Christians.. please remember that "God has not given us
the spirit of FEAR, but love, power, and a sound mind" - I find that the greatest irony of all is the enemy
coming to sow fear among God's people. Remember Y2K? Christians
were the most hysterical of all. What an indictment. Now we
have continual "health" crises and the cure is always a new diet.
They change constantly and today carbohydrates are the enemy (which is
even reflected at the fast food places); oh!!, along with aspartame. I
know Pat Robertson speaks against aspartame but then he is a well
known vitamin geek. In our local newspaper over the
weekend they covered different diets - all supposedly Christian.
The Hallelujah Diet by Malkmus, The Weigh Down Diet by Gwen Shamblin,
and The Maker's Diet by Jordan S. Rubin and What Would Jesus Eat by Dr. Don
Colbert which rankles those who believe these people are spinning the $40
Billion diet industry and using God as a gimmick.
We should not forget that God has given
us a body that is fearfully and wonderfully made... We have an immune
system that is equipped to "self repair"when we are walking where we should be
- which is by faith and Jesus has delivered us from the bondage people had all
their lifetimes been subject to which is called the "fear of
death". President Ronald
Reagan died June 5, 10 years after he announced that he had Alzheimer’s
disease, a form of dementia that gradually robs people of their memory and
ability to concentrate. More than 4.5 million Americans are living with
Alzheimer’s, and that number is expected to grow as the population
ages.
Shame on Chris for using TT as a platform to
spread fear, malignant rumours, and conspiracy theories against former
President Reagan along with those who are still in authority in our
government. Dementia is nothing new, it has been around for a long
time. Sin has a whole lot more to do with chronic sickness than
aspartame but we live in a hysterical time when people want to
know everything but the truth and law suits are rife - so
are scapegoats. My mother is in her 99th year, her mind is as sharp
as a tack and she has sweetened her tea with saccharine for as long as I can
remember.
Chris, how hypocritical to accuse
physicians of using sorcery and being either ignorant or consciously lying
when you peddle all kinds of herbs and potions yourself. I notice that those
on the internet who are shouting fire the most are peddling their
own books and potions so it appears the money grab is not all one sided.
Chris why did you chide me for
believing you lived in Arkansas when you still sign
yourself as:
Christopher C. Barr writes Naturally Speaking from
Arkansas: The Natural
State . naturally! You may write him at P. O. Box
1147, Pocahontas, Arkansas 72455
In another half baked conspiracy theory you
pen: I liked Ronald Reagan.
Remember the mixed up 1969 comedy 'Bob &
Carol & Ted & Alice' from Hollywood? That
was in the midst of Reagan's terms as governor. It was substantially about manipulation. Confidantes finessed other
confidantes to accept bad things as good things.
It was in California that I was raised when
Reagan was governor. He was not one to be
pressed or cajoled into doing anything. However, he could be manipulated.
I observed this many times. This article
is about one of those times.
Déjŕ vu
The American people elected him
President Reagan and one member of his transition
team was the CEO of pharmaceutical giant GD Searle (clear up to 1985). This man had been Secretary of Defense under Gerald
Ford. His name was Donald Rumsfeld. Yes, the same man is the current Secretary
of Defense. Searle had been unsuccessfully
trying to obtain approval for aspartame (now best
known as Nutrasweet) for almost two decades. The reason for the lack
of success by Searle was due to extensive and
consistent studies that noted aspartame was
damaging to the brain (among other problems). According to a former Searle employee Rumsfeld assured the
company that, "no matter what, he would see to it
that aspartame would be approved". Reagan
took office and the head of the FDA who had blocked
aspartame was suspended.
jt: You are not very kind to those you
like Chris.... Another heretical statement from an unnamed "former
Searle employee" accusing both Rumsfeld and Reagan of conspiracy and
diabolical intrigue
A former Defense Department contract researcher named
Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes replaced him. Chemical
weapons were part of the Defense Department
studies of Dr. Hayes. The first major action of
Hayes as FDA Commissioner was approval of aspartame for dry foods.
jt: Aspartame was approved for dry
foods in 1975 which was long before Reagan's first term.
This was a direct contradiction to the FDA's own
advisors and their own Public Board of Inquiry
recommendation. His last act in that position was
approval of aspartame for diet drinks. He left the FDA to become senior medical advisor for the public relations firm
of GD Searle. His salary there far exceeded that
which he received from the FDA. Ironies
initiated
jt: Really?
In 1994 former President Reagan wrote his now famous
letter to the American people about his newly diagnosed Alzheimer's. This
condition has skyrocketed in the American
population through the last two decades. In 1997
Dr. Russell Blaylock, M.D. released his book, 'EXCITOTOXINS: The Taste That Kills'. This book I have highly recommended since
first learning of it in 1998. Dr. Blaylock ties
with intricate detail the explosion of Alzheimer's to the entrance of aspartame (Nutrasweet) and its
overwhelming of the marketplace. He noted that the most injurious delivery for
this well documented brain-damaging ingredient is in a liquid form.
I have told people for many years that every swig
of diet drink kills brain cells. As bad as sugary
sodas are, if you won't give up soda then you are better off with the sugary variety than the diet variety.
It is a tragic irony that Reagan succumbed to Alzheimer's
after being manipulated into bringing about the approval of this substance
most likely responsible for the sudden explosion to epidemic status of this
horribly debilitating disease. Now his widow, Nancy Reagan, is busy promoting a wild goose
chase into stem cell research for
Alzheimer's. This is a great whitewashed hope
against the reality of the connection between Alzheimer's and the aspartame
that her husband
approved. Greater irony still is that stem cell research is conducted
by extracting cells from human embryos that are killed. Ronald Reagan was
staunchly anti-abortion and must be turning over before ever getting in his
grave that his death would be used for such a platform. Defenseless against
Alzheimer's in his waning years, he is now
defenseless at his end against this use of
himself to promote use of aborted baby tissues. More ironies - Oh, the intricate
ironies through all of this. Monsanto bought GD Searle with its prized Nutrasweet. Monsanto was founded originally in
1901 with the sole purpose of producing saccharine for the United States
market. The head of the forerunner to the FDA,
Dr. Harvey Wiley, M.D., came hard against
this harmful substance. Another Republican then was president of the country. His name also began with an R, and he was also an
independent not to be pressed or cajoled into
doing anything.
President Teddy Roosevelt roared at Dr. Wiley,
"Anybody who says saccharin
is injurious to health is an idiot." This very unscientific, emotional
outburst severely damaged Wiley's status with
President Roosevelt. It turns out that Roosevelt
was a diabetic who loved sweets and saccharine was vital to his sweet tooth. Wiley
blamed himself for this failure and cited it as the turning point for
the food industry being able to turn the Pure
Food & Drug Act on its head. Wiley therefore
resigned his position. It was
more than half a century after that before this
harmful product was finally deposed. Most tragic of ironies It has
been said that those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. That has certainly been the case with regard to the
history of artificial sweeteners. Newly elected
President Ronald Reagan was then manipulated to the harm of Americans with
Nutrasweet. Newly deceased Ronald Reagan is now manipulated to the harm of
preborn Americans with regard to stem cell research. Shakespeare never wrote a more ironic tragedy.
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