The Women Warriors

[Yasmine]

Dangers of Aspartame Poisoning



The dangers of aspartame poisoning have been a well guarded secret since the 1980s. The research and history of aspartame is conclusive as a cause of illness and toxic reactions in the human body.



Aspartame is a dangerous chemical food additive, and its use during pregnancy and by children is one of the greatest modern tragedies of all.



Why haven't you heard about aspartame poisoning before? Partly because the diet industry is worth trillions of American dollars to corporations, and they want to protect their profits by keeping the truth behind aspartame's dangers hidden from the public.



When NutraSweet® was introduced for the 'second' time in 1981, a diet craze revolutionized America's eating protocols and a well-oiled money machine was set into motion changing modern lifestyles.



After more than twenty years of aspartame use, the number of its victims is rapidly piling up, and people are figuring out for themselves that aspartame is at the root of their health problems.



Patients are teaching their doctors about this nutritional peril, and they are healing themselves with little to no support from traditional medicine.




There are over 92 different health side effects associated with aspartame consumption. It seems surreal, but true. How can one chemical create such chaos?


Aspartame dissolves into solution and can therefore travel throughout the body and deposit within any tissue. The body digests aspartame unlike saccharin, which does not break down within humans.



The multitude of aspartame side effects are indicative to your genetic individuality and physical weaknesses. It is important to put two and two together, nonetheless, and identify which side effects aspartame is creating within you.




Aspartame Side Effects



The components of aspartame can lead to a number of health problems, as you have read. Side effects can occur gradually, can be immediate, or can be acute reactions.

According to Lendon Smith, M.D. there is an enormous population suffering from side effects associated with aspartame, yet have no idea why drugs, supplements and herbs don’t relieve their symptoms.

Then, there are users who don’t ‘appear’ to suffer immediate reactions at all. Even these individuals are susceptible to the long-term damage caused by excitatory amino acids, phenylalanine, methanol, and DKP.



Adverse reactions and side effects of aspartame include:



Eye

blindness in one or both eyes

decreased vision and/or other eye problems such as: blurring, bright

flashes, squiggly lines, tunnel vision, decreased night vision

pain in one or both eyes

decreased tears

trouble with contact lenses

bulging eyes





Ear

tinnitus - ringing or buzzing sound

severe intolerance of noise

marked hearing impairment




Neurologic

epileptic seizures

headaches, migraines and some severe

dizziness, unsteadiness, both

confusion, memory loss, both

severe drowsiness and sleepiness

paresthesia or numbness of the limbs

severe slurring of speech

severe hyperactivity and restless legs

atypical facial pain

severe tremors




Psychological/Psychiatric

severe depression

irritability

aggression

anxiety

personality changes

insomnia

phobias




Chest

palpitations, tachycardia

shortness of breath

recent high blood pressure




Gastrointestinal

nausea

diarrhea, sometimes with blood in stools

abdominal pain

pain when swallowing




Skin and Allergies

itching without a rash

lip and mouth reactions

hives

aggravated respiratory allergies such as asthma





Endocrine and Metabolic

loss of control of diabetes

menstrual changes

marked thinning or loss of hair

marked weight loss

gradual weight gain

aggravated low blood sugar (hypoglycemia)

severe PMS



Other

frequency of voiding and burning during urination
excessive thirst, fluid retention, leg swelling, and bloating
increased susceptibility to infection



Additional Symptoms of Aspartame Toxicity include the most critical symptoms of all

death

irreversible brain damage

birth defects, including mental retardation

peptic ulcers

aspartame addiction and increased craving for sweets

hyperactivity in children

severe depression

aggressive behavior

suicidal tendencies



Aspartame may trigger, mimic, or cause the following illnesses:

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Epstein-Barr

Post-Polio Syndrome

Lyme Disease

Grave’s Disease

Meniere’s Disease

Alzheimer’s Disease

ALS

Epilepsy

Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

EMS

Hypothyroidism

Mercury sensitivity from Amalgam fillings

Fibromyalgia

Lupus

non-Hodgkins

Lymphoma

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)


These are not allergies or sensitivities, but diseases and disease syndromes. Aspartame poisoning is commonly misdiagnosed because aspartame symptoms mock textbook ‘disease’ symptoms, such as Grave’s Disease.

Aspartame changes the ratio of amino acids in the blood, blocking or lowering the levels of serotonin, tyrosine, dopamine, norepinephrine, and adrenaline.

Therefore, it is typical that aspartame symptoms cannot be detected in lab tests and on x-rays. Textbook disorders and diseases may actually be a toxic load as a result of aspartame poisoning.


Ever gone to the doctor with real, physical symptoms, but he/she can’t find the cause? Well, it’s probably your diet, your environment, or both.


Aspartame is the common denominator for over 92 different health symptoms at the root of modern disease.
The Aspartame Detoxification Program demonstrates the most effective way to reverse disease symptoms is removing the underlying cause - aspartame.



Steps:

Remove all sugar-free products with aspartame from your diet.

Learn to 'read' your body. Begin recording any health changes.

Be happy with yourself.

Detoxify.

Restore depleted nutrients.

Exercise and get plenty of rest.

Eat 75% raw foods at every meal.

Drink water, water, water.

Get control of your life.

