This article makes a lot of good points and also is a bit zealous about things.

I do believe artificial food can be dangerous and corporations DO NOT care about our health - just their prospective dollars. How do we know the difference? I dunno. For now, I use stevia in my coffee and splenda for just about every other sweetening need.

The only problem is, this Doctor's opinion is not really backed up by any fact - any studies to refer to etc and that is what I need to make an educated opinion.

I would not give splenda to my children (don't have any to give or not to give to though) nor nutra sweet. The only thing my kids would get is sugar and stevia and a balanced diet without much fun junk food