LETTERS OF TESTIMONY TO THE HAWAII HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH CONCERNING ASPARTAME



From: Dr. Grady Clark


Dear Sirs,

I am a 30 year in practice eye doctor. I have also spent 30 years studying nutrition and its effect on the eye and the systemic diseases that effect the eye. In all these years, I have never run across a single article, research paper or report that says anything good about aspartame, but I have read thousands of reports of how clearly it has been proven that Aspartame IS a neurotoxic poison that is slowly but surely destroying the lives of millions of people.

Surely this is a no-brainer decision for you all to make, unless of course, you just have no interest in the truth, because of a something we all might not know about you or like many politicians are taking money etc. under the table and turn a blind eye to the facts. Your vote and actions on this bill will clearly prove to us what you are all about and don't give us the rhetoric about how if we take aspartame off the market, it will cost millions of jobs. You all had no conscious about passing Nafta free trade and World trade that has cost America millions of jobs, but with aspartame, you are costing America millions of damaged lives and the inability to even have a job because people are getting so sick from it that they cannot work and then you have to find the money to pay for their medical expenses and disabilities, so yes, this bill will truly show us where your mind, honor, integrity and heart is.

Yes, I am clearly stating this up front and it may in fact, insult you if you happen to be the true and honest politician you are supposed to be for which I humbly apologize or totally infuriate you if you are a crooked politician who is selling us all out.I always have believed that the bit dog cries the loudest.

Unfortunately for you, because of what sooooo many politicians have been proven guilty of and the massive corruption "We, the People" have clearly come to perceive about Washington and politicians in general, because of all the horrible things we see politicians doing in our country, you can easily be perceived guilty of corruption in our minds now, before we perceive you as being the honorable man we can trust, so your actions and how you vote to protect us and represent our will does speak volumes. Yes, you can vote 99% of the time in the honorable way we elected you to do, but it is that 1 vote out of the thousands that sell us down the river that determines your integrity and honesty and therefore earns or destroys our trust.

Congress has become synonymous with the word corruption, payola, under the table trade offs (You vote against your conscious on my bill and I will vote against my conscious on your bill) and midnight rendezvous with criminal interests as each politician wrestles for power and money.

Hey, "We, the people" did not ever intend this to be like this, but you guys have made it feel like this to us with all your trade offs.

My own senator from my State the night below we were to vote to re-elect him to office the next day told me clearly on the phone that he would never vote for Nafta or World Trade and told me to go back and tell my group of over 350 people that we had his word that he would never support either.

The next day we all supported him and a few weeks later, he voted "Yea" to both bills.

When I called and told him what I now thought of him, his response was "Grady, they came to me and read me the riot act and told me that no bill I ever brought before Congress from that day forward would ever have the slightest chance of getting voted on, much less passed if I did not vote for both those bills."

Trade offs by weak minded politicians are just the lowest of the low. What he should have said was I have given my word and I will not renege, but if you wish to do my bills that way, then I will do yours the same way. If all of Congress stuck to this, the power magnates and their lobbyists would have no hold on you all, but too many of you love to play ball with them until they finally make all your calls for you and we the people are sold out.

So, do we trust you guys anymore and consider you honorable or do we wait and see if you are worthy and can prove your integrity and make you look us straight in the eye and get it in writing?

Do you really care about us or is it all about power and money to you all. That is the question we all constantly wrestle with and at this point, it truly seems to be all about power and money which generates absolute corruption.

At this point, how do you separate the word Washington from the word corruption?

Well, we shall see where your hearts are right here and right now in this situation, because this is an absolute cut and dry clear case where the facts are undeniable and it is up to you all to vote based on whether you truly care about us and our children or just yourselves.

The proven research on Aspartame is clearly out there on the net for you to see.

Go to http://www.dorway.com to start and you will see that these proven facts are not just anecdotal as special interests who make millions each year off the sale of these "Diet" products.

Splenda is just as bad.

Stevia is a safe product.

There you have an alternative to give to these special interest groups.

There are thousands and thousands of people just like the one below with the same complaints whose symptoms went away as soon as they stopped the "Diet" products.

In my practice, I see hundreds of these people every year and it is getting worse and worse by the day.

