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Cptn. Eleanor C. "Connie" Marino, USN
Physician to the President
White House Medical Unit #105
Washington., D.C. 20502
202-757-2481 202-757-2483 fax
February 21, 2002

Subject: [Aspartame Support] Is the President of the US an aspartame
victim?
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:02:36 -0800
From: "Carol Guilford" <Carolg8@...>
To: "aspartame support" <aspartame@yahoogroups.com>

The proof that George W. Bush, Jr. is a consumer of aspartame
(Equal, NutraSweet) is on the front page of the Chicago Sun Times,
Thursday Sept. 27-- in color, a picture of the President with
the mayor of the city (Daley), sitting at a booth in a coffee shop with
their diet Cokes on full display.

The President had a napkin over the top of his can, which in bar lingo
means ,"don't remove this-- I'm not finished." Daley's face was bright

beet red (a symptom of aspartame poisoning, also).

An official story is Bush choked on a pretzel, while he watched a
football game. In his own words, "I hit the deck." Well, he may have
choked, but, in my educated opinion, it wouldn't have mattered what he
had in his mouth. On the list of 92 symptoms caused by aspartame that
the FDA was forced to reveal in 1995, Difficulty Swallowing is No. 29.
Fainting (which he did) is No. 36, Unconsciousness (the state he was
in) and Coma is No. 56.

H.J. Roberts, MD discusses 'unexplained blackouts' in his medical text,
"Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic"
http://www.sunsentpress.com

I have read many aspartame poisoning cases recently, because I was in
Atlanta with Betty Martini, founder of Mission Possible, the worldwide
volunteer organization that warns the world about aspartame
(Equal, NutraSweet) poisoning. Betty and I faxed hundreds of 'seizure'
and 'vision loss' and 'brain tumor' case histories to the lawyers who
are handling the class-action lawsuit against aspartame. If you want to
sign on, go to http://www.dorway.com . There is a support group.

It is possible the President could have had a seizure. There are 4
different kinds on the list. Phenylalanine (50% of aspartame)
depletes serotonin in the brain, lowering the seizure threshold.
Dr. Richard Wurtman testified to this at the 1986 Senate
Aspartame Safety Hearings. dick@...

Another possible aspartame symptom George Bush displayed were lesions
on his face, that were removed and explained by his doctors as, "Too
much sun." Rash is No. 12; Other Skin is No. 24.
It is my opinion that the methanol (wood alcohol, 10% of aspartame) is
attempting to leave the body through the skin.
In 1984, Dr. Woodrow Monte predicted the dangers of the methanol in
aspartame in his paper:
"Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Health" and in 1999, a study by
Trocho et al in Barcelona confirmed Monte's nightmare by proving the
methanol in aspartame breaks down into formaldehyde, which collects in
the fatty tissues and liver.
http://ww.presidiotex.com/barcelona/index.html

I read a letter to President Bush from Ken Lay, when he was
CEO of Enron, and Dubya was Texas governor. Ken wished his friend
George the best on his upcoming arthroscopic surgery on his knee.
Some aspartame victims need this surgery even after they stop 'using',
because aspartame harms the synovial fluid that bathes the joints.
Joint and bone pain is No. 31 on the FDA list. After the surgery, Bush
wrote to Lay that he was doing well, but that he would not be able to
jog for a month.

Most amazing about Bush and his aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet) use, is
that his Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, did not/has not told
his Commander in Chief about the dangers of aspartame. Some friend.
Donald Rumsfeld left the Ford White House to become CEO of
Searle Laboratory. Rumsfeld told Searle, who owned the original
aspartame patent, that he would "call in all his markers" to get
aspartame approved. Approval had been denied, because it was a
certainty the neurotoxic aspartame was causing brain tumors. That
aspartame causes brain tumors, was proved by Dr. John Olney
(Washington University), but he was media-blitzed, in 1996.

