Subject: Blinded by NutraSweet (aspartame) Permission to publish this message has been granted The following article was published by Return to Eden and is reprinted with their permission and mine, the writer. It is intentionally not copyrighted so it will be reprinted again and again to assist in warning the world this this product now in 5000 products in causing vision loss, retinal detachments, blindness and many other problems associated with sight, floaters, flashes, black spots, etc. JOYCE WILSON: HER "MISSION" TO TELL PEOPLE THE TRUTH ABOUT ASPARTAME The following is an interview with Joyce's husband, Richard. By Betty Martini, Mission Possible, November 14, 1995 No words can describe the agony and horror my sweet Joyce endured. This poison destroyed her brain, ravaged all her organs and blinded her. The manufacturer considered her death an acceptable cost of business. I'm a man without a wife because the NutraSweet Company is a business without a conscience. Take dead serious the warnings you will hear. The life you safe may be your own. Joyce was a woman full of life, not overweight but wanting to stay slim. When NutraSweet was approved she thought it was a diet product, not a drug. She used diet drinks, Equal, Slimfast, sugarfree gum, etc. She gained 35 lbs! I saw her go downhill and tried to get her off of it but she said it wouldn't be on the market if it wasn't safe. She went to 34 doctors trying to find the answer but the truth was concealed with FDA approval, she was consuming a deadly poison. One ophthalmologist saw the nerve damage of the optic nerve and thought it was macular degeneration. Joyce was going blind. No one knew the methanol (wood alcohol) in aspartame converts to formaldehyde in the retina of the eye. One day on TV she heard Shannon Roth, blinded in one eye by NutraSweet as she explained her injuries. Joyce said: "That's me!" and called Shannon and learned that NutraSweet is a deadly poison. Next Joyce saw the late Dr. Morgan Raiford, the renowned ophthalmologist who founded the Atlanta Eye Clinic, who was a specialist in methanol toxicity, having treated moonshine victims during prohibition. He confirmed that Joyce, like Shannon, who he had also diagnosed, was being blinded by NutraSweet. Joyce had been wrongly diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis because the doctors didn't know methanol toxicity mimics MS as it destroys the nervous system. She suffered terrible headaches, hypertension and tachycardia, rapid heart beats, all aspartame symptoms. And she began to lose her memory. Joyce didn't want this to happen to anyone else. She wrote to Senator Howard Metzenbaum (he had written the bill to put a warning on NutraSweet, but it was not passed due to the power of the drug company) and said on March 2, 1986: "I feel aspartame is the most dangerous substance introduced for human consumption. Please stop this product now before the toll n the health of Americans is disastrous. It is too late for me, but I hope I can help others." She did everything she could, organizing ASPARTAME VICTIMS AND THEIR FRIENDS OF GEORGIA. She testified before Congress, she went on National TV and spoke whenever she could. She had a hotline to help others. Joyce and other victims met with the FDA who said they wouldn't approve aspartame for any other products before a discussion with them. 36 hours later they approved it in more products! When Joyce went blind aspartame was only in a few hundred products, now its in 5000 products and climbing. Millions are affected. Joyce kept getting people off aspartame and took great satisfaction in watching them return to normal health and useful lives, something she knew she would never do. But it was her MISSION in life to get people to warn others. In the beginning, since she had all the evidence she thought she would get help from the Government, Congress and professionals that could help, but she came to the realization that the pockets of the drug company were too deep, and there was but one way to stop the death and disability. That was, for the people themselves, to get involved. She said if everyone would warn but one person a day it would get around the world in no time. But she was saddened that it never happened. People were happy to get well but the word just wasn't spread. Joyce continued to warn with her last breath until she eventually became like an Alzheimer victim with no memory (aspartame fries the brain), a vegetable. In l991 Joyce lost her fight for life. I went back to Daytona where we met and spread her ashes into the sea. In September 1994 our youngest son married and on her empty chair was a long stem rose. Today I await the birth of our first grandchild who Joyce will never know. The makers of her poison care not but use every strategy to bury the truth, and eventually you, just like my Joyce. The only way I can make any sense out of this is to see to it that my lovely wife did not die in vain. So in her name, I ask everyone who reads this to join the fight and tell the world aspartame is deadly poison. Monsanto "funds" the American Diabetic Assn. and the American Dietetic Assn., and lobbies Congress. FDA officials have found lucrative employment in the Monsanto cam. This matter is in no court except the court of the people. We the people with the sword of truth must behead this