Diet Sodas and artifical sweeteners.

[BKJ1216]

In Reply to Artificial Sweetner's ie. Nurtasweet by Monsanto posted by Lynne O'Larey on March 13, 1999 at 133949 Just to let you folks know but I also heard that aspertain was also used as a chemical warfare agent back in the 50's by the US government.

 

Important Warning!! I received this information by E-mail from my daughter Diana and felt  it should be posted everywhere possible. I have always felt that artificial sweeteners were bad for your health. I have read little articles here and there, that stood to prove my ideas, but never any with real back bone. I myself get very sick with even a few sips   of a drink that contains artificial sweeteners. Please read this article, I   know it is long. And then pass it on to anyone else you care about. Thank   you, Diana Manseau, 

 

WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE and the MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION   F.D.A.   ISSUING FOR COLLUSION WITH MONSANTO   

 

Article written by Nancy Markle (1120197)  

 

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, they announced that there was   an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus, and they did   not understand what toxin was causing this to be rampant across   the United States. I explained that I was there to lecture on exactly   that subject.  When the temperature of Aspartame exceeds 86 degrees F, the   wood alcohol in ASPARTAME coverts 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 multiple sclerosis; thus people were   being diagnosed with having multiple sclerosis in error.   The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where methanol   toxicity is.  In the case of systemic lupus, we are finding it has become almost as   rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi   drinkers. Also, with methanol toxicity, the victims usually drink three  to four 12 oz. cans of them per day, some even more. In the cases   of systemic lupus, which is triggered by ASPARTAME, the victim   usually does not know that the aspartame is the culprit The victim   continues its use aggravating the lupus to such a degree, that   sometimes it becomes life threatening.  When we get people off the aspartame, those with systemic lupus   usually become asymptomatic. Unfortunately, we cannot reverse   this disease. On the other hand, in the case of those diagnosed   with Multiple Sclerosis, (when in reality, the disease is methanol   toxicity), most of the symptoms disappear. We have seen cases   where their vision has returned and even their hearing has   returned. 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 this,   is it reversible?" It is rampant. Some of the speakers at my   lecture even were suffering from these symptoms. In one lecture   attended by the Ambassador of Uganda, he told us that their   sugar industry is adding aspartame! He continued by saying that   one of the industry leader's son could no longer walk - due in   part by product usage! We have a very serious problem.   Even a stranger came up to Dr. Espisto (one of my speakers)   and myself 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. 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 as 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!!!!!  At the time of this first hearing, people were going blind.   The methanol in the aspartame converts to formaldehyde in the   retina of the eye. Formaldehyde is grouped in the same class   of drugs as cyanide and arsenic -- DEADLY POISONS!!!   Unfortunately, it just takes longer to quietly kill, but it is   killing people and causing all kinds of neurological problems.  Aspartame changes the brain's chemistry. It is the reason for   severe seizures. This drug changes the dopamine level in the   brain. Imagine what this drug does to patients suffering from   Parkinson's Disease. This drug also causes Birth Defects.  There is absolutely no reason to take this product. It is   NOT A DIET PRODUCT!!! The Congressional record said,   "It makes you crave carbohydrates and will make you FAT".   Dr. Roberts stated that when he got patients off aspartame,   their average weight loss was 19 pounds per person. The   formaldehyde stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips   and thighs.  Aspartame is especially deadly for diabetics. All physicians   know what wood alcohol will do to a diabetic. We find that   physicians believe that they have patients with retinopathy,   when in fact, it is caused by the aspartame. The aspartame   keeps the blood sugar level out of control, causing many   patients to go into a coma. Unfortunately, many have died.  People were telling us at the Conference of the American   College of Physicians, that they had relatives that switched   from saccharin to an aspartame product and how that relative   had eventually gone into a coma. Their physicians could not   get the blood sugar levels under control. Thus, the patients   suffered acute memory loss and eventually coma and death.  Memory loss is due to the fact that aspartic acid and   phenylalanine are neurotoxic without the other amino acids   found in protein. Thus it goes past the blood brain barrier and   deteriorates the neurons of the brain. Dr.Russell Blaylock,   neurosurgeon, said, "The ingredients stimulates the neurons of   the brain to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees.   Dr. Blaylock has written a book entitled EXCITOTOXINS   THE TASTE THAT KILLS" (Health Press 1-800-643-2665).   Dr. H.J. Roberts, diabetic specialist and world expert on   aspartame poisoning, has also written a book entitled DEFENSE   AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE" (1-800-814-9800).   Dr. Roberts tells how aspartame poisoning is escalating   Alzheimer's Disease, and indeed it is. As the hospice   nurse told me, women are being admitted at 30 years of age   with Alzheimer's Disease. Dr. Blaylock and Dr. Roberts will   be writing a position paper with some case histories and will   post it 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".  Dr. Roberts realized what was happening when aspartame   was first marketed. He said "his diabetic patients presented   memory loss, confusion, and severe vision loss". At the   Conference of the American College of Physicians, doctors   admitted that they did not know. They had wondered why   seizures were rampant (the phenylalanine in aspartame breaks   down the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin, which   causes manic depression, panic attacks, rage and violence).  Just before the Conference, I received a FAX from Norway,   asking for a possible antidote for this poison because they are   experiencing so many problems in their country. This poison is   now available in 90 PLUS countries worldwide. Fortunately,   we had speakers and ambassadors at the Conference from   different nations who have pledged their help. We ask that you   help too. Print this article out and warn everyone you know.   Take anything that contains aspartame back to the store. Take   the "NO ASPARTAME TEST" and send us your case history.  I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of aspartame,   knows how deadly it is. They fund the American Diabetes   Association, American Dietetic Association, Congress, and   the Conference of the American College of Physicians. The   New York Times, on November 15, 1996, ran an article   on how the American Dietetic Association takes money   from the food industry to endorse their products.  Therefore, they cannot criticize any additives or tell about   their link to MONSANTO. How bad is this? We told a   mother who had a child on NutraSweet to get off the   product. The child was having grand mal seizures every day.   The mother called her physician, who called the ADA,   who told the doctor not to take the child off the NutraSweet.  We are still trying to convince the mother that the   aspartame is causing the seizures. Every time we get   someone off of aspartame, the seizures stop. If the baby   dies, you know whose fault it is, and what we are up against.   There are 92 documented symptoms of aspartame, from   coma to death. The majority of them are all neurological,   because the aspartame destroys the nervous system.  Aspartame Disease is partially the cause to what is behind  some of the mystery of the Desert Storm health problems.   The burning tongue and other problems discussed in over 60 cases can be directly related to the consumption of an   aspartame product. Several thousand pallets of diet drinks were shipped to the Desert Storm troops. (Remember heat   can liberate the methanol from the aspartame at 86 degrees F).  Diet drinks sat in the 120 degree F. Arabian sun for weeks at   a time on pallets. The service men and women drank them all   day long.  All of their symptoms are identical to aspartame poisoning.   Dr. Roberts says "consuming aspartame at the time of conception   can cause birth defects". The phenylalanine concentrates in the   placenta, causing mental retardation, according to Dr. Louis Elsas,  Pediatrician Professor - Genetics, at Emory University in his   testimony before Congress.  In the original lab tests, animals developed brain tumors   (phenylalanine breaks down into DXP, a brain tumor agent).   When Dr. Espisto was lecturing on aspartame me, one   physician in the audience, a neurosurgeon, said, "when   they remove brain tumors, they have found high levels   of aspartame in them".  Stevia, a sweet food, NOT AN ADDITIVE, which helps in  the metabolism of sugar, which would be ideal for diabetics,   has now been approved as a dietary supplement by the   F.D.A. For years, the F.D.A. has outlawed this sweet   food because of their loyalty to MONSANTO.  If it says "SUGAR FREE" on the label -- DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!l!  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 in 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. Since the Conference   of the American College of Physicians, we hope to have the help of some world leaders. Again, please help us too.  There are a lot of people out there who must be warned, please let them know this information. This could be considered life saving information for some of you and   your friends and relatives. I've forwarded it to everyone I can contact. If you know people who drink diet sodas on a regular basis, get this message to them!!! Make sure and lay off the Diet Soda and other stuff with NutraSweet.  People's lives are at stake! What you now know can make an important difference.

