Aspartame: The Urban Legend

[Guest guest]

Hi Everyone. I went to the Urban Legends Web site

and found out that the Aspartame article is a

fake. If you want to check it out yourself,

search the Web for " Urban Legends " (I guess you

can pick any site, but I chose the first

one),click on it and on the Urban Legends site,

type " Aspartame " in the Search box. I couldn't

send you the URL because it's only going to take

to the a generic page.

Here is the text, if you're interested. Sorry

it's long. It contains the original Urban Legend

and then the disclaimer.

Note: before passing on this kind of " important "

information, it would be good to check on it

first. For people like us with an autoimmune

disease, we're always looking for the cause of

our disease and reading something like this is

only going to disappoint us. Thanks! :-)

====================

Kiss My Aspartame

Claim: The artificial sweetener aspartame is

responsible for an epidemic of diseases such as

multiple sclerosis and lupus.

Status: False.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 1998]

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, they announced that

there was an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and

systemic lupus, and they did not understand what

toxin was causing this to be rampant across the

United States. I explained that I was there to

lecture on exactly that subject.

When the temperature of Aspartame exceeds 86

degrees F, the wood alcohol ASPARTAME coverts 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 multiple sclerosis; thus

people are being diagnosed with having multiple

sclerosis in error. The multiple sclerosis is not

a death sentence, where methanol toxicity is.

In the case of systemic lupus, we are finding it

has become almost as rampant as multiple

sclerosis, especially Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi

drinkers. Also, with methanol toxicity, the

victims usually drink three to four 12 oz. cans

of them per day, some even more. In the cases of

systemic lupus, which is triggered by ASPARTAME,

the victim usually does not know that the

aspartame is the culprit. The victim continues

its use aggravating the lupus to such a degree,

that sometimes it becomes life threatening.

When we get people off the aspartame, those with

systemic lupus usually become asymptomatic.

Unfortunately, we can not reverse this disease.

On the other hand, in the case of those diagnosed

with Multiple Sclerosis, (when in reality, the

disease is methanol toxicity), most of the

symptoms disappear. We have seen cases where

their vision has returned and even their hearing

has returned. This also applies to cases of

tinnitus. 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, depression, anxiety attacks, slurred

speech, blurred vision, or memory loss -- you

probably have ASPARTAME DISEASE! "

People were jumping up during the lecture saying,

" I've got this, is it reversible? " It is rampant.

Some of the speakers at my lecture even were

suffering from these symptoms. In one lecture

attended by the Ambassador of Uganda, he told us

that their sugar industry is adding aspartame! He

continued by saying that one of the industry

leader's son could no longer walk - due in part

by product usage!

We have a very serious problem. Even a stranger

came up to Dr. Espisto (one of my speakers) and

myself and said, 'Could you tell me why so many

people seem to be coming down with MS? During a

visit to a hospice, a nurse said that six of her

friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had

all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond

coincidence.

Here is the problem. There were Congressional

Hearings when aspartame was included in 100

different products. Since this initial hearing,

there have been two subsequent hearings, but to

no avail. Nothing as been done. The drug and

chemical lobbies have very deep pockets. Now

there are over 5,000 products containing this

chemical, and the PATENT HAS EXPIRED!!!!!

At the time of this first hearing, people were

going blind. The methanol in the aspartame

converts to formaldehyde in the retina of the

eye. Formaldehyde is grouped in the same class of

drugs as cyanide and arsenic DEADLY POISONS!!!

Unfortunately, it just takes longer to quietly

kill, but it is killing people and causing all

kinds of neurological problems. Aspartame changes

the brain's chemistry. It is the reason for

severe seizures. This drug changes the dopamine

level in the brain. Imagine what this drug does

to patients suffering from Parkinson's Disease.

This drug also causes Birth Defects.

There is absolutely no reason to take this

product. It is NOT A DIET PRODUCT!!! The

Congressional record said, " It makes you crave

carbohydrates and will make you FAT " . Dr.

stated that when he got patients off aspartame,

their average weight loss was 19 pounds per

person. The formaldehyde stores in the fat cells,

particularly in the hips and thighs.

