Popular artificial sweetener not so sweet

Something else messing with gut bugs,if you happen to eat the stuff.

Believe I posted something older on the same subject,but this confirms.

Old Mike

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-06-popular-artificial-sweetener-sweet.html

The negative effects of artificial sweeteners have been warned about since they came out.

Unless one has diabetes, they shouldn't be consumed (in my opinion) as staple products.

of course, some have the same opinion about sugar. lol, but sugar has no fancy promises.

The huge problem with artificial sweeteners is that companies stick them in products that also contain sugar.....in other words...contains less sugar than before (the almighty magic words).

ugh...

q

Thanks for the info- I am throwing it away right now!

What about stevia, which is not sucralose? I generally use cooked banana mixed in as my sweetener in things like oatmeal, but stevia is a natural sweetener-- is there any toxicity associated with it?

There is virtually no glucose in stevia so no worries there. If there were they would also be released in the small intestines, the colon has no digestive enzymes. Bacteria in the small and large intestines break down stevia into its metabolites which then have there effects. Stevia is actually associated with IMPROVED insulin sensitivity. Certain high doses have been associated with infertility in rats, but not so much in humans.

It's metabolites also inhibit the CFTR channel in the small intestine which is basically what secretes fluids into the small intestine (it is also located in other areas of the body, and is what is defective in cystic fibrosis). So, and I can attest to this myself, it may thicken up your stool (or ostomy output if you have one).

Well aware of the dangers of artificial sweeteners (aspartame and it's dozen names), etc. Many thanks to someone on these forums for telling me all about aspartame, had no idea it was so harmful until nearly 1 year ago - when I was diagnosed with mineare's disease and lost 50% of my hearing in one ear, overnight. My ENT specialist (one of two in my area, Cincinnati) said he strongly suspects I may have lost my hearing due to my heavy use of this sweetener. Although I never drank diet sodas, I chewed plenty of Dentynne and Trident gum, chewed Breath Saver mints, consumed 5 hour energy shots, ate Yoplait light yogurt, various candy, ice cream, cookies with it in them no doubt. Once I became aware of how it's in 6000+ processed food items and ones you wouldn't think of - Pedialyte, Augmentin (yes antibiotics for children!), various children's vitamins, at one time it was in baby food and formula, I stayed far, far away from aspartame, aka phenylalanine.

Well at this rate I could really get going. So many items are now suspect.

I saw a lady prior to xmas looking at the soda brewing machines as a gift idea, because the person she was buying for wanted to give up soda. I merely picked up the bottles of flavoring and said - you'd better read this list before you buy this gift idea, they are consuming harmful chemicals to go "soda free", better to drink water with lemon slices in it.

See there, I did get going for a bit.

Sometimes I think it's easier to list food, drink, candy, medications WITHOUT artificial sweeteners. Because the list with it in them, is growing by the day.

You have no idea how badly I want to ring Donald Rumsfeld's doorbell and ask him - excuse me, do you drink diet soda? Does anyone in your family? Do you have any idea what you have done sir? I'd probably get arrested. :)

Dam just happened to check my Melatonin supplement,contains sucralose.
Natrol brand.
Old Mike