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Article 1:
The disease is marked by the destruction of the protective outer casing of the nerve fibers. The nerve casings, known as myelin sheaths are composed mainly of fats. These fats insulate the nerves and increase the speed of electrical transmissions throughout the body much like the plastic coating of electrical wires insulates and protects them against a possible short circuiting. In MS, patchy areas of the nerve sheaths are destroyed (de-myelinated) and replaced by scar tissue (sclerosis) hence the name multiple sclerosis.

These scleroses in multiple places eventually impair conduction of the bodies electrical current causing a "short circuiting" of the nerve impulses that control motor function. Eventually if the break down of the myelin is not stopped all control of motor functions are eventually lost resulting in death.

What to do? EFA's are the key. Essential fatty acids along with water-soluble sulfur help to slow and even stop the progression of this break down of the myelin sheath and also appear to help the body re-build areas that have already been destroyed. Flaxseed oil and borage oil are relatively inexpensive and contain significant amounts of the essential fatty acids needed by the body to initiate this repair work. Using water-soluble sulfur helps the body to better assimilate these EFA's necessary for rebuilding the myelin sheath. Vitamin B12 will also boost the effectiveness of these EFA's significantly and should be part of a complete regimen to fight MS.

The intake of saturated fats should be avoided by those suffering from MS. Dr. Roy Swank M.D., Ph.D., Department of Neurology at Oregon Health Sciences University, in 1950 put a group of 150 MS patients on a diet low in saturated fats (less than 15 grams per day). Thirty years later when these same people were examined again the data showed that those who kept to the regimen showed a significantly lower incidence in the progression of the disease and death than those who deviated from the regimen. "The study showed that even eating as little as 8 grams a day more than the recommended amount of fat resulted in sharp increases in deterioration and death as compared to the strict dieters."

Footnote: *In a recent article written by Nancy Markle at the World Environmental Conference, researchers have found that consumption of large amounts of Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful) in diet sodas and other sugar free sweetners mimics MS symptoms. When the temperature of the Aspartame in the product exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in the Aspartame converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis that mimics MS symptoms. Heavy consumption of products containing this compound should be avoided. Most products that boast sugar free contain Aspartame. Drink fruit juices or water - they are much easier on the body!

Article 2:
MS and Vitamin D
The Health Science Institutes recommends you take between 200 and 400 IU of vitamin D daily(1,000,000 IU is 25 milligrams).
The Health Sciences Institute e-Alert
April 11, 2001
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Dear Member,
If you or someone you love is among the 330,000 Americans suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS), you know just how mystifying this disease can be. The cause of MS remains unknown, making treatment options very limited.

Over the years, the Health Sciences Institute has reported on a variety of very promising alternative treatments for this condition, including a recent article on oral myelin in the October 2000 issue of Members Alert. And now, we've come across some exciting research that suggests a common vitamin may have the power to stop MS dead in its tracks.

In a past study at the University of Wisconsin, mice injected with experimental version of MS were given supplemental vitamin D one day before symptoms were expected to appear. The results of this treatment were nothing short of astounding: NONE of the mice developed a single symptom of disability!

With this encouraging start, researchers tested the ability of vitamin D to delay the progress of symptoms. When mice treated with experimental MS began to show the first signs of the disease, they were divided into two groups: one group was given vitamin D while the other was not. After 40 days, the group given vitamin D showed few symptoms, while the untreated mice were completely paralyzed. When researchers discontinued the vitamin D supplementation in the first group, the mice quickly acquired symptoms of paralysis. So, is vitamin D the missing link in MS prevention and treatment? Clinical trials on humans are still in the early stages, but have shown positive results in suppressing symptoms and lowering levels of Interleukin-2, which is believed to be associated with the development of MS.

While vitamin D shows great promise, it's hard to get adequate levels of the nutrient. The best source is exposure to the sun's UV rays, which causes the skin to synthesize its own vitamin D. However, as you know,these same UV rays can produce very damaging secondary effects. In fact, many MS patients are advised to stay out of the sun. Fish like mackerel, salmon, and sardines are the best dietary sources of vitamin D. Nevertheless, since most people don't eat enough of these foods to reach necessary levels, taking supplemental vitamin D is probably your best option. We recommend you take between 200 and 400 IU of vitamin D daily.

