Splenda---have you had any problems using it?

Like some of the others mentioned, the artificial sweeteners give me tummy issues.
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I'll take natural ol' sugar over something created in a laboratory any day. Same goes for butter vs. whatever that oily stuff is that they whip and put into a bowl (after they add the yellow food coloring to make it look like butter).
 
Aspartame is known to cause headaches. We quit using it entirely for that very reason and now use Splenda. The jury is still out on Splenda, but I'm sure we'll hear something really awful about it some day soon. I cant take lots of sugar, so till they say it causes three-headed kids, we'll keep using Splenda. Stevia is a more natural sweetener, but the price kills me using it.
 
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Uhmm, my understanding is that splenda is an aspartame dirivative?

Either way, Aspartame is BAD stuff, there was a recently released national study that showed that at 80* and above aspartame actually converts to formaldehyde. So that diet soda you have that may have sat in a warm car, or on some loading dock somewhere is actually laced with a poison that is stored by the body in the muscles. There is more nasty info, but I am not a doctor, do an internet research at medical sites, web md or what ever.

I personally cant touch the stuff, causes migraines with in a couple hours! I have to avoid any foods that say diet, or light, unless I check the ingredients, and heads up on Healthy Choice foods, I didnt know it, until after the migraine, but those foods are full of Aspartame!
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If you have any condition that might be aggravated by chemicals like aspartame, absolutely be on the safe side, and avoid it! And learn to read the labels.... its in a LOT of gums these days too!
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Good Luck!
 
Article from splendainfo.com
One Doctor’s Take: Splenda Is Bad for Us from the Inside Out
Dr. Bowen says of Splenda, “Splenda/sucralose is simply chlorinated sugar; a chlorocarbon. Common chlorocarbons include carbon tetrachloride, trichlorethelene and methylene chloride, all deadly. Chlorine is nature’s Doberman attack dog, a highly excitable, ferocious atomic element employed as a biocide in bleach, disinfectants, insecticide, WWI poison gas and hydrochloric acid.” This seems a bit extreme, but when you step back and think about it, you do have to wonder what this product does when we ingest it continually. In fact, many of us are ingesting several items every day that have Splenda in it.

Dr. Bowen has made a lot of people scratch their head and think about exactly why they are ingesting Splenda and exactly what it is doing to our bodies. The doctor points out that chlorocarbons, which is what Splenda is, is not nutritionally compatible with the metabolic processes that are ongoing in our bodies. Using very scientific means of researching, the doctor has come to find and believes wholeheartedly that the arrangements of the atoms in Splenda adversely affects human metabolism.

Dr. James Bowen believes that the chlorocarbons cannot be excreted from our bodies and that will continue to cause damage to our metabolism and eventually if we keep ingesting it, to our internal organs. Bowen believes that the liver is not able to detoxify our body of Splenda because the chlorocarbons in Splenda damage the hepatocytes, which are the liver’s metabolic cells.

Dr. Bowen hasn’t come with up with these beliefs without data to back it up. In fact, there have been test animals that have ingested Splenda and all of them had swollen livers and calcified kidneys. As if these findings weren’t overwhelming enough, it is known that the brain and nervous system are susceptible to metabolic toxicities and can be damaged by the chemicals that are Splenda. It is thought that something as seemingly simple and harmless and Splenda could cause a breakdown in the nervous system, affecting genetics and even immune function. It is also thought that because of the breakdown that chlorocarbon poisoning can cause cancer, birth defects, and total immune system destruction.

Dr. James Bowen says, “We should not be fooled again into accepting the safety of a toxic chemical on the blessing of the FDA and saturation advertising. In terms of potential long term human toxicity we should regard sucralose with its chemical cousin DDT, the insecticide now outlawed because of its horrendous long term toxicities at even minute trace levels in human, avian, and mammalian tissues.”

In short, Splenda is something that we all need to think about before we ingest it. It’s regarded as an artificial sweetener. In most instances, artificial is not a term that has a positive connotation. Why should it be any different with the things that we ingest? We don’t want to think that there are things out there that are FDA approved that aren’t safe, but when you think about aspartame you have to know that there are things out there that just aren’t good for us. We have to be discerning consumers and think about our health long term.


My naturpathic doctor says to use Stevia
 
After saccharin and aspartame were hyped and then "discovered" to cause health problems , I've had enough. I was never big on artificial sweeteners, but now I won't use them at all. I bake with sugar, drink my coffee and tea plain, and (rarely) drink regular soda. I tell my kids, "No Splenda- it'll 'splode your liver."
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