There is so much conflicting information out there, and foods that are good for you and encouraged on one hand turn out to be bad in other ways.


It's all very confusing isn't it? 

One thing I am avoiding now though is aspartame, that stuff is just chemical poison.



Just curious, what do you use instead?  I've been trying to find something to switch to.  I've used Equal (aspartame) for years now, but recently I've been cutting back on how much I use, down to half of what I used to use in my coffee for instance.  I can't take the saccharine (Sweet n' Low) taste and Splenda isn't my favorite, though it's the best of what I've tried (whatever that is made of).  I most definitely can't go back to sugar.  I guess I've not had drinks with real sugar in it for so long that when I have something like a regular coke or put sugar in my coffee, I feel like it leaves a syrupy sweet coating in my mouth or something.    

Maybe if I keep continue cutting back little by little of the aspartame then one day maybe I'll not need a sweetener at all.