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



From: Kim Dixon


07 February 2008

"Please copy as committee handout for this hearing."

Dear Senator

I am writing to tell you of the dangers of aspartame in the human diet. I have a personal story to tell and one of 2 friends who have suffered at it's hands.

My husband works in Air Traffic Control in Gatwick, West Sussex, England and as you can imagine he is in a fairly stressful job. He had been trying to lose some weight and decided to start drinking a low-calorie diet drink - he always drinks a vast amount of fluids so he was changing to over 2 litres a day of this poison. He been drinking it for a number of months and we didn't notice anything at first until one day he started getting rather high - hypertensive and elevated.

He came home one day and started saying things that didn't make sense, I wasn't at all sure what was going on at first as I had a personal tragedy to deal with at the time which didn't help. The next day he came to pick me up from a friends and he was late, he is never late and he was very florrid. By the evening he had got worse and was maniacally laughing, I called for medical help and he was eventually sectioned, he took 3 months off work trying to recover, he could hardly climb the stairs and he was PUTTING ON weight.

I found out about aspartame purely by accident by researching something else. I told him to come off it immediately and the results were miraculous! He could climb the stairs and he was a different man - this happened in the space of a few days!!! He had no history of mental illness so we can only presume it was the aspartame - and he has stayed well ever since. PLEASE BAN THIS DEADLY NEURO-TOXIN.

My other friend kept getting admitted to the hospital with severe stomach pains and there seemed to be no real medical basis for it - this had been happening for 6 months - I checked what she was eating and noticed she had been consuming her favourite mints LOADED WITH ASPARTAME. She stopped eating them and has never been back to the hospital since.

A young teenage student of mine had multiple symptoms, lose of feeling in her hands, disrupted periods, enormous weight gain - She came off diet drinks and lo and behold... she lost the weight and health is back to normal. For a teenager it was very scary to not know what is wrong with you when she was embarking on a acting and singing career.

DO THE RIGHT THING, AND SAVE THE PEOPLE OF THIS PLANET.

Thank-you

Mrs. Kim Dixon