Imagine a sweetener with zero calories, and no harmful effects. If that was the case than everyone could consume all the artificial sugar they want without gaining weight right? Than that would mean that everyone would be slim right? Unfortunately this is not the case. Sometimes you have to listen to the old saying which goes like this. "If something sounds too good to be true it usually is.” Researchers from the Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center in Italy has linked aspartame the main ingredient in Equal and NutraSweet to numerous of health disorders in laboratory rats such as lymphomas, tumors, and leukemia.

The Study

In the study rats were compared by feeding them different dosages of aspartame all the way until their death. They started feeding the rats aspartame starting when they were eight weeks old. The study concluded that the more aspartame a rat was feed, the more malignant cancers they died with.

Reflections

I have never been an advocate of artificial sweeteners since I had a bad experience with one. Several years ago I purchased a bag of candy that contained sucralose, the artificial sweetener that is used in Splenda which is 600 times sweeter than table sugar. It was on sale so I decided to purchase some. After I ate a couple my stomach was acting funny, and I thought it was coming from something else. I continue eating, and the pain kept growing stronger. I was confused; I thought that the last place it was coming from was from the "sugar free” candy. I mean after all the FDA approved

of it and there were countless of clinical trials that said that it was safe for human consumption, even safe for babies. My curiosity was bugging me, and I decided to do research about it myself. What I discovered were some horrifying secrets about all artificial sweeteners including Equal and Splenda. The FDA approved countless of harmful substances in the past such as ephedrine for one. Also, a lot of clinical trials can be rigged, and the effects of artificial sweeteners can catch up to an individual down the road. A lot of people never report the effects they feel from artificial sweeteners because they think that it may be coming from a different source. Stop ignoring, and stop drinking diet sodas, throw it all out of your house, it's not safe for you or your family.

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