By the creator of Aspartame Detox program
How to Detox

Janet Hull
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Th following was found in David Icke's book, Infinite Love is the only Truth Everything Else is Illusion:


The loudest voice behind GM (foods) is Monsanto of St Louis, Missouri, one of the most important Illuminati companies on the planet. These were the guys behind Agent Orange, used to grotesque effect in the Vietnam War and this is also the corporation marketing the brain-scrambler known as aspartame. This was manipulated through the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 'saftey checks' by Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defense Secretary under Boy George Bush, and CEO of Seale Pharmaceuticals when he used his buddies in the Reagan-Father Bush administration to have fundamental doubts about the safety of aspartame ignored. Searle later sold out to Monsanto and now aspartame is in ever-growing number of drinks and foodstuff, a trend only stemmed by the fear of class action lawsuits over its effect on human health.
You will find aspartame in instant breakfasts, breath mints, cereals, sugar-free chewing gum, cocoa mixes, frozen desserts, gelatine desserts, juices, laxatives, multivitamins, milk drinks, pharmaceutical drugs and supplements, shake mixes, soft drinks, tabletop sweeteners, teas, instant coffees, topping mixes, wine coolers and yoghurt. And these are only some examples. Aspartame is 200 times sweeter than sugar and marked under its own name and trademarked brands like NurtaSweet, Equal, Spoonful, and Equal-Measure. Some of the 90 different documented symptoms reported to be caused by aspartame include (as Yasmine mentioned above):
headaches/migraines, dizziness, seizures, nausea, numbness, muscle spasms, weight gain, rashes, depression, fatigue, irritability, tachycardia (abnormally rapid heart rate), insomnia, vision problems, hearing loss, heart palpitations, breathing difficulties, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, loss of taste, tinnitus, vertigo, memory loss and joint pain. The reason for this appalling catalogue of dis-ease is that aspartame disrupts the DNA communication system!
The US Air Force formally warned all its pilots not to consume diet drinks in their official flying safety bulletin in May and August 1992 because of the effects of aspartame on their ability to fly a plane. Many other non-military pilots have complained of the same symptoms, including seizures. A 1990 edition of Plane and Pilot magazine told the story of an Air Force pilot who traces the patterns old tremors and seizures he suffered for two years directly to his consumption of NutraSweet. When he stopped drinking diet sodas his symptoms stopped, but when he resumed so did the tremors. His problems worsened until a grand mal seizure ended his career. But, once again, his symptoms disappeared when he ditched the NutraSweet. Plane and Pilot also reported this case:

'After only two cups of artifically sweetened hot chocolate, a pilot experienced blurred vision so severe he was unable, in flight, to read the instruments and very narrowly avoided a tragic landing. Safely on the ground, he related his symptoms to the secretaries in his office. [He told] of experiencing similar symptoms after ingesting aspartame products.'

Aspartame contains methanol (wood alcohol), a poison that causes blindness and death. Two teaspoons are considered lethal. Smaller doses destroy the brain (DNA central processing unit) little by little, because the effects are cumulative. Depending on the tolerance level of the person, the effects can be severe like epileptic seizures, including grand mal, blindness, chest palpitations, blurred vision, bright flashes, tunnel vision, ringing or buzzing in the ears, migraine headaches, dizziness and loss of equilibrium. Other psychological problems are caused by the phenylalanine in aspartame depleting levels of seratonin, a brain chemical and neurotransmitter that regulates, among other things, behaviour and sleep patterns. Labratory tests have also shown that aspartame can change the DNA. Here we go again, and this is the prime reason behind the daily chemical bombardment through food, drink and environmental sources. Imagen what the effect on children is going to be of all the aspartame-poisoned shite they are consuming by the bucketful today, especially in soft drinks (David writes).
Damage to the brain and the DNA is a constant theme when you research the poisons that infest what we consume, breathe, and absorb through technologies. Aspartame is what is called an exitotoxin, or neurotoxin, and so is the 'flavour enhancer', monosodium glutamate, or MSG.

A little about MSG then:

You'll find this in almost every mass-produced foodstuff and it tricks the brain to taste more flavour than is actuallly there. It is often disguised in the list of ingredients as 'natural flavour/flavourings' ( I always wondered what they ment- 'natural' flavour?), when it is nothing of the kind in the form it is used. MSG also hides behind the terms like 'hydrolyzed', 'autolyzed', and yeast extract or nutrient, among many other pseudonyms! Americans alone apparently consume 160 million pounds of this stuff every year and yet it is a brain poison. Dr George Schwart, a toxicologist and author, says that two tablespoons of MSG will kill a dog in minutes. Some of the health effects linked to MSG include heart problems, Alzeimer's, Parkinson's, asthma, cancer, birth defects, obesity and...brain damage. MSG attacks what is called the brain-blood barrier, a defence sytem that normally prevents toxins entering the brain. Even tiny amounts of toxic substances like MSG and aspartame can cause the brain cell to so overreact that it becomes exhausted and dies (aspartame caused brain tumors in rats!). Hence they are called exitotoxins. MSG, a crystalline substance like DNA, damages parts of the brain like the hypothalamus that governs many systems in the body.
As with aspartame, MSG causes food cravings and can make people fat. The epidemic of obesity exploding across the world is largely caused by these additives, the use of which has mirrored the rise in overweight people. The epidemic is caused to a large extent by the effect on the hypothalamus that regulates hunger and weight. Rats fed MSG became massively obese and their hypothalamus was found to be in a shocking state. Another similarity with aspartame is the way MSG was allowed onto the market without adequate safety checks and of the later sudies into its health effects have been conducted-as usual- by 'researchers' linked to the food giants. The food corporations that profit massively from MSG say that it's safe. Phew, that's okay, then, you had me worried for a second.



RawMahdiyah
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[RawMahdiyah]

Aspartame


Case Study: A 54-year-old female on maintenance imipramine 150 mg/day for 5 years suddenly experienced a grand mal seizure followed by her first manic episode several weeks after switching from sugar to aspartame to sweeten as much as 1 gal iced tea daily. She did well after switching back to sugar (Walton RG. Seizure and mania after high intake of aspartame. Psychosomatic 27(3):21820, 1986).


Observational Study: 171 patients aged 9-81 with different types of headache were surveyed. 8.2% reported aspartame as a trigger. Three times more migraine pts. (10.6%) than pts. with other types of headache (3.4%) reported aspartame as a precipitating factor (Lipton R et al. Aspartame as a dietary trigger of headache. Headache 29:90-92, 1989).


