Sup? Well, alright, for the past couple years I've been drinking/eating all these health products labeled as "0 calories", "low-sugar", etc etc. And I've been getting terribly sick these past couple years as well, always wondering what's wrong with me (fatigue, dizzyness, irritable, headaches, insomnia, fighting people no matter how many of them there are irl, always thirsty, minor cases of OCD.) and then I realized that it was the foods/drinks I was eating, I quickly checked the ingredients of nearly all of my so-called "health" products and I found this !@#$%^&* called aspartame in it. Upon discovering this I quickly did some research and found out some bad !@#$%^&* about it, so I tossed out anything containing aspartame/nutrasweet/splenda/equal and any other bull!@#$%^&* things this ingredient is marketed as. Anyways, I've been aspartame free since the 13th, now I feel more active & I'm starting to sleep better, but I'm going through totally horrid withdrawal effects - I can't stop shivering and I'm getting terrible migraines, it's almost like my body is totally dependent on aspartame now. The !@#$%^&* should be taken off the markets, people are trying to sue the companies but they're getting their cases thrown out. Anyways, I'm guessing the only way they were able to market it was 'cause the health regulation boards were paid large sums of money to p!@#$%^&* it. It's mostly found in diet !@#$%^&* (diet-coke, diet pepsi, coke zero, diet anything really, all "low-sugar/calorie artificial sweeteners", etc) Please avoid this !@#$%^&* otherwise you'll experience a lot of side effects and if you visit a doctor he'll probably diagnose it as some random disease. # Aspartame (nutrasweet) breaks down into methanol (wood alcohol). # Methanol quickly converts to formadehyde in the body. # Formaldehyde causes gradual and eventually severe damage to the neurological system, immune system and causes permanent genetic damage at extremely low doses. # Methanol from alcoholic beverages and from fruit and juices does not convert to formaldehyde and cause damage because there are protective chemicals in these traditionally ingested beverages. # The most recent independent research in Europe demonstrates that ingestion of small amounts of aspartame leads to the ac!@#$%^&*ulation of significant levels of formaldehyde (bound to protein) in organs (liver, kidneys, brain) and tissues. # Excitotoxic amino acids such as the one which is immediately released from aspartame likely increases the damage caused by the formaldehyde. info on it: http://www.mercola.com/article/aspartame/dangers.htm list of side effects: http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects.html Some chick fed her rats aspartame for two years and one of them developed a huge tumor: http://www.myaspartameexperiment.com/index.php Honestly, even if I hate you I still think you should avoid this ingredient or else it's going to !@#$%^&* you up in one way or another.