Sweet But Poison!

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I received this in my email from a friend and thought it might be an interestnig read for the forum!
SWEET, BUT POISON - 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
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 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 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, 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, infact,
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 behaviorwhen 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 dietCoke

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 grande 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 beideal 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 foo," due to their loyalty to MONSANTO Chemical Company."
Books on this subject are available:
EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT KILLS written by Dr. Russell Blaylock
(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 on the Internet
with case histories on the deadly effects of Aspartame.
According to the Conference of the AmericanCollege 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 its use. Since this initial hearing, there have
been two subsequent hearings, and still nothing has been done. The
drug and chemical obbies 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 [organizations] 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!