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    Default How bad is splenda actually for you?

    Every morning I wake up and have coffee first thing. In the past I used hot cocoa and soy milk to sweeten it. In an attempt to cut calories for the past three months I just use splenda and soy milk.

    Checking myself out recently I feel a slight increase in cellulite. Could this be caused by splenda? Or it could be from my drunken debauchery over the Holiday weekend

    Anyways, how bad is splenda for you? Can it really increase cellulite? What are some other alternatives that are low calorie and healthy to put in my coffee?

    Also, I can't quit coffee. That would require serious in patient treatment so please don't suggest that.

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    Everything I have read in diet books recommends stevia to sweeten drinks. Its an all natural sweetener. I dont know much about it tho honestly.

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    Default Re: How bad is splenda actually for you?

    i found out about splenda from kevin trudeau's book.

    basically, companies said, how can we make a no calorie sweetner that tastes just like sugar? by adding very unatural fattening body harming things together. that's how.

    you're better off eating pure cane sugar, or raw brown sugar. i prefer brown. it takes much less to sweeten my iced tea!!

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    Default Re: How bad is splenda actually for you?

    ive heard about stevia too. My step mom and my papa use it-they are on a health food kick right now. I personally dont use it. I have lightened up on the splenda wich I used to use in copious amounts, and have noticed less gas and bloating.
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    Splenda is bad news. I cant remember where but I do remember reading about it and its link to cellulite increase, headaches, and bloat.

    And as Corgan said, regular cane sugar or raw brown sugar is in fact better than the chemicals and crap in Splenda.

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    That stuff turns into formaldehyde in your body, or so says my book "Skinny Bitch"

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    So Splenda can make you fat? Whats the point then?! *bangs head*

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    Oh man, guess I'm gonna have to nix it.

    I can't have regular sugar, as I really try to eliminate sugar form my everyday diet (except for special occasions).

    I'll have to try to look into the stevia stuff a bit more or learn to like coffee with no sweetner.

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    how about just adding cream? or some sort of whitener. That can make coffee more palatable than it strait black. *shudder* I love coffee, but hate it black.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ViolaStrings View Post
    That stuff turns into formaldehyde in your body, or so says my book "Skinny Bitch"
    I read you can also get arsenic poisoning from using too much of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ViolaStrings View Post
    That stuff turns into formaldehyde in your body, or so says my book "Skinny Bitch"
    lol, that book turned me into a vegan in ten minutes flat. Ever since I read it, I physically cannot make myself eat dairy, eggs, artificial sweeteners or processed food. I just think about what's actually in those things and it makes me want to hurl.

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    Default Re: How bad is splenda actually for you?

    You could also use Raw Agave Nectar.

    Just a small amount and you get a lot of sweetness. I have Stevia and I use it in baking, but not in drinks. I has that Aspartem after taste that I cannot stand. But, it's much better than any other sweetner (Splenda, Asparteme, etc).

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    Default Re: How bad is splenda actually for you?

    How about honey?

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    From what I've been reading, honey is much better used topically as opposed to ingesting it (it's a great antibiotic ointment...instead of using neosporin, for example, you would use a bit of Raw, organic honey).

    But, if you have to choose between honey (raw organic is better) and artificial sweeteners, definitely go for the honey.

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    Default Re: How bad is splenda actually for you?

    Raw honey - yum!
    Raw agave nectar - yum!
    Stevia - yum!
    Splenda ----> cellulite and other bad stuff

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    i haven't tried splenda yet i live by a rule: don't eat anything that you can't pronounce or find in nature.

    you won't find splenda in nature, growing on splenda trees.

    go for the honey instead.
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    Default Re: How bad is splenda actually for you?

    http://www.holisticmed.com/splenda/
    http://www.tuberose.com/Sucralose.html
    http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...e-dangers.aspx
    http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...timonials.aspx

    Normally I try to take alarmist things about food with a grain of salt, no pun intended.

    For example, while I try to avoid MSG and aspartame, I don't think they're nearly serious enough hazards to check every label for them.

    This stuff was approved on the grounds that it passes through the system undigested, but the average digestion rate is 15%, which is a mean average: some people digest none of it, some people digest all of it and are poisoned by it. Some people can tolerate it with no ill effects (you may be one of these people, and have already determined this, in which case, go ahead and keep eating it) but others can have side effects up to and including permanent stomach damage and nervous system damage, so I'm not going to risk it.
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    Splenda (sucralose) is chlorinated table sugar. It's chemically similar to pesticide and was actually discovered during research on new pesticides.

    Like aspartame and MSG, different people have different sensitivities to it. thechaosfairy, you mentioned aspartame: I get migraines every time I have something with aspartame in it, so obviously, I DO have to check labels for it.

    Sucralose is even worse than aspartame.

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    I use stevia and find I like it great. I didn't know until after the first time I ate though that it's much sweeter, therefore needing less.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ViolaStrings View Post
    That stuff turns into formaldehyde in your body, or so says my book "Skinny Bitch"
    That is actually NutraSweet/aspartame. It's about 10% methanol that is converted to formaldahyde in your body.

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    I use a liquid stevia extract to sweeten my drinks. Also instead of the coffee you might consider "dessert teas". I have a vanilla hazelnut one that i really love when I add stevia to it! best thing......zero calories!
    http://www.celestialseasonings.com/p...nilla-hazelnut

    Ingredients: Roasted carob, roasted chicory, milk thistle, roasted barley, natural vanilla and hazelnut flavors (contains soy lecithin), cinnamon, licorice, anise seed and vanilla bean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by naughty_princess View Post
    I use a liquid stevia extract to sweeten my drinks. Also instead of the coffee you might consider "dessert teas". I have a vanilla hazelnut one that i really love when I add stevia to it! best thing......zero calories!


    Ingredients: Roasted carob, roasted chicory, milk thistle, roasted barley, natural vanilla and hazelnut flavors (contains soy lecithin), cinnamon, licorice, anise seed and vanilla bean.
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    I'm totally confused after reading this thread. I'm freaking out and thinking I have ungodly amounts of cellulite that hit me upon reading that splenda may cause it. So in a nut shell....splenda causes cellulite amongst other health issues? How does it cause cellulite? Is this is reference to putting in your food or also including foods that already have it in it...like crystal light? help! I'm spazing out!!!

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    Who really knows how bad it is for you? I just found this article on aspartame..

    http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp


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    Not to create waves, but the FDA is NOT someone to listen to when it comes to product safety. They've approved thousands of drugs, etc only to have them recalled because of massive problems (deaths, etc). The FDA is just another money pocket on the way to making millions.

    How can you take a bunch of chemicals, put them in your body...and not expect any side effects? Really.

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