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Mon, 03-17-2008 - 2:23pm

A cousin sent this to me.  I think this was found because of interenet searches to find the cause of a very sick child's illness.  Some of his symptoms are included in the ones listed here.  Please say a prayer for little Jackson.....they still don't know what his problem might be.  He's in Vienna Austria, but will be brought to the Children's Hospital at University of Alabama, Birmingham.


DH and I are throwing out everything that lists Aspartame as a sweetener.  That includes the chewing gum we've been chewing.  DH has been having some problems that I might have mentioned here before.  A good number of his symptoms (some of mine too) are listed in this article.


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  A MUST READ


  In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick. She had stomach
spasms and she was having a hard time getting around.  Walking was a
major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was
in so much pain.

  By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and
was on 24 various prescription medications.  The doctors could not
determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick
she just knew she was dying. She put her house, bank accounts, life 
insurance, etc.,  in her oldest daughter's name, and made sure that her
younger children were to be taken care of.

  She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida
(basically in a  wheelchair) for March 22nd.

  On March 19 I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she
said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believed she had
MS.

  I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked my
sister if she drank diet soda. She told me that she did.  As a matter of
 fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment.

  I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda!

  I e-mailed her the article my friend, a lawyer, had sent.

  My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and
told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk!  The
muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but she sure felt
a lot better. She told me she was going to her doctor with this article
and would call me when she got home.

  Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! He is going to call
all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial
sweeteners of any kind. This is also found in all chewing gum and most
flavored yogurt. Yes - read the ingredients. You need to and have a
right to know too. It is aspartame poisoning.

  In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda
. . and literally dying a slow and miserable death.

  When she got to Florida March 22, all she had to take was one pill, and
that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her way to a
complete recovery.

  And she is walking! No wheelchair! This article saved her life.

  If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label; DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!

  I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL
CONFERENCE on 'ASPARTAME,' marketed as 'NutraSweet,' 'Equal,' and
'Spoonful.'

  In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United
States in 2001 there was an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic
lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this
to be rampant.

  I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.

  I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: when the temperature of
this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME
converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes
metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire
ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple
sclerosis and systemic lupus. Many people were being diagnosed in error.
 Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity
is!

  Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis,
especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers.  The victim usually
does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its
use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a
life-threatening condition.

  We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptomatic, once
taken off diet sodas.

  In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the
symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss returned and
hearing loss improved markedly.

  This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia.

  During a lecture, I said, 'If you are using ASPARTAME (NutraSweet,
Equal, Spoonful, etc.) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms,
spasms, shooting pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo,
dizziness,  headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, unexplainable depression,
anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss, you
probably have ASPARTAME poisoning!'

  People were jumping up during the lecture saying, 'I have some of these
symptoms. Is it reversible?'

  Yes! Yes! Yes! STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on
food labels! Many products are fortified with it!  This is a serious
problem.

  Dr. Espart (one of my speakers)  remarked that so many people seem to be
symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice, a nurse
stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had
all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence!

  Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple
SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you
crave carbohydrates.  It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight!

  These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells,
particularly in the hips and thighs.  Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin
and is used primarily to preserve 'tissue specimens.' Many products we
use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our
body!

  Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the 'diet
products,' and with no significant increase in exercise, his patients
lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.

  Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics.

  We found that some physicians, who believed that they had a patient with
retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame.

  The Aspartame drives the  blood sugar out of control. Thus diabetics may
suffer acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and
phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids
necessary for a good balance.

  Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE. Especially with diabetics, the
Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates the
neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, seizures,
depression, manic depression, panic attacks, uncontrollable anger and
rage.

  Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as
well.

  Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of children
diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in their
behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet. So
called 'behavior modification prescription drugs' (Ritalin and others)
are no longer needed. Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first
place!  Most of these children were being 'poisoned' on a daily basis
with the very foods that were 'better for them than sugar.'

  It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet
Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War,
may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.

  Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e. mental
retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early
pregnancy.

  Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should
NEVER be given artificial sweeteners.  There are many different case
histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other
neurological disturbances.  Talk about a plague of neurological diseases
directly caused by the use of this deadly poison.

  Herein lies the problem:

  There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included 100
different products and strong objection was made concerning its use.
Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, and
still nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very
deep pockets.

  Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED!

  There are now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly
chemical and there will be thousands more introduced.  Everybody wants a
'piece of the Aspartame pie.' I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of
Aspartame, knows how deadly it is.

  And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American
Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the
Conference of the American College of Physicians?

  This has been recently exposed in the New York Times.

  These cannot criticize any additives or convey their
link to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are
required to endorse their products.

  Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require
label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding
pregnant women, children and infants.  The bill would also institute
independent studies on the known dangers and the problems existing in
the general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry,
neurological changes and behavioral symptoms.

  The bill was killed.

  It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible
for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an
unsuspecting and uninformed public. Well, you're Informed now! YOU HAVE
A RIGHT TO KNOW!





2sweet02

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In reply to: 2sweet02
Mon, 03-17-2008 - 2:53pm

This appears to be another version of an old urban legend and is not true.


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Registered: 05-17-2001
In reply to: 2sweet02
Mon, 03-17-2008 - 5:42pm
I was kind of skeptical about this also.

~Misty~


 


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Registered: 07-10-2003
In reply to: 2sweet02
Mon, 03-17-2008 - 7:53pm

Aspartamine does have some problems though.

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Registered: 04-03-2003
In reply to: 2sweet02
Tue, 03-18-2008 - 12:20pm

Fortunately, we don't have to deal with this - aspartame gives me migraine like headaches so we don't have any of it anywhere. If anything, I use sucralose but even then that's more of a once a week thing than multiple per day thing.

On the other hand, this has a big chunk of information on snopes.com regarding whether this is accurate *science* - even Dr. Dean Edell weighs in on the subject.

--Deb

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In reply to: 2sweet02
Tue, 03-18-2008 - 2:38pm

Thanks, Cheryl, for the Snopes link; I did go there to read it.

2sweet02

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Tue, 03-18-2008 - 7:48pm

Look for that phenoketonuria warning. It is almost always in bold print.