LETTERS OF TESTIMONY TO THE HAWAII HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH CONCERNING ASPARTAME



From: Anne Smith


I urge the banning of aspartame world wide.

My journey into the nightmare of aspartame began in the 1970s when I added artificial sweeteners to my coffee and milk to stop putting on weight. It didn't work. The more I tried to limit weight, the more I increased. Obviously artificial sweeteners don't increase brain power. I kept on having the supposedly safe sweeteners even while I was pregnant. All three of my children were diagnosed with complications, the boys both had a hydrocele (a disorder in which serous fluid accumulates in a body sac (especially in the scrotum). My daughter had a hormone illness, which was diagnosed when she was a teenager. As a result, my sons will probably never have children of their own. I kept on taking supposedly safe artificial sweeteners. I then was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and diabetes. A few years later I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

We all know the dangers of aspartame. What if there is another danger. It could be the major cause of diabetes. There are people everywhere who take artificial sweeteners on their doctor's advice. Take it and your diabetes will be better controlled, we are told. I believe this acceptance of artificial sweeteners is not the cure all for diabetes, it is the cause of a massive world wide outbreak of the disease. The aspartame is the Trojan Horse of our generation and is destroying us, world wide. It sneaks in pretending to be the good and only cure, and ends up being the thing that kills us. Brain tumours and ms etc. aside, we are all putting on weight. That is pointed to as a cause for diabetes. We need to do something about this Trojan Horse before more of our children sucking up diet drinks succumb to the disease.

Anne Smith