Aspartame is especially deadly for diabetics. All

physicians know what wood alcohol will do to a

diabetic. We find that physicians believe that

they have patients with retinopathy, when in

fact, it is caused by the aspartame. The

aspartame keeps the blood sugar level out of

control, causing many patients to go into a coma.

Unfortunately, many have died. People were

telling us at the Conference of the American

College of Physicians, that they had relatives

that switched from saccharin to an aspartame

product and how that relative had eventually gone

into a coma. Their physicians could not get the

blood sugar levels under control. Thus, the

patients suffered acute memory loss and

eventually coma and death.

Memory loss is due to the fact that aspartic acid

and phenylalanine are neurotoxic without the

other amino acids found in protein. Thus it goes

past the blood brain barrier and deteriorates the

neurons of the brain. Dr. Blaylock,

neurosurgeon, said, " The ingredients stimulates

the neurons of the brain to death, causing brain

damage of varying degrees. Dr. Blaylock has

written a book entitled EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE

THAT KILLS " (Health Press 1-). Dr.

H.J. , diabetic specialist and world

expert on aspartame poisoning, has also written a

book entitled DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S

DISEASE " (1-). Dr. tells how

aspartame poisoning is escalating Alzheimer's

Disease, and indeed it is. As the hospice nurse

told me, women are being admitted at 30 years of

age with Alzheimer's Disease. Dr. Blaylock and

Dr. will be writing a position paper with

some case histories and will post it on the

Internet.

According to the Conference of the American

College of Physicians, 'We are talking about a

plague of neurological diseases caused by this

deadly poison " .

Dr. realized what was happening when

aspartame was first marketed. He said " his

diabetic patients presented memory loss,

confusion, and severe vision loss " . At the

Conference of the American College of Physicians,

doctors admitted that they did not know. They had

wondered why seizures were rampant (the

phenylalanine in aspartame breaks down the

seizure threshold and depletes serotonin, which

causes manic depression, panic attacks, rage and

violence).

Just before the Conference, I received a FAX from

Norway, asking for a possible antidote for this

poison because they are experiencing so many

problems in their country. This poison is now

available in 90 PLUS countries worldwide.

Fortunately, we had speakers and ambassadors at

the Conference from different nations who have

pledged their help. We ask that you help too.

Print this article out and warn everyone you

know. Take anything that contains aspartame back

to the store. Take the " NO ASPARTAME TEST " and

send us your case history.

Origins: Once again, if you can't trust an

anonymous e-mail message filled with words

rendered in all CAPITAL LETTERS and containing

liberal doses of exclamation points, warning you

about some widespread and imminent danger, what

can you trust?

From whence comes this information? For one

thing, it's not new -- this text was written by

one Betty i back in 1995. (Follow this link

http://www.dorway.com/wec-ms95.html) to view the

original text.) And who is this Betty i?

Well, she's not a doctor, biologist, chemist, or

any other type of scientist -- she is the founder

of Mission PossibleInternational

(http://www.dorway.com/possible.html) an

organization dedicated to " spreading the word

that aspartame is a toxic poison unfit for human

consumption. "

Now, Ms. i may be earnest and sincere, but

her screed is full of flawed logic, scientific

errors, and outright misinformation. We're not

going to attempt to go through it point by point,

nor are we going to claim that aspartame is

either a health hazard or absolutely 100%

non-harmful in any amount. What we will assert is

that there is simply nothing remotely approaching

a consensus in the medical/scientific community

that aspartame is (or even could be) responsible

for an " epidemic of multiple sclerosis and

systemic lupus " or many of the other evils

attributed to it above. We invite you to explore

some of the resources listed below and make up

your own mind whether or not you should be

concerned about aspartame:

· On the pro-aspartame side, we have a rebuttal

to this document from the folks at NutraSweet

http://www.nutrasweet.com/infocenter/medialib/statements/confirmsafety.asp

(Monsanto's brand name for aspartame).

· For the opposition, we have a collection of

articles at the web site of Aspartame Toxicity

Information Center

http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/ . (Keep in

mind that most of the material available through

this site contains no information about its

source and/or does not derive from peer-reviewed

scientific journals.)

· And finally, you can reference scholarly,

peer-reviewed articles about aspartame through

Medline http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ .

Last updated: 6 January 1999

=====

When choosing the lesser of two evils,

I always like the one I haven't tried.

