Diet Cola/ Sweet poison? A true story

>            SWEET POISON...
>
>  A MUST READ TO THE END!
>
> 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 an 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'Nutra Sweet,' '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 re-
> turned and hearing loss improved markedly.
>
> This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia. During a
> lecture, I said, 'If you are using ASPARTAME (Nutra Sweet, 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!
>
>A doctor has said  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. 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.'