Subject: Aspartame and brain tumors, Part 3, FDA Report You've now read Dr. Olney's report, and some information from the Congressional Record on the original studies. Mission Possible collects the histories from the victims of aspartame. In a nutshell aspartame destroys the central nervous system, the brain, the optic nerve and triggers an irregular heart rhythm; and as Richard Wilson once said who lost his wife to NutraSweet - it ravages every organ in the body. This is the reality of aspartame. Because aspartame was classified as an additive instead of a drug, which it is, it requires no safety monitoring. The Congressional Record even mentions that the FDA was sending complaints to the AIDS Hotline. In l984 the Center for Disease Control was asked to do an investigation of the complaints. They reviewed 213 of 592 cases of aspartame complaints. Ages of the complainants ranged from four months to 77 years; 77% were between the ages of 21 and 60 years, 75% were female and 94% were white. Twenty-eight percent reported repeated episodes of symptoms and 26 people experienced identical symptoms. Some of the reported symptoms included: aggressive behavior, disorientation, hyperactivity, extreme numbness, excitability, memory loss, loss of depth perception, liver impairment, cardiac arrest, seizures, suicidal tendencies, severe mood swings and death. The CDC recommended future investigations of aspartame investigate the neurological and behavioral problems, and focus on symptoms such as headaches, mood alterations and behavioral changes. Would you say these are serious problems? Yet, Frederick L. Trowbridge added an executive summary to the report which conflicted with the information in the report. He stated: "Currently available information, based on data with limitations as described in the report, indicated a wide variety of complaints that are generally of a mild nature. Although it may be that certain individuals have an unusual sensitivity to the product, these data do not provide evidence for the existence of serious, widespread, adverse health consequences to the use of aspartame." Why would they do this? CDC is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, FDA! When you call the CDC for this report they only send you the summary. I told them I had seen the report and there was no way they would keep it from me. It was sent to me when I filed under Freedom of Information. It is the most damning report ever written on aspartame. And these problems continue in the population. Histories continue to flood in from victims who have suffered seizures, vision loss and blindness, mood swings, miscarriages, birth defects in their children, loss of equilibrium and MS symptoms, depression, chronic fatigue, memory loss, etc. These reports the FDA calls anecdotal were once considered clinical observation. And as we get the victims off aspartame their symptoms disappear within 4 to 6 weeks, if warned in time. Some have perished. Here is the FDA report of 92 documented symptoms including death, also acquired through Freedom of Information. The FDA says they list blindness under vision loss (the component methanol converts to formaldehyde and formic acid in the retina of the eye). Headaches, dizziness or problem with balance, change in mood quality or level, vomiting and nausea, abdominal pain and cramps, change in vision, diarrhea, seizures and convulsions, memory loss, fatigue, weakness, other neurological, rash, sleep problems, hives, change in heart rate, itching, change in sensation (numbness, tingling), grand mal seizures, local swelling, change in activity level, difficulty breathing, oral sensory changes, change in menstrual pattern, other skin, other, localized pain and tenderness, other urogenital, change in body temperature, difficulty swallowing, other metabolic, joint and bone pain, speech impairment, other gastrointestinal, chest pain, other musculo-skeletal, fainting, sore throat, other cardiovascular, change in taste, difficulty with urination, other respiratory, edema, change in hearing, abdominal swelling, change in saliva output, change in urine volume, change in perspiration pattern, eye irritation, unspecified, muscle tremors, petit mal, change in appetite, change in body weight, nocturnal, change in thirst or water intake, unconsciousness and coma, wheezing, constipation, other extremity pain, problems with bleeding, unsteady gait, coughing, blood glucose disorders, blood pressure changes, changes in skin and nail coloration, change in hair or nails, excessive phlegm production, sinus problems, simple partial seizures, hallucinations, lumps present, shortness of breath on exertion, evidence of blood in stool or vomit, dysmenorrhea, dental problems, change in smell, DEATH, other blood and lymphatic, eczema, complex partial seizures, swollen lymph nodes, hematuria, shortness of breath due to position, difficulties with pregnancy, (children only) developmental retardation, change in breast size or tenderness, anemia, change in sexual function, shock, conjunctivitis, dilating eyes, febrile Should an additive cause these kind of symptoms? Pilots are reporting grand mal seizures in the cockpits of commercial airliners from aspartame, chest palpitations, tachycardia, vision loss, etc. FLYING SAFETY, Journal of the U.S. Air Force and NAVY PHYSIOLOGY, Journal of the U.S. Navy, have written in their journals warning all pilots off aspartame. Doctors if you are seeing neurological symptoms you can't explain and your patient is on aspartame get him off and see for yourself what this deadly neurotoxin is doing to the human race. At the Conference of the American College of Physicians which I attended with Dr. H. J. Roberts the first thing neurology professors said was: "Where are the seizures coming from?" The phenylalanine in aspartame lowers the seizure threshold of the brain. Why is this product so deadly? Aspartame is a molecule composed of 3 components: aspartic acid, phenylalanine and methanol. Once ingested the methanol, wood alcohol, converts into formaldehyde and formic acid (ant sting poison). Both aspartic acid and l-phenylalanine are also neurotoxic because they are isolated from the other amino acids in protein and go past the blood brain barrier and deteriorate the neurons of the brain. The phenylalanine in aspartame is genetically engineered. We ask everyone to write to the FDA and complain: Food & Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, Maryland 20857 Dr. Roberts position papers on aspartame and diabetes, aspartame or MS?, aspartame and the eye, aspartame and equilibrium, aspartame and pregnancy, aspartame and cardiac problems are in Mission Possible files located at: http://www.dorway.com/possible.html If you have specific information please consider capturing the form, complete and send it to the FDA, with a "proof" copy to Betty Martini. If you have the time to complete an in-depth report for Dr. Roberts, please capture, fill out and mail his questionnaire. Mission Possible activists the world over are warning the public and attempting to get this toxin off the market. People are still hurting! Please help in any way you can! Betty Martini Mission Possible International 9270 River Club Parkway Duluth, Georgia 30097 bettym19@mindspring.com