I just came across your site and wanted to add my testimony. When NutraSweet first hit the market in the 80’s, I was almost 10 years old. My mother began purchasing Crystal Light, and I couldn’t get enough of it!! A few months later, my mother and I were camping in a tent, in the middle of nowhere, when I had my first seizure in the middle of the night. I continued having seizures in my sleep for many months. One of these seizures gave me temporary paralysis of the left side of my body. After doing a sleep study, they found I had damage to the area of my brain that controls my sleep patterns. I consider myself VERY fortunate that I had a doctor that was aware of the potential dangers of aspartame. After hearing from my mother that I consumed it on a regular basis, he advised against it – informing us that it has the potential to cause brain damage in children!! I was appalled as a child that the USA would allow such a product to be sold when they knew it could hurt me. I began researching the facts on my own and eventually wrote a paper about it the next year for my English class. I was given a F, for using unreliable, inaccurate information to write what was intended to be a factual news article. This is the type of reaction I have continued to get over the next 24 years. I tell my story to anyone who will listen and continue to warn parents when I see them serving aspartame products to their children. FYI – the damaged brain tissue regenerated and healed itself after the removal of aspartame from my diet. alicia@optimumhealth-llc.com