By Elizabeth Renter, Natural Society, http://naturalsociety.com/effects-daily-coca-cola-soft-drink/
Even if you like soft drinks, you can tell by the taste that they are a potion of chemicals and man-made toxins. They don’t taste like anything natural, besides maybe sugar. And unfortunately, diet soda is no sound alternative. So what really happens after you drink a Coca-Cola or a similar soft drink?
Here is what could happen in your body after you drink a can of soda. In the first 10 minutes, it stops you from gagging on the 10 teaspoons of sugar by buffering the sweet stuff with phosphoric acid. Twenty minutes after consumption, your blood sugar levels jump alarmingly.
But the effects of your soda don’t stop there—with changes like increased blood pressure, blocked adenosine receptors (leading to that caffeine high), and increased dopamine production (think heroin). Further, calcium, zinc, and magnesium are depleted from the body.
Read: Is Diet Soda Bad for You?
As our own Christina Sarich reports, this isn’t the only scary ingredient in a can of soda. Coloring E150D, for example, is made of processed sugar and ammonium sulfate—a chemical also found in Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide RoundUp and known to increase the symptoms of asthma. Another ingredient E950, also known as Acesulfame Potassium, “aggravates the heart, vascular system, and nervous system.” Other harmful ingredients include citric acid, sodium benzoate, and more.
Lest you think diet soda is any better, diet sodas contain aspartame, a genetically modified component with numerous health risks. Diet soda has been linked to increased risk of kidney problems, altered metabolism leading to heart attack and stroke, obesity, cell damage, and even depression.
Soft drink makers don’t have your health in mind when they create their beverages—even when they create those with “all the taste and none of the calories.” Their primary concern is making money. As a consumer, it’s your job to make health decisions and abandon soda for the benefits of healing beverages like natural vegetable and fruit juices, teas, and filtered water.
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A Killer In Your Fridge ~ Sweet Poison… A MUST READ
September 2, 2013
tags: aspartame, diabetes, dizziness, fibromyalgia, headaches,
lupus, migraines, ms, muscle spasms, nutra-sweet
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 an 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 thereto 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
it’s 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 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!
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