If you’ve ever wondered why we keep getting sicker and sicker and fatter and fatter this video is the answer.
That old man had a crazy idea. “And that crazy idea is that PREVENTION is the answer! Not the mere treatment of symptoms.”
By Fintan Dunne
Editor SickofDoctors.com
4-17-2
Michael J. Fox is still drinking the diet soda.
Many medical professionals and health activists loudly proclaim that aspartame sweetener in diet sodas causes symptoms that mimic, or accentuate Parkinson’s disease. The first class-action lawsuits have already been filed. Michael is diagnosed with Parkinson’s.
A prudent person might well have long ago eliminated the notorious additive from their diet. But, incredibly, Michael J. Fox seems to still be drinking the soda.
Before he appeared on last week’s Oprah show, promoting his new book “Lucky Man,” reporter Ann Oldenburg, for USA Today, interviewed him about his medical condition. She wrote:
“He just can’t sit still. Will that glass of diet soda make it to his lips without spilling? It does.”
Consider this: A man we all know and many love, sipping with trembling hands the very drink that may be slowly killing him. Unfortunately, this is not a scene from a movie. This is real life for Mr. Pepsi 1987.
THE CHOICE OF A HYPED GENERATION
Ironically, in the movie “Back to the Future,” Michael J. Fox is taken back in time to a soda fountain shop in the early nineteen fifties.
Michael’s character, Marty McFly, asks the man behind the counter for a diet soda: a “Pepsi Free.” The man behind the counter replies: “Nothing is free in here but water.” Then Fox asks for a “Tab” (another diet soda), and the man behind the counter states: “You don’t get a tab until you order something.”
That’s what they call run-of-film product placement. By means of star endorsements and in-movie placements, soda corporates have been spectacularly effective in getting us all to swallow their artificially colored, artificially flavored water.
Michael also starred in “Apartment 10G,” a 1987 Pepsi commercial with Gail O’Grady, of NYPD Blue, in which he risked life and limb running through rain, over car hoods, and through traffic to bring her a can of her favorite soda.
His love affair with the “free” goes back a long way. Michael Andrew Fox was born June 9 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Always diminutive, he longed to be taller. Michael read that eating made you grow, so he ate until he had gained 20lb in weight.
After early acting successes, he ended up in debt and selling off furniture to buy food. Michael felt he had to do something about his weight to improve his chances at casting sessions. He went on a crash diet. He stopped eating. From then on, the slimmed down star was a prime candidate for the diet sodas introduced around 1984.
When he appeared in the 1987 Pepsi commercial, their public relations people milked the star’s endorsement for all it’s worth. Michael spent countless hours clutching glasses of Pepsi, with his home refrigerator virtually patched into Pepsi’s production line. Michael was reportedly soon an avid consumer of Diet Pepsi.
That exposure set him up for a curious medical phenomenon: addiction to the substance causing the damage. Every free can came at a terrible hidden price. As the soda fountain storekeeper in ‘Back to the Future’ puts it: “nothing is free -but the water.”
THE VIRUS RED HERRING
Many doctors report improvement in chronic medical conditions when their patients avoid aspartame. However, the manufacturers, the US regulators and the Parkinson’s research establishment dismiss these reports as anecdotal. They insist that “scientific evidence” shows aspartame is safe.
In truth, their “science” is often just pseudoscientific claptrap. Their latest wild goose chase is that Parkinson’s may be linked to a virus. Even as Michael J. Fox currently tours the talk show circuit, the leading Canadian Parkinson’s researcher, Dr. Donald Calne, is reportedly heralding a possible viral cause of Parkinson’s.
His evidence? Three of Michael’s costars on a situation comedy called “Leo and Me” have also developed Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Calne, director of the Neurodegenerative Disorder Center at the University of British Columbia Hospital, theorizes that the four might have been exposed to a Parkinson’s trigger virus in the air conditioning system on the show’s production set.
Breathless and talk show hosts and fawning news reports reveal that four of the 125 people on the set of “Leo and Me” in 1976, are now diagnosed with Parkinson’s — compared to a national incidence of 1 in 300 people. Dr. Calne calculates the odds of such a cluster by chance at 1000 to 1.
