Someon here said "I'm not afraid of aspartame."

Well, I hink you might want to read both side of the issue. Check on Wiki and google.

Some web site backed by the industry claims totally safe.

Holistic people have a aspartame warning pages and claims that it is very dangerous. It's approved here in US but in some countries, I think it is banned.

I take a simple approach. human beings have been around for hundreds of thousands of years and we evolved over millions of years from other creatures, now extinct. Along the way our bodies were exposed to all the natural elements and we survived because our bodies learned how to deal with them. Aspartame, Saccarin (sp) and all the other un-prunounceable chemical names are artificial. Our bodies never saw them until about 100 years ago. Our bodies are going, "hey whats this? what do I do with them?" And god knows what our bodies do to these chemicals? Can the scientists really tell us what our bodies are doing with all this artificial stuff? I don't think they do. "hey John, the rab rat is still alive today. Must be safe and tastes pretty darn good. Lets put it in the food"

see how twinkie is made and from what. Saw it once and scary. A true Franken food.

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