-- Mae West

__________________________________________________

[Guest guest]

Hi Everyone. I went to the Urban Legends Web site

and found out that the Aspartame article is a

fake. If you want to check it out yourself,

search the Web for " Urban Legends " (I guess you

can pick any site, but I chose the first

one),click on it and on the Urban Legends site,

type " Aspartame " in the Search box. I couldn't

send you the URL because it's only going to take

to the a generic page.

Here is the text, if you're interested. Sorry

it's long. It contains the original Urban Legend

and then the disclaimer.

Note: before passing on this kind of " important "

information, it would be good to check on it

first. For people like us with an autoimmune

disease, we're always looking for the cause of

our disease and reading something like this is

only going to disappoint us. Thanks! :-)

====================

Kiss My Aspartame

Claim: The artificial sweetener aspartame is

responsible for an epidemic of diseases such as

multiple sclerosis and lupus.

Status: False.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 1998]

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, they announced that

there was an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and

systemic lupus, and they did not understand what

toxin was causing this to be rampant across the

United States. I explained that I was there to

lecture on exactly that subject.

When the temperature of Aspartame exceeds 86

degrees F, the wood alcohol ASPARTAME coverts 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 multiple sclerosis; thus

people are being diagnosed with having multiple

sclerosis in error. The multiple sclerosis is not

a death sentence, where methanol toxicity is.

In the case of systemic lupus, we are finding it

has become almost as rampant as multiple

sclerosis, especially Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi

drinkers. Also, with methanol toxicity, the

victims usually drink three to four 12 oz. cans

of them per day, some even more. In the cases of

systemic lupus, which is triggered by ASPARTAME,

the victim usually does not know that the

aspartame is the culprit. The victim continues

its use aggravating the lupus to such a degree,

that sometimes it becomes life threatening.

When we get people off the aspartame, those with

systemic lupus usually become asymptomatic.

Unfortunately, we can not reverse this disease.

On the other hand, in the case of those diagnosed

with Multiple Sclerosis, (when in reality, the

disease is methanol toxicity), most of the

symptoms disappear. We have seen cases where

their vision has returned and even their hearing

has returned. This also applies to cases of

tinnitus. 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, depression, anxiety attacks, slurred

speech, blurred vision, or memory loss -- you

probably have ASPARTAME DISEASE! "

People were jumping up during the lecture saying,

" I've got this, is it reversible? " It is rampant.

Some of the speakers at my lecture even were

suffering from these symptoms. In one lecture

attended by the Ambassador of Uganda, he told us

that their sugar industry is adding aspartame! He

continued by saying that one of the industry

leader's son could no longer walk - due in part

by product usage!

We have a very serious problem. Even a stranger

came up to Dr. Espisto (one of my speakers) and

myself and said, 'Could you tell me why so many

people seem to be coming down with MS? During a

visit to a hospice, a nurse said that six of her

friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had

all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond

coincidence.

Here is the problem. There were Congressional

Hearings when aspartame was included in 100

different products. Since this initial hearing,

there have been two subsequent hearings, but to

no avail. Nothing as been done. The drug and

chemical lobbies have very deep pockets. Now

there are over 5,000 products containing this

chemical, and the PATENT HAS EXPIRED!!!!!

At the time of this first hearing, people were

going blind. The methanol in the aspartame

converts to formaldehyde in the retina of the

eye. Formaldehyde is grouped in the same class of

drugs as cyanide and arsenic DEADLY POISONS!!!

Unfortunately, it just takes longer to quietly

kill, but it is killing people and causing all

kinds of neurological problems. Aspartame changes

the brain's chemistry. It is the reason for

severe seizures. This drug changes the dopamine

level in the brain. Imagine what this drug does

to patients suffering from Parkinson's Disease.

This drug also causes Birth Defects.

There is absolutely no reason to take this

product. It is NOT A DIET PRODUCT!!! The

Congressional record said, " It makes you crave

carbohydrates and will make you FAT " . Dr.

stated that when he got patients off aspartame,

their average weight loss was 19 pounds per

person. The formaldehyde stores in the fat cells,

particularly in the hips and thighs.

Aspartame is especially deadly for diabetics. All

physicians know what wood alcohol will do to a

diabetic. We find that physicians believe that

they have patients with retinopathy, when in

fact, it is caused by the aspartame. The

aspartame keeps the blood sugar level out of

control, causing many patients to go into a coma.

