Splenda cannot be good for you, right?

[lildreamer316]

I am always suspicious of a sugar substitute; except stevia. Anyone know otherwise?

[cssmall]

1. You're right.

It's called surcalose. My wife looked it up and it actually causes you to crave sugar more.

[supernova]

5. I found this to be true

for all sugar substitutes. But it's also true for me with regular sugar. If I eat it; I simply crave it more.

I now eat only the sugar that naturally occurs in foods and stay away from the sugar bowl altogether.

[lildreamer316]

6. Interesting.

Didn't know that.
I've never tried it, it's just that a freind of mine who is all-natural in everything else she does swears by it. I told her she was nuts....

[cssmall]

7. Google it and look it over, I know there are several published works

online that you culd use as resources. Tell her to dump that shit in her toliet.

[trof]

2. Avoid Aspartame.

Read The Fat Fallacy.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400049199/102-2667384-1989729?v=glance

Botome line: "If it ain't food, don't eat it."
i.e. chemicals

[qnr]

12. well yeah, but technically food is made from chemicals too - I do

know what you mean though :)

[Guy Fawkes]

3. Sugar substitutes....

apparently F*ck up your body's ability to handle sugar. I'd stay away from them altogether.

[ghostsofgiants]

4. Alls I know is it tastes fucking awful

[tjdee]

8. Seriously--what's so bad about natural sugar?

Unless you're a diabetic, obviously--but I think I've read that sugar substitutes can screw up the body's ability to handle sugar (?)...

But if you're a regular person, not a diabetic...is that teaspoon of sugar that much worse than a spoonful of Splenda/Stevia/whatever? Especially when you consider the chemicals involved in substitutes?

Maybe I just don't know enough about the subject.

[lildreamer316]

10. Oh; I love it!

probably a little too much. See my "interesting" post above....

[tjdee]

11. Yeah, that's kind of weird for your friend....

To be all natural....except for sugar?

Don't get it.

I love me some natural sugar. Yum.

[sendero]

9. No...

... many (like me) cannot tolerate it. I started having problems with my skin itching all over, after a month of trying to figure it out I did some Google and sure enough, Splenda causes this reaction in a lot of people.

Plus, the stuff just tastes horrible. Sadly, a lot of products are converting from NutraSweet (which has it's own questions, but it has never bothered me) to Spenda, one assumes it is cheaper.

[hippywife]

13. I tried to tell my dad

who is diabetic that just because 7up is using Splenda now, doesn't mean it's good for you. He can't seem to comprehend that a corporate lable doesn't make it safe.