i was introduced to splenda while on the atkins diet. all of the atkins approved products had splenda in them. all of the advertisements state.... splenda is made from real sugar! misleading to someone who dosn't know much about sweeteners or someone who never consumed artificial sweetners!!!! well this crap wrecked my body! just this month, i realized that all of my health problems these past couple of years are due to splenda ! i've had every test a person could have, i have been in pain for over a year, some weeks i could not get out of bed. all of my medical tests were normal, doctors are totally baffled by me. my insides were bleeding, every organ in my body hurt, my hair was falling out in clumps. i finally came across an article on splenda and how bad it is for you. i eliminated it from my diet, and in a matter of days, i started to feel better. my hair is no longer falling out, no more blood in my stool, my stomach pain is subsiding, my kidney, bladder and chest pain are subsiding!!!! i wanted to be sure that splenda was doing this to me, so i had some a few days after eliminating it from my diet, i thought i was going to die again! this poison needs to be banned or at least come with a warning on the label. my advice........ stay away from this stuff - i believe that if i didn't find out that splenda was poisoning me - it probably would have killed me.