To Betty Martini

[Betty Martini]

Dear Jody:  There was a doubleblind study (not financed by NutraSweet) 
that was done.  ADVERSE REACTIONS TO ASPARTAME; DOUBLE-BLIND CHALLENGE IN 
PATIENTS FROM A VULNERABLE POPULATION (Ralph G. Walton, Robert Hudak and 
Ruth J. Green-Waite).  1993 SOCIETY OF BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY.  NutraSweet 
knew it would be an unbiased study so they refused to sell Dr. Walton the 
aspartame.  They had to purchase analytically certified USP grade 
aspartame from a distributor.  They had to stop the study.  The patients 
complained of being poisoned, retinal detachments, eyes bleeding, etc.

Then NutraSweet funded a study for Dr. Diana Dow Edwards on birth 
defects. When she started getting disastrous results they withdrew their 
funding.  

The original studies were flawed and if you want to read the history just 
email me for auto-responder instructions.  I wouldn't want to be a guinea 
pig for a study with aspartame.  Originally Dr. Harry Waisman studied the 
effects of aspartame on primates.  Seven infant monkeys were fed the 
chemical in milk.  One died after 300 days, 5 others had Grand Mal 
seizures.  Searle deleted these findings when they submitted his study to 
the FDA!  They kept on sacrificing monkeys and then they went to rats.  
The rats got brain tumors, they excised the tumors and put them back in 
the study.  In the Bressler Study when someone of them died Searle 
resurrected them back on paper!  The history of NutraSweet is quite a 
story. It was kept off the market for 16 years, probably because of the 
brain tumors and seizures.

Betty Martini
Domain:  betty at pd.org
UUCP:  ...!emory!pd.org!betty

On 3 Aug 1995, Jody K. Hirsh wrote:

> These cases you mention are all called  ANECTDOTAL incidents.  I would 
> like to see a  controlled, double-blind study in the NEJM or such with a 
> large number of participants before I can decide what is "the truth". 
> Otherwise they're not worth paying attention to.   
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