Aspartame Dangers — Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.
By Linda on Oct 14, 2010 in Food
Dear Jan and Laurel,
First regarding comments about Dr. John Olney, here is the Report For
Schools: http://www.mpwhi.com/report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm
These are articles by the experts and toward the end you will see Dr.
Olney’s original study which showed that aspartic acid, 40% of the
aspartame molecule, caused holes in the brains of mice. This is why
Dr. Olney tried to prevent approval.
Here is a letter to the National Federation of the Blind of Hawaii I
wrote containing many of the articles by Dr. Morgan Raiford and Dr.
H. J. Roberts. Also go to www.dorway.com under Doctors Speak
Out and pick up the article with Dr. H. J. Roberts name on it called
“What’s Blinding the World”.
Also be alerted that Ajinomoto changed the name of aspartame to
AminoSweet which is very deceiving because its the free methyl
alcohol in aspartame that sweetens the toxin.
Also, the first weekend after Labor Day is Aspartame Awareness
Weekend. I will have a flyer ready soon, but a good project for the
weekend is to email this letter to ophthalmologists, optometrists and
organizations having to do with aspartame.
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Regards, Betty
www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com, www.wnho.net
Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF HAWAII – ASPARTAME AND VISION
Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.
Mission Possible World Health International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
Telephone: 770-242-2599
E-Mail: <mailto:BettyM19@mindspring.com>BettyM19@mindspring.com
Posted: 31 December 2008
From: Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum., Bettym19@mindspring.com
To: rwhite.zis@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:18:10 -0500
Subject: National Federation of the Blind of Hawaii – Aspartame and Vision
Dear Ronalene,
I’ve notified the webmaster to take care of the issue you mentioned below.
I’m particularly happy that you wrote because it gives me the
opportunity to explain the effect of NutraSweet on vision. You’re in
a position to help a lot of people regain their sight if they are
using aspartame (Equal/Spoonful/NutraSweet/E951/Canderel, etc.).
You may remember that during prohibition thousands went blind or died
on wood alcohol. This is what is in aspartame. It’s a methyl ester
which immediately becomes methanol or wood alcohol, and then converts
to formaldehyde and formic acid in the retina of the eye and destroys
the optic nerve. The medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored
Epidemic by H. J. Roberts, M.D.,
<http://www.sunsentpress.com>http://www.sunsentpress.com has a
chapter on the eyes and goes through the many eye problems triggered
by this deadly excitoneurotoxin from optic neuritis to macular
degeneration to blindness.
On the show you may remember I spoke about an organic market that
decided to help the effort by giving out thousands and thousands of
free 16 page booklets titled “Killer Kola”. At least 2000 people a
day shopped there and a booklet was added to each bag. Some people
came in and got handfuls of them. A couple of months later I opened
the door and a woman fell in my arms crying “I was blind and now I
can see.” I didn’t even have my address in the magazine. The owner
called that day and said, “You’re not going to believe what is going
on down here. People are coming in by the thousands, calling and
faxing, that they got off aspartame after reading the magazine and
have woken up well from medical problems they had for years. Many had
gone to physicians who couldn’t diagnose their problems.”
I went down to their establishment and the owner’s wife handed me a
stack of papers and said: “Someone came in and said to give these to
you. Dr. Morgan Raiford before he died said if anyone actually does
something to get aspartame off the market see that they receive
these.” Dr. Morgan Raiford was an ophthalmologist in Atlanta and “the
specialist in methanol toxicity”. He owned the Atlanta Eye Hospital
which is still here under a different name. He died some years ago.
In one of his papers he mentioned that if vision was in the “wet
stage” it can return if the victim is warned in time. Over the years
I’ve seen so many regain their sight because we got to them in time.
In fact, I was on a TV Talk Show in Texas with Mary Reiff, an
aspartame victim. She was using aspartame and having seizures. One
day because of the seizures she wrecked her car and ended up in the
hospital. Eventually she was declared legally blind. Off aspartame
the seizures stopped. I had her on the show about a year later and
her vision had been restored.
Joyce Wilson is another woman who went blind on aspartame, suffered
methanol toxicity, diagnosed with MS and eventually died like an
Alzheimer’s victim. It was simply too late for her. In fact, I
inherited her records. She was Aspartame Victims and Their Friends of
Georgia. This is why I have spent 17 years warning the world. It’s so
important to warn aspartame victims in time to save them.
Here are a couple of Dr. Morgan Raiford’s records:
May 20, 1987: FACTS ABOUT ASPARTAME
The above product is also manufactured as NutraSweet. This
pharmological spin-off is as highly profitable item, with a growing
market. These products are used as a sweetener, some 200 times as
sweet as regular cane sugar.
