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Anonymous Coward User ID: 631867 United States 04/12/2009 01:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Stevia is newest on the block. I have some, it's all natural, has the same taste as sugar substitutes. I dont care for it, I prefer real sugar, but for those looking for somthing new and more natural, this is supposed to be the hottest thing. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 633422 United States 04/12/2009 01:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I hear so much about the dangers of some sugar substitutes and I was wondering if there are any safe ones on the market. Quoting: Sweet (rotting) tooth 537103Thoughts? Stevia. Expenisve but it's good stuff available at your health food store. |
AsperGirl
User ID: 637830 United States 04/12/2009 01:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There are lots of studies that show that chewing Xylitol gum helps prevent tooth decay, gum disease and ear infections. That is because it attracts bacteria but the bacteria can't attach to it, so the bacteria gets "cleaned out" of the throat and mouth. Xylitol is also good for diabetics because the body metabolizes the sugar alcohol much more slowly than sugar, and you don't get insulin spikes (sugar rushes) from it. It doesn't have an artificial sweetener taste, and tastes about like regular sugar! The problem is that Xylitol is very expensive. It cost me about $25 for a 5lb bag ordering online from iHerb.com. It's much more expensive in health stores. But I don't use sugar that much, so that 5 lbs will last me at least year. I just used some for my beef jerky marinade, on account of its antibacterial properties. [link to en.wikipedia.org] Trident makes a xylitol gum, for ant-bacterial tooth health. Walgreens sells it. [link to www.walgreens.com] You can order xylitol gum online, too: [link to xlear-usa.amazonwebstore.com] Last Edited by Andromeda on 04/12/2009 01:22 PM |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 631867 United States 04/12/2009 01:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Stick with sugar. Artificial stuff will make a mess of you. If you are determined to avoid sugar then try honey. Just avoid the stuff that came out of a lab tube. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 655586Totally agree. I never understood the whole sugar substitute thing. Sugar is in almost everything anyway..why go with the man made stuff for your tea or cup of coffee. It has too strong an aftertaste for me. |
AsperGirl
User ID: 637830 United States 04/12/2009 01:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Stick with sugar. Artificial stuff will make a mess of you. If you are determined to avoid sugar then try honey. Just avoid the stuff that came out of a lab tube. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 655586Xylitol IS natural. Part of the reason we get so sick eating sugar is because we didn't evolve eating refined sugar. We don't get a lot of the natural sugars and sugar alcohols our bodies are made to use. Xylitol is one of them. I'd say the opposite of 586: get off your refined sugar habit. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 564739 United States 04/12/2009 01:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Stick with sugar. Artificial stuff will make a mess of you. If you are determined to avoid sugar then try honey. Just avoid the stuff that came out of a lab tube. Quoting: AsperGirlXylitol IS natural. Part of the reason we get so sick eating sugar is because we didn't evolve eating refined sugar. We don't get a lot of the natural sugars and sugar alcohols our bodies are made to use. Xylitol is one of them. I'd say the opposite of 586: get off your refined sugar habit. Xylitol, agree 100% |
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User ID: 655574 Canada 04/12/2009 01:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Stick with sugar. Artificial stuff will make a mess of you. If you are determined to avoid sugar then try honey. Just avoid the stuff that came out of a lab tube. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 564739Xylitol IS natural. Part of the reason we get so sick eating sugar is because we didn't evolve eating refined sugar. We don't get a lot of the natural sugars and sugar alcohols our bodies are made to use. Xylitol is one of them. I'd say the opposite of 586: get off your refined sugar habit. Xylitol, agree 100% Ditto! "Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein revstargazer (at) hotmail.com |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 655586 United States 04/12/2009 01:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think sugar is the best sweetener around. It doesn't deserve all the negative press about it. I put sugar in everything that needs sweetening such as coffee and tea, and consume many foods with sugar in them such as pastries and I am as thin as a rail and in sterling health. |
