OT……Long……Artifical Sweetners
A friend e-mailed me with the following story and article. I cannot
vouch for its validity as the authors of both are unknown. You can
do your own research and draw your own conclusions. I felt a need to
pass this on because most post-op patients depend upon sugar-free
foods and drinks. Most contain the item mentioned below.
Personally, I found items in my kitchen that contain the additive.
Including Crystal Light.
Ginger
Open RNY 10/1/02
Ft. Bliss, TX
Subject: DIET SODA ALERT!!!
This is interesting… kinda long but very much worth reading…
If you are hooked on diet colas, this is a must read! You may not
want
to believe this, but you should check it out. You can find out more
on the internet.
Diet Cola or Not??
Please read this!!!!
In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick, she had
stomach spasms, she was having a hard time getting around, to walk
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 biopsies, and was on
24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not figure
out what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick, she
knew she was dying. She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance
etc. in her
oldest daughters name, and made sure her younger children were to be
with her oldest daughter. She wanted her last hooray, so she planned a
trip to FL (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd. On March 19th
I
called her to ask her how one of her tests went, and she said they
didn’t
find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS. I thought, oh,
my….then I recalled an article a friend of mine emailed to
me…and I asked her….Do you drink Diet pop? She told me yes, as a
matter
of fact she was getting ready to crack one open that moment, I told
her not to open it,
and stop drinking the diet pop….and I emailed her the following
article.
She called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told
me she stopped drinking the diet pop, and she can walk…she went up
the
stairs, and the muscle spasms went away. She said she didn’t feel
100% but sure felt a lot better. She told me she was going to her
doctors with this article and would call me back when she got home.
She called me, and her doctor was amazed, he is going to call all
of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweetener.
In
a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the aspartame in the diet
soda, dying a slow death. When she got to FL March 22nd, all she
had to take was one pill,
and that was a pill for poisoning….she is well on her way to
recovery….and she is walking!!!!! No wheelchair!!!!
This article saved her life!!!!
The life saving article:
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 is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic
lupus, that it was hard to understand 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 Eformaldehyde 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. People were being diagnosed with having multiple
sclerosis in
error. The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where 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, aggravating the lupus to such
a degree
that it may become life-threatening. We have seen patients with
systemic
lupus become asymptomatic once taken off diet sodas. In the case of
those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, (when in reality, the
disease
is methanol toxicity), most of the symptoms disappear. We’ve seen
many cases where vision returned and hearing improved markedly. This
also applies to cases of tinnitus.
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, depression, anxiety
attacks,
slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss-you probably have
ASPARTAME DISEASE!" People were jumping up during the lecture
saying, "I’ve
got some of these symptoms: Is it reversible?" Yes! Not drinking
diet sodas and keeping an eye out for aspartame on food labels, yes!
We have a very serious problem. A stranger came up to Dr.
Espisto (one of my speakers) and me and said: "Could you tell me why
so many
people seem to be coming down with MS?" During a visit to a
hospice, a
nurse said that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts,
had all been diagnosed with MS.
This is beyond coincidence! Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi etc. IS NOT
A DIET PRODUCT! The Congressional Record states that it makes you
crave
carbohydrates and will make you FAT. The formaldehyde stores in
the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Once off these
products with no significant increase in exercise, etc., Dr. Roberts
in
his lecture stated that he had patient who lost an average of 19
pounds over a trial period.
Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that
physicians would believe that they have a patient with
retinopathy, when in fact the symptoms are 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 without the other amino acids found in protein. Thus it
passes
the blood brain barrier and deteriorates the neurons of the brain,
causing in diabetics (as well as in patients not suffering from
diabetes)
various kinds of brain damage, seizures, depression, manic
depression, panic attacks, rage, violence. (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 early
pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological
disorders and
should NOT be given NutraSweet. I can relate different case histories
of
children having mal seizures and other disturbances being on
NutraSweet. Unfortunately it is not always easy to convince a
mother that aspartame is to blame for her child’s illness. Only by
trial and success will she be able to warn other mothers to take their
children’s health in their own hands.
Stevia, a sweet herb, NOT A MANUFACTURED ADDITIVE, which helps in
the metabolism of sugar (which would be ideal for diabetics) has now
been approved as a dietary supplement by the FDA. For years the FDA
has outlawed this sweet food because of their loyalty to MONSANTO.
Books on this subject are available:
EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT KILLS -
written by Dr. Russell Blayblock (Health Press 1-800-643-2665)
and DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE -
written by DR H. J. Roberts, also a diabetic specialist.
These two doctors will be posting a position paper with some case
histories on the deadly effects of Aspartame on the Internet.
According to the Conference of the American College of Physicians
"we are talking about a plague of neurological diseases caused by
this deadly poison." Here is the problem: There were Congressional
Hearings when aspartame was included in 100 different products.
Since
this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, but to
no avail. Nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies
have very deep pockets. Now there are over 5,000 products containing
this
chemical, and the PATENT HAS EXPIRED!!!!! I assure you, MONSANTO,
the creator of Aspartame knows how deadly it is. They fund among
others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic
Association,
the Conference of the American College of Physicians. This has been
exposed in the New York Times - to no avail. These Associations cannot
criticize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they
take
money from the food industry and have to endorse their products.
Senator Howard Hetzenbaum wrote a bill that would have
warned all infants, pregnant mothers and children of the dangers
of aspartame. The bill would have also instituted independent
studies on the problems existing in the population (seizures,
changes in
brain chemistry, changes neurological and behavioral; symptoms). It
was
killed by the powerful drug and chemical lobbies, letting loose the
hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting public.
May 8th, 2005 at 12:28 am
This is an urban legend. You can check under the search for aspartame
www.snopes.com
Pam in Niceville
preop
Lap RNY 11/20/02
Dr. Champion/Atlanta
A friend e-mailed me with the following story and article. I cannot
vouch for its validity as the authors of both are unknown. You can
do your own research and draw your own conclusions. I felt a need to
pass this on because most post-op patients depend upon sugar-free
foods and drinks. Most contain the item mentioned below.
Personally, I found items in my kitchen that contain the additive.
Including Crystal Light.
Ginger
Open RNY 10/1/02
Ft. Bliss, TX
Subject: DIET SODA ALERT!!!
This is interesting… kinda long but very much worth reading…
If you are hooked on diet colas, this is a must read! You may not
want
to believe this, but you should check it out. You can find out more
on the internet.
Diet Cola or Not??
Please read this!!!!
In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick, she had
stomach spasms, she was having a hard time getting around, to walk
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 biopsies, and was on
24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not figure
out what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick, she
knew she was dying. She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance
etc. in her
oldest daughters name, and made sure her younger children were to be
with her oldest daughter. She wanted her last hooray, so she planned a
trip to FL (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd. On March 19th
I
called her to ask her how one of her tests went, and she said they
didn’t
find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS. I thought, oh,
my….then I recalled an article a friend of mine emailed to
me…and I asked her….Do you drink Diet pop? She told me yes, as a
matter
of fact she was getting ready to crack one open that moment, I told
her not to open it,
and stop drinking the diet pop….and I emailed her the following
article.
She called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told
me she stopped drinking the diet pop, and she can walk…she went up
the
stairs, and the muscle spasms went away. She said she didn’t feel
100% but sure felt a lot better. She told me she was going to her
doctors with this article and would call me back when she got home.
She called me, and her doctor was amazed, he is going to call all
of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweetener.
In
a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the aspartame in the diet
soda, dying a slow death. When she got to FL March 22nd, all she
had to take was one pill,
and that was a pill for poisoning….she is well on her way to
recovery….and she is walking!!!!! No wheelchair!!!!
This article saved her life!!!!
The life saving article:
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 is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic
lupus, that it was hard to understand 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 Eformaldehyde 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. People were being diagnosed with having multiple
sclerosis in
error. The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where 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, aggravating the lupus to such
a degree
that it may become life-threatening. We have seen patients with
systemic
lupus become asymptomatic once taken off diet sodas. In the case of
those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, (when in reality, the
disease
is methanol toxicity), most of the symptoms disappear. We’ve seen
many cases where vision returned and hearing improved markedly. This
also applies to cases of tinnitus.
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, depression, anxiety
attacks,
slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss-you probably have
ASPARTAME DISEASE!" People were jumping up during the lecture
saying, "I’ve
got some of these symptoms: Is it reversible?" Yes! Not drinking
diet sodas and keeping an eye out for aspartame on food labels, yes!
We have a very serious problem. A stranger came up to Dr.
Espisto (one of my speakers) and me and said: "Could you tell me why
so many
people seem to be coming down with MS?" During a visit to a
hospice, a
nurse said that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts,
had all been diagnosed with MS.
This is beyond coincidence! Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi etc. IS NOT
A DIET PRODUCT! The Congressional Record states that it makes you
crave
carbohydrates and will make you FAT. The formaldehyde stores in
the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Once off these
products with no significant increase in exercise, etc., Dr. Roberts
in
his lecture stated that he had patient who lost an average of 19
pounds over a trial period.
Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that
physicians would believe that they have a patient with
retinopathy, when in fact the symptoms are 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 without the other amino acids found in protein. Thus it
passes
the blood brain barrier and deteriorates the neurons of the brain,
causing in diabetics (as well as in patients not suffering from
diabetes)
various kinds of brain damage, seizures, depression, manic
depression, panic attacks, rage, violence. (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 early
pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological
disorders and
should NOT be given NutraSweet. I can relate different case histories
of
children having mal seizures and other disturbances being on
NutraSweet. Unfortunately it is not always easy to convince a
mother that aspartame is to blame for her child’s illness. Only by
trial and success will she be able to warn other mothers to take their
children’s health in their own hands.
Stevia, a sweet herb, NOT A MANUFACTURED ADDITIVE, which helps in
the metabolism of sugar (which would be ideal for diabetics) has now
been approved as a dietary supplement by the FDA. For years the FDA
has outlawed this sweet food because of their loyalty to MONSANTO.
Books on this subject are available:
EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT KILLS -
written by Dr. Russell Blayblock (Health Press 1-800-643-2665)
and DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE -
written by DR H. J. Roberts, also a diabetic specialist.
These two doctors will be posting a position paper with some case
histories on the deadly effects of Aspartame on the Internet.
According to the Conference of the American College of Physicians
"we are talking about a plague of neurological diseases caused by
this deadly poison." Here is the problem: There were Congressional
Hearings when aspartame was included in 100 different products.
Since
this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, but to
no avail. Nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies
have very deep pockets. Now there are over 5,000 products containing
this
chemical, and the PATENT HAS EXPIRED!!!!! I assure you, MONSANTO,
the creator of Aspartame knows how deadly it is. They fund among
others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic
Association,
the Conference of the American College of Physicians. This has been
exposed in the New York Times - to no avail. These Associations cannot
criticize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they
take
money from the food industry and have to endorse their products.
Senator Howard Hetzenbaum wrote a bill that would have
warned all infants, pregnant mothers and children of the dangers
of aspartame. The bill would have also instituted independent
studies on the problems existing in the population (seizures,
changes in
brain chemistry, changes neurological and behavioral; symptoms). It
was
killed by the powerful drug and chemical lobbies, letting loose the
hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting public.
ADVERTISEMENT
May 8th, 2005 at 6:13 am
You might want to go to www.snopes.com. This is a long running hoax. Yes
there are some people who are allergic to aspartame but this is not the
norm.
Becca
A friend e-mailed me with the following story and article. I cannot
vouch for its validity as the authors of both are unknown. You can
do your own research and draw your own conclusions. I felt a need to
pass this on because most post-op patients depend upon sugar-free
foods and drinks. Most contain the item mentioned below.
Personally, I found items in my kitchen that contain the additive.
Including Crystal Light.
Ginger
Open RNY 10/1/02
Ft. Bliss, TX
Subject: DIET SODA ALERT!!!
This is interesting… kinda long but very much worth reading…
If you are hooked on diet colas, this is a must read! You may not
want
to believe this, but you should check it out. You can find out more
on the internet.
Diet Cola or Not??
Please read this!!!!
In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick, she had
stomach spasms, she was having a hard time getting around, to walk
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 biopsies, and was on
24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not figure
out what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick, she
knew she was dying. She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance
etc. in her
oldest daughters name, and made sure her younger children were to be
with her oldest daughter. She wanted her last hooray, so she planned a
trip to FL (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd. On March 19th
I
called her to ask her how one of her tests went, and she said they
didn’t
find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS. I thought, oh,
my….then I recalled an article a friend of mine emailed to
me…and I asked her….Do you drink Diet pop? She told me yes, as a
matter
of fact she was getting ready to crack one open that moment, I told
her not to open it,
and stop drinking the diet pop….and I emailed her the following
article.
She called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told
me she stopped drinking the diet pop, and she can walk…she went up
the
stairs, and the muscle spasms went away. She said she didn’t feel
100% but sure felt a lot better. She told me she was going to her
doctors with this article and would call me back when she got home.
She called me, and her doctor was amazed, he is going to call all
of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweetener.
In
a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the aspartame in the diet
soda, dying a slow death. When she got to FL March 22nd, all she
had to take was one pill,
and that was a pill for poisoning….she is well on her way to
recovery….and she is walking!!!!! No wheelchair!!!!
This article saved her life!!!!
The life saving article:
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 is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic
lupus, that it was hard to understand 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 Eformaldehyde 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. People were being diagnosed with having multiple
sclerosis in
error. The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where 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, aggravating the lupus to such
a degree
that it may become life-threatening. We have seen patients with
systemic
lupus become asymptomatic once taken off diet sodas. In the case of
those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, (when in reality, the
disease
is methanol toxicity), most of the symptoms disappear. We’ve seen
many cases where vision returned and hearing improved markedly. This
also applies to cases of tinnitus.
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, depression, anxiety
attacks,
slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss-you probably have
ASPARTAME DISEASE!" People were jumping up during the lecture
saying, "I’ve
got some of these symptoms: Is it reversible?" Yes! Not drinking
diet sodas and keeping an eye out for aspartame on food labels, yes!
We have a very serious problem. A stranger came up to Dr.
Espisto (one of my speakers) and me and said: "Could you tell me why
so many
people seem to be coming down with MS?" During a visit to a
hospice, a
nurse said that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts,
had all been diagnosed with MS.
This is beyond coincidence! Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi etc. IS NOT
A DIET PRODUCT! The Congressional Record states that it makes you
crave
carbohydrates and will make you FAT. The formaldehyde stores in
the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Once off these
products with no significant increase in exercise, etc., Dr. Roberts
in
his lecture stated that he had patient who lost an average of 19
pounds over a trial period.
Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that
physicians would believe that they have a patient with
retinopathy, when in fact the symptoms are 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 without the other amino acids found in protein. Thus it
passes
the blood brain barrier and deteriorates the neurons of the brain,
causing in diabetics (as well as in patients not suffering from
diabetes)
various kinds of brain damage, seizures, depression, manic
depression, panic attacks, rage, violence. (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 early
pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological
disorders and
should NOT be given NutraSweet. I can relate different case histories
of
children having mal seizures and other disturbances being on
NutraSweet. Unfortunately it is not always easy to convince a
mother that aspartame is to blame for her child’s illness. Only by
trial and success will she be able to warn other mothers to take their
children’s health in their own hands.
Stevia, a sweet herb, NOT A MANUFACTURED ADDITIVE, which helps in
the metabolism of sugar (which would be ideal for diabetics) has now
been approved as a dietary supplement by the FDA. For years the FDA
has outlawed this sweet food because of their loyalty to MONSANTO.
Books on this subject are available:
EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT KILLS -
written by Dr. Russell Blayblock (Health Press 1-800-643-2665)
and DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE -
written by DR H. J. Roberts, also a diabetic specialist.
These two doctors will be posting a position paper with some case
histories on the deadly effects of Aspartame on the Internet.
According to the Conference of the American College of Physicians
"we are talking about a plague of neurological diseases caused by
this deadly poison." Here is the problem: There were Congressional
Hearings when aspartame was included in 100 different products.
Since
this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, but to
no avail. Nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies
have very deep pockets. Now there are over 5,000 products containing
this
chemical, and the PATENT HAS EXPIRED!!!!! I assure you, MONSANTO,
the creator of Aspartame knows how deadly it is. They fund among
others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic
Association,
the Conference of the American College of Physicians. This has been
exposed in the New York Times - to no avail. These Associations cannot
criticize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they
take
money from the food industry and have to endorse their products.
Senator Howard Hetzenbaum wrote a bill that would have
warned all infants, pregnant mothers and children of the dangers
of aspartame. The bill would have also instituted independent
studies on the problems existing in the population (seizures,
changes in
brain chemistry, changes neurological and behavioral; symptoms). It
was
killed by the powerful drug and chemical lobbies, letting loose the
hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting public.
May 10th, 2005 at 3:00 am
Ganice here, Hey I just don’t know what I’d do right now without All the
artifical sweetners in my life. god help me if I had any of those troubles.
Thank goodness all of us don’t react the same way. Why everyone who develops
very serious illiness’es don’t explore everything we put in our bodies I don’t
know. Always look to what you ingest to see if there could be a clue. Especially
if the docs are stumped. But anyway I won’t be frightened but now educated.
Thanks for the infro.
Becca Kauffman wrote:You might want to go to www.snopes.com. This is a long
running hoax. Yes
there are some people who are allergic to aspartame but this is not the
norm.
Becca
A friend e-mailed me with the following story and article. I cannot
vouch for its validity as the authors of both are unknown. You can
do your own research and draw your own conclusions. I felt a need to
pass this on because most post-op patients depend upon sugar-free
foods and drinks. Most contain the item mentioned below.
Personally, I found items in my kitchen that contain the additive.
Including Crystal Light.
Ginger
Open RNY 10/1/02
Ft. Bliss, TX
Subject: DIET SODA ALERT!!!
This is interesting… kinda long but very much worth reading…
If you are hooked on diet colas, this is a must read! You may not
want
to believe this, but you should check it out. You can find out more
on the internet.
Diet Cola or Not??
Please read this!!!!
In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick, she had
stomach spasms, she was having a hard time getting around, to walk
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 biopsies, and was on
24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not figure
out what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick, she
knew she was dying. She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance
etc. in her
oldest daughters name, and made sure her younger children were to be
with her oldest daughter. She wanted her last hooray, so she planned a
trip to FL (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd. On March 19th
I
called her to ask her how one of her tests went, and she said they
didn’t
find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS. I thought, oh,
my….then I recalled an article a friend of mine emailed to
me…and I asked her….Do you drink Diet pop? She told me yes, as a
matter
of fact she was getting ready to crack one open that moment, I told
her not to open it,
and stop drinking the diet pop….and I emailed her the following
article.
She called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told
me she stopped drinking the diet pop, and she can walk…she went up
the
stairs, and the muscle spasms went away. She said she didn’t feel
100% but sure felt a lot better. She told me she was going to her
doctors with this article and would call me back when she got home.
She called me, and her doctor was amazed, he is going to call all
of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweetener.
