In her novel, Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners, Carolyn de la Pena wanted to find out why consumers chose diet products, sweetened with artificial sweeteners. One of her arguments is that working women who are board at their jobs and are busy at home as well with raising families, feel that a diet soda is a reward. A reward that has zero calories and is guilt free. She argues that these sweeteners are great for diabetics and can in fact help people loose weight. But she also argues the other side, that some consumers are unsure of the product. Such as why it has zero calories and what it is really made of in the lab.
De La Pena, Carolyn. Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from
Saccharin to Splenda. University of North Carolina, 2010. Web.
In the book, Sweet Deception: Why Splenda, NutraSweet and the FDA May be Hazardous to Your Health, Joseph Mercola and Kendra Degen Pearsell argue that artificial sweeteners can cause both temporary and permeate damage to your body. With side effects like loss of vision, headaches, vomiting, diarrhea, emmory loss, visual impairment, weight gain, increased cancer risk, and even death. The authors argues that there are literally a dozen more symptoms.
Mercola, Joseph, and Kendra Degan Pearsall. Sweet Deciption: Why Splenda,
NutraSweet, and the FDA May Be Hazardous to Your Health. Nelson, 2006.
Web.
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