monster. Richard Wilson Right Is Might Today Richard Wilson is a member of the volunteer force of Mission Possible carrying the dream and mission of Joyce. We provide a warning flyer that reveals the symptoms and diseases triggered by aspartame, as well as publications and authorities. It states to copy and warn others and has been successful in getting the message to many of the 90+ countries of the world that harbor this poison. We fly packets around the world and to air traffic controls warning pilots since aspartame is a seizure triggering drug. We warn you - aspartame is a disease - a plague - the symptoms are predictable, there is a pattern. If you are having equilibrium problems (destroys the nervous system), fatigue, headaches, vision loss, personality change - and your doctor thinks you may have multiple sclerosis (MS) YOU HAVE ASPARTAME DISEASE! And if you don't get off NutraSweet what happened to Joyce could well happen to you. WE ASK ALL PEOPLE TO DO THE FOLLOWING: 1. Spread the warning, make copies of our flyer as many as you can afford. 2. Take the NO ASPARTAME TEST and send us your case history with permission to publish. 3. Take it BACK TO THE STORE! If its open they can't sell it! 4. Write and call everyone who will listen. Complain to the FDA, to Congress, to the media, to organizations and anyone who will spread the word to thousands. We are continuing the MISSION of Joyce Wilson, If you see us distributing flyers in our black berets they stand for mourning and outcry for the sick and dying of aspartame. Many times our press packs are garnished with a single rose in memory of this courageous woman. PLEASE PASS THE TORCH OF KNOWLEDGE AROUND THE WORLD - so one day we will brandish the torch aloft with the cry - MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! There is no other way to say it - NutraSweet is a Neurotoxin - a deadly poison! To get a warning flyer to copy send a self-addressed envelope (with 4 stamps if you want more information) to: Mission Possible International 9270 State Bridge Road Suite 215 Duluth, Georgia 30097 Rest in peace, Joyce Wilson! We will stop this genocidal crime against humanity! Betty Martini, Mission Possible ____________________________________________________end of article This morning on my recorder was the tearful voice of Lee Fullerton. She said: "If I had not read the article about Joyce I would not know why I am going blind and dying. My symptoms are identical. No doctor knew why I was having seizures or why I have the tachycardia and other MS symptoms like Joyce. Please help me to live long enough to warn others." If Joyce had not heard Shannon's story she would not have known either. There are many Joyce Wilson's out there with vision problems they cannot explain - and many like Lee Fullerton. We just pray its not too late to save Lee. So I decided to put this story on the net in the hope that you people in the vision newsgroup will start the New Year out by cleaning your house of aspartame. Remember Joyce and her Mission and warn others. Like she said, if you just warn one person a day it will get around the world. Richard provided me with Joyce's records. In it was the Secret Trade Information. Ya'll find it under THEY KNEW on our auto-responder. They admitted that DKP is a breakdown product but if they told the FDA they couldn't get it approved. DKP is a brain tumor agent and now doctors are saying brain tumors removed are composed of aspartame. The rats in the original studies got brain tumors. The late Dr. Adrian Gross, FDA Toxicologist, told Congress that aspartame violated the Delaney Amendment because it produces cancer, and beyond a shadow of a doubt, brain tumors. His last words will never be forgotten: "And if the FDA violates its own laws who will protect the people?" The current Saturday Evening Post has an article on escalating brain cancer! I recently lectured at the World Environmental Conference who confirmed the epidemic of multiple sclerosis which in reality is methanol toxicity. Report on the responder. This is a major plague. Mission Possible is calling for HANDS AROUND THE WORLD in l996. Please pass the torch of knowledge and save a life. Hopefully by the end of the year we can get this poison removed from our food supply, and the volunteers of Mission Possible can go back to their normal lives knowing we have stopped the disease and death caused by this toxin masquerading as a sweetener. The FDA lists 92 documented symptoms from coma to death. For those who want a copy of the NutraSweet booklet that contains this story, and picture of Joyce, and also the article on aspartame's part in the Desert Storm Syndrome please send a self-addressed, large envelope with two day priority postage to us at the address below. All material is free. And we hope you will have a healthy and happy 1996. Betty Martini Operation Mission Possible Dr. H. J. Roberts recent position paper on aspartame and the eye is on the auto-responder under aspartame and eye. He also has tapes titled: IS ASPARTAME SAFE? A MEDICAL, PUBLIC HEALTH LEGAL OVERVIEW (1 800 814-9800). And there is a form provided for those who are victims of aspartame for evaluation and research. ************************************************************************ Mission Possible International 9270 State Bridge Road Suite 215 Duluth, Georgia 30097