You’Re Informed Now

[babykeiff]

In October of 2001, a woman 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. 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, life-insurance, 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 22^nd.

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 emailed 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 emailed her the article my friend, a lawyer, had sent. She 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 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; 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 (NutraSweet, 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?’

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.

One of the 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 blood sugar 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 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.

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 behaviour when these chemicals have been removed from their diet. So called ‘behaviour 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.’

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.’

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 population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry, neurological changes and behavioural 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!

[DailyDi]

Though the Aspartame people claim there's no connection, it gives me terrible headaches anytime I have some. I know it is real as I've had it happen after eating food I thought was normal and when the pain hit checked the label and found I had been poisoned by this evil chemical.

[Diseased88]

Is this legit? or another internet scare tactic by one group or another? *checks soda*

If this is legit, Heilig Scheiße!

[superdiaperbaby]

Is this legit? or another internet scare tactic by one group or another? *checks soda*

If this is legit, Heilig Scheiße!

Urban legend reposted since 1996:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blasp.htm

Apparently there is no evidence to back up this claim.

SDB

[Sophie ♥]

I did a report on this for a newspaper at my school. I'm no chemist, but all the articles I found support the original poster.

-S

[jbz2079]

I have a friend, he's a chef, so he tends to keep up with what is going on in his industry.

He brought an article nearly identical to this to my attension last year.

He also reckoned that this stuff was getting hard to avoid because the were starting to put it stuff like ready meals

and take aways as a flavour enhancer.

i haven't go a clue personally how they would start to tackle this when all companies involved completely

denie and ignore any health threat.

Surley someone somewhere must know the truth about this stuff and have the power and werewithall to actually

do something about it.

[ajc2000]

Based on government research reviews and recommendations from advisory bodies such as the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Food and the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, aspartame has been found to be safe for human consumption by more than ninety countries worldwide.

(Wikipedia)

[jbz2079]

I,ve been thinking while going about this morning, Was there not the same fears not so long ago about Monosodium Glutimate, another flavour

enhancer used in food production?

[Bettypooh]

Dunno if it's true or not but you are what you eat I have digestive issues which were brought on by a totally rotten diet of fast food and junk food and soda. After surgery I began to see the light and now I eat foods as close to their natural form as I can I read the labels on prepackaged foods and you ought to try that too- in no time at all you'll be doing what I do. There are so many unnecessary additives and chemicals in there that you'll be astounded While the FDA says that each one is safe nobody has tested them in combination with each other- and you're their guniea pig

America is essentially poisoning itself by what it eats So do yourself a favor and drop the BS stuff from your diet- eat as naturally as you can with lots of veggies compared to meats. I promise you that you'll feel much better after your body rids itself of the poisons you've been feeding it That may take a few weeks but the body has an amazing capacity to heal itself if you give it what it needs to do that. Fill it full of chemicals and you'll become a statistic in one way or another. Maybe you'll get lucky like I did and still have most of yourself when the surgeons get finished and get another chance to learn- and maybe not.

Bettypooh

[Darkfinn]

Just because it has been delcared "safe for human consumption" does not mean it is good for your body... especially in large amounts.

We don't use anything containing artificial sweetners in our household. It gives my fiancee horrible headaches.

If it has "0" calories and is a product other than water, something unnatural is going on folks.

[Junibug 4 Lucy]

i cant have Aspartame it upsets my tummy so we are careful....and also sucrose (i think that's it!) when i was younger my mummy would not let me have it and told me why....when i got tummy ache as a teen she made me check for it and she was right!

this was before Aspartame was used a lot, my mother-in-law pointed out that it was probably the cause as i was bad with sucrose....

just a note on msg (Monosodium Glutimate) that affects me too leavening me weak and joints ache, and im not the only one...i am sensitive to a lot of things so this isnt surprising

we tend not to buy ready made foods or jars and packets, we cook from scratch to avoid things that affect me...and to give the best to our son

avoid these things were you can, it better for you!!

thats not to say we dont have the odd treat!!

juniper

xxx

[babykeiff]

As superdiaperbaby states, what I posted is a copy of what is published in 'Urban Legends'

Aspartame is an artificial sweetener. It has a similar molecular structure to sugar, but without the glucose content. In simple biology, glucose is the 'energy' required for biological cells - humans power source. The body metabolizes aspartame using the exact same process as it would for sugar. This destroys a percentage of cells during division.

