From: Jaffe, Lyle D
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 8:07 AM
To: Dockets, FDA
Subject: FW: Schools -Aspartame- the FDA



-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Betty Martini [mailto:Bettym19@mindspring.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 12:22 PM
To: Charmelle2@aol.com; Purrrsuasive1@aol.com
Cc: DHATTAN-CFSAN.FDA.GOV; RXH-CFSAN.FDA.GOV; Jaffe Lyle D;
inforeply-cdc.gov
Subject: Re: Schools -Aspartame- the FDA


Dear Charmelle,

I agree that getting this information to schools is vital.  That's why one 
year we made up the flyer, They're Poisoning Our Kids, to be distributed to 
schools everywhere.  I'll put this on the list for others to read, and send 
a copy to the FDA who sit on their behinds and allow children to be 
poisoned all over the world with full knowledge.  I'm sure they don't allow 
their kids to use the toxin.  They can't even say they haven't allowed kids 
to be poisoned because even Congress noted that US children are poisoned 
and gave $2.7 billion to NIH to find out what the culprit is.  Obviously, 
its aspartame and what it interacts with, drugs, toxins, MSG and other 
unsafe sweeteners the FDA allow on the market so the market will be flooded 
with unsafe food and drugs.  For their lying to the public and physicians 
they all ought to be shipped off to an island where they feed you nothing 
but NutraSweet products so they can suffer what they have allowed the world 
to suffer.  The FDA doesn't have the courage of a mosquito to help the 
people.  But they find a lot of courage to go after safe supplements so 
industry can sell them and make more billions.

