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2001/02/25, 10:10 AM
Does anyone know if artificial sweetner is good or bad for you???
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2001/02/25, 12:31 PM
I don't know much about artificial sweetener. But I do know that doctors recommend them as substitute sweetener for diabetic use. I would assume that it would be better than regular sugar. Look around the net a little and see what you can find out.
~billk~
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2001/02/26, 04:34 AM
ya those are supposed to have way less fat and all...infact there supposed to be sweater 2
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2001/02/26, 05:26 AM
I'm alergic to nutra sweet, it gives me head aches and makes me naseus. Stay with frutose, and natural sweeteners.
Rob
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2004/07/07, 01:51 PM
Equal is the bomb! I use it on everything. My tea, my cottage cheese mixed with red kidney beans, and on my oatmeal as well! If anyone is in need of some serious sweetness to add to their bland meals, try some equal. It has no calories, and is sweeter than real sugar! Its amazing stuff!
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2004/07/07, 02:20 PM
Personally I would stay away from Equal (Aspartame.) Not only is it bad for you, you cannot cook with it. Long list of sites I'm sure to tell you how bad it is for you....I won't bother posting them.
Splenda is a good sweetener. It is made from sugar has no calories and you can cook with it. There are those out there that do have problems with it just as they do the aspartame products so be aware of this if you are going to try it. It is also not supposed to spike your blood sugar but myself and others have found that isn't always the case for everyone. Here is a link:
http://www.splenda.com/page.jhtml;jsessionid=LTQTTVMM01GRQCQPCCGSUZYKB2IIQNSC?id=splenda/products/prodinfo.inc
Stevia is au natural from a root. It has no calories and you can cook with it. So far this is the best sweetener I have found. It does have a flavor that takes some getting used to for some. It is more expensive than the other 2 I listed here but as far as I'm concerned health wise it is superior. Here is a link:
http://www.dorway.com/stevia.html
http://www.stevia.net/
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Whoever said that sunshine brings happiness never danced in the rain. \\"unknown\\"
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2004/07/27, 11:28 PM
Yea I've heard some artificial sweeteners can cause brain tumors or somethin like that.
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2004/07/28, 09:47 AM
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Quoting from Damselfly:
Personally I would stay away from Equal (Aspartame.) Not only is it bad for you, you cannot cook with it. Long list of sites I'm sure to tell you how bad it is for you....I won't bother posting them.
Splenda is a good sweetener. It is made from sugar has no calories and you can cook with it. There are those out there that do have problems with it just as they do the aspartame products so be aware of this if you are going to try it. It is also not supposed to spike your blood sugar but myself and others have found that isn't always the case for everyone. Here is a link:
http://www.splenda.com/page.jhtml;jsessionid=LTQTTVMM01GRQCQPCCGSUZYKB2IIQNSC?id=splenda/products/prodinfo.inc
Stevia is au natural from a root. It has no calories and you can cook with it. So far this is the best sweetener I have found. It does have a flavor that takes some getting used to for some. It is more expensive than the other 2 I listed here but as far as I'm concerned health wise it is superior. Here is a link:
http://www.dorway.com/stevia.html
http://www.stevia.net/
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Splenda is dextrose. The purpose of taking dextrose PWO is that it absolutely spikes your insulin level rushing the nutrients to your muscles...
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2004/07/28, 09:53 AM
From an article by Dr. Mercola, one of my favorite guys!
Splenda’s Dangers: One Man’s Personal Story That You Should Know
Dr. Mercola's Comment:
Nearly three years ago I posted an article describing the dangers of Splenda, which is the brand name for sucralose. It appears that more and more people are finally realizing the hazards that this “healthy” sweetener poses.
Splenda is far from healthy and I do not recommend using it in any form. Why not use Splenda? Well, research in animals has shown that sucralose can cause many problems such as:
Shrunken thymus glands (up to 40 percent shrinkage)
Enlarged liver and kidneys
Atrophy of lymph follicles in the spleen and thymus
Increased cecal weight
Reduced growth rate
Decreased red blood cell count
Hyperplasia of the pelvis
Extension of the pregnancy period
Aborted pregnancy
Decreased fetal body weights and placental weights
Diarrhea
But perhaps the most revealing and powerful way to learn the dangerous truth about Splenda is to read someone’s personal experience with it. Nearly every month we receive a report from someone who has had an adverse reaction to Splenda, and after you read through the story below you can see many others posted on our site.
The following story provides a revealing testimony to the havoc Splenda can wreak on your physical and mental well-being.
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Contributed by Steve G.
I just want to thank you guys, as without your Web site I'd be in the mental ward right now! I'm a big coffee drinker, but my family has a history of diabetes so I decided I should cut out the sugar I add to my coffee.
Well, I switched to using Splenda in my coffee about two months ago. Now I’m no wimp, and I’m not a health nut or anything like that! I’m a former football player, a vice president with a major banking institution and kind of a tough guy. Let me put it this way--the last time I cried was when the Green Bay Packers won the Superbowl!
So, anyway, I was using Splenda and I started getting withdrawn, had trouble focusing, and started to have problems with frustration. Gradually, I became more and more depressed. I thought it was stress or my job, something like that.
Well, last Thursday I completely fell apart! My girlfriend came over and found me crying uncontrollably for no reason, and all I could say was, "I'll be OK." She couldn’t get me to move, she couldn’t talk me down and I could not tell her what was wrong!
She was shocked as I had never done anything even remotely like this before and so she made me go to the hospital. The doctors there we so concerned about my condition they wanted to check me into the mental-health ward.
Being the way I am I refused but agreed to come back the next day and see a psychiatrist, which I did and he put me on a huge dose of Effexor. That night I was on the Web and for some unknown reason I did a search for Splenda and found the www.mercola.com Web site.
When I read your information on Splenda I was shocked--I simply had no clue! I am now 99.9 percent convinced that my mental health issues were a direct result of using Splenda. I even had the stomach cramps and chest pains that other people have mentioned after using Splenda, but I dismissed them as panic attacks and stress.
So the next morning I got up and had some more Splenda and, low and behold, I started feeling the symptoms of a deepening depression again! It was clearly due to the Splenda, so I tossed it out.
I just want to say thank you. I would love to help get this product off the market! By the way, I missed work because of my ordeal, so I had to tell my boss about my problems and now I have to explain to him that I’m not nuts or having a break down--how embarrassing!
Thanks again!
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