We'll continue to keep you updated on these exciting studies. In addition, we're currently working on a Health Sciences Institute special report on MS. It has information on the best, most effective breakthrough treatments for this debilitating disease, and should be available by summer.

Sincerely yours,
Amanda L. Ross Research Associate Health Sciences Institute

Article 3:
Major Media is Attempting to Crush Aspartame: Expose on the Deadly Effects of Aspartame

The following is a letter... in response to an onslaught of negative and misleading misinformation from the major media.

(NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful) The Nancy Markle Story!
It's an old plot. We've seen it many times. A gigantic corporation contaminates the community, spreading deadly toxins. People are sick, children die, but the greedy poisoner remains undetected. At last a persistent reporter finds the source. Now denials begin, authorities side with the polluters, against the people. A smoke screen of propaganda and ridicule is raised so business and dying can continue as usual. Some mainstream media too often dependent on advertising from these corporations won't expose them, and would never allow a bright reporter to tell the story. Monsanto, Coke and Pepsi have fat checkbooks so will the pride of true journalism in getting the facts to the people take a backseat to exposing them in the NutraSweet issue?

Someone using the name of Nancy Markle took a report from www.dorway.com I had written about lecturing at the World Environmental Conference, and added her name. She made some changes but the message of aspartame mimicking MS as it destroys the central nervous system was exposed as well as other problems caused by the toxin. It is escalating Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease as well as precipitating diabetes. It causes blindness and even Focus (http://www.focusnewsletter.org/aspartame.htm) in Nov, l998 (Vol. 3, No. 3) had an article on aspartame titled: What's Blinding the World! Dr. Louis Elsas testimony before congress (pediatric professor at Emory University) was discussed in the post and quoted him saying aspartame is a neurotoxin and teratogen (triggers birth defects ). It also triggers lupus. This article was carried on 450 global networks and circulation on the Internet and beyond could have caused circulation to exceed CNN and AP. Thousands of Aspartame Disease victims emailed and called as well as media, hospitals, clinics and medical establishments. A support list was setup on line on the Internet as victims counted the days off aspartame and watched symptoms disappear. They tell of the addiction of this drug masquerading as an additive, and shattered years of medical problems. You could weep at the stories. My computer has crashed three times because it can't take the thousands of cases coming in and we are in the process of adding the biggest hard drive and memory made to record what may be one of the largest epidemics in world history.

H.J. Roberts, M.D., said in his first press conference that if something wasn't done about aspartame then in 5 or 10 years we would have a plague on our hands. Now Dr. Roberts has declared aspartame disease to be a world epidemic and is in the process of publishing the medical text on the world plague. His other publications can be gotten at http://www.icanect.net/sunpress/.

In talking to AP, Lauran Neergaard, said she would tell the story if there was a peer reviewed study on MS and aspartame. She mentioned she was on the web site and said "but I didn't mention your name". No, she didn't and neither did she mention the web site. And there she was on a web site that showed that the story was true containing even government documents.

There is the Bressler Report, the FDA audit of the horror of the original studies that approved aspartame, the FDA's own report of 92 documented symptoms from coma to death triggered by aspartame, the damning CDC investigation and even the protest of the National Soft Drink Association, showing that Coke and Pepsi knew aspartame breaks down into a witches brew of toxins at 86 degrees before they ever put it in pop. They also knew it was not a diet product because it is a drug that makes you crave carbohydrates (last page of report) and misrepresented this to the public. If you want to get fat NutraSweet is where it's at!

I have no sympathy for the MS Society because they have been sent information for years including Dr. Roberts position paper MS or Aspartame Disease? and never uttered a word to warn the victims. In Atlanta at their walk-a-thon while Mission Possible gave out medical documentation on aspartame's ability to mimic MS and destroy the central nervous system they gave out Diet Coke. They were furious that these walkers were getting this information.