The story of aspartame's approval is the crime of the 20th century.
See my article: "No Hoax, Crime of the Century", at
http://aspartamekills.com
and also see http://www.dorway.com/upipart1.txt
UPI reporter Gregory Gordon: 96K 3-part expose Oct 1987

The power that keeps the people poisoned is mighty; it controls the
main-stream press, the medical hierarchy, the FDA.
We are all of us, including presidents
(Clinton was a diet Coke drinker, too),
being poisoned by the neurotoxic bio-terrorist drug, aspartame--
now omnipresent in more than 10,000 food, drink and medicinal products.
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the-times.co.uk: Whitworth: Gore drinks 6 cans Diet Coke daily 11.4.00

http://www.dorway.com/hooked.txt
http://www.the-times.co.uk/article/0,,30131,00.html

Saturday November 4, 2000 Doug Mills, AP reporter
Aides admit Gore is hooked on Coke
by Damian Whitworth http://the-times.co.uk

IT MAY not be his most pressing concern but one has to wonder about the
state of Al Gore’s teeth.

The Vice-President is awake each day before 6am.
Within half an hour he is meeting his campaign staff and cracking open
his first Diet Coke.
By the time he goes to bed again half a dozen or more of the sticky
drinks
will have been sluiced down.

"Okay, so it might not be the kind of breakfast you or I would have,"
says a campaign aide. "But these are high-caffeine days.
He needs his fuel to get through them."

A presidential election campaign is a colossal logistical exercise
mounted by an army that marches
on its constantly pepped-up blood sugar levels.
If Mr Gore is awake then all his staff are awake too — along with the
travelling press corps, the Secret Service and the hundreds of people
involved in every single event in each 19-hour day.

In fact many of the travelling Gore staff are awake long before the man
himself, talking to the campaign war-room in Nashville, plotting
strategies to suggest to the candidate and compiling a briefing book of
press cuttings and talking points that
runs to more than 100 pages every day.

Both candidates are trying to visit as many states as possible before
election day. Mr Gore was in Missouri, Iowa and Tennessee yesterday;
Mr Bush, whose schedule is slightly less insane,
in Michigan and West Virginia.

Every time Air Force 2 and its following press plane land, the routine
is the same. A motorcade of about 30 vehicles is waiting on the runway:
a limousine, or heavy sports utility vehicle for the candidate, another
with an open back carrying Secret Service officers armed with
machineguns, and then a long train of other security vehicles, police
cars, staff minivans and four coaches carrying the press.
The Vice-President then scorches across
the countryside like a Roman emperor down cleared, sealed-off roads.

The Secret Service and an advance team of campaign workers usually
arrive at each site four days before the event takes place.
The Secret Service ensures that every police officer in the area is
on duty in order to keep the roads clear.

The campaign workers, often in teams of just six, organise the staging
of the events. Contractors are hired to build stages, set up lights,
provide sound systems, confetti-blowing machines and fireworks.

School cafeterias or, as in Los Angeles this week, a vacant shop, are
commandeered as press-filing centres where the installation of dozens
of phone lines is supervised by a phone company executive who travels
permanently with the campaign. Photocopiers and faxes must be
installed so that schedules and press releases can be printed off and
distributed immediately to reporters. Caterers are hired to feed the
press and
staff.

The advance team relies on scores of volunteers from the local campaign
office, and unions often provide drivers and control crowds. Telephone
banks are set up to call registered Democrats and pull in a crowd.
For the huge rallies fliers are distributed across town and campaign
officials make themselves available to local radio and television
stations.

Mr Gore has been using celebrities such as the rock star Jon Bon Jovi
and the comedian Bill Cosby to attract an audience and get it warmed up.

Music blaring across a small town ensures that eventually most people
come down to find out what is going on.

The smaller-scale events are invitation-only, with guests carefully
screened to ensure they are sympathetic or relevant to the theme
of the day. Whatever the subject of his speech Mr Gore, like
Mr Bush, has to have a mix of people, young and old,
black and white, standing behind him.

Before he arrives the audience is given its orders. "This is a serious
event not a rally, so no jumping up and down," a campaign aide told an
audience of 200 on a beach in Michigan this week.
"And when you clap, take your gloves off — it makes a better sound."

Many of the events staged by the campaign are not officially staged at
all. "We just decided to stop and these people were here," a staffer
said after the entire motorcade had pulled off a road in Michigan this
week. Mr Gore chatted in front of the cameras with a cluster of voters
who just happened to be carrying Gore-Liberman posters
and be standing behind a rope line.

