small objects, LARGE SUBJECT: Artificial Sweeteners

Equal

Splenda

and

Sweet and Low

In this day and age fake food is starting to replace real food. Every where you look you see things like:
" I can't believe it's not butter."
"Splenda is made with real sugar. But it’s not real sugar!”
“Same great taste, with fewer calories!”

But really what is the point to eating things that are fake? Things that have ingredients like soluble saccharin, calcium silicate, anti- caking agent, and beta-carotene are replacing the ingrediants we actually can recongize. Just in case you didn’t know what Saccharin is ( because I didn't):

Saccharin: is an artificial sweetener. The basic substance, benzoic sulfimide, has effectively no food energy and is much sweeter than sucrose, but has an unpleasant bitter or metallic aftertaste, especially at high concentrations. In countries where saccharin is allowed as a food additive, it is used to sweeten products such as drinks, candies, medicines, and toothpaste.(Wikepidia)

Companies claim that these fake sweeteners are healthier and provide the same sweetness without the negative affects of sugar.

But how can something artificial actually be healthy?

It can't!!

The real issue lies in American culture and portioning of food. People recognize the negative affects sugar has on health. But instead of changing the portion size or taking sugar completely out of someone’s diet, people replace it with artificial sweetener.

Many people argue they want to loose weight! So they replace sugar and butter with fake supplements. But really how many of those people do you know actually see loose weight?
Your body requires a certain amount of sugar to properly digest and function. These sweeteners fulfill no dietary need and the chemicals in them can actually cause you to gain weight.
Sugar just like everything else is all right in small portions. Eating something that is not good for you in large portions or to often will always end in poor physical health.

Balance is key.

Yes, these artificial sweeteners are a nice to thing to have for people who can’t eat sugar at all due to medicals reasons. But most of the time, the people using them don’t need to!
Our society promotes less fat, fewer calories, diet diet DIET! But it never seems to dwell on feeding your body and nourishing it with what it needs.