Numbness in the feet and legs and loss of use of the legs is one of the symptoms of aspartame poisoning. Please educate yourself and protect yourself and your loved ones!
People on average lose weight when they get off diet sodas. "... The majority of symptoms are neurological, (from aspartame poisoning) because the aspartame destroys the nervous system. " - see the second article below:
FDA-APPROVED BIOMEDICAL GENOCIDE IS REVEALED
Dr.
Joseph Mercola
Aspartame
complaints represent 80-85% of food complaints registered
with the FDA. So-called "diet" products containing the
chemical sweetener aspartame can have multiple neurotoxic,
metabolic, allergenic, fetal and carcinogenic effects.
Despite mounting evidence to the contrary, many people
still see aspartame as a safe diet aid -- even though it
has been demonstrated that the use of this product actually
causes people to consume more food.
Aspartame is not your friend. In 1991, the National
Institutes of Health listed 167 symptoms and reasons to
avoid the use of aspartame, but today it remains a
multi-million dollar business. Known to erode intelligence
and affect short-term memory, the components of this toxic
sweetener may lead to a wide variety of ailments
including:
•
Brain
tumors
•
Birth
defects
•
Diseases
like lymphoma, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's,
Alzheimer's, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue
•
Emotional
disorders like depression and anxiety attacks
•
Epilepsy/seizures
•
Migraines
•
Numbness
•
Hearing
Loss and ringing in the ears
•
Blindness,
blurred vision and other eye problems
•
Stomach
disorders
Your
body does not do well with regular sugar, let alone
poisonous synthetic sugars like aspartame. With some
resources indicating that aspartame may be found in over
9000 consumable products, this man-made sweetener is
becoming increasingly more difficult to avoid.
The American diet may well be one of the reasons 18 million
of us suffer from migraines, with aspartame at the top of
the list of possible culprits.
Eliminating aspartame from your diet would go a long way
toward improving your health.
January
11, 1999 18:37:10
WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE and the
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION
Article written by Nancy Markle (1120197)
" 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, 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 in Diet
Coke and Diet Pepsi
drinkers. Also, with methanol toxicity, the victims usually
drink three
to four 12 oz. cans of them 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 can not 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, 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 this, is it reversible?" It is rampant. Some of
the speakers at my lecture even 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 in
which 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!!!!!
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
drugs 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 can cause 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 cells, particularly in the hips and
thighs.
Aspartame is especially 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
stimulates
the neurons of the brain to death, causing brain damage of
varying degrees.”
Dr. Blaylock has written a book entitled "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 written a book entitled "DEFENSE
AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE" (1-800-814-9800). Dr. Roberts
tells how aspartame poisoning is escalating Alzheimer'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 neurological 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. 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 can not
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 ADA, 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 Dessert 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 Dessert 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
service men 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, Pediatrician Professor - Genetics, at 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, which would be ideal for diabetics,
has now been approved as a dietary supplement by the F.D.A.
For years, the F.D.A. has outlawed this sweet food because
of their (the FDA's) loyalty to MONSANTO.
If it says "SUGAR FREE" on the label-DO NOT EVEN THINK
ABOUT IT!!!!!
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."
Further
links about aspartame:
http://www.dorway.com/badnews.html