This product has some highly toxic reactions in the human visual
pathway and we are beginning to observe the tragic damage to the
OPTIC NERVE, such as blindness, partial to total OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY.
Once this destructive process has developed there is no return of
visual restoration. We are beginning to see and observe another toxic
reaction, which affects the central nervous system which is related
to PHENYLALANINE LEVELS IN THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. These
observations are more vague, however, it stimulates the damaging to
the brain and the central nervous system, having the manifestations
as PKU NEURO DAMAGE. Over 3000 cases have been reported and the FDA
to date has ignored this existence.
HUMAN VISUAL PATHWAY DAMAGE
The human visual pathway admits ninety percent of our intellectual
input to the brain and central nervous system. All of the learning
processes are centered during ones life time. The mechanism of this
tragic damage to the human visual system from this product is and has
been known for over a decade that visual loss takes place. When this
drug enters the digestive tract, largely the upper portion, this
ASPARTAME molecule spins off a by product known as METHANOL or
METHYL-ALCOHOL. This product enters the blood stream and when these
portions reach the highly metabolic region of the OPTIC NERVE AND
RETINA, PARTIAL ATROPHY CAN AND DOES TAKE PLACE. The vision can not
do without oxygen and nutrition for more than ninety seconds without
revealing some damage. Total loss of vision is present and there is
no return. In the very early stages in which is referred to as the
“wet stage”, treatment can be given and will reserve the destructive
pathology to the OPTIC NERVE and RETINA. This must be in the mind of
the physician and he must understand the chemical ongoing process.
The writer has seen many cases where the patent was allowed to go to
the degrees of blindness, as this diagnosis of OPTIC NEURITIS was
rendered, as the term IDIOPATHIC NEURITIS OF OPTIC NERVE was given,
usually steroids until systemic gross body and facial moon developed.
This therapy has demonstrated the total lack of understanding of the
basic lack of BIO-CHEMICAL PHYSIOLOGY AT THE MOLECULAR LEVEL.
The variability or onset of the OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY is of a type that
one must first think of this pathology, and it requires a certain
amount of listening to the patient. The quantity of symptoms vary
with each patient.
Over the past year the writer has observed the fact that any portion
of the central nervous system can and is affected. Since the chemical
PHENYLALANINE is mixed up with some metabolic mess, we have seen
symptoms of varying hue in the extremities, sensations of dullness of
the intellect, visual shadows, evidence of word structure reversing
and somehearing impairment is noted by the individual. This can and
will in time cause problems in learning. The medical community must
alert itself that we have a problem that has surfaced due to the
factor of the drug industry. Parents must be alerted to the side
reactions of this toxic product and its reactions.
Sincerely,
Morgan B. Raiford, M.D. D.Sc (Med) OPHTHALMOLOGY
________________________________________
Article 2:
Letter to Shannon Roth dated 10/10/86 which further explains vision
problems due to aspartame:
“Dear Shannon:
The first time that I had the opportunity to see the effects of
methyl alcohol toxicity was in the years 1952-1953 that resulted
visual damage to the optic nerves and retina in over 300 cases and
death of over 30 persons.
In the cases of the use of Aspartame the loss of vision varied, first
affection to the optic nerve fibers from loss of vision and atrophy
of the optic nerve fibers. The central fibers (225,000) of the total
(137,000,000) optic nerve fibers resulted in partial the extent of
total blindness. (see enclosed paper on the Macula physiology, a
paper that I presented in Houston, Texas, and Outline of the Macula
function.) The macula area of the retina and optic nerve fibers are
highly reactive to the toxicity of methyl alcohol because of these
fibers and nerve cells require from four to six times as much oxygen
and nutrition and the visual pathways peripheral nerves. These fibers
and nerves (Tods and Cones) can not go without oxygen for more than
90 seconds without some visual loss. Aspartame is broken down by the
upper portion of the digestive tract and methyl alcohol is then
absorbed into the blood vessels of the region which travels through
the bodies entire vascular system. This toxic effect causes extensive
damage to the highly demanding metabolic requirements of the human
visual pathway, ending with optic nerve atrophy as well as retinal
starvation and visual loss.
The intensity of these toxic effects from the methyl alcohol spin-off
causes impaired nerve damage that varies with intensity as to the
amount of methyl alcohol the individual absorbs.
Beyond the extensive visual damage that aspartame can and does
create, other organ systems are affected. Nerve damage to the arms,
legs, central nerve impairment, resulting in impaired nerve function
as well as neurosis and learning difficulties in school work as well
as behavior(metabolic short circuits of the nerve/brain/visual cells)
The pressure put upon the Federal Drug Administration are well known.
The Searle people are more interested in their greed factor of profits.
