There are some who have believed that even though artificial sweeteners in general are dangerous and detrimental to your health, Splenda is okay, because it’s naturally made from sugar. Basically speaking, they want to replace those foods. The big problem with artificial sweeteners is that they provide a sweeter taste which should be associated with more calories. But of course, they don’t have as many calories, and this confuses your body and it carries this over to foods that actually do have more sugar and do have more calories. Splenda obviously presents this same problem and this same issue.
It’s basically 600X the strength of natural sugar, which makes it even more of a problem for obvious reasons, and even though it seems like a scientific breakthrough, it may well be a scientific curse. They have conducted studies on this, and results have shown that the animals fed with Splenda did proceed to gain more weight and suffer more problems. It is unavoidable, and frankly speaking, Splenda is far from natural. All in all, you should definitely find something better, the trouble is just convincing people to look past the advertising and otherwise figure these things out for themselves.