In October of 2001, a friend's 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.
Because of her pain and sickness, she was sure 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 a last hoorah, so she planned a trip to FL (basically
in a wheelchair) for March 22nd. On March 19th he 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. He recalled an E-mail article I might have sent to him and asked
his sister if she drank diet pop? She told him that she did. As a
matter of fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment.
He told her not to open it, to stop drinking the diet pop, and then
E-mailed her the aspartame article. His sister called him within 32
hours after the phone conversation and told him she had stopped drinking
the diet pop 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 him she was going to her doctor with this article and would call
him when she got home. Well, she called, 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!
"ASPARTAME," is marketed as 'NutraSweet', 'Equal', and 'Spoonful'. In
a 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.
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.
Many cases have been seen where vision loss returned and hearing loss
improved markedly. This also applies to cases of tinnitus and
fibromyalgia. 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 may have ASPARTAME
poisoning! 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. A doctor remarked that so many people seemed to have been symptomatic for MS
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.
Doesn't this seem 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" (READ: dead bodies).
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 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
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
in 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 now 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 Associations 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!!
Please print this out and/or e-mail to your family and friends. They have a right
to know, too!
Lisa Zak
Physician Credentialer
University Pediatric Associates, Inc.
Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo
UPA Billing
219 Bryant Street
Buffalo, NY 14222
Phone 716-878-7000 ext. 6032
Fax 716-878-1572
My mother sent me this and we stopped giving diet coke to my grandfather who suffers from Alzheimer's.