sugar or arftificial sweetner?

I use an artificial sweetner. I am afraid to use sugar there are too many diabetics on both sides of my family.

Usually I drink Diet Dr. Pepper which has aspertame in it. Now in my coffee I again use aspertame but there are some things I prefer regular sugar in. Like my cereal or when cooking. I can't use sachrine nor splenda and I have to be careful on the brand of aspretame, some of the fillers will give me migraines. So once I find something I can use I stick with it.

I have never really used artificial sweeteners before so its sugar for me. I am sure as I get older I will think differently. I have a big family history of diabetes so this is something I should probably consider changing soon.

I must confess I can't stand artificial sweetners. I've tasted some as they are recommended as having zero calories, but I hated the taste of the drink then. So I add sugar to my drinks. Usually I drink coffee with milk and sometimes tea. In the past I used to add 2 table-spoons of sugar to a drink, now I add half a spoon. A good progress I suppose! :)

I only use artificail sweetners. I use either Splenda or Natra Taste in my coffe or tea. I can't stand the taste of sugar in them.

Real sugar all the time! Maybe it's my age but when sweetners and stuff like that first came out or I first noticed it, Man! it was so bad! Since then I have never bothered with the stuff, even if there's no real sugar I don't think I've tried it. I don't mind sugar, I dont' have lots of it mind, and also I don't put on weight so that's not a problem for me :-) GBY Brian

artificial sweeteners may have zero calories, but they also contain aspartame which have known toxic side-effects. i prefer sugar to artificial sweeteners

I usually use brown sugar because I love the taste of it. I would use artificial sweetener if I hadn't any sugar in the house, but I don't think it would taste as nice as the brown when it is spread on my bread and butter. This was one of my favourite childhood snacks and I still indulge every now and again...lol.

i also use artificial sweetner.