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Rick
Scott Bradshaw writes on 22 Apr 99,:
> Hello all,
> A student of mine forwarded the following to me. It looks like a myth
> to me - but no evidence on the various 'skeptics' pages. A Medline search
> turned up information on seizures & aspartame - basically, there is no
> evidence of an effect below 1,000 mg (50 mg per day is the 'recommended'
> human dosage). But that's the most that this lowly social psychologist
> can come up with....
> Has anyone else seen this info - or have specific 'debunks' to
> offer?
>
> Dr. Scott Bradshaw
> Elizabeth City State University
> Elizabeth City, North Carolina [USA]
>
> THE MESSAGE FOLLOWS:
>
> >This was brought to me by one of my customer's just
> >before I left to address a breast cancer survivors
> >group at the hospital last night. Please, please,
> >please read it and think about what impact it could
> >have on those you love or care about. Jane
>
> >SUBJECT: ASPARTAME (Nutrasweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc.)
>
> >WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE and the MULTIPLE
> >SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION F.D.A. ISSUING FOR COLLUSION WITH
> >MONSANTO
>
> >Article written by Betty Martini, Founder of Mission
> >Possible (website www.dorway.com <http://www.dorway.com> )
> >> >>
> >I spent several days lecturing at the WORLD
> >ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE in 1995 on ASPARTAME marketed
> >as NutraSweet, Equal, and Spoonful. In the keynote
> >adress by the EPA, they announced that there was an
> >epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus, and
> >they did not understand what toxin was causing this to
> >be rampant across the United States. I explained that
> >I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.
>
> >When the temperature of Aspartame 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
> >multiple sclerosis; thus people were being diagnosed
> >with having multiple sclerosis in error. The multiple sclerosis
> is not a death sentence, where methanol toxicity is.
> >> >>
> >In the case of systemic lupus, we are finding it has
> >become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis,
> >especially for Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers.
> >Also, with methanol toxicity, the victims usually
> >drink three to four 12 oz. cans of soda per day, some even more.
> >In the cases of systemic lupus, which is triggered by
> >ASPARTAME, the victim usually does not know that the
> >aspartame is the culprit. The victim continues its
> >use, aggravating the lupus to such a degree that
> >sometimes it becomes life threatening. When we get
> >people off the aspartame, those with systemic lupus
> >usually become asymptomatic. Unfortunately, we cannot
> >reverse this disease.
> >> >>
> >On the other hand, in the case of those diagnosed with
> >Multiple Sclerosis, (when in reality, the disease is
> >methanol toxicity), most of the symptoms disappear.
> >We have seen cases where their vision has returned and
> >even their hearing has returned. This also applies to cases of
> tinnitus.
> >During a lecture, I said "If you are using ASPARTAME
> >(NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, et.) 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 this, is it reversible?"
> >It is rampant. Even some of the speakers at my
> >lecture were suffering from these symptoms. In one
> >lecture, attended by the Ambassador of Uganda, he told
> >us that their sugar industry is adding aspartame! He
> >continued by saying that one of the industry leader's
> >son could no longer walk - due in part by product usage!
> >> >>
> >We have a very serious problem. Even a stranger came
> >up to Dr. Espisto (one of my speakers) and myself 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 MS.
> >This is beyond coincidence.
> >> >>
> >Here is the problem. There were Congressional
> >Hearings when aspartame was included in the 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!!!!!!
> >At the time of this first hearing, people were going
> >blind. The methanol in the aspartame converts to
> >formaldehyde in the retina of the eye. Formaldehyde
> >is grouped in the same class of dmgs as cyanide and
> >arsenic---DEADLY POISONS!!! Unfortunately, it just
> >takes longer to quietly kill, but it is killing people
> >and causing all kinds of neurological problems.
> >> >>
> >Aspartame changes the brain's chemistry. It is the
> >reason for severe seizures. This drug changes the
> >dopamine level in the brain. Imagine what this drug
> >does to patients suffering from Parkinson's Disease.
> >This drug also causes birth defects.
>
> >There is absolutely no reason to take this product.
> >It is NOT A DIET PRODUCT!!! The Congressional Record
> >said, "It makes you crave carbohydrates and will make
> >you FAT." Dr. Roberts stated that when he got
> >patients off aspartame, their average weight loss was
> >19 pounds per person. The formaldehyde stores in the fat calls,
> >particularly in the hips and thighs.
> >> >>
> >Aspartame is especialy deadly for diabetics. All
> >physicians know what wood alcohol will do to a
> >diabetic. We find that physicians believe that they
> >have patients with retinopathy, when in fact, it is
> >caused by the aspartame. The aspartame keeps the
> >blood sugar level out of control, causing many
> >patients to go into a coma. Unfortunately, many have
> >died. People were telling us at the Conference of the
> >American College of Physicians, that they had relatives that
> >switched from saccharin to an aspartame product and
> >how that relative had eventually gone into a coma.
