Tuesday 13 November 2012

Diet or Not, Drinking Soda Is Like Playing With Fire !


I'm sure you already know that soda isn't good for you but do you know why? The sweet drink that you can't kick is loaded with carcinogens. But what's a carcinogen? It's ''any substance or agent that tends to produce cancer."
That's just the beginning. It increases body fat, causes you to crave more and more food and makes it difficult to focus.
A good way to kick the soda habit is to get seltzer water and add your own fresh fruit. You can also start making iced tea. My favorite soda alternative is Kombucha. It's crazy good for you and it has the fizziness of soda.  If you are finding it really hard to get away from soda try easing away from it with Izze brand. It has much fewer harmful ingredients and no high fructose corn syrup.

Thursday 8 November 2012


Shishas, tattoos and bubble tea - cool but risky?


Does the smoke of water pipes contain fewer pollutants than cigarettes? Are tattoo inks actually tested for side effects? How much sugar does bubble tea contain? These were some of the questions that occupied the minds of 120 students as part of a student workshop held at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment on 25 September 2012. At six different meeting points dedicated to specific topics, the students gained insight into the work of the BfR. Thereafter, the 14 to 16-year-olds discussed what they had learned with presenter Dr. Mark Benecke. "Many products assessed by the BfR are also of interest to young adults", said Professor Dr. Reiner Wittkowski, Vice President of the BfR during the event opening lecture. "As part of our risk communication, we would like to reach this target group too." The student workshop is part of the special events which the BfR is organising to celebrate its tenth anniversary.

A total of 118 students from four different Berlin districts came to the event at the BfR location in Marienfelde. Following lectures on the subject of poisoning and tattoo inks, the youths had the opportunity to learn more about the work of the BfR by participating in different workshops. They were told, for example, what ingredients are contained in energy drinks and food supplements and what their potential health risks are. At the bubble tea station, the students determined the sugar content of the trendy drink for themselves and made their own “bobas”, i.e. pearl tapioca. At the tobacco meeting point, the health risks posed by smoking water pipes and e-cigarettes were explained to the students. Two further meeting points informed the students that the BfR also conducts research on alternative methods to replace animal experiments.


The main focus of the event was on providing information about the subject of tattoos. BfR experts explained to the students the potential unwanted side effects of tattoos and the ingredients of tattoo inks. In a discussion forum held in the afternoon, the students shared their experiences and ideas. After presenter Mark Benecke was tattooed live, two BfR experts, a Berlin-based tattoo artist, a dermatologist, and a patient talked about the unwanted side effects of tattoos such as infections, cicatrisation and allergic reactions. It was pointed out to the students that the long-term effects of tattoos are still unknown and that developing safe tattoo inks poses a considerable challenge. The reason for this is that no meaningful scientific studies are currently available on which to base authorisation of tattoo inks that are safe in the long term.

The feedback on the workshop and individual booths provided by the students was summarised in the form of drawings by an illustrator during the discussion. These “graphic recordings” as well as a film about the day will soon be published on the BfR website.

Friday 26 October 2012

Diet Coke -Sweet POISON



SWEET POISON!
            A MUST READ!
           
            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 behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet.
           
            So called 'behavior 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 ofdiet Coke and diet Pepsiconsumed 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 behavioral 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! 

WEDNESDAY, 2 JULY 2008

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