Huge Study links Aspartame to Major Problems.
As concerns about health epidemics plague the nation, demand and sales of diet soda have plunged as consumers try to make better choices. As we reported yesterday, aspartame–the main sweetener for diet soda–is one of the most dangerous ingredients used in our food supply, causing seizures and a host of other health issues.
In a new study done over ten years and sampling 60,000 women, it was shown that women who drink two or more diet drinks a day have much higher cardiovascular disease rates and are more likely to die from the disease.
n the largest study done of it’s kind, The University of Iowa concluded:
“…[C]ompared to women who never or only rarely consume diet drinks, those who consume two or more a day are 30 percent more likely to have a cardiovascular event [heart attack or stroke] and 50 percent more likely to die from related disease.
‘This is one of the largest studies on this topic, and our findings are consistent with some previous data, especially those linking diet drinks to the metabolic syndrome,’ says Dr. Ankur Vyas… the lead investigator of the study.
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and has been linked to nerve problems, migraines and seizures. Not to mention is makes you addicted and fat. He got it rush-approved through back channels to make scads of cash.
But according to the woo warriors of DU, you can put anything in your body because it doesn't matter. 
Not sure if this is still the case but about 20 years ago the WW diet was filled with aspartame.
I was on this diet myself at the time and was consuming aspartame in fairly large amounts.
Not long after I began this diet, I began to fall down and was exhausted. Not long after that, I began suffering from severe migraine headaches and was having bizarre visual problems.
It was not long after this that I began to lose my eyesight and was seeing things in different colors in each eye which eventually led to complete blindness in one eye.
I was DX'd with MS (multiple sclerosis) not long after this.
Needless to say, I quit the Weight Watchers diet and I've read in many sources that there is a link between MS and aspartame consumption.
http://www.sweetpoison.com/multiple-sclerosis.html
>>Scientists do know some certain things about Multiple Sclerosis. Some new information that came out within the last few months shows there is more going on with Multiple Sclerosis than meets the clinical eye. When patients are clinically stable, they may still have the disease working in their body, but just not being manifested. With the development of MRIs, Multiple Sclerosis appears to have more active MRI lesions than it appears to have clinical exacerbation. This correlates with the research results of lesions within the brain mass of laboratory mice fed aspartame.
The best advice for Multiple Sclerosis worries, stay away from aspartame at all cost.
Not that I am living proof of alleged connection but, it sure has had me wondering 
was going on at that time. 
Could aspartame be the evil poison that set the MS off? I tend to think so and I never consume it nowadays.
Being I have been so ill, I no longer need to do a Weight Watchers diet being I lost about 50 lbs. since all of this happened to me. Being sick will cause one to lose weight quickly -- that and being flat broke!
Aspartame should be listed as being the poison that it is and no one should consume it IMO.
