LETTER TO THE EVENING BULLETIN CONCERNING THEIR ARTICLE ON GUM/ASPARTAME


Dr. Betty Martini
Mission Possible World Health International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
Telephone: 770-242-2599
E-Mail: BettyM19@mindspring.com



Posted: 05 January 2007


To: advocate@theeveningbulletin.com
From: Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum., Bettym19@mindspring.com
Date: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 6:01 pm
Subject: To the Evening Bulletin - your article on gum/aspartame


Dear Mr. Denenberg:

Thank you for your article. First of all, I'm glad you mentioned leading authority, Beatrice Trum Hunter. Actually she knows about the aspartame in gum. On the front of the 1038 page medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, by world expert H. J. Roberts, M.D., http://www.sunsentpress.com is this comment by this noted editor and author of The Mirage of Safety:

(indent) "This monumental work represents the extraordinary effort of a concerned and highly regarded physician. The medical and public health implications of his observations and corporate-neutral research on the effects of a neurotoxic sweetener being used by two-thirds of the population must not be ignored. Their pioneering importance can be properly compared to the environmental expose by Rachel Carson."

I'm also glad to see that you exposed Wrigley's because I've written to them for years to remove aspartame because gum is one of the most serious problems you can use with aspartame. It's buccal and as a drug, (masquerading as an additive) it goes through saliva directly to the brain. It works like nitroglycerin. One lady who was part of a TV expose here in Atlanta had never used aspartame until handed a piece of aspartame gum and had a grand mal seizure. Here is just one of the letters I've written them: http://www.wnho.net/wrigley_letter_australia.htm Instead of removing aspartame they have put this deadly addictive excitoneurotoxic drug into almost all their gums and even blended it with other toxins like sucralose or Splenda, a chlorocarbon poison ( http://www.wnho.net/splenda_chlorocarbon.htm ) and acesulfame potassium, caused cancer and leukemia in original studies.

Aspartame binds to calcium as was proven in Norway: http://www.aspartaam.nl/artikelen_eng/norstudy.html so many aspartame users are losing their teeth. It's also a chelating agent and some people may still have mercury fillings. So here dentists are telling their patients to use sugarfree gum with aspartame and all they are doing is assuring them they will have all kinds of dental problems and even possibly lose all their teeth as many aspartame victims have, my friend, Lynette, comes to mind.

Yes, aspartame makes you crave carbohydrates so you gain weight as included in the protest of the National Soft Drink Association in the congressional record, (Wurtman affidavit) - http://www.wnho.net/congressional_record1.doc And headache is #1 on the FDA list of 92 symptoms on http://www.dorway.com

Yes, you can use gum on a plane but you can also swallow. There is xylitol gum in health food stores, but you can't use too much Xylitol because some consumers complaint of bloating and cramps. But a small amount in Xylitol gum couldn't hurt if you don't use it all day.

And as to scoring higher on tests, what baloney. Thank you for exposing Wrigley as financing the study. In reality aspartame lowers IQ. An excellent DVD on Behavior and Nutrition by neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, goes into school studies on aspartame and other additives. http://www.russellblaylockmd.com You can get a copy of this and a CD on aspartame on http://www.atavistik.com Because of how aspartame destroys the brains of our children, lowers IQ, causes birth defects, mental retardation, interacts with drugs and vaccines, we are emailing the Report to Schools: http://www.wnho.net/report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm to schools, board of educations, pediatricians, OB-GYN, etc. all over the world - 40 pages of new reports by the experts including Feingold, the ADD people, who banned aspartame. They say they started using the name ADD about 1981. That's when aspartame was approved.

In my opinion it's time to give up gum until its made with something extremely safe. There are safe sweeteners like Just Like Sugar available in Whole Foods and Wild Oats made from chicory and orange peel and Stevia which you can get from any health food store. But stay away from deadly chemicals. Aspartame triggers all kinds of cancers and tumors and neurodegenerative diseases, and has caused an epidemic of obesity and diabetes, just for starters. It isn't worth a piece of gum. Check out http://www.wnho.net click on aspartame to see what Splenda is causing.

