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In interviewing the husband of Joyce Wilson who went blind and died from 
NutraSweet I was given many of her records.  She ran ASPARTAME VICTIMS 
AND THEIR FRIENDS until her death from this poison.  The late Dr. Morgan 
Raiford was a specialist in methanol toxicity and many of the patients 
who went blind on NutraSweet were brought to Atlanta for his diagnosis. 
He was an ophthalmologist and founder of the Atlanta Eye Clinic.  

Many people today say their ophthalmologists have said they were going 
blind but don't know why, and diabetics in particular are thought to have 
simple diabetic retinopathy.  The methanol in aspartame converts to 
formaldehyde in the retina of the eye.  It causes retinal detachments, 
blurring of the vision, double vision, floaters, flashes, black spots, 
optic neuritis, tunnel vision, etc.   Dr. H. J. Roberts on a radio program 
recently said aspartame destroys the optic nerve.  

Since we have had a hard time finding ophthalmologists that know and 
can identify the problem I am providing Dr. Morgan Raiford's fact sheet.
For every physician or ophthalmologist who has this information he can 
save the lives of thousands.  Many times if patients had been warned off 
aspartame when they were first seen they would not be blind today.  Even 
if you don't use aspartame (marketed as NutraSweet/Equal/Equal 
Measure/Spoonful, and no telling what since the patent has expired) 
please print this out and give it to your eye doctor and physician.  When
Dr. Raiford wrote this NutraSweet was only in a few hundred products - 
today its in 7000 products and climbing with an expired patent - in 90 
countries of the world!

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. 
(Writers Note: Now over 10,000)

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 some 
hearing 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

We hope all reading this will take it very seriously.  Almost 10 years 
have past since Dr. Raiford wrote it and now we have an epidemic of 
ASPARTAME DISEASE!  The EPA, Dr. Gaylord, has already announced an 
epidemic of MS at the World Environmental Conference where I lectured.  
She said they didn't know the toxic causing it.  I explained its not MS 
but methanol toxicity from aspartame which mimics MS and we realize it is 
now epidemic.  

Please get off this poison.  It is triggering neurological diseases 
because it changes the brain chemistry.  It changes the dopamine level of 
the brain.  The phenylalanine lowers the seizure threshold in the brain 
and blocks serotonin, so now we have epidemic manic depression, panic 
attacks, etc.  Seizures are rampant.

For more information on aspartame you can use our auto-responder.  Simply 
email me and put sendme help in the subject line like this:

Subject:  sendme help

When you get a directory simply put sendme help in the subject line again 
and whatever file you want to access typed exactly as written in the 
lefthand side of the directory.  Example:

Subject:  sendme diabetes-aspartame

Please also print out Dr. Roberts position paper on aspartame and the eye.
His tapes and books on the subject are available at 1 800 - 814-9800. Dr.
H. J. Roberts is a Board Certified Internist, endocrinologist and has been
warning diabetics, and the rest of the world off aspartame since it was
approved.  He has recently published DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMERS DISEASE 
which has been nominated for a Pulitzer.  He explains how the two 
amino acids, phenylalanine and aspartic acid, isolated from the other 
amino acids in protein go past the blood brain barrier and deteriorate 
the neurons of the brain.  This is escalating Alzheimers Disease!  

You can also get EXCITOTOXINS; THE TASTE THAT KILLS by Neurosurgeon, Dr. 
Russell Blaylock.  (1 800 -643-2665)  

Both Dr. Roberts and Dr. Blaylock explain that aspartame actually 
precipitates diabetes!  

Also you can check out Mark Gold's web page on aspartame:  

http://www.tiac.net/users/mgold/health.html

We are revising our warning flyer that we distribute worldwide and it 
will be added to the responder at a later date but if you want it as we 
have it now we will be happy to email it.

Betty Martini       MISSION POSSIBLE (the people warning the world to
                    get this poison off the planet)



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To get more information on aspartame, email betty@pd.org as follows:
Subject: sendme help   
The subject line must be typed exactly like the above line.
Betty Martini             1.  Take the 60-day No-Aspartame test
Mission Possible                 and send us your case history.
PO Box 28098              2.  Tell your doctor and your friends.
Atlanta GA  30358         3.  Return Aspar-Poisoned foods to the store. 
USA                           (Nutrasweet(tm), Equal(tm), Spoonful(tm), etc)

We are dedicated to the proposition that we will not be satisfied until death 
and disability are no longer considered an acceptable cost of business.