Re: Morning sickness & Splenda

[Guest guest]

> From my understanding, Splenda is made from sugar, so I think it's

> perfectly fine for during pregnancy.

Actually it is made by bonding sugar to a chlorine atom, chlorinating

it in the hopes that the body then cannot break down the sugars before

it passes thru the digestive system. It is widely accepted to be safe

but there is also significant evidence that it is NOT as safe as they

would want you to believe. Splenda depends on the fact that is starts

with sugar to convince people anything with a natural sugar base must

still besafe and that isn't necessarily true.

I KNOW I am in that tiny minority that gets short-term severe

neurological reactions to it in even a single serving so I now avoid

it. It gives me hand tremors, headaches, aphasia and a lack of

concentration. It happened each time I tried it. type in " splenda

reactions " to any search engine and read up on the problems with it.

The FDA is nothing more than a lobbyists dream and it is no

coincidence that the head of the FDA oftens leaves the FDA and goes

straight to become CEO of the companies that manufacture splenda,

nutrasweet etc. (Or head up the law firms that exclusively represent

those artificial sweeteners). Splenda is artifical. The plant based

one that Jeannette might be thinking of is called Stevia and it is

widely used in europe and central america and has been used safely for

over a century without the side effects and problems of the artifical

sweeteners. It is allowed to be sold in the US but it is forbidden to

include the word " sweeten " on their label due to the lobbying of

splendaand nutrasweet.

I know some of this stuff sounds like the nutritional Xfiles, but

sadly it is true. I am a natural and organic kind of girl and I don't

even microwave my foods because there is research that indicates that

the rapid reversal of polarity on proteins makes them lose as much as

half of the proteins that we can absorb from them (when RE-heated, NOT

when originally heated). Anyway I avoid all the artificial sweeteners

and stick to stevia.

Colleen