So the MS Society and the FDA who over-ruled a Board of Inquiry to approve this deadly toxin were swamped with calls. I personally spoke to Dr. Rudolph Harris at the FDA who admitted all the calls. I told him to stop giving out false information that aspartame is safe, and that we had the actual government documents on www.dorway.com to show they were lying. He answer to me: "We can't refute that!" I asked him again why the FDA refused to answer the 26 questions on www.dorway.com sent to them by Newt Gingrich. Could it be that if they answered truthfully they would have to recall aspartame. Instead they simply sent me propaganda and federal registries and told Gingrich's office they have to talk to their attorneys. But they were quick to talk to CNN to try and squelch the outcry of the public even though they knew the truth. Those there to solve the problem ARE THE PROBLEM!

As to a study on aspartame and MS, there was one in l983/84 that did show that aspartame destroyed the central nervous system, triggered brain tumors and seizures and other neurological horrors. But it was never published - it showed aspartame to be a killer. A statement from the translator, notarized, is on www.dorway.com There is a new study that indicates auto-antibodies contribute to destruction of nerve fibers myelin sheath, the hallmark of multiple sclerosis (University of California ). H. J. Roberts, M.D. over three decades ago explained in publications about MS that if the myelin is damaged by any cause the body may take antibodies to the myelin fragments which then can initiate a vicious cycle which can breakdown myelin. Aspartame or its byproducts can damage the nerves sheath, and the body may respond by making the antibodies to it.

References: Journal of American Geriatric Society, Volume 14, page 586, l966; Journal of American Geriatric Society, Volume 12, 9/26/64; On the Etiology, Treatment and Prevention of MS, South Medical Journal, Volume 59, page 940, l966.

On this new study Dr. Roberts emphasized to me that the model of experimental EAE is not the counterpart of human MS and is not related to reality in patients who have pre-clinical MS or evolutionary MS . Also, there is a new study on Parkinson's Disease which clearly points to environmental factors and diet rather than to genetics.

Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills (1-800/643-2665) gave me these points which support this study:
1. Parkinson's Disease is a disorder who's cause appears from substantial evidence, to be related to excitotoxicity. These toxins destroy the cells in the brain central to this disease.
2. Excitotoxins cause these brain cells to generate enormous amounts of free radicals. This is true of MSG and Aspartic Acid (aspartame).
3. There is substantial circumstantial evidence that dietary excitotoxins, including aspartame, can aggravate these destructive changes in the Parkinson's brain .
4. The additional toxins - DKP, aspartate, methanol, formaldehyde and formic acid - add to this injury .
5. Recent evidence demonstrates that aspartame product, formaldehyde - accumulates within cells and damages proteins and DNA .

Michael J. Fox was a Diet Pepsi spokesman and wondered why he got an old man's disease at the age of 30? Be assured he now knows and has been warned that aspartame changes the dopamine level of the brain. Think of the ramifications of this. Read Senator Metzenbaum's bill that never got out of committee on the problems surfacing in the population in the 80's that he wanted to have investigated by independent studies. Notice aspartame is a drug that interacts with other drugs!

A good deal of Dr. Blaylock's material is on www.dorway.com including a lecture where he says the reactions to aspartame are not allergic in nature but toxic like arsenic and cyanide. There is the interview also in transcript form where he tells how studies are doctored, how aspartame triggers ADD, and why pilots are having seizures and other problems. Three American Airline pilots who were heavy users of aspartame have died, one in flight, and another has had a stroke. I can't think of anything more hazardous to aviation safety than allowing pilots to consume a deadly neurotoxin known to be a seizure triggering drug (proven in a pivotal study on 7 monkeys in which 5 had grand mal seizures and 1 died, (SC18862), that also triggers confusion, memory loss, blindness and cardiac symptoms.

Christine Gorman who wrote the Time magazine article admits in her article that she searched the web for the problems like multiple sclerosis, seizures, etc. in the Nancy Markle article and found the web site where there was almost an identical letter. So she too was on www.dorway.com. She said she didn't believe any chemical could cause all these problems, yet there on the web site was the FDA report admitting 92 symptoms and there are many more. She had to have seen the secret trade information exposed in Congress where the original manufacturer, Searle, admitted they had to consider complete conversion to DKP ----A BRAIN TUMOR AGENT. Yet, she puts down brain tumors. How famous is the doctor who made world history in l996 over the aspartame/brain tumor link? Dr. John Olney is so famed he founded the field of neuroscience known as excitotoxicity and his update is on DORway. Christine picked up industry and flaming web sites in her article but she wouldn't give the one site that had the government documents and world expert reports on the subject. Christine Gorman even picked up the propaganda on Monsanto's web site, all this baloney about trace amounts of methanol exist naturally in many fruits and vegetables. The truth of the matter is in ASPARTAME: METHANOL AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH by Dr. Woodrow Monte, Journal of Applied Nutrition, Volume 36 , Number 1, l984 where he says: "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. Ethanol inhibits toxins through the lungs and kidneys." You don't slur your words when you eat an orange but many do with aspartame.

