Sugar or Splenda

My experience with Splenda was that it severely messed with my stomach and intestines. I have IBS and figured out that Splenda was a nasty irritant. Once I stopped the Splenda, the stomach pain was gone.

I'm just now trying Truvia out, and I've heard really good things about Agave nectar.

If I had to choose between sugar or Splenda...I would take sugar hands down. I'd rather take a few calories than the effects of the Splenda any day.

I buy Truvia which is made with Stevia....it's natural...tastes great...looks like regular granulated sugar. It's pretty potent to so not much is required....:) I don't use it often because I still try to stick to adding more natural sweetners that come from fresh fruits

I have 2 equals a day in my porrige i drink cofffee and tea without it,
I use stevia as well but even tho it may onky be 16 cals a tsp for sugar its not as sweet as sweetners therefor i would have to add
More. I prefer the taste eg i like diet coke much better then normal

I will be brutally honest. If it were not for Saccharin and Sucralose, I would not have been able to lose the weight I have.

I stay away from Aspertame cause of how it affects me but I use A LOT of Saccharin and Sucralose.

NOTE:
Saccharin = Sweet & Low
Sucralose = Splenda
Aspertame = Equal

Nothing artificial for me. If I want sweet I eat sugar .I think all of the artificial sweeteners taste nasty, even stevia. Same with butter & chocolate, I only eat the real unadulterated product.

The FDA had to remove the cancer warring on saccharine years ago and admit the made a "mistake". There is no hard proof that artificial sweeteners cause cancer or anything else. Unless these people that say they have issues are in a bubble with no other food or environmental stimuli I would seriously question their supposed results. You can die from eating food tainted with E Coli that is supposedly healthy. Eat what you want and don't stress out about. Life is much too short to worry that everything might give you cancer.

Sorry Not to be rude but please tell my sick possibly dieing father this tell him this after he seizes and doesn't remember this tell his rich doctor who helped us help him tell his rich doctor who makes tons of money to figure these things out that you "think" what you do
Again not to be rude but do more research ask more sick people what it does to them

The FDA had to remove the cancer warring on saccharine years ago and admit the made a "mistake". There is no hard proof that artificial sweeteners cause cancer or anything else. Unless these people that say they have issues are in a bubble with no other food or environmental stimuli I would seriously question their supposed results. You can die from eating food tainted with E Coli that is supposedly healthy. Eat what you want and don't stress out about. Life is much too short to worry that everything might give you cancer.

Can't say I trust the FDA too much so I do all my own research and come to an educated conclusion myself. There are a lot of special interests in the FDA. Just do some reading about Monsanto. As an individual it is your (general) responsibility to take charge of your health. I'm. No against drs at all because they saved my son, but it's important to do your own research too and not take everything you hear on tv, in the media, etc as truth.

The chemicals in them really effect the brain and nervous system. My dad still to this day has random seizures, dizziness, and has had 1 stroke and 3 heart attacks!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm really sorry to hear about your Dad. It sounds to me though like maybe there is something else going on since he is still having symptoms. I know you are saying that the sweeteners permanently damaged his nervous system but do you have any proof of this? I wouldn't really accept the answer that doctor gave you as fact, it sounds a tad dodgy to me.

Studies have shown that there are no significant long term effects of approved sweeteners when consumed on an 'everyday' basis - ie if you are drinking 4 litres of diet coke each day you might want to rethink things.

splenda over sugar
sugar over equal

I try to not sweeten my beverages. On the rare occassion that I do sweeten my beverage, I use sugar. The tiny amount of calories in a tsp of sugar is really not worth eating chemicals ove.r

Amen......:drinker:

I try to not sweeten my beverages. On the rare occassion that I do sweeten my beverage, I use sugar. The tiny amount of calories in a tsp of sugar is really not worth eating chemicals ove.r

Question: Do you grow your own food? If not then I bet you are still getting plenty of chemicals.

WHY ARTIFICIAL SWEETNERS CAN MAKE YOU SICK

Splenda is an artificial sweetener that is chemically derived from sucralose. Sucralose is made by taking sugar and replacing some of the OH( hydroxyl) groups with chlorine. The resulting structure is very stable and not as easily digerstable by humans. Splenda can legally be marketed as calorie free because, according to the FDA, any food that has less than 5 calories per serving can be classsified as " Zero Calorie".
The reason artificial sweetners can make people sick is because when it reaches the intestines we attempt to break it down for energy but cannot, hence the reason it has no calories. The results from our body's attempt to get energy from sucralose can include cramps, constipation and diarrhea.
Artificial sweetners can actually cause people to gain weight because it has the ability to make one more hungry. This effect is caused by the body's response to consuming a food which provides little to no caloric and nutritive value. Put simply, digestion takes energy and if you comsume foods with no calories you will certainly consume more.
But you knew that, didn't you?
Kj

- Kj is a registered Canadian Society of Exercise Physiologists Personal Trainer, a Certified Kinesiologist, Municipal Fitness Appraiser, a Nutritionist and Dietician student.

Stevia

AND only Truvia seems to taste good.