Should Splenda really be included in this list? It's supposedly made with real sugar make it less artificial than the others.

Dear Andrew,

Despite Splenda supposedly being the healthiest of all known sugar substitutes, it does have its drawbacks, too. Its side effects are not as threatening like cancer or depression, but overusing Splenda might cause unwanted intestinal gas problem and increased appetite that might end up with consuming unwanted calories. In other words, everything, and artificial sweeteners are not an exception, requires a moderate rate of use.

With Regards,
Prof. Nutralegacy

this is very concerning. i didn't realize that artificial sweetners could lead to so many problems.but it's sort of hard toget away from them. mainly because they are in just about every we eat.

Splenda is not natural..it is altered on an atomic level..it's synthetic.

Aspertame is one of the most poisonous substances in our food supply (out of many)...it is an excitotoxin..it over-stimulates brain and nerve cells to death, kind of explodes them. it passes through the blood-brain barrier...basically it goes into your brain and kills part of it. and it's kind of addictive too, because that "over-stimulation" is kind of a buzz...you know, like doing speed or other stimulants, but i don't think even cocaine or meth kills your brain cells like Aspartame does...

in addition, Aspartame causes a huge laundry list of health problems. also, when it is heated above about 85F, like if you cook with it, or just leave your Diet Coke in the sun, it turns to formaldahyde, which is also poisonous. they say the troops in Iraq routinely drink Diet Coke that's been over heated like that in the Iraq sun...

the FDA is a criminal organization for allowing this...and they didn't at first..for many years they didn't allow Aspartame....i recommend reading the history of the approval process..you will see some familiar names from the Bush administration in there, and some familiar heavy handed politics.

kinda sad that millions of people are being brain damaged into premature senility for the profit of a ffew companies. it is implicated in Alzheimer's Disease...basically all those kind of things are just brain damage, probably from foods and other ingested toxins that surround us these days.

most "modern illnesses" can be traced back to modern chemicals and pollution that are in the food and environment now.

This really comes as no surprise. White refined sugar is already bad as it is. I would recommend using muscovado sugar or coco palm sugar as substitute if sweetening is really necessary. Our tongues have just been accustomed to having sugar but in truth we can live almost without it. Please teach your children at an early age to develop an aversion to sweets.

This is all on pretty shaky ground, most 'conclusions' of the 'dangers' that are presented as facts, are based on inconclusive evidence and conflicting research.

Mentioning cancer as a possible side effect is way over the top and could scare people back to the use sugar, who else would benefit substantially from the use of artificial sweeteners.

These 10 'dangers' have not been proven and there's nothing scientific about what's being presented in this article!

JUST SO WE'RE ALL TOTALLY CLEAR -

Donald Rumsfeld (he who as we all know armed Saddam Hussein, one of W's chief architects of the Iraq/Afghan wars, was recent US Defense Secretary under Bush, and if you care to believe such things, involved in the 9/11 inside job) - before he got up to his neck in the Neocon plan for world domination, worked as CEO for Searle, who make the popular and widely used sweetener Aspartame.

"Among the many ironies of our modern world is that Gerald Ford awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom-America,s highest civilian honor-to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on January 19, 1977. Just a few weeks later on March 8, Rumsfeld became the CEO of G.D. Searle to take point on a mission to force the Food and Drug Administration to approve for human consumption a known carcinogen and neurotoxic poison." [1]

Aspartame (widely used - you probably had some today) "aspartame causes headache, memory loss, seizures, vision loss, coma and cancer. It worsens or mimics the symptoms of such diseases and conditions as fibromyalgia, MS, lupus, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue and depression. Further dangers highlighted is that aspartame liberates free methyl alcohol. The resulting chronic methanol poisoning affects the dopamine system of the brain causing addiction. Methanol, or wood alcohol, constitutes one third of the aspartame molecule and is classified as a severe metabolic poison and narcotic." [2]

"For 16 years the FDA refused to approve it, not only because its not safe but because they wanted the company indicted for fraud. "[2]
"Donald Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and the day after he took office he appointed an FDA Commissioner who would approve aspartame. The FDA set up a Board of Inquiry of the best scientists they had to offer who said aspartame is not safe and causes brain tumors, and the petition for approval is hereby revoked. The new FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull Hayes, over-ruled that Board of Inquiry and then went to work for the PR Agency of the manufacturer, Burson-Marstellar, rumored at $1000.00 a day, and has refused to talk to the press ever since. " [2]

MY QUESTION: Is any of this a surprise? At all?
ANSWER: Nope.

I think it says something about the world however, and it's corporations and structures, that we are still consuming this "chemical weapon" daily in our food and drinks.

[1]
http://www.rense.com/general67/rum.htm

[2]
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWVexclusive/exclusive15.htm

This was interesting?