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This is something I found online today about Aspartame and why it is so bad for you, sometimes fatal. PLEASE read this if you drink or eat anything that says DIET, SUGAR FREE, LOW FAT…or just read the labels and see if it contains Aspartame! Please don’t use this stuff…use organic sweeteners like splenda or stevia or HONEY.
I did not write any of this it is an article I found.
“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 (Nutra 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?'
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 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 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 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 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.
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!
Please print this out and/or e-mail to your family and friends.
Here is a story that came with this article:
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.
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.
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 22nd.
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 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.
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.
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'Nutra Sweet,' '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 did not write any of this it is an article I found.
“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 (Nutra 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?'
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 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 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 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 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.
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!
Please print this out and/or e-mail to your family and friends.
Here is a story that came with this article:
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.
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.
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 22nd.
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 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.
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.
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'Nutra Sweet,' '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.”
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I read this somewhere else a while back. Very scary. I do use Splenda at home but I drink a lot of diet pop and I use drink mix packets in my water... I don't know what they use to sweeten those but it is probably aspartame or something similar : / I did good for a while staying away from that stuff but I slowly slipped back into it. They actually make a Diet Coke with Splenda and it's pretty good. I am going to get one of those pitchers that you put fruit in to flavor water!0
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Interesting, because most of the peer reviewed studies have shown mixed results on the health impacts of aspertine, and usually only in higher doses.
I've met goal weight and drink diet soda from time to time.......moderation works folks.0 -
I read this somewhere else a while back. Very scary. I do use Splenda at home but I drink a lot of diet pop and I use drink mix packets in my water... I don't know what they use to sweeten those but it is probably aspartame or something similar : / I did good for a while staying away from that stuff but I slowly slipped back into it. They actually make a Diet Coke with Splenda and it's pretty good. I am going to get one of those pitchers that you put fruit in to flavor water!
Good idea. And yes it is Aspartame in diet sodas...and in diet foods like yogurt...I had bought some "fat free" yogurt once cause I wanted to save on calories and my son loves yogurt and wanted some for breakfast one day so I gave him some before we went to his grandmas...well he started crying half way there and threw up all over the car! It was bad. So we try not to buy anything that has aspartame in it...if the regular version is to many calories than I just don't buy it..we probably don't need to be eating it anyway....there are yogurts out there you can eat that are lower calorie but with out Aspartame to compensate.0 -
Interesting, because most of the peer reviewed studies have shown mixed results on the health impacts of aspertine, and usually only in higher doses.
I've met goal weight and drink diet soda from time to time.......moderation works folks.
yes I know lots of people that drink diet soda and dont have any bad reactions, and Im sure that most people don't ingest enough to notice anything...but you are still putting a poison in your body and it could have long term effects one day down the road....seems like every one ends up with some sort of cancer these days and they have no idea why and I can't help but believe it has to do with years of putting things in our bodies that we thought were harmless but turns out they are...along with environmental things that we cant really avoid like air pollution and such...0 -
I had a diet pop the other day. And right now I have a mild headache. Am I dying?0
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If man made it, don't eat it....0
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I am not by any means judging any one who chooses to drink or eat these things at all. I know there are things I eat that I should not... It is your own choice and right to decide what you put in your body....I just want to put the information out there so that we all are able to make more informed choices and know what we are really doing...I mean isnt that what we are doing here with calories? Learning what we are really eating and how many calories it really has......If anyone has any other information on things we eat or drink I would love to hear it as well
I am on a quest for to learn all I can about healthy eating and doing the best for my body...we only get once chance at it! LOL 0 -
Oh good lord, not this AGAIN.
Aspartame has been declared safe for use in over 90 countries. There is no scientific evidence of negative health effects except at levels that are way higher than any human being would ever consume, with the obvious exception of people who are sensitive to aspartame, especially to phenlyalinine. The only time the safety of aspartame has ever come into question in the United States, it was because there were some questions about the methodology used in the original safety studies and NOT because there was any positive evidence of negative health effects.0 -
I had a diet pop the other day. And right now I have a mild headache. Am I dying?
probably not...but it could be causing your headache....maybe, maybe not. Obviously you did not ingest enough to cause bad side effects or you have slowly been poisoning yourself for so long that you don't notice...maybe you could test the theory and keep a journal of when you drink it and what side effects you do or do not have....but if you like your soda and don't mind a headache or two then by all means keep doing what you like.0 -
If man made it, don't eat it....