Hold it right there! This data is statistical dross. This is EXACTLY the data clustering we would expect to find in a normal distribution of Parkinson’s among groups of less than 300 people. There will always be isolated incidences where there are congruencies. Conversely there will be also be a large number of population sets of 300 where there is no incidence of Parkinson’s whatsoever.
Surely the bell curve of a normal distribution is familiar to any student of Statistics 101. If the sample has only 125 people, you find precisely these variations. Only when the sample size is increased from hundreds — to hundreds of thousands, does the data approach meaningfulness.
If Dr. Calne’s pseudo-science is any indication, then Parkinson’s research is out to lunch. The same establishment which passes off such meaningless speculation as science, has the nerve to dismiss the experience of doctors as anecdotal and the concerns of the public as “nonscientific.” And, like Dr. Calne, they have control of the available research dollars.
Perhaps, after all, we had better carefully review the evidence so readily dismissed about the toxicity of aspartame.
FIRE ANTS AND HEAVY METAL
The establishment view is that ingestion of aspartame produces levels of toxins are typically insignificantly low. The critics say that aspartame is significantly metabolized in the body to aspartic acid, phenylalanine and methyl alcohol.
Aspartic acid is excitotoxic, it excites neurons or brain cells to death –thus the link to Parkinson’s. The methyl alcohol breaks down into formaldehyde, then formic acid. How dangerous are these toxins?
Consider fetal alcohol syndrome: it produces deformity and disability in infants who suffer maternal alcohol abuse. Yet, methyl alcohol is fifty times more potent than beverage alcohol. Formaldehyde is 5,000 times more potent. Critics say the combination is equivalent to ingesting deadly fire ant venom and embalming fluid – albeit in minuscule quantities.
Besides the direct effects of these toxins, there is evidence from research into Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases that toxin-induced accumulation of metals in the brain is a key disease mechanism.
Much research into Parkinson’s in agricultural communities, has linked the disease with high exposure to pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers. Other research in mining communities has shown aluminum and manganese play a role in the degeneration. Besides it’s direct effects, aspartame may well also speed the brain’s uptake of these metals to toxic levels.
A significant minority of people are highly succeptible to these toxic effects. That’s why this writer, as a matter of personal health safety, will not be drinking a possible metal chleator in a beverage stored inside an aluminum can. Do I feel lucky, punk? No, not that lucky.
But our public health safety regulators are feeling very lucky. All the while, a creeping epidemic of youthful neurological degeneration gathers pace.
A MESSAGE FOR MICHAEL
Ms. Betty Martini of aspartame campaign group, Mission Possible International, does not mince words. In a statement on the Michael J. Fox controversy, she stated: “Aspartame is being used by 2/3rds of the population today and 40% of our children, and is a deadly neurotoxic drug. …We are now taking case histories for class action starting with brain tumors, seizures, eye deterioration and blindness triggered by aspartame. An investigation could be the beginning of help for millions.”
PETITION
We fan’s of Michael, Parkinson’s sufferers and ordinary citizens are concerned that he may be unknowingly worsening his condition with diet sodas containing aspartame.
As signatories, we call on the Michael J. Fox Foundation to represent the interests of Parkinson’s suffers — without fear or favor of the vested interests in medical research and industry. We call for… Read On….
It is worth stating that a virus cannot be sued by poisoned consumers, and a virus cannot be hauled to a Congressional investigation. Therefore a Parkinson’s virus will inevitably prove a far better candidate for scientific research dollars than aspartame.
The message for Michael is that aspartame is clearly not worth the risk to his health, and merits renewed review of it’s public safety. Unfortunately the research foundation that bears Michael’s name, has so far not even acknowledged the evidence sent to it by aspartame critics.
SickofDoctors.com has sponsored an online petition to alert Michael and his Parkinson’s foundation to the role of aspartame. You can help send this important message to Michael. After all, a previous petition that was featured at PetitionOnline.com prompted a response from Bill Gates’ Microsoft.
