Re: Fw: Medical barb

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Hi barb long no so see or hear from you. Glad to see you post.

yep this hit home for me, i drink diet coke, big time. >>!!! everyday.

I was test for MS to before the RP stuff started.

sort of weird isn't it.

thanks for the info

dawn

Harvey Freedman wrote:

PLEASE, LADIES, READ THIS AND DO YOU HAVE ANY INPUT? - BARB----------From: Harvey Freedman To: Barbara Freedman Subject: MedicalDate: Thursday, September 05, 2002 4:37 PMBarb,You MUST read this and pass it along to ALL your polychondritis people.Also anyone else interested in medical matters.Love HDiet Coke or Not? INTERESTING! Please read this!!!! In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick, she had stomachspasms, she was having a hard time getting around, to walk was a majorchore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in somuch pain. By March 2002, she had undergone biopsies, and was on 24 variousprescription medications. The doctors could not figure out what was wrongwith 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 oldestdaughters name, and made sure her younger children were to be with heroldest 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 toask her how one of her tests went, and she said they didn't find anythingon 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 wasgetting 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 followingarticle. She called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation andtold me she stopped drinking the diet pop, and she can walk...she went upthe stairs, and the muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel100% but sure felt a lot better. She told me she was going to her doctorswith 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 MSpatients to find out if they consumed artificial sweetener....In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the aspartame in the diet soda, dyinga slow death. When she got to FL March 22nd, all she had to take was one pill, and thatwas a pill for poisoning....she is well on her way to recovery.....andshe is walking!!!!! No wheelchair!!!! This article saved her life!!!! Thelife 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 CONFERENCEon "ASPARTAME" marketed as 'NutraSweet', 'Equal', and 'Spoonful'. In thekeynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United States in2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus, that itwas hard to understand what toxin was causing this to be rampant. I stoodup and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject. I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of thissweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts toEformaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolicacidosis. (Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants.) Themethanol toxicity mimics among other conditions multiple sclerosis. Peoplewere being diagnosed with having multiple sclerosis in error. The multiplesclerosis 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 doesnot 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 takenoff diet sodas. In the case of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis,(when in reality, the disease is methanol toxicity), most of the symptomsdisappear. 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, shootingpains, 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 thesesymptoms: Is it reversible?" Yes! Not drinking diet sodas and keeping aneye out for aspartame on food labels, yes! We have a very serious problem. A stranger came up to Dr. Espisto (one ofmy speakers) and me and said: "Could you tell me why so many people seem tobe coming down with MS?" During a visit to a hospice, a nurse said that sixof 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 ADIET PRODUCT! The Congressional Record states that it makes you cravecarbohydrates and will make you FAT. The formaldehyde stores in the fatcells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Once off these products with nosignificant increase in exercise, etc., Dr. in his lecture statedthat he had patient who lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that physicianswould believe that they have a patient with retinopathy, when in fact thesymptoms are caused by aspartame. The aspartame drives the blood sugar outof control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the factthat aspartic acid and phenylalanine are neurotoxic without the other aminoacids found in protein. Thus it passes the blood brain barrier anddeteriorates the neurons of the brain, causing in diabetics (as well as inpatients not suffering from diabetes) various kinds of brain damage,seizures, depression, manic depression, panic attacks, rage, violence. (TheAspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed bymen and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for thewell-known Gulf War Syndrome.) Dr. warns that it can cause birth defects i.e. mental retardationif taken at the time of conception and early pregnancy. Children areespcially at risk for neurological disorders and should NOT be givenNutraSweet. I can relate different case histories of children having malseizures and other disturbances being on NutraSweet. Unfortunately it isnot 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 warnother mothers to take their children's health in their own hands. Stevia, a sweet herb, NOT A MANUFACTURED ADDITIVE, which helps in themetabolism of sugar (which would be ideal for diabetics) has now beenapproved as a dietary supplement by the FDA. For years the FDA has outlawedthis sweet food because of their loyalty to MONSANTO. Books on this subjectare 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. Thesetwo 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 aretalking about a plague of neurological diseases caused by this deadlypoison." Here is the problem: There were Congressional Hearings whenaspartame was included in 100 different products. Since this initialhearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, but to no avail. Nothinghas been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets.Now there are over 5,000 products containing this chemical, and the PATENTHAS EXPIRED!!!!! I assure you, MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame knows howdeadly it is. They fund among others, the American Diabetes Association,the American Dietetic Association, the Conference of the American Collegeof Physicians. This has been exposed in the New York Times - to no avail. These Associations cannot criticize any additives or convey their link toMONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and have to endorsetheir products. Senator Hetzenbaum wrote a bill that would havewarned all infants, pregnant mothers and children of the dangers ofaspartame. The bill would have also instituted independent studies on theproblems existing in the population (seizures, changes in brain chemistry,changes neurological and behavioral; symptoms). It was killed by thepowerful drug and chemical lobbies, letting loose the hounds of disease anddeath on an unsuspecting public. Please print this out or e-mail to family and friends. Here are some morelinks to websites. http://www.nancymarkle.com/ , http://www.ethicalinvesting.com/monsanto/markle.shtml http://www.aspartametruth.com