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PLEASE, LADIES, READ THIS AND DO YOU HAVE ANY INPUT? - BARB

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To: Barbara Freedman

Subject: Medical

Date: Thursday, September 05, 2002 4:37 PM

Barb,

You MUST read this and pass it along to ALL your polychondritis people.

Also anyone else interested in medical matters.

Love H

Diet Coke or Not? INTERESTING! Please read this!!!!

In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick, she had stomach

spasms, she was having a hard time getting around, to walk 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 biopsies, and was on 24 various

prescription medications. The doctors could not figure out what was wrong

with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick,

she knew she was dying.

She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance etc. in her oldest

daughters name, and made sure her younger children were to be with her

oldest daughter. She 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 her how one of her tests went, and she said they didn't find anything

on the test, but they believe she had MS. I thought, oh, my....then I

recalled an article a friend of mine emailed to me...and I asked

her....Do you drink Diet pop? She told me yes, as a matter of fact she was

getting ready to crack one open that moment....I told her not to open it,

and stop drinking the diet pop....and I emailed her the following

article. She called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and

told me she stopped drinking the diet pop, and she can walk...she went up

the stairs, and the muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel

100% but sure felt a lot better. She told me she was going to her doctors

with this article and would call me back when she got home.

She called me, and her doctor was amazed, he is going to call all of his MS

patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweetener....In a

nutshell, she was being poisoned by the aspartame in the diet soda, dying

a slow death.

When she got to FL March 22nd, all she had to take was one pill, and that

was a pill for poisoning....she is well on her way to recovery.....and

she is walking!!!!! No wheelchair!!!! This article saved her life!!!! The

life saving article:

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, that it

was hard to understand 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

Eformaldehyde 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. People

were being diagnosed with having multiple sclerosis in error. The multiple

sclerosis is not a death sentence, where 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,

aggravating the lupus to such a degree that it may become life threatening.

We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptomatic once taken

off diet sodas. In the case 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 returned and hearing improved markedly.

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 some of these

symptoms: Is it reversible? " Yes! Not drinking diet sodas and keeping an

eye out for aspartame on food labels, yes!

We have a very serious problem. A stranger came up to Dr. Espisto (one of

my speakers) and me 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! Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi etc. IS NOT A

DIET PRODUCT! The Congressional Record states that it makes you crave

carbohydrates and will make you FAT. The formaldehyde stores in the fat

cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Once off these products with no

significant increase in exercise, etc., Dr. in his lecture stated

that he had patient who lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.

Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that physicians

would believe that they have a patient with retinopathy, when in fact the

symptoms are 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 without the other amino

acids found in protein. Thus it passes the blood brain barrier and

deteriorates the neurons of the brain, causing in diabetics (as well as in

patients not suffering from diabetes) various kinds of brain damage,

seizures, depression, manic depression, panic attacks, rage, violence. (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 early pregnancy. Children are

espcially at risk for neurological disorders and should NOT be given

NutraSweet. I can relate different case histories of children having mal

seizures and other disturbances being on NutraSweet. Unfortunately it is

not always easy to convince a mother that aspartame is to blame for

her child's illness. Only by trial and success will she be able to warn

other mothers to take their children's health in their own hands.

Stevia, a sweet herb, NOT A MANUFACTURED ADDITIVE, which helps in the

metabolism of sugar (which would be ideal for diabetics) has now been

approved as a dietary supplement by the FDA. For years the FDA has outlawed

this sweet food because of their loyalty to MONSANTO. Books on this subject

are available: EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT KILLS - written by Dr.

Blayblock (Health Press 1-) and DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S

DISEASE - written by DR H. J. , also a diabetic specialist. These

two doctors will be posting a position paper with some 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 caused by this deadly

poison. " 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

has 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!!!!! I assure you, MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame knows how

deadly it is. They fund among others, the American Diabetes Association,

the American Dietetic Association, the Conference of the American College

of Physicians. This has been exposed in the New York Times - to no avail.

These Associations cannot criticize any additives or convey their link to

MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and have to endorse

their products. Senator Hetzenbaum wrote a bill that would have

warned all infants, pregnant mothers and children of the dangers of

aspartame. The bill would have also instituted independent studies on the

problems existing in the population (seizures, changes in brain chemistry,

changes neurological and behavioral; symptoms). It was killed by the

powerful drug and chemical lobbies, letting loose the hounds of disease and

death on an unsuspecting public.

Please print this out or e-mail to family and friends. Here are some more

links to websites.

http://www.nancymarkle.com/ ,

http://www.ethicalinvesting.com/monsanto/markle.shtml

http://www.aspartametruth.com