One Raw Sugar, two Splenda, and half a Sweet’n Low please

My mother always told me that artificial sweeteners were cancerous (same with dark soda) and would make you fat. Therefore they were promptly banned from the house, my father was broken of the habit of incorporating Sweet’n Low into his coffee every morning, and I now cringe at the though of having artificial sweetener as a part of my diet.

Unfortunately, similar to many other wives tales like running in the rain causing you to catch a cold, or swimming after you eat making you sink, or eating without praying giving you a stomach ache, when hold them up to the light of science they rarely hold true.

According to the research I perused over as I was tumbling this topic over in my head, artificial sweetener don’t, directly, cause cancer. Pheewff. We were all holding our breaths there right?

German scholars agree that artificial sweetener doesn’t lead to cancer, and our government concurs.

Nevertheless, being so enlightened, I still can’t help but cringe when I hear some one call a drink with nine Splenda, or eleven Equal. And even if it doesn’t directly cause cancer, you have to wonder about those rumors of unusually sized brain tumors…