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Don't be fooled by the artificial sweetener hype!
 

          Article:   Splenda:  It's NOT sugar - it's an artificial sweetener

How about adding two teaspoons of DDT to your coffee or iced tea as a sweetener.  Sounds ridiculous but if you are using Splenda as a sweetener, you may by only a couple of atoms away from a pesticide.  In fact, Splenda (trade name for sucralose) is a synthetic compound discovered by scientists in Great Britain seeking to create a new pesticide.  Splenda is not a natural sweetener - it is an ARTIFICIAL sweetener.   Splenda falls into the same category as NutraSweet; Aspartame and Saccharin.  Claims are being made that Splenda is made from sugar.   The Sugar Association disagrees and is suing Splenda’s manufacturer (McNeil Nutritionals) for making such claims.  The fact is that sucralose is a chemical compound ... read more

 

          Article:   The Aspartame Deception

Artificial sweeteners are NOT a healthy alternative to sugar.  Aspartame (NutraSweet brand name) is probably the most controversial food additive in history.   Look up aspartame on the internet, and you’ll find page after page of information – most of it warnings on its dangers.  Books have been written on aspartame dangers, there is even a video, “Sweet Misery,” depicting its dangers.  The State of New Mexico initiated legislation to try to ban aspartame.  Why exactly is Aspartame so dangerous?  Aspartame is an excitotoxin—a substance that excites or over-stimulates nerve cells, damaging the nervous system.  The nervous system is responsible for carrying information to and from all parts of the body.  Symptoms of nervous system damage run the gamut from loss of feeling and tingling, lack of coordination and reflexes, muscle rigidity, to slurred speech and seizures.  An excitotoxin, such as Aspartame, basically excites neural cells to death.  This occurs in the brain and in peripheral nerves because ... read more

 

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