Quote Originally Posted by witeowl View Post
For the record, I wasn't poking fun at your aversion to artificial sweeteners. People avoid all sorts of products for all sorts of reasons.

I just wanted to point out the folly behind what appeared to be a fear of chemicals. Everything is chemicals. We are chemicals. (Well, to a point...)

That's all.
Exactly! That said, there are chemicals that our bodies are well equipped to handle (such as sugar in moderation) and those that they aren't. Artificial sweeteners fall into that second category, and they just play into the craving for unnatural levels of sweetness rather than solving any problems. It's better to learn to eat naturally sweet things like fruit when we want something sweet, and stay away from the sweetened processed foods.