hi all and hi to rebecca hudson whose private message to me called for a public reply [imho] At 23:50 1998/12/24 -0800, you wrote, in part: >Dear Janet, >This is good information to know regarding the protein / levadopa >competiton problem w/ respect to aspartame. How do you search out these >things so well? Is it possible to find out how the other components of >aspartame, aspartate and methanol fare in testing (if they have been)? >... >Are there particular sites you go to for this kind of information? >Thanks, Rebecca Hudson the PubMed wwweb-site provided free by the US government at: <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/> has abstracts of over 9,000,000 published studies available for searching i realized i hadn't done a search for aspartame there and when i entered the search criteria 'aspartame AND parkinson' one study popped up there were several other studies referring to aspartame alone without a specific reference to pd happy digging! janet janet paterson - 51 now /41 dx /37 onset - almonte/ontario/canada [log in to unmask]