It looks like I poked a beehive when I criticized the anti-aspartame campaign yesterday. I got several accusatory emails, including one from the chief anti-aspartame evangelist herself, Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum. I have never heard of a D.Hum before. Maybe you get them out of cornflakes packets. I reproduce below part of my correspondence with the D.Hum one:
I initially reiterated my point about the lack of human double-blind studies. She replied:
Dr. Walton’s study was double blind. Who do you work for?
I was rather amused by the implicit suggestion of bad faith so I replied:
I work for BIG PHARMA, of course. No honest person could question your beliefs, could they? You can see more about my evil affiliations here:
http://dissectleft.blogspot.com
With the lack of any sense of humour that one expects of fanatics, she did not apparently detect the sarcasm at all. She replied:
I figured as much. I’m not surprised. If you had read Dr. Walton’s report you would have seen the link and the fact that it was double blind. Here is the link.
http://www.mindfully.org/Health/Aspartame-Adverse-Reactions-1993.htm
And what a link it is! She had to go all the way back to 1993 to find something and then it concerned ill-effects among a non-random sample of 13 clinical depressives who were fed doses of aspartame seven times a day in pill form, rather than in food.
Quite aside from the ridiculous “sampling”, the fact that they got the stuff in pill form quite vitiates the study. Aspartame is supplied IN FOOD and unless you study it in food, you are pissing into the wind. As I have previously pointed out, the potentially bad metabolites of it have been shown to be susceptible to breaking down by other food components or their metabolites so it is the actual bottom line after that happens that we have to look at, not intermediary processes in isolation. And NOBODY seems to have shown any adverse effects from normal use of aspartame in a double-blind study.
I am sure the anti-aspartame evangelists will be sticking pins into a voodoo doll of me by now.
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3 users commented in " Aspartame revisited "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackAspartame is metabolized as methanol (wood alchohol), two unessential amino acids, phenylalanine and aspartic acid, and when it is heated, it all turns to a proven brain tumor causing agent, diketopiperazine. Drink all you wish, just because the FDA and Coca Cola still say it is harmless? Yeah, right….Tally ho.
Martini is the center of a handful of sycophants who are, unfortunately, not smart enough to see how big of an embarrassment she is to the cause of aspartame awareness. There are aspartame victims everywhere, and there are plenty of studies that show how and why it is harmful to ones health. It would not be on the market if it were not for the political machinizations of Donald Rumsfeld. I would suggest that you actually research this further without relying on items generated at the behest of Monsanto, Coca-Cola, and the other companies who have been paying for the misinformation that the public is treated to. I would assume that you are sophisticated to undertand my argument here. If you want to write to me, I will be happy to elaborate further on all of this. I am no “bettyite”. The woman hates me and runs me down all over the place, just as she does every other aspartame activist whom she considers to be her rivals in her megalomaniacal grandstanding that she is so addicted to. She is a great boon to the aspartame industry because she gives Monsanto and Coca-Cola someone to use in order to tar all of us with the same brush.
Bryant Holman
here is my addy so you can write to me, if you actually care about this issue. If you are grandstaning also, I expect that you will not be writing. If you are a sincere commentor, who actually cares about the issues, then perhaps you will.
bryanth-at-presidiotex.com
Dear JR,
I think you may just want information that may be taken out of context. You don’t complete what I said like “there are more human studies and Walton’s study is a good example of how a human study had to be stopped because of the reactions.”
I wonder if the posts people write against you stay on the blog. That’s why I put my reply on several lists so people can know what you’re doing.
I can understand you using Bryan’s post, however. He has caused problems for years and says his group doesn’t get any attention. Hate him? I paid for one of his sites and gave him the documents he wanted. I helped him for years. Jealousy is a terrible thing and I don’t have time for it. He got thrown off one list for his attacks. He said that his wife says he is going to get in trouble for what he does on the Internet. He should take her advice.
What you’re doing happens when much publicity against a deadly product is generated. Mark my words, industry will get some university or agency to review aspartame again to says its safe. Thanks to another tour and their excellent team another loud alarm has been sounded worldwide and more people have been saved. Of course, there will be an avalanche of counter propaganda by the purveyors of this killer poison.
Thanks for the compliment of calling me the chief. Who put you up to stumbling the public?
Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
Mission Possible International
770 242-2599
http://www.mpwhi.com, http://www.dorway.com
Aspartame Toxicity Center, http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
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