Once the candidate has left, the focus turns to getting out the vote.
The Democrats have distributed more than half a million placards in
the key states, and by election day will have made 50 million
phone calls to voters, sent 40 million pieces of mail
and 30 million e-mails to supporters.
Some 50,000 volunteers will work in those states on election day.
The Republicans will have sent out 1.6 million placards,
made 62 million phone calls and distributed 110 million articles of
mail.

There is a certain machismo about the length of the hours worked.
"Our campaign consists of a lot of long days
and a lot of short nights," Chris Lehane, the Gore campaign spokesman,
said. "While some candidates may look for their feather pillows,
Al Gore is looking for every single undecided voter he can find."

Sometimes Mr Gore will end the day sipping a beer with his
brother-in-law and best friend, Frank Hungar,
but usually he calls one of the Air Force 2 stewards,
or goes to the hotel minibar and requests one more can of a
certain brand of cola.
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So, 6 cans gives over 2 L of Diet Coke, 120 mg methanol, from which
a certain amount of formaldehyde, a deadly cumulative toxin,
accumulates in all body cells. Bill Clinton is also well known for
copious consumption of diet sodas for the last decade. The EPA
limit for methanol in drinking water is 7.8 mg daily. Aspartame was
FDA approved in 1981 by Commissioner Arthur Hull Hayes,
appointed by the new President Reagan. Reagan always carried
blue packets of Equal in his pockets...

Dr. Woodrow C. Monte, "Aspartame: Methanol, and the Public Health,"
Journal of Applied Nutrition, Volume 36, No. 1, pages 42-54, 1984.
(62 references) Professsor of Food Science
Director of the Food Science and Nutrition Laboratory
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287
6411 South River Drive #61 Tempe, Arizona 85283-3337
602-965-6938 woody.monte@...
The methanol from 2 L of diet soda, 5.6 12-oz cans, 20 mg/can,
is 112 mg, 10% of the aspartame.
The EPA limit for water is 7.8 mg daily
for methanol (wood alcohol), a deadly cumulative poison. Many users
drink 1-2 L daily. The reported symptoms are entirely consistent
with chronic methanol toxicity. (Fresh orange juice has 34 mg/L, but,
like all juices, has 16 times more ethanol, which strongly protects
against methanol.) http://www.dorway.com/wmonte.txt

A radioactive tracer study proves that the methanol from a low dose of
of aspartame binds formaldehyde, a deadly cumulative poison, into
tissues: Trocho C et al, June 26 1998, Life Sci, 63(5), 337-349.
http://www.presidiotex.com/barcelona/index.html

Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal, Canderel, Benevia) is reported by
scientific studies and case histories to be toxic: headaches; many
body and joint pains (or burning, tingling, tremors, twitching,
spasms, cramps, or numbness); "mind fog", "feel unreal", poor memory,
confusion, anxiety, irritability, depression, mania, insomnia,
dizziness, slurred speech, ringing in ears, sexual problems, nausea,
seizures, poor vision, hearing, or taste; fever, fatigue; red face,
itching, rashes, burning eyes or throat, dry mouth or eyes, mouth
sores; hair loss; obesity, bloating, edema, poor or excessive hunger
or thirst, anorexia; coldness; diarrhea or constipation; breathing
problems; racing heart, high blood pressure, erratic blood sugar
levels; sweating; birth defects; brain cancers; addiction.

UPI reporter Gregory Gordon: 96K 3-part expose Oct 1987:
http://www.dorway.com/upipart1.txt
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To: Cptn. Eleanor C. "Connie" Marino, USN
Physician to the President
White House Medical Unit #105
Whashington., D.C. 20502
202-757-2481 2483 fax
February 21, 2002

Dear Cptn. Marino:

This post presents evidence that indicates that President Bush
could be in danger right now from a not unusual toxicity
reaction to a common food additive, aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal),
about 200 mg in every can of diet soda. To simplify, 10% of aspartame
is methanol (wood alcohol), a component of the molecule, which is
immediately released into the body after ingestion. This dose of
methanol is thus 20 mg from each can, while the EPA limit for drinking
water is 7.8 mg daily. Methanol is a deadly cumulative poison. So
aspartame provides methanol, which converts to formaldehyde in the
tissues, as proved in a 1998 radioactive tracer study in Spain:

Life Sci 1998;63(5):337-49
Sra. Carme Trocho, Sra. Rosario Pardo, Dra. Immaculada Rafecas,
Sr. Jordi Virgili, X. Remesar, Dr. Jose Antonio Fernandez-Lopez,
Dr. Marià Alemany Fac. Biologia Tel.: (93)4021521, FAX: (93)4021559
alemany@... bioq@...

