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From time to time I have posted regarding aspartame and vision loss/ blindness to warn healthy people they can go blind from it, and warn people with vision problems like macular degeneration and RP that using this product would worsen their condition.  The late Dr. Morgan Raiford was "the specialist" in methanol toxicity in the US and many aspartame victims who went blind were sent to him for diagnosis.  We have one of his fact sheets on aspartame on our auto-responder and web.  I have just found in the records of Joyce Wilson who went blind and died from NutraSweet another letter from Dr. Raiford that explains the problem.  This was written to Shannon Roth in l986, another victim who lost sight in one eye from aspartame.  Also today I have received an update from Dr. John Olney who made world news with his report on aspartame and brain tumors.  It is a 3 part series I posted today, and I will be glad to send it by private email to those interested. 

Here is the letter to Shannon Roth dated 10/10/86 which further explains vision problems due to aspartame:

"Dear Shannon:  The first time that I had the opportunity to see the effects of methyl alcohol toxicity was in the years 1952-1953 that resulted visual damage to the optic nerves and retina in over 300 cases and death of over 30 persons. 

In the cases of the use of Aspartame the loss of vision varied, first affection to the optic nerve fibers from loss of vision and atrophy of the optic nerve fibers.  The central fibers (225,000) of the total (137 ,000,000) optic nerve fibers resulted in partial the extent of total blindness.   (see enclosed paper on the Macula physiology, a paper that I presented in Houston, Texas, and Outline of the Macula function.)  The macula area of the retina and optic nerve fibers are highly reactive to the toxicity of methyl alcohol because of these fibers and nerve cells require from four to six times as much oxygen and nutrition and the visual pathways peripheral nerves.  These fibers and nerves (Tods and Cones) can not go without oxygen for mor ethan 90 seconds without some visual loss.  Aspartame is broken down by the upper portion of the digestive tract and methyl alcohol is then absorbed into the blood vessels of the region which travels through the bodies entire vascular system.  This toxic effect causes extensive damage to the highly demanding metabolic requirements of the human visual pathway, ending with optic nerve atrophy as well as retinal starvation and visual loss.  The intensity of these toxic effects from the methyl alcohol spin=off causes impaired nerve damage that varies with intensity as to the amount of methyl alcohol the individual absorbs.

Beyond the extensive visual damage that aspartame can and does create, other organ systems are affected.  Nerve damage to the arms, legs, central nerve impairment, resulting in impaired nerve function as well as neurosis and learning difficulties in school work as well as behavior (metabolic shrot circits of the nerve/brain/visual cells)  (Writers note: shrot circits may be a typo by his secretary - maybe shot circuits?)

The pressure put upon the Federal Drug Administration are well known. The Searle people are more interested in their greed factor of profits.  I have been told that this toxic methyl alcohol of aspartame has a market value of over $45,000,000.  The human factor is being ignored and the moral is not presented. 

This product Aspartame should be withdrawn from the market place and not for human use until the TOXIC METHYL ALCOHOL radical has been eliminated. Methyl alcohol has no place in a product, whole or in part, to be allowed to be produced by any manufactor for human usage.

Sincerely, Morgan B. Raiford, M.D., D.Sc. (Med) Ophth

This letter is important because it was written in l986 when aspartame was only in a few hundred products. Today the patent has expired and in June the FDA gave blanket approval of NutraSweet without public notification. It is now said to be in over 9000 products and over 90 countries of the world. Dr. Roberts position paper on aspartame and the eye can be read at: http://www.dorway,com/possible.html or our auto- responder

Aspartame is causing retinal detachments, floaters, blurred vision,blindness, etc., etc. Public be warned. Mission Possible has asked for the recall. Press release on request. Monsanto bought Searle in l985.

Betty Martini, Founder
Mission Possible Worldwide
(warning the world NutraSweet is a neurotoxin)