Aspartame
Date: Friday, April 18, 2008 8:08 AM
Subject: SWEET POISON - Artificial Sweeteners - A MUST READ
From: Kelly
To: Bob Butts
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.
All her tests were inconclusive. 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
believed 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.
I e-mailed her the article my friend, a lawyer, had sent.
My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told me she
had stopp ed 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.
This is also found in all chewing gum and most flavored yogurt. Yes - read the
ingredients. You need to and have a right to know too. It is aspartame
poisoning.
In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda . . and
literally dying a slow and miserable death.
If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label; D O 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 was an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. It was
difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this to be rampant.
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 toxici ty 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 asymptomatic, 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.
'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 visi on, or m emory loss,
you probably have ASPARTAME poisoning!'
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.
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 us
ed pri mar ily 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, d epress ion, 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.'
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 durin g earl y pr egnancy.
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.
Talk 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 Asp artame ,
kno ws 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 behavioral
symptoms.
The bill was killed.
It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible for thi
s, let ting l oose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting and
uninformed public. Well, you're Informed now!
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW !
Kelly Higgs
NJ Department of Health & Senior Services
Senior Benefits & Utilization Management
Eligibility Department
kelly.higgs@doh.state.nj.us
Date: October 27, 2005
From: Mae Kamin
Forty Fort, PA
To: Bob Butts
In the early 1980’s, while living in Virginia, I started to use a new artificial sweetener called “EQUAL.” I was always watching my weight and it sounded good, so I decided to try it. At that exact time I began having some intestinal problems, a loud rumbling and a lot of movement in my small and large intestines (if you looked closely you could actually see my lower abdomen in spasm). It was so strong at times it made me nauseous and was painful and uncomfortable.
I mentioned this to my chiropractor and he suggested I go home and bring a packet of it for him to check. I put some under my tongue as he held his hands on my lower abdomen. The loud noise and movement began immediately. He advised me to stop taking EQUAL and to watch other products I consumed to make sure they did not contain aspartame, as it appeared I was highly allergic to some component in this product.
I stopped using EQUAL and the problem stopped as quickly as it had come. I did not have any aspartame for years. The problem never returned. In 1986 I moved to Pennsylvania and was attending a party at my daughter’s home and someone gave me a soft drink. I didn’t even think and drank it and immediately became ill with the same symptoms as back in the 80’s. I checked the bottle and I had consumed a diet drink with aspartame. Since then I always check all things I purchase in grocery stores, as well as in restaurants to be sure I am not getting any aspartame.
From that time until the present, I have not had any recurrence of that problem.
Mae Kamin
Forty Fort, PA
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