[SpeCies]

This artical was sent to me by a friend who has one of these symptoms.
It is a long.



Diet Coke or Not??

Please read this!!!!

In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick, she had stomach
spasms, she was having a hard time getting around, to walk 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 biopsies, and was on 24 various
prescription medications. The doctors could not figure out what was
wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick, she knew she was
dying.

She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest
daughters name, and made sure her younger children were to be with her
oldest daughter. She wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to
Florida (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd.

On March 19th I called her to ask her how one of her tests went, and she
said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS.


I thought, oh, my....then I recalled an article a friend of mine emailed
to me...and I asked her....Do you drink Diet pop? She told me yes, as a
matter of fact she was getting ready to crack one open that moment, I
told her not to open it, and stop drinking the diet pop....and I emailed
her the following article. She called me within 32 hours after our phone
conversation and told me she stopped drinking the diet pop, and she can
walk ... she went up the stairs, and the muscle spasms went away. She
said she didn't feel 100% but
sure felt a lot better. She told me she was going to her doctors with
this article and would call me back when she got home.

She called me, and her doctor was amazed, he is going to call all of his
MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweetener. In a
nutshell, she was being poisoned by the aspartame in the diet soda,
dying a slow death.

When she got to Florida on March 22nd, all she had to take was one pill,
and that was a pill for poisoning ... she is well on her way to
recovery.....and she is walking!!!!! No wheelchair!!!! This article
saved her life!!!! The life saving article:

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,
that it was hard to
understand 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. People were being diagnosed with having multiple sclerosis in
error. The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where 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
life-threatening. We have seen patients with systemic lupus become
asymptomatic once taken off diet sodas.In the case of those diagnosed
with Multiple Sclerosis, (when in reality, the disease is methanol
toxicity), most of the symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where
vision returned and hearing improved markedly. 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 some of
these symptoms: Is it reversible?"

Yes, Not drinking diet sodas and keeping an eye out for aspartame on
food labels, yes!

We have a very serious problem. A stranger came up to Dr. Espisto (one
of my speakers) and me 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
4MS. This is beyond coincidence! Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi etc. IS NOT A
DIET PRODUCT! The Congressional Record states that it makes you crave
carbohydrates and will make you FAT. The formaldehyde stores in the fat
cells, particularly in the hips and thighs.

Once off these products with no significant increase in exercise, etc.,
Dr. Roberts in his lecture stated that he had patient who lost an
average of 19 pounds over a trial period.

Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that
physicians would believe that they have
a patient with retinopathy, when in fact the symptoms are 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 without the other amino acids found in
protein. Thus it passes the blood brain barrier and deteriorates the
neurons of the brain, causing in diabetics (as well as in patients not
suffering from diabetes) various kinds of brain damage, seizures,
depression, manic depression, panic
attacks, rage, violence. (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 early pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological
disorders and should NOT be given NutraSweet. I can relate different
case histories of children having mal seizures and other disturbances
being on NutraSweet. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to convince a
mother that aspartame is to blame for her child's illness. Only by trial
and success will she be able to warn other mothers to take their
children's health in their own hands. Stevia, a sweet herb, NOT A
MANUFACTURED 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. Books on this subject are
available: EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT KILLS - written by Dr. Russell
Blayblock (Health Press 1-800-643-2665) and DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S
DISEASE - written by DR H. J. Roberts, also a diabetic specialist. These
two doctors will be posting a position paper with some case histories on
the deadly effects of Aspartame 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." 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 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!!!!! I assure you, MONSANTO, the
creator of Aspartame knows how deadly it is.

They fund among others, the American Diabetes Association, the American
Dietetic Association, the Conference of the American College of
Physicians. This has been exposed in the New York Times - to no avail.
These Associations cannot criticize any additives or convey their link
to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and have to
endorse their products. 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.
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[Chen Kenichi]

I think that diet stuff tastes bad anyway.
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[SpeCies]

[SpeCies]

[Gurrg]

wow, i didn't know diet pepsi and diet coke were so bad, whew, good thing i don't drink that crap!
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The Ville-Addict----BR Site \/

[Dahak]

To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan; wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.

To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains.

To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl. Let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.

The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. It's pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4 days!

[PondScm007]

i dunno about that, i see hoax emails like that all the time, it looks fake to me...id do more research before i stop eating certain things...
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my pic host-age died!

BR, yo

[gindapoo]

[hoaxie]

I never emailed you any such thing, Pond!
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LONG LIVE THE 'VILLE!

[Axa]

Ugggh - fake.
It is quite possible that certain elements are true, but in general this has every quality of an urban legend.
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[Nuclei]

Go to the scientific facts:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/

Type aspartame AND health

Or

Type aspartame AND risk

Discard anything from The Nutrasweet Corporation (to ensure objectivity...)

AND.... NOTHING!!! (at least that says that aspartame is dangerous...)

This is a hoax guys.
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[Lin Sivvi Defiant Hero]

Accually I don't think it is a hoax, I have personally did multiple reports on suger free items in health class and aspartame is infact a poison that does turn into Formaldehyde amoung other chemicals. Formaldehyde is what is used to preserve dead body parts and is also found in cigarette smoke BTW. Aspartame is classified as a poison in one "medical advisor" cd I have and in one of my encyclopedia CDs they do have notations on when other sweeteners have been called off the market because of the damaging effects. Aspartame also contains chemicals that will severly damage people born with the disease PKU (quite uncommon), and that is what those 2 big words on the side of bottles containing aspartame mean. Although I have never seen cases where something did happen, it probably could in my mind. The doses for aspartame to immeditately kill you are quite high, but for people with weak stomaches the effects mentioned above could happen under the right circumstances.

[-=ITS=-GaladerieL[Vegas]]

interesting information on diet drinks and thxs for sharing it species.. your friend is my prays species and i send her get well wishes from me.. oh by the way i love your avatar it species

[Nuclei]

Aspirin can kill you,
Ethanol can kill you,
Tylenol can kill you,
Sudafed can kill you,

It all depends on dosage...
At 40mg/kg/day (ie. 2600mg for a 65kg (140 pounds) individual), aspartame does not pose a health risk.
At 185mg of aspartame per can of soda ... it means that a little bit more than 14 cans of diet pepsi per day will not pose a risk... If someone takes more than that, maybe he should reconsider his diet...

But I'm for sugar anyway! I absolutely hate the metallic taste of diet drinks. Mmmm... sugar... (insert drooling emoticon here...)
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[bobins]

i always drink diet pepsi n diet coke n stuff.. when i gets that sort of drink. the normal ones make me teeth feel weird.. the normal ones got WAY to much sugar in them.

but i drink alotta bottled water.. n dnt get cans a pop that often

but still
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