Experimental Double-blind study: Compared to placebo. 11 pts. who ingested aspartame experienced a significant increase on the frequency of migraines which also lasted longer (Koehler SM, Glaros A. The effect of aspartame on migraine headaches. Headache 28(1):10-14, 1988).


Source: Second Edition Nutritional Influences on Illness, by Melvyn R. Werbach, M.D.



RawMahdiyah
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[RawMahdiyah]

In labratory experiments, every species of animals fed MSG developed brain lesions and infant animals were especially susceptible as they had not yet developed an effective blood-brain barrier. An amount of MSG comparable to that which would have been found in five 113-gram (four-ounce) jars of baby food produced nerve-cell death in seven out of nine baby animals. Adult animals treated ( )with MSG displayed arrested skeletal development, market obesity and sterility in the females. In other labratory experiments, additional adverse effects were noted in the retina of the eye and in the liver. Although MSG was removed from baby food in 1969, it was reinstated under the guise of hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP), which contains up to 40% monosodium glutamate. As this information became public knowledge, the baby food industry decided to remove HVP from their products in 1978. This shows the power if consumer action!
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[RawMahdiyah]

Disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate, Disodium EDTA- may be used in ale, beer, light beer, malt liquor, porter, stout, salad dressing, mayonnaise, canned foods, unstandardized dressings and sauces, potatoe salad, sandwich spread, (canned) shrimp, tuna, clam, lobster and salmon, margarine, soft drinks and ready-to-drink teas as a sequestering agent. Medically, it is used as a detoxicant to treat poisonings by lead or other heavy metals. Its used in this capacity in humans has produced clear evidence of kidney damage.

Food manufacturers use calcium disodium EDTA to bind with metals which may enter food from mixing containers. These metals could change the texture, colour or flavour of the foods. In excessive amounts, EDTA can cause a mineral imbalance in the body as it traps clacium, iron and other nutrients and prevents the body from using them. It is known to inhibit blood-clotting and can cause muscle cramps, intestinal upsets and blood in the urine. In animal experiments, it caused disruption of the cellular metabolism leading to chromosome damage. This additive is particularly dangerous because it is ingested by consumers in so many foods and beverages every day. EDTA is on the FDA's priority list to be studied for mutagenic, teratogenic, subacute and reproductive effects. Authorized for use in Canada and the United States.

Hard To Swallow The Truth About Food Additives ~ Doris Sarjeant and Karen Evans

[Lilly]

MSG and Aspartame - A Personal Story
http://www.opednews.com/articles/life_a_dick_all_080212_msg_and_aspartame___.htm


By Dick Allgire, Medical Newscaster, Hawaii

2/12/2008 11:54:38 AM


There is a bill being considered at the Hawaii State Legislature that would ban aspartame. This will come to a vote on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008. It doesn't look good. Quoting an email from Dr. Betty Martini:
"Although Rep. Josh Green sympathized with supporters who have been affected by the artificial sweetener aspartame, he was unable to immediately pass a bill that would ban the artificial sweetener aspartame in food products without concrete evidence showing a connection between aspartame and medical ailments. We can't take numerous amounts of products off Hawaii store shelves without evidence of a connection, he said."

I’ve been a television news reporter for 34 years and I have won the Hawaii Medical Association Distinguished Medical Reporting Award five times. I didn’t win those awards for going on TV and telling people how to be healthy. I won the awards for reporting the AMA company line; the newest drugs, the latest surgery, and the most advanced methods of zapping cancer with radiation.

So here’s my health story. I suffered from migraines and panic attacks. Doctors prescribed drugs for both conditions.

Since my teenage years I endured excruciating migraines, a type of headache called Cluster Headaches. These are also known as “suicide headaches” because the pain is so intense you want to kill yourself. On many occasions I went nearly delirious with pain and beat on my own head in a frustrated, impotent rage. My doctor told me he knew of a patient who tried to claw his own eye out because of the pain. Imagine an “ice cream headache” -- when you drink a very cold, icy drink too fast and have a searing pain for a few seconds. A cluster headache is many times worse than that, but it lasts several hours. For these headaches physicians prescribed opiates and also put me on a cousin of LSD known as Sansert (Methysergide maleate). This drug gives you hallucinogenic dreams. The doctor told me I had to take it. The dreams were really wild, a Technicolor acid trip every night. So my doctor basically prescribed a mild form of LSD to prevent my headaches. What the doctor didn’t realize was that cluster migraines are not caused by a lack of Sansert.

Later in my adult life I started getting panic attacks. It is impossible to describe a panic attack. Your heart starts beating out of control, it feels like you cannot get a breath of air into your lungs, and you have a feeling of absolute terror as the more you try to breathe the less you feel like you can get a breath, you lose muscle control and feel like you are going to convulse and drop dead in the next few seconds. It is like someone just injected you with a powerful drug that makes you feel as scared and miserable as is humanly possible. Hence the name Panic.

The panic attacks had me leaving work and fleeing to an emergency room. Doctors assured me I must take Paxil. I asked them about the number of patients on SSRIs who have committed suicide. The doctors assured me that I had to take Paxil or risk a nervous breakdown. What the doctors didn’t understand was that panic attacks are not caused by a lack of Paxil. But according to mainstream medicine headaches required the hallucinogenic Sansert and panic attacks called for an SSRI. Take 10 minutes to write a prescription, get the patient out the door, next patient, a new prescription.

I had heard several interviews with Dr. Russell Blaylock and I began to wonder about food additives. So I did my own research. I found out things my doctors didn’t know. I read as much as I could find about Asparatame and MSG.

Could Aspartame and MSG have caused my excruciating headaches and paralyzing panic attacks?

