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Honorable John Mizuno, Vice Chair
Honorable Rep. Josh Green, M..D.
My name is Tony Orman, I am 40 years old, I have an MBA and I have MS. Before you start feeling bad for me, I haven"t had a problem in almost 2 months. I have never had a remission last this long and I feel and think better than I have in years. What changed? My diet namely. I gave up pork, lamb, dairy and beef.
The other thing is I gave up was Diet Dr. Pepper. I had been a loyal drinker for 15 years with an occasional Diet Coke thrown in. I have been off the Diet Dr. Pepper for a little over 2 months and my MS symptoms are gone. They went away within 3 weeks of quitting Aspartame. I did a lot of research on Aspartame and its side effects. They include Lupus, Parkinsons, Fibromyalgia, MS, ALS and other nasty diseases. The FDA has had over 10,000 complaints and logged 92 different symptoms. The Philippines has banned it, New Mexico was trying to ban it and the EU is taking a hard look at it. By the way, if you Google it, you get over 3,000,000 web pages (most all are against it).
I was a commercial real estate appraiser making over $90,000 a year and I had a good life, that is gone now. I"m not sure I"ll ever get over all of the problems caused by Aspartame but I do want to try. There are dozens of doctors that have written about how bad this stuff is for you and no one is listening. Yelling would be more like it, let the public know what they are consuming.
One of the problems is that the doctors don't even know what to say or what to believe. I have never had a physician even mention the remote possibility that my diet was causing my problems. I wish they had at least suggested that I try cutting out the Aspartame. There are hundreds of studies, some by the FDA, and they all support the conclusion that Aspartame will make you very ill. The other thing, I can't buy insurance now, there are some jobs that I won't even be considered for since I was diagnosed with MS and people just look at me differently than they did a year ago.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Tony Orman
Cherokee Village, Arkansas