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Originally Posted by Darield

It amazes me that they even put "Supposedly a Healthy Drink" in the title. Aspartame has been known to be dangerous for many years. Before I gave up soda over 15 years ago, I had a health practitioner tell me that diet soda was more dangerous than regular soda. The National Library of Medicine says "Aspartame use has also been associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and hormone-related cancers". Aspartame—True or False? Narrative Review of Safety Analysis of General Use in Products - PMC.
It can also mimic MS. How it hasn't been banned is beyond me.

Please, you have made a wrong attribution. The National Library of Medicine [NLM] absolutely did NOT say anything of the sort. The article you link was published in a journal, Nutrients.

The NLM is a library, like the name strongly suggests. That library has the journal. The authors of the journal present some of the data on aspartame. All the authors are pharmacists in Poland.

Be very very careful when you say aspartame is "associated with" any outcome. Swimming is associated with drowning and shark bites. Going for a walk is associated with being hit by cars. Associated with means things occur together. It does not prove anything about cause and effect.

Aspartame use may or may not be causally associated with obesity. Is that because aspartame causes obesity or is it because people who are obese are trying to limit their sugar intake and loose weight? The same is true of every claim you asserted. Obese people have more diabetes, more fatty liver disease, more cardiovascular disease.

In fact the article you cite directly refutes your claim of increased risk of any cancer. From the article:

"it is not possible to conclusively determine that aspartame is carcinogenic for humans. Indeed, most research fails to identify any such association"

The sentence you copied does not contain a link to any reference source that supports the claim. Reference 59 is the only one on hormone related cancers, specifically breast cancer, and the original article can be found at Etiology of Hormone Receptor–Defined Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review of the Literature | Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention | American Association for Cancer Research

The word aspartame does not appear anywhere in that article.

Bacon is carcinogenic. Sunshine is carcinogenic. Sunscreen is likely carcinogenic. Unless you are one of the one in fifteen thousand people with PKU, aspartame is certainly not, as you so forcefully and incorrectly, IMO and per the science I read, "known to be dangerous for many years"