what he would have found. The FDA did not want to approve
aspartame. On the contrary in a memo dated Nov 4, l976, FDA
toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross wrote:

"Let us put this matter in some perspective by establishing the basic
facts here. The Searle investigation which started in the Fall of
l975 can be viewed as an investigation "for cause" following the
discovery of certain improprieties in the conduct of animal studies
during preliminary inspections in l974 and in the first half of
l975. The report of the Task Force submitted in March l976 in
essence constituted a stinging indictment of Searle and it contained
various recommendations for regulatory action including referral to
the Justice Department for review of possible criminal violations of the law."

What was Searle, the original manufacturer, doing that was so
criminal. They were simply trying to get this deadly toxin,
aspartame to show safety in testing. They couldn't do it and they
got caught. Here's the Bressler Report or FDA audit of their
shenanigans: http://www.dorway.com/bressler.txt This is known as the
report that gives the manufacturers indigestion. But if you think
this is bad, I personally spoke with Jerome Bressler as did Doctors
Roberts and Blaylock. We were told when the FDA retyped his report
they removed the worst 20%. It was just too horrifying to let the
public know everything the manufacturer did trying to prevent FDA
from knowing how deadly aspartame really is. Dr. Roberts congressman
demanded FDA release the additional data but FDA refused saying it
was "confidential". It was too terrifying also to let congressmen
know as well. FDA cannot refuse a congressman but they also serve
above the law.

On January 10, l977 in a 33 page letter, FDA Chief Counsel Richard
Merrill recommended to U.S. Attorney Sam Skinner that a grand jury
investigate Searle for "apparent violations of the Federal Food,
Drugs and Cosmetic Act, 21 USC 331 (e), and the False Reports to the
Government Act 18 USC 1001, for "their willful and knowing failure to
make reports to the Food and Drug Administration required by the Act
21 USC 355e (i), and for concealing material facts and making false
statements in reports of animal studies conducted to establish the
safety of aspartame." The FDA called special attention to studies
investigating the effect of NutraSweet on monkeys and hamsters.

You can understand why cases are settled out of court. The aspartame
manufacturers do not want through discovery the facts known. And
what to do? It was an open and shut case. So they did what every
good company does who is well versed in fraud, they hired the
prosecutors. When the district attorney goes to work for the
godfather expect acquittal.

Both U.S. Prosecutors Sam Skinner and William Conlon hired on with
the defense team and the statute of limitations expired. You just
can't make a poison show safety. Dr. Blaylock said in a lecture,
"Understand, the reactions to aspartame are not allergic, they are
toxic like arsenic and cyanide." We're talking poison here, and
we're trying to save the people of New Mexico.

Dr. Gleeson says the FDA has not seen any reason to restrict
aspartame. In reality, the FDA revoked the petition for
approval. Here it is: http://www.wnho.net/fda_petition1.doc In
case you have not seen the movie "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World",
there is a clip in the commentary of how this deadly toxin got
marketed for human consumption. Don Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle and
said he would call in his markers and get it approved as discussed in
the congressional record. No FDA Commissioner would allow it on the
market. Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition and the day
after he took office he appointed Arthur Hull Hayes to do the deadly
deed. But Reagan was so concerned Hayes it would take 30 days to get
him to the FDA he actually wrote an executive order making the FDA
powerless to do anything about aspartame until he could get there.

Hayes was put there for one reason only, to get aspartame on the
market and he simply over-ruled the Board of Inquiry. Then he went to
work for the PR Agency of the manufacturer on a ten year contract at
$1000.00 a day and has refused to talk to the press ever since. What
a reward! And when aspartame was sold to Monsanto, Rumsfeld got 12 million.

Why is aspartame still on the market? For the same reason as tobacco,
addiction, profit and greed.

Our FDA, the Fatal Drugs Allowed folks, approves lots of poison, but
aspartame they didn't want to approve. In a conversation in person
many years ago with an FDA employee off the record, he said: "Look
Betty, don't come down on us. We did everything possible to prevent
this poison from getting the market. It was taken out of our
hands. What are we going to do, tell the public its not safe, but we
approved it?" One lady screaming at the FDA because her child had an
aspartame seizure was told, "We said it caused seizures, they should
have listened."

Today, I fault the FDA for not recalling it and lying to keep their
jobs, but the FDA did not intend to ever allow aspartame to be
marketed for human consumption. They fought it every way they knew
how. As one FDA employee told me - "Your argument is with Don
Rumsfeld. He used politics to take it out of our hands. We revoked
the petition for approval and tried to indict Searle."

