It’s not things like cholesterol or blood pressure that people worry about with Aspartame, that’s never really been an issue. Aspartame has been shown to increase your risk for certain cancers like lymphoma, brain lesions and brain cancer, and it generally has toxic properties and in large amounts can cause things like your hair falling out and anemia. It is broken down and forms things like formaldehyde and methanol, and does a lot of other weird things.
All this is still controversial of course and I don’t like to be the health nazi when I do a lot of bad stuff myself, but I figure why risk it when it tastes bad anyway thats all I was saying, your ingesting an unnatural chemical. Why not just drink iced tea or coffee if you need caffeine.
If a lab rat is force fed only aspartame for its entire diet, in quantities representing hundreds of times what the normal human consumes on a daily basis, maybe this will occur. Of course, this would be the case with many ingredients that are normally harmless to humans. Good grief, even water has an LD 50%. But to think that any of the maladies you list above can occur from consuming aspartame in our diet is just absurd. This is the kind of misinformation that empowers the food police and toxic terrorists as they gradually take away our freedoms.
There are NO studies that show any of the things you claim.
You should look at the chemical composition of an orange, or an apple or countless other “natural” foods. Everything you eat is made of chemicals. Chemical is NOT a bad word. The lefty tree huggers have managed to make it one but that's a sham.
You have bought in to “junk science” which is a tool of the left. You really need to study up on some basic science so you won’t be a victim of the left’s propaganda machines. (this applies to many FReepers, by the way)