Comments on: Splenda vs. Stevia

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:14:26 +0000

Best bet is to cut way back on any sweetener. That way we can actually taste the real food the sweetener is in. Personal favorite is stevia – small amounts. And consider this, we can use apple sauce (organic unsweetened) as a great sweetener. And certainly the healthiest.

By: Markus

Markus — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:59:00 +0000

When reading something written by Mercola, it pays to remember that he is a commercial alarmist of the first order. That does not mean that he completely fabricates the issues he writes about on his site, but he usually exaggerates the supposed dangers involved with them, and he usually has a book or therapeutic technique or alternative food product for sale that purportedly offers a unique solution to those ‘problematic’ issues. I’ve read his book on sweeteners, and it is a jumbled collection of misleading statistics, irrelevant claims, erroneous conclusions, and scaremongering opinions. There are some nuggets of truth in the book, but you have to read through a lot of biased material to find them.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:52:51 +0000

People need to know that aspartame and sucralose (splenda) are really dangerous chemicals. Sucralose is an organochlorine, in the same chemical family as many pesticides including DDT! There’s a lot of data on splenda’s deleterious effects on mercola.com and in his fabulous book sweet deception, which is also now a movie for those of you who don’t read much.
If you can stand the taste of stevia I hope you will stick with it and not risk all the dabgeous side-effects that come with sucralose.