Avoid Aspartame and Splenda/Sucralose, Use Stevia Instead

While the Equal and NutraSweet sugar substitutes (aka Aspartame) are being converted into formaldehyde inside your body and while the Splenda sugar substitute (aka Sucralose) is being converted into bleach inside your body, the Stevia sugar substitute does neither. In fact, in all of the studies and tests, Stevia has no harmful side effects. On the contrary, Aspartame and Sucralose are very likely contributing to all kinds of degenerative health diseases and problems. According to ABC News, Coke and Pepsi probably know this already and smell lawsuits coming because they've started to use and patent Stevia sugar in their newest soft drinks.

In case the formaldehyde and bleach claims are not common knowledge to you yet, here are some links for further review:

Aspartame Dangers

For further research on Equal/NutraSweet/aspartame

Splenda Exposed - there is a book offer on this page, but there is also a lot of free, useful information on the same page

For further research on Splenda/sucralose

While other countries have been using the Stevia artificial sweetener for years, one has to wonder why it hasn't been offered in the United States. Perhaps it has to do with the lobbying by the companies who make huge money by selling their sugar substitutes based on the harmful artificial sweeteners.

As for me, I'm avoiding foods and drinks with harmful sugars in them. I've been reading the labels of the foods I've previously trusted by reading the labels once already. Yoplait and most other brands of non-fat and low fat yogurt contain aspartame, so I've been buying organic yogurt from CostCo. Instead of using the rest of my Sweet N Low (saccharine - which is the least damaging, non-stevia sugar substitute)sugar packets, I've purchased some Stevia sugar packets from NuNaturals and it is very good. I find I use 2 packets of this sugar where I used to use 4 packets of either Equal or Sweet N Low for my espresso mochas.

I was shocked to find aspartame sugar in my kid's chewable vitamins! I first noticed it in the generic brand from Walmart that was nearly empty, then I read the label on the new Flintstone's brand chewable vitamins and it's in there, too! I suppose I'll have to order them online or visit a health food store to find some vitamins that don't contain poison. A pretty sad state of affairs.

Most diet sodas contain aspartame. This includes Diet Coke (and Diet Pepsi), Diet Mountain Dew and Diet Red Bull. Plus, the generic diet lemon-lime soda from Walmart contains aspartame (and I've yet to find another suitable mixer). I've stopped drinking those drinks, even though I was drinking them all on a regular basis.

Please read the labels and be aware of what you're putting into your body.