chrisberez
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Is Aspartame dangerous? I say no, and so does Snopes. However, does anyone know of any other studies I can pull up to gain more credibility?
Let me put this in context. My mom is one of those people that believes aspartame is responsible for serious health risks. Today I got forwarded the following email:
[EDIT] Notice that most of the email matches that on snopes ALMOST EXACTLY.
Why hello, nice to meet you. You must be Mr. Hoax.
I don't buy this for a second. Any thoughts? Other resources?
Let me put this in context. My mom is one of those people that believes aspartame is responsible for serious health risks. Today I got forwarded the following email:
[EDIT] Notice that most of the email matches that on snopes ALMOST EXACTLY.
subject: diet drinks
Reading this information & sharing it, might mean saving a life or
improving the quality of someone's life, maybe yours.
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
Florida (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 APARTAME 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,
irritating 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 no significant increase in exercise, etc., Dr. Roberts
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. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects i.e. mental retardation
if taken at the time of conception and early pregnancy. Children are
especially 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. Russell Blayblock (Health Press 1-800-643-2665) and DEFENSE
AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE - written by DR H. J. Roberts, 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 Howard 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.nancymarkle.com/
http://www.ethicalinvesting.com/monsanto/markle.stml
This info may help some of you.. Just passing this forwarded message
along.
Do you pay regular visits yourself ?
Don't argue or answer rationally.
-- Jalaluddin Rumi --
Why hello, nice to meet you. You must be Mr. Hoax.
I don't buy this for a second. Any thoughts? Other resources?
