People forget that originally, sweetness was actually a by-product of food: nature’s way to encourage living creatures to consume nutritious foods. Forced sweetness, revved-up sweetness, and artificial sweetness - all altered foods - are traps that addict people to sweeter tastes.

Artificial sweeteners are marketed as “being super-sized with more sweetness and no penalty.”

People with eating disorders, children who are first learning about healthy food habits, diabetics, and those with degenerative illnesses are being seduced by crafty advertising campaigns: “The added plethora of laboratory chemicals are entirely unnecessary to put in the public food supply,” says Kelly Goyen, CEO of Empirical Labs.

It’s time to admit that there is no free ticket to eating all the sugar-free products you desire without paying the high price of harming your body in the long run. The “technology of foods” (artificial sweeteners and manmade foods) has gone too far and will not secure eternal health, beauty, slimness, or youth. Laboratory chemicals are not the answer and create an artificial need for more.

“We’ve done a great job of redefining sweetness, and it’s great to see it pay off,” says Anne Rewey, Splenda Marketing Director for Ft. Washington, Pennsylvania-based McNeil. “We’re committed to the leadership position in this market.”
According to the Conference of the American College of Physicians, “we are talking about a plague of neurological diseases caused by these deadly poisons [aspartame, sucralose, acesulfame-K].”

As an educated consumer, you can protect yourself from avoidable illnesses by simply being aware of the sweet deception from the chemical sweeteners surrounding you.

What Are Artificial Sweeteners and Why Are They Harmful?

Artificial sweeteners are a mix of unnatural chemicals combined in a laboratory that the body can’t naturally process. Basically, these chemicals either accumulate in your vital organs (causing possible damage later), pollute your bloodstream (causing possible damage later), or form the basis for eventual mutations of your cells (causing possible damage later).

NATURE VERSUS MANMADE: The Key To “Safe” Food

In a nutshell, what nature generally creates for food is typically safe for your body: Whatever man creates for food (from chemicals in the laboratory) may not be accepted by your body as safe and can result in illness. Our bodies are like machines (only natural) that operate today just as they did thousands of years ago. They don’t “understand” manmade chemicals as a source of nourishment and cannot fully process them. Forcing “foreign” materials into your body is like pouring shampoo into your car’s gas tank: It wasn’t meant to process it; so the engine stalls and stops working, and the chemical by-products obstruct your body systems.

Which Artificial Sweeteners Should You Avoid?

Your Healthy Sweetener Choices

Life is full of choices: What to wear; which car to buy; what colored packet sweetener to use, white, pink or blue? Now, there’s a new yellow packet of chlorinated sweetener called sucralose, from which to choose. Have you ever considered using a natural sweetener or no added sweeteners at all?
The following is an alphabetized list of the best natural choices for sweeteners that are safer for long-term health as opposed to the refined sugars and the artificial chemical sweeteners. Remember, nothing is without consequence. Natural is always a better choice, but all of these alternatives should be eaten in moderation as most can impact blood sugar levels. It is best to use any type of sweetener, even the all-natural ones, sparingly, if at all, with the optimal choice being to savor the natural flavors in your food and resist the urge to add extra sweetness.

Natural sweetener choices:

“Grey area” sweeteners (those that are natural, yet are either slightly altered in laboratory processing or naturally tend to spike blood sugar):

New natural sweeteners:

Article provided by:
Dr. Janet Starr Hull, PhD, CN
www.janethull.com