2215 Ellen Lane
                                              Cumming, Georgia 30040
                                              October 4, 1997

Mrs. Betty Martini
Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097

Dear Mrs. Martini:                 Re:  NutraSweet Poisoning

I'm Tammy Bell and today I found out what has been wrong with me for the
last three years.  You put an article between six packs of Diet Coke
titled WARNING:  NUTRASWEET IS A NEUROTOXIN.  As I read it tears flowed
from my eyes, tears of happiness to know I'm going to be okay.  I just
hope there's not been any permanent damage.  But the emotional scars from
three years will remain forever.  I don't know if I'll ever be the same.
But at least I have hope now.

I lost a 10 year marriage because I was sick and couldn't be there for my
husband.  I can't work and there were many days I couldn't get off my
couch.  I managed to cook and dress my daughter and love her.  But if I
hadn't been sick all the time I could have been a better mother.  She
would say she felt so bad for me because I was always sick, and it broke
my heart. I was exhausted most of the time, chronically fatigued.  It was
so hard to even do a few errands.  I had insomnia terribly.  It has been a
NIGHTMARE!

I have been in and out of emergency rooms so many times. I  suffered
depression, severe joint pains, heart palpitations, anxiety attacks,
memory loss to such an extent I would be two miles from home and couldn't
find my way, and it was so scary.  My mind froze.  I didn't know who I
was anymore.  I felt like I had come to the end of the road in my life,
and was ready to call Dr. Kevorkin.  I simply did not want to live
anymore.   There were weeks when I didn't even leave my house, I
was a prisoner in my own home.

I went to a neurologist for numbness in my fingers, headaches and
 horrible depression where I wished I was dead and even thought of
suicide.  But I could never do that to my daughter and besides God would
not want me to do this ... but I came close.  I've experienced such
irritability and fatigue.  I've had heart palpitations so severe that in
the Emergency Room they hooked me up to a monitor and my heart was racing.
The doctors never knew what was wrong with me.  I felt as if I was losing
my mind and going crazy, and noone could understand what was really wrong.
They always tried to blame it on nerves and depression or anxiety but I
knew physically I was very sick!  There was more to it than that.  I had
always been a very strong person til this disease took over my mind and
body.

The Emergency Room physician admitted something had to be physically wrong
with me.  I would be crying and my eyes would be swollen, and even the
doctors would hug me and say they wished they knew what was wrong with me.

The ER doctor told me to go to a rheumatologist because of the joint pain
because I was obviously suffering such pain, this on two occasions just
recently.  I've been very nervous and in my heart felt as if I was dying,
 a slow, agonizing death.  And now I know a greedy chemical company,
Monsanto, and the FDA who approved this poison are responsible for all the
agony.  If I had not been warned by Mission Possible they would have been
responsible for my death.  And then my child would not have had a mother.
I also have a step child who has been diagnosed with an astrocytoma BRAIN
TUMOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Now I find out that rats fed aspartame developed
astrocytomas, and that the FDA knew it and approved it anyway.  I AM
FURIOUS and ENRAGED.  How dare the FDA with full knowledge allow a poison
to be sold for our consumption!!!  And I'm looking for an attorney!
Someone is going to answer to me! The criminals responsible for poisoning
the world will  have to take responsibility for their actions!!!!

Only my belief in God and Jesus Christ has kept me going.  The symptoms I
have suffered read like the FDA Report of 92 symptoms from aspartame.
 I will go back to every doctor who "didn't know" and give them the
reports so that they can save thousands of others.  The first thing I did
was make 40 copies of the warning notice and passed out some at the
Emergency Room.  A woman read one and broke down in tears.  She said: "I
have a 30 year old son who has all these symptoms and lives on Diet Coke."

I consumed 10 to 12 Diet Cokes everyday because I was so highly addicted.
I had to have a Diet Coke by my bedside everynight.  I thought I could not
do without it, and now I'm going through withdrawal symptoms.  I lived on
aspartame products.  When I wasn't drinking Diet Coke I was chewing
sugarfree gum.

>From this day forward I am now a Mission Possible activist.  I will not
stop until this filthy, deadly poison is removed and never again will
anyone suffer the agony that I have endured.  I will tell everyone I know
-- and don't know!!!!

I want to help others as you have helped me and I thank you from the
bottom of my heart.  I give you permission to publish this letter to the
world, and I am willing to tell my story on radio, TV, to the Justice
Department, and everyone who will listen.


                                                    God Bless You,

                                                   Mrs. Tammy Bell
                                                    770 844-0002