For a fantastic analysis of refined, white table sugar and it's detrimental effect on the body, visit http://www.worldwidehealthcenter.net/article.php?article=11

http://www.vitaminusa.com/sugsweetpois.html

A particularly chilling perspective: http://www.alternativescentral.com/sugar-sweetpoison.htm

An interesting alternative (that I use myself--Stevia) http://virtualhometown.com/dfwcfids/medical/sugar.html

For all you Diet-soda drinkers http://www.tupbiosystems.com/Products/aspartame.html SCARY!

The horror stories go on and on . . . .

Katherine

Reading the posts regarding sugar/aspartame/stevia. I got off the "equal" sweetener because of headaches and was wanting to taper off of artificial stuff going into my body. I use stevia but also use sometimes Splenda. Splenda tastes like sugar, doesn't have the side effects of aspartame; and some soft drinks actually use splenda instead of aspartame for sweetening. A great water drink that is not carbonated is Fruit-2-0 flavored water with splenda. It's easy to get the kids to drink water when it's grape or strawberry flavored. Hope all have a wonderful day. Beckylou