Splenda?

I'm sure people have heard the rumors about Splenda and that it's actually not good for your health... Does anyone know the real deal?

idk the "real deal" but I recently have started to get very sick from artificial sweetners.  I started reading about it and have learned that the reason it has no calories is that your body doesn't digest it.  However if you have a healthy digestive system and use it often (I was using it a lot in tea,coffee, yogurt) then you will digest more of it and it can make you sick.  

Regardless I am not waiting around to find out its bad for you, I don't really want to make my body a splenda science experiment.  I have been using Stevia extract instead, its more expensive, but its all natural, its a plant extract.  You can find it in health food stores.

Thanks for the tip! I will look for Stevia extract next time I go shopping ::adds to grocery list::. :)

I think plain old sugar gets a bad rap. It's only 16 cal. a teaspoon. That's not much considering how little most people use. I use a teaspoon a day on my cereal.

I personally like splenda but I use all kinds of different sweeteners.  (I used to grow stevia plants when I lived in FL) 

As far as "No Calorie"  That's just not true.  I called Splenda yesterday cause I was using 2 cups of the stuff I was mixing it with lots of rhubarb.  The no calorie cup for cup stuff and it has 4 cals a packet and 97 cals a cup.

So far there are no "Health problems" related to splenda.....It does have a few calories but I feel that it is just fine in moderation. I use it in my coffee tea and occasionally I use it for bakeing....I tried stevia once but didn't like it at all....and can't quite remember what was said about it but I don't think just because it's made from a plant that it is good for you either.....Look at soy....it's made from plants but is horrible for you as it's an estrogen based plant..can cause alot of problems....

well from what I understand it's not natural, and your body can't digest it or something so it can make you gain weight... I'll google some things up in a little bit.. :)

but I personally don't eat anything with sucralose, or aspartame... ugh.. it's just gross knowing that it's not natural... and it has a funny taste to me... I miss gum, but just thinking of the sucralose and aspartame makes me feel better about it. and besides... I'm pretty sure I inherited my mom's tmj so its probably good I don't eat it regardless :)

http://www.truthaboutsplenda.com/

http://www.splendaexposed.com/

http://www.womentowomen.com/nutritionandweigh tloss/splenda.aspx

http://www.holisticmed.com/splenda/