Michael J. Fox Quit the Soda Campaign

To:  Michael J. Fox Parkinson's Foundation

Many medical professionals and health activists accept that aspartame sweetener in diet sodas causes symptoms that mimic, or accentuate Parkinson's disease. Class-action lawsuits have already been filed.

Michael is J. Fox is diagnosed with Parkinson's. Before he appeared on the Oprah show in April 2002, reporter Ann Oldenburg, for USA Today, interviewed him. She wrote:

"He just can't sit still. Will that glass of diet soda make it to his lips without spilling? It does."

We fan's of Michael, Parkinson's sufferers and ordinary citizens are concerned that a man we all know, and many love, may be unknowingly worsening his condition with diet sodas containing aspartame.

Many patients report considerable improvement if they avoid aspartame. Yet the Michael J. Fox Foundation is ignoring this evidence and the entreaties of grassroots Parkinson's groups.

As signatories of this petition, we call on the Michael J. Fox Foundation to represent the interests of Parkinson's suffers -- without fear or favor of the vested interests in medical research and industry. We call for a research policy that includes examination of the role of aspartame and other excitotoxins in Parkinson's disease. Finally, we urge Michael and his medical advisors to carefully consider if Michael is one of the significant minority of people who are particularly sensitive to the aspartame poisoning being experienced by consumers worldwide.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

The Michael J. Fox Quit the Soda Campaign Petition to Michael J. Fox Parkinson's Foundation was created by Parkinson's sufferers, Michael's Fans and concerned citizens and written by Fintan Dunne.  This petition is hosted here at www.PetitionOnline.com as a public service. There is no express or implied endorsement of this petition by Artifice, Inc. or our sponsors. The petition scripts are created by Mike Wheeler at Artifice, Inc.  For Technical Support please use our simple Petition Help form.

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