Outside of aspartame reference pamphlet. Internet Sites with information on aspartame (outside left panel) 1. http://www.icom.net/~nexus/Aspartame.html Nexus Magazine... Perhaps the best place to begin! 2. http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame Lots of diverse information. 3. http://www.atlcom.net/~ami/html/ Aspartame.html The source for the "Badnews" page. 4. http://www.vitawise.com/aspfacts.htm Written by NBC TV's former Network Physician Lendon Smith, M.D. 5. http://www.vitawise.com/gulfwar.htm Diet drinks laced with bad news! 6. http://www.essential.org/listproc/ dioxin-l/0124.html A MUST-READ E-mail message! 7. http://www.social.com:80/health/ific/ sweeteners/aspartam.html The "Official" Dogma (misleading BS) 8. http://www.ami-med.com/mhc/top/002689.htm AMI-MED Poison Control Center 9-12. Please visit the new WEB site at http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame for many more aspartame references and articles by Mark Gold (researcher) 13. http://web.idirect.com/~bjasmine/ oracle/ library/nswt/nswt.html The Nutrasweet Archive: Many articles and links on aspartame. Links to Betty Martini 14. http://www.hol.gr/nuclear/alexfear.htm And the PLOT thickens! 15. http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/acek.txt A waiting alternative (worse) and FDA stalling to revoke its approval?. 16. http://www.hoptechno.com/book2.htm Artificial Sweeteners... none of them are good for you! 17. http://www.gulfwar.org/ mission_impossible.html Mission Possible and the Gulf War Veterans. 18. http://student-www.eng.hawaii.edu/ justin/SP251/persuas ive.html The word IS getting around the college dorms! 19. http://www.student.toplinks.com/ (outside center panel) hp/noodle/ nutra.htm Savvy words and action from the EIGHTH GRADE! 20. http://home.earthlink.net/~alto/ boycott.html A call to BOYCOTT the CULPRITS! 21. http://www.igc.apc.org/ei/journal/ slander.html FOOD SLANDER??? 22. http://www.cco.net/~trufax/menu/ food.html#aspartame A excellent new site! 23. http://blizzard.cc.mcgill.ca/pahdb/ handout/handout.htm Excellent source of information on PKU 24. http://www.palis.com/p0000060.htm Testimony from Diabetics on the Premier Financial Group WEB site. 25. http://www.hotwired.com/drweil/ 96/23/qanda2a.html Dr. Weil of Hotwired on aspartame. 26. http://www.geocities.com/ HotSprings/4578/ Mission Possible Canada. 27. http://www.ostara.org/aspartam/ German site (Mixture of English and German information) 28. http://www.2cowherd.net/q/aspart.htm Story of Dave Q... a victim of MS And then there is DORway! 117 pages and 2.7 Megabytes of text at: http://www.dorway.com Sites with BOOKS on aspartame: 1. http://grossbart.com/health-press/ excitotoxins.htm Overview of "EXITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT KILLS " by Dr. Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. 2. http://www.quickpages.com/ essential.nutrition/aspart.htm Add for a book by Dr. John A. Allocca, a Medical Research Scientist 3. http://www.cris.com/~bluerose/ nutraswt.htm Add for a book by James F. Balch, M.D.. and Phyllis A. Balch, C.N.C. 4. http://www.icanect.net/sunpress/ index.htm Source of several books by H. J. Roberts, M.D on aspartame and Alzheimer's. A book to look for that is not advertized on the Internet: "Bittersweet Aspartame; A Diet Delusion" and by Barbara Alexander Mullarkey (708 -848-0116) % NutriVoice, Inc. P.O. Box 946 Oak Park, IL 60303 (outside right panel) Aspartame = Death Ahhh... you say you need REFERENCES! OK... here are a few... Courtesy of: Mrs. Betty Martini Mission Possible International 9270 River Club Parkway Duluth, Georgia 30097 Internet Email: bettym19@mindspring.com ------------------------------------------------- (inside left panel) Aspartame References: 1. Stegink, L.: Filer, L.J. Jr. Aspartame Physiology and Biochemistry. 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