Like lots of women, the 3-a-day message for stronger bones is something that has resonated with me. Therefore, I significantly increased my intake of calcium with milk, cheese, and yogurt, over the past year or so. In the last month, I increased my yogurt consumption to two 6-8 oz servings per day.  Mostly, I have been eating the sucralose-sweetened kind (usually a store brand--Kroger, Jewel, etc).

I was experiencing stomach pains and a touch of nausea--unlike I've ever experienced before.  It was a dull ache just below my rib cage accompanied by a general sense of malaise.  The pain wasn't excrutiating, but it was something that lasted for a few hours.  The only thing that I had changed in my diet recently was the additional yogurt I've been eating every day--the additional sucralose-sweetened yogurt. In addition, I would chew sucralose-sweetened gum and drink diet pop with sucralose.

I've switched to plain yogurt and will occasionally have only ONE sucralose-sweetened yogurt a day. In addition, I have limited the amount of gum I chew AND the amount of diet soda I consume.  The stomach pain and nausea are now gone. I don't think this was a coincidence."

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