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Here is some information that is in a book "Surviving the Toxic Crisis" written by Dr. Wm Kellas. Dr Kellas has a PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry. Aspartame, a relatively recently introduced artificial sweeterner, is made up of the amino acids phenylalanine and aspartic acid. It tastes more like sugar than either cyclamate or saccharin, and does not have the bitter or salty aftertaste associated with saccharin. It is the most prevalent artificial sweeterner in uses today, and is used in a wide variety of diet products, esspecially diet sodeas. It cannot be ued to cooked or baked goods since it will decompose with heat. The manufacturers tout the fact that their product is made of these natural ingredients, the two amino acids. However, when chemically combined they are not the same as they would be individually, and their breakdown products, such as methanol and its metabolic byproduct formaldehyde, can be toxic. There have been a number of health problems associated with aspartame use. About 6000 consumers have called the FDA and volunteered information on side effects, including hundreds of cases of convulsions. Other side effects reported include: Headaches, depression, hyperactivity, nausea, confusion, disiness, rashes, insomnia, impaired bision, miuscle weakness, memory loss and diarrhea. Asparatame can ironically, cause weight gain, the opposite of the reason most people use the additive. The sweet taste, althought not due to sugar, can stimulate the relase of insulin, which increassed the appetite and leads to more food consumption. The insulin reaction can also cause control problems for diabetics and hypoglycemics. Aspartame caused severe joint pain in 58 of 551 (10.5%) aspartame reactor. This pain is sometimes mistaken for arthritis, but goes away when aspartame use is discountinued. Headaches and particular sensitivity to aspartame among those with mood disorders were also linked to aspartame use under placebo-controlled clinical conditions. BELIEVE IT OR NOT!! I believe it. Nancy B cg for Don 66/17