Sweet Poison......A Must Read !!!!!!

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> >I know this is quite a long mail, but please read it. It is most
> >informative and may help someone you know or indeed yourself. Google
> >Aspartame if you want confirmation.
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> >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.
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> >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.
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> >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.
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> >She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida
> >(basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd.
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> >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.
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> >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.
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> >I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda! I
> >e-mailed her an 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.
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> >She told me she was going to her doctor with this article and would call
> >me when she got home.
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> >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 artificiasweeteners
> >ofof any kind. In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in
> >the diet soda... and literally dying a slow and miserable death.
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> >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.
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> >If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label; DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!
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> >I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE
> >on 'ASPARTAME,' marketed as 'NutraSweet,' 'Equal,' and 'Spoonful.'
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> >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.
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> >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.
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> >Many people were being diagnosed in error. Although multiple sclerosis
> >is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity is!
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> >Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis,
> >especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers.
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> >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.
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> >In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the symptoms
> >disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss re turned and hearing
> >loss improved markedly.
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> >This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia. During a
> >lecture, I said, 'If you are using ASPARTAME (Nutriara 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?'
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> >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!
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> >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.
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> >It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight!
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> >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.'
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> >Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT
> >store it IN our body!
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> >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.
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> >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 NEURO TOXIC when taken
> >without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance.
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> >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.
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> >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.
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> >So called 'behavior modification prescription drugs' (Ritalin and others)
> >are no longer needed. Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first
> >place!
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> >Most of these children were being 'poisoned' on a daily basis with the
> >very foods that were 'better for them than sugar.'
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> >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.
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> >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.
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> >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.'
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> >Herein lies the 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.
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> >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.'
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> >I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is.
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> >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?
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> >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.
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> >Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require
> >label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding
> >pregnant women, children and infants.
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> >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.
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> >The bill was killed.
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> >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. Please print this out or e-mail to your family &
> >friends.