I used to drink one diet Pepsi with lunch every day at work. I used to eat sugarless candy containing aspartame. I used to chew sugarless gum, also loaded with aspartame. When I read about this drug and learned that Mr. Donald Rumsfeld helped inflict this poison on society I decided to stop ingesting it. I stopped. Instead of drinking one diet soda per day, I drank water with lunch. I threw out the sugarless candy. I stopped chewing gum. I now read every label of everything I consume. I don’t eat aspartame.

MSG was a hard one. It is in everything. I am a vegetarian and I used to cook with a powered vegetable broth that I purchased at my local “health food” store. The main ingredient was “hydrolyzed protein.” I looked that one up and discovered it is MSG. MSG has many hidden names. (Do an Internet search for “HIDDEN MSG”) Those bastards!

I now make my own vegetable broth. It’s easy. Two onions, chopped, three carrots, chopped. One stalk of celery, chopped. Six cloves of garlic. Drizzle some olive oil and toss on some sea salt. Roast in the oven until everything begins to darken and caramelize. Toss the veggies in a pot with about 8 cups of water and simmer for an hour. Strain and you have a great broth for soups, stir-fries, and it has no MSG. Does it take time and effort? Yes. Does it beat writhing on the floor with a pounding, excruciating headache? Absolutely.

I stopped eating at restaurants. This is difficult when you’re a news reporter on the go. I take my own food with me. I know about 5 places in Honolulu that don’t use MSG. When I go to the grocery it takes longer for me to check out because most of the food I buy does not have a bar code. The checkout clerk is usually bewildered by kale or Swiss Chard and has to look up the code. I buy fresh whole foods. I make just about everything I eat from scratch.

Guess what? I stopped having migraines and panic attacks. Now this is what we call “anecdotal” evidence. It is not a scientific study and no medical claims can be made from my personal testimony. I won’t even put this on the local news as a story. But when I eat something with “autolyzed yeast” or “natural flavoring” I get knocked down with terrible headache. I also realized that my heart would race and my breathing would become labored after consuming anything with aspartame, even one diet soda. The more you clean up your diet the more sensitive you become.

Do not wait for the government to take action. You are in charge of your own health. No one is going to do it for you. We hear so much about “health care” costs, but think about it -- if you are truly healthy you don’t need care. There is no cost incurred from health and wellness. Health “care” is Orwellian doublespeak.

By writing this article I risk "crossing the line" in journalism. I'm old school. Reporters should report all sides and not have an opinion. You rarely see that these days -- almost everything on cable "news" is what they term news, debate, and opinion. But my personal experience is true. When it comes to MSG and Aspartame I voted with my feet. You can ingest this stuff if you want, but I won't.

Dick Allgire is a health reporter for KITV News.
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Subject: Hawaii Moves to Ban Aspartame
Date: 1/31/2008 10:43:48 A.M. Pacific Standard Time
From: bettym19@mindspring.com
Reply To:
To: bettym19@mindspring.com

HAWAII MOVES TO BAN ASPARTAME
(NUTRASWEET/EQUAL/E951/CANDEREL, ETC.)


Senate Bill 2506 introduced by Senator Kalani English, as well as
House Bill 2580 sponsored by Representative Mele Carroll but
introduced by Speaker of the House Calvin Say because of quota, will
move to ban aspartame from the State of Hawaii. Senator Suzanne
Chun-Oakland also on the team.

Efforts continue to ban this deadly excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic
drug that is addicting the public and triggering so many symptoms and
diseases from MS and lupus and seizures to Parkinson's, diabetes and
obesity and even blindness and death. An aspartame documentary, Sweet
Misery: A Poisoned World, explains how Don Rumsfeld got this marketed
when the FDA said no.
<http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html>http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld2.html
Masquerading as an additive it's a deadly drug that interacts with
other drugs and vaccines.

No one can forget the gallant efforts of Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino
who sponsored the Senate bill to ban aspartame in New Mexico. One
picture that remains in my mind is addressing the Senate with
Senators sipping Diet Coke. Dr. Ken Stoller said "It's hard to
believe we are going to get anywhere with you drinking this but
consider the children." Aspartame is a teratogen triggering birth
defects and mental retardation, reducing IQ, and triggering all types
of behavioral and psychiatric problems.
<http://www.mpwhi.com/report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm>http://www.mpwhi.com/report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm


Stephen Fox of Santa Fe, Managing Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News and
prime New Mexico moving force behind the legislature efforts to ban
aspartame, commented on the great consumer progress implicit in these
two bills in Hawaii:

"This is wonderful news coming from Hawaii; the Legislators and their
bill drafters saw the merit in keeping almost all of the same
language from the 2006 and 2007 New Mexico bills, especially
regarding the states' rights and their obligation to protect citizens
health, which are not "preempted" by massive failures at the FDA.
"These New Mexico bills were overwhelmed and eviscerated in New
Mexico by some of the most vicious corporate lobbyists I have ever
encountered, representing Ajinomoto of Japan, the world's largest
aspartame and MSG manufacturer, as well as their duped American
corporate henchmen/colleagues who use massive amounts of Aspartame,
like Coca Cola, Pepsi, Altria/Kraft Corporate services, and others.
The same lobbyists will show up in Honolulu, make no mistake...
"These corporations have everything to lose if such bills advance and
ultimately lead to the inevitable product liability and personal
injury suits from those damaged by aspartame, which number in the
hundreds of millions, despite their cooperate serving propaganda and lies.
"My profoundest appreciation goes to the Hawaii activists who brought
up these imperative issues, and to the Legislators who see the merit
and need to protect the health of all Hawaiians, no matter what
duplicity is perpetuated by the top brass and corporate lackeys at the FDA."

47 Members of the UK Parliament have asked for a ban and efforts in
New Zealand continue with a circulating petition for ban.

