I buy Sweet Leaf Stevia at Amazon and I think my local Natural Grocer carries it to. My friend’s naturopath says it’s the healthiest choice of sweeteners. It comes in little packets, and half of one is enough for a large cup of coffee.
Switch to Splenda: dextrose, maltodextrin, and sucralose.
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Mice are not humans.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/artificial-sweeteners-blood-sugar-insulin#TOC_TITLE_HDR_6
“Artificial sweeteners like sucralose are marketed as sugar substitutes that don’t raise blood sugar levels, making them a safer choice for diabetics.
While these claims seem promising, they have yet to be confirmed by multiple large studies.
Previous studies have found sucralose to have little to no effects on blood sugar levels in individuals of average weight who regularly used sucralose.
But more recent research suggests that it can cause blood sugar levels to spike in other populations.
A small study found that sucralose elevated blood sugar levels by 14% and insulin levels by 20% in 17 people with severe obesity who didn’t regularly consume artificial sweeteners.
These results indicate that sucralose may elevate blood sugar levels in new users but have little effect on regular consumers.”
https://www.healthline.com/health/diabetes/sucralose-and-diabetes#effects
I use sucraloses all the time while following a keto diet. I lost 35 pounds during the first 6 months. I still had a layer of fat on my belly, but it was a smaller layer than any previous low fat diet had caused during 45 years of yo-yo diets.
Over the last 6-7 years, my weight has held constant. I’ve gained some muscle and the belly fat is almost gone. At the current rate, I should have defined abs by the end of the year.
Regardless, I have BY FAR the least fat and the least belly fat I’ve had for my entire life. I was a fat baby, then the fattest kid in my classes (1960s), then started the low-fat yo-yo diets in the 9th grade. I was almost 60 when I started Keto.
Would not using sucralose result in faster loss of belly fat? Maybe. I don’t know. Would not drinking Diet Coke have made the belly fat go away faster? I don’t know. I do know that 60 years of living with fat doesn’t go away the same as someone who became obese later in life. Many studies indicate fat cells are programmed at a certain number by our teens and never go below that number. My GUESS is that very few people diet effectively and then keep it off for YEARS, and that it takes years for the body to agree to reduce the number of fat cells.
Note: Fat cells DO change size, very quickly. The question is if they can actually cease to exist in the body. With a 99% failure of traditional dieting, it is hard to know.
Years ago I had a live blood microscopy done and the person doing it said “You would be fine if you dropped the artificial sweetener”, I replied well I use Splenda, he stated I should just drink Chlorox, that is how it is processed, so I asked what I should use and he replied the raw sugar in the brown packets.
He showed me in my blood sample the “tree bark” pieces that were the Splenda, it was shocking
Bkmk
Literally millions of mice have died testing aspartame from day #1 released 40 + years ago, and somebody finally does a histology 101 experiment? Were it true it would be an embarrassment to the medical field to miss it for decades. The only proven side effect of aspartame is to make urine smell like asparagus.