Aspartame

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Thank you for not taking offense to that :-) I always worry if people will

take it personally or just as an objective point of view (intended way).

Glad to hear your headaches are gone.

-----Original Message-----

>Thanks stacy your right. I was however recieving alot of headaches. I am

down to one a day sometimes none and Im much better. Thanks for your 2 cents

>

>Hugs

>

>Dawn

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Hanneke,

I consome aspartame regularly. I have lupus and have read articles stating that aspartame causes lupus. I totally eliminated it from my diet for several months and didn't note any change. I'm pretty sure I've been told that aspartame is easier on the liver than sacharin. Being a diabetic and on prednisone means that sugar really needs to be limited.

W

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For those that consume aspartame, www.dorway.com has enough info to make you

cringe. From what I know Lupus is an irreversible disease but it can be

slowed down. Aspartame is a deadly toxin and is not too kind on the liver

either. Stopping the use of aspartame will surely prevent development of

further neurological problems. Pls read up on it, it's responsible for a lot

of ill health. Being available in shops doesn't make it a good thing.

I use Stevia as a sweetener. Once I started using this (I use the green

powdery stuff.. had to get used to its taste but love it now).

Regards

Hanneke

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Is splenda ok to use? I really like it has no after taste.

the WV hillbilly

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I too, would like to know about Splenda. I have been using it., hoping it is okay with liver disease.

Lyn in ArkMITSMEMYERS@... wrote:

Is splenda ok to use? I really like it has no after taste. the WV hillbilly

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Hi Jerry,

Having personally seen damage done thru using aspartame, I'm rather on the

cautious side believing the scientific reports guaranteeing the safety of

aspartame. Also, considering the historical background and how the whole

thing was pushed thru and got FDA approval is I think rather disturbing.

The big manufactures do everything in the name of the dollar, unfortunately.

And negative results in scientific research being withheld is not a new one

either.

However, I think it is good to hear others' opinions, and make other people

aware that there are other sides to the aspartame issue. For those who are

now even more confused, perhaps a look at the

aspartame-subscsribe gives them some food for thought. A

neurotoxin is a neurotoxin and when aspartame is used to kill rats, hey,

something in it must be doing some harm.

One of the liver functions is detox, why put something toxic to put further

strain on an already compromised liver for those who have liver problems.

Regards

Hanneke

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This could be a good source for you,

Larry.

http://www.dorway.com/

Perhaps you might challenge him to ask

himself why he needs to consume ANY diet drink at all? If he is truly

scientific in his thinking he might be willing to do a trial of abstinence from

the drinks and observe the outcome.

Terry Petty, D.C.

Aspartame

I have a patient who is attempting

(rather half heartedly and with moderately poor results) via an Atkins approach

to lose weight (350 lbs. +) and lower his blood pressure (180/100). Due

to this lack of success I have suggested some changes in the variables (other

than of course staying in ketosis). I have challenged him to top

consuming 1.5 to 3 liters of diet coke a day. He is a scientist at heart

and wants to see the studies that show that this sweetener is either truly

toxic or will alter his bodies perception that sugar is on the way and that

this could have any effect on his metabolism causing him to not lose

weight. Do you know of any good studies that support aspartame toxicity

or interference with weight loss?

Larry Lubcke, DC, DABCO

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Larry,

I have started reading a book called Excitotoxins The Tastes That Kill (not sure if the name is exactly right). I haven't picked it up for a couple of months, but it is written by a neurosurgeon who explains the neurophysiology and why certain chemicals literally excite neurons to death. Included in this group are Aspartame and MSG. I can get the authors name and exact title of the book for you tonight, if you like?

Yours,

DR. COBY L. HANES991 NE THIRD STREETPRINEVILLE, OR 97754voice: 541.447.7230fax: 541.447.5775dochanes@...

Aspartame

I have a patient who is attempting (rather half heartedly and with moderately poor results) via an Atkins approach to lose weight (350 lbs. +) and lower his blood pressure (180/100). Due to this lack of success I have suggested some changes in the variables (other than of course staying in ketosis). I have challenged him to top consuming 1.5 to 3 liters of diet coke a day. He is a scientist at heart and wants to see the studies that show that this sweetener is either truly toxic or will alter his bodies perception that sugar is on the way and that this could have any effect on his metabolism causing him to not lose weight. Do you know of any good studies that support aspartame toxicity or interference with weight loss?

Larry Lubcke, DC, DABCO

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Larry,

Regardless of what people think of artificial sweeteners, and I know there are a lot of folks who think they're the devil incarnate, a patient like this is going to die of diabetes a lot sooner than the toxic problems from aspartame, saccharine or other sweeteners.

in MY HUMBLE opinion, that is.

