Can I eat sugar free jello. I really have a sweet tooth and this diet is killing me!
Posted by WhitneyS (Member # 25666) on :
the problem isnt sugar-- its anything ending with is "ose" (fructose, glucose, etc). These are sugars, and will chemically all react the same in your body. SO sugar free Jello- while "sugar" free, for the purpose of Lyme is NOT sugar free...
You can do allll the baking you want with Stevia, or Xylitol which do not convert to sugar in your body. You could also make Jello, with Gelatin and maybe some diluted Grape Juice (dilute, to help dilute the natural sugars-- which YES are still sugars).
Posted by WhitneyS (Member # 25666) on :
OR dark chocolate (at least 75% cocoa) with peanut butter is my favorite :-)
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
then there's the problem with aspartame that is in sugar free jello.. also bad
Posted by bcb1200 (Member # 25745) on :
I think people are way too restrictive with respect to diet. Just my opinion.
Dr. B says Aspartame is fine if you can tolerate it. The same goes for honey, Truvia, etc.
I have a lot of "sugar free" foods in my diet. I have an occasinoal diet soda...I have had sugar free pudding. I regularly have no-sugar added ice cream.
I know many on here will frown at that..but for me, I need to feel "normal" and I have found that eating these things hasn't impacted or hindered my overall therapy.
Sure..in a perfect word we would all eat whole, organic foods. I would say I eat these 75-85% of the time. But I do indulge occasionally.
Posted by Tammy N. (Member # 26835) on :
I think the less man-made junk we put in our bodies the better. I don't eat anything sweet that is processed and called 'sugar free' because I know it's not 'real'.
Stevia is a good sweetener (not Truvia). Read the labels before buying stevia as some of them have junk in them.
I think fruit, in moderation, is the best choice.
Posted by Marine6624 (Member # 28052) on :
Aspartame - an addictive carcinogenic neurotoxin !
Posted by Marine6624 (Member # 28052) on :
The most common aspartame symptoms include headaches, dizziness, poor balance, vomiting or nausea, abdominal pain or cramps, change in vision, diarrhoea, memory loss, fatigue and other neurological symptoms. The 50% phenylalanine in aspartame lowers the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin, and can trigger bipolar or manic depression, mood swings, paranoia, hallucination and suicidal tendencies. Aspartame is a multipotential carcinogen, can trigger male sexual dysfunction and birth defects, and is particularly dangerous for the foetus in the womb.
Aspartame exposure can mimic and precipitate multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's and lupus. It can make epilepsy worse and can cause chemical hypersensitivity. An FDA report admits to 92 symptoms including death. There are more, however, in Dr. Roberts' book. Dr Roberts has remarked that every doctor probably encounters aspartame disease in practice.
Posted by chiquita incognita (Member # 30381) on :
I also read that aspartame can cause brain tumors, while other synthetic sweeteners are linked to fibromyalgia and other types of cancer (not brain,specifically). Scary! It does'nt mean that this happens for everybody, but I also think those of us with immune compromise may be more at risk than those without it. THat's at least my opinion and I stay away from artificial sweeteners, they are far worse than sugar if you ask me. (The reading was from several doctor's articles).
The Environmental Working Group has an index where you can look up chemicals and their health imapcts www.ewg.org
Here is what helped me to cut my food cravings: FIsh oil.
Sounds crazy?
An ND wrote on a website that fish oils raise leptin levels in the brain, which controls appetite and cravings. Midnight snacking and food craves are more connected to lack of EFA's than in those people whose EFA levels are high, according to this source.
It really helped me, and I have not relapsed either. I used to crave sugar all the time.
Kaiser's Take Care Of Yourself book says "skillful not willful" when managing sugar craves. They suggest to snack on vegetable sticks. My NP also said that when we crave sugar, we are craving the serotonin boost provided (temporarily) by sugar. In fact sugar ultimately drops it down, but it does raise it, temporarily. Protein snacks will raise serotonin without dropping it, she said. She recommended eating things like beef jerky, tofu, nuts etc as snacks.
Earl Mindell's The Vitamin Bible of the 21st Century has a section about food cravings and what you can do about them. Food cravings are usually a sign---treat them like a symptom, not as something to hold down by rigid discipline---of nutrient imbalance somewhere along the line.
One nutritionist whose lecture I attended, said that when we are low on fats and oils, we crave carbs to fuel the body with energy. Replace with healthy fats and oils, and there you go...that's probably why the fish oils really helped me. Permanently too. I can pass sugar by without thinking about it now, and was always craving it, reaching out for it, thinking about it in the past, Don't think about it anymore and it may tempt me at times, but I can pass it up fairly easily too at this point.
Hope this helps.
Best wishes, CI
Posted by Marine6624 (Member # 28052) on :
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