Water Options!!!

I'm addicted to a slice of lemon in my water.

Herbal teas are a great replacement for water and you can usually drink them hot or iced.

I avoid anything with Aspartame. Why? Read the following article and make your own decision.

A MUST READ re: ASPARTAME ~ A SWEET POISON

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 the 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 '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.

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 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 behavioral 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! YOU HAVE A
RIGHT TO KNOW!
Please print this out and/or copy & paste then e-mail to your family and
friends.

They have a right to know too.

Personal Note: Everytime I eat or drink anything with Aspartame in it...I immediately get a migraine. That's just me (and maybe millions of others). Combine Aspartame with MSG...what chance does anyone have. It's easy to slough off the many articles written about these two "drugs" (YESS they ARE drugs) but the fact that article upon article when you google them ...the story is the same convinced me that it must be so.

Ask yourself this ~ Would you drink wood alcohol???Thank You for this information, I did make a copy of it. I practically live on diet pepsi.