Two good websites for this are....... Www.Sweetpoison.Com and www.Dorway.Com

I thought that is why they started putting splenda in things. Is splenda just as harmful? I am always cautious when using produts with this stuff in it. Nutrasweet was proven to cause problems too and I stay away from it. Most people assume the word diet means you should drink it when you are on a diet...When in reality it is usually replacing natural sugars with some chemically produced ingredient. Diet sodas have been proven to cause weight-gain and I would stay away from them at all costs. Aspartame is also in foods like dehydrated soups. I am very wary...I will look for some info on splenda...And stay away from it until I am satisfied.

All I drink is diet pepsi and fruit2o (made with splenda)
what is safe as far as diet drinks go?

i found a really helpfull site devoted to this topic. It's www.Splendaexposed.Com.

The fda aproves the usage of many things such as asparatime and splenda with reckless abandonment in my opinion. They are as corrupt as any other government run operation. It's all about money and these companies that come out with these so called "alternatives" to what mother nature provides have plenty of it. There are so many harmful products on the american market today it's almost laughable. Just look at these facts: we are the "most advanced and prosperous country" yet we lead the world in cancer and heart disese and obesity. And we have all these products and pills that we take to fix everything, but we keep getting sicker and sicker. Look at acid reflux disease for one. Until a few years ago we called this heartburn. This is a direct result of stress and poor diet. And the drug companies would have me take a purple pill for the rest of my life that could give me a huge hoast of other potetially harmfull side effects. Why? Because they are in the business of making money...Not helping people. We should all look at countries like thailand and compare them to the us and britain. Why are they so much healthier, and why do they live much longer by comparison than we do? Because we slowly poison ourselves with what the fda approves and we live such exaustive and stressfull lifestyles to boot. So let's just continue to eat chickens on steroids, and livestock that is fed processed food (containing livestock parts) and drinking our diet sodas that are poisoning our bodies and only making us fatter.

Sorry about my rant on this forum, but we all need to wake up to what we are really doing to ourselves day in and day out. I highly recomend anyone to read kevin trudeau's book natural cures they don't want you to know about. Some people call him a quack. But then again some people are brainwashed too. Just my two cents.


God bless

Oh good lord. So at least I can blame my diet pepsi now for making me fat? This is very disturbing to me. What the hell can I drink? Plain water? Uck.

Hi,

I went off of coffee then soft drinks for many reasons. Anyway, I drink herbal teas, some decaf teas, and I put grapefruit essential oil in my water (from Gary Young Essential Oils). It is not only delicious but is good for weight loss. Be careful of any drugs that don't allow you to eat grapefruit.

One great for you tea is Celestial Seasonings Coconut Thai decaf!

Michelle

Hope your friend gets better fast, no doubt that pop (I'm from chicago) is bad. Diet or sugar free products are advertised as "no harmful sugar" but then the substitutes are harmful. Even with the popsicles for kids....no sugar labeling makes parents feel good but what happens to the GI tract after years of sugar substitute exposure? Probably constipation and IBS! You mentioned normal "tests" but many of the tests we do in alipathic medicine are superficial. We usually look for big things like diabetes, thyroid disease, anemia or liver or kidney failure. May need to look into other problems that lead people into the continued use of harmful products. Western medicine says they may have "sought out" the caffeine or sugar sub, so consider an addiction behavior. Eastern medicine says he probably has a deficiency of energy, may need an herbal tonic. Alternative medicine puts him in a picture like candida overgrowth.

If it were me and the symptoms continued after a month to two of being off the pop, I would ask the doctor for follow up testing....repeats with some specifics looking for diabetes or thyroid disease, consider seeing a psychologist for support and therapy and then find an herbalist or napropath to combine treatment plans

My dad has been forever warning me against diet drinks. - Mine of choice being Diet Coke. I've heard that aspartame can cause cancer in huge doses. I hope your friend gets better soon! I'll be praying!

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Grace