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My Personal Poisoning by Aspartame.

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From a personal standpoint the effect that this Monsanto poison has had on me has been very considerable and ruined my life. It has resulted in my starting this web site in August 1995. I now get many calls from doctors and victims all over the world and I believe that I am having an effect. In an average week I get between 100 to 150 people off aspartame or severely warned that I know of by face to face confrontation or phone calls. How many due to this site I have no way of knowing but the hits per day keep climbing. Every time I go to the grocery store some lady or more come and thank me which is a real pleasure as many were suffering quite badly and had no idea why. Typical is constant headaches that the "doctors" can't find a reason for. Off aspartame and within a few days no more headaches and other problems. If you have been on t for too long it may be a little late for a complete cure but that is better than making it worse.

In October 1991 I moved to the Scarborough area of Metropolitan Toronto, Canada where I continued my consulting and fraud investigation business which involved many hours at a computer. Beside me on the floor I kept one litre bottles of "Loblaws Key Lime" pop. It contained 132mg/l of aspartame the dangers of which I was unaware at the time. I was an extremely fit and healthy man with whom the Doctors could never find anything wrong on the rare occasion I went to see one, once in 10 years if he was lucky.

In December 1991 I went for a check up (age 63) and was astonished when the Doctor told me I was a late onset diabetic. My legs were tingling incessantly, no feeling in my feet and climbing up my legs and a lot of pain in them. He made no suggestions, however it should be noted that he had a large jar of Equal (Aspartame ) on his coffee table and drank it a lot.

I went for a weeks class on diabetes at the local hospital and appeared at that time able to control the sugar levels. I had no indication of worse to come.

By spring 1995 my legs were agony personified. The constant pain was unbelievable and at the same time the feeling in my legs to my knees had disappeared. I could not tell where my feet were which caused a lot of problems driving a standard shift car. Frankly I probably should not have been driving all.

In addition my temper was virtually vitriolic, totally opposite to my previous lifetime behaviour and it eventually led to my wife leaving me because of it. I never hit her but the constant temper explosions and apparent intensity, plus the writhing in bed all night with the agony of my legs were too much for the poor lady. I don't blame her one bit and we are still good friends.

I also started getting memory blanks, previously unheard of. I have a photographic memory par excellence. Dizzy spells and balance problems started as well.

I could not get a good nights sleep for the pain in my legs and my life was deteriorating rapidly until one evening in August 1995 I received an e-mail from a Betty Martini of Atlanta, Georgia on the dangers of aspartame. It was actually a copy of a Freedom of Information just released by the USFDA which they now flatly deny ever existed. (Copy on this site at http://www.aspartame.ca/fdasympt1.pdf). What was said seemed plausible and considering the fact that it listed everything I was suffering from, and more, I decided to try her suggestion, stop all intake and see what happens, a test that is both safe and that costs nothing, so why not try it. Please note that aspartame is extremely addictive, some consider as bad or worse than cocaine, so some of you are in for a major job to quit it.

Within three days the memory, balance and temper problems had ceased and there was noticeably less pain in my legs. In just over a week the leg pain was gone but the loss of feeling and tingling in my legs and feet remained plus a tingling in my finger tips.

After three months I decided to see if it really was the lack of aspartame that had effected such an immediate cessation of problems and so performed the following test.

Basic facts. I am 6'3" tall and weigh 230 lbs.

For a week starting on a Monday I ate and drank exactly the same  (even measured it) every day.

On the Saturday morning I drank a carefully measured 4 ounces (118.296 mL) of Loblaw's Key Lime pop.

With 132 mg/l of aspartame this gave me a dose of 15.615072 mg of aspartame.

Now you have something accurate to stack against the FDA/Monsanto "safe dosage" misinformation. (It was calculated on rats which are less sensitive to aspartame than are humans).

In just 20 minutes I could feel the pain coming back in my legs and three hours later I had a temper explosion over absolutely nothing. The rage just welled up from nowhere. I could not believe what was going on. The pain gradually subsided over the following week. Since I had planned on doing this test I had ensured that nothing else was changed in my diet over the preceding week except for the addition of the four ounces of Key Lime pop on the day of the test.

