[ChewedGum]

Question for you: My wife is hypoglycemic and uses "Birch Sugar" which tastes great but is very expensive. Would that be an appropriate sweetener for Atkins? (just curious)

If you put the birch sugar on your tongue, it is sweet but it also feels very cold. (I'm assuming some type of endothermic reaction)

Gum

[diotima]

I follow Atkins primarily because I am hypoglycemic. I went off of Atkins around Christmas time, and haven't been very good about getting back on the wagon. I started watching my carb intake again last week.

Here is what I have found: SPLENDA doesn't effect my blood sugar. Aspertame has been known to effect blood sugar although, YMMV. The sugar alcohols also are reported to effect people.

I would highly recommend Splenda: you can cook with it, unlike aspertame and it taste much better than aspertame or "the pink stuff."

You can buy Splenda in most grocery markets now. When I started Atkins, Splenda wasn't approved in the US and I had a friend send it to me from Canada. I've been watching my carbs for about six or seven years. Many products contain Splenda: most Atkins products do, Diet rite cola does (but not Diet Vanilla Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, or Coke. GRR) sugar free candy along with Sugar alcohols, and many sugar free syrups like DaVinci.

I would suggest that your wife try the Splenda and see if that has any effect. I haven't heard of many problems using it.