I have been told that this toxic methyl alcohol of aspartame has a
market value of over $45,000,000. The human factor is being ignored
and the moral is not presented.
This product Aspartame should be withdrawn from the market place and
not for human use until the TOXIC METHYL ALCOHOL radical has been
eliminated. Methyl alcohol has no place in a product, whole or in
part, to be allowed to be produced by any manufacturer for human usage.
Sincerely, Morgan B. Raiford, M.D., D.Sc. (Med) Ophth
________________________________________
Here is another article you can read: “What’s Blinding The World”:
<http://www.dorway.com/blinding.txt>http://www.dorway.com/blinding.txt
In l986 the Community Nutrition Institute in Washington, D.C.
petitioned to have aspartame banned because so many people were going
blind and having seizures. Here is an article from the Chicago Sun Times:
Subject: NUTRASWEET/BLINDNESS, Chi-Sun Times
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, Friday, October 17, 1986
Consumer group links NutraSweet to blindness
By William Hines
Chief, Washington Bureau
Chicago Sun-Times
Ban artificial sweetener, FDA is urged
WASHINGTON – Charging that aspartame – the widely used artificial
sweetener marketed as NutraSweet – causes blindness, a consumer group
yesterday petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban it.
The petition was another step in a long and so far fruitless campaign
by the Washington based Community Nutrition Institute against
aspartame, which also is sold in stores under the name Equal.
Three women who said their eyesight was seriously damaged or
destroyed joined in the citizens’ petition to the FDA, which they
asked “to expeditiously remove [the] product from the market without
an administrative hearing.”
At a press conference called by the institute to announce this
imminent-hazard petition, two of the women told of heavy use of
aspartame-sweetened products and said their doctors had advised them
the sugar substitute was the cause of their sight loss.
The NutraSweet Co., of Skokie, Ill., a subsidiary of Searle & Co.,
brushed off the institute’s complaint as “simply another round in
their repeated efforts to gain publicity for their thoroughly
discredited views on aspartame.”
A Washington-based group called the International Food Information
Council said through its executive director, Thomas E. Stenzel, the
allegations “that aspartame causes various side effects are not based
on any scientific data or controlled clinical studies.”
James S. Turner, a Washington lawyer representing the Community
Nutrition Institute in the petition, said the eye damage to the women
named in the complaint was “a direct, causally related event to their
consumption of NutraSweet.”
Both heavy users
Both women, Dana Cozad of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Joyce Wilson of
Stockbridge, Ga., described themselves as heavy users of the sweetener.
Wilson, a real estate agent, said she no longer can take sales
prospects to see property because her vision does not permit her to drive.
“It has cost me a lot, and I really want the public to know what a
dangerous product it is,” Wilson said.
Cozad said that vision loss struck her suddenly in the right eye
while she was driving home and that lengthy surgery and other sight-
saving efforts followed.
She said vision is gone in that eye, and – after she has spent 13
months on an aspartame-free diet – the condition of the left eye
“remains relatively stable.”
Both women said their physicians had ruled out causes other than
aspartame for their sight loss.
Methyl alcohol blamed
Dr. H. J. Roberts of West Palm Beach, Fla., said methyl alcohol is a
component of aspartame and is responsible for vision damage, which he
termed “the most serious complication” of those arising from aspartame use.
Aspartame, which is described as a “natural” product, contains two
amino acids, phenylalanine and aspartic acid, which are components of
protein. Under certain storage conditions, the sweetener breaks down
in part and methyl alcohol is a byproduct.
Roberts said the visual reaction to methyl alcohol in heavy users of
aspartame is the same as in drinkers of moonshine whiskey in
Prohibition days: “They go blind.”
Of 360 patients he has diagnosed as having aspartame-related
problems, Roberts said, about one-fourth had decreased vision or
blindness, nearly half had severe headaches and substantial numbers
had epileptic seizures, confusion or memory loss, extreme depression
and marked personality change.
At FDA headquarters in Rockville, Md., spokesman William Grigg said
the petition had been received but not yet studied.
Grigg recalled that Turner filed several interventions against
aspartame in the past, none of which received favorable FDA action.
________________________________________
I’m sure the National Federation of the Blind have publications and
if you could get the information far and wide a lot of people could
regain their site. Unfortunately, aspartame is pushed on diabetics so
when they lose their vision their physicians believe its due to
diabetes when, in fact, its due to NutraSweet. In fact, aspartame
actually can precipitate diabetes, simulates and aggravates diabetic
retinopathy and neuropathy, destroys the optic nerve, causes
diabetics to go into convulsions and even interacts with insulin.
Diabetics are losing their limbs because of the free methyl alcohol.
<http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?page_id=589>http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?page_id=589
The aspartame industry uses ludicrous excuses for the free methyl
alcohol like there is more methanol in oranges than in aspartame.