Formaldehyde derived from dietary aspartame binds to tissue components
in vivo. Trocho C, Pardo R, Rafecas I, Virgili J, Remesar X,
Fernandez-Lopez JA, Alemany M, Departament de Bioquimica i Biologia
Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.

"It is concluded that aspartame consumption may constitute a hazard
because of its contribution to the formation of formaldehyde adducts."

Woodrow C. Monte, Ph.D., Professsor of Food Science, Director of the
Food Science and Nutrition Laboratory, Arizona State University, Tempe,
Arizona 85287
6411 South River Drive #61 Tempe, Arizona 85283-3337
Phone/Fax 001 602-965-6938 woody.monte@...

Dr. Woodrow C. Monte, "Aspartame: Methanol, and the Public Health,"
Journal of Applied Nutrition, Volume 36, No. 1, pages 42-54, 1984.
This study is available at: http://www.dorway.com/wmonte.txt .

Abstract: Aspartame (L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester), a new
sweetener marketed under the trade name NutraSweet, releases into
the human bloodstream one molecule of methanol for each molecule of
aspartame consumed.

This new methanol source is being added to foods that have
considerably reduced caloric content and, thus, may be consumed in
large amounts. Generally, none of these foods could be
considered dietary methanol sources prior to addition of aspartame.
When diet sodas and soft drinks, sweetened with aspartame, are used
to replace fluid loss during exercise and physical exertion in hot
climates, the intake of methanol can exceed 250 mg/day or 32
times the Environmental Protection Agency's recommended
limit of consumption for this cumulative toxin (8).
[EPA limit: 7.8 mg/day in water. A 12-oz can of diet soda gives
20 mg methanol.]

There is extreme variation in the human response to acute
methanol poisoning, the lowest recorded lethal oral dose
being 100 mg/kg [10,000 mg for a 100 kg person] with
one individual surviving a dose over ninety times this level (55).
Humans, due perhaps to the loss of two enzymes during evolution, are
more sensitive to methanol than any laboratory animal; even the monkey
is not generally accepted as a suitable animal model (42). There are
no human or mammalian studies to evaluate the possible mutagenic,
teratogenic, or carcinogenic effects of chronic administration of
methyl alcohol (55).

The average intake of methanol from natural sources varies but
limited data suggests an average intake of considerably less than 10
mg/day (8). [A 12-oz can of diet soda has 20 mg methanol.] Alcoholics
may average much more, with a potential range of between
0 and 600 mg/day, depending on the source and in some
cases the quality of their beverages (15).

Ethanol, the classic antidote for methanol toxicity, is found in
natural food sources of methanol at concentrations 5 to 500,000 times
that of the toxin (Table 1). Ethanol inhibits metabolism of methanol
and allows the body time for clearance of the toxin through the lungs
and kidneys (40, 46).

The question asked is whether uncontrolled consumption of this
new sweetener might increase the methanol intake of certain
individuals to a point beyond which our limited knowledge of acute
and chronic human methanol toxicity can be extrapolated to predict
safety. [end of Abstract]

"Many of the signs and symptoms of intoxication due to methanol
ingestion are not specific to methyl alcohol. For example, headaches,
ear buzzing, dizziness, nausea and unsteady gait (inebriation),
gastrointestinal disturbances, weakness, vertigo, chills, memory
lapses, numbness and shooting pains in the lower extremities hands and
forearms, behavioral disturbances, and neuritis (55)."

