SWEET POISON
http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Poison-Popular-Artificial-Sweetener/dp/0882822020#noop
Sweet Poison - a book by “ Janet Starr Hull ”
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.
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.
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 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.
She told me she was going to her doctor with this article and would call me when she got home.
I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda! I e-mailed her an 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.
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 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! 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.
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,
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!
Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body! 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!
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.’MONSANTO’SSadly, 10pt”>
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. wrote and presented a bill that would require label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children and infants. MetzenbaumSenator Howard
Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with
In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the symptoms disappear. We’ve seen many cases where vision loss re turned and hearing loss improved markedly.
Yes!
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.’ (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! EspartSTOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many products are fortified with it! This is a serious problem. Dr.
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,
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.
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.
, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is. MONSANTOI assure you that
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!
April 20, 2010 at 12:48 PM
Nothing posted here about aspartame has any current scientific merit whatsoever. Ms Hull obviously doesn’t know much about folic acid and its function, which is a big part of nutrition. That should be the reader’s first clue about the questionability of this material. The second clue is that all these cited safety issues are twenty + years old (Senator Metzenbaum has been out of the Senate for over 15 years and dead three years). Aspartame’s questionability was disproven long ago. That is why aspartame is generally regarded as safe (GRAS) by all the western world’s regulatory authorities. A third point is that Dr Roberts, like many other critics of aspartame, has never examined his patient’s folate status or even considered folate in his criticism of aspartame. That says something about impartiality as well as his understanding of this very important vitamin. But this very important fact has been well established since even before his extensive 1991 review of methanol by Tephly, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1997785
Let me explain the real issues involved here, which have been conveniently ignored by all the antiaspartame critics. First, methanol (from aspartame) is oxidized to formate, which is a substrate that the vitamin folic acid transforms (reduces from its oxidation product formic acid) to methyl groups that are absolutely vital to life. They detoxify homocysteine to methionine and they convert uracil to thymine for prevention of DNA breaks–that is why folate is a vitamin and why methanol at low doses like those found in fruit juice or aspartame are also vital. But too much formic acid is toxic. And the most common cause of excess formate involves personal issues, not methanol (aspartame) intake.
Second, aspartame is perfectly safe used as directed, but people may have varying degrees of sensitivity to aspartame. The problems sensitive people encounter (like headaches, etc) arise not from aspartame, but from their own biochemistry. Some are ultrasensitive to formate (and that might have arisen from many causes including insect stings as children). But oftentimes these people are deficient in folic acid (a vitamin), have genetic folate abnormalities (called polymorphisms; Wikipedia: Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase), or have high blood homocysteine (Wikipedia homocysteine) Homocysteine may be the most potent excitotoxin and it is entirely natural, most often, but not always being connected to folate problems. Other causes include issues like ethanol use (which strongly inhibits folate leaving too much formate) and various other drugs (antiepileptics). In short, all the cited “symptoms” of aspartame are more likely direct consequences of these problems. Specifically these personal issues clearly have nothing to do with the safety of aspartame, but that formate sensitivity, caused by these factors affecting folate function are also why the symptoms they associate with aspartame disappear after ceasing use. Consequently, the bigger real question is whether people who show sensitivity to aspartame are really at risk to the many (99+) diseases that are fundamentally associated with formate disposal and folate issues. That includes many cancers (breast and colon) as well as the illnesses noted in the article.
John E. Garst, Ph.D. (Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Nutrition)
April 20, 2010 at 2:43 PM
Thank You Dr Garst for your comments, I will re-post and I appreciate your in-puts. This opens up dialogue and if it helps one person overcome an ailment or gain knowledge, then there is value.