Aspartame is very dangerous and killed the rats in a study by giving them tumours, some of them cancerous.
However, it was deemed safe for humans.

Now, connect the dots!

I am very aware of the bias in 'scientific' studies where university research is funded by companies who want to promote their products and are willing to support research to this end.

In Canada, the government uses research done by the food industry to found its own daily food requirement (the great food groups) for exemple, saying that it lacks the fund the support its own research. At least that is what we were told several years ago.
I am mentioning Canada because I notice what is going on around me. I am sure there is a lot of the same thing in the USA or your country that you could share here or under another thread.
So the diary industry is overrepresented locally these days while people who have researched nutrition outside the mainline are aware that too much dairy products causes mucus. That does not even address question of the contents of animal feed...etc

Aspartame was shoed in because people (we were told) were looking for quick get slim products that provided a sweet taste without the calories but I think that it turned out to be another scam from the diet industry.
People who consume diet products may not eat less and may even consume more calories than if they were consuming regular food, sometimes falsely comforted by the idea that they are spared calories.

That is a side issue to the actual danger of aspartame.

> Stevia comes from an herb, though.

Ummm. So does hemlock. And it's famous STILL,
after 2500 years, as the poison that killed Socrates...

"Coming from an herb" is NO guarantee of safety,
or appropriateness of feeding it to children!


- Steve