In
a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the aspartame in the diet
soda, dying a slow death. When she got to FL March 22nd, all she
had to take was one pill,
and that was a pill for poisoning….she is well on her way to
recovery….and she is walking!!!!! No wheelchair!!!!
This article saved her life!!!!
The life saving article:
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 is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic
lupus, that it was hard to understand 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 Eformaldehyde 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. People were being diagnosed with having multiple
sclerosis in
error. The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where 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, aggravating the lupus to such
a degree
that it may become life-threatening. We have seen patients with
systemic
lupus become asymptomatic once taken off diet sodas. In the case of
those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, (when in reality, the
disease
is methanol toxicity), most of the symptoms disappear. We’ve seen
many cases where vision returned and hearing improved markedly. This
also applies to cases of tinnitus.
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, depression, anxiety
attacks,
slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss-you probably have
ASPARTAME DISEASE!" People were jumping up during the lecture
saying, "I’ve
got some of these symptoms: Is it reversible?" Yes! Not drinking
diet sodas and keeping an eye out for aspartame on food labels, yes!
We have a very serious problem. A stranger came up to Dr.
Espisto (one of my speakers) and me and said: "Could you tell me why
so many
people seem to be coming down with MS?" During a visit to a
hospice, a
nurse said that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts,
had all been diagnosed with MS.
This is beyond coincidence! Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi etc. IS NOT
A DIET PRODUCT! The Congressional Record states that it makes you
crave
carbohydrates and will make you FAT. The formaldehyde stores in
the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Once off these
products with no significant increase in exercise, etc., Dr. Roberts
in
his lecture stated that he had patient who lost an average of 19
pounds over a trial period.
Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that
physicians would believe that they have a patient with
retinopathy, when in fact the symptoms are 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 without the other amino acids found in protein. Thus it
passes
the blood brain barrier and deteriorates the neurons of the brain,
causing in diabetics (as well as in patients not suffering from
diabetes)
various kinds of brain damage, seizures, depression, manic
depression, panic attacks, rage, violence. (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 early
pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological
disorders and
should NOT be given NutraSweet. I can relate different case histories
of
children having mal seizures and other disturbances being on
NutraSweet. Unfortunately it is not always easy to convince a
mother that aspartame is to blame for her child’s illness. Only by
trial and success will she be able to warn other mothers to take their
children’s health in their own hands.
Stevia, a sweet herb, NOT A MANUFACTURED ADDITIVE, which helps in
the metabolism of sugar (which would be ideal for diabetics) has now
been approved as a dietary supplement by the FDA. For years the FDA
has outlawed this sweet food because of their loyalty to MONSANTO.
Books on this subject are available:
EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT KILLS -
written by Dr. Russell Blayblock (Health Press 1-800-643-2665)
and DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE -
written by DR H. J. Roberts, also a diabetic specialist.
These two doctors will be posting a position paper with some case
histories on the deadly effects of Aspartame on the Internet.
According to the Conference of the American College of Physicians
"we are talking about a plague of neurological diseases caused by
this deadly poison." Here is the problem: There were Congressional
Hearings when aspartame was included in 100 different products.
Since
this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, but to
no avail. Nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies
have very deep pockets. Now there are over 5,000 products containing
this
chemical, and the PATENT HAS EXPIRED!!!!! I assure you, MONSANTO,
the creator of Aspartame knows how deadly it is. They fund among
others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic
Association,
the Conference of the American College of Physicians. This has been
exposed in the New York Times - to no avail. These Associations cannot
criticize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they
take
money from the food industry and have to endorse their products.
Senator Howard Hetzenbaum wrote a bill that would have
warned all infants, pregnant mothers and children of the dangers
of aspartame. The bill would have also instituted independent
studies on the problems existing in the population (seizures,
changes in
brain chemistry, changes neurological and behavioral; symptoms). It
was
killed by the powerful drug and chemical lobbies, letting loose the
hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting public.