What they don’t say is that in nature in fruits and vegetables
methanol is always accompanied by ethanol, the antidote for methanol
toxicity. Here is the journal article about it: Aspartame: Methanol
and the Public Health by Dr. Woodrow Monte:
<http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?page_id=1000>http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?page_id=1000
Also, methanol binds to pectin in nature. Dr. Roberts has written
many letters to the FDA about the “free” and unbound methanol in
aspartame and they refuse to answer. Remember that the FDA gets over
50% of their funds from Big Pharma. The IFIC mentioned in the Chicago
article defending the manufacturer is a notorious front group.
Incidentally, it has been reported from an organization in Hawaii
that an informant from Pfizer said that Dilantin had been
reformulated and contains aspartame unlabeled. Dilantin is used for
seizures and aspartame is a seizure triggering drug. The information
we have received is that people in Hawaii are having more seizures on
the drug and aspartame symptoms such as vision problems and male
sexual dysfunction.
While the FDA is now simply Big Pharma’s Washington Branch Office, it
wasn’t always that way. The FDA themselves tried to have the original
manufacturer of Searle indicted for fraud but both US Prosecutors
hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations
expired. Then they revoked the petition for approval. Don Rumsfeld
was CEO of Searle and said he would call in his markers and get it on
the market anyway. He did this through political chicanery and its
discussed in the aspartame documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned
World, <http://www.soundandfury.tv>http://www.soundandfury.tv
Over 30 years ago, FDA toxicologist Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, who also
testified to Congress that aspartame has never been proven safe,
wrote the book Eating May Be Hazardous To Your Health: The Case
Against Food Additives. Even then she summed up by saying, “What can
be done to restore to consumers their right to safe food regardless
of economic and political interests? . . . Probably the best
solution, as some members of Congress have suggested, is to abolish
the FDA and start over with a completely new agency free of some of
the political pressures. . . . When science and the public interest
win out, it is invariably only after the government has been pushed
to the wall by consumer advocates and other public pressure.”
The FDA is responsible for every case of blindness due to aspartame
because they know it blinds and refused to ban it when they were
petitioned to do so for that reason. When those responsible to solve
the problem ARE the PROBLEM, its a sad commentary. Dr. James Bowen
told the FDA over 20 years ago: “..The only responsible action would
be to immediately take aspartame off the market, fully disclose its
toxicities, offer full compensation to the injured, public and
criminally prosecute anyone who participated in the fraudulent
placement of aspartame on the marketplace.” Imagine the millions of
people worldwide who suffer blindness or vision impairments who could
see again or improve their sight if they only knew to get off aspartame!
Thank you so much for calling in to the program and getting in touch.
If I can ever help please let me know. You have the ability to help
in many ways, publishing to get consumers off aspartame in time and
regain their sight, and working to get Hawaiian legislators to get
involved , sponsor the resolution and bill to ban aspartame, so the
beautiful Hawaiian islands will be free of this deadly addictive
excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug. Your organization can make a
difference. I’ll send you a list by separate email. You can also make
the aspartame documentary available to your organization, to those
who can see it, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World,
<http://www.sunsentpress.com>http://www.sunsentpress.com because it
tells the whole story of how this poison got marketed for human
consumption. For those on aspartame, neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock,
MD’s detox program is
<http://www.wnho.net/wtdaspartame.htm>www.wnho.net/wtdaspartame.htm
His excellent books are listed on the bottom.
For those needing a sweetener, there is a safe one called Just Like
Sugar,
<http://www.justlikesugarinc.com>http://www.justlikesugarinc.com and
its available in Whole Foods in Hawaii. It’s made of chicory which
has been used for 70 years to improve the health of diabetics, and
orange peel, Vitamin C and Calcium. Dr. Russell Blaylock wrote in his
newsletter, The Blaylock Wellness Report, “Finally a safe sweetener.”
All my best,
Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.
Founder, Mission Possible World Health International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770-242-2599
E-Mail: <mailto:BettyM19@mindspring.com>BettyM19@mindspring.com
http://www.wpwhi.com
<http://www.wnho.net>http://www.wnho.net
http://www.dorway.com
Aspartame Toxicity Center:
<http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame>http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
—–Original Message—–
From: R White, rwhite.zis@gmail.com
Sent: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 6:16 pm
Subject: MPWHI website
Aloha! ;)
Thanks for the great show! ;)
I guess I communicate better in writing than on the air….
Could you please forward this e-mail to the appropriate person? Thanks! ;)
Sincerely,
Ronalene White
Aloha! ;)
Thanks for sharing all the great information about Aspertame on
KIPO’s Town Square! ;)
I was the caller who commented that there was an easy way to make the
MPWHI website accessible to blind & visually impaired visitors.
