What You Don't Know About Aspartame Can Destroy Your Health
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Dr. Mercola's Comment:
Most anyone interested in natural health will understand that
artificial sweeteners are not healthy for you. But nearly everyone
of us leads busy lives that limits us from reading all we would
like to, especially about things that may not be that much of a
problem anyway.
After all, millions of people drink diet sodas every day and
they aren't dropping dead like flies, and the government did approve
this sweetener as safe so it can't be too bad.
Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
If you believe the above you are in for a sorry surprise. The
beautiful aspect of this video is that in a short 90 minutes you
will easily in the relaxed comfort of your own home finally understand
why aspartame is a toxic poison and needs to be avoided at all costs.
Personally I own Dr.
Robert's $75 phone book size reference on aspartame and a number
of other books on the topic. However, I have never had the time
to read them and understand at a foundational level why aspartame
was so toxic. I just knew it was not natural and should be avoided
and there were many that had problems with it. This movie allowed
me to easily and passively learn the specific reasons and details
on why aspartame is best avoided by all humans who are interested
in staying healthy.
I had this video for six months before I had a chance to finally
have some free time and pop it in the DVD player to view it. Once
I did I had to do some EFT and
tapping to forgive myself for not watching this video sooner. It
was one of the best DVDs I have seen on health and I highly recommend
and endorse this movie.
If you, or someone you know and love, drinks diet soda or consumes
aspartame in any form, then this video is an absolute must see for
you. I could not recommend more strongly that you view this video.
You can purchase it on our site
with the 100 percent assurance that if you are not as convinced
as I am that this is one of the most helpful life changing health
movies you have seen you can return it to our site for a full no-questions-asked
refund.
If you are a health care professional I am pleading with you
to view this video. Once you view the information on this video
you will finally know why an aggressive avoidance of this toxic
substance is necessary to maintain health. I promise you this is
one of the best investments of your time to help your patients or
clients improve their health.
Finding
out the trigger point for your disease -- multiple sclerosis --
was aspartame exposure must have been a revelation for you. How
did you discover aspartame was the cause of your problems?
First off, by putting two and two together. I had been a very heavy
aspartame consumer for 20 years, and there was so much research
available on the harmful effects of that substance.
When I started to have problems, I had just quit cold turkey. It
really felt like withdrawal. Then, when I was starting to get better,
a relative gave me some breath mint tabs for under the tongue. Unknown
to me, they had aspartame. Almost immediately, I started to have
problems again. That clinched it for me.
Sweet Misery is as much a documentary,
as it is detective story. You let the facts help you tell your story.
How did you formulate the narrative flow of your story?
It was really a journey of discovery, and a very collaborative
effort with my husband and partner, J.T. Waldron. Without him, I
think I would have been too close to the subject to be able to pull
a story out of the massive amount of documentation and video footage
we had compiled. He studied the research we had close to a year
and allowed it to be fully absorbed before he edited a minute of
footage.
Your documentary makes a very compelling
case for the FDA to take aspartame off the market? Based on your
research and your conversations with various experts, in your opinion,
why hasn't this happened at some point over the past 20 years?
Unfortunately, I think it comes down to marketing, money and power.
We've become a society that is more interested in the bottom line
and investment returns on the stock market and less concerned with
helping each other and honestly working to find truly helpful products
to market. We've also reached the point where we're always trying
to find a "quick fix," a panacea to immediately cure (or
at least cover up) all ills.
The best answers aren't always the easy ones. Instead of coming
up with a way to market an item and finding a way for to make people
think they need it, we should find a real need in our society and
try to fill it.
Part of Sweet Misery's power is its use
of archival footage from the 60s, 70s and 80s to make its case about
the dangers of aspartame. How did you find this obviously hard-to-find
footage?
Luckily, Betty Martini of Mission Possible and www.dorway.com
is a vast resource, almost a museum. Her collection of news items
and interviews helped us to discover some long forgotten footage.
One of the themes that kept coming up
in your conversations with doctors was that physicians oftentimes
weren't paying any attention to their patients which had much to
do with aspartame slipping past their medical radar. Did this mirror
your own experience?
Absolutely. I was told specifically (I asked) that there was nothing,
nutritionally speaking, that I could do for myself. The only thing
that my neurologist thought that I could do, was take a real "powerhouse"
drug, one that has many side effects, including liver problems and
suicide. As soon as I got off that medication, which I haven't taken
for almost a year now, I started to feel better than I have in years.
Incidentally, that neurologist won't touch aspartame herself, but
won't specifically recommend to her patients to stay away from it
either.
The most emotionally, compelling part
of your film was the closing segment with Diane Fleming, who's serving
50 years in a Virginia prison for poisoning her husband, although
all the signs lead to aspartame. Has anything happened with her
case since you interviewed her?
There is a petition for her release on www.nwho.org.
Also, there are several people who are trying to get a copy of the
film to the Virginia state legislature, so hopefully that will help.
And I think that her friend, Betty Rickmond, who is also in the
documentary, is getting a copy to the state attorney general. Really,
more people need to be aware of this issue in order for a difference
to take place.
(By the way, if anyone would like to write to Diane Fleming they
can do so at this address: Diane Fleming, #311655, FCCW 3D 207A,
Box 1000, Troy, Va. 22974.)
Before shooting this documentary, did
you realize the lengths pharmaceutical companies would take to bring
a flawed product to market?
We had no idea that this was only the tip of the iceberg, that
there was so much going on and that it had been going on for so
long. I would watch how the pharmaceuticals would market these drugs
in doctors' offices, in literature and on television, never realizing
that I may have to make a decision to buy into these drugs. It's
a frightening step to decide against what conventional medicine
recommends and refuse a prescription, especially when your life
is at stake.
I don't recommend an arbitrary dismissal of allopathic medicine,
but a look at alternatives in combination to a traditional doctor
might be essential.
On another note, a big surprise in an early interview was learning
that Donald Rumsfeld was the CEO of the company that originally
marketed aspartame when it was brought to market. In early revolving
door activity, he was also serving as part of [late President Ronald]
Reagan's transition team.
Will we see Sweet Misery in theatres one
day soon?
We will submit it to film festivals this year. A direct video release
seems like the most effective way to get the documentary out there.
Although we will try, we don't expect it to broadcast on any commercial
station soon, especially if they are advertising soft drinks!
Are
you through dealing with the mega-billion medical industry yet?
Not yet. We expect to do a follow-up to Sweet Misery to cover continued
aspartame battles. We also would like to provide more for the issues
of avoidance and detox. We're looking at several more documentaries
that have similar elements, specifically on fluoride, AIDS and eugenics.
I'm particularly proud of a script that I wrote once off of my medication.
It's a dark comedy called "The Iguana."
How is your health today?
I feel better than I have in years. I spent all of my 20s in a
mental fog, unable to do anything. Now, my head feels clear, I've
lost the weight I was always unsuccessfully trying to shed, and
I'm medication and symptom free.
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