[Acb-diabetics] FW: Please read...

[Mike Freeman]

Alice:

As you suspect, the whole thing is a bunch of hoacum. Check out

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

One of the links in that article is to a TIME magazine article which 
shreds the article to which you refer. The direct link to it is:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,990167,00.html

Note that in the article you quote below, we do not hear which 
conferences in what cities in what year the lectures suposedly took 
place nor do we truly know who the doctors are and what their 
qualifications are.

Moreover, as the TIME article says, just as there is no cure for 
everything, so there is no one cause for every disease. AS you say, 
there are a number of things that Red Flag this article as total 
crapola.

Best to check with Snopes *before* posting. (grin)

Take care.

Mike Freeman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alice Ritchhart" <alice.ritchhart at comcast.net>
To: <acb-diabetics at acb.org>
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 6:34 PM
Subject: [Acb-diabetics] FW: Please read...



>The following is interesting.  My concern with it is the usual
>internet problem of no author name.  It would be interesting to know
>if the claims are true or not.
>Alice Ritchhart
>
>PLEASE READ!!!!!!!
>
>SWEET POISON!   A MUST READ!
>
>
>In October 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 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 was 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 (Nutra Sweet, 
>Equal,
>Spoonful, etc.) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, 
>shooting
>pains, numbness in your legs, Cramps, Vertigo, Dizziness, Headaches,
>Tinnitis,
>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!
>
>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 
>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 in 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!
>
>Please print this out and/or e-mail To your family And friends.
>
>They too have a right to know!
>
>
>



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