Dear Atkingal08,
I appreciate you're trying to help, but I did look at the two links you provided about splenda from that doctor, and I was not convinced. It didn't seem very scientific to me. Mostly, he was saying that the sugar industry is out to get splenda and the chorine that is in it, in his opinion, doesn't make any difference because it is in other foods like salt. He didn't say that splenda was not sugarized chlorine, as far as I could tell.
I have heard this argument before, but just because chlorine is in other foods doesn't mean the chlorine make up in splenda isn't harmful. Elements have different reactions to different elements. Actually, several people commented on his site that they had had adverse reactions to slpenda, the most common seemed to be depression.
Splenda has not been around for very long. I also understand it has not been very studied. The longest may have been for only 3 months, and I have heard it has never been studied on women or children. It may be too early to definitively say that it is not harmful ( or that it is unsafe) for most people, but evidently, according to what I just read on the links you sent, they are harmful for at least some people.
As for me, I'll stick with my stevia!
Thanks anyway! I know you were trying to help!