Unfortunately, many have died. People were

telling us at the Conference of the American

College of Physicians, that they had relatives

that switched from saccharin to an aspartame

product and how that relative had eventually gone

into a coma. Their physicians could not get the

blood sugar levels under control. Thus, the

patients suffered acute memory loss and

eventually coma and death.

Memory loss is due to the fact that aspartic acid

and phenylalanine are neurotoxic without the

other amino acids found in protein. Thus it goes

past the blood brain barrier and deteriorates the

neurons of the brain. Dr. Blaylock,

neurosurgeon, said, " The ingredients stimulates

the neurons of the brain to death, causing brain

damage of varying degrees. Dr. Blaylock has

written a book entitled EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE

THAT KILLS " (Health Press 1-). Dr.

H.J. , diabetic specialist and world

expert on aspartame poisoning, has also written a

book entitled DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S

DISEASE " (1-). Dr. tells how

aspartame poisoning is escalating Alzheimer's

Disease, and indeed it is. As the hospice nurse

told me, women are being admitted at 30 years of

age with Alzheimer's Disease. Dr. Blaylock and

Dr. will be writing a position paper with

some case histories and will post it on the

Internet.

According to the Conference of the American

College of Physicians, 'We are talking about a

plague of neurological diseases caused by this

deadly poison " .

Dr. realized what was happening when

aspartame was first marketed. He said " his

diabetic patients presented memory loss,

confusion, and severe vision loss " . At the

Conference of the American College of Physicians,

doctors admitted that they did not know. They had

wondered why seizures were rampant (the

phenylalanine in aspartame breaks down the

seizure threshold and depletes serotonin, which

causes manic depression, panic attacks, rage and

violence).

Just before the Conference, I received a FAX from

Norway, asking for a possible antidote for this

poison because they are experiencing so many

problems in their country. This poison is now

available in 90 PLUS countries worldwide.

Fortunately, we had speakers and ambassadors at

the Conference from different nations who have

pledged their help. We ask that you help too.

Print this article out and warn everyone you

know. Take anything that contains aspartame back

to the store. Take the " NO ASPARTAME TEST " and

send us your case history.

Origins: Once again, if you can't trust an

anonymous e-mail message filled with words

rendered in all CAPITAL LETTERS and containing

liberal doses of exclamation points, warning you

about some widespread and imminent danger, what

can you trust?

From whence comes this information? For one

thing, it's not new -- this text was written by

one Betty i back in 1995. (Follow this link

http://www.dorway.com/wec-ms95.html) to view the

original text.) And who is this Betty i?

Well, she's not a doctor, biologist, chemist, or

any other type of scientist -- she is the founder

of Mission PossibleInternational

(http://www.dorway.com/possible.html) an

organization dedicated to " spreading the word

that aspartame is a toxic poison unfit for human

consumption. "

Now, Ms. i may be earnest and sincere, but

her screed is full of flawed logic, scientific

errors, and outright misinformation. We're not

going to attempt to go through it point by point,

nor are we going to claim that aspartame is

either a health hazard or absolutely 100%

non-harmful in any amount. What we will assert is

that there is simply nothing remotely approaching

a consensus in the medical/scientific community

that aspartame is (or even could be) responsible

for an " epidemic of multiple sclerosis and

systemic lupus " or many of the other evils

attributed to it above. We invite you to explore

some of the resources listed below and make up

your own mind whether or not you should be

concerned about aspartame:

· On the pro-aspartame side, we have a rebuttal

to this document from the folks at NutraSweet

http://www.nutrasweet.com/infocenter/medialib/statements/confirmsafety.asp

(Monsanto's brand name for aspartame).

· For the opposition, we have a collection of

articles at the web site of Aspartame Toxicity

Information Center

http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/ . (Keep in

mind that most of the material available through

this site contains no information about its

source and/or does not derive from peer-reviewed

scientific journals.)

· And finally, you can reference scholarly,

peer-reviewed articles about aspartame through

Medline http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ .

Last updated: 6 January 1999

=====

When choosing the lesser of two evils,

I always like the one I haven't tried.

-- Mae West

__________________________________________________