This is an email my Uncle sent me.  I can just see LUPUS and MS
patients taking themselves off of their meds the minute they stop
drining diet sodas and the like.  I haven't drank diet soda in about 3
months, I stop because of the expense, $3 bucks aday!  I have no
difference in my LUPUS.  I noticed that they don't state case studies
or the like.  I wish people would stop this email crap, there is
enough info out there, real info, through more reliable sources.
You'll have people who are so easily convinced they have everything
under the sun, now convinced they are being poisoned.

And gee, do ya think genetics might have something to do with this!  I
won't continue my rant, because I could go on for hours!

Take a look, decide for yourselves.

Marie

want all of you to really read this !!!!  There is proof..

SWEET,  BUT 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  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 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. 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 grande  mal
seizures and other neurological disturbances due to the use of
NutraSweet.

Unfortunat! ely, it is not  always easy to convince people that
Aspartame is to blame for their child's  illness. Stevia, which is a
sweet herb, NOT A MANUFACTURED ADDITIVE, helps in  the metabolism of
sugar, which would be ideal for diabetics. It has now been  approved
as a dietary supplement by the FDA. It is known that for many years
the  FDA outlawed this true sweet food," due to their loyalty to
MONSANTO Chemical  Company."

Books  on this subject are available:

EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT  KILLS written by Dr. Russell Blaylock
(Health

Press 1-800-643-2665) AND:  DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE-w
ritten by

DR H. J. Roberts, also a  diabetic specialist.

These  two doctors will soon be posting a position pape  on the
Internet

with case histories on the  deadly effects of Aspartame. According to
the

Conference of the  AmericanCollege of Physicians, "We  are talking
about a

plague of neurological diseases directly caused by the us  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!

Please  print this out and/or e-mail to your family and friends. They
have a

right to know too.