I though I might post this as some people ( I was) might be dieting on products with artifical sweetener, just be careful and check the back for aspartme.

[robwilliams]

Thanks for sharing that with us. When I was at a very young and impressionable age, I was told that some artificial sweetners were found to cause cancer in rats (when administered in large doses). Since then, I've not been able to bring myself to use any sugar substitute.

 

I have cut back on the amount of coffee I drink each day in addition to the amount of sugar I have in each cup. I am now used to having less sugar in coffee and on cereal, but it does take time to get used to it.

 

I'm more comfortable with this strategy than the use of articial sweeteners.

[BKJ1216]

Well natural sugar, and some artifical sweeteners are fine, it's just aspartame

[robwilliams]

True, aspartame has been linked to the problems int he above article. However, in the past, Saccharines (E954) and Cyclamic acid (E952). E952 is banned int he US & UK, but the ban on E954 was lifted in the US and elsewhere providing labels identified the substance as being linked to cancer in lab animals.

 

I'm going to play safe and avoid all artifical sweeteners. I'm quite comfortable with that and lowering my natural sugar consumption is not a hard thing to do.

[ninjanurse]

Please see my tirade in the karate forum under the future of MA. Somehow the thread ended up over there.

 

[shotochem]

Easy guys,

 

I believe there is quite a bit of over reaction about artificial sweetners.

 

The human body is quite durable and can take quite a bit of toxins. If we avoid the sweetners there will certainly still be many other toxins that we are exposed to. More people die of allergic reactions to natural organic

 

foods like peanuts or bee and jellyfish stings than will ever die from sweetners. You would need to consume quite a bit to harm yourself.

 

I tend to be a little less fearful of these sweetners due to the fact that I

 

work in a chemistry lab and I work with chemicals 1000x more dangerous than a little sweetner will ever be. There are more important things to worry about.....

[BKJ1216]

Easy guys,

 

I believe there is quite a bit of over reaction about artificial sweetners.

 

The human body is quite durable and can take quite a bit of toxins. If we avoid the sweetners there will certainly still be many other toxins that we are exposed to. More people die of allergic reactions to natural organic

 

foods like peanuts or bee and jellyfish stings than will ever die from sweetners. You would need to consume quite a bit to harm yourself.

 

I tend to be a little less fearful of these sweetners due to the fact that I

 

work in a chemistry lab and I work with chemicals 1000x more dangerous than a little sweetner will ever be. There are more important things to worry about.....

Yeah well however unimportant it may be to you, it's very important to me. My mom has had fibromayalga for three years now, and now wee finally linked it to the fact that her pain meds had aspartame in them(must be eaiser taste, only reason I coudl think of.).