It has never been an issue for me.
If a sweetener is made in a lab, it ain’t goin’ in my gut…period.
And as it turns out, the gut may be the very WORST place it can possibly go, based on a Duke University study that is being touted in some mediums as applying to humans, while the tests were apparently based on rats.
(As an aside, do we really need to be doing these tests on animals with our lab-made poisons? Sometimes I feel like I’m living in the age of barbarism).
I certainly did not need any rat studies to tell me that ingesting an artificial sweetener might not be good for me.
All I ever needed was the headaches I experienced whenever I *did* consume them to convince me they were poison.
The study concluded that Sucralose/Splenda is responsible for destroying the healthy bacteria in the rat’s gut. Some reports as referenced are claiming this applies to humans as well.
And I wouldn’t doubt it for a second.
And this makes it one of the most destructive food additives imaginable. The LAST thing people would want from their foods, is the “bonus” of having their immune system dismantled in the process.
On top of this, keep in mind that when the body tastes something sweet, the body wants and expects a real sugar to be entering the body so that it can make use of the much-needed glucose as a source of energy. We’re taking in far too many sugars as is in the western world, but we still NEED *some* healthy natural sugars for survival, the brain and muscles depending dearly on glucose.
So if the body is not getting what it wants from the sweet we’ve just eaten, what is it going to crave?
…It will crave what it wanted and expected.
Often resulting in the person eating MORE food to find it.
I personally don’t believe man is capable of building foods that could be more healthy or better for the body than what nature provides.
But that’s just me.
BUT, I think I demonstrate pretty well what the results of what eating what nature provides can do for a body.
Love, Happiness, Health and Peace…………..Tim