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Reading the Labels

The Bitterness of

Sweeteners

We are biologically programmed to like contain aspartame. Decades of research
sweets. According to a survey from the show that aspartame — the world’s most

International Food Information Council, widely used artificial sweetener — lead
about 75 percent of Americans are trying to to serious health problems, including

consume less sugar, but this doesn’t mean cancer, cardiovascular disease,
they’re ready to give up sweets completely. Alzheimer’s disease, seizures, stroke and
dementia, as well as negative effects such

Let’s discuss commonly used sweeteners as intestinal dysbiosis, mood disorders,
which appear to be an appealing headaches and migraines.

alternative to sugar for those of us who
are concerned with the amount of calorie Evidence also links aspartame to weight
intake. But things are more complicated gain, increased appetite and obesity-

than it appears. related diseases.

Artificial sweeteners, or non-nutritive Comprised of phenylalanine, aspartic
sweeteners, as they are sometimes acid, and methanol, these substances can
referred to, were first introduced to the stay in the liver, kidneys, and brain for

market in the 1950s. What is now known quite some time.
about their impact on human health?
Splenda (Sucralose)

Aspartame – other names are Equal, Splenda, the marketer’s name for sucralose,
NutraSweet, NatraTaste Blue is a synthetic compound that’s used in more

It is an FDA approved sweetener currently than 4,500 products. While the molecule
used in more than 6,000 consumer is made of sucrose (sugar) — three of the

foods and drinks. Over 500 prescription hydroxyl groups in the molecule have been
drugs and over-the-counter medications replaced by three chlorine atoms. At 600

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