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Lawsuits were filed in three different California courts recently against twelve companies who either produce or use the artificial sweetener as a sugar substitute in their products. The suits allege that these companies committed fraud and breach of warranty by marketing products to the public with full knowledge that aspartame is neurotoxic.

As far back as 1970, Dr. John Olney did studies on aspartic acid, which makes up 40% of aspartame, and found it caused lesions in the brains of mice.

Papers have been written on the behavioral and psychiatric problems triggered by aspartame-caused depletion of serotonin. Aspartame may cause headaches, memory loss, vision loss and more, and may worsen other existing conditions. Some of the companies named in the lawsuits include Coke, Pepsi, Wal-Mart and Kraft Foods.

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Report on Aspartame .

Why Sodas and Colas make you fat and sick .

Please read the articles below .

Many times I have had people come into our herb shop and ask what can I do to lose weight .?

One of the very first questions I ask is - Do you drink carbonated beverages ?

Aspartame - Aspertame - Poison ?

Effective weight loss starts with diet changes , one of the first changes is - stop drinking all sodas all colas , all carbonated beverages - including diet cola , which are the worst . Get the Aspartame out of your diet !

Why? Diet colas are very acidic , with a pH of 1.5 to 2.5 - that is 100,000 times more acid that your body wants to be .

Aspartame has a pH of 1.5 !

Aspartame - Aspertame sickness ?

All life dies at a pH of 4.5 .

So your body creates fat cells to store the extra acid ( Aspartame ) .

This is why people who drink diet cola - just get fatter -

just for the taste of it .

On our home page we tell you a true case , of Annie , who quit drinking all sodas and cola , and started drinking Alka-Line Coral Calcium Water - as her weight loss program - she lost 20 pounds the first month - energy levels up - appearance improved .

Aspartame bad stuff !

I can give you many examples of people who quit drinking colas 100 % and changed their life for the better.

What is making our society so sick and so fat - Our High fat Diet - Plus Highly Acidic Colas . It is my personal belief that carbonated beverages are the detriment of our youth - causing Add- Adhd - poor performance , and poor general health . It is also my belief that sodas and colas are addictive , and a large part of the population is hooked and addicted to this canned and bottled poison .

Aspartame has beed linked to all kind of health problems.

Why is the cancer rate so high , whys is type 2 diabetes now rampant among teens and preteens - why do so many people have Adult onset type 2 diabetes ?

Aspartame ! Read the full report on diet sodas and Aspartame below.

Could there be a link between Aspartame - Aspertame . Oh Yes !

Artificial sweeteners are every where . Aspartame is now used in children's chewable vitamins .

Parents please read the labels. Quit making your children sick .

Time for a quick anatomy lesson - Your kidneys are the prime pH balancing organs in your body . The body wants to have a general pH of about 7 , the kidneys control pH function . So when you drink pure water with pH of about 7 or a little higher - you are balancing the pH in your kidneys , and balancing the general pH in the body . When the pH is right the body can release and dispose of stored acids . This why some clients have had such drastic weight reductions in such a short amount of time .

Stop drinking highly acid colas and sodas and soft drinks , start drinking lots of pure water every day - you will be surprised at the change .

I personally use Health Thru Nutrition's - Sango Coral Calcium , sachet in distilled water . Raises the pH in the water to 10.65 - helps raise body PH to 7.0 .

Remember kidney pH wants to be neutral at about 7.0 .

Why is pH so important - if your PH is correct you will have a much less chances of contracting a chronic condition , such as cancer , arthritis , or even the common cold .

There is a direct correlation between pH and your immune . system . The Immune works at its most optimal level , when the body pH is 7.0 - or slightly alka line .

So when you drink just one soda - you drive your pH down , shutting down the immune system , and setting yourself up for a disease to take hold .

Drink just one soda or cola , you will then have to drink 32 glasses of water with a pH of 7 or more to balance your pH .

Any person who has a chronic condition should work extra hard to get their pH up to 7 as fast as possible , and maintain a pH of 7.0 consistently .

Why ? Nothing heals in the human body in less than 90 days . This is why so many school age children get sick , and stay sick all year long . A very Acidic diet , low pH , keeps their immune system depressed so that they never really get over that cold or flu . Just about the time they start to feel better along comes another cold , and zap they sick again.

It is my personal belief that diet , toxins , sodas and colas are ruining are young people , for the first time in history the older parents are in better shape then their children .

Cancer rate 1 out of 2 . Diabetes 1out 3 . Syndrome X or Dysmetabolic Syndrome - a name given to the current trend of illness in our society by the medical comminute .

Syndrome X - relates the big three - heart attacks - cancer - diabetes . All has to do insulin resistance , and absorption of nutrients .