Y’all have a lot of graphic links on the website. Please ask
yourwebmaster to add the text on the graphic to the image’s “alt”
attribute. For example, if one of your graphic links is a “Contact
Us” button, s/he would add that text to the image’s “alt” attribute.
This text would appear if someone moves their mouse over the graphic
button, but it would also be read by the text-to-speech screen
readers used by many blind & visually impaired people.
This is a much easier fix than converting the graphic links to text links….
Again, thank you for the great on-air info & I look forward to
reading your online info! ;)
Sincerely,
Ronalene White
Anuenue Chapter Vice-President
National Federation of the Blind of Hawaii
From: Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum., Bettym19@mindspring.com
To: rwhite.zis@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:18:10 -0500
Subject: National Federation of the Blind of Hawaii – Aspartame and Vision
Dear Ronalene,
I’ve notified the webmaster to take care of the issue you mentioned below.
I’m particularly happy that you wrote because it gives me the
opportunity to explain the effect of NutraSweet on vision. You’re in
a position to help a lot of people regain their sight if they are
using aspartame (Equal/Spoonful/NutraSweet/E951/Canderel, etc.).
You may remember that during prohibition thousands went blind or died
on wood alcohol. This is what is in aspartame. It’s a methyl ester
which immediately becomes methanol or wood alcohol, and then converts
to formaldehyde and formic acid in the retina of the eye and destroys
the optic nerve. The medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored
Epidemic by H. J. Roberts, M.D.,
<http://www.sunsentpress.com>http://www.sunsentpress.com has a
chapter on the eyes and goes through the many eye problems triggered
by this deadly excitoneurotoxin from optic neuritis to macular
degeneration to blindness.
On the show you may remember I spoke about an organic market that
decided to help the effort by giving out thousands and thousands of
free 16 page booklets titled “Killer Kola”. At least 2000 people a
day shopped there and a booklet was added to each bag. Some people
came in and got handfuls of them. A couple of months later I opened
the door and a woman fell in my arms crying “I was blind and now I
can see.” I didn’t even have my address in the magazine. The owner
called that day and said, “You’re not going to believe what is going
on down here. People are coming in by the thousands, calling and
faxing, that they got off aspartame after reading the magazine and
have woken up well from medical problems they had for years. Many had
gone to physicians who couldn’t diagnose their problems.”
I went down to their establishment and the owner’s wife handed me a
stack of papers and said: “Someone came in and said to give these to
you. Dr. Morgan Raiford before he died said if anyone actually does
something to get aspartame off the market see that they receive
these.” Dr. Morgan Raiford was an ophthalmologist in Atlanta and “the
specialist in methanol toxicity”. He owned the Atlanta Eye Hospital
which is still here under a different name. He died some years ago.
In one of his papers he mentioned that if vision was in the “wet
stage” it can return if the victim is warned in time. Over the years
I’ve seen so many regain their sight because we got to them in time.
In fact, I was on a TV Talk Show in Texas with Mary Reiff, an
aspartame victim. She was using aspartame and having seizures. One
day because of the seizures she wrecked her car and ended up in the
hospital. Eventually she was declared legally blind. Off aspartame
the seizures stopped. I had her on the show about a year later and
her vision had been restored.
Joyce Wilson is another woman who went blind on aspartame, suffered
methanol toxicity, diagnosed with MS and eventually died like an
Alzheimer’s victim. It was simply too late for her. In fact, I
inherited her records. She was Aspartame Victims and Their Friends of
Georgia. This is why I have spent 17 years warning the world. It’s so
important to warn aspartame victims in time to save them.
Here are a couple of Dr. Morgan Raiford’s records:
May 20, 1987: FACTS ABOUT ASPARTAME
The above product is also manufactured as NutraSweet. This
pharmological spin-off is as highly profitable item, with a growing
market. These products are used as a sweetener, some 200 times as
sweet as regular cane sugar.
This product has some highly toxic reactions in the human visual
pathway and we are beginning to observe the tragic damage to the
OPTIC NERVE, such as blindness, partial to total OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY.
Once this destructive process has developed there is no return of
visual restoration. We are beginning to see and observe another toxic
reaction, which affects the central nervous system which is related
to PHENYLALANINE LEVELS IN THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. These
observations are more vague, however, it stimulates the damaging to
the brain and the central nervous system, having the manifestations
as PKU NEURO DAMAGE. Over 3000 cases have been reported and the FDA
to date has ignored this existence.