Aspartame was never proven safe. Here is the Board of Inquiry Report
of the FDA that revoked the petition for approval:
<http://www.mpwhi.com/fda_petition1.doc>http://www.mpwhi.com/fda_petition1.doc

In the US a petition has been filed with the FDA to ban aspartame
based on an imminent health hazard. Twelve toxicologists wrote the
FDA Commissioner in June asking for a ban having to do with the
Ramazzini Studies showing aspartame to be a multipotential
carcinogen.
<http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_letter_to_fda.pdf>http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_letter_to_fda.pdf


We thank Hawaii for their efforts at safeguarding the people of that
state and standby to help in anyway possible. SB 2506 is listed below
for review.

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.whno.net>http://www.whno.net
http://www.dorway.com

Aspartame Toxicity Center:
<http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame>http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame


Report Title:
Artificial Sweetener; Aspartame; Ban; Food

Description:
Bans the use of the artificial sweetener aspartame in food products.


THE SENATE
S.B. NO.2506
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008

STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to food.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds it is imperative for the public
health, safety and welfare to declare that aspartame and its
derivative compounds, in all of their trade names, are poisonous and
deleterious food additives due to their neurotoxic and carcinogenic
metabolites.
The legislature finds that federal authorities have not intended to
or expressed an intention to occupy and preempt areas of concern
regarding the prohibition of toxic, neurotoxic, carcinogenic,
poisonous or deleterious food additives, and therefore the
legislature may prohibit the sale of products containing aspartame
and its derivative compounds in order to protect and ensure the
public health, safety and welfare.
SECTION 2. Section 328-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by
adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as
follows: ""Aspartame" means the artificial sweetener with the
technical name L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester."
SECTION 3. Section 328-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read
as follows:
"'328-6 Prohibited acts. The following acts and the causing thereof
within the State by any person are prohibited:
(1) The manufacture, sale, delivery, holding, or offering for sale of
any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded;
(2) The adulteration or misbranding of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic;
(3) The receipt in commerce of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic
that is adulterated or misbranded, and the delivery or proffered
delivery thereof for pay or otherwise;
(4) The sale, delivery for sale, holding for sale, or offering for
sale of any article in violation of section 328-11, 328-12, or 328-17;
(5) The dissemination of any false advertisement;
(6) The refusal to permit entry or inspection, or to permit the
taking of a sample, as authorized by sections 328-22 and 328-23 to
328-27, or to permit access to or copying of any record as authorized
by section 328-23;
(7) The giving of a guaranty or undertaking which guaranty or
undertaking is false, except by a person who relied on a guaranty or
undertaking to the same effect signed by, and containing the name and
address of the person residing in the State from whom the person
received in good faith the food, drug, device, or cosmetic;
( The removal or disposal of a detained or embargoed article in
violation of sections 328-25 to 328-27;
(9) The alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration, or removal
of the whole or any part of the labeling of, or the doing of any
other act with respect to a food, drug, device, or cosmetic, if the
act is done while the article is held for sale and results in the
article being adulterated or misbranded;
(10) Forging, counterfeiting, simulating, or falsely representing, or
without proper authority using any mark, stamp, tag, label, or other
identification device authorized or required by rules adopted under
this part or regulations adopted under the Federal Act;
(11) The use, on the labeling of any drug or in any advertisement
relating to the drug, of any representation or suggestion that an
application with respect to the drug is effective under section
328-17, or that the drug complies with that section;
(12) The use by any person to the person's own advantage, or
revealing other than to the department of health or to the courts
when relevant in any judicial proceeding under this part, any
information acquired under authority of section 328-11, 328-12,
328-17, or 328-23, concerning any method or process which as a trade
secret is entitled to protection;
(13) In the case of a prescription drug distributed or offered for
sale in this State, the failure of the manufacturer, packer, or
distributor thereof to maintain for transmittal, or to transmit, to
any practitioner who makes written request for information as to the
drug, true and correct copies of all printed matter which is required
to be included in any package in which that drug is distributed or
sold, or such other printed matter as is approved under the Federal
Act. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to exempt any
person from any labeling requirement imposed by or under other
provisions of this part;
(14) (A) Placing or causing to be placed upon any drug or device or
container thereof, with intent to defraud, the trade name or other
identifying mark, or imprint of another or any likeness of any of the
foregoing; or
(B) Selling, dispensing, disposing of, or causing to be sold,
dispensed, or disposed of, or concealing or keeping in possession,
control, or custody, with intent to sell, dispense, or dispose of,
any drug, device, or any container thereof, with knowledge that the
trade name or other identifying mark or imprint of another or any
likeness of any of the foregoing has been placed thereon in a manner
prohibited by subparagraph (A); or
(C) Making, selling, disposing of, or causing to be made, sold, or
disposed of, or keeping in possession, control, or custody, or
concealing, with intent to defraud, any punch, die, plate, or other
thing designed to print, imprint, or reproduce that trade name or
other identifying mark or imprint of another or any likeness of any
of the foregoing upon any drug, device, or container thereof;
(15) Except as provided in part VI and section 461-1, dispensing or
causing to be dispensed a different drug or brand of drug in place of
the drug or brand of drug ordered or prescribed without express
permission in each case of the person ordering or prescribing;
(16) The distribution in commerce of a consumer commodity as defined
in this part, if such commodity is contained in a package, or if
there is affixed to that commodity a label, which does not conform to
this part and of rules adopted under authority of this part; provided
that this prohibition shall not apply to persons engaged in business
as wholesale or retail distributors of consumer commodities except to
the extent that such persons:
(A) Are engaged in the packaging or labeling of such commodities; or
(B) Prescribe or specify by any means the manner in which such
commodities are packaged or labeled;
(17) The selling or dispensing in restaurants, soda fountains,
drive-ins, lunch wagons, or similar public eating establishments of
imitation milk and imitation milk products in place of fresh milk and
fresh milk products respectively; of liquid or dry products which
simulate cream but do not comply with content requirements for cream
in place of cream; of non-dairy frozen desserts which do not comply
with content requirements for dairy frozen desserts in place of dairy
frozen desserts; and of any other imitation food or one made in
semblance of a genuine food in place of such genuine food, unless the
consumer is notified by either proper labeling or conspicuous posted
signs or conspicuous notices on menu cards and advertisements
informing of such substitution, to include but not limited to the
substitution of imitation milk in milk shake and malted milk drinks;
(1 Wilfully and falsely representing or using any devices,
substances, methods, or treatment as effective in the diagnosis,
cure, mitigation, treatment, or alleviation of cancer. This paragraph
shall not apply to any person who depends exclusively upon prayer for
healing in accordance with teachings of a bona fide religious sect,
denomination, or organization, nor to a person who practices such teachings;
(19) The selling or offering for sale at any food facility which
serves or sells over the counter directly to the consumer an
unlabeled or unpackaged food that is a confectionery which contains
alcohol in excess of one-half of one per cent by weight unless the
consumer is notified of that fact by either proper labeling or
conspicuous posted signs or conspicuous notices on menu cards and
advertisements;
(20) The sale to a person below the age of twenty-one years of any
food which is a confectionery which contains alcohol in excess of
one-half of one per cent by weight[.];
(21) After December 31, 2008, the manufacture, sale or delivery or
holding or offering for sale of any food containing any amount of
aspartame and its derivative compounds in any of their trade names."
SECTION 4. This section shall not apply to the sale, delivery,
holding, or offering for sale of any food product containing
aspartame prior to January 1, 2009.
SECTION 5. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and
stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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[MessiahMews]

