Picked this information up on another pigeon website.(not UK.)Very interesting reading if you drink a lot of this stuff.
If it helps one person,that'll do for me.
Sorry it's long winded but as I say worth a read.
Lindsay.
Don’t know if you all have heard about this
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, life insurance, 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 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 **'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!
> 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 (**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!*
> *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 and is 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 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,*
> *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
> behaviour when these chemicals have been removed from their diet.*
> *So called 'behaviour 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.
> 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.
> 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 behavioural 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!*