In Dr. Roberts book Sweet'ner Dearest on page 168 and 169 he says "Producers and their representatives have become masters at dodging the very mention of its name, especially on talk shows . They prefer to call this chemical "aspartic acid and phenylalanine as the methyl ester." In the body, however, the "methyl ester" translates into METHYL ALCOHOL...also known as METHANOL and WOOD ALCOHOL! The public is more familiar with methanol as an ingredient of fuels (such as Sterno) and antifreeze (The methyl ester is required for aspartame's taste since aspartyl-phenylalanine is tasteless). Dr. Roberts goes on to say: "Just in case you didn't know, methanol is a severe metabolic poison. The dictionary defines 'poison' as a substance having an inherent tendency to impair health or destroy life. Significant amounts of methyl alcohol in its free form are rarely found in nature. The ingestion of relatively small amounts can result in blindness , other serious illnesses and even death." Dr. Ralph Walton on 60 Minutes explained there are only 90 valid studies on aspartame that were independent and 83 showed problems with the toxin. The 7 non-industry studies attesting to aspartame 's safety were 6 studies from the FDA and 1 literature review reflecting almost exclusively the industry sponsored research. Since the FDA has been trying to cover up this issue for years you can dismiss the 6 studies. They went so far as to refer complaints to the AIDS Hotline as discussed in Congress!

Dr. Walton himself did a study although NutraSweet refused to sell him the aspartame because they had no control over the study. After one subject started bleeding from the eyes, another had a retinal detachment and others complained of being poisoned, the institution stopped the study.

How do you do a study on MS and aspartame? Who wants to sign up for a dose of poison? That was tried in South America with people in poor villages who wouldn't be missed they thought. The biggest study on aspartame has been done on the consumer public in 100 countries of the world, and the cases on the sick and dying continue to pour in.

This press release will travel in the path of the original article signed by Nancy Markle. Responsible journalists will tell this side of the story and publish after research of the DORway web site. Those who have sold out to industry will defend it to the end. Most people with problems from aspartame will continue to search and find us, as they have been doing. For those who believe comments in articles like Time and AP may go on using this toxin until it can be removed from the market. They can go on losing babies or bearing those with deformities, having seizures, developing Alzheimer's (Defense Against Alzheimer's Disease – 1(800) 814-9800 – Dr.Roberts), going blind and destroying their central nervous system. These reporters will have to live with this all the days of their life because they saw the truth and didn't publish it. Coca Cola profits tumbled 27% in the fourth quarter and 14% in l998. Monsanto who makes NutraSweet is trying to sell the NutraSweet Kelco Company! To avoid billions of dollars of law suits? The news is out and it can't be covered up. Aspartame exposers are even called toxic terrorists! Indeed, Nutrasweet has terrorized nutrition and disbeliveers embark on the Monsanto Titanic. Its iceberg proof, you know, and up for sale ! I hope that every responsible journalist publishes this side of the story, those who believe like Mission Possible that death and disability are not acceptable costs of business. Fraud in science is despicable, as despicable as failure to tell consumers the truth when the facts are known by the media. Now Monsanto wants to get approved neotame, an even more potent aspartame! Betty Martini, Mission Possible International (a worldwide volunteer force in the US and many countries warning the world off aspartame) (770) 242-2599. For a map of the 450 pages on www.dorway.com email help@dorway.com with nothing in message text or subject line. Also check out http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/ and aspartamekills.com

Aspartame is Poison. We can Survive it. Take the 60-day No Aspartame Test and send us your case history. Mission Possible International 9270 River Club Parkway Duluth, GA 30097 USA
1. Tell your doctor and all of your friends!
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