HUMAN VISUAL PATHWAY DAMAGE
The human visual pathway admits ninety percent of our intellectual
input to the brain and central nervous system. All of the learning
processes are centered during ones life time. The mechanism of this
tragic damage to the human visual system from this product is and has
been known for over a decade that visual loss takes place. When this
drug enters the digestive tract, largely the upper portion, this
ASPARTAME molecule spins off a by product known as METHANOL or
METHYL-ALCOHOL. This product enters the blood stream and when these
portions reach the highly metabolic region of the OPTIC NERVE AND
RETINA, PARTIAL ATROPHY CAN AND DOES TAKE PLACE. The vision can not
do without oxygen and nutrition for more than ninety seconds without
revealing some damage. Total loss of vision is present and there is
no return. In the very early stages in which is referred to as the
“wet stage”, treatment can be given and will reserve the destructive
pathology to the OPTIC NERVE and RETINA. This must be in the mind of
the physician and he must understand the chemical ongoing process.
The writer has seen many cases where the patent was allowed to go to
the degrees of blindness, as this diagnosis of OPTIC NEURITIS was
rendered, as the term IDIOPATHIC NEURITIS OF OPTIC NERVE was given,
usually steroids until systemic gross body and facial moon developed.
This therapy has demonstrated the total lack of understanding of the
basic lack of BIO-CHEMICAL PHYSIOLOGY AT THE MOLECULAR LEVEL.
The variability or onset of the OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY is of a type that
one must first think of this pathology, and it requires a certain
amount of listening to the patient. The quantity of symptoms vary
with each patient.
Over the past year the writer has observed the fact that any portion
of the central nervous system can and is affected. Since the chemical
PHENYLALANINE is mixed up with some metabolic mess, we have seen
symptoms of varying hue in the extremities, sensations of dullness of
the intellect, visual shadows, evidence of word structure reversing
and somehearing impairment is noted by the individual. This can and
will in time cause problems in learning. The medical community must
alert itself that we have a problem that has surfaced due to the
factor of the drug industry. Parents must be alerted to the side
reactions of this toxic product and its reactions.
Sincerely,
Morgan B. Raiford, M.D. D.Sc (Med) OPHTHALMOLOGY
________________________________________
Article 2:
Letter to Shannon Roth dated 10/10/86 which further explains vision
problems due to aspartame:
“Dear Shannon:
The first time that I had the opportunity to see the effects of
methyl alcohol toxicity was in the years 1952-1953 that resulted
visual damage to the optic nerves and retina in over 300 cases and
death of over 30 persons.
In the cases of the use of Aspartame the loss of vision varied, first
affection to the optic nerve fibers from loss of vision and atrophy
of the optic nerve fibers. The central fibers (225,000) of the total
(137,000,000) optic nerve fibers resulted in partial the extent of
total blindness. (see enclosed paper on the Macula physiology, a
paper that I presented in Houston, Texas, and Outline of the Macula
function.) The macula area of the retina and optic nerve fibers are
highly reactive to the toxicity of methyl alcohol because of these
fibers and nerve cells require from four to six times as much oxygen
and nutrition and the visual pathways peripheral nerves. These fibers
and nerves (Tods and Cones) can not go without oxygen for more than
90 seconds without some visual loss. Aspartame is broken down by the
upper portion of the digestive tract and methyl alcohol is then
absorbed into the blood vessels of the region which travels through
the bodies entire vascular system. This toxic effect causes extensive
damage to the highly demanding metabolic requirements of the human
visual pathway, ending with optic nerve atrophy as well as retinal
starvation and visual loss.
The intensity of these toxic effects from the methyl alcohol spin-off
causes impaired nerve damage that varies with intensity as to the
amount of methyl alcohol the individual absorbs.
Beyond the extensive visual damage that aspartame can and does
create, other organ systems are affected. Nerve damage to the arms,
legs, central nerve impairment, resulting in impaired nerve function
as well as neurosis and learning difficulties in school work as well
as behavior(metabolic short circuits of the nerve/brain/visual cells)
The pressure put upon the Federal Drug Administration are well known.
The Searle people are more interested in their greed factor of profits.
I have been told that this toxic methyl alcohol of aspartame has a
market value of over $45,000,000. The human factor is being ignored
and the moral is not presented.
This product Aspartame should be withdrawn from the market place and
not for human use until the TOXIC METHYL ALCOHOL radical has been
eliminated. Methyl alcohol has no place in a product, whole or in
part, to be allowed to be produced by any manufacturer for human usage.
Sincerely, Morgan B. Raiford, M.D., D.Sc. (Med) Ophth
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Here is another article you can read: “What’s Blinding The World”:
<http://www.dorway.com/blinding.txt>http://www.dorway.com/blinding.txt
In l986 the Community Nutrition Institute in Washington, D.C.
petitioned to have aspartame banned because so many people were going
blind and having seizures. Here is an article from the Chicago Sun Times:
Subject: NUTRASWEET/BLINDNESS, Chi-Sun Times
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, Friday, October 17, 1986
Consumer group links NutraSweet to blindness
By William Hines
Chief, Washington Bureau
Chicago Sun-Times
Ban artificial sweetener, FDA is urged
WASHINGTON – Charging that aspartame – the widely used artificial
sweetener marketed as NutraSweet – causes blindness, a consumer group
yesterday petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban it.
