What are the health risks of sugar substitutes?

What are the health risks of sugar substitutes?

Susan Silberstein & Marilyn Joyce (Health and Nutrition Educator & Heath Counselor) gives expert video advice on: Is honey a healthy sweetener?; Are there healthy substitutes for refined sugar? and more...

Now, sugar substitutes, especially the synthetic ones, are what we need to be concerned about. Products like aspartame and nutra-sweet and splenda and equal are very dangerous to our health. First of all, they actually contribute to weight-gain. Secondly, aspartame can turn into formaldehyde in the human body at normal body temperatures. Third of all, there is significant evidence that products like aspartame are implicated in brain tumors and breast cancer. The chlorinated hydrocarbons that are in the splenda are also very carcinogenic.