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User ID: 651686 United States 04/12/2009 01:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | or raw honey "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." -Thomas Jefferson [email protected] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 594943 United States 04/12/2009 01:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think sugar is the best sweetener around. It doesn't deserve all the negative press about it. I put sugar in everything that needs sweetening such as coffee and tea, and consume many foods with sugar in them such as pastries and I am as thin as a rail and in sterling health. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 655586It's like poison. Processed sugar is not in it's natural state and raises the blood sugar level very high. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 641266 United States 04/12/2009 01:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Stick with sugar. Artificial stuff will make a mess of you. If you are determined to avoid sugar then try honey. Just avoid the stuff that came out of a lab tube. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 631867Totally agree. I never understood the whole sugar substitute thing. Sugar is in almost everything anyway..why go with the man made stuff for your tea or cup of coffee. It has too strong an aftertaste for me. Do you understand diabetes? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 655586 United States 04/12/2009 01:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think sugar is the best sweetener around. It doesn't deserve all the negative press about it. I put sugar in everything that needs sweetening such as coffee and tea, and consume many foods with sugar in them such as pastries and I am as thin as a rail and in sterling health. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 594943It's like poison. Processed sugar is not in it's natural state and raises the blood sugar level very high. Calling sugar poison is absurd. We need sugar to live. It is natural. If if was poisonous I should have expired a long time ago! LOL |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 594943 United States 04/12/2009 01:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think sugar is the best sweetener around. It doesn't deserve all the negative press about it. I put sugar in everything that needs sweetening such as coffee and tea, and consume many foods with sugar in them such as pastries and I am as thin as a rail and in sterling health. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 655586It's like poison. Processed sugar is not in it's natural state and raises the blood sugar level very high. Calling sugar poison is absurd. We need sugar to live. It is natural. If if was poisonous I should have expired a long time ago! LOL Just give your pancreas time. Processed sugar IS like poison to the system. Read up! Sugar in it's natual state is healthy. |
FreeFlow
User ID: 456207 Austria 04/12/2009 01:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Xylitol, or birch tree sugar. Quoting: AsperGirl..... [link to en.wikipedia.org] Trident makes a xylitol gum, for ant-bacterial tooth health. Walgreens sells it. [link to www.walgreens.com] You can order xylitol gum online, too: [link to xlear-usa.amazonwebstore.com] That is very interesting AG, I didn't know a thing about this sweetener! I am here to challenge your indoctrinated false belief that flaming queens don't use shovels ... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 655586 United States 04/12/2009 01:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Stick with sugar. Artificial stuff will make a mess of you. If you are determined to avoid sugar then try honey. Just avoid the stuff that came out of a lab tube. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 641266Totally agree. I never understood the whole sugar substitute thing. Sugar is in almost everything anyway..why go with the man made stuff for your tea or cup of coffee. It has too strong an aftertaste for me. Do you understand diabetes? Again, if the connection between sugar and diabetes as well as obesity were true, then I should suffer from both but I don't. I think many people have been brainwashed to blame sugar for many ills that are due to other causes. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 655586 United States 04/12/2009 01:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Calling sugar poison is absurd. We need sugar to live. It is natural. If if was poisonous I should have expired a long time ago! LOL Quoting: Anonymous Coward 594943Just give your pancreas time. Processed sugar IS like poison to the system. Read up! Sugar in it's natual state is healthy. My experience with sugar contradicts the unfavorable notions of it. Sometimes we need to trust in our own judgment and experience rather than believe everything we are told. |
