By Betty
Martini
�NutraSweet� is �Equal to a �Spoonful� of
Pure Poison
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 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 turns 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. 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-ounce 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
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. When have seen cases where their
vision has returned and even 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 were even suffering from these symptoms. In one
lecture attended by the Ambassador of Uganda, he told us that there sugar
industry is adding aspartame! He continued by saying that one of the industry
leaders �son could no longer due in part to 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 drinkers, had all
been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. This is beyond coincidence.
Here is the problem: There were
congressional hearings when aspartame was originally included as a sweetener
in 100 different products. Since this initial hearing, there have been no
subsequent hearings, but to no avail. Nothing has been done. The drug and
chemical lobbies have very deep pockets. Now there are over 5000 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 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 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 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
had 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 amino acids found
in protein, thus it goes pas the blood brain barrier and deteriorates the
neurons of the brain. Dr. Russell Blaylock a prominent neurosurgeon of
Jackson, Miss., said �The
ingredients stimulate 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.
Make copies of this article to pass
out and warn everyone you know. Take anything that contains aspartame back to
the store.
I assure you that Monsanto, the
creator of aspartame, knows how deadly it is. They fund the American Medical
Association, American Dietetic Association, Congress and the Conference of the
American College of Physicians. The New York Times, Nov. 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
ADA, who told the doctor not 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 some 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 al 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. The burning tongue
and other problems discussed in over 60 cases can be directly related to the
consumption of 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.� According to Dr. Louis
Elsas, Pediatrician and Professor of Genetics at Emory University, in his testimony
before Congress, �The phenylalanine concentrates in the placenta causing
mental retardation. 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.�
Although 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
FDA for years, the FDA has outlawed this sweet food because of there loyalty
to Monsanto. If it says �Sugar Free� on the label do not
even think about buying 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, and changes in neurological and behavioral symptoms). The bill 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
America College of Physicians, we hope to have the help of several world
leaders.
Again, please help us, too. There
are a lot of people out there who must be warned. Please let them know this
information.
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