Posted on 06/08/2023 1:21:19 PM PDT by Red Badger
I’m 71½, and I’ve been drinking iced tea sweetened with saccharine since my tweens. Never trusted nutrasweet, and have always looked askance at splenda. I don’t usually drink more than one or two large glasses a day, sometimes none at all.
Diabetes or CANCER, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, you choose. I’ll take diabetes (I did). Taking insulin and other medication along with all natural nutritional supplements.
Try Honey instead.
ZERO sugar substitutes for me. “Natural sugar” (no sugar added) or honey (two different types of sugar digested differently/separately) Made by bees (GOD)
Diet Coke is not made with Splenda. It is made with Equal.
Which makes me doubt everything about this article. It’s right on the can.
I don’t know of a diet soda that uses Splenda.
You are in for a sad reckoning if you think eating “natural” sugar and honey are healthy. Sugar is sugar whether white, brown or in the form of honey. Many of the health problems humans are suffering today are caused by diets high in carbohydrates. They range from diabetes, gout, psoriasis and cancer to old age dementia and epilepsy. Some cancers seem to feed on high starch and sugar diets.
That insulin is almost as deadly as high blood sugar. Insulin resistance or metabolic disorder can lead to heart problems and strokes. They have a name for it hyperinsulanemia.
Diet drinks actually tasted good then................
Lou:
You gonna order something, kid?
Marty McFly:
Ah, yeah... Give me a Tab.
Lou:
Tab? I can’t give you a tab unless you order something.
Marty McFly:
Alright, give me a Pepsi Free.
Lou:
You want a Pepsi, PAL, you’re gonna pay for it.
Uh, my diet coke contains aspartame, not splenda.
I have to use it — I’m SEVERELY allergic to aspartame. I wonder if this study was paid for by the makers of aspartame.
I’ve tried stevia. I don’t like the aftertaste.
The quote originally comes from Nietzsche.
Diet Pepsi used to use sucralose, but switched to aspartame.
Diet Rite uses sucralose.
I hate beets.
Interesting. I think the amount is critical. Use extra, get aftertaste, use too little, not sweet enough.
There is a “sweet” spot, pun intended, of no aftertaste. YMMV.
I never liked Diet Rite.
It is my understanding that Stevia is a real sugar, just not digestible, unlike the fake aspartame/sucralose/etc.
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