The petition was another step in a long and so far fruitless campaign
by the Washington based Community Nutrition Institute against
aspartame, which also is sold in stores under the name Equal.
Three women who said their eyesight was seriously damaged or
destroyed joined in the citizens’ petition to the FDA, which they
asked “to expeditiously remove [the] product from the market without
an administrative hearing.”
At a press conference called by the institute to announce this
imminent-hazard petition, two of the women told of heavy use of
aspartame-sweetened products and said their doctors had advised them
the sugar substitute was the cause of their sight loss.
The NutraSweet Co., of Skokie, Ill., a subsidiary of Searle & Co.,
brushed off the institute’s complaint as “simply another round in
their repeated efforts to gain publicity for their thoroughly
discredited views on aspartame.”
A Washington-based group called the International Food Information
Council said through its executive director, Thomas E. Stenzel, the
allegations “that aspartame causes various side effects are not based
on any scientific data or controlled clinical studies.”
James S. Turner, a Washington lawyer representing the Community
Nutrition Institute in the petition, said the eye damage to the women
named in the complaint was “a direct, causally related event to their
consumption of NutraSweet.”
Both heavy users
Both women, Dana Cozad of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Joyce Wilson of
Stockbridge, Ga., described themselves as heavy users of the sweetener.
Wilson, a real estate agent, said she no longer can take sales
prospects to see property because her vision does not permit her to drive.
“It has cost me a lot, and I really want the public to know what a
dangerous product it is,” Wilson said.
Cozad said that vision loss struck her suddenly in the right eye
while she was driving home and that lengthy surgery and other sight-
saving efforts followed.
She said vision is gone in that eye, and – after she has spent 13
months on an aspartame-free diet – the condition of the left eye
“remains relatively stable.”
Both women said their physicians had ruled out causes other than
aspartame for their sight loss.
Methyl alcohol blamed
Dr. H. J. Roberts of West Palm Beach, Fla., said methyl alcohol is a
component of aspartame and is responsible for vision damage, which he
termed “the most serious complication” of those arising from aspartame use.
Aspartame, which is described as a “natural” product, contains two
amino acids, phenylalanine and aspartic acid, which are components of
protein. Under certain storage conditions, the sweetener breaks down
in part and methyl alcohol is a byproduct.
Roberts said the visual reaction to methyl alcohol in heavy users of
aspartame is the same as in drinkers of moonshine whiskey in
Prohibition days: “They go blind.”
Of 360 patients he has diagnosed as having aspartame-related
problems, Roberts said, about one-fourth had decreased vision or
blindness, nearly half had severe headaches and substantial numbers
had epileptic seizures, confusion or memory loss, extreme depression
and marked personality change.
At FDA headquarters in Rockville, Md., spokesman William Grigg said
the petition had been received but not yet studied.
Grigg recalled that Turner filed several interventions against
aspartame in the past, none of which received favorable FDA action.
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I’m sure the National Federation of the Blind have publications and
if you could get the information far and wide a lot of people could
regain their site. Unfortunately, aspartame is pushed on diabetics so
when they lose their vision their physicians believe its due to
diabetes when, in fact, its due to NutraSweet. In fact, aspartame
actually can precipitate diabetes, simulates and aggravates diabetic
retinopathy and neuropathy, destroys the optic nerve, causes
diabetics to go into convulsions and even interacts with insulin.
Diabetics are losing their limbs because of the free methyl alcohol.
<http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?page_id=589>http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?page_id=589
The aspartame industry uses ludicrous excuses for the free methyl
alcohol like there is more methanol in oranges than in aspartame.
What they don’t say is that in nature in fruits and vegetables
methanol is always accompanied by ethanol, the antidote for methanol
toxicity. Here is the journal article about it: Aspartame: Methanol
and the Public Health by Dr. Woodrow Monte:
<http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?page_id=1000>http://dorway.com/dorwblog/?page_id=1000
Also, methanol binds to pectin in nature. Dr. Roberts has written
many letters to the FDA about the “free” and unbound methanol in
aspartame and they refuse to answer. Remember that the FDA gets over
50% of their funds from Big Pharma. The IFIC mentioned in the Chicago
article defending the manufacturer is a notorious front group.
