I react to aspartame. In candies, nestle green tea, or where ever I just get in contact. When I drink something containing aspartame, it raises my heartrate, my blood pressure, makes me feel extremely hectic inside without the body feeling the need to compensate with activity. It does not make me feel more awake, it just makes me feel like I'm high on coffeeine on the inside. In candy it numbs my lips and mouth.

It took me a long time to figure out why these things happened, by checking ingredients of everything, finding what's common, eliminating elements until I've reached the one that caused the issues. That was aspartame.

The fact that it may cause cancer really is enough to avoid it. Smoking three packs per day is more likely to going to cause you cancer earlier than smoking only five cigarettes per day, yet people don't run around claiming that it's fine because it's only so few anyway.

It's really problematic that societies have adopted this idea that a little poison is totally fine, as if there wasn't already hundreds of little poisons and damaging effects acting on your body on a daily basis.