I won't eat artificial sweeteners.

That's certainly not because I buy into the conspiracy theories, some of which contend these were introduced into the food supply to kill people on purpose. Really, that's just silly.

But it's also not because I think the prevailing sweeteners are terrible toxins. There is a case to make that aspartame can adversely affect the nervous system. But there is a case to make that peanuts can cause life-threatening allergy. We have not concluded as a result that peanuts are poison; we've just concluded that some people are sensitive to them and need to avoid them. That appears to be the case with aspartame as well.

There are concerns about sucralose and cancer, but to my knowledge, no real evidence of any harm. And concerns about saccharin and cancer may have been valid but misdirected. Sweet'N Low actually contained something called cyclamate along with saccharin, and current thinking is that cyclamate may have carcinogenic potential, while saccharin likely does not

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