lildreamer316
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Sun Oct-16-05 06:16 PM
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Splenda cannot be good for you, right? |
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I am always suspicious of a sugar substitute; except stevia. Anyone know otherwise?
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Sun Oct-16-05 06:18 PM
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It's called surcalose. My wife looked it up and it actually causes you to crave sugar more.
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Sun Oct-16-05 06:25 PM
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5. I found this to be true |
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for all sugar substitutes. But it's also true for me with regular sugar. If I eat it; I simply crave it more.
I now eat only the sugar that naturally occurs in foods and stay away from the sugar bowl altogether.
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Sun Oct-16-05 06:40 PM
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Didn't know that. I've never tried it, it's just that a freind of mine who is all-natural in everything else she does swears by it. I told her she was nuts....
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Sun Oct-16-05 06:43 PM
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7. Google it and look it over, I know there are several published works |
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online that you culd use as resources. Tell her to dump that shit in her toliet.
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Sun Oct-16-05 06:19 PM
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Edited on Sun Oct-16-05 06:20 PM by trof
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Sun Oct-16-05 07:12 PM
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12. well yeah, but technically food is made from chemicals too - I do |
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know what you mean though :)
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Sun Oct-16-05 06:19 PM
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apparently F*ck up your body's ability to handle sugar. I'd stay away from them altogether.
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Sun Oct-16-05 06:20 PM
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4. Alls I know is it tastes fucking awful |
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Sun Oct-16-05 06:49 PM
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8. Seriously--what's so bad about natural sugar? |
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Unless you're a diabetic, obviously--but I think I've read that sugar substitutes can screw up the body's ability to handle sugar (?)...
But if you're a regular person, not a diabetic...is that teaspoon of sugar that much worse than a spoonful of Splenda/Stevia/whatever? Especially when you consider the chemicals involved in substitutes?
Maybe I just don't know enough about the subject.
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Sun Oct-16-05 07:07 PM
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probably a little too much. See my "interesting" post above....
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Sun Oct-16-05 07:08 PM
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11. Yeah, that's kind of weird for your friend.... |
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To be all natural....except for sugar?
Don't get it.
I love me some natural sugar. Yum.
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Sun Oct-16-05 07:01 PM
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... many (like me) cannot tolerate it. I started having problems with my skin itching all over, after a month of trying to figure it out I did some Google and sure enough, Splenda causes this reaction in a lot of people.
Plus, the stuff just tastes horrible. Sadly, a lot of products are converting from NutraSweet (which has it's own questions, but it has never bothered me) to Spenda, one assumes it is cheaper.
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Sun Oct-16-05 08:21 PM
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13. I tried to tell my dad |
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who is diabetic that just because 7up is using Splenda now, doesn't mean it's good for you. He can't seem to comprehend that a corporate lable doesn't make it safe.
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