I don’t use sugar. I use instead raw unfiltered honey and organic pure maple syrup.

In 1990, a friend of mine who was a very serious scientist at the C.N.R.S in France. Centre National de la Recherche Scientific and who worked with Dr. Luc Montagnier who isolated the AID virus…..no slouch. That friend told me that after all their research Aspartame, Splenda.was safe . That all that fuss here made in the USA ( where he worked in research for many years also) was a conspiracy to keep American fat and the diabetic pharma. rolling.

If you’re a conscientious label reader, then you know just how pervasive sucralose is, being added to nearly every sweetened item from bottled coffee, energy drinks, to cake mixes, and even protein supplements for bodybuilders.

It’s hard to find any product that doesn’t contain it these days, hell, it’s even in Jello and jello pudding. It’s just everywhere. and no, the FDA does not care about keeping our food sources safe and healthy i this country at all. They’re only interested in the billions of dollars they receive through their application and licensing processes, and have proven they can be easily bribed with a few million dollars any day of the week and will accept bogus studies without question.

It’s a constant battle to stay informed, to constantly read labels, and to attempt to eat good, nutritious, healthy, life producing food, with over 90% of what’s sold in the stores not being fit for human consumption and containing items that cause health problems and diseases over the long term.

The obesity and health crisis in this country has long been determined to be caused by one thing – the unhealthy substances we have to choose from in the grocery stores, from which most people make their chaises based solely by how good something tastes, even if it’s artificially flavored and colored, full of preservatives, has artificial sweeteners, and is of low or no nutritional value at all.

Sucralose is everywhere, and it’s like a nuclear bomb going off in your gut, decimating the good gut bacteria you need for optimum health, even if you don’t feel it’s doing you any harm and you think ( at least for now), you’re in good health. It’s sweet tasting poison, pure and simple. Long term studies have proven it causes tumors, as well, which the FDA chooses to ignore.

The only other observation I’ll make is that the use of gluten free products is NOT a healthy choice unless you have celiac or another allergy. I have seen several studies that have shown gluten free in an otherwise person is not a good thing. I’m, frankly, too lazy to go hunt the studies up now.

Big problem with Stevia is that the taste is horrible. I’ve tried it…. about 2 yrs later at a friends “insistance” I tried it again and threw it away… Doesn’t sweeten and the taste is awful. Maybe it’s one of those odd things that some can taste and others can’t.(like iodine in salt?).. but it’s god awful to me. I do use splenda, not heavily.. but If I drink any ice tea in the summer I lightly sweeten it with splenda as the taste is better. However I do not use it as directed… I use just under half of what is directed. Been 20 yrs, I’m perfectly healthy, no new illness, or conditions… I have diabetes, it is under control well now for yrs Had it long before splenda ever came out.. I’ve not gained weight… of course I could stand to loose a little, but not a great amount.. in fact I’m about 35 lbs less than I was 10 yrs or so ago.

Dan O’Connor