Here is the recall effort on aspartame and where people are writing, and it goes over the fact that aspartame is a multipotential carcinogen. http://www.wnho.net/project_recall_aspartame.htm Be sure to see the aspartame documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, http://www.amazon.com Aspartame is the legacy of Don Rumsfeld: http://www.rense.com/general67/rum.htm

All my best, Dr. Betty Martini
Founder, Mission Possible Wolrd Health International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770-242-2599
E-Mail: BettyM19@mindspring.com
http://www.wpwhi.com
http://www.whno.net
http://www.dorway.com

Aspartame Toxiocity Center: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame


11/10/2006
Denenberg: Some Of The Health Benefits Of Chewing Gum
By: Herb Denenberg, Special To The Evening Bulletin

Awhile back, I did a column on the health benefits and detriments of chewing gum. I noted that the subject was neglected in the medical literature, perhaps reflecting modern medicine's obsession with prescription drugs, surgery, testing and more invasive and remunerative approaches. Doctors won't make money by telling people to chew gum (or to diet, or to exercise, or to get enough sleep, or to control stress, etc.).

Some years ago, I did manage to find one article on the subject, by Beatrice Trum Hunter, a leading authority on nutrition and food editor of a magazine called Consumers' Research. She documented a series of possible health benefits and detriments of chewing gum:

I thought that chewing gum might have some other important health benefits that might be revealed by further study. Sure enough, the Harvard Health Letter (August 2006) catalogs a series of important health benefits from chewing gum.

Here are the benefits the Harvard publication discusses:

  1. After abdominal surgery, chewing gum may speed recovery and return the bowels to their normal function faster. They tend to shut down after abdominal surgery. Researchers in Japan have reported that chewing gum hastened recovery from laparoscopic colectomy. Earlier this year, the same group reported that chewing gum speeded the recovery of colon surgery patients. Here is the mechanism that may explain this phenomenon: "Chewing stimulates the vagus nerve, a long nerve that originate in the head but has many branches, including some that control the bowels. The vagus nerve may also play a role in the release of gastrointestinal hormones that stimulate bowel activity." So chewing gum is viewed as a form of "sham" feeding that stimulates the bowels into activity. Actual eating cannot stimulate them, as that would be likely to lead to intestinal obstruction and other problems in a post surgery environment. The gum-chewing technique could be important in cutting hospital costs. One study of patients who had colon surgery for diverticulitis found that those who chewed gum after surgerycut their stay from 6.8 to 4.3 days compared to non-chewers.

  2. New research confirms what Beatrice Trum Hunter reported earlier - that chewing gum might also be helpful to those suffering from heartburn, also referred to as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). British researchers found that those who chewed gum for about half an hour after eating had lower acid levels in their esophagi. The Harvard Health Letter writes, "The researchers speculated that frequent swallowing helped control reflux and push any errant stomach contents back where they belong."

  3. A study conducted at New York University's College of Dentistry found that students who chewed sugarless gum while studying scored higher on tests than non-chewers. Who do you suppose paid for some of this research? It was the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, king of the gum companies. It is also establishing an Institute to fund studies into gum chewing as a way to lose weight, relieve stress and increase concentration. I'd applaud that move, as too much of research money is now directed to prescription drug and other riskier modalities.

Herb Denenberg, a former Pennsylvania insurance commissioner and professor at the Wharton School, is a longtime Philadelphia journalist and consumer advocate. He is also a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. His column appears daily in The Evening Bulletin. You can reach him at advocate@theeveningbulletin.com

Dr. Betty Martini
Founder, Mission Possible World Health International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770-242-2599
E-Mail: BettyM19@mindspring.com
http://www.wpwhi.com
http://www.whno.net
http://www.dorway.com

Aspartame Toxiocity Center: http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame