I don't drink it anymore, but Diet Pepsi was the dizzam shiznit. I'm sorry, what are we talking about?
Pabst -- I am going into diabetic coma simply looking at those wonderful Riemannian manifolds. We have one in Reno, but have yet to set foot in the store.
Chocolate gives me horrendous headaches. The industry has had articles printed in women's magazines that "disprove" the chocolate-headache connection. !! All I know is I had a lifetime of horrendous, disabling headaches, then I quit chocolate and I have had zero headaches... proof enough for me and it also proves that these industries do not give a rats ass about our health. Maybe we should not give a rats ass about their [financial] health?
Perhaps your dealer was cutting the chocolate with a potentially harmful substance. They will do that sometimes to cut costs and sell more product. Milk added to chocolate is a sure sign of an unscrupulous supplier. Look for the tell-tale lighter coloring; it is irrefutable evidence of malicious tampering. Also, I hope you were not snorting the stuff. It is best rubbed along the gums for maximum effect. Personally, I have never had a chocolate headache, although I confess to an occasional OD stomach ache.
The chocolate part of my life is gone forever.... I miss it dearly...,,,, but I am trying to compensate by getting rich. Actually I would settle for replacing the job income, or actually, near term, being able to pay the credit cards would be pretty good. Regarding the aspartame [how IS that pronounced anyhow?], I work in the implantables industry and I know that on a day to day basis industry does not give a rats ass about my health, so why trust aspartame, or the yellow package stuff or the pink or the blue ones? [dang, yellows, pinks, blues, reminds me of the days when I used to score from some biker gang guys]. What one can do, one being a rational being, no longer doing business with the biker guys, still on speaking terms of course, is just learn to use very little of the stuff, sugar included. I cut way down on the amount of that stuff. It takes a month to get used to it, but coffee with about a tenth of a cube of sugar tastes good. There ya' go, don't go tellin' people I never gave out a good idea.
If you would like your coffee sweeter but don't wish to use sugar or an artificial sweetener, then you may wish to consider stevia: http://www.answers.com/stevia?ff=1 http://www.webmd.com/content/article/42/1668_50390.htm Be sure to also check Dr. Andrew Weil's website, www.drweil.com and do a search. But you may have to wait a day or two. Presently, the search function is not available on his site. It is at Dr. Weil's site that I first learned about stevia. If you try it, be sure to try the root (which is sold as a fine white powder) rather than the ground leaf. I also use sugar sparingly, and often alternate between sucralose (the artificial sweetener made from sugar) and stevia.
Thanks everyone. After reading everything I could find online about all the sweeteners, I decided to quit them all except for 2 packets of sweet n' low a day for coffee. A lot of people I asked don't use them either, especially people at the gym, due to fluid retention & fat storage side effects. Also some people with kids who shop at Whole Foods & don't give their kids any foods with chemicals. I switched to plain yogurt from the "lite". It has more calories but also more calcium & more protein, then I just add a little honey or fruit. OK OK, sometimes I add Hershey's chocolate syrup LOL. This might be one of those products they ban 30 years from now, who knows.