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I'm being aggressive because I remember you from before, and I remember that you're a jerk. Also because you're quite tiresome. I usually try to help people out even when they're assholes, but you try my patience. Anyway, let's continue:

I "got it" before you even posted. I already told you I actually imagined someone posting pretty much what you posted, but was hoping that nobody would be that petty. Do I really have to spell out the obvious every time I post, just so that people like you won't spend all your time complaining?

The DHMO thing was created to see how gullible people are - whether they accept things without thinking about them. The joke is not the way that the facts are presented, the joke is that most people just accept things without further study. This is Slashdot, and I fully expected people to go and actually do further study.

Though apparently you haven't, so let me do it for you; here's a list of symptoms people have reported to the FDA after eating foods containing aspartame. Gee, those symptoms look an awful lot like those caused by nerve agents! I WONDER WHY?

That's a lot higher than your piece of pie
In fact, that's a lot lower.
1mL is about 1g (true for water, nearly true for alcohol)
So, to have about 4mL of alcohol, you'd need about 10L of orange juice.
BTW, here's your corrected link:
http://www.sweetpoison.com/articles/dr-woodrow-monte10.html

Fresh orange juice can have as much as 380mg/L of ethanol. That's a lot higher than your piece of pie. Grandparent poster, do some basic research before you give out health 'advice'.

In fact, there is one BIG exception, that proves the harm of all GM food: http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects.html, or with other words, aspartame is the only GM that is labeled in USA......for a good reason......and that's the reason for me avoiding COCA COLA, SPRITE, 7-UP, FANTA, and tons of tons of drinks and cakes and.....in fact they are so many that it will be easier for me to name the exception: NATURAL DRINKS.

The following is no substitute for reading the text or classroom study of the text (emphasis and links mine):

This paradox in our understanding of the relationship between taking a sweetener that does not directly contribute to the total calorie intake of the body and weight gain needs explanation.

... It is assumed these manufactured beverages can replace the needs of the body for water. It is assumed, just because these beverages contain water, the body will be adequately served. This assumption is wrong. ... To understand the above statement, we need to recognize some simple principles of anatomy and physiology of the brain that regulate eating and drinking.

... Caffeine, one of the main components of most sodas, is a drug. ... [it] has diuretic properties. It is physiologically a dehydrating agent. This ... is the main reason a person is forced to drink so many cans of soda every day and never be satisfied. The water does not stay in the body long enough. At the same time, many persons confuse their feeling of thirst for water: Thinking they have consumed enough "water" that is in the soda, they ... begin to eat more than their body's need for food.

... Caffeine ... stimulates the brain/body even when a person is exhausted ... it seems that caffeine lowers the threshold of ATP stockpile control. Stored ATP is used for some functions that would not normally gain access to it

... In the intestinal tract, aspartame converts to two highly excitatory neurotransmitter amino acids: aspartate and phenylalanine, as well as methyl alcohol/formaldehyde - wood alcohol.

... If caffeine converts ATP to AMP, a spent energy 'ash', aspartate converts GTP energy stockpile to GMP. Both AMP and GMP are spent fuels; they cause thirst/hunger to replace the lost fuel stockpiles in the brain cells. Thus, sodas cause indiscriminate overuse of energy reserves of cells in the brain.

It is a well recognized scientific fact that spent fuel (AMP) does cause hunger. Caffeine causes addiction ... Hence, caffeinated diet sodas in sedentary persons must cause weight gain; they indirectly stimulate more food intake because of the brain's forced use of its energy reserves. Bear in mind that only some of the energy value of foods eaten will be used by the brain. The rest of the consumed energy will be stored in the form of fat if not used by muscle activity. ...

The more important reflex that occurs is a brain reaction to sweet taste. ... "cephalic phase response". A conditioned reflex becomes established ... that is associated with the introduction of new energy into the body. When sweet taste stimulates the tongue, the brain programs the liver to prepare for the acceptance of new energy - sugar - from outside. The liver, in turn, stops the manufacture of sugar from the protein and starch reserves of the body and instead begins to store the metabolic fuels that are circulating in the blood. As Michael G. Tardoff, Mark I. Friedman, and other scientists have shown, cephalic phase responses alter the metabolic activity in favor of nutrient storage; the fuel available for conversion is reduced which leads to the development of appetite.

... Using aspartame, several scientists have shown a similar urge to overeat in humans. Blundel an

Notice all the Nutrasweet bashing going on among health gurus over the last couple of years. It was the perfect sweetener, now it causes everything from headaches to severe thunderstorms.

That bashing's been going on since soon after the product hit the market. I think the patent expiring is why you're hearing more about it because there isn't anyone to "stifle" the truth anymore. The headaches are actually caused by brain lesions. But, those aren't the worst part, the blindness is what really gets you. (For the tin hatters out there)