Although short term clinical tests have, what is classed as 'negligible effects' on the human system by the FDA, long term exposure to this substance has been calculated by independent microbiologists as fatal because-

1 - It severely reduces the body’s ability to duplicate cells, and therefore repair itself.

2- Its effects are cumulative

3- It is classed, by some, as one of the causes of cancer - the uncontrolled division of cells as the body tries to adapt to its effects.

[babykeiff]

Based on government research reviews and recommendations from advisory bodies such as the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Food and the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, aspartame has been found to be safe for human consumption by more than ninety countries worldwide.

(Wikipedia)

Aspatame is used as an artifical sweetener in over 2,000 products worldwide, and its use is growing. Even combined, if every food agency tested the combinations, mathematically it would take 10²¹⁵⁷⁴⁶ years to complete.

[babykeiff]

It was in 1500 that the notion of a substance as a panacea became prevalent. In that year, a Portuguese explorer, Pedro Alvarez Cabral, in Brazil, reported the use of the herb betum for treating ulcerated abscesses, fistulas, sores, inveterate polyps and many other ailments, and said it was called the holy herb because of its powerful virtue in desperate cases. Also, reports on medicinal use of this substance by Native American populations continued to emerge in quantity. For example, in 1529, a Spanish missionary priest, Bernadino de Sahagun, collected information from four Mexican physicians about its use for medicinal purposes. He recorded that breathing the odour of fresh green leaves of the plant relieved persistent headaches. For colds and catarrh, green or powdered leaves should be rubbed around inside the mouth. Diseases of glands in the neck could be cured by cutting out the root of the lesion and placing on it crushed plant hot and mixed with salt, on the same spot.

500 years later, we KNOW that the substance causes death, yet it is still sold today. The drug / plant / substance I am refering to is commercially know as tobacco.

Do we need to wait for 500 years, and worldwide, billions of deaths before we question artificial sweeteners?

[Creepymouse]

My mother and I each get terrible headaches from ingesting aspartame, so I believe it. If you've ever noticed on the label of aspartame-sweetened products "Phenylketoneuronics - contains Phenylanine", my understanding is that some individuals are unable to metabolize the chemical completely, and the metabolic residue can cause side effects, but I haven't studied it extensively.

Nevertheless, there's a reason 'zero calorie' sweeteners are rare in nature. We're not meant to be consuming thousands of calories of refined sugars! Water! Remember? Its that clear stuff you drink, the unflavored kind? Not to mention the huge proportion of things like phosphoric acid and stuff.

[sarah_ab]

i drink a diet coke every day, it has aspartame in it. I dont get headaches, it doesn't make me sick in any way.

[Guest MunchKitten]

my dad has drank Diet Pepsi for over 20 years, hes fine, Aspartame is fine with me (its in my Flavored water from Walmart, and in my Coke Zero.)

[babyvr6]

Hey BK! You forgot to mention that it causes brain tumors! I try to avoid any artificial sweetener if I can. And more recently I've been avoiding the city water when I can. Fluoride is a horrible compound that causes brain impairment and god knows what else, so I don't think I'll be drinking too much of that if I can avoid it.

[sarah_ab]

sooo they do all these tests right and find all these things that cause cancer in white lab rats... anyone wonder if maybe white lab rats are just prone to cancer?

[Dougie]

Snopes Doesn't Agree

[Brutal]

All people have to do is apply two rules:

Rule 1: The Roach Rule - If cockroaches don't eat it... then don't touch it. I'm not saying to eat what roaches eat. But certainly, if a roach won't touch it... well it can't be good. Incidentally, roaches don't eat artificial sweetners.

Rule 2: The 10 year old rule - If a ten year old couldn't pronounce the substance on the label... chances are you shouldn't put it in your body. If you can't find the term in websters dictionary then don't consume it.

Whatever happened to people drinking water, milk, juice, tea and coffee? I guess carmalized carbonated battery acid is just so much more appealing. The cancer sweetners just add a cherry on top cause it's DIEt.

[BabyJune]

My doctor has a rule: If it tastes good, don't eat it. If it doesn't taste good, it's good for you.