I don’t have adequate time to truly respond to your message re: the “why” of my interest – but I have n mistrustful of Aspartame for years after finding that it caused me a horrible headache whenever I knowingly or unknowingly consumed it. Within the past few months I was diagnosed with a prolactin-secreting pituitary tumor and am furious and curious as to its origins. Prior to that I have had other hormone/endochrine related conditions – melanoma, ovarian tumor, uterine fibroids, bone tumor, fibrocystic breast disease. All conditions of undeterminable origins. Genetically, I come from incredibly healthy “stock,” I live a health “lifestyle,” live in a reasonably uncontaminated environment (except for farm pesticides that must be present in the waters here in Iowa), etc.
I want to know more about Aspartame and saccharin for my own sanity, and because as a parent, I want it as far away from my daughter as possible. (I called the Tylenol makers yesterday when I had learned they put it in their chewable children’s tablets. WHY???????????)