Off Topic long article but quite interesting

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A must read

This is pretty extreme, but if true, is worth reading!

SWEET

POISON

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 'Nutra

Sweet,' '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 fibromyalg ia. During a

lecture, I said, " If you are using ASPARTAME (Nutra Sweet, 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 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 we re

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 talking about a plague

of neurological diseases directly caused by the use of this deadly

poison. "

Herein lies th e 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 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 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!