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Is it safe to use splenda in moderation. So many pros and cons
Is it safe to use splenda in moderation. So many pros and cons
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Coconut sugar much better. Word not good for Splenda!
I have stopped using splenda because of the bad rep, and I am using Stevia
instead.
I subscribe to three 'universal truths' …
1) Everything in moderation
2) If the issue has a lot of hyperbole on both sides of the discussion, the truth lies some where in the middle
3) YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary) or one sizes does not fit all
namaste
-Steve
If I use a sweetener it's Splenda. It's a personal choice just like anything else you choose to eat. To my way of thinking all things in moderation. My weakness is salt and butter.
I hardly ever use sweeteners of any kind. I mostly drink water. When I drink coffee or green tea I enjoy them plain. I eat cereal without sweeteners either.
Howdy Fluffy!
I have had a bad experience with Slenda (Sucralose) long before I heard any negatives about it. I would consume it regularly in a soda. After I consumed 2 sodas containing Splenda, I would have explosive diarrhea about 1 or 2 hours later, and I couldn't understand why for the longest time. Eventually it dawned on me that I had consumed sodas containing Splenda. I stopped those sodas and my dirrhea problems ceased.
Later I found out the negative reports about Splenda, from people like Dr Joe Mercola here ~ http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/ar... to Dr Josh Axe ~ http://draxe.com/splenda-side-effects/ and even the US Consumer Prpducts Safety Commission has downgraded Splenda from "Safe" to "caution" see ~ http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/2624...
And even though Snopes claims Splenda is safe ~ http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/splenda.asp (say Snopes can't be bought by McNeil Nutritionals)
An article abstract from "pub med" from the US govt tells of some disturbing results of studies performed. Look here ~ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18800291.
Sure Splenda may not kill a person outright, but there is a great deal of negative information about Splenda from people who have nothing to gain from this information.
God's best to you and yours
James Baker.
I use splenda always have. My doctor said it was fine, real sugar, high frutose corn syrup, etc.
LOL. Easy to tell the mistake.
Its better than high frutose corn syrup or real sugar.
It boils down to how you feel when you consume it. I stopped using it because it really messes with my body. It's slow and subtle, and I didn't realize it until I went off aspartame and splenda. I felt so much better. Some people don't get bothered by it, but some do.
I have read stories of artificial sweeteners causing all kinds of things. I have epilepsy and my wife worried that diet soda would cause me to have seizures. I talked to my neurologist and he said that artificial sweeteners are not the best thing for you but all these so called reports of them causing seizures and cancer is bogus.
All I can tell you is that I opt to use Splenda as I believe it is less harmful to me, as a diabetic, than is sugar and corn syrup. You will find many people who maintain that ANY artificial sweetener is bad ( author/pharmacist Suzy Cohen comes to mind). Weigh the pros and cons, determine what you can do without, and act accordingly.
Agreed!
The word I am tired of hearing attached to Splenda is "poison." The way I see it, Splenda and its cousins aspartame, saccharin, etc, are not good for us. But neither is the excessive sugar we consume, and for a diabetic, it is much more important to me to reduce sugar intake for the sake of BG than to freak out about its replacements. It is not poison; if it were, I would have died long ago, but I am healthy, happy, and active. Splenda in moderation, just like sugar in moderation, is perfectly safe and fine as long as you aren't allergic or otherwise negatively affected.
Chris that is fine. The "I would have died long ago" argument is beside the point. Not all poisons kill you right away. Alcohol is a poison too, and it kills one slowly, especially if one develops alcoholism. An alternative word for "drunk" is inTOXICation.
Your zeal to reduce sugar intake is laudable but if you have to replace sugar, find a safer, natural substitute (like stevia or its more commercial offshoots) at least do not consume something which does a little bit of damage to you whenever you ingest it. Stevia is not good for people, it is not good for our environment.
God's best to you and yours
James Baker
I'm not saying to go to town on it. I just don't believe 'poison' is the right word, even though it is THE trend word to attach to artificial sweeteners, and so many other things. Is fat, cholesterol, or water a poison? Absolutely not. But if you overdo intake of any of these, you can die. I feel "poison" is overstating it. It is rhetoric I'm tired of hearing. Sure, there are sugar alternatives considered to be safer, just like the others used to be considered 'safe' but I don't believe that "not good for you" is the same as "poison." Know what is not good for you? Sugar in the quantities we consume them. Heavy sugar intake will cause all sorts of problems and is likely to end your life sooner. That doesn't make it poison. Splenda is not literally poison. It is just not good for you.
I do not use Splenda (sucralose) however …
it was considered 'safe' until a study on 843 mice that were fed sucralose from the time they were fetuses until death and found a higher incidence of leukemia in some mice.
I'm not eating it anytime soon, but not quite sure it qualifies as 'poison'/ to humans, yet.
namaste
-Steve
the Doctor that performed that study did recommend that pregnant women and children not consume sucralose