ASPARTAME, DIET SODA, SPLENDA

Buy your Poison

by Dr. Leo Rebello

www.healthwisdom.org
Mumbai

[Author's introduction: This article is meant to create larger awareness among

masses about the known dangers of Aspartame, Diet Soda, Splenda and how MNCs like
Monsanto, Pfizer, Novartis and others, through clandestine operations, mess up
people's lives in cahoot with the corrupt FDA authorities worldwide. Health Care
is Self Care and Right to Know, which is akin to Right to Life, Right to
Information and Right to Redressal are three most important consumer rights.
Therefore, the State has no right to dictate citizens what medicines they should
take in the same way that it has no right to ask citizens what religion to follow,
what food to eat, what life partner to select. If the State cannot stop people
from drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes or taking narcotic and psychotropic
substances for pleasure or high, then how can it stop people from taking
multivitamins or supplements or micro nutrients or that it should irradiate even
fruits and vegetables or make it mandatory that fluoridation be added to water or
compulsory iodation of salt or making chemotherapy as the only treatment for
cancers and jailing those who offer safer, cheaper and very reliable forms of
treatment. What kind of civilised or democratic norms are these? State must stop
controlling people's lives -- thus far, no further.]

Aspartame

When the temperature of Aspartame (artificial sweetener) exceeds 86 degrees F, the

wood alcohol in it converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn
causes metabolic acidosis. [1]

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. [2]

Patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas. In
cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the symptoms disappear.
Many cases where vision loss returned and hearing loss improved markedly. This
also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia. [3]

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. [4]

But modern medicine, a pseudo science, cannot diagnose people with Aspartame harm
or they diagnose in error. There are any number of examples when diagnosis is
totally off the mark, but each 'one-disease, one-organ' specialist goes on giving
more and more medicines and create more and diseases. Create more diseases and
cash on it being the operating principle of disease-business and crap science. [5]
Therefore, stop running after these blind, deaf and dumb medicine men and instead
stop drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels.

Diet Soda

Diet soda is not a diet product. It is a chemically altered, multiple Sodium

(salt) and Aspartame containing product that actually makes you crave for
carbohydrates and gain weight. These products also contain formaldehyde, which
stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Does that explain
why the population of USA is turning obese and/or suffering from Cancers and
Diabetes? [6]

Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin and is used primarily to preserve 'tissue

specimens.' Formaldehyde poisoning symptoms include: local irritation of eyes,
nose, mouth, throat, respiratory and gastro- intestinal tracts, and central
nervous system, causing vertigo, stupor, convulsions, unconsciousness, renal
damage.

Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. 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. 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, panic attacks, uncontrollable anger and
rage. [7]

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. In fact giving Ritalin is in ADD and ADHD is what we call 'treatment worse
than the disease'. [8]

Ethylphenidate (Brand name Ritalin) was patented in 1954 by the CIBA

pharmaceutical company (now Novartis). Most brand-name Ritalin is produced in the
United States. Methylphenidate is a CNS stimulant. Reported methylphenidate abuse
side effects include psychosis (abnormal thinking or hallucinations), insomnia,
mood swings, mood changes, nervousness, stomach aches, diarrhea, headaches,
decreased sex drive, lack of hunger, gum and skin bleeding and dry mouth [9] and
also stunted growth. [10]

In the United States as also worldwide, methylphenidate is classified as a

Schedule II drug under the Convention of Psychotropic Substances because of its
high addictive potential and consequent abuse. [11]

According to an article in the Los Angeles Times, "the uproar over Ritalin was
triggered almost single-handedly by the Scientology movement." The Citizens
Commission on Human Rights, an antipsychiatry group associated with Scientology,
conducted a major campaign against Ritalin in the 1980s and lobbied Congress for
an investigation of Ritalin. Less common side effects include palpitations, high
blood pressure and tachycardia. [12] Most of these children were being 'poisoned'
on a daily basis. It can cause mental retardation and other birth defects, 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.

Aspartame was approved for use in dry foods in 1981 and in soft drinks in 1983.
Senator Howard Metzenbaum, of Ohio, who passed away in March 2008 at the age of
90, wrote and presented The Aspartame Safety Bill (S. 1554) in 1983 that would
require label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding
pregnant women, children and infants. A key element of Metzenbaum's bill was
required labeling that would have cautioned consumers how much aspartame they
could ingest, the maximum allowable daily intake established by the FDA and a
special warning for pregnant women. The bill stated that the warning information
"be included on such labels and labeling in a manner which is the most useful to
individuals who consume such food." Metzenbaum's bill mandated independent tests
by the National Institutes of Health, focusing on brain chemistry, behavioral and
neurological reactions, headaches, mood alterations, memory loss and effects on
pregnant women and fetuses. The bill was killed by intense lobbying by Pfizer and
other (P)harma MNCs in cahoot with the American FDA. [13] Though FDA stands for
Food and Drug Administration to save the people, over the years it has come to be
known as Fast Death Administration -- a branch of the CIA's Population Control
Program.

