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Aspertame - it can kill you!Mar 14 '01 (Updated Nov 30 '10) Write an essay on this topic.
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The Bottom Line Please be careful about the artificially and chemically created substances like aspertame which you ingest.
About ten years ago - I was working long hours, installing an upgrade to the hardware for our system. After a long day, I went home and found myself not feeling well. The next morning, I was very sick. So sick, that I could not stand up straight. Each time I tried to straighten up, my body was pulled forward with racking pain under my rib cage. My doctor, who is wonderful, saw me immediately that morning and knew immediately what I was suffering from. Pancreatitis!! His insistence that I go to the hospital was truly alarming, since I considered myself healthy and had never had a hospital stay! The experience was horrifying. All I did was sit in agonizing pain and vomit yellow bile. None of the medical staff knew where the pancreatitis came from or how I got it. Doctors kept coming into my hospital room, once I was admitted, to ask about my alcohol consumption - how much I drank, how often I drank, etc. I kept wondering why they were asking me about my drinking habits. I kept saying the only thing I drank a lot of was Diet Coke. I was so sick I wished I could die.Somehow,even though I was so sick, I was thinking that perhaps they did not believe me. Later on, I found out that people who get pancreatitis often get it from excessive alcohol consumption. While you have pancreatitis, you eat or drink NOTHING, not even water, so as to allow the pancreas to rest from enzyme generation. However, I might add, you do not even THINK about food, since you have no ability to break it down and gain any nutrients from eating. It is like your entire digestive system sits with foods rotting in it. It is a horrendous experience! Nothing comes in or goes out! Six days later, I was still in the hospital and had almost died twice due to liver failure. Finally, I was to be released. But, none of the specialists whom I had seen during my hospital stay, knew exactly what had caused this episode of pancreatitis. Six weeks later, I was still out of work, due to the effects of this episode that knocked me on my butt - pure and simple. Nothing looked good to eat, nothing smelled good or seemed to have any allure. I simply lived in a state of feeling "stuck" for lack of a better term. Finally, after another two short episodes, seeing three specialists after I got out of the hospital and still not being well for three months afterwards, I visited a homeopathic physician here in Florida. This lady was a board certified physician who virtually saved my life! She was able to figure out what no one else could. She told me I did not have the enzymes necessary to break down aspertame I was ingesting from the Diet Coke and if I kept drinking it, I would develop chronic pancreatitis and would probably suffer an early and painful death!!! I heard her message loud and clear, and thank God for her!! She was right on the money. To this day, any substance that I ingest that has aspertame in it, about does me in. Even something as small as a piece of gum or a mint. Little did I know that I would ever have a problem with something as inocuous as aspertame. Parents, a word of warning to you for your little people. This wonderful board certified doctor said humans were never intended to ingest aspertame at the levels that we do in diet sodas, and other diet foods, and she expressed particular concern for little people who are exposed to aspertame at such early ages. Please watch out for their little developing organs!!! A word to the wise.....aspertame has the capacity to make you suffer and can make you seriously ill! There have been many studies done over a period. It is my position that Aspertame is a chemical substance that was discovered and/or created as a by-product of something else. Amazingly, when I did the research on the net, none other than a less than famous American, Donald Rumsfield - was the CEO of the pharma company that brought aspertame to market. Thus, I suspect that for years, there was lots of information that aspertame was not detrimental to humans. Now, I know ten years later, I still suffer from pancreatitis, when I ingest it. I don't even have to read labels. I simply can taste it and then within 30-45 minutes, I get what I call a banging sensation in my pancreas, which makes me clutch myself under the rib cage, that tells me we have an unwanted visitor! Perhaps there are studies to support this reaction now, and I feel that I am living proof that aspertame is indeed, a harmful substance.  |
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