Subject: Who Flinched the Testimonies for Hawaii: B 2680 Bill to ban aspartame, Room 329
Date: 2/9/2008 11:26:10 P.M. Pacific Standard Time
From: bettym19@mindspring.com
Reply To:
To: bettym19@mindspring.com

I know everyone is eager to know what went on in
Hawaii. Nothing yet. A great deal of effort was
applied by victims with their stories and
physicians who sent the scientific evidence that
aspartame isn't safe to Rep Josh Green, M.D., and
Vice Chair Rep John Mizuno, with copies to the entire committee.

At the meeting there were a handful of arguments
from the other side and some testimonies of
victims. None of the excellent testimony of
physician experts and scientists was read. They
had been sent but mysteriously disappeared! This
was posted on the legislature's website by Rep. John Green, M.D.:

"Although Rep. Josh Green (D-North Kona)
sympathized with supporters who have been
affected by the artificial sweetener aspartame,
he was unable to immediately pass a bill that
would ban the artificial sweetener aspartame in
food products without concrete evidence showing a connection between
aspartame and medical ailments. We can't take
numerous amounts of products off Hawaii store
shelves without evidence of a connection, he said."

So voting on the bill has been deferred until
Wednesday, February 13. Dr. Green would like
about 400 letters from physicians, scientists and
professionals. We have many physicians on our
list and we ask that all write and pass this
request on to their lists of physicians as
well. I'm also asking that all victims on our
Aspartame Information List on www.mpwhi.com write
as well as those on the Mission Possible
lists. We can get this done. Every letter
counts. This is being sent to other lists
too. Doctors who have done studies on aspartame
should give the URL or web site to that
study. Anything over 5 pages must be faxed. Address e-mails to:

Rep Josh Green, M.D. at repgreen@Capitol.hawaii.gov
Rep. John Mizuno at repmizuno@Capitol.hawaii.gov

Also please send a blind copy to the whole committee, and myself:

HLTestimony@Capitol.Hawaii.gov
repbelatti@Capitol.hawaii.gov
repbertram@Capitol.hawaii.gov
repcabanilla@Capitol.hawaii.gov
reprhoads@Capitol.hawaii.gov
reptokioka@Capitol.hawaii.gov
repward@Capitol.hawaii.gov
repcarroll@Capitol.hawaii.gov
sendige@Capitol.hawaii.gov
senfukunaga@Capitol.hawaii.gov
"Sen. Suzanne Chun Oakland" <senchunoakland@Capitol.hawaii.gov>
bettym19@mindspring.com

Please ask that your testimony be copied and circulated.

H. J. Roberts, M.D., sent his encyclopedic 1000
page medical text, "ASPARTAME DISEASE: An IGNORED
EPIDEMIC" to Dr. Green. We hope the entire
committee will review it. www.sunsentpress.com

Today James Turner, the renowned consumer
attorney and former Nader Raider who fought
against the approval of aspartame with
neuroscientist Dr. John Olney explained: "The
toxicity of this deadly carcinogen is well known.
The FDA not only refused to approve aspartame for
years, but asked the Department of Justice to
indict G.D. Searle, the manufacturer, for
submitting fraudulent test reports to get the
poison approved. The evidence was overwhelming
and Searle's case was impossible to defend, so
their attorneys seduced the federal prosecutors,
Sam Skinner and Wm. Conlon, who negotiated for
jobs with Searle's lawyers while they were
supposed to prosecuting Searle! Before switching
sides they stalled until the statute of
limitations was about to run out so Searle
couldn't be prosecuted later. Justice died, as
have thousands of aspartame victims in the 25 years since.