In December 1997 my breasts started to itch. By the 23rd I was in a lot of pain with nipples the size of a nursing mother and I had developed a pair of 42C breasts from none at all. Size established when in desperation I went to Sears, got measured, and bought a brassiere. Within a half hour of putting it on the pain subsided. My local quack (Doctor) didn't know what was wrong and did a hormone test. Perfectly normal male, everything within limits except high blood sugar and slightly elevated prolactin. It was subsequently established as a change in my DNA as nothing but that would cause such a rapid change. (Confirmed in "The Barcelona Study" (http://www.aspartame.ca/page_a14.html). I am told that if my prolactin levels go high enough I will be able to lactate. I hope they stay normal as I don't want to be a breast feeding Daddy at my age.

My shoes bought at the end of November 1997 seemed a bit tight. The sales lady was German trained and had carefully measured my foot as a size 11. It had been for years. The same day I went to Sears for the bra I went back to the store and to our astonishment my shoe size was now 13. She checked and rechecked. I had grown two full sizes from 11 to 13 in under a month.

Each time I inadvertently get another dose, the pain seems to hit harder as for example in Nassau in January 1998 when I was there on an investigation. I had previously discussed the aspartame dangers with, and given the Chief Chef of the Marriott Cable Beach Hotel, 30 pages of documentary evidence including and supported by extensive medical references. He believed me to the point of telling his secretary to put a box of Equal in the garbage. However that is apparently as far as it got. When last checked they were still poisoning their guests.

I had a nice dinner in the Goombay Mama Restaurant and finished it off with a slice of coconut pie with a strawberry sauce. Fool that I was, I forgot that the sauce might be a danger but I was distracted by a business discussion. In less than a half hour the pain set in. I spent the night putting ice on my legs, which by the way doesn't do any good and there is no pain killer that will help either. I had to get a wheel chair from my room to the desk and to the cab to go to the airport. Again through the airport and customs, again through Miami airport (absolutely no fun I can guarantee), and finally again through the Toronto airport. Maybe why Customs let me away with two bottles of rum rather than the one we are "allowed". (Much appreciated). That time the pain lasted almost a week and a half.

My breasts didn't get any bigger until again right on 1 December 1998 they itched again and by new year I was into a 42D. In January 2000 I bought a 44DD bra and in May 2004 needed a 44EE. When I need a wheelbarrow for them I guess I will consider breast reduction surgery as it is the only known way to reduce them. They did not reduce when I lost 20 lb on a diet  either. Meantime I am a well equipped man with NO homosexual or transvestite desires by the way. I wear a bra for the simple reason that a pair of 44EE flopping around are uncomfortable and get painful without support. A practical approach I believe. Aspartame is known to alter ones DNA and breast enlargement is one of the 92 problems admitted to in the FDA's list of ailments and diseases attributed to aspartame.. The only benefit I have found is that the ladies seem to talk to me far more readily which is really appreciated. My daughter could kill me in jealousy. As she says, "I've only got 36B and here's my Dad with 44EE". Poor kid! No sense whining about it though. They are there, a perfectly balanced pair, so I get on with life. Sometimes a nuisance in bed if I roll the wrong way.

This poison has changed my life completely. I dare not eat out in restaurants except for maybe a plain salad with no dressings. Now in the US vegetables are being sprayed with MSG which has similar effects to and is synergistic with aspartame. Almost all prepared foods are suspect since this poison, with FDA blessing and assistance, is now in over 10,000 items, many now not labelled such as baked goods. Similarly my social life has been totally assassinated as I can't put my friends in the position of unknowingly poisoning me.

The law in Canada, Food and Drugs Act Food and Drug Regulations PART B FOODS requires Aspartame, Sucralose (Splenda), Acesulfame potassium and polydextrose to be listed on the packaging if present at all.

One beneficial result has been that I am probably eating a lot healthier diet but now thanks to the Monsanto Poison Company that again is threatened with the Genetically Engineered produce. GE'd Tomatoes, tasteless crap that can sit un-refrigerated on my kitchen table for 8 weeks and still look perfect but always with that white ring inside when cut open. Corn and Soy has now to be left out of my diet as one can not tell if it is GE'd. Canola oil is also detrimental to ones health. (See Dangers of Canola Oil http://www.aspartame.ca/page_oh1.html). As for potatoes, thank you to the scientist in Scotland who had the courage to tell the world the truth that genetically engineered potatoes changed the DNA in the rats, and caused many other deformities. Since Monsanto was funding the University, naturally he was fired and they attempted to discredit him. In recent months it is now being stated that soy is hyped up garbage and bad for you, especially the ladies as it interferes with your estrogen levels.

