Thread: Interesting info about aspartame - scary stuff

Long article, but worth a read...DP will appreciate this!


MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION & FDA ARE SUING FOR COLLUSION WITH MONSANTO -
By: Betty Martini

I have spent several days lecturing at the World Environmental

Conference on "Aspartame: Marketed as 'NutraSweet', 'Equal' & '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 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 in Diet Coke & 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 to 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 drinkers, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond
coincidence.

Here is the problem. There were Congressional Hearings when aspartame was
originally included as a sweetener in 100 different products. Since this
initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, but to no avail.
Nothing has 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 & 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 had 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 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, a prominent neurosurgeon of Jackson, Mississippi, said,
"The ingredients stimulate 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 Medical Association, American
Dietetic Association, Congress, and the Conference of the American College of
Physicians. The New York Times, 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 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 servicemen 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." According to Dr. Louis Elsas, Pediatrician and Professor of
Genetics, at Emory University, in his testimony before Congress, " The
phenylalanine concentrates in the placenta causing mental retardation. 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, one physician in the audience, a neurosurgeon, said, "When they
remove brain tumors, they have found high levels of aspartame in them."

Although 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 FDA for years, the FDA 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.

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 several 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.

Women's Cancer Resource Center

Laurie Moser, Assistant Director
1815 East 41st Street, Suite C
Minneapolis, MN 55407-3425
1-800-908-8544 or 612-729-049

Use Stevia or Splenda.