"The Board of Inquiry of the FDA revoked the
petition for approval since aspartame couldn't be
proven safe and triggered brain tumors. Thus
science never proved aspartame safe. Don
Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle at the time and said
he would "call in his markers" to get it on the
market. That he did. So aspartame is here today
because of political chicanery, not science. FDA
scientist, Dr. Adrian Gross and FDA toxicologist
Dr. Jacqueline Verrett testified against
aspartame before Congress for it being on the
market. It violates the Delaney Amendment
because it triggers brain tumors and brain
cancer, adulteration statutes and Interstate
Commerce." http://www.wnho.net/delaney_lives.htm

The Congressional and Administrative News:
Legislative History of Food Additives Amendment
of 1958 (p. 5302) declares: "Safety requires
proof of reasonable certainty that no harm will
result from the proposed use of an additive ...
In determining the 'safety' of an additive,
scientists must take into consideration the
cumulative effect of such additive in the diet of
man or animal over their respective life spans
together with any chemically or pharmacologically
related substances in such diet. Thus, the
safety of an additive in such diet. Thus, the
safety of a given additive involves informed
judgements based on educated estimates by
scientists and experts of the anticipated
ingestion of an additive by man and animals under likely patterns of use"

Original studies produced brain tumors and brain
cancer as well as testicular, mammary and ovarian
tumors plus grand mal seizures and an extensive
list of other disabilities. Studies by Searle in
Dr. Olney's lab (so he could see for himself)
showed brain damage but they never sent the
report to the FDA. This data is in the
documentary, "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World", www.soundandfury.tv

This paragraph alone should be the death knell
for aspartame. First of all, aspartame is only
masquerading as an additive and is an addictive
excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug that interacts
with other drugs and vaccines. Martha M.
Freeman, M.D., of the FDA Division of Metabolic
and Endocrine Drug Products concluded even back in 1973 about Searle's studies:

"1. The administration of aspartame, as reported
in these studies at high dosage levels for
prolonged periods, constitutes clinical
investigational use of a new "drug" substance."

2. The information submitted for our review is
inadequate to permit a scientific evaluation of clinical safety."

As to life time study of aspartame on animals,
Dr. M. Soffritti showed in a 2005 study that
aspartame is a multipotential carcinogen: www.Ramazzini.it

"Aspartame (APM) is one of the most widely used
artificial sweeteners in the world. Its
ever-growing use in more than 6000 products, such
as soft drinks, chewing gum, candy, desserts,
etc., has been accompanied by rising consumer
concerns regarding its safety, in particular its
potential long-term carcinogenic effects. In
light of the inadequacy of the carcinogenicity
bioassays performed in the 1970s and 1980s, a
long-term mega-experiment on APM was undertaken
at the Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center of
the European Ramazzini Foundation on groups of
male and female Sprague-Dawley rats
(100–150/sex/group), 8 weeks old at the start of
the experiment. APM was administered in feed at
concentrations of 100,000, 50,000, 10,000, 2,000,
400, 80, or 0 ppm. Treatment lasted until
spontaneous death of the animals. The results of
the study demonstrate that APM causes: (a) an
increased incidence of malignant tumor-bearing
animals, with a positive significant trend in
both sexes, and in particular in females treated at 50,000 ppm (P
d
0.01) when compared to controls; (b) an increase
in lymphomas–leukemias, with a positive
significant trend in both sexes, and in
particular in females treated at doses of 100,000 (P
d
0.01), 50,000 (P
d
0.01), 10,000 (P
d
0.05), 2000 (P
d
0.05), and 400 ppm (P
d
0.01); (c) a statistically significant increased
incidence, with a positive significant trend, of
transitional cell carcinomas of the renal pelvis
and ureter in females and particularly in those treated at 100,000 ppm (P
d
0.05); and (d) an increased incidence of
malignant schwannomas of the peripheral nerves,
with a positive trend in males (P
d
0.05). The results of this mega-experiment
indicate that APM, in the tested experimental
conditions, is a multipotential carcinogenic agent. "

In 2007 Soffritti's new study:
"<http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2007/10271/abstract.html/>Lifespan
Exposure to Low Doses of Aspartame Beginning
During Prenatal Life Increases
Cancer Effects in Rats" confirmed damage
from low-dosage aspartame consumption over the
long term and clearly demonstrated a great danger
to unborn babies and children.

Newly identified is risk of breast cancer
as the aspartame using child matures.
Exposures were at low doses. A 20 kg (45 pounds)
child drinking 2 cans of diet soda a day brings
into his body 400 mg. of aspartame. Food & Drink
Weekly reports that soda is the most commonly
consumed beverage among children and soft drink
consumption is up 500% over the last 50 years.
American consumption has skyrocketed to over 600
12-ounce servings per person per year, and
climbing. Coke's goal is to jump sales 25% annually.
The aim of Soffritti's new study was to identify
the cancer risk aspartame presents, starting with
the mother's ingestion before the fetus is born.
The study was conducted on groups of 70-95 male
and female Sprague Dawley rats, administered
aspartame with feed at concentrations of 2000,
400, or 0 ppm from the 12th day of fetal life until natural death.
The results of this carcinogenicity bioassay
confirm and reinforce the earlier study's
demonstration of aspartame's multipotential
carcinogenicity. Further, the study demonstrates
that when lifespan exposure to aspartame begins
during fetal life, its carcinogenic effects magnify.
Dr. Philip Landrigan, Chairman of Community and
Environmental Medicine at Mt. Sinai Medical
Center, says Dr. Soffritti's study on rats
strongly implies human risk. He advises parents
of young children to think very very carefully
about giving drinks and other
aspartame-contaminated foods to children. He
advocates federal action be taken to review
regulation of aspartame and that the chemical be
submitted for precise critical investigation. The
abstract and link to the full text to be
published on EHP online, is on the homepage of
the European Ramazzini Foundation: <http://www.ramazzini.it/>www.ramazzini.it
- - -
Aspartame carcinogenicity was known by the FDA for decades:
On August 1, l985 FDA's own toxicologist, Dr.
Adrian Gross, told Congress at least one of
Searle's studies "has established beyond ANY
REASONABLE DOUBT that aspartame is capable of
inducing brain tumors in experimental animals and
that this predisposition of it is of extremely
high significance. ... In view of these
indications that the cancer causing potential of
aspartame is a matter that had been established
WAY BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT, one can ask:
What is the reason for the apparent refusal by
the FDA to invoke for this food additive the
so-called Delaney Amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act?"

