What Is Wrong with Artificial Sweeteners?
“Almost every artificial sweetener has been a by-product of chemical experiments where the person doing the experiments accidentally tasted the chemical they were working with and noticed it was sweet.” – Dr. Scott Olson, ND, author of Sugarettes: Sugar Addiction and Your Health* When you reach for that packet of artificial sweetener, do you know what you are getting? You may have read the news that sugar and certain foods that act like sugar in your body can be bad for your health – and that may have convinced you that you should remove sugars from your diet. That is a good idea, but if you think that artificial sweeteners might be a good way to deal with that nagging sweet tooth, you might want to think again. People reach for artificial sweeteners for two reasons: either they want to lose weight or they think that they will suppress their sugar addiction, or both. So it is surprising that artificial sweeteners do neither. They do not help you lose weight, and they often make your cr