> >Their physicians could not get the blood sugar levels
> >under control. Thus, the patients suffered acute
> >memory loss and eventually coma and death.
>
> >Memory loss is due to the fact that aspartic acid and
> >phenylalanine are neurotoxic without the other amino
> >acids found in protein. Thus, it goes past the blood
> >brain barrier and deteriorates the neurons of the
> >brain. Dr. Russell Blaylock, neurosurgeon, said, "The
> >ingredients stimulate the neurons of the brain to
> >death, causing brain damage of varying degrees." Dr.
> >Blaylock has written a book entitiled "EXCITOTOXINS:
> >The Taste That Kills" (Health Press 1-800-643-2665).
> >Dr. H.J. Roberts, diabetic specialist and world expert
> >on aspartame poisoning, has also ritten a book entitled
> >"Defense Against Alzheimer's Disease"
> >(1-800-814-9800). Dr. Roberts tells how aspartame
> >poisoning is escalating Alzhheimer's disease, and indeed it is. As
> the
> >hospice nurse told me, women are being admitted at 30 years of
> >age with Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Blaylock and Dr.
> >Roberts will be writing a position paper with some
> >case histories and will post it on the Internet.
> >According to the Conference of the American College of
> >Physicians, "We are talking about a plague of
> >nerological diseases caused by this deadly poison."
> >> >>
> >Dr. Roberts realized what was happening when aspartame
> >was first marketed. He said 'his diabetic patients
> >presented memory loss, confusion and severe vision
> >loss.' At the Conference of the American College of
> >Physicians, doctors admitted that they did not know
> >why. They had wondered why seizures were rampant (the
> >phenylalanine in aspartame breaks down the seizure
> >threshold and depletes serotonin, which causes manic
> >depression, panic attacks, rage and violence).
>
> >Just before the Conference, I received a fax, from
> >Norway, asking for a possible antidote for this poison
> >because they are experiencing so many problems in
> >their country. This "poison" is now available in 90
> >PLUS countries worldwide. Fortunately, we had speakers and
> >ambassadors at the Conference from different nations
> >who have pledged their help. We ask that you help
> >too. Print this article out and warn everyone you
> >know. Take anything that contains aspartame back to
> >the store. Take the "NO ASPARTAME TEST" and send us
> >your case history.
>
> >I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of aspartame,
> >knows how deadly it is. They fund the American
> >Diabetes Association, American Dietetic Association,
> >Congress, and the Conference of the American College
> >of Physicians. The New York Times, on November 15, 1996,
> >ran an article on how the American Dietetic
> >Association takes money from the food industry to
> >endorse their products. Therefore, they cannot
> >criticize any additives or tell about their link to
> >Monsanto. How bad is this? We told a mother who had
> >a child on NutraSweet to get off the product. The
> >child was having grand mal seizures every day. The
> >mother called her physician, who called the American Dietetic
> >Association, who told the doctor not to take the child
> >off the NutraSweet. We are still trying to convince
> >the mother that the aspartame is causing the seizures.
> >Every time we get someone off of aspartame, the
> >seizures stop. If the baby dies, you know whose fault
> >it is, and what we are up against. There are 92
> >documented symptoms of aspartame, from coma to death.
> >The majority of them are all neurological, because the
> >aspartame destroys the nervous system.
> >Aspartame Disease is partially the cause to what is
> >behind some of the mystery of the Desert Storm health
> >problems. The burning tongue and other problems
> >discussed in over 60 cases can be directly related to
> >the consumption of an aspartame product. Several
> >thousand pallets of diet drinks were shipped to the
> >Desert Storm troops. (Remember heat can liberate the
> >methanol from the aspartame at 86 degrees F). Diet
> >drinks sat in the 120 degree F. Arabian sun for weeks
> >at a time on pallets. The servicemen and women drank
> >them all day long. All of their symptoms are identical
> >to aspartame poisoning. Dr. Roberts says "consuming
> >aspartame at the time of conception can cause birth
> >defects." The phenylalanine concentrates in the
> >placenta, causing mental retardation, according to Dr.
> >Louis Elsas, Pediatric Professor - Genetics, Emory
> >University in his testimony before Congress.
>
> >In the original lab tests, animals developed brain
> >tumors (phenylalanine breaks down into DXP, a brain
> >tumor agent). When Dr. Espisto was lecturing on
> >aspartame, one physician in the audience, a
> >neurosurgeon, said, "when they remove brain tumors,
> >they have found high levels of aspartame in them."
>
> >Stevia, a sweet food, NOT AN ADDITIVE which helps in
> >the metabolism of sugar and 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.
>
> >If it says "SUGAR FREE" on the label---DO NOT EVEN
> >THINK ABOUT CONSUMING IT!!!!!!!!! Senator Howard
> >Metzenbaum 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. Since the Conference of the
> >American College of Physicians, we hope to have the
> >help of some world leaders.
>
>
>
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