Incidentally, it has been reported from an organization in Hawaii
that an informant from Pfizer said that Dilantin had been
reformulated and contains aspartame unlabeled. Dilantin is used for
seizures and aspartame is a seizure triggering drug. The information
we have received is that people in Hawaii are having more seizures on
the drug and aspartame symptoms such as vision problems and male
sexual dysfunction.
While the FDA is now simply Big Pharma’s Washington Branch Office, it
wasn’t always that way. The FDA themselves tried to have the original
manufacturer of Searle indicted for fraud but both US Prosecutors
hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations
expired. Then they revoked the petition for approval. Don Rumsfeld
was CEO of Searle and said he would call in his markers and get it on
the market anyway. He did this through political chicanery and its
discussed in the aspartame documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned
World, <http://www.soundandfury.tv>http://www.soundandfury.tv
Over 30 years ago, FDA toxicologist Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, who also
testified to Congress that aspartame has never been proven safe,
wrote the book Eating May Be Hazardous To Your Health: The Case
Against Food Additives. Even then she summed up by saying, “What can
be done to restore to consumers their right to safe food regardless
of economic and political interests? . . . Probably the best
solution, as some members of Congress have suggested, is to abolish
the FDA and start over with a completely new agency free of some of
the political pressures. . . . When science and the public interest
win out, it is invariably only after the government has been pushed
to the wall by consumer advocates and other public pressure.”
The FDA is responsible for every case of blindness due to aspartame
because they know it blinds and refused to ban it when they were
petitioned to do so for that reason. When those responsible to solve
the problem ARE the PROBLEM, its a sad commentary. Dr. James Bowen
told the FDA over 20 years ago: “..The only responsible action would
be to immediately take aspartame off the market, fully disclose its
toxicities, offer full compensation to the injured, public and
criminally prosecute anyone who participated in the fraudulent
placement of aspartame on the marketplace.” Imagine the millions of
people worldwide who suffer blindness or vision impairments who could
see again or improve their sight if they only knew to get off aspartame!
Thank you so much for calling in to the program and getting in touch.
If I can ever help please let me know. You have the ability to help
in many ways, publishing to get consumers off aspartame in time and
regain their sight, and working to get Hawaiian legislators to get
involved , sponsor the resolution and bill to ban aspartame, so the
beautiful Hawaiian islands will be free of this deadly addictive
excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug. Your organization can make a
difference. I’ll send you a list by separate email. You can also make
the aspartame documentary available to your organization, to those
who can see it, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World,
<http://www.sunsentpress.com>http://www.sunsentpress.com because it
tells the whole story of how this poison got marketed for human
consumption. For those on aspartame, neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock,
MD’s detox program is
<http://www.wnho.net/wtdaspartame.htm>www.wnho.net/wtdaspartame.htm
His excellent books are listed on the bottom.
For those needing a sweetener, there is a safe one called Just Like
Sugar,
<http://www.justlikesugarinc.com>http://www.justlikesugarinc.com and
its available in Whole Foods in Hawaii. It’s made of chicory which
has been used for 70 years to improve the health of diabetics, and
orange peel, Vitamin C and Calcium. Dr. Russell Blaylock wrote in his
newsletter, The Blaylock Wellness Report, “Finally a safe sweetener.”
All my best,
Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum.
Founder, Mission Possible World Health International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770-242-2599
E-Mail: <mailto:BettyM19@mindspring.com>BettyM19@mindspring.com
http://www.wpwhi.com
<http://www.wnho.net>http://www.wnho.net
http://www.dorway.com
Aspartame Toxicity Center:
<http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame>http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
—–Original Message—–
Aloha! ;)
Thanks for sharing all the great information about Aspertame on
KIPO’s Town Square! ;)
I was the caller who commented that there was an easy way to make the
MPWHI website accessible to blind & visually impaired visitors.
Y’all have a lot of graphic links on the website. Please ask
yourwebmaster to add the text on the graphic to the image’s “alt”
attribute. For example, if one of your graphic links is a “Contact
Us” button, s/he would add that text to the image’s “alt” attribute.
This text would appear if someone moves their mouse over the graphic
button, but it would also be read by the text-to-speech screen
readers used by many blind & visually impaired people.
This is a much easier fix than converting the graphic links to text links….
Again, thank you for the great on-air info & I look forward to
reading your online info! ;)
Sincerely,
Ronalene White
Anuenue Chapter Vice-President
National Federation of the Blind of Hawaii
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In the 1950’s, two opthalmology residents published a paper on the
effects of aspartate and glutamate on the retina of baby mice. It
killed nerve cells in the retina. Later Dr. John Olney repeated the
study confirming the retinal damage plus discovering lesions in the
hypothalamus and hippocampus. Swiss cheese brain.
Google: Lucas and Newhouse for a list of articles and citations
based on their original article.