Aspartame Is a Possible Cause of Cancer in Humans, a W.H.O. Agency Says
The F.D.A. and the powerful beverage industry protested the new findings, and a second W.H.O. group stood by its standard that the sweetener is generally safe.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer, or I.A.R.C., said it based its conclusion that aspartame was a possible carcinogen on limited evidence from three observational studies of humans that the agency said linked consumption of artificially sweetened beverages to an increase in cases of liver cancer — at levels far below a dozen cans a day. It cautioned that the results could potentially be skewed toward the profile of people who drink higher amounts of diet drinks and called for further study.

Still, people who consume high amounts of aspartame should consider switching to water or other unsweetened drinks, said Dr. Francesco Branca, director of the W.H.O. Department of Nutrition and Food Safety.

But, he added: “Our results do not indicate that occasional consumption should pose a risk to most.”

Nutrasweet hits my gut hard and it has the same effect as that gallon of prep they give you prior to a colonoscopy. I've avoided it for years and when I accidentally was given some I figured it out a couple of hours later.

Decluttering paper-wise, I have reduced the final contents of the hall filing cabinet into two thick envelopes of papers for the kids, childhood records of all sorts that now should be with them. I will suggest to them that they go through and for documents they might want to keep, make a scan and file it somewhere safely as backup.

Now, do I want to move that black 2-drawer cabinet next to the other black file and let it be a matching part of the support for that computer desk (a sheet of furniture grade plywood), or do I want to keep the bright orange file because it is already in place and it locks? I have a key around here somewhere.