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– Fintan Dunne
“the truth is, it isn’t the nicotine and tobacco that’s killin’ you in cigarettes, it’s refined sucrose, mistakenly called white sugar”
— M’Bwebe Aja Ishangi
Have you seen the commercialz put out by the website company, truth.com, where they have people droppin’ off body bagz at tobacco industries?
They claim the addiction nicotine has on smokerz are responsible for the over 400,000 annual deaths in America. After researching cigarettes, it seemz the truth.com isn’t tellin’ you the whole truth!
The food processing industry is the biggest sugar customer, putting as much as 50% in processed food. What’s shockin’ to know is filling the #2 slot is the tobacco industry. The Surgeon General has commissioned all cigarette manufacturerz are required to tell you on the cigarette box that smoking is hazardous to your health, but they are not required to tell you any further info. In fact, cigarettes is probably the only substance that does not print it’s ingredients on the box! Most have been misled to believe it’s only made of tar, nicotine and filterz, but they do not tell you about the tobacco.
The history of tobacco didn’t start until after Columbus got lost and landed in the America’s. The Red man had
been blowin’ peace pipes for centuries before their encounter with melanin impaired. The tobacco plant wasn’t brought to Europe until 1558, by the spanish physician, Jean Nicot, where nicotine is derived from.
According to the March 1973 edition Medical World News, there’s an average of 5-20% sugar that’s added to cigarettes, up to 20% in cigarz and as much as 40% in pipe tobacco, mainly in the form of molasses. The truth is the presence of sugar in cigarettes is the main source of lung cancer, based on experimental studies. This was done by conducting experiments in environments where cigarettes were processed with sugar and landz where they used tobacco that wasn’t laced with this addicting drug.
They found that cigarettes made in Britain have the highest sugar content of any in the world at 17%. American cigarettes came to about 15%, with Russia, China, Formosa and other countries where they’re made from air-dried tobacco – which is the closest to what the Red man smoke – barely had, if any. From this group they were unable to find any cases of lung cancer correlated to smoking.
What was found was that the tremendous excess of sugar and artificial chemicalized animal protein eaten is the link to causing lung cancer. So if you eatin’ meat and smokin’ you’re a sure shot for gettin’ it! This bringz the addiction cigarettes have to a deeper level. Not only are you fightin’ the addiction of the nicotine, you’re also combattin’ the even stronger addiction of refined sucrose (white sugar).
If you are a smoker, or know someone who does, think how many tymz you heard them say they needed to relax so they lit up; or in the morning, as soon as they wake up, they light up; or after a meal, or sex. Then think of how challenging it is/was for them as they tried to kick the habit. Just as with sugar, the longer a person goes without a puff, the more uneasy they become. If they hold out long enuff, they will begin to resemble a crack hed lookin’ for his next hit!
Author of Sugar Blues, William Dufty said, “On the one hand, the government informs us that smoking depletes our systems of certain vitamins. On the other hand, the government assures us we don’t have to worry since the average U.S. diet supplies these essential items in quantity aplenty.” This is where the mind frack beginz, after readin’ the piece, In Sickness & In Health? or Potential Wealth!, you’ll see that the hospital administration along with the Food & Drug Administration has every intention to kill us all slowly through malnutrition.
These industries have ties with the sugar monopoly and tobacco industry and they all realize they can financially
capitalize by givin’ us a slow death by tellin’ us what we should eat, processing these foodz which eliminate the
vitaminz and mineralz our body need to stay healthy, and makin’ it hard to stay away from refined sucrose because of its presence in so many foodz. After we develop problemz over the yearz we then come literally crawling to the local
hospital they pump us with other addictive-slow death drugz, never gettin’ us healthy. Y do you think they take the Hippocratic Oath?! What’s the root word of Hippocratic… Hypocrite!!
This leaves the question as to why the website ‘truth.com’ chooses to not reveal the sugar connection. If you are an avid reader of DGT, you would most likely realize there is literally no company that is prepared to announce a widespread campaign against the sugar industry. Doin’ this would literally cripple the entire econonomy to its core!
It makes me wonder if the ‘truth.com’ is really out to reveal the truth, the whole truth and nothin’ but… nah, if they haven’t by now it’s very clear they intend to keep this a secret!
LIK SHOT!