Fortunately I will be 78 on May 29th 2006 and may not have too many more years to be poisoned but it would be nice not to be and to regain my health, to which end I am trying several methods to remove the formaldehyde from my liver, kidney (born with only a right one) and body fat and to try to rejuvenate the neuropathy in my legs and fingers.

1st January 2000 I brought in the new year with my ex wife. She knows to watch for aspartame. She gave me a small slice of a lemon flavoured pound cake, no filling or icing. Within twenty minutes my legs were screaming agony and I knew I had been poisoned again. I got home and was bedridden in agony for a whole week, just crawling into the kitchen to feed the cat and myself. After I recovered I had to go to the chiropractor to put my back in place as I had thrown it out writhing in agony. I traced the manufacturer of the cake who swore he had no artificial sweeteners on the premises and didn't use them. When I got him to check the ingredients he used there was aspartame in the lemon flavouring. That small quantity had done that much damage, but worse was to come.

Two weeks later getting out of my car my legs collapsed and I fell into the street, nearly getting run over. The quacks told me I would not walk again but told the wrong guy. A couple of weeks later I was shuffling along with a cane and in a bit over a month was walking again, admittedly in a lot of pain, no thanks to the medical industry.  I used mind control and plain cussedness.

Other manifestations of the effects of residual formaldehyde, which by the way can change ones DNA, has been the overnight almost total loss of hearing in my right ear in the summer of 2000..

I am currently waiting for an MRI as I have developed this lump a bit bigger than a bowling ball between my legs causing a massive hernia in the process. The surgeon explained that it is usually caused by the liver or pituitary gland. The hospital is St Michaels in Toronto and I was sent to Internal Medicine for various tests. The first day I met a young intern from Syria. My first question these days is always "What do you know about aspartame?"  To my astonishment he said it was very bad for me and started listing problems. The first doctor I have met in sixteen years that knew anything about it including five diabetic specialists I have fired for lack of knowledge. He knew that aspartame frequently causes tumours on the pituitary and an MRI is the only way to find out.

In closing may I be permitted to bless the management of Monsanto as follows:

"May the Blessings of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and his world wide associates descend upon you simultaneously from a great height forever and a day and may you be forced to ingest your own poisons". (And I hope well laced with aspartame.)

Rest assured that I will do all I possibly can to bring you bastards to Justice and put you permanently out of business. The sweetest (pun intended) revenge however would be to incarcerate you and feed you a steady diet of genetically engineered foods laced heavily with aspartame and watch you die in agony. Thanks a lot for ruining my life.

Has any one noticed that the Moron of Pennsylvania Avenue (G.W. Bush) swills diet pops and Rumsfeld, his buddy in murder has apparently done nothing to stop him though he knows the results. Hence the morons temper outbreaks, slurred speech and defective memory.

To the FDA Commissioner, I realize that you have a horrendous task to totally recall and ban this poison, as when you do it will be known that the FDA, Monsanto and the United States knowingly have been poisoning the world in the name of corporate greed. Mind you a lot of the world already know it, but will you ever have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to Monsanto? I have serious doubts, but if you don't you will live the rest of your life knowing that you have continued the death, agony and poisoning of thousands of innocent women, children and men who were fool enough to believe that the FDA stood on guard for their health. If that story was bovine excrement there wouldn't be enough farms in the world to use it all up as fertilizer. On the other hand you may be afraid to stand up to them because you will certainly loose your nice well paid job, if not be killed for standing up to them. Life is very cheap when opposing multimillion (billion) frauds and criminals. I know personally from my work as a financial fraud investigator. 28 death threats in two and a half years and that is over only a few million dollars. You are dealing with the world's largest manufacturer of poisons, Monsanto and Ajinomoto.

Maybe it will take more Canadian scientists to prove that once again you are just another branch office of Monsanto as they did when they showed that you hadn't checked out rBST before approving it. When are you recalling that?

Yours sincerely,
 
John T. Linnell
Managing Director
Aspartame Poisoning Information Canada

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