I came on your site while doing research for school. I have been on my crusade about aspartame for about 10 yrs. I was on weight watchers and switched to diet drinks to try to lose weight. I drank a six pack of Dr Pepper a day. I am a nurse. I don’t think you would have wanted me to be your nurse as I was tired and felt like I was in a fog all of the time. After I quit and the fog cleared, I told my physician about it and he commented he had quit drinking sodas because he thought it was the caffeine in his diet drinks that were causing him problems. I do still drink some drinks containing aspartame, but limit them severely. Also see a lot of products with it hiding in them, like my vitamins! When I warn my many diet drink drinking friends, especially nurses, they usually laugh at me. I’m a firm believe that if we were supposed to eat it, God probably would’ve mentioned it in the Book. You know, “the land of milk and aspartame.” byeheart@att.net