Why is healthier in quotes? Why do you believe artificial sweeteners such as aspartame and splenda have negative health impacts? Gut feeling? Please post a peer reviewed study done on humans.
I'm curious. What is your position on climate change, vaccines or GMOs? Do you follow scientific consensus by looking for peer reviewed studies, or wing it either way based on your gut feel and facebook memes?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19151203
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2013/Q3/prof-diet-dr...
or, this wraps up some other links and discussion... http://therenegadepharmacist.com/diet-coke-exposed-happens-o...
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v514/n7521/abs/nature13...
There's lots more, but your ability to google is every bit as good as mine.
Folks skeptical of artificial sweeteners are not anti-science morons. Man-made climate change is real, vaccines are one of the great accomplishments of civilization, and the science is promising but not fully settled on GMOs.
Consuming artificial sweeteners is almost certainly healthier than consuming the sugar they replace, but that doesn't actually make them _healthy_.