Artificial sweeteners....what you should know?!?!

[KATZIIZ]

I have been finding some suprising and many times startling and scary stuff about the sweeteners popular for our low carb lifestyles. I am not trying to force personal opinion or choice on anyone...but this is good stuff to know to make your own safe sweetener choices.

{Nutrasweet} Aspartame Disease: An FDA-Approved Epidemic
By H. J. Roberts, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.C.C.P.


"Diet" products containing the chemical sweetener aspartame can have multiple neurotoxic, metabolic, allergenic, fetal and carcinogenic effects. My database of 1,200 aspartame reactors--based on logical diagnostic criteria, including predictable recurrence on rechallenge--is reviewed.

The existence of aspartame disease continues to be denied by the FDA and powerful corporate entities. Its magnitude, however, warrants removal of this chemical as an "imminent public health threat." The use of aspartame products by over two-thirds of the population, and inadequate evaluation by corporate-partial investigators underscore this opinion.


READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE HERE---> https://www.mercola.com/2004/jan/7/a...me_disease.htm[/b]

[KATZIIZ]

here' some more FYI

"Splenda-Here we go again"

As Dr. Janet Hull writes in her July newsletter, eating sucralose--brand name Splenda--is like ingesting tiny amounts of chlorinated pesticides. If this sounds unappealing to you, it certainly doesn't to Splenda's marketing team, who say they've "done a great job of redefining sweetness."

Splenda, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1988 as a tabletop sweetener and sweetener for an array of other products, is a chlorocarbon. Chlorocarbons are known to cause organ, genetic and reproductive damage, which may explain why Splenda has been found to shrink the thymus gland--a foundation of the immune system--by 40 percent.

READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE HERE---> www.mercola.com/fcgi/pf/2004/jul/21/splenda.htm

[KATZIIZ]

I used to be addicted to Diet Mountain Dew (w/nutrasweet). I gave it up when I became pregnant with my last son, because my doctor warned it was not good for the baby. Didn't tell me why...just that it was. After reading the Aspartame article and thinking back to my Days of Dew, I realized that I did have alot of weird stuff I used to complain about to the doctor with no cause ever found. I used to have constant annoying ringing of the ears, carpal tunnel like symptoms, anxiety attacks ( or so I thought!?), lots of joint pain, I had very bad sleepiness even after a good nights sleep, lots of memory recall problems...just to mention a few! But I realized that, after reading about the effects of regular aspartame use, I was amazed!!! It seems an odd coincidence that all of the burdensome ills I used to have are a thing of the past....and that I lost these problems during my nutrasweet free pregnancy!! I never went back to nutrasweet only because I was breastfeeding and so did not want to expose my son to whatever it was that the doctor told me to avoid while pregnant. I am so relieved I got rid of that poison in my body!! I wasn't even aware of how harmful a substance it was! I am really bothered that Splenda seems to be harboring the same harmful effects to your body as nutrasweet did!!! And it bothers me that the industry at large keeps this information hushed up so as not to scare away all of their customers! And then there is the general customers, themselves, wrapped up in having sweets that are oh so sweet, that even when you tell them it may be harmful....they will tell you no way...they need the sweet evidently more than they truly desire to be healthy. I am eating this way (Atkins) generally to BE HeAlthIER! NOt just to look better. I want to give myself the best treatment and to live life to its fullest...after all, isn't our bodies a temple? So, if you are annoyed by my posts "knocking" your favorite sweeteners...please keep in mind that I just care that you are making informed decisions about your health. It is your body, your health, your happiness...and I only want to help. It seems to easy to be uninformed because the general consesus is shouting "yeah" We can still have sweets like before! :no But I fear the price to be paid...it almost seems safer to have sugar instead.

I myself, use splenda very very sparingly. My choice for healthiest sweetner is Stevia ( and yeah it tastes funny at first...but it is not harmful in any way, been used for centuries as a sweetener with no ill affects reported (or covered up)...I will be healthier and the taste is not hard to learn to like...just like a lot of other atkins induction foods...they grow on you in time and you will not want to get rid of many of them. I will be making Mock French toast forever Also, I use secondary sacharrin. Despite what you may have heard in the past...it is not harmful. And they make a sweet N low brown sugar which is awesome for baking and cooking.

So sorry to rant and rave on the power of the sweets. :sarcasm
I just care, really.

[Miss Phode]

Good information. Thanks for posting it. I'm a stevia user also! I buy the kind in the green packets, I think it's called Sweet Leaf Plus. It has the best flavor.