Regards,
Betty At 01:00 AM 10/10/2004, Charmelle2@aol.com wrote:
>I have long believed that getting this information into schools is one of 
>the most important tasks I would like to see accomplished.
>I will never forget the day I asked about removal of Diet (Aspartame) 
>Sodas from soft drink machines at a junior high in my grandkids' parish 
>school system  in Louisiana.
>The reply that I got from the nice librarian was that I was facing an 
>"uphill battle"...with trying to accomplish that.  I knew she was 
>right....since some  in the administrative office, ..had diet sodas WITH 
>their lunches... teachers and office workers THERE had the CANS of diet 
>soda...and some teachers and other personnel at one of the elementary 
>schools...carried TUMBLERS of Diet Soda throughout the day...as they 
>sipped on their favorite diet sodas.
>
>I was especially taken back by the "attitude" of a young teacher who had 
>HER diet soda handy all day at the elementary school.  I knew WHY she had 
>very little patience with the kids.
>  I made the attempt to educate them on the dangers ..especially of their 
> helping addictions...with Aspartame.  I did this...after my granddaughter 
> was given an "F" on a science poster that she made ON ASPARTAME's 
> DANGERS.  Aspartame WAS one of the topics on the long list of choices for 
> the poster themes.  This child IS very gifted in ART...so I wondered IF 
> this teacher was more concerned with CONTENT????
>
>Having helped in schools for several years, I had learned that on such 
>projects, kids were usually given AT LEAST a "D" for trying.
>My daughter and I both knew that her science teacher DRANK DIET SODA 
>regularly...so we felt that she possibly was in the "defensive" group of 
>users..who refuse to hear anything negative about Aspartame.
>Most might have believed my granchild chose Aspartame..because of hearing 
>ME discuss it so often..but that is NOT why she chose it as a topic.  She 
>had become very upset when we learned that her younger brother...was ONE 
>of the newly identified ASPARTAME CHOKERS in our family.
>For a long time....some believed he was just being dramatic. for 
>attention..and would make himself  throw up after "choking".  That was NOT 
>the case...as we learned after his WORST choking attack (from aspartame 
>gum)...that he IS an Aspartame CHOKER...just as my 28 yr old niece is...as 
>well as my brother with Downs Syndrome...who choked severely several times 
>a week from the early '80's until Summer 1997.  That summer through what I 
>believe was a MIRACLE FOR BILLY...  I found DORway, Holisticmed, and all 
>the wonderful people warning the world OFF Aspartame.
>
>We began to ween Billy off Aspartame Diet Sodas immediately that summer in 
>1997, and he has been FREE of Aspartame Choking since he has been 
>Aspartame FREE.
>A few years ago, I went with my youngest grandchild to accompany his class 
>along with several other classes on a fieldtrip to a small farm several 
>miles from the school.
>As the day grew hotter, the kids planted..then later picked in places 
>where kids had planted many weeks earlier...also fed farm animals.
>Later...as the thirsty kids wanted water...and went to drink cool water 
>from a pump, some asked about soft drinks which families AND teachers 
>brought in ice chests.
>Adults said NO to the soft drinks then...so the kids washed at the 
>well...and drank ONLY cool water ...UNTIL lunch time.  Then we gathered 
>under oak trees...spreading our lunches on picnic tables.
>The kids were noticeably calm and well behaved...UNTIL they began to have 
>the JUNK FOODS and Soft Drinks which were part of the picnic lunches.
>One thing I noticed later...was that kids who drank Aspartame DIET 
>SODAS...were MORE hyper immediately following the diet drink 
>intakes.....and were later MORE FATIGUED  and sweating as the hours passed 
>after lunch.
>ONE PREGNANT mother...and one other adult got DIZZY...blaming it on the 
>heat.  However...I SAW BOTH...drinking Diet Sodas.   THEY too..just as 
>most of the adults... had remained under the oak trees IN the shade...so 
>some of us were NOT sweating profusely...(those of us who drank WATER only)..
>
>Before we had the kids to board the busses...and we in our vehicles were 
>to follow the busses....the kids were asked to gather around a hay 
>wagon...so teachers and voluneer parents could hand them each a cup of 
>COLD water from COOLERS which were ON the busses for that purpose.
>Each child and each adult was given a cup of cold water before departing. 
>Some of the kids DID ASK for Soft Drinks..but were told NO.
>I distinctly heard TWO children say they wished they could have a "DIET " 
>DRINK.
>That brought back memories of a child at a family/friends gathering one 
>day...a nine year old..who got VERY ANGRY that Sunday when he saw the ice 
>chests had NO MORE DIET SODAS.
>He yelled...I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS...NO MORE DIET DRINKS!  I saw the boy 
>sweating...and I knew he was in METHANOL "withdrawal".  I saw the SAME 
>thing in the 2 kids who WISHED for a Diet Soda that day...and were told NO.
>As they took empty water cups from the kids and hurried them onto the 
>busses....this being HOURS past lunch (where many drank diet sodas with 
>lunch) ONE parent...WHISPERED TO A TEACHER..."OH WHAT I WOULDN"T DO RIGHT 
>NOW FOR A DIET COKE, MYSELF...I CAN'T WAIT TO GET HOME TO GET ONE !"
>The young teacher answered..."I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN ...I NEED ONE RIGHT NOW 
>TOO!"  There WERE several REGULAR soft drinks IN the coolers..and that 
>parent and that teacher could have each gotten one...AS they do while 
>walking around the school grounds...AND as they keep them in their 
>tumblers. CLEARLY...BOTH..the parent and the teacher were expressing their 
>CRAVING for Aspartame DIET SODA (Methanol), so the regular soft drinks 
>would NOT do.
>I was so upset to see this happening ...KIDS addicted TO Aspartame Diet 
>Sodas (Methanol addiction)...AND Addicted Teachers AND Parents.....SO SAD.
>I am quite sure this is so widespread...this intense CRAVING of Aspartame 
>(Methanol)...all day long..by ADULTS AND KIDS (who consume this regularly 
>while AT HOME).... that it WILL take a full scale launching of some type 
>of "Aspartame ALERT"...to get this under control.
>Perhaps if "some of us"..pledge ONE COPY  of "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned 
>World" to at least ONE  SCHOOL  before the Christmas Holidays.....this 
>might create  the interest needed.
>I would choose to give a copy to a Freshman Hi or a Hi School...hoping to 
>get more STUDENTS too...to UNDERSTAND the longterm dangers of this 
>Addictive Neurotoxic Carcinogen.
>
>I believe another key right now to getting this life saving 
>informaion  INTO schools...might be the abstract FROM the Scientific 
>University of Norway...which reported Brain Damage from Aspartame, 
>especially IN the area of the brain for LEARNING.
>Hopefully SOME caring (non-addicted) teachers and parents will properly 
>DIGEST this important information...for the sake of the kids.
>Maybe BOTH could be handed TO SCHOOLS...the ABSTRACT from Norway...AND a 
>copy of the movie.  The movie shows the top professionals involved in this 
>effort to warn the world off Aspartame, their findings, and those 
>reporting the truths hidden by FDA and Searle 
>Pharmaceuticals/Monsanto.  It's ALL there, and the Norwegian (one page) 
>abstract gives  more for the schools to consider...BRAIN DAMAGE from this 
>poison.
>I believe...an all out effort..such as we have done in the past at 
>"Aspartame Awareness Weekend"...might work this way..if BOTH are handed at 
>the same time (even to ONE SCHOOL).  MANY SCHOOLS  COULD BE REACHED  this 
>way.  It might then NOT be such an "uphill battle"..if administrators 
>realize that they are being PRESSURED to SHOW this information 
>....especially concerning Aspartame being NEUROTOXIC, affecting MEMORY.
>
>It might be a good idea too...if concerned parents who belong to 
>Parent-Teachers organizations could get ON the agenda...to SHOW the new 
>movie...AND to hand OUT copies of the ABSTRACT from 
>Norway..reporting  brain damage from Aspartame.
>  Charmelle