So do you not eat chicken, beef, carrots, cabbage or broccoli because they were all made by man? Do you not take medications because they are produced in a lab?0 -
I used to drink diet soda all the time, couldn't even stand the taste of non-diet soda. I don't typically drink soda now...unless its in a mixed drink and that's very rare.I prefer flavoured sparkling water or seltzer that has no sweeteners or artificial anything. I love it and its so much more refreshing. Aspartame hides in many things though. Sugar free candies, gum, drink mixes.0
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If man made it, don't eat it....
yea this seems to be more and more true these days....a shame. It makes me wanna grow my own garden and try not to have to buy anything...cause even fresh produce and meats these days may have something wrong with them depending on how they were grown or treated before they got to the store...just like the wax coating on fruit to make is shiny....0 -
Oh good lord, not this AGAIN.
Aspartame has been declared safe for use in over 90 countries. There is no scientific evidence of negative health effects except at levels that are way higher than any human being would ever consume, with the obvious exception of people who are sensitive to aspartame, especially to phenlyalinine. The only time the safety of aspartame has ever come into question in the United States, it was because there were some questions about the methodology used in the original safety studies and NOT because there was any positive evidence of negative health effects.
and that is fine...you have obviously done the research and weighed the facts and based on that decided that the risk is one you can accept and live with...that is your right. You made an informed choice...that is all I am supporting here....I have done research as well and I have made my informed choice as well and it is that I do not want to eat this stuff...and I won't feed it to my kids (which have already shown sensitivity to it). Thank you for you added information and view on the subject. I still personally chose not to eat it.0 -
If man made it, don't eat it....
That's what I say when my husband try's to cook :laugh:0 -
If man made it, don't eat it....
That's what I say when my husband try's to cook :laugh:
AHHAHAHAHAHA! WIN! YOU WIN. To funny!0 -
I had a diet pop the other day. And right now I have a mild headache. Am I dying?
probably not...but it could be causing your headache....maybe, maybe not. Obviously you did not ingest enough to cause bad side effects or you have slowly been poisoning yourself for so long that you don't notice...maybe you could test the theory and keep a journal of when you drink it and what side effects you do or do not have....but if you like your soda and don't mind a headache or two then by all means keep doing what you like.
Wowza....I didn't drink a diet pop the other day or have a headache right now. I just being sarcastic.
I don't drink pop, but only because I don't like carbonation. As for slowly poisoning myself...I am currently smoking, so diet pop is like, childs-play to me. Carry on.0 -
I had a diet pop the other day. And right now I have a mild headache. Am I dying?
probably not...but it could be causing your headache....maybe, maybe not. Obviously you did not ingest enough to cause bad side effects or you have slowly been poisoning yourself for so long that you don't notice...maybe you could test the theory and keep a journal of when you drink it and what side effects you do or do not have....but if you like your soda and don't mind a headache or two then by all means keep doing what you like.
Wowza....I didn't drink a diet pop the other day or have a headache right now. I just being sarcastic.
I don't drink pop, but only because I don't like carbonation. As for slowly poisoning myself...I am currently smoking, so diet pop is like, childs-play to me. Carry on.
I am well aware that you were being sarcastic....but sarcasm does not ever help anything so I was ignoring it...sorry you missed that.0 -
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meh,.. i like a diet coke here and there.0
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How many people have actually had their cause of death listed as "aspartame poisoning"?0
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I see what you did there....that's funny. Really....0 -
SPENDA ORGANIC!!!! I use the stuff daily but I know it's not organic.
That's where I stopped reading.0 -
How many people have actually had their cause of death listed as "aspartame poisoning"?
Oooh you beat me to it!
But what she said. Seeing as it's "sometimes fatal" I'm sure it won't be hard to produce one case of aspartame poisoning... do let us know.0 -
meh,.. i like a diet coke here and there.
Cool...0 -
Oh good lord, not this AGAIN.
Aspartame has been declared safe for use in over 90 countries. There is no scientific evidence of negative health effects except at levels that are way higher than any human being would ever consume, with the obvious exception of people who are sensitive to aspartame, especially to phenlyalinine. The only time the safety of aspartame has ever come into question in the United States, it was because there were some questions about the methodology used in the original safety studies and NOT because there was any positive evidence of negative health effects.
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I found something online about how upper middle-class housewives have an affinity for working-class domestic workers.0
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How many people have actually had their cause of death listed as "aspartame poisoning"?
Oooh you beat me to it!
But what she said. Seeing as it's "sometimes fatal" I'm sure it won't be hard to produce one case of aspartame poisoning... do let us know.
"Sometimes fatal" got me too.0 -
How many people have actually had their cause of death listed as "aspartame poisoning"?
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