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Originally Posted by DweamGoiL I use Equal..yes, I said it...aspartame! First aspartame is bad for you, then saccharin, then something else. As far as I'm concerned all the competing companies market these rumors to villanize the others product.
My doctor recommended Equal when I was pregnant for the onset of gestational diabetes and I trust that opinion more than any other out there without supported valid documentation. |
Its not a question if they are bad for you, because they are. Its a question of how bad. Not very bad in my opinion, everything you do in life is a balance of risk. If aspartame is converted to formeldahyde after digestion, it depends on factors like how much formeldahyde is produced, and at what level does it become unsafe. Same with splenda and how it converts to chlorine. Splenda is 600X sweeter than sugar, so how much splenda do you actually ingest to give the desired sweet effect. Not very much. And you can actually drink bleach and it won't kill you. But thats getting off topic. Anything can be bad for you. Sugar kills daily through obesity and diabetes. But many people would rather die from a natural food like sugar than taking a risk on a relatively new product to society. The effects of new things are often not realized for decades. Just like breast cancer cases multiplied in the 21st century, and they try to think of all kind of reasons why cancers increase. Hello? Look at how polluted the world is today that we live in. But back to the synthetic sweeteners. Saccharin was banned by the us goverment because it was considered a known carcinogen when tested on mice/rats. But does it cause cancer in people? Who knows. The only difference between sugar and the synthetic sweeteners is, the risks of sugar are well known while the risks of the others are not. And its the unknown that scares people.
