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From AMERICAN FREE PRESS – SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2005 All That’s Sweet Isn’t Honey, Warn Health Advocates By Julia Foster Four out of five Americans now consume some sort of artificial sweetener. Aspartame, saccharin and sucralose are the most common. However, recent information indicates that these sweeteners may be more damaging to your health than previously thought. Your body is more than 10 degrees warmer than the temperature at which aspartame’s methyl ester bond breaks down into toxic chemicals, including methanol and formaldehyde. The chemical sweetener aspartame is sold under the brand name of Nutrasweet. Besides being a likely carcinogen, saccharin, which goes by the trade name Sweet ‘N Low, has a discomforting metallic aftertaste. To some the very name saccharin sounds creepy. But sucralose sounds even sweeter than sucrose—and it is 600 times sweeter than common table sugar. … Read entire article »