Monsanto's patent on Aspartame has expired. But there are now over 5,000 products
on the market in USA alone that contain this deadly chemical and there will be
thousands more introduced.

Monsanto, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is. [14] And would you
know that Monsanto funds, among others, the American Diabetes Association, the
American Dietetic Association and the Conference of the American College of
Physicians? This was exposed in the New York Times: "These [organizations] cannot
criticize any additives or convey their link to Monsanto because they take money
from them and are required to endorse their products".

"The chemical sucralose, marketed as 'Splenda', has replaced aspartame as the no.1
artificial sweetener in foods and beverages. Aspartame has been forced out by
increasing public awareness that it is both a neurotoxin and an underlying cause
of chronic illness worldwide..."

Splenda/Sucralose
But "chlorocarbons are never nutritionally compatible with our metabolic processes
and are wholly incompatible with normal human metabolic functioning. . Any
chlorocarbons not directly excreted from the body intact can cause immense damage
to the processes of human metabolism and, eventually, our internal organs". The
liver is a detoxification organ which deals with ingested poisons and overtime
gets damaged beyond repair with such artificial chemicals. You pay to buy the
poison. You pay to buy diseases.

According to PRNewswire-USNewswire, dated 11 August, U.S. District Court Judge

Dale S. Fischer has set January 6, 2009 as the starting date for a potentially
landmark civil suit against Johnson & Johnson over its alleged false advertising
of the artificial sweetener Splenda.

The central issue before the court is whether the advertising of Splenda -- a man
made chemical sweetener containing chlorine -- makes consumers believe it is a
natural product, by using taglines like
'Made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar' and similar advertising.

Internal documents show Johnson & Johnson knew that its Splenda advertising was
causing consumers to believe that Splenda is natural, even though it is not.
Although rulings in France, Australia and New Zealand have found Johnson &
Johnson's advertising of Splenda to be deceptive, the company continues
advertising in the United States that remains the subject of legal scrutiny and
public criticism.

Lead Sugar Association attorney Mark Lanier declared: 'Now we look forward to
presenting the truth about Splenda to the jury and focusing on the very real
effect of misleading advertising. We are
confidant that the outcome will be a victory for consumers everywhere.' [15]

Dr. Betty Martini says "the controversy rages over Splenda (sucralose). Is it safe
and natural like sugar or is it a chlorinated hydrocarbon? As lawsuits fly,
consider the chemistry of this artificial compound." She adds: "The FDA denied
approval of aspartame for 16 years since it was created and then caved in to
political/economic pressure when Don Rumsfeld, CEO of the manufacturer, was
brought to Washington by Ronald Reagan. A new FDA Commissioner was appointed to
approve it then became a consultant for NutraSweet's public relations firm for
$1,000/day on a 10 year contract. Forthcoming has been a global epidemic of
disability and death. One might expect FDA to be more cautious next time, yet FDA
approved the toxic chlorocarbon Splenda without hesitation and without any long
term testing on human subjects."

This then shows how the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible for
this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting and
uninformed public. And yet it is a tragedy that more and more people even in this
information age are becoming suckers. Beware of the games the (P)harma mafia
plays.

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References
[1, 2, 3, 4] Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
Aspartame Information List (also Splenda and other dangerous
sweeteners), www.mpwhi.com. Additional background information can be
found at www.TruthAboutSplenda.com

[5] Holistic Healing in Tropical Diseases - Dr. Leo Rebello, Natural Health
Centre, Bombay, 2006
[6] From FAT to Fit / Dr. Leo Rebello / www.healthwisdom.org
[7] Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, First Indian Edition, 1990.
[8] Nature Cure and Yoga Therapy - Dr. Leo Rebello, 1983, 1994, 2004. 3rd Revised
and Enlarged Edition, Natural Health Centre, Bombay.
[9] Online library of psychoactive plants, chemicals and related topics from
Erowid.org
[10] J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1996 Nov.
[11, 12, 13, 14] Wikipedia.
[15] Source: PR New and the Sugar Association.