Artificial sweeteners (aspartame, Splenda,....)

[anthrax]

How addicted are you ?

 

[Lao Tzu]

i dont know if im addicted. if i had to drink these or water i'd choose these though.

I think there are at least 4 artifical sweeteners now.

Aspartamine
sucralose (splenda)
saccharin
stevia

 

[borg4902]

splenda for me and tuns of it (do they count as carbs or are they passed through?)

 

[MassiveTank]

I discovered I was alergic to Aspertame /Nutrasweet a few years ago.

I thought I was developing Narcolepsy (sudden uncontrolled sleeping spells) and would start to nod off while in meetings and after lunch and while driving!! yikes!
I also thought i might be having diabetic conditions since it always happened after I had food or drink.
Waht i discovered was that nutrasweet has a bad history and has been the cause of a few people thinking they had cronic fatigue syndrome, lupus and many other illnesses. Nurtasweet is toxic to many people. Read a few sites about its shady past and the FDA's history of how it got approved.

I used either Splenda or even better Stevia which is a natrual plant extract that has been used for hundreds of years. There are brands of stevia that also contain natural plant fiber so you get sweetner and fiber all at once and they mix up fine in cold and hot beverages and can be used for cooking.

http://www.healthy.net/nutrit/kitchen/foods/stevia.asp

http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/

 

[leanchic]

sweetner is a chemical...u want cancer take it..adn newyas sweetners and sweetners found in diet pops cuase bloating and eventually slow down ur weight loss.....forget where i read that

 

[Thresher]

I do lots of splenda with iced tea.

 

[JKurz1]

sweetner is a chemical...u want cancer take it..adn newyas sweetners and sweetners found in diet pops cuase bloating and eventually slow down ur weight loss.....forget where i read that