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Originally Posted by Optimist
I'm too cynical to trust any artificial sweetener widely endorced by the FDA and food industry who often don't behave in our best interest. Yes, I'm just that cynical.
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Hi Optimist,
From one cynic to another, let's celebrate the infamous motto that a cynic knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
I agree with your "heroin" analogy of subsituting a lesser vice for an addiction resulting in fueling the addiction rather than curing it. Personally, I'm addicted to sugar; and, I'll always be addicted to it. I think everyone in the world is too.
I've tried splenda, aspartme, or whatever other sugar subs modern chemistry has managed to alter and find them intolerable. To me, they taste nothing like sugar, while the products I love made with these so called sweetners suddenly tastes flat.
The long term effects of these altered sweetners for some time won't be known until further down the road. While we are already privy to some of the maladies of sugar consumption, at least one can take solace that we've been consuming sugar and it's effects aren't a mystery.
Personally, I'll eat real sugar, when the urge strikes. There is and never will be anything which fully replaces the full flavor or real sugar. How bad can it be to have sugar in moderation? Surely, the latter would be infinitely more healthy than binging on splenda, aspartme, or the other assorted artificial sweeteners, right?
Regards,
Frederick