K. Carpentier, D.C., D.A.B.C.O.Burns, OR

Aspartame

I have a patient who is attempting (rather half heartedly and with moderately poor results) via an Atkins approach to lose weight (350 lbs. +) and lower his blood pressure (180/100). Due to this lack of success I have suggested some changes in the variables (other than of course staying in ketosis). I have challenged him to top consuming 1.5 to 3 liters of diet coke a day. He is a scientist at heart and wants to see the studies that show that this sweetener is either truly toxic or will alter his bodies perception that sugar is on the way and that this could have any effect on his metabolism causing him to not lose weight. Do you know of any good studies that support aspartame toxicity or interference with weight loss?

Larry Lubcke, DC, DABCO

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Hi Larry,

I have 5 pieces of literture that I give to those type of patients as well as a short treatise on Stevia. If you will give me your fax #, I will send them off to you. Sunny ;'-))

Sunny Kierstyn, RN DCFibromyalgia Care Center of Oregon711 Country Club Rd., #1AEugene, Oregon541-345-9436

Aspartame

I have a patient who is attempting (rather half heartedly and withmoderately poor results) via an Atkins approach to lose weight (350 lbs. +)and lower his blood pressure (180/100). Due to this lack of success I havesuggested some changes in the variables (other than of course staying inketosis). I have challenged him to top consuming 1.5 to 3 liters of dietcoke a day. He is a scientist at heart and wants to see the studies thatshow that this sweetener is either truly toxic or will alter his bodiesperception that sugar is on the way and that this could have any effect onhis metabolism causing him to not lose weight. Do you know of any goodstudies that support aspartame toxicity or interference with weight loss? Larry Lubcke, DC, DABCO

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Oh, that is a good one. Thanks, Terry, Sunny ;'-)))

Aspartame

I have a patient who is attempting (rather half heartedly and with moderately poor results) via an Atkins approach to lose weight (350 lbs. +) and lower his blood pressure (180/100). Due to this lack of success I have suggested some changes in the variables (other than of course staying in ketosis). I have challenged him to top consuming 1.5 to 3 liters of diet coke a day. He is a scientist at heart and wants to see the studies that show that this sweetener is either truly toxic or will alter his bodies perception that sugar is on the way and that this could have any effect on his metabolism causing him to not lose weight. Do you know of any good studies that support aspartame toxicity or interference with weight loss?

Larry Lubcke, DC, DABCO OregonDCs rules:1. Keep correspondence professional; the purpose of the listserve is to foster communication and collegiality. No personal attacks on listserve members will be tolerated.2. Always sign your e-mails with your first and last name.3. The listserve is not secure; your e-mail could end up anywhere. However, it is against the rules of the listserve to copy, print, forward, or otherwise distribute correspondence written by another member without his or her consent, unless all personal identifiers have been removed.

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Its all over the show in the UK, in diet and non-diet stuff, avoiding it in a

supermarket in VERY hard work

Mandi in UK

> In Europe, apparently, it is not

> used any more.

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Very interesting article on it here:

http://www.nexusmagazine.com/Aspartame.html

Julea )

http://www.Emagforall.netfirms.com

It's simply the best !

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In a message dated 2/26/2004 12:10:04 AM Central Standard Time,

gertilubop@... writes:

Seems like back in the deep recesses of my mind I recall reading that

aspartame is so sweet that it must have an additive to dilute it into a

usable

form. This additive has a small amount of carbohydrate in it. For those

that

are extremely carb intolerant this can be a problem.

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You know what I have just read the same thing on the splenda site

today....LOL> It adds other things to it for volume. So I think there has to be

another

reason, like the heat intolerance that makes it better for the bottled stuff.

So to end the question I sent an e-mail to the crystal light division of

the kraft website...will let you know what they say....LOL.

in Bama

VBG 1982 (lost from 433lbs to 270's)

VBG -RNY1996 revision(Lost from 343 to 299)

RNY-DS revision Dec 2002 -down 130 lbs (377.7 to 247.2 and still going)

Homepage address- http://hometown.aol.com/mdl1031/myhomepage/profile.html

Many thanks to Dr. K willing to take on a 3rd timer....LOL

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A couple of years after Aspartame first came out, my brother developed a

seizure disorder. He contacted the NutraSweet company, but was told that

there were no such side effects. His query then was... What if you're

drinking about a gallon of NutraSweetened drinks a day?

He was immediately patched through to their research department.

NutraSweet then flew him from Houston to New York City for tests. They

wanted to pipe NutraSweet directly into his veins and then scan his brain to

watch its effect. I talked him out of it, and he came home.

Maybe no proof... but interesting information.

