Subject: (Gordon) (Beal) Re Danger of Diet Sodas (fwd)
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 205255 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Hi everybody:
Well ... to tell you the truth ... I now very much regret that I ran
the aspertame item in the first place......
I knew that any possible connection with EMF was remote -- namely, some
of the same symptoms..... I also knew that we have some MS cases on
this list ... and it was mainly out of consideration for them that I ran
it......
But, it is not our topic ... and I do not plan to run anymore....
Everyone who wants to follow up on the subject should be able to do so
on the basis of the info provided below.....(Thanks Jeff!)
Cheerio........(P.S. I do also appreciate the response we recived from Dr.
Garrison. It sort of filled in some of the uncertainties in my mind.)
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org................
...It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness...
.................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS...............
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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 17:11:28 -0500
From: jeff.gordon@wellnow.com
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Re: (emf) (Beal) Re: Danger of Diet Sodas (fwd)
Hi, Roy --
The piece on THE DANGERS OF ASPARTAME was not written by "Marianne K.
Henderson", whose name appears at the bottom; neither was it "written by
Nancy Markle (1120197)", as indicated on a copy of this same writing that
came across another list I'm on, on 13-Dec-98.
It's the transcript of a talk/lecture given by Betty Martini, founder of
Mission Possible, at the World Environmental Conference in 1995. The
transcript has been resting at for quite awhile.
Recently it was picked up by 'Nancy Markle', whoever she is, and
distributed somewhere. A third person subsequently forwarded it to 450
mail lists -- and 'critical mass' was reached seemingly overnight.
Betty's email, and visits to the dorway.com site, have increased
exponentially. We have no idea who 'Nancy Markle' is -- but she appears
to have played a role, perhaps unknowingly, in accomplishing what Betty
herself and other volunteers around the world have been working hard to
accomplish for several years, so God bless her, regardless of whatever her
own motive may have been -- but also, credit where it's due:
Betty Martini and her husband, and Dave Reitz (owner/operator of the
dorway.com site, who believes aspartame played a role in his developing
prostatic cancer), and Mark Gold ( ) have
devoted themselves tirelessly to "spreading the word" on this for quite
awhile.
I know that Betty and her husband have refused any and all offers of
outside funding support, while spending a considerable amount of their own
money in this effort, to insure Mission Possible remains "volunteer and
grassroots" entirely.
Betty does not claim any "credentials" whatsoever. However, I promise she
has been receiving an enormous quantity of first-person anecdotal evidence
that is clearly consistent with and substantiating of what she wrote and
said in that lecture.
(No one's quite prepared to say that aspartame can "cause" MS, but it's
looking increasingly that perhaps aspartame can directly trigger or worsen
conditions that may then be diagnosed as MS. My own hunch would be
there's an involvement of -mercury- in MS, and that we may find a linkage
between aspartame ingestion and an effect on dental materials that would
explain this connection; that information is not available today, however,
so it's just informed speculation on my part, for now.)
Interesting to note: Since Markle, whoever she is, started this ball
rolling, it's stirred enough commotion that media's taken note of it --
CNN, local stations here in Atlanta, and one Associated Press story that
I'm aware of. These generally are seeking to allay public concerns about
the points touched on in that 1995 transcript -- but it appears the cat's
out of the bag on this matter now, and won't be quietly put back in.
For myself: After I'd read material going by on Betty's Mission Possible
mail list for awhile, I discovered I could intuit when someone's health
problem they were inquiring about in Natural Medicine forum on CompuServe
might have some aspartame involvement. I found increasingly that if I
inquired about whether the person with the health problem was routinely
ingesting diet soft drinks, the answer was usually, "Yes."
(Anyone presently ingesting aspartame as NutraSweet, Equal, et al., might
find it very informative to do a trial period of avoiding it entirely.
Sixty days is a reasonable thought; but we're hearing from folks who say
they feel the difference within just a few days of doing this, too. Note
that aspartame is now present in something like 50,000 products, including
several brands of children's chewable multivitamins.)
-- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com
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