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To: Don Martini who wrote (95636)	2/7/1999
From: Dr. David Gleitman	Respond to of 176387

Re: Aspartame. Thanks for the information. I'll have to check into this. Best regards, David

To: Don Martini who wrote (95636)	2/7/1999 7:56:00 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

OT - health. Don, I'll make this far briefer than the previous response. Referring to your post..."Are you so obdurate as to be unwilling to consider evidence of a worldwide plague? Are you connected with the industry or a marketer of aspartame? Or do you have infinite faith in the FDA and are a True Believer that Corporations Never Lie for Money?" And I'm sarcastic? One post and I'm already judged as obdurate? I'm not quite sure either why you've come to the conclusion that I haven't considered the evidence, I have. To answer your question more directly. I have a long position in MTC and I'm a user of aspartame. My short term and long term memory are fine and no sign of tremors, thanks (sarcasm). I don't have infinite faith in the FDA and I certainly believe that it is possible and even likely that corporations will lie for money. I admit to being cynical in this area, though I would prefer to use language that would indicate individuals of institutions rather than the institutions themselves. But the alleged falsification(s) must go well beyond that of the FDA and Monsanto. It has to include NIH, the American Diabetes Association, the MS Foundation, Beth Israel Hosp, MIT and numerous other academic institutions with published clinical data. I'll restate that a "consipiracy" of this magnitude lacks any credibility. There are 377 entries in Med line that deal with Aspartame between 1966 and 1998; I haven't done a count but I'll guess that this involves on the order of 300 institutions and the only clinically supported data is related to a small sample size suffering unipolor depression and a subset of persons suffering from migraines. I would be more than pleased to review the clinical data of Dr. Elsas or that cited by Adrian Gross, etc., but they appear not to be available or at least unaccepted by the scientific community. You'll be pleased, at least minimally, that I have had previous discussions with a friend of mine, a psychologist, and have suggested to him that for his clients suffering from depression that he suggest to them that they eliminate the consumption of aspartame, citing the clinical study; though the sample size in the study was too small to be definitive. It's unfortunate that the study wasn't pursued in a larger sample size. This "letter" from David Squillacoate MD, Senior Medical Advisor, Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, 12 Jan 1999, "The Inappropriate and Unsubstantiated Alarm over Aspartame" best summarizes what I've found. msfacts.org Best Regards, Jim