Elle

Aspartame

" Although most published scientific studies have proclaimed aspartame

(NutraSweet, Equal) to be safe, clinical experience has often indicated

otherwise. Headaches, irritability and failure to lose weight or to control

blood

glucose have all been reported, as well as cross reactions in those who

cannot

tolerate monosodium glutamate (MSG). Consult with your local doctor if you

have

any concern about your use of aspartame. The best advice may be to use it

sparingly, preferably blending it with other sweeteners. Remember too that

aspartame loses its sweetness when heated. "

[Guest guest]

A couple of years after Aspartame first came out, my brother developed a

seizure disorder. He contacted the NutraSweet company, but was told that

there were no such side effects. His query then was... What if you're

drinking about a gallon of NutraSweetened drinks a day?

He was immediately patched through to their research department.

NutraSweet then flew him from Houston to New York City for tests. They

wanted to pipe NutraSweet directly into his veins and then scan his brain to

watch its effect. I talked him out of it, and he came home.

Maybe no proof... but interesting information.

Elle

Aspartame

" Although most published scientific studies have proclaimed aspartame

(NutraSweet, Equal) to be safe, clinical experience has often indicated

otherwise. Headaches, irritability and failure to lose weight or to control

blood

glucose have all been reported, as well as cross reactions in those who

cannot

tolerate monosodium glutamate (MSG). Consult with your local doctor if you

have

any concern about your use of aspartame. The best advice may be to use it

sparingly, preferably blending it with other sweeteners. Remember too that

aspartame loses its sweetness when heated. "

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I have had a different reaction to aspartame. When ever I consume it, my

throat feels like it is closing up. It is scary, because it is hard to swallow

and sometimes even hard to breathe. My husband thinks it is all in my mind,

but I can immediately tell when tea, kool-aid, soda and many other things are

sweetened with aspartame. Of course, I avoid it!

Belynda

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Judy,

You WERE being very clever to make the association! It is just one more

thing to have to worry about with Lyme. However, I have known for years

that aspartame is a killer for everyone, just chose to ignore it as it seems

like everything we do or touch these days has a study somewhere that says it

will kill us - Lol! In this case I believe it's true and have been trying

to avoid the stuff, which isn't easy if you are on Atkins, as I am.

Glad to hear some of your Lyme miseries are improving. They all will

eventually - keep the faith!

Carol

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Carol,

Have you heard of the book Excitotoxins: the taste that kills by

Blaylock?

It's an expose book on the dangers of aspartame, MSG and other food

additives of our food industry.

Jan

RE: [ ] aspartame

Judy,

You WERE being very clever to make the association! It is just one more

thing to have to worry about with Lyme. However, I have known for years

that aspartame is a killer for everyone, just chose to ignore it as it seems

like everything we do or touch these days has a study somewhere that says it

will kill us - Lol! In this case I believe it's true and have been trying

to avoid the stuff, which isn't easy if you are on Atkins, as I am.

Glad to hear some of your Lyme miseries are improving. They all will

eventually - keep the faith!

Carol

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Speaking of dealing with morons!!! ARGH!!! This is part of an offlist

argument that I got into with a lady from a celiac and Diabetes list

that I'm on. She was stating that aspartame is perfectly safe and she

lets her child(ren) who have diabetes and celiac drink a can a day. I

was trying to point out that it is not and that people should not rely

on Snopes.com for the facts. I'd really like to know how that site is

funded and where they get their facts, they obviously do not dig for the

truth.

Ohio

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Mom to Brittany, born 8/31/93, dx'd-IDDM 5/28/01; , born 6/28/97;

and Shayna, born 6/1/00.

Vaccine free since 1999! See our site and get more vaccine info at

http://www.loonatics-fringe.com

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RE: Aspartame

you wrote

>Because they make money from our illnesses.

Who makes money out of our illness?? Snopes?? Diet drinks

manufactures??

Are you saying that there are all these people in different countries

trying to make people ill with aspartame, just for other people, who

work in health care to make money? All these businesses are " in it

together " . That's plainly ridiculous.

Voixx is certainly one of the drugs that's been pulled along with many

others. If aspartame is sooooo bad why are over 90 countries permitting

it to be used??? The UK government provides free health care and so do

some other European countries, so why on earth would a government permit

poisonous dangerous substances to be available to children. The people

who approve medicines are not the same people who make them. If they

pulled voixx and other harmful drugs why not aspartame? Your whole

hypothesis is total rubbish.

You wrote:

>Yes, it makes sense to me. But you are obviously not willint to

>listen.

