A Duke University study finds that the artificial sweetener Splenda contributes to obesity, destroys beneficial intestinal bacteria and may interfere with absorption of nutrients and prescription drugs.
Its made from organic chicory trees.
Posted by lymeHerx001 (Member # 6215) on :
your first link is on Splenda and the Second is on saccharin which is sweet n low.
Posted by dmc (Member # 5102) on :
All links are about Splenda...
Thank you emla999 for compiling this. I'm sending copy of your post to all my family & friends.
Posted by lymielauren28 (Member # 13742) on :
Crap.
Lauren
Posted by randibear (Member # 11290) on :
i wonder about that stuff called "xylitol"....
Posted by liesandmorelies (Member # 15323) on :
Thank you,
I will forward this on!
Thank goodness I don't use Splenda or Nutra Sweet. I always thought it was too good to be true. Don't like putting artificial anything in my body.
Posted by mojo (Member # 9309) on :
So Stevia is OK? I didn't catch that part.
I also wonder about Xylitol - I never hear good or bad on that one.
I'd love to send this to my family but everytime I do they say it's an "urban legend" that artifical sweetners are bad for you. We have diabetics and folks with Lupus and other auto immune in my family and they consume MEGA amounts of artificial sweetners every day. It's so sad.
Posted by Marnie (Member # 773) on :
Sweeten with honey. It is electromagnetically balanced and is a NATURAL antibiotic.
There is another natural sweetener that is used in the Orient too (I'd have to dig for a file).
There are reasons why "warm tea with honey and lemon"..."an apple a day"...
are good for us.
The more foods are processed/altered, the more nutrients we lose (and pesticides also deplete the nutrients in the foods we grow...which is why organic is preferred). We try to add back in the nutrients, but often mess it up.
Pasteurization is really shocking.
We're trying to get better...using more "natural" germ killers.
Back to lemon oil, oranges, baking soda, vinegar...
Safer.
And we are using light to destroy insects ...have you purchased a UVC light to kill dust mites?
Splenda was discovered during research for a new insecticide. A researcher told a worker to test it and it was misunderstood as "taste it". The worker found that it was sweet, so now it is in food.
I used to use it and my health deteriorated. I believe that sugar is much healthier for me than Splenda.
Posted by twinkle (Member # 16287) on :
Thanks for the warning about Splenda.
I heard blue agave is the best sugar substitute because it is low-glycemic. So does that mean that a little blue agave nectar, if it is low glycemic, is legal on a sugar-free diet?
And does exercise the same day help burn up sugar before the yeast gets to it?
I am just beginning a diet that is supposed to be yeast, sugar and mold free and am having a hard time not eating sugar.
No sugar on oatmeal is pretty boring, so I added pomegranate seeds, which helped a lot, but then I found out one pomegranate has 25 grams of sugar.
Posted by Amanda (Member # 14107) on :
Xylitol is a natural sweetner (basically its a kind of sugar found in trees).
It also has antibiotic properties. In fact, pediatritians and dentists recommend it for ear/throat/gum infections.
IT has a lower glycemic index than regular sugar and honey, and half the calories, but it still a sugar.
If you start to use it, start out SLOWLY and build up to it. Otherwise, it will cause stomach cramps and other inconvenient GI effects
Posted by lymielauren28 (Member # 13742) on :
I'm going to use honey and agave nectar from now on. Just threw my splenda in the trash!
Lauren
Posted by billclo (Member # 12939) on :
So what does one do if you're allergic to Stevia (relative of ragweed, which I'm very allergic to), needs to watch the sugar (pre-diabetic), don't like to consume much Nutrasweet, now can't have Splenda as well?
I can't live the rest of my life on water and honey guys.
Posted by luvs2ride (Member # 8090) on :
The agave nectar mentioned earlier is a great sweetener and safe for diabetics. It is the liquid of a catcus plant.
Everytime we try to invent something in a lab to improve people's lives and the company's profits, it ends up being hazardous to our health.
That is why I stick to foods that grew that way. Even that is getting hard to do as farmers genetically modify the foods to make them hardier against pests and larger for better profits.
I'll never forget a show I saw years ago where a farmer is eating his corn raw just to prove how safe it is. This corn was genetically modified to have a pesticide grown right in the middle of each kernel that would kill the silkworm that eats the corn crops.
Even at that early age in my life when I thought any food packaged and sold to us was safe, even then I watched that man in horror and thought, food with pesticide in it can't be healthy for me.
Yet, today, just about all conventional corn is modified. Even the seeds unless you buy them organic.
Albert Einstein and Barbara Striesand said "Technology can outpace man's intelligence" and I sure think modified food is one example.
Posted by emla999/Lyme (Member # 12606) on :
Billclo, if you are not allergic to chicory then you could try the product "Just Like Sugar". It's made from organic chicory trees.