Stephen K. Van Den Eeden, T.D. Koepsell, W.T. Longstreth, Jr,
G. van Belle, J.R. Daling, B. McKnight, "Aspartame ingestion and
headaches: a randomized crossover trial," 1994, Neurology, 44, 1787-93:
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program
3505 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94611-5714 skv@...
510-526-6020 510-596-6100

In their introduction, they commented:

"In addition, the FDA had received over 5,000 complaints as of July,
1991 in a passive surveillance system to monitor adverse side effects.
(17) Neurologic problems constitute the primary complaints in these
and several other case series, with headaches accounting for
18 to 45 %, depending on the case series reported. (17-19)"

A fairly complete list of the usual symptoms in the many cases includes:

headaches, all kinds of body and joint pain (or burning, tingling,
tremors, twitching, spasms, or numbness)

"mind fog", "feel unreal", poor memory, confusion, anxiety,
irritability, depression, mania, insomnia, dizziness, slurred speech,
ringing in ears, sexual problems, nausea, seizures, poor vision,
hearing, or taste

fatigue, weakness

red face, itching, rashes, burning eyes or throat

hair loss

obesity, bloating, poor or excessive hunger or thirst

diarrhea or constipation

breathing problems, asthma

racing heart, high blood pressure, erratic blood sugar levels.

Obviously, the neurotoxicological impairments are critical concerns
in the case of a war-time President.

Ralph G. Walton, M.D., Ph.D.,
Prof. of Clinical Psychology, Northeastern Ohio Universities,
College of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry, Youngstown, OH 44501, and
Chairman, The Center for Behavioral Medicine, Northside Medical Center,
500 Gypsy Lane, P.O. Box 240 Youngstown, OH 44501 330-740-3621
rwalton193@...

"Seizure and mania after high intake of aspartame," 1986,
Psychosomatics, 27: 218-20:

An age 54 woman with 20 years of depression had been stable for 11
years with medication. She had a grand mal seizure, followed by mania,
insomnia, flight of ideas, and irritability. A brief hospitalization
and CT scan found no apparent cause. After three weeks, this led to
psychiatric hospitalization. Two days later, it was found that during
the several weeks before the seizure and onset of mania, she had
started using aspartame in place of sugar in her iced tea, a gallon
daily. Four days later, the mania subsided, and 13 months later she
continued to function well, and enjoying her large amounts of iced tea,
with sugar, not aspartame.

"The possible role of aspartame in seizure induction," 1987,
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Phenylalanine and
the Brain, Wortman, RJ, Walker E (eds.), Center for Brain Sciences and
Metabolism Charitable Trust, Cambridge, England:

Nine cases, ages 19 to 91, briefly summarized: "Case 4: A 61 year-old
woman had been in excellent health until she began consuming an average
of half a gallon per day of sugar-free beverages prepared with "Crystal
Light" mixes. She experienced the onset of headaches, in the absence
of a previous headache history. After three months of daily headaches,
she experienced a generalized seizure and was hospitalized. CAT scan
and EEG were normal. After discontinuing the use of all
aspartame-containing products, she has been headache- and
seizure-free."

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1038-page medical text "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic"
published May 30 2001 $ 85.00 postpaid data from 1200 cases
available at http://www.amazon.com
over 600 references from standard medical research
http://www.aspartameispoison.com/contents.html 34 chapters
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Ann Pharmacother 2001 Jun;35(6):702-6
Relief of fibromyalgia symptoms following
discontinuation of dietary excitotoxins.
terpening@... cterpeni@...
Smith JD, Terpening CM, Schmidt SO, Gums JG.
Malcolm Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, FL, USA.
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Headache 2001 Oct;41(9):899-901
Migraine MLT-Down: An Unusual Presentation of Migraine
in Patients With Aspartame-Triggered Headaches.
[Merck 10-mg Maxalt-MLT, for migraine, has 4 mg aspartame,
while 12 oz diet soda has 200 mg.]
Newman LC, Lipton RB. RLipton@...
Headache Institute, St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York
NY Department of Neurology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Innovative Medical Research

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survey shows aspartame hurts memory in students 11.9.00
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Timothy M. Barth Department of Psychology t.barth@...
Texas Christian University TCU Box 298920 Fort Worth, TX 76129
Chairman, Physiological Psychology 817-921-7410

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