Why should diabetics take STEVIA, instead of aspartame?
Diabetes and aspartame
Research by Dr. HJ Roberts M.D. concerning the use of products that contain ASPARTAME (Nutrasweet, Sabro, Hermesetas, Sucaril, Menocal) by people that have diabetes and hypoglycemia. H.J. Roberts, MD, FACP, FCCP. HJ Roberts, MD, PA. 300 27th Street West Palm Beach, FL 33407-5299 (407)832-2408 Fax (407)832-2400 U.S. Board Certified has treated various patients with diabetes melitus and hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) as a board-certified internist; he is also a member of the American Endocrine Society. Both focus groups have since abstained from sugar consumption. It was initially thought that these people were consuming an acceptable and safe amount of aspartame.
Unfortunately, I have seen several patients during my medical career (and others in my office) that have developed severe metabolic and neurological-related complications that can be specifically attributed to using products that contain aspartame. Proof of such is as follows:
Loss of diabetic control, intensification of hypoglycemia, presence of reactions to insulin (including convulsions) tests related to aspartame reactions and the start of, worsening of or simulation of diabetic complications (especially blurred vision and neuropathy) while they used products that contained aspartame.
Dramatic development of these same symptoms before aspartame is rejected as well as the re-occurence of these same symptoms when the patient resumes consumption of aspartame, either consciously or inadvertently. In the books and scientific articles that I have written, I have cited several different types of complications in diabetic patients and hypoglycemic patients caused by consuming products that contain aspartame. Here are some examples:
A professor that was dependent on insulin for 21 years suffered more frequent reactions to insulin both at school as well as at home while drinking aspartame cola drinks on a daily basis. It was reported that when the professor stopped drinking cola drinks that contained aspartame, he stopped having these adverse reactions.
A man with diabetes suffered drastic changes to his vision when he drank 4 liters of diet drinks that contained aspartame: An ophthalmologist assured us that he did not detect any diabetic-related reactions.
Afterwards, the patient had the chance to read an article regarding vision problems cause by aspartame. He immediately stopped drinking anything with aspartame; the problem he had later developed into diabetes and primary retinapathy . A 46 year old man who was insulin dependent as a result of diabetes kept his diabetes under control for more than three decades until he started to drink large quantities of sodas with aspartame as well as small packets of sugar. He summed up his experience by saying: "My diabetes increased and I had terrible reactions to insulin." His diabetes was completely brought under control when he stopped consuming any aspartame products for one week.
A 12 year old boy with diabetes had to be hospitalized several times due to a diabetic coma after having consumed a considerable amount of products that contained aspartame. Specialists at a university hospital had difficulties providing for his insulin needs while he consumed these products with aspartame.
As a result of this experience, I advised all of my patients that had diabetes and hypoglycemia to avoid all products that contained aspartame. A large number of alternatives are available. Considering that other American Association of Diabetes specialists fail to say what the proper level of prevention to both patients and consumers is (which is based upon replicating what has been described in my studies and publications and in accordance with the following factors):
It is virtually impossible in any professional conference where specialists in diabetes are present (or other professional groups for that matter) to describe what I have discovered: Even the ADA (of which I was a member for more than three decades) refused to publish a warning regarding adverse reactions that I detected in 58 diabetic patients and which were also published in their own annual yearbook in 1987. This portion appeared in Clinical Encyclopedia (Vol 3: 489A, 1988)...six years ago!
Publications dedicated to diabetes studies and to internal medicine refused to publish my manuscripts where I made some negative comments regarding aspartame: at the same time, certain authorities who kow-tow to other interested parties have refused to publish the suggestions I have offered.
The AMA, FDA and ADA continue to issue statements that are wrong regarding aspartame; they state that aspartame is safe for diabetics to use.
(Companies) Manufacturers and producers created a miracle in the marketplace during the 80s with a highly effective PR campaign as well as an indescribable number of projects by researchers that were seeking to be hired by aspartame manufacturers. There was also a real political mandate to protect the aspartame market that is worth billions of dollars.
I have written about the aforementioned in my two books: Aspartame (Nutrasweet): Is it safe? (Philadelphia, 1989, The Charles Press) and Sweetner Dearest: Bittersweet Vignettes About Aspartame (Nutrasweet) (West Palm Beach, 19992, Sunshine Sentinel Press, PO Box 8697, 1-800-814-9800). These books can also be found on cassette under the following title: Is Aspartame (Nutrasweet) Safe? A Medical Health and Legal Overview (West Palm Beach, 1992, Sunshine Sentinel Press, PO Box 8697, 1-800-814-9800).
I have discussed in these books some of the reasons as to why aspartame worsens diabetes and hypoglycemia. Possible side effects of aspartame consumption include the following:
Marked changes in a person's appetite and weight which are reflected in notable weight gain or loss.
Excessive secretion of insulin and loss of insulin reserves.
Possible changes in receptive cell areas for insulin and are particularly resistant to insulin.
Changes in neurotransmitters within the brain and auxiliary nerve endings.
Toxicity of each one of the three components of aspartame (phenylalanine, aspartic acid and methyl- ester, with methanol or methyl alcohol-related properties or the variety of products that are produced after having been exposed to heat or prolonged storage.
I have stated both in my publications as well as before Congress and the FDA that half of the adult population runs a risk of health problems as a result of having consumed aspartame. The FDA to this day continues to ignore my findings.
It is important to inform those consumers that are interested in this complex medical-industrial issue that:
The problem related to aspartame has been rejected by important officials and
Officials also failed to alert high-risk groups about any potential dangers of aspartame. In addition to those patients with diabetes and hypoglycemia, these same risks also extended to: pregnant women, children, epilepsy patients, patients with liver and kidney problems, patients with eating disorders, patients with memory-loss problems, relatives who negatively react to aspartame, diabetics and patients with phenilketonuria.
Some might wonder (and so they should!): Why does aspartame continue to be sold in the marketplace? Tumors have developed in many animals after they were given aspartame (this was known by the FDA even before they approved the use of aspartame), and my own findings that I have personally documented about the apparent role that aspartame has played in brain tumors in human beings.
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