For those of us that really enjoy Splenda as a sugar substitute in drinks and such, I just heard on the news it has been pulled from all the shelves. They are saying "it is potentially dangerous"...hmmmmmmm why is it that everything we like is potentially dangerous? I wonder if they are including the soft drinks and everything else that is sweetened with Splenda. It has been the best substitute for sugar I've found. I can't even begin to imagine what health problems they are going to say it is causing. They merely stated it has been pulled from the shelves. Bummer...major Bummer!!

Splenda is horrible! While the taste is fine, even the smallest amount does very nasty things to my digestive track. That stuff is poison!

Question, I have read (can't remember where now) that the body can't distinguish between sugar and artificial sweeteners and responses the same way. Is that true? Can we just limit the amount of sugar we intake and it will have the same effect? Does anyone remember reading anything on this?

Roberta

Yes. Sometimes. In some people. Not always. I was hypoglycemic growing up. I mostly grew out of it. Anyway, sometimes when you have something sweet the body thinks "sugar!" and releases insulin to help digest it. But if it is artificial sweetner then there is no sugar to digest and you just get all shakey. Most diabetics and hypoglycemics I know really like their sweetners. They don't get that reaction. They may, on occasion find they have that sort of reaction to one sort of food or drink. Just like one type of food, or sugar, can pull some people out of a low better, some find that one food or drink can give them a low. I know someone who can't drink fruit flavored Water because of this. But diet soda-- no problems with that. Or anything else either. And some people don't take well to splenda either. They absorb it like it is sugar. But from what I have been told, most of the time that isn't the case.

Sometimes our bodies are too smart for those little tricks. But most of the time they work. I haven't seen anything on the news or read anything about splenda getting pulled. Where is that info from?

That is bad...I don't use splenda, but I know lots of people that do...I use Sweet N Low....

have you tried stevia? its all natural

Well, the first post on this was made on 4/4/07 and when I went grocery shopping day before yesterday they were still selling it. I doubt they do take it off the market, it's no different than the other sweetners and they haven't taken them off the market yet. Rest assured if they do, they'll just remarket it under another name. It's all a money maker, and the "recall" information was probably put out by the competition. Don't start panicking yet....lol