I have heard many times from many sources that aspartame can cause all sorts of health problems. I don't know if it can, but I'd say that if anyone is having unusual health problems and consumes a lot of it, then go off of it for a while and see what happens.
I drink Diet Sprite....oh sorry, they changed the name to Sprite Zero, like that makes a difference, and I don't drink that much of it now, but I did drink a lot of it. I've found one thing that is true about any diet drink that contains aspartame....it doesn't quench your thirst, and in fact, makes you thirstier. The more you drink, the more you want to drink.
The thing that bothers me about aspartame is that it's in so many foods. Heck, it's even in toothpaste! There isn't anyone who doesn't ingest some aspartame every day, and most people aren't aware that they do. A lot of low cal foods use aspartame in place of sugar to get the product to be low cal. Reading the label is the only way to find that out. It's as if they want to keep it a secret. Years ago when they first came out with aspartame, they'd plaster it all over the food products. Now it's hidden in the ingredients....as if they don't want you to know.
I don't know if aspartame is okay to eat or not, so I won't say one way or the other whether or not anyone should use it. The thing is, you only have two choices when it comes to soda....the sugared version or the aspartame version, and since we can't have sugar, we're stuck with the aspartame version. I have diabetes, among other things, so if the aspartame isn't causing me any problems, then I'll stick with it for now, since most likely the diabetes or complications from it, will kill me first.
