Aspertame ( substitute sugar )

Sorry guys this is pretty long...but it is very interesting....

A retired nurse friend sent this to me - I may have to check it

out further, but thought it was interesting enough to send on to you.

If you drink any diet drink, read this.



THIS IS NOT ABOUT MY SISTER....I RECEIVED THIS IN AN EMAIL..........



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

daughters 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

FL (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd.



On March 19th I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and

she said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believe 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...



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 FL March 22nd, 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 is 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 asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas.



In cases 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 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 AHD 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 due to the use of NutraSweet.



Unfortunately, it is not always easy to convince people that Aspartame

is to blame for their child's illness. Stevia, which is a sweet

herb, NOT A MANUFACTURED ADDITIVE, helps in the metabolism of sugar, which

would be ideal for diabetics. It has now been approved as a dietary

supplement by the FDA. It is known that for many years the FDA outlawed

this true

sweet food," due to their loyalty to MONSANTO Chemical Company."



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 soon be posting a position paper with 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 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 it's 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!!!![/FONT]

 

The warning at the end about the "Unsuspecting and Uniformed public" is kind of ironic! In the future instead of apologizing in advance for not doing your homework, please do your homework. How many people have wasted how much time on reading your BS thread?

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

 

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

 

Everything that lands in your inbox is not necessarily so.

Snopes

There are countless sites you can check out before inflicting the latest e-mail scare on everybody in your contacts list and all the forums you are on.

Besides www.snopes.com, there's www.truthorfiction.com, www.breakthechain.org, www.factcheck.org, and many others. Do your friends a favor and check it out before you forward.

 

lol guess we're all on the same wave link tonight.

 

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp


Ya'll beat me to it. When are people going to learn??

 

The OP probably feels under attack by now, but we all seem to have posted simultaneously! Great minds? :lol:

 

I found this online , copied it and thought maybe some of you would like to know if you dont agree thats fine with me ! ..Someone who reads this will have learned something !

geezz lay off my nuts ..lol

 

It's not a question of not agreeing, the email is false. 8)

 

What, exactly, will someone have learned?

 

it was not meant as an attack. it was just to say the info you posted was false.

 

there we go again.

 

I wish that Monsanto could come after the individual who started this crap (I am not talking about you my4kiddies). The only chemical that Monsanto produces now are variants on Roundup.

 

Well believe it or not ...It doesn't matter to me sweets ...I just read it and thought it was interesting and wanted to share .....

Again i just simply thought someone might like to read this

thank you

 

So you don't care if it is all lies? Originally I thought you were just new to the internet and were unaware of snopes and general fact checking, now it looks like you have an agenda.

 

omg ...wow no i dont know if its real or not i believed it to be ...but now im not so sure ...I'm not new to the internet im new to the website ...I dont understand why people have to be such ***'s about things ...my god i just posted something I myself thought was interesting . You DO NOT have to believe it ...I see alot of people posting such stupid stuff on this site ...Is this pick on the new girl night ??????? I will watch what i post from now on huh

 

i don't think anyone was being an ***

 

:jester:

 

Thank You

 

Yeah it might not be proven to be completely true yet, but then has it been proven to be completely false??

Think I'll just keep sticking with water!!!