The South American herb stevia, which is used as a natural sweetener, has been called an "unsafe food additive" by the FDA.

Isn't that interesting. Yet the FDA still approves of aspartame and succralose as safe. You have been conned for years, maybe even decades. If you thought those friendly little blue, pink and yellow packets for sugar were safe, listen to this evidence.

Artificial sweeteners such as Splenda and Nutra-Sweet are NOT healthy or safe. You have been deceived about the truth behind artificial sweeteners, like aspartame and succralose for greed and profit without consideration of your health.

Stevia is a non-caloric herb native to Paraguay and it has been used as a sweetener for over 1500 years in South America. If anyone were doubting its safety, I would think this is a rather strong verification that it's safe.

Stevia has also been used in Japan since the early 1970's to sweeten pickles and other foods. In the United States, the FDA has turned down at least three industry requests to use stevia in foods.

Japan doesn't have to worry about the conflicts of interest as the U.S. does. Most of their research is not directly financed or greatly influenced by the very industry that is seeking to promote the product. So in this environment stevia has been proven to be safe.

Stevia has been the subject of searches and seizures, trade complaints and embargoes on importation to the United States. There are people who believe this is one way they believe FDA has of benefiting the artificial sweetener industry.

Unlike aspartame and other sweeteners, stevia is much safer because there are no dangerous toxicities. Stevia is hundreds of times sweeter and has virtually no calories.

The lies and deception with regular sweeteners is that they truly are loaded with other sugars to make them flow better.

Stevia can be used in appetizers, beverages, soups, salads, vegetables, desserts and virtually anything. It's the best alternative to sugar, as you will ever find. There is no doubt about it.

Even though it is safe, it's still a sweetener and diabetics should avoid it because it can decrease their sensitivity to insulin. But for anyone else, if you are going to sweeten your beverage or anything else, it's strongly urged you use stevia instead of other sweeteners.

Now getting back to other harmful sweeteners, here are some things you should know. A seven-year study on aspartame, (also known as Nutra-Sweet or Equal) has been linked to high rates of lymphomas, leukemia and other cancers in rats. The rats were given the equivalent of four or five bottles of diet soda a day for a human.

Dr. Morando Soffritti and his international team of researchers have been investigating the link between aspartame and leukemia for a number of years.

Last fall his long-term study is finally published and the news is as bad as you probably expected. More than 200 million people consume aspartame in their foods, drinks, vitamins and toothpaste, among other things.

Their exposure to it frequently begins in the womb, so there is simply no telling how massive the problem truly is. The evidence is quite compelling that artificial sweeteners are not good for you.

Leukemia is just one of more than 90 different related symptoms that have been documented in humans who ingest aspartame

Now let's talk about Splenda which is actually succralose. As you probably know Splenda is best known for it's marketing logo, "made from sugar so it taste like sugar."

Splenda has taken the sweetener industry by storm. It has become the nation's number one selling artificial sweetener in a very short period of time.

There is no question that Splenda starts off as a sugar molecule, it is what goes on in the factory that is concerning. Splenda (succralose) is a synthetic chemical that was originally cooked up in the laboratory.

In the five step potential process of making succralose, three chorine molecules are added to a sucrose or sugar molecule. A sucrose molecule is a disaccaride that contains two single sugars bound together, glucose and fructose.

The chemical process to make succralose alters the chemical composition of the sugar so much of it is somehow converted to a fructo-galactose molecule.

This type of sugar molecule does not occur in nature and therefore your body does not process the ability to properly metabolize it. As a result of this unique biochemical make up, McNeil Nutritionals makes it's claim that Splenda is not digested or metabolized by the body, making it have zero calories.

It is not that Splenda is naturally zero calories. If your body had the capacity to metabolize it, then it would no longer have zero calories.

There are people who have reported adverse reaction to Splenda that were formally studied in the research submitted for FDA approval. It would seem this collection of data is in some way superior to the data submitted to the FDA for Splenda approval.

Here's my question, why would you want to subject your body to any chemically modified product when you can have a natural product instead?

People must learn they need to be more vigilant of what they eat and what they drink if they want to have a healthy body. Take good care of it, folks, it's where you live everyday.

Sonny JUlius

Sonnyj@TheSunnySenior.com

www.AHealthyLifeForSure.com