The Delaney Amendment makes it illegal to allow
any residues of cancer causing chemicals in
foods. In his concluding testimony Gross asked,
"Given the cancer causing potential of aspartame
how would the FDA justify its position that it
views a certain amount of aspartame as
constituting an allowable daily intake or 'safe'
level of it? Is that position in effect not
equivalent to setting a 'tolerance' for this food
additive and thus a violation of that law? And if
the FDA itself elects to violate the law, who is
left to protect the health of the public?"
Congressional Record SID835:131 (August 1, l985)

Dr H. J. Roberts medical text goes into the
interaction of aspartame with drugs as does
Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by
neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D.,
www.russellblaylockmd.com His CD "The Truth About
Aspartame" www.atavistik.com discusses the Ramazzini Study in detail.

Pass this on so that Rep Josh Green, M.D., and
the House Committee on Health understands
aspartame is a chemical poison and must be banned
to save the people of Hawaii. There is an
epidemic of diabetes and aspartame
(NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful/E951/Canderel, etc.)
can not only precipitate diabetes but simulates
and aggravates diabetic retinopathy and
neuropathy, destroys the optic nerve, causes
diabetics to go into convulsions and even
interacts with insulin. The free methyl alcohol
is causing them to lose their limbs. How bad can
aspartame get? It even embalms living tissue and
damages DNA:
http://www.mpwhi.com/formaldehyde_from_aspartame.pdf
Below my signature is full information on House
and even important Senate emails and fax numbers.

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

Josh Green, M.D.
6th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 327
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-9605; fax 808-586-9608
>From the Big Island, toll free 974-4000 + 69605
E-mail repgreen@Capitol.hawaii.gov

______________

John Mizuno
30th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 436
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6050; fax 808-586-6051
E-mail repmizuno@Capitol.hawaii.gov

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Karen Leinani Awana
44th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 319
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-8465; fax 808-586-8469
E-mail repawana@Capitol.hawaii.gov

______________________

Della Au Belatti

25th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 331
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone 808-586-9425; fax 808-586-9431
email repbelatti@Capitol.hawaii.gov

_______________________

Joe Bertram, III
11th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 311
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-8525; fax 808-586-8529
>From Maui, toll free 984-2400 + 68525
e-mail repbertram@Capitol.hawaii.gov

__________________________

Rida T.R. Cabanilla
42nd Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 442
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6080; fax 808-586-6081
E-mail repcabanilla@Capitol.hawaii.gov

_____________________________________

Karl Rhoads
28th Representive District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 326
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6180; fax 808-586-6189
e-mail reprhoads@Capitol.hawaii.gov

_______________________________________

James Kunane Tokioka
15th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 322
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6270; fax 808-586-6271
>From Kauai, toll free 274-3141 + 66270
e-mail reptokioka@Capitol.hawaii.gov

__________________________________

Gene Ward, Ph.D.
17th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 318
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6420; fax 808-586-6421
E-mail repward@Capitol.hawaii.gov

____________________________________________________________
David Y. Ige Chairman of Senate Health Committee
16th Senatorial District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 215
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6230; fax 808-586-6231
E-mail sendige@Capitol.hawaii.gov

______________________

Carol Fukunaga, Senator, Vice Chair
11th Senatorial District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 216
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6890; fax 808-586-6899
e-mail: senfukunaga@Capitol.hawaii.gov

_____________________________

Rosalyn H. Baker
5th Senatorial District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 210
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6070; fax 808-586-6071
>From Maui, toll free 984-2400 + 66070
e-mail senbaker@Capitol.hawaii.gov

________________________

Ron Menor
17th Senatorial District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 208
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6740; fax 808-586-6829
e-mail senmenor@Capitol.hawaii.gov

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Paul Whalen
3rd Senatorial District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 223
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-9385; fax 808-586-9391
>From the Big Island,
toll free 974-4000 + 69385
e-mail senwhalen@Capitol.hawaii.gov

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Senator Kalani English
Hawai`i State Capitol, Room 205 From Maui toll free: 1 800 984 2400 + 77225
415 South Beretania Street From Moloka`i and Lana`i: 1 800 468 4644 + 77225
Honolulu, HI, 96813 E-mail: senenglish@capitol.hawaii.gov
Phone: 808 587 7225 Web Site: www.kalanienglish.com
Fax: 808 587 7230
___________________________________

Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker of the House

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20th Representative District
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 431
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6100; fax 808-586-6101
e-mail <mailto:repsay@Capitol.hawaii.gov>repsay@Capitol.hawaii.gov
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[MessiahMews]

Subject: Update Hawaii, HB 2680, Banning Aspartame: House Health Committee
Date: 2/11/2008 7:13:50 P.M. Pacific Standard Time
From: bettym19@mindspring.com
Reply To:
To: bettym19@mindspring.com

Many of you sent in letters to Rep Josh Green, M.D., and Rep John
Mizuno with copies to members of the committee and an email to
hlttestimony@capitol.hawaii.gov . This last email for testimonies
was just recently given. As it turns out while your letters should
be addressed to Rep Josh Green, Vice Chairman Rep John Mizuno and
members of the house committee on health we've been told the only
email to use is hlttestimony@capitol.hawaii.gov Also, we do need a
blind copy to Rep. Mele Carroll's office who introduced the bill.

So if your email went to the testimony email at the top of the blind
list do nothing, they got it. If you sent a copy to me we've taken
care of it. If you have not written yet these are the three emails:

Address your email to hlttestimony@capitol.hawaii.gov Blind copy
lehner@capitol.hawaii.gov, and repcarroll@capitol.hawaii.gov

Remember we only have to Wednesday AM when they will look at the
testimonies and vote. We will have a decision by Friday.

We need 400 letters from physicians and thousands from victims and
activists. Remember "Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people
to accomplish uncommon goals." Every single letter counts, and if
you want aspartame off the market this is the beginning of the
end. It has to be overwhelming and we only have hours. Please do
your part. Also add this to your lists. We can only expect to win
if "everyone" participates.

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