Is it healthy to consume food/drinks that contain artificial sweeteners?

On 2 different occasions while riding my bike 70+ miles, I accidently bought diet mountain dew, instead of the regular. After drinking the diet drink, I bonked miserably, and have never felt so bad in my life. There was the most terrible aftertaste in my mouth as well. At that point, I decided something has to be wrong with artificial sweeteners.

What do you guys think about Splenda(Sucralose), Nutrasweet (Aspertame), and saccahrin? Are these sweeteners healthy to consume?

Artificial sweeteners are not real sugar. As far as your "bonking" perhaps those extra calories from your normal mountain dew were absent from your body to pull from.

As far as being healthy...these sweetners have been shown (excluding Splenda) to cause cancer in laboratory rats. However these doses admininstered were extremely high. The FDA has approved the sweetner and I believe the manufactorer is required to put some sort of warning label on it. People often refer to them as "Cancer Packets " (sweet n lo, equal, etc).

The artificial sweetners are large amoung the diabetic community since most will not elevate blood sugar levels like normal sugar.

Hope this gives some insight
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