"diet" soft drinks-suicide on an installment plan

[COUNTRYBUMPKIN]

'Diet' Soft Drinks - Suicide
On An Installment Plan

Crumpled Coke Can Poetic Justice
12-14-4 http://www.rense.com/general60/diets...nkssuicide.htm




The photo of a crumpled can of Diet Coke told the story in the Atlanta
Journal Constitution, 30-1-2000, Coke's hometown paper. Fitting, poetic,
just, but tragic for the company once rated "The Most Admired Business in
the World". Today Coke wouldn't even make the list. Sales are down, profits
collapsing, and 6,000 employees soon will be gone. (To make room for 6,000
defence attorneys?) The tragedy is stupendously larger than 6,000 jobs; it
affects hundreds of millions of unwarned, innocent, afflicted consumers
across the broad face of planet earth.

* This crisis can't be solved by belt tightening, greater efficiency, more
advertising, etc. It's so bad Coke can't say the word; to pronounce it will
bring instant cataclysm. That word is aspartame, and their only recourse is
denial, denial, denial, though every ad and commercial builds higher the
scaffold upon which Coke shall surely hang.

* Reality is in that twisted Diet coke can. It's poison. It's killing the
unborn, raining tumours and seizures on the population, destroying children,
incapacitating workers, mimicking MS, erasing memory and blinding.

* Inexorably Diet Coke visits a plague of 92 symptoms listed by our FDA on a
secret report they'll never show which names diet soda as the first source
of aspartame disease. And yes, Death was one of the 92.

* Diet Coke is poison. And it's addictive, some victims drink several litres
a day and keep it on their nightstands. If Coke changes the formula to
remove aspartame the world will heal and the surge of hatred and vengeance
by the disabled and bereaved shall certainly destroy Coca Cola.

* The poison in Diet Coke is aspartame. As a member of the National Soft
Drink Association, Coke opposed FDA approval of aspartame for beverages.
Their objections, running to several pages published in the Congressional
Record of 5/7/85, said aspartame is uniquely and inherently unstable and
breaks down in the can. It decomposes into formaldehyde, methyl alcohol,
formic acid, diketopiperazine and other toxins. In a study on 7 monkeys 5
had grand mal seizures and one died, a casualty rate of 86%.

* Coke knew; and knowing, broke their good faith contract with customers, a
breach exhibited by the recent plot to program vending machines to raise the
price with the temperature. Dissatisfied with selling flavoured sugar water
plus phosphoric acid, they switched to pushing an addictive formula called
Diet". Addictive substances multiply markets, so Diet Coke soared off the
sales charts, spreading obesity in its flight. We're fatter because
aspartame suppresses seratonin and makes us crave carbohydrates. Our brain
is programmed to expect calories and carbohydrates when experiencing a sweet
taste. When it doesn't get them, it triggers HUNGER.

* So why is aspartame/NutraSweet/Equal/Diet Coke/Diet Pepsi/etc on the
market and in thousands of foods? Can you say CORRUPTION? One FDA
Commissioner and one acting Commissioner have changed sides to work in the
NutraSweet industry, plus 6 underlings and two federal attorneys assigned to
prosecute NutraSweet for submitting fraudulent tests to get it approved. "It
s like a script for Abbott & Costello." lamented an honest FDA scientist
writing to Senator Metzenbaum. It works like this: "Approve our poison, and
when you stop being a bureaucrat we'll make you a plutocrat! After its
icensed we'll pay off the American Dietetics, the American Diabetes
Association, the AMA and anyone we need who's for sale."

* The jig's up! Worldwide consumer action has exposed aspartame, and
millions have kicked the habit. Coke's profits are down 37% and for a year
Monsanto's been trying to sell The NutraSweet Company. Finally they sold NSC
producer of the phenylalanine in NutraSweet for $125 million. Now Monsanto
faces a $71 million lawsuit for exaggerating profits. Monsanto stock is in
the toilet, but they may have found a buyer in the Swiss firm
Pharmacia-Upjohn. P.U. for short! The deal won't finalize for a year. The
plans are to ditch the Monsanto name, as its stench is unendurable. CEO Bob
Shapiro may soon be history, like Doug Ivester of Coke who just resigned.

Will the last one out please turn out the lights! The next time you reach
for a diet drink (or some Sweet & Low), please consider some fruit juice.
You will be much healthier.

Have a great diet-soda-free day.
(The original source for this story is not known. -ed)

[dolphin]

I quit drinking diet drinks about 2 years ago because I got so many headaches and optical migraines. Sure am glad I did.

[homesteadmamma]

I too quit drinking diet Pepsi because of the Aspartame. Not only did I get headaches from it I had severe stomach problems as well.

Good article!!

[COUNTRYBUMPKIN]

I am glad that you quit drinking it too dolphin! I cringe everytime I see someone with a product containing this in their grocery cart It's not uncommon for me to educate them on it right then and there. Some do not believe it though, but most will never buy it again. You win some and you lose some

[COUNTRYBUMPKIN]

CJ, we posted at the same time. Good for you for stopping as well

[Dixie]

I'm going to show this article to my dh. He drinks anywhere from 6-10 diet soft drinks daily. He has terrible Migraines and has been experiencing dizziness as well.

[COUNTRYBUMPKIN]

Dixie! No doubt that the Aspartame/Nutrasweet are causing his problems. And he is most likely very deficient in vital minerals as well. Drinking pop, diet or regular, will deplete you very quickly of these. And the magnesium deficiency can cause major headaches right along with the Aspartame poisoning. I believe there are several other articles on Aspartame poisoning posted over in Natural Health. Rhonda posted one and I posted one.......I think.

[simplemom]

I never used to drink or eat anything with aspartame until 6 years ago, when I decided to lose weight. I've always been a person who tried to eat more natural than anything...but I quit drinking diet drinks, when I found out that it decreases Serotonin levels in the brain....which causes to be depressed and have anxiety....which I was experiencing both, but mostly anxiety.

2 weeks after I stopped, I became my old self again--no more anixiety attacks and less depressed. Imagine, I was then taking anti-depressants to INCREASE my Serotonin levels and the diet drinks were DECREASING my serotonin levels---so my meds were not working on me. I had been taking the meds for a year with little change in my depression, back then.....and then after I quit the diet stuff, I became so much happier!

Maybe you won't believe me, but I know it's true for me and NEVER again will I eat or drink anything with aspartame.

[COUNTRYBUMPKIN]

Lucie, I believe you and am happy that you found out the truth and took the initiative to correct the problem Good for you Lucie.

[i.m.cheap]

I never drink diet soda. I have not trusted any artificial sweeteners that have been on the market. I am a waitress in a family restaurant, and it bothers me alot when parents will order diet soft drinks for their very young children.

[COUNTRYBUMPKIN]

Deb, It would drive me nuts if I had to witness parents ordering their children diet drinks! My mouth would get me fired LOL

[Kimmomo3]

So, if I drink diet soda and have no symptoms that means?? I am lucky? I am the odd percent that it does not effect? I just need more time before I am effected?

Just some of my random thoughts.

[COUNTRYBUMPKIN]

It is affecting you all right Sometimes it takes 2 minutes, sometimes it's not noticed for years. Heres a few good sites to visit and learn more about the symptoms. www.dorway.com www.sweetpoison.com

[Michelle]

It's all in who you choose to believe.

http://www.snopes.com/toxins/aspartame.asp

[homesteadmamma]

I do know who I believe when it comes to aspartame and thats my own body. Only when I was drinking diet Pepsi did I have severe headaches and stomach problems. I've had none since.

Even had Lynn not posted this article, I knew what aspartame did to me.