Dr. Gleeson says the minute quantities of the toxins in aspartame are
of no concern. I'm surprised he is not considering molecular
chemistry which is one molecule of aspartic acid (an excitotoxin) to
one molecule of methanol (a neurotoxin) to one molecule of
phenylalanine (as an isolate a neurotoxin). That's 33% free methyl
alcohol which converts to formaldehyde and embalms living
tissue. The molecule breaks down to diketopiperazine a brain tumor
agent. In Searle's secret trade information released during
congressional hearings it says:

"With the spoon-for-spoon, we have no way of estimating maximum
likely abuse and hence need to utilize data based on maximum likely
abuse and hence need to utilize data based on ALMOST COMPLETE
CONVERSION TO DKP. If we include this use in the original FAP, we
stand a good chance of ending up with nothing in the short run and
nothing in the long run whereas the other approach would give us
something in the short run,and, quite likely as much as would ever
get in the long run." Translation: Aspartame is going to cause an
epidemic of brain tumors even in children but we won't let the FDA
know about almost complete conversion to this tumor agent.

The rest of this memo reads like psychomanipulation in getting
aspartame approved. You can read it all on http://www.dorway.com

Searle was caught excising brain tumors from rats and putting them
back in the study. When they died they resurrected them on paper.
Today attorneys are taking aspartame brain tumor cases for
litigation. The Ramazzini Study in 2005 confirmed FDA's original
findings, that aspartame is a multipotential carcinogen. So many
shenanigans trying to rebut this impeccable study instead of alerting
the public. A member of the European Food Safety Authority tried to
say the cancers were caused by respiratory disease which, of course,
is the dying process as Dr. Soffritti exposed. Then somone on the
committee finally admitted: "Industry pressured us to hi-jack science."

Dr. Gleeson says aspartame is a safe product. Then why was it listed
with the pentagon in an inventory of prospective biochemical warfare
weapons submitted to
Congress? http://www.wnho.net/the_ecologist_aspartame_report.htm
He also says this campaign is driven by Stephen Fox who has
absolutely no medical or scientific credentials to establish
expertise on this subject. I would say to Dr. Gleeson that since
Stephen Fox knows everything I have written in this letter and more,
and he doesn't, that its best not to write letters without
research. And Stephen Fox knows enough and cares enough to want to
prevent the horrors of aspartame disease befalling more New Mexicans.

Because aspartame is poison it can do nothing but violate laws that
are written to protect the health of a nation. FDA says you can't
market a product that is adulterated. You can be fined and
imprisoned. Aspartame is adulterated as admitted by the National
Soft Drink Assn in the congressional Record and by scientific peer
reviewed study. FDA says you can't ship an adulterated product for
sale - it violates Interstate Commerce. Aspartame violated Interstate
Commerce everyday it's shipped into New Mexico.
FDA toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, told Congress aspartame violates
the Delaney Amendment because without a shadow of a doubt it can
cause brain tumors and brain cancer, and the FDA should not be able
to set an allowable dose. His last words to Congress will go down in
history, "And if the FDA violates its own laws who is left to protect
the public?" Congressional Record SID835:131, August 1, l985.

So how many times is the FDA allowed to break the law so
manufacturers can keep an addictive, excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic
drug on the market? Why haven't they recalled it? You can write a
Citizens Petition as I did, and others like the Community Nutrition
Institute, based on documented cases of seizures and
blindness. They have to answer it in 180 days but have refused to
answer mine for over 4 years because I list the lies, and they can't
answer it without recalling it. Today, FDA is Big Pharma's
Washington Branch Office.

But this is the tip of the iceberg. The medical text is over 1000
pages of horrors. Aspartame damages the cardiac conduction system
and causes sudden death: http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_msg_scd.htm
It can precipitate MS: http://www.wnho.net/ms_and_aspartame.htm It
destroys families. It causes male sexual dysfunction and ruins
female response. It aborts babies and is a teratogen causing birth
defects and mental
retardation: http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_murders_infants.htm It
violates Title 18, of the domestic genocide law.

The horror stories never stop. A Sunday School teacher, Diane
Fleming, sits in a cold cell in a Virginia prison convicted of
killing her husband with methanol. Aspartame experts on reviewing
the autopsy wrote affidavits that Charles Fleming died of
aspartame. Diane passed a lie detector test, and was even the one
who called the police when his autopsy showed methanol poisoning. A
detective assigned to the case told me, "Diane Fleming is not
guilty". But Diane has been there for four years, and she is sick,
an aspartame victim herself.

Aspartame experts say many people today in mental hospitals are
simply aspartame victims. The phenylalanine lowers the seizure
threshold and depletes serotonin, causing psychiatric and behavioral
problems. Aspartame interacts with antidepressants, after all
aspartame is a psycho drug.

