They were in fact so mild that I put them off as pseudo strokes and never saw a physician. What we did notice, my wife and I, was that my memory for words and names – of people, places and things including name of street I lived on – was very obviously getting worse over that summer. And in August, reading an article in Reader's Digest, I realized that I had actually had two very mild strokes.

So use of refined sugars can help bring on either an obese condition with all health risks pertaining thereto, or diabetes, or both. Killing you slowly. Aspartame can, over a very long period of time (I compare it to smoking) bring on cancer and then kill you, painfully and not quite slowly. Or, if you are like me, allergic, it could in a very short period of time cause a stroke or heart attack and lead to mild to more serious physical impairment including becoming a total cripple. Or death.

So what's my bottom line here? I limit my sugar intake. And I avoid with a passion any and all encounters with everything containing aspartame. You probably should too. And what should your "bottom line" be? Wellllllll, that's purely up to you. But I'd suggest, if you are not diabetic you should choose to avoid all aspartame/sucaryl sweetened products like plague. And cut down on your refined sugar intake as well. See: Artificial Sweeteners: The Real Skinny before you make your final decision on sweeteners.

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