of the splenda I've consumed. Since I was 14 (I'm 17 now) I've consumed very large amounts of artificial sweeteners, like splenda and aspartame. And I mean HUGE amounts, way more than a normal person would. I'm really scared now that I'm going to get cancer and Alzheimer's and other problems from this happening. I can't undo the damage, can I? Besides stopping, which I already did, what can I do now? Am I destined for something like that to happen when I'm older?

It's all a statistics game. People will smokes two packs of cigarettes a day their whole life and not get cancer for example. In comparison, artificial sweetener isn't half as dangerous. Maybe you'll get hit by a meteor tomorrow, or maybe you will die quickly of a heart attack at an old age. There is really nothing to worry about, every day brings you closer to death regardless of what you did in the past. Get whatever you really want out of life and it won't matter in the end how or why you go.

Ultimately, you have to deal with the cards you were given and you can't do anything about the hands that have already been played. Take good care of yourself from now on and don't give it any more thought, it's just more time taken away from thinking about what you could be doing instead.

yup. enjoy life while you can...

Rats and other animals that were experimented on using aspartame were given ridiculously huge amounts that you could not even begin to consume on a daily basis. Basically, if you were given an IV of anything, like 1000 gallons of liquid spinach for example, and fed it 24/7, you would get cancer like the rats did with aspartame.

I wouldn't worry about it.