I would like to tell you my story concerning diabetes. I was diagnosed with it in 1995 so I started being very careful with what I ate, exercised and lost 50 lbs but I began to have a great deal of trouble with my feet to the point of hardly being able to walk.  I discovered that the problem was foods containing aspertame!  Yes, I was drinking diet sodas to compensate for the regular ones with so much sugar in it. After receiving an article via e-mail from my older sister, I stopped drinking all diet sodas and drink only water.  Within 3 days there was remarkable improvement in my feet. My  sugar numbers stablized and I felt much better.  It's time the country woke up to realize that along with all the junk food that is promoted the diet sodas with aspertame HAVE TO GO!!  I strongly believe that if people would watch out for this and leave all foods with it as a part of the ingredients alone, they would find a big drop in those with high sugar numbers and would have a marked improvement in their health.  We Americans a SO gullible that we believe about anything that is thrown in front of us in the way of advertising and get in trouble with our health.  I'm 63 years old and put in a good 9 hr day in the construction business with my husband and feel great because I watch what I eat and only drink WATER!!!