Aspartame - aspertame - why the two spellings - it is listed on the net under two names , wanted you to get both.

It is my personal belief that our very poor American diet is the culprit - ADD and ADHD .

Please remember that almost every chronic condition we have in our country - is directly related to having a low general body pH.

Children are not sick because of a lack of flu shots .

Diabetics are not diabetic because of a lack glucophage.

High cholesterol is not caused by a lack of Liptor .

These conditions are caused by having a poor diet .

John Houser

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"Helping the Body to Heal, Making a Difference One at a Time."

Your Health is at STAKE! Before you drink another cola or soda, read the following article, it may Save Your Life!

Scientists have found that healthy people have body fluids that are slightly alkaline, 7.1 to 7.5 pH. Scientists and doctors have also found that over 150 degenerative diseases are linked to acidity, including cancer, diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, gall and kidney stones, and many more. All diseases thrive in an acidic, oxygen poor environment.

Keep in mind that a drop in every point on the pH scale is10x more acidic than the previous number--i.e. from 7 to 6 is 10x, from 7 to 5 is 100x etc. From 7 to 2 is 100,000x more acidic, colas are in the approximate 2.5 pH range. Almost no soda(pop) is higher than 3.0. Diet sodas are the worst as they have the highest acid content. Actually diet sodas cause you to gain weight because they alter the blood chemistry, making changes in your metabolism, leading to a slower metabolic rate. See our article on Aspartame. The best liquid to drink is water.

Almost everything we do including our life styles and our diets push us into the acidic range: proteins, carbohydrates, and fats are all digested down to acids. Even metabolic functions and exercise create some acids (lactic acid). Body fluids range between 4.5 and 7.5 pH (Your blood must maintain an alkaline range of 7.35 to 7.45 pH). So even our natural functions produce acids, and if we do not get the proper minerals in the proper forms, our bodies will begin to degenerate. When you drink soda, the deterioration will be much faster.

Can Cola & Sodas Kill? Over the long term the effects of colas are devastating to the body. Acidity, sugars, and artificial flavors and sweeteners can shorten your life. It would take 32 glasses of alkaline water at an alkaline pH of 9 to neutralize the acid from one 12 oz. cola or soda. When you drink a cola or soda, the body will use up reserves of its own stored alkaline buffers, mainly calcium from the bones and DNA, to raise the body's alkalinity levels, especially to maintain proper blood alkaline pH levels. Acidic blood levels cause death! There are enough acids in one soda to kill you if you didn't possess a mechanism to neutralize them. But your mineral buffers can be used up.

The reason it is so bad, is that soda, like water and other liquids, pass very quickly through the stomach into the small intestine where it is quickly assimilated into the bloodstream through the openings in the villi in the walls of the intestines.They can also be absorbed right through the stomach's lining directly into the blood. Liquids do not stay in the digestive tract like solid food does. All liquids go into the bloodstream, is filtered through the liver and the kidneys, and what is not needed is sent to the bladder and urinated out. But these liquids come in contact with virtually every cell in your body.

When a substance is an acid, it means that there are a large number of positively charged hydrogen ions in it. These positively charged ions are lacking electrons and steal electrons from other atoms in the body which themselves become electrically unstable and seek other electrons from other atoms. Acids are free radicals and what you've just created is a chain reaction of electron stealing. The problem with this is that whenever an electron is torn from an atom a little spark is produced, and this is what damages cell membranes. It's called free radical damage and can be seen under a microscope in a live blood cell analysis.

If you have enough minerals the body can stop the process. But when you use up the supply of available minerals to neutralize the acids, at that point you may get a very serious degenerative disease. Every soda that you drink will contribute to this acidity. Even without soda our bodies naturally produce acids, and minerals are needed in our diets to stop the deterioration process. Unfortunately, most of the food that we eat no longer contains the minerals that we need. This may be the reason for all the degenerative diseases that are so prevalent today.

Most degenerative diseases we call "Old-Age Diseases" like memory loss, osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, hypertension, and many more are actually life style diseases caused by acidosis, the lack of supplements, what acids we ingest, what nutrients we don't ingest, or toxins we don't properly eliminate.

This document is supplied for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to recommend or prescribe any treatment for any condition or illness. Contact a doctor or medical professional who is trained in the use of natural nutritional supplements before adding any new protocol or when starting any health or exercise program.

Extract from: The WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE and the MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION,

FDA in COLLUSION WITH MONSANTO Article written by Nancy Markle

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 coverts 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 with 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 to 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 when 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 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 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 black 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 of 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 FDA For years, the FDA has outlawed this sweet food because of their 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 behavioural symptoms). It 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 American College of Physicians, we hope to have the help of some world leaders. Again, please help us too. There are a lot of people out there who must be warned, please let them know about this information.

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