From my email15:53 Nov 12 2007
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This came this morning to my email, another practioner sent it to me. I have known cases of 10+ years of migranes and headaches, that once I had the client stop Diet coke- there no more migranes or even headaches. Which also means that the 1200-2200 mg of tylenol they did not have to take (yes they took WAY more than the recommended dose, because even migrane rx did not help and their Dr was at a loss for what to do). The case listed below is more extreme, it does not have to be extreme to cause you issues. Occasionally I don't mind consumption *hell I have one on occasion* of "bad things" but occasionally is once every 2-3 months, and can not be done in the first 8 weeks of detoxing the body from whatever it is.
The point is not to deny, but to find balance between good and bad.. and slowly tip the balance to more towards the good. Typically the younger the client, the less it bothers them. It is women nearing 30 with over 10 years of consumption that start to get ill. Don't kid yourself- unless YOU make it. There is no such thing as diet anything. ALL of it is chemically altered and chances are you will not respond well to it.
Message me if you want some ways of cutting the fat/sugar from bad types to good types. This is something I strongly believe in: WE HAVE THE POWER to make OURSELVES well.
It does not come from a pill or rx. It comes first from us. ok back to the email:
The attached information is not new......we nutritionists have been talking about the dangers of sugar free foods for at least 10 years now because there is scientific documentation that broadcasts the information listed below.........but this information sent to me by a dear friend and colleague says it better than anyone else.
So I am sending it to you - for your information - so that if you haven't heard it before - you have a chance read it now and be informed.....so you can make changes before you have to deal with a serious illness caused by sugar free foods at some time in the future.
The company known as Natural Flavours uses aspartame in many of it's ingredients and there is no way of knowing if products containing natural flavour(s) is natural or synthetic. I found this out while working at the largest food show in North America - the IFT 10 years ago. I had the opportunity to talk to their sales reps in their 2000 sq. foot exhibit space and asked them how does the consumer know whether their ingredients are natural or not. The reps said there was no way for the consumer to know. I also had the opportunity to attend a conference there and sit beside one of the people at Pepsi who was aware of the dangers of aspartame and was looking for a suitable substitute. I asked her if she drank diet Pepsi and she said definitely not!
If you are into reading labels if it says natural flavour(s) don't buy it. If it says NutraSweet, or equal - don't buy it. If it says natural flavour - as far as I know at this time the ingredients are natural.
Also for your information NutraSweet is Equal's largest global customer. This is not small business. Donald Rumsford was in an influential position at the FDA when aspartame was approved for human consumption. Shortly after this ingredient was approved Rumsford moved to a high level position at Monsanto. Coincidence? You tell me.
Now for those of you who have switched to Splenda - it's not the saint we would like it to be. It starts out as sugar but the process it goes through turns it into a dangerous product also. Long term use of foods containing splenda will cause your thymus gland to atrophy. The thymus is a key gland in the immune system function.....so unless you want to risk an autoimmune disease in the future - don't put your money on splenda.
The best sugar substitute on the market at this time is Stevia. It comes from a plant and in either powder or liquid form it is 100 x sweeter than sugar. This means you only have to use 1 drop of the liquid to equal a teaspoon of sugar. Excessive use of this product will produce an aftertaste - so use it sparingly.
Another product that is making waves as a sugar substitute is Xylitol. It is as sweet as sugar so you need to substitute spoon for spoon. The price of Xylitol makes it an expensive alternative, while Stevia is much more affordable.
If you have any questions about sweeteners, please don't hesitate to contact me.
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A forwarded message from a friend:
SWEET POISON
A MUST READ
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.
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 put her house, bank accounts, lifeinsurance, etc., in her oldest daughter’s name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of.
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.
I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda!
I e-mailed her the 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. She told me she was going to her doctor with this article and would call me when she got home.
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 ‘NutraSweet,’ ‘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!
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.
We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas.
In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the symptoms disappear. We’ve seen many cases where vision loss returned and hearing loss improved markedly.
This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia.
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, 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! Yes! STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many products are fortified with it! This is a serious problem.
Dr. Espart (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!
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 andis used primarily to preserve “tissue specimens.” Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body!
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 bloodsugar 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 barrierand it then deteriorates the neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, 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! 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.
D r. 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 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.
Sadly, MONSANTO’S 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.” I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is.
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.
Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children and infants. 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.
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! YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW!
Please print this out and/or e-mail to your family and friends.
They have a right to know too
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