As soon as I educate them and they stop the products, they too get better and most of their problems resolve albeit, those with nerve damage are permanently miserable.

Glaucoma especially in children is skyrocketing. The toxic loads that children's bodies are carrying now is 5 to 7 times that of their parents and I would bet aspartame is one of the major toxins they carry. (See the Anderson Cooper Report on Toxic Load he did on CNN about a month ago.)

I never saw glaucoma in children 30 years ago. It almost did not exist. Go back about 35 years and look up the rate per capita of glaucoma in children 35 years ago about when aspartame first hit the market. FDA and CDC have studies and surveys on these things.

Then track forward the same per capita rate of glaucoma in children in each of the subsequent 35 years and just look at how the rate per capita rose per year.

Get the info from G.D. Searle WHICH IS ALSO IN THE INTERNET on their market penetration per capita on all aspartame products. ASPARTAME has been put in just about every product out there and our children are drinking and eating those products like candy.

Look at he same per capita rates of diabetes, multiple sclerosis, higher cholesterol levels, dementia, Alzheimers, high blood pressure and obesity (aspartame makes you crave carbohydrates so you actually over eat and gain weight instead of losing weight) as well as all the other chronic diseases.

The same rate curves are seen. The higher the market penetration of aspartame rose, the higher the rates per capita of the above diseases rose.

It take about 2 to 5 years of consumption of this poison for the really big bad wolf diseases to start being noticed.

That is why the connection was missed. Everyone was looking for an immediate reaction to aspartame as a determining factor they could clearly point to and why you politicians could not be sure enough to act to stop this thing, but your liver and immune system has the ability to protect you quite well for a certain period of time which varies from one individual to another, so the issue was clouded by the lobbyist for these special interest groups who just want to make fortunes with no conscience as to the horror it was causing.

There is also the huge profits and the huge amount of taxes the government receives on those profits that deterred the efforts to stop this thing.

$400,000,000.00 in profit was generated in just the first year it was allowed on the market. Every year it has increased tremendously as more and more people were brain washed by the add campaigns 24/7/365.

BTW, see the article on http://www.dorway.com about how Donald Rumsfield was clearly given the research results of how dangerous aspartame was by all the scientists on his FDA committee, but he wanted that big payola from G.D. Searle for the rest of his life, so he over rode all the members of his committee because he could do so as the chairman of that committee and sold the country out and all our people's health so he could be a fat cat forever.

Don't believe this? Just go to http://www.dorway.com and read the info. It is all so very well documented that only a blind man who is receiving payola under the table would even think about denying the info so well given and documented there.

You people in government are paid by the people to do the right things in the interest of what is best for "We, the people", not for "We, the special interest groups who have huge sums of money to donate to ones political agenda."

We, the people vote and then trust you to stand by your promises in your oath of office to honestly "always act in our best interest".

Seems to me that if you all in government ignore these facts, refuse to go and do the research to find out the actual facts or turn your heads to the facts and just let these special interests continue to poison our nation, you are then just as guilty and just as responsible for the misery being inflicted as these companies who make aspartame are.

Donald Rumsfield will always be a corrupt, selfish, crooked, evil man in my mind as well as in the minds of all those who finally do find out the truth about why aspartame is on the market.

Believe me, people are finding out and people are getting madder by the minute. I know my patients who have stopped using this product and gotten back their health are just furious and they too are helping to educate their friends and relatives.

It is just a matter of time before everyone knows the truth about this situation and about what your response is or will be to it.

Now, seems to me that you have a decision to make.

Do you want to be remembered as one who would sell his soul, sell out the people and their health and cause massive damage to their children too as you are placed into the same crooked, corrupt category as Donald Rumsfield OR........

Do you want to be remembered as one of those who didn't turn his eye from the problem, refused to sell his soul for a payola under the table and stood with integrity and fought "For the People" to stop this horrible poisoning of our country?

Trust me......we are watching to see what you will do and when you do whatever you do, it will spread around your states and this country and the world like wildfire, because the internet makes this world sooooooooooo small and those of us who really do care about righting such a terrible wrong as this are never going to go away or stop trying to solve this problem.

I pray that you will make the right decision.

Sincerely,

Dr. Grady Clark