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Posted 2/18/2009 12:34 AM (GMT 0)

Judilyn said...
Everyone knows anything that tastes good is bad for you. In face, pretty much anything you put in your mouth seems to be bad for you.

Apples taste good, and from everything I've been told, one a day keeps the doctor away. =) I totally get what you're saying though.

Here's an interesting article about the Splenda study and a resulting lawsuit brought on by the Sugar Association (who funded your above cited study) against the makers of Splenda: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/business/23splenda.html

Posted 2/18/2009 12:35 AM (GMT 0)
The sugar vrs. artificial sweetner debate is a long one. It will go on for as long as people want their food and drink to taste sweet. To each his/her own really.

I find the taste of artificial sweeteners to be horrid. Many people I know call me "crazy" which is just insensitive really. I don't go over to their house and tell them they're drinking poison and killing themselves for have diet soda in their house. That's their problem. I also don't want people to tell me that eating real sugar is bad for me. It is not. It's natural, I'm not overweight and counting my calories, and I don't have diabetes. I eat lots of real sugar.

Since my husband has type 1 diabetes in his family, we have decided to try Stevia. We bought a plant at the local nursery and grew it last summer. It was wonderful. Since then I've been able to find stevia in the grocery store, but it's not as sweet as the real deal. They add extra stuff to it so I stick to growing my own plant.

When I cook and I plan to share the food I either use real sugar or tell people I use stevia before they eat it. It's their choice to eat it if they wish.
Posted 2/18/2009 2:05 AM (GMT 0)
Eating real sugar isn't good for you, especially if you eat a lot, regardless if you're overweight or not or if you have diabetes or not, refined sugar (eating/drinking too much) has a long list of negatives associated with it, ask any regular doc and they'll tell you that too much refined sugar does affect your immune system, it lowers it leaving you open to health issues...at least an honest knowledgable doc will tell you.

Problem is too many people eat too much sugar, even the food guidelines say no more than 10mg of sugar in a day should be consumed, which is a very small amount and people in general go way overboard especially when they eat a lot of processed foods which happens to be full of refined sugar for taste and for preservation of the products.

:)
Posted 2/18/2009 4:20 AM (GMT 0)
If Splenda is not good for you and Stevia is not good for you and sugar isn't, what do they expect you to use??? Sweet n Low and Equal are considered worse, the deal with saccharin causing cancer, equal causing multiple sclerosis type symptoms, etc. People use sweetener in their coffee and on their cereal. I am not eating cereal without some kind of sweetener. And coffee does not taste good without something to sweeten it. So I just have to take my chances.
Posted 2/18/2009 4:49 AM (GMT 0)

pb4 said...
Eating real sugar isn't good for you, especially if you eat a lot, regardless if you're overweight or not or if you have diabetes or not, refined sugar (eating/drinking too much) has a long list of negatives associated with it, ask any regular doc and they'll tell you that too much refined sugar does affect your immune system, it lowers it leaving you open to health issues...at least an honest knowledgable doc will tell you.

Problem is too many people eat too much sugar, even the food guidelines say no more than 10mg of sugar in a day should be consumed, which is a very small amount and people in general go way overboard especially when they eat a lot of processed foods which happens to be full of refined sugar for taste and for preservation of the products.

:)

LOL, I have had to get onto parents bringing in their sick kids drinking a biggie McDonalds coke. "It makes their sore throat feel better." You even have to be careful with juice and OJ as both can be full of sugar. Most people just don't know that sugar can kill the immune system up to 6 hours after ingesting it. I also keep a baggie full of around 10 teaspoons of sugar to get my point across on my soda drinkers. Especially the ones complaining about getting sick alot.

You can get the madhava agave nectar off amazon by the case and it ends up being pretty cheap. It's my main choice for sweetening cereal, tea, coffee, shakes, sweetening desserts, and can even be used in some baking. Raw cane sugar my next preference, honey, stevia 4th, processed sugar 5th on my list. Sweet goodness.
Posted 2/18/2009 4:53 AM (GMT 0)
at wits end,

Stevia is good for you, it's known for aiding with hyperglycemia, overweight persons, people with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and the diet conscious. Sugar does NOT have those capabilities, infact quite the opposite since evidence has shown that it causes overweight issues ect.

:)

Posted 2/18/2009 4:57 AM (GMT 0)
I hear ya Dr-A, it's like watching overweight people scarfing down doughnuts with their DIET coke...yup drinking that diet coke with those doughnuts has really helped them.

:)
Posted 2/18/2009 4:36 PM (GMT 0)
According to an IBS book I read, artificial sweetners do contain calories, but they are not used by the body so they can claim 0 calories. However, bacteria can still feast on these sugars causing a lot of problems with gas, belching, flatulence, or whatever. Seems you can't get something for nothing.

I get the idea that high fructose corn sweeteners, maybe even worse than the artificial sweeteners.
Posted 2/18/2009 5:47 PM (GMT 0)
Splenda can cause weight gain??? So now I know why I have gained weight. I started to use Splenda when if first came out, and sprinkle it on EVERYTHING, including cereal, coffee, tea, even tarty cut up fruit that isn't so sweet. I just can't seem to get rid of these 30 extra pounds that slowly crept up on me, even though I work out at the gym, eat right, don't drink sodas, etc etc. So, I'm going back to real sugar. My son, who eats real sugar is skinny...Go figure.
Posted 2/18/2009 7:53 PM (GMT 0)
They all cause the pancreas to release insulin...but there's nothing in the body to use up the insulin. It's even worse if the body isn't taking in carbs...there's little for the body to use for fuel.

Once the body recognises not enough fuel (carbs/glucose) is coming in, it'll start to go into "starvation" mode to reserve it's consumption.

So, free-flowing insulin causes the brain chemicals to cause cravings (to help force you to eat so that it can get the insulin burned up) and a slow metabolism will clearly cause weight gain.

EAT people,...

cra43....your body is telling you you need sugar...sweet....so, you put more splenda (natural because your body needs sweet)...but not sugar or carbs it can use to convert into glucose....you're going to stay overweight.

Even if you exercise, not taking in the right amount of carbs to burn, your body won't up its metabolism to help you lose the weight.

I rest my case about believing that 0 calories means a free for all. We can limit intake if there are actual numbers attached.....that's sugar included.

quincy
Posted 2/18/2009 8:35 PM (GMT 0)

cra43 said...
Splenda can cause weight gain??? So now I know why I have gained weight. I started to use Splenda when if first came out, and sprinkle it on EVERYTHING, including cereal, coffee, tea, even tarty cut up fruit that isn't so sweet. I just can't seem to get rid of these 30 extra pounds that slowly crept up on me, even though I work out at the gym, eat right, don't drink sodas, etc etc. So, I'm going back to real sugar. My son, who eats real sugar is skinny...Go figure.

I used to eat a lot of sugar and I was thin pretty much all of my life, it's his (your sons) metabolisim, some people have a high/fast metabolisim so they are generally thin no matter what or how much they eat, that's how I used to be, my friends back in school hated me for it LOL, I could sit and eat a whole McCains chocolate cake and never gain an ounce...age can change your metabolisim, especially for us women, now I don't eat junk but before I altered my diet and was eating junk I started to easily put on unwanted pounds let alone ounces.

:)

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