How Splenda is deceiving you...

Isn't Mercola's site the best? I'm 9 weeks soda free...mostly as a result of his website. Never will I touch another artificial sweet product again!

thank you! I use Truvia or Splenda about once a day in my coffee. Definitely makes me want to throw it out now.

Stevia isn't artificial. It's just as natural as cane sugar. Don't toss it. It's just the crystallized solids of another plant. I loooove my Truvia. Plus, it doesn't register as a sugar in the body so it never turns to fat.

I see many people use artificial sweetener (hello, it's in practically everything that's sugar-free or diet!!) Do you ever wonder why there are no calories in these products...

Must watch: http://www.foodista.com/blog/2011/06/20/how-splenda-is-deceving-you. Love Dr Mercola!

Thank you, I enjoyed viewing the video! I'm all about getting healthier in a healthy way, so to learn more about about unhealthy foods out there is a good thing for us all. I don't do much artificial sweetener but I'm sure it's in occasional foods I eat.

Appreciate the reminders to eat more consciously.:flowerforyou:

truvia and purvia both contain alchahol sugars, not a great idea instead use sweet leaf, pure via, or stevia in the raw, only extra thing in any of them is dextrose and just enough to make it eaiser to measure when not in packet type packaging.

truvia and purvia are made by cocoa coala and pepsi co respectively.

I appreciate you clarifying that, thank you!:happy:

Thanks for posting this! I have cut out splenda for almost 10 months now and this is a reminder of just how good that decision was!

One of my friends is studying to be a nutritionist and has been hounding (not really, but she's pretty convincing) about how Splenda, while it's made from sugar, is processed in such a way in your body that it becomes formaldehyde. (Trust me, it's not a nice smelling liquid.) She did also mention that it makes you eat more because of the lack of sweetness. I am now using Truvia and it's awesome. I did try pure sugar for a while, but 15 calories for one packet?! No thanks. Aside from coffee, I don't really drink anything anymore that requires a sweetener.

Dear everyone,

Within nutrition we have various kinds of studies: epidemiological, biochemical, and clinical trial.

The first one looks at trends. The second one looks at the biomechanics behind substances. The third one looks at the practical application of everyday consumption of products. The first two are NOT good for determining the safety of a product. The third one IS.

Splenda has been shown to be PERFECTLY SAFE in the third type of study. Anyone who thinks otherwise is too fixated on the biomechanical research, which is done as follows: take a bunch of rats, feed them 50x the serving size of the substance in question, measure outcomes. That's great for learning about the biochemical pathways of different substances, but who here intends on eating a pound of Splenda in a day? I sure don't. So why the heck are you judging the efficacy or safety of Splenda based off a study that is not MEANT to be applied to the practical consumption of the product?

If a study came out saying, "don't drink alcohol, because when participants drank 2 fifths of vodka, they got hammered, vomited, and risked alcohol poisoning" - are you telling me you would be averse to drinking one beer every few days? THAT IS EXACTLY HOW BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH IS DONE.

Thanks, OP, for more fear-mongering.

I think everything in life that is good is going to kill ya eventuallly so why not just enjoy it all in MODERATION...then live a little die a little everyday and enough said.

In the original poster's defense and Dr, Mercola's view is that many studies are funded by the product so they are not going to give you the dangerous facts. He did say if you use it in moderation it won't kill you or give you a brain tumor but if you go nuts on it and think it is an awesome sugar replacement and start baking huge quantities with it or are a diabetic and discount the fact that it says no calories and no sugar chances are that is way too good to be true.

Except for the fact that lots of studies done have had zero affiliation with the company, the FDA, or the United States in general. There have been studies done internationally in countries like Japan and Italy.