True story!

   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 22nod.

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 bloodsugar 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! 

Source:  Internet friends