aspartame-the most popular artificial sweeter has been linked to increase in cancer to autism and lots more-remember the actual word her e-ARTIFICIAL. This means **man made**-a chemical (alien to the human body) made by man to artificially replace sugar. Would you eat a plastic banana? or string instead of spaghetti? I thought not. Every time i used to drink something with aspartame and other artificial sweetners in it i could taste it-its horrile and tastes fake. Its best to take food with natural sweetners, even if it is sugar-but in moderation, Sugar will never harm you if u eat it in moderation, as all food contains some sort of sugar. Fruit is naturally sweet because of it. Also, with sweetners it gives you a false sense that you can eat and drink as much as you want of the product as it contains no sugar, and u forgert about all the other stuff in the food which isnt good 4 u. Eat natural, and sweeten your food with honey, and other such natural products if u really dont want sugar.