This is an interesting story that happened back in 2001 and amazed everyone. Rhonda wrote in her blog about it which according to her was a mystery that happened in her family. She sad that one morning her sister woke up and was so ill, that she wasn’t even able to walk. What bothered her were terrible stomach cramps with unbearable pain. After that she visited many doctors and went through numerous tissues and muscle biopsies but there was no answer of what was happening to her.
After some times the doctors agreed that her diagnose is Multiple Sclerosis for which Ronda thought they weren’t right. She said that the symptoms weren’t consistent with MS. She decided to make her own survey and that is why she read about aspartame, a common sweetener in diet sodas and other sweets.
Rhonda asked her sister whether she drank diet soda. Her sister confirmed this and said that she drank a lot of it. She asked her to stop drinking it and see whether this was the cause of her illness. What happened the following day was unbelievable.
“My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk! The muscle spasms went away,” announced Rhonda.
Poisoning by aspartame is characterized by numerous symptoms. Some of them are high blood pressure, headaches, and dizziness. Rhonda is sure that her sister was poisoned by the aspartame found in diet soda.
This is the reason why Pepsi Co recently replaced its aspartame with sucralose which is passed safely through the body. We hope that in the future more companies will follow this example and do the same thing.
This is a list of brands and products that use aspartame:
- Flavored Syrups for Coffee
- Flavored Water Products
- Frozen Ice Cream Novelties
- Fruit Spreads
- Gelatin, Sugar Free
- Nutritional Bars
- Powdered Soft Drinks
- Protein Nutritional Drinks
- Ice cream Toppings
- Ice Creams, No Sugar or Sugar Free
- Iced Tea, Powder
- Iced Tea, Ready to Drink
- Jams & Jellies
- Juice Blends
- Juice Drinks
- Maple Syrups
- Meal Replacements
- Mousse
- No Sugar Added Pies
- Non-Carbonated Diet Soft drinks
- Pudding
- Carbonated Soft Drinks
- Frozen Ice
- Hard Candies
- Sugar Free Cookies
- Sugar Free Ketchup
- Cereals
- Chewing Gum
- Instant Cocoa Mix
- Soft Candy Chews
- Sugar Free Chocolate Syrup
- Yogurt, Drinkable
- Yogurt, Fat Free
- Yogurt, Sugar Free
- Breath Mints
- Carbonated Soft Drinks
- Table Top Sweeteners
- Vegetable Drinks
