Hi, this is Dr. Mercola. You know, and sometimes you just have to sit back and laugh at the absurd

methods that are being employed by the food industry to deceive and manipulate you.

And let me tell you about the latest one I found as I recently went on

Splend's website. They have three new products that are pushed and being

promoted as health foods.

They have splendid with B vitamins, splendid with antioxidants,

and splendid with fiber, yes fiber.

So you should be using these to improve your health. Well, nothing can be further from the truth.

This is unmitigated, absolute nonsense. You really should not be consuming any artificial sweeteners

because they are not natural. They're going to push your health in the wrong direction.

Now, several years ago I wrote a book called Sweet Deception.

It was actually the most carefully researched book that I ever put together.

It took me three years to write.

I had about seven full-time writers and many of them were health professionals or

physicians and we had to do that because in the process of announcing that I was going

to write this book, I received a 20-page letter from Johnson and Johnson to not write the

book, threatening to sue me for everything I had if I chose to

continue with it and publish it. Well I did and because everything in the book was true they

did not sue me and and it went to print.

So let me basically summarize the key points

of what I learned of doing these three years of research

and why you want to avoid the use of Splendah.

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