Artifical Sweetners...

...are ARTIFICAL.

Definition: 1. Made by humans; produced rather than natural. 2. Made in imitation of something natural; simulated. 3. Not genuine or natural,

They are just so toxic and I really believe people are unaware of just how dangerous they really are. There is an air of complacency about our health choices that is just alarming to me. I understand we all have choices, but perhaps we'd make better ones if we had more information.

Dr. Mercola's article today about artificial sweetners.

Thing is, there are a lot of safe, healthy alternatives out there that can even be a benefit to your health, rather than merely an alternative to sweet.

Our top three are:

Stevia

Agave

and

Xylitol


In other news, the baby is teething. :joy

He'll be 11 months in a week or so. Cranky baby!! Hehehe. We've been giving him Valerian Super Calm when he gets really wound up, some silver water spray on his bottom that got a bit of a rash thanks to the icky diapers teething can give at times. What else, oh some EFT surrogate tapping, what a miracle that system is. Thank you to all the powers that be for that! What I really, really mourn, is that Nuk no longer makes their teething gel. What a lovely item that was!!! Diluted clove oil in a gel. That's it. Nothing else. No chemical stuff, no nasty taste, and believe me that Oragel type stuff.. gah! nasty!! The Nuk kind? Babies never got whiplash trying to get away from the taste and it WORKED for hours! Yeah, so, nice little trick if you don't have any baby teething gel? Boil up a few cloves in about a 1/4 cup of water for a few minutes and use a Q-tip to apply the liquid to the ouchie. Works pretty good.