I was at the grocery store yesterday trying to find an easy to measure sweetener pack for my Kool-Aid. While I was trying to decide which of the many packages would be the easiest, a nearby clerk offerred to help.
Turns out he has diabetes too. But then he shocks me with this story of how he had been a NutraSweet freak when it first came out and after about 2 years, he began suffering annoying memory loss (he was way too young for “normal” memory loss). He didn’t think much about it, thought it was just age (yeah, early 20’s will do it to you!). But he moved around that same time, and 6 months or a year later went back to the town he’d lived in and couldn’t remember his friend’s names! People he’d known for years! Went to his doctor who told him to lay off the Aspartame. After about 6 months of limiting his Aspartame to just a can or two of soda a day, he was back to “normal.”