Am I the only one who remembers back in the day when NutraSweet came out?? There were warnings EVERYWHERE not to give it to your kids, not to use if you were pregnant, etc because it would cause BRAIN DAMAGE! Now, you are lucky if you can find a product that doesn’t have an artificial sweetener in it, right down to medications and toothpaste. People wake up! Artificial Sweeteners are NEURO TOXINS. They are NOT going to help you lose weight, in fact they are going to do just the opposite. Your body needs sugar and when it doesn’t get it, it does not process the artificial sweeteners in its place. You are actually poisoning your body. I took a very well known “All Natural” over the counter cold medicine/preventative for almost two weeks and nearly ended up in the hospital with poisoning because it contained artificial sweeteners. Did it do what it said it would, yep, but it was also poisoning me because I have a mild allergy to artificial sweeteners, which I believe is actually just my body’s way of rejecting something that is not good for me. I say mild allergy, only because, it gives me severe stomach problems, but does not send me to the hospital.

Artificial Sweeteners are in almost everything that you consume today. Any liquid or melt form of medication has it, children’s medications are the worst for having it. Toothpaste, mouth wash, dental floss, yep, you guessed it, they all contain artificial sweeteners. I have even been unfortunate enough as to learn that just because a product or company claims to be all natural, does not mean that it is. Often times they all have artificial sweeteners in them. There are even products that I thought were safe because they have sugar in them, but when I got down to the bottom of the ingredient list they also contained artificial sweeteners. I’ve also run into medications and products that when I bought them did not have the artificial sweeteners in them, but when I went to buy more they had changed the ingredients WITHOUT WARNING and now had them.

Please do your homework. Stop blindly following the crowd, and take a few minutes to do some research. I think you’ll be very surprised at what you will learn. Artificial sweeteners are not welcome in our home and I hope that there will start to be many other homes that they are not welcome in as well.

Welcome to my new blog! I hope that you will find it entertaining as well as educational. I’m going to use this blog to help educate people on the importance of knowing what they are putting both on and in their bodies. Whether it is food, beauty products, skin care, medication, you name it! It all affects your overall health, yet many people don’t think about it. That also goes for the products that you use in and around your home. We live in a society that is quick to medicate rather than trying to fix the problem, and I hope to help change that, even it’s in just a small way.

So I hope that you’ll sit back and relax and learn a little to help you live a bit healthier life!