This has been sent by Partha Sengupta.
Please pass it on to all those who take Sugar Free.
It is poison.
Radheshyam
SWEET POISON - A MUST READ
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 22 nd.
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. Esparto (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 behaviour when these chemicals have been removed from their
diet. So called 'behaviour 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 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! YOU
HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW!
As an alternative refreshment, neither milk nor water contain
Aspartame, and are both quite refreshing when chilled.
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The information reported here about aspartame is old and quite outdated. All aspartame research prior to 2009 is seriously and fatally flawed, because it was all done in a scientifically unacceptable manner. That was established by preliminary work presented at the Society of Toxicology (Seattle) and the American Chemical Society (New Orleans) national meetings in early 2008 and is currently being preparing for regular publication. In that work it was demonstrated that inappropriate controls were used in all aspartame research starting with the original Searle work and extending through the Soffritti et al work published over the past several years (and even other work thereafter). The standard control-versus-treated animal experiments are invalid for aspartame, because aspartame is hydrolyzed to methanol and methanol has long been known to deplete a vitamin, namely folic acid. No properly done experiment can deplete a vitamin, but all experiments to date have done just that! Hence, both controlled and treated groups of animals must be provided either the appropriate amounts of folic acid supplement to counter methanol-induced loss OR both controlled and treated groups of animals must be provided the same intake of methanol, one directly and the other from aspartame. However, the latter is an experimentally more challenging option. No experiments to date have done these experiments correctly; hence all aspartame research is seriously and fatally flawed.
Strong associations are clear between all aspartame animal work and the many consequences of folate deficiency, which include the leukemia/lymphomas and mammary tumors claims reported by Soffritti et al in all their work. The consequences of that poorly controlled work and the folate deficiency that results only for the aspartame treated group is the accrual of homocysteine, because of insufficient methylation of methionine. Much has been written about the “excitotoxic” amino acids in aspartame (phenylalanine and aspartic acid) by critics. However, those excitotoxic amino acids occur at far greater concentrations in everyday food, so neither of these amino acids are issues for most people. However, what seems to be consistently missed by the antiaspartame critics is that homocysteine is a far stronger excitotoxin than any constituent of aspartame. Either a direct deficiency of the antitumor folic acid leading to insufficient methylation of DNA bases causing direct DNA damage and/or the accrual of homocysteine from insufficient folate-mediated methylation of homocysteine to methionine can explain all alleged health issues with aspartame. There is no data suggesting any adverse effect for aspartame than cannot simply and completely be explained by the folate deficiency/homocysteine paradigm. This new information only suggests aspartame is even safer, now that what I have reported above is known to all the regulatory authorities. In that regard the suggestion that FDA and a newly appointed commissioner should reexamine this issue is ludicrous. It implies that they now will have an opposite opinion from their past decisions or different from all the remainder of the world-wide regulatory scientific community given these new, stronger indications of safety. It is all the more ludicrous given that the Obama administration touts science as their guiding light and science no longer has any reason to doubt the safety of aspartame.
John E. Garst, Ph.D. (Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Nutrition)
(FYI, the author has absolutely no financial or biasing connection with the aspartame, the soft drink or their related industries and have made not one penny from my opposition, unlike many critics on the other side. The author has an undergraduate degree in chemistry (with emphasis in organic and biological chemistry) from the University of Kansas, a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry (Pharmacy) from the University of Iowa, postdoctoral experience at Yale University (Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry) and two postdoctoral fellowships at Vanderbilt University (physiology-pharmacology (mentor moved), then nutritional toxicology) and taught nutritional toxicology at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana, UIUC) besides having conducted federally funded research at Vanderbilt, UIUC, and at several other universities before recently entering into semi-retirement.)
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