Posted by Racer on June 23, 2004, at 12:58:15
In reply to Re: Absolutely » Racer, posted by tampagirl70 on June 23, 2004, at 7:59:20
I do have a little canister of Splenda, which I hardly ever use because I hardly ever make anything that needs sweetening these days, but when I did the research way back I couldn't find any safety issues.
Although I admit to a long-term overuse of aspartame, I was always suspicious of it: temp changes being able to scramble its molecular structure? And someone considers that safe for consumers? {{sigh}} a major component of my depression has always been self-destructive things like drinking diet soda when I know that aspartame is linked to depression -- nothing more overt, but a lot of the less visible things, mostly involving food -- so I guess that's my only excuse. Oh, and on some of the meds I've been on, they've affected my metabolism in some weird ways, including wild fluctuations in blood sugars, so regular soda wasn't an option.
(I finally got smart enough to start buying bottled water, by the way, because it's as convenient as grabbing a soda, so I do drink it. Still have my two diet sodas per day, though. Trying to cut them out, too. It's HARD, because they are sweet and there's that 'feels good' thing because they taste good. Someday, right?)
Do post what you find on Splenda, eh? I'd love to see anything out there.
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