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In a message dated 7/1/2003 3:56:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, SLumadue@CPRavinia.com writes:

Subject: Important info and great article on artificial sweetners and diet
sodas...

>Diet Drinks and Health Problems
>
>"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 FL
>(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 ASPARTAME 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, aggravating 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 in the hips and thighs. Once off these products with
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.
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