SWEET 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. We
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 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!