Re: House Bill 2680 Room #329

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To Whom it May Concern,

Dear Sirs

As a homeopath I have come across many cases where patients' symptoms were caused by aspartame - this is proven because the simple withdrawal of aspartame from the patient's diet, before any treatment, brought about the removal of symptoms.

The first was the case of a 78 year old male diabetic who consumed many drinks of tea sweetened with Canderel. He had gone blind in both eyes through Hyphema (bleeding in the eye) despite undergoing many LASER treatments to stop the bleeding. Within 6 months of stopping aspartame he had vision in one eye and could see distant and close objects with out the need for glasses.

Another case was that of a lady who as soon as she consumed anything with aspartame would have a burning sensation on her tongue followed by a migraine type headache.

Another lady was suffering from hip and knee pains. Within 6 weeks of being off aspartame she could take her dog for walks of over 1 hour without any discomfort.

Another was a child of three with severe eczema, where after just three weeks off aspartame her eczema had drastically improved.

A very recent case is that of lady who has been suffering from severe joint pain (on very strong medication for it), together with depression and sleeplessness. Within 3 weeks of being off aspartame, the inflammation of her joints has subsided.

One could site many such cases, but I trust the above would suffice to prove the point.

The main point is that the majority of independent tests done on aspartame have shown it to cause symptoms. Sadly the majority of doctors are not aware of the symptoms caused by aspartame and therefore often mis-diagnose a simple case disease caused by aspartame as something else such as lupus of MS etc.

I hope that you will make the correct decision and ban this poison.

Yours faithfully

Soroush Ebrahimi, RSHom
Registered Homeopath
England