I think that its you who is not willing to listen. Entrenched views are

never changed by the facts!

have a terrible cold at the moment and cannot remember all. The

> statements that the site makes regarding vaccines being perfectly safe

> are incredibly FALSE! If vaccines were perfectly safe then why would

> this country have set up the VAERS database? VAERS stands for Vaccine

> Adverse Event Reporting System. Have you ever looked through it? Do

> you have any idea how many children and adults have been harmed or

> killed by vaccines? Mercury in any form is toxic, when it is injected

> directly into a baby's body it can be deadly! Take a look at package

> inserts for vaccines, read the ingredients and then you tell me that

> they are safe! Let me know if you need help finding any inserts I

> have pdf copies of all of them.

Very convenient that you cannot remember all these articles in snopes

that

are false. I have said nothing about vaccines being safe or not, one

of my

daughter had a problem that was recorded as an adverse event. I was

talking about aspartame only. Many more lives have been saved by

vaccines that lives lost. I have never said that there are not drugs

that are harmful to people but usually there is proof and peer reviews

and the meds are withdrawn when they are shown to have harmful effects.

So tell me why hasn't aspartame been withdrawn?

Stevia is banned in the UK as it may be toxic, why if people wanted to

make people ill to make money out of illnesses wouldn't they allow that

too??

Your theory seems to be that governments everywhere, world wide,

knowingly, allow people, men, women and children, to drink harmful

substances that are potentially life threatening. So that someone else

can make a profit!?! But that theory is total crap. The Uk government

looses out on loads of money trying to make sick people well again. As

if there aren't enough sick people as it is. Our health service can

barely cope with the patients they have got, let alone making extra

people ill. When the health service in the UK is not working well the

government of the day gets kicked out of office. When hospital waiting

lists are long government are ousted. So its certainly not in their

interests to allow any substances that are harmful to be permitted.

Jackie UK

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>

> Even people who don't react to these sweeteners should be aware that

> they cannot possibly be good for you.

>

Even " mainstream " doctors are coming to realize this - my mother-in-law has

fibromyalgia, and her doctor had told her two or three years ago to stay as

far away from aspartame especially. She'd taken it in everything at the

time, and was at the point there were a lot of days she could hardly move.

Within a month of dropping aspartame, she was nearly asymptomatic. (I.e.,

she has days still where she hurts, of course, but she can stay mobile,

which helps.)

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True compassion, is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it

comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs

restructuring.

-- Luther King Jr.

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At our school (in Canada), the vending machines carry bottled water and juice in aluminum cans. At lunch time, our school store sells fruit-flavored yoghurt, milk, chocolate milk, orange and other juices (some of which do contain some form of sugar). However, thankfully, no aspartame-containing foods or drinks are part of the menu. Aspartame-containing gum abounds whenever we have our stupid dental mania month, where come minion from our CDA (~ADA) comes to talk to our students about dental health. They don't actively promote or advise using aspartame-containing gum, but the students are sure happy to receive their free packets of this gum, along with their free toothbrushes, etc. Aasa andrea52521991 <mkeller@...> wrote: Did

you notice that the public schools are now removing drinks that contain sugar?Hmmm, wonder what they are going to replace them with?Our obsession with thin-ness....is literally killing us.My Aunt was an attractive woman who loved her diet products. 78 years old she died from a brain tumor, but had a girlish figure.>> Rumsfeld's involvement in approval of aspartame is infamous. One can only> imagine the synergistic and combined effects > > of the neurotoxin aspartame and the neurotoxin thimerosal on our children> Millions of pregnant women consumed aspartame in almost everything sugar> free> > in the last couple of decades: obstetricians were telling them it was> safe. We have harmed our children in many ways;

aspartame and thimerosal> are at the top of the list. > > For details on this subject, and the ties to PHARMA, see> http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/05/07/aspartame_gate_when_donald_r> umsfeld_was_ceo_of_searle.htm as well as doing a search on aspartame and> Rumsfeld. The Damage Done it is there. Suzanne Messina REAACH ,> MFVC: Mercury Free Vaccine Coalition of Massachusetts > > > >

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Look at this!! Lois

FW: Aspartamane For all you Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers!!! 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. 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. 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. Blayblock (Health Press 1-800-643-2665) AND: DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE- written by DR H. J. , 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 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!!!! How true this is, I don't know, but it is interesting. Please print this out and/or e-mail to your family and friends. They have a right to know too. Kathleen V. Batkiewicz Rutgers Casualty Insurance 444 Madison Avenue Suite 501 New York, New York 10022 T: 212-355-3310 x250 F: 212-355-7841 E: Kvbatkiewicz@...

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I never eat or drink anything with aspartane. It gives me migrain headaches. Pat K

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Very interesting indeed Marie, thank you.

Luv Bella

>

> I am already subscribed to 'News Target' and as such receive their

> news bulletins. The below web link leads to a long list of articles

> already published by 'News Target' in relation to Aspartame:

>

> http://tinyurl.com/2u7hwj

>

> Hope this helps.

>

> Warm Wishes

>

> Marie

>