Aspartame - diet drinks

[WGD]

Got sent this via e-mail, how do you know if it's a hoax???

 

WGD

 

SWEET POISON

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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, lifeinsurance, 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 m y 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 ‘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 sclerosi s, 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 fibromyalgia.

 

During a lecture, I said, “If you are using ASPARTAME (NutraSwe et, 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!â€

 

People were jumping up during the lecture saying, “I have some of these symptoms. Is it reversible?â€

 

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. Roberts 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 bloodsugar 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 t he blood/brain barrierand 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 were being “poisoned†on a daily basis with the very foods that were “better for them than sugar.â€

 

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. Roberts 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.â€

 

Herein lies the problem:

 

There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included 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 Howard 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 popu lation 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!

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[Big_Sam]

Aspartame is known to be harmful, the USA are quite strict with its use.

[Dr W]

Guess it only effects a few people and to be fair something is going to get you in the end.

 

If you drink the full sugar version your teeth will fall out so you makes your choice and takes your chances.

[Mungler]

Always go with Snopes:

 

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

[Hunter]

Sugar doesnt dissolve teeth. Its the bacteria that feeds of sugar that damages the teeth. All you have to do is look after your teeth.

As a kid I ate all kinds of sugary ****, but I always brushed me teeth once or twice a day

 

Aspartame is actually banned in some US states, and restricted in others. Nasty stuff.

Get some real sugar in you, its not bad for you. (unless you are diabetic)

[njc110381]

Isn't it funny that you never really hear about stuff like this from the government? Seeing as smoking, drinking and anything else fun is bad for you and needs taxing to reduce its impact on the population it makes you wonder whether they actually care for us or just want to make as many £s as they can out of us? I have a great example of this. My girlfriend went to uni with a German girl. To cut a long story short she got a bad cold so we went out and bought her loads of Lemsips etc and took them to her. She used them far a day or so, then happened to read the label on something we'd bought her. She stopped using it, some of the chemicals in the remedies were banned in Germany

 

Just a note to end on. Isn't it funny that all these items have "contains aspartame" written on the label? I wonder if it's so that if anyone comes back in the future trying to sue the manufacturer over some nasty side effect, they have a getout clause? Makes you think doesn't it.

[Cranfield]

Always go with Snopes:

 

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

 

What did we ever do before "Snopes" ?

Damn I love that website.

[Oly]

Always go with Snopes:

 

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

 

What did we ever do before "Snopes" ?

Damn I love that website.

 

Yeah, cause it looks like it's an accurate reliable source!

 

Aspartame is a bio-accumulator, so it stays in your system and accumulates throughout your life. Once it gets to sufficient quantities/toxicity it is very closely linked to the development of brain tumours in high aspartame users. Admitadley it's not proven yet, but neither was smoking and lung cancer for a long time , I wonder if the likes of Coke/Pepsi have anything to do with that given that aspartame is their main substitute for sugar in their diet products (as per 90% of everything else 'diet')! Wouldn't touch the stuff with a barge pole!

[Dr W]

Show me the evidence and I'll believe you but nothing so far proved also as soon as any proof was found they stop marketing it as they wouldn't want to risk being sued for millions.

 

Personally I like my Pepsi Max and will continue to drink it, I reckon exercise will kill more people than Aspartame

[Dunkield]

I reckon exercise will kill more people than Aspartame

Quote of the day

[JohnGalway]

...they stop marketing it as they wouldn't want to risk being sued for millions.

 

Erm, two words, tobacco companies.

[Chard]

I'm not completely at ease with aspartame, though I use loads of it, in the form of sweetener in tea/coffee. I don't drink a lot of fizzy ****, but I drink gallons of tea/cofee.

 

I've got loads of those symptoms and I suspect a lot of people have. I think the "antis" are particularly rabid and hysterical about this stuff, a bit like ALF and vegans - they lie constantly

 

However, as I say, I am suspicious of it. I won't use sugar, because I'm overweight, I don't like Sweetex, because it's bitter, not sweet I think one day, they'll have some kind of proof of the harm it does. In the meantime, the hysterical wailing of the antis is actually losing credibility for their cause (as usual with antis of all types)

 

I did hear somewhere that aspartame was a byproduct of research into developing chemical weapons I think I'll go and make another WMD coffee

[Dr W]

I reckon exercise will kill more people than Aspartame

Quote of the day

 

Backed up by FACT from science of sport website

 

Now, we cannot deny, in the light of the last few months' events, that sudden death is a problem during exercise

 

(I might have cherry picked the sentance but it's still there in black & white that exercise is bad for you).

 

With regards to tabacco companies they are now ok as they put health warnings on their products, once Pepsi and Coke start doing the same then I'll stop drinking the stuff.

[Ferret Master]

Sitting here drinking a full fat coke.

 

AHH sugary goodness...

[Dr W]

Stop drinking it quickly

 

Is sugar bad for you?

The white crystalline substance we know of as sugar is an unnatural substance produced by industrial processes (mostly from sugar cane or sugar beets) by refining it down to pure sucrose, after stripping away all the vitamins, minerals, proteins, enzymes and other beneficial nutrients.

 

What is left is a concentrated unnatural substance which the human body is not able to handle, at least not in anywhere near the quantities that is now ingested in today's accepted lifestyle. Sugar is addictive. The average American now consumes approximately 115 lbs. of sugar per year. This is per man, woman and child.

 

The biggest reason sugar does more damage than any other poison, drug or narcotic is twofold:

 

(a) It is considered a "food" and ingested in such massive quantities, and

( The damaging effects begin early, from the day a baby is born and is fed sugar in its formula. Even mothers milk is contaminated with it if the mother eats sugar, and

© Practically 95% of people are addicted to it to some degree or other.

Edited January 24, 2008 by Dr W

[Dunkield]

Now, we cannot deny, in the light of the last few months' events, that sudden death is a problem during exercise

A footballer died, did I miss something else?

Either way, I would rather stay fit enough to run up flights of stairs without hawking my guts up, than being one of those fat fizzy drink swilling slobs we see round and about.

[Dr W]

Don't say I didn't warn you

[paul65]

I don't drink stuff with aspartame in because it tastes disgusting.

 

I see that even normal lemonade such as R Whites contains it now. What's that all about? Is it cheaper than sugar or what?

My missus drinks some of these sweet or trendy ciders and they contain aspartame too. It's foul stuff that leaves a nasty aftertaste.

[tazkb]

being diabetic i have reduced my sugar intake by quite a lot and now use a sweetener

splenda is my favourite but i don't know if it contains aspartame ?

[artful badger]

anyone that denies that ARTIFICIAL sweetners are derogitory to our health are ignorant. e numbers and aspatame are clearly poisons, the man that says refined sugar isnt natural is talking ********. its refined but it is still part of a natural component.

 

does anybody remember thalidimide, what a great drug that was. it only took about 10 years to figure out that the no limbed babies were because of that., if you want to drink nasty diet coke( i can tell the effects of it in my head and on my taste buds) then carry on, you gonna be the retard in a chair when your 70, mashing your food in a blender.

 

call me a cynic but trust me, ive had enough experience with drugs to know when something is killing my brain, hence i give it all up and dont even smoke anymore.