I heard some disturbing things about Splenda from a friend, and have spent this morning doing some research--what I found, I cannot in good conscience keep to myself. My mother and I are currently disposing of all splenda we own.

I'm not going to post all of the articles I read through (I went through about 20 websites) but I will include some of what I found most important.

Splenda, which is sucralose, starts as a normal sucrose (sugar) molecule, until three chlorine atoms are added. Chlorine is a toxic substance to humans, and causes everything from birth defects to cancers to all sorts of problems when ingested. So eating splenda (of which on average you retain 15%) means consuming chlorine.

As I was doing further research, one of the articles mentioned aspartame, a long-used sweetener (Equal, and a few others--I forget what exactly) which is even worse than splenda. Aspartame can get through the brain-blood barrior, and can get into the brain and release neurotoxins into the brain.

Neurotoxins are what many species of venomous insects, reptiles, fish, and other carnivorous creatures and plants, use to kill their prey.

This is only part of what I found, and what alarmed me the most of all..but I'll include a few websites as well--and if you want to, google Splenda, sucralose, and aspartame---you'll be shocked at what comes up. I'm not telling anybody to DO anything, just...well...it's worth considering. I found all of these just by typing "Splenda" into the yahoo search engine.

Anyways...

http://www.splendaexposed.com/

http://www.holisticmed.com/splenda/

http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/

http://www.mercola.com/2003/nov/8/splenda_dangers.htm

http://www.splendaexposed.com/articl...science_h.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame

http://www.aspartame.com/

I'll leave it at that. *waves*