This isn't about RSD but I needed some input on this. It's been playing on my mind a lot.

I have been using Sweet N Low since the late 80's and I remember all of the issues back then about cancer. I also use generic brands and Splenda at times.

I have had a lot of my insides taken out with tumors on and in them. I have had 4 tumors taken out under my skin. I now have 4 more.

Is it a possibilty that the artificial sweeteners are causing these. None of my other family has them so it's not in the genes.

Is there a possibility that the Sweet N Low causes these lumps?

Ada

Ada,
I don't know. I remember that back in the 80's when I was a teenager, they had that big thing about Diet Coke. I actually LIKED Diet Coke, and was upset when the changed it. It hasn't tasted the same since, although I will still drink it from time to time (my favorite drink currently is Diet Sunkist. YUMM! LOL)

The deal with the Diet Coke was that it has Saccharine (Sp?) in it. That was the sweetening agent. They found out that it caused cancer in rats, and so they took it off the market. Or, at least they stopped using it in things like Diet Coke and such (I have found sacccharine tablets...which I wondered about, since I thought that they were supposed to be "evil" and all of that. LOL).

I don't know that they have ever found the same thing with whatever is the sweetening agent in Sweet-n-low? Or Equal? Or whatever else? I myself can't stand using those things, even though I do drink diet drinks. I don't like diet coffee or iced tea or whatever. Yuck. I have tried..and I have used them....but, I have gotten to the point that I would rather drink my coffee black and my tea unsweetened than with the Sweet-n-low or Equal in it. I haven't even bothered with Splenda...because everything that I have heard everyone say about it, I heard them say about the other two. The only thing that I have had with Splenda in it (that I know had it in it, I should say) was some banana pudding that my kinda great aunt made special for my son (banana pudding is his favorite thing in the world!), because he helped her move some of her stuff into storage. He was all set for how it was supposed to taste, and scooped up a big ol' bite, put it in his mouth, and got ready to be transported to Heaven...when all of a sudden that rip came to a screeching halt! He made the most GAWD AWFUL face you could imagine and liked to have spit that pudding out before he stopped himself!

He managed to say around a partially mushed mouthful of bananas, pudding, and vanilla wafers, "I think something is wrong with this....erugh!" I couldn't help myself...I laughed at him. You just had to see his face!

Anyway..I tried some of the pudding. It isn't my favorite thing in the world, but I know what it is supposed to taste like. It had some sort of artificial sweetener in it. That is why it tasted so different. Jay said he didn't care what it had in it, it was "Nasty" and didn't eat anymore. No one else did either, so an entire bowl/dish of pudding went to waste. What I don't understand is, if she made it for a teenage boy as a "Thank you" type of thing...why not make it...well...FOR the teenage boy, and with REAL sugar in it, and not with the Splenda stuff? I found out later, from the kids Aunt (their Daddys' sister) that was what was used. I was not impressed.

Anyways..I got off the topic there. Sorry. Like I said..I don't know what they use in Sweet-n-low. Is it saccharine? It shouldn't be...but you might look up what the actual sweetening agent in it is (off of the back of the packet) and see what tests or what not have been done on it if it is worrying you.

Sorry that I wasn't or more help?

Love and ((hugs))
Jose

I don't have an answer for you on the Sweetnlow but here's the link to the FDA where you can search their site for Saccharin. They list all of their research findings on Saccharin (Sweet'n Low), Aspartame (Equal), and Sucralose (Splenda).



http://www.fda.gov

Thanks for the link, I will read up on it.

Jose, I know what you mean about the splenda, I made some banana bread out of it and I doubt that our hogs would have ate it. It has a much worse taste to me then the other artificial sweetners.

Bill brought me home some Blue Bunny ice cream last week and I don't know what kind of sweetner they used but I could hardly eat it. You could sure tell it was diet ice cream.

I have gotten use to all but the Splenda. I use them in everything. I also drink nothing but diet drinks but they have to be rootbeer or another flavor besides coke or pepsi.

I just hate to start using sugar again. I gain weight so easy. I look at food and gain.

My friend was worried about me using the artifical sweetner and I just never connected the ideal of the sweetner and the tumors until she brought it up. It does bother me now though, I just don't know what to think.

I don't understand why your Aunt would make your son something with that in it either. Young people don't need that unless they are put on a diet. My grandson's do like the diet candy though. I buy both but they eat mine first. They aren't overweight and I'm hoping it won't hurt them every once in awhile.

Thanks for the help. I would like more input on this. I'm sure I'm not the only one on here that lives on artificial sweetners.

Ada

.....also doesn't RSD raise your risk of cancer anyway?

also increase in UV radiation (really bad along with the microcirculation probs with RSD). increase in background radiation. erm cell phones etc. also if you've ever had treatment with immunosuppresants. Is unlikey to be due only to sweeteners....... or if it is diet related then pretty much everything has been shown to be carcinogenic to one degree or another (except tomatoes which mop up free radicals from the atmosphere). So don't give up the splenda if you like it!!

(Sorry having a dim RSD day but I think thats what we learnt in chem A level last year)...

Love

Rosie xxxx

I stick with the real versions of most foods, there's enough additives and chemicals in it already. IMO

Your welcome for the link. After I looked at my post again... if I sounded pushy or anything by posting that link I apologize. I just didn't have an answer and remembered that they had done quite a bit of research on these sugar alternatives and thought you might be able to find a few answers there.