Aspartame even reduces IQ. Dr. Blaylock says "We know that
excitotoxins have a devastating effect on formation of the brain, and
that such exposure can cause the brain to be miswired. This may
explain the significant, almost explosive increase in ADD and
ADHD." Feingold, the ADD people, have banned aspartame. They say
the use of the name ADD started in the early l980's. That's when
aspartame was first marketed. Imagine what this horrible poison is
doing to our children and they want diet drinks to be used in high
schools to prevent diabetes and obesity, when aspartame is what is
causing these epidemics. Experts have written reports to be emailed
to schools, board of educations, OB-GYN and pediatricians.
http://www.wnho.net/report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm

How does the aspartame industry get studies to show safety? Unless
they are controlled by the manufacturers and funded by them you're
not going to see scientific peer reviewed studies showing
safety. And almost 100% of independent, scientific peer reviewed
studies show the problems. http://www.dorway.com/peerrev.html And
when the manufacturers do these studies remember they are pros are
abusing competent research. Just take seizures, for instance. So
many people know its aspartame Monsanto funded some studies. Here is
how they were fixed: http://www.dorway.com/wurtman2.html In one of
these studies, Rowen, they even gave the subjects anti-seizure
medication so they were so afraid of them having an aspartame
seizure. And for only one day. I don't know why they just didn't
let the subjects smell the capsule of aspartame. How low can you
stoop to trick the people? These studies ought to be labeled pond
scum. And we can show it on other studies well. These are just seizures.

Then the front groups and FDA put out unbelievable propaganda to try
and hookwink the public. Here it is answered with medical
references: http://www.dorway.com/offasprt.html Here's the FDA
list of 92 symptoms they admit to, and there are many more in experts
books and continuing scientific peer reviewed research which expose
the manufacturers of aspartame as coverup artists deceiving the
public with their flawed studies, and their influence to get them
peer reviewed. http://www.dorway.com/badnews.html

We have a poison on the market that causes everything from Lou
Gehrigs and Parkinson's to seizures and cancers. Dr. Bowen on
reading Dr. Gleeson's letter said: "The arguments presented in this
letter show how scientists falsely so-called have badly mislead
medical opinion on aspartame."

Legislators, are you angry yet? If you want to stop the disability,
the suffering and death by those in New Mexico, stand up now and vote
to rid your state of this horrible toxin. You can't do anything else
if you're a senator or representative precisely to help the people
and make New Mexico a better place. You will set a precedent the
world will never forget as dominos began to tumble. Others will
follow suit, they are lined up to do so, and all eyes are on New
Mexico. And victims everywhere will start waking up from these
aspartame symptoms and horrors calling for accountability of those
responsible who poisoned the world.

If you care about the health and welfare of the people of New
Mexico vote to free the people of this state from the toxin that has
caused a world epidemic. We salute the courageous Senator Jerry
Ortiz y Pino, and Stephen Fox! I ask that you have the same
compassion and concern for the lives of the people.

Respectfully,


Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770 242-2599
http://www.wnho.net and http://www.dorway.com
Aspartame Toxicity Center, http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
Aspartame Information List, http://www.mpwhi.com

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From Jeremy Gleeson, M.D., FACP, FACE, CDE

To members of the Senate and House of Representatives:

I am writing this an endocrinologist, a physician who specializes in
diabetes and metabolic diseases. I am very concerned about proposals
to restrict the availability of aspartame in New Mexico. As you
undoubtedly know, there is a virtual epidemic of obesity and diabetes
in our state. It is critical for people with these conditions to
have access to artificial sweeteners as part of their management
plan. Additionally, all citizens should have access to safe
artificial sweeteners, such as aspartame, if they choose to use them.

The proposal to restrict aspartame is based on NO credible medical or
scientific evidence. The safety of aspartame has been established in
numerous studies. There is no evidence of harm, despite widespread
use. Those seeing to ban aspartame distort and misrepresent the
medical literature - the overwhelming majority of which supports the
safety of this product. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
has not seen any reason to restrict aspartame. Similarly, regulatory
bodies in other countries have all approved continued availability of
aspartame. Major health care organizations support the continued
availability of aspartame. The American Diabetes Association, which
advocates on behalf of people with diabetes and promulgates
extensively researched standards of medical care in diabetes,
supports use of artificial sweeteners, including aspartame.

It has been suggested that metabolism of aspartame leads to
production of toxic substances such as methanol and
formaldehyde. These may be produced in minute, trivial quantities
from aspartame metabolism. However, they exist in the body anyway,
from presence of methanol in food substances, and some production of
formaldehyde as part of normal food metabolism. The possible
metabolism of aspartame to those substances in minute quantities is
of no concern.

I understand that this campaign is drive by Mr. Stephen Fox, who is a
gallery owner. While he seems to believe passionately that aspartame
is dangerous, he has to my knowledge, absolutely n medical or
scientific credentials to establish expertise on this subject.

Banning aspartame will do a major disservice to all those who wish to
use calorie free sweeteners. This is a safe product, which allows
individuals to avoid excess calories in beverages. No one claims
that use of artificial sweeteners is the single solution to our
serious problems with diabetes and obesity; however, every way to
reduce calorie consumption helps.

I would respectfully suggest that the time of our legislators could
be better spent addressing real issues of concern to New
Mexicans. With the lack of credible evidence to support any
restriction of aspartame, this issue should be resolved
expeditiously, to the benefit of all New Mexico taxpayers.

I am writing this as a concerned physician and New Mexico citizen. I
have no financial relationships of any kind with the manufacturer of
aspartame or other artificial sweeteners.

Sincerely,
Jeremy Gleeson, MD, FACP, FACE, CDE