Aspartame is found in many diet products today. Monsanto has now renamed it Amino Sweet, to make it seem more benign.

Some of you may remember that I temporarily lost my hearing two years ago from too much of it. Seriously. Aspartame is toxic. There are many reported ill effects from ingesting it; to find them, just search. It’s not hype.

My husband was drinking two or three Diet Cokes a day for a very long time. Decades. He developed a whooshing sound in his ears, years ago. It was with him day and night, and sometimes so bad he couldn’t sleep. For years.

A few months ago he stopped drinking Diet Coke. His whooshing sound disappeared. Completely. Has never returned. After decades.

Aspartame is bad stuff. Don’t use it in any form: packets, colas, popsicles or other diet products.