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As a diabetic I have looked very closely at all of these sweeteners. Sugar is pure poison; google "sugar is poison" for the facts. True, it's a natural poison like arsenic but you wouldn't eat that would you?

Splenda is deadly because it is real sugar cut with chlorine. Tastes great, kills slowly. Chlorine ultimately breaks down to salt and water however, in the process of breaking down (inside your body) chlorine creates dioxin. Dioxin is the single most carcinogenic substance known to science. Use Spenda.......develop cancer. Yes, this is also true if you are drinking, showering or swimming in chlorine. Only a triple reverse osmosis water filter will remove deadly chlorine and fluoride from your water supply; those sink and pitcher filters can only remove most of the "taste" or "smell" but not the actual substance. Read the labels carefully.

Aspartame was developed as a pesticide; it's a very dangerous neuro toxin. The FDA was actually in the process of suing Searle for attempting to foist this poison on the public; the damning Senate testimony given by the FDA's top doctor was devastating. But Searle was very clever and hired none other then Donald Rumsfeld to be CEO. Magically the FDA law suit melted away and the next thing you know, Equal is "approved" and inflicted upon the public as being "safe"........just like Splenda.

Now Stevia may be natural AND safe but like many others here, I have tried stevia and it simply tasted awful to me so I don't use it. I will try Truvia but I have no expectation it will be better unless the sugar alcohol mentioned above has made a great improvment.

What I find deeply ironic is the fact I simply use "the pink stuff", i.e. saccrine in the form of Sweet 'n' Low since it has never hurt anyone. What is ironic is that when they fed horrific amounts of it to mice some developed cancer so they had to use a warning label. When in fact no one was ever seriously harmed by simple saccrine, they were finally allowed to remove the warning label. My advice........if you don't care for stevia/truvia........stick with saccrine.......good luck to everyone