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User ID: 585449 United States 04/12/2009 01:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I hear so much about the dangers of some sugar substitutes and I was wondering if there are any safe ones on the market. Quoting: Sweet (rotting) tooth 537103Thoughts? sugarless skinny cow if you like ice cream sandwiches. Equal tastes good as a sugar substitute,There's sugarless toffee life savers you can get in bags at the store.Also, there's this new berry,apple,water mellon tart sugarless life savor that's the bomb! I get sick of pepper mint sugarless stuff so to freshen your breath after brushing I like my mouth to taste like sugarless frut tart candy. Just an idea for you. There's plenty of really good sugarless gum out there too. Sugarless Hubba Bubba origional. Juice< sugarless diet cran berry juice from Ocean Spray. Make sure the bottle says, diet. There's a lite cranberry and that has sugar in it... Just remember fruit has sugar in it. If you have a problem with saying no and layer up your portion sizes then stay away from fruit. If you know how to have just one piece or one serving then get that certain fruit. Chocolate? There's sugarless chocolate jello pudding. Get the name breand it tastes better. And sugarless cocoa mix... Hope this helps... Question authority every time. Ask them how that makes them feel. Ask them why? Ask them when you have an opinion with your opinion and question them with that! There is no being with ALL THE answers accept for God. Even still question. But trust if it's all good and loving then follow with your full heart believing. For the light will always be the light. It makes me a believer. |
AsperGirl
User ID: 637830 United States 04/12/2009 01:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think sugar is the best sweetener around. It doesn't deserve all the negative press about it. I put sugar in everything that needs sweetening such as coffee and tea, and consume many foods with sugar in them such as pastries and I am as thin as a rail and in sterling health. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 655586It's like poison. Processed sugar is not in it's natural state and raises the blood sugar level very high. >>Calling sugar poison is absurd. We need sugar to live. It is natural. If if was poisonous I should have expired a long time ago! LOL Refined sugar acts like a hormonal poison, it has serious metabolic and brain chemical effects. Refined sugar has a potent effect on our bodies, it didn't even exist as a food product until recently. That's why people get addicted to it, why it screws up metabolism and energy, and why people get bipolar symptoms if they eat sugar regularly. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 655603 Canada 04/12/2009 01:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I hear so much about the dangers of some sugar substitutes and I was wondering if there are any safe ones on the market. Quoting: Sweet (rotting) tooth 537103Thoughts? The best sugar I can think of getting is search for your local raw honey supplier (make sure it's UNpasteurized, meaning it has all of its microrganisms still alive) Stevia is also a good natural alternative as it is from a flower that is a cousin of the Crusanthumum, again ensure it's unrefined raw form raw cane sugar is good because it is RAW (raw means unrefiened and will still contain its mineral balance), I just found a bag of raw cane sugar the other day and I am using it rule of thumb: any sugar that is UNrefined is good, refined sugar bad, diabetics can eat any sugar that is UNrefined, it's the refined sugars that cause diabetes (that and MSG) AVOID: refined table sugar, aspartame, etc. |
Hillcrest
User ID: 392015 United States 04/12/2009 01:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I hear so much about the dangers of some sugar substitutes and I was wondering if there are any safe ones on the market. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 633422Thoughts? Stevia. Expenisve but it's good stuff available at your health food store. Stevia is now being marketed in the U.S. through the Kroger chain of grocery stores (Ralph's on the west coast) under the brand "Truvia." It's quite good. About $4.00 for 40 single serving packages to a box, so its gradually getting cheaper and easier to find in the U.S., slowly. Water always wins. :sun: |
AsperGirl
User ID: 637830 United States 04/12/2009 02:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That is very interesting AG, I didn't know a thing about this sweetener! Quoting: FreeFlowI've been reading medical biochemistry & physiology lately. There's a lot of stuff about health and eating that mainstream media never lets on about! IMO this is one of the best websites to post nutritional questions because there is a lot of useful knowledge and natural healers here. >>Nutritional conspiracy theorist here<< I think that the U.S. food companies, pharmaceutical companies and agribusiness are making us unhealthy to make bigger profits, and push bad eating habits. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 655603 Canada 04/12/2009 02:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I hear so much about the dangers of some sugar substitutes and I was wondering if there are any safe ones on the market. Quoting: Sweet (rotting) tooth 537103Thoughts? As long as you stick to the unrefined sugars you are doing great, in my opinion raw UNpasteurized honey is the best sugar a human can consume, it tastes great, it's natural, it's super good for you avoid!: refined table sugar and synthetic sugars |
AsperGirl
User ID: 637830 United States 04/12/2009 02:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Stevia is now being marketed in the U.S. through the Kroger chain of grocery stores (Ralph's on the west coast) under the brand "Truvia." It's quite good. About $4.00 for 40 single serving packages to a box, so its gradually getting cheaper and easier to find in the U.S., slowly. Quoting: HillcrestI haven't tried it, I will get some next time. Thanks! |