I am still way behind in my mail reading, but wanted to comment on this thread. I went to the web sites that have been mentioned and read “The Bad News about Aspartame” etc. and was shocked at the list of symptoms that they reported. I had never heard anything more than people saying “It gives me a headache” which didn’t seem to be the case with me, so I thought it was ok.
However just in the past few weeks, I had noticed something that had not been apparent for me before. I had been having problems (again) with heavy attacks of sweating, both day and night, and found that drinking even a couple of sips of Diet Coke would bring on a heavy sweating attack almost immediately.
Anyway to make a long story short, the sweating is much improved, down to just mild ones at night, and my sugar cravings also seem to be reducing dramatically. Will let you know how I progress.