DQ, I'm glad you mentioned my stand on Aspartame. It is another "evil" that I've been warned against through unfulfilled "studies". I grew up with most of the "93 symptoms" as a result of childhood cancer, epilepsy, scoliosis, and diabetes. It was after this last diagnosis, around age 30, that I replaced most of the Sugar in my diet with alternatives, including Aspartame. Ever since that time I have only seen a reduction in my symptoms. I went from 3-day long episodes of multiple gran mal seizures per day to about one seizure a month, that usually doesn't even bother my sleep. I wouldn't even know about most of them, were it not for my loving wife of 20 years, who tells me the following day.
So you see I'm not just arguing "proven studies", I'm living them.