I am growing to believe the Aspartame critics are right. In whole or in part I can’t say, but my own personal experience, and stories I’m hearing from others, is getting too hard to ignore.
My wife and I both had frequent mild headaches for years. We never attributed this to Aspartame. They headaches were mild enough (a couple of aspirin or Tylenols would fix them usually) we just thought they were normal, or that they were allergy-related.
Within days of giving up NutraSweet we both noticed a drop in the frequency of our headaches. The longer we were off the more it helped; it’s been about a month now and headaches are starting to seem unusual rather than a part of everyday life.
More compellingly, we started noticing only a week after quitting that our cravings for sweets dropped dramatically.