Aspartame - Sweet Misery

[Rustyshakelford]

Hola amigo!!! At the HEB it was about $5.69 for a small bottle(i dont know what that is in pesos) But a little goes a long way and being a liquid it dissolves easily in cold beverages.
I want to grow stevia as an experiment. I can plant it Ragnar style...in my mint patch.

I would not grow much until you taste it. It is probably my refined pallate, but YUCH!!!!!!.

[OneBadPig]

Hola amigo!!! At the HEB it was about $5.69 for a small bottle(i dont know what that is in pesos) But a little goes a long way and being a liquid it dissolves easily in cold beverages.
I want to grow stevia as an experiment. I can plant it Ragnar style...in my mint patch.

[Rustyshakelford]

Aspartame should not be in our food!!
My wife likes Splenda, but i think it has a funny aftertaste.
I like Agave nectar, but it is pricey and harder to find.

I have seen it at the local HEB in the Mexican aisle. Never had it.

[OneBadPig]

Aspartame should not be in our food!!
My wife likes Splenda, but i think it has a funny aftertaste.
I like Agave nectar, but it is pricey and harder to find.

[Ragnar Redbeard]

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Source: Citizens for Health
Chairman of Citizens for Health Declares FDA Should Review Approval of Splenda
New Study of Splenda and Sucralose Reveals Shocking New Information About Potential Harmful Effect on Humans
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 22, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- James Turner, chairman of the national consumer education group Citizens for Health expressed shock and outrage after reading a new report from scientists at Duke University. "The report makes it clear that the artificial sweetener Splenda and its key component sucralose pose a threat to the people who consume the product. Hundreds of consumers have complained to us about side effects from using Splenda and this study, published this past week in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part A, confirms that the chemicals in the little yellow package should carry a big red warning label," said Turner.

Among the results in the study by Drs. Mohamed B. Abou-Donia, Eman M. El-Masry, Ali A. Abdel-Rahman, Roger E. McLendon and Susan S. Schiffman is evidence that, in the animals studied, Splenda reduces the amount of good bacteria in the intestines by 50%, increases the pH level in the intestines, contributes to increases in body weight and affects the P-glycoprotein (P-gp) in the body in such a way that crucial health-related drugs could be rejected. Turner noted that the P-gp effect "could result in crucial medications used in chemotherapy for cancer patients, AIDS treatment and drugs for heart conditions being shunted back into the intestines rather than being absorbed by the body as intended."

The study was conducted using male rats over a period of twelve weeks. The manufacturers of Splenda also used a rat study when they applied for and received approval to market the product from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. At the time, the findings from their rat studies were extrapolated as to possible effects on humans. This is standard FDA practice and this study is consistent with that practice.

Turner said, "This report followed accepted policies and procedures and the results make clear the potential for disturbing side effects from the ingestion of Splenda. It is like putting a pesticide in your body. And this is at levels of intake erroneously approved by the Food and Drug Administration. A person eating two slices of cake and drinking two cups of coffee containing Splenda would ingest enough sucralose to affect the P-glycoprotein, while consuming just seven little Splenda packages reduces good bacteria." Although the effect of consuming Splenda does not result from a one time use, the side effects do occur after accumulated use. Turner also noted unmistakable evidence that Splenda is absorbed by fat, contrary to the claims of Johnson & Johnson.

Turner announced, "We are calling today on the FDA to immediately accept our petition filed over a year ago and initiate a review of its approval of sucralose and to require a warning label on Splenda packaging cautioning that people who take medications and/or have gastrointestinal problems avoid using Splenda. The new study makes it clear that Splenda can cause you to gain weight and lose the benefits of medications designed to improve and protect your health. The FDA should not continue to turn a blind eye to this health threat."

Citizens for Health will testify in Sacramento, CA, on October 3, 2008, before the California Assembly Committee on Health which is examining the use of deceptive advertising to promote sales of potentially unhealthy food additives, particularly artificial sweeteners.

About Citizens for Health

Citizens for Health (www.citizens.org) is an international non-profit consumer advocacy group working to broaden healthcare options, create an integrative health system based on wellness, and advance the freedom to make health choices. The group promotes the fundamental policies needed to improve health choices and information in the U.S. and internationally. The group works with grassroots and education organizations and partners to ensure consumer access to dietary supplements, safe foods, a healthy environment and a wide range of healing therapies. Citizens for Health fosters active citizen leadership and organizes natural health consumers to create political and legislative solutions that support those rights.

CONTACT: Citizens for Health
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[cudalyon]

Ragnar, What you read confirms what I've thought for a long while: A small amount of real, natural sugar or honey is 'way better than either high fructose corn syrup or artificial sweeteners of any kind. Artificial sweeteners make my brain feel jangly.

:eek: :(

What's ironic about high fructose corn syrup is that back in the Seventies, it was touted as an alternative to both sugar and artificial sweeteners like Saccharin. I remember the Shasta Soda commercials of the late Seventies hyping that line. Oh well. Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Jangly?????

[Ragnar Redbeard]

I agree. I love honey as a sweetener.

I sampled a few different types of stevia and they all had different taste. Some did taste like burnt plastic while others were very palatable. I had a stevia bush next to my spearmint herb and during the summer i would take just one leaf off each one and eat it. It was like the best piece of candy without anything bad for you. You should try it this summer. It also seems that different plants have different levels of sweetness. I bought one at the farmers market and it was just ok, but the one that I purchased off eBay was fantastic! One leaf tasted as if you just put several spoons of sugar in your mouth.

I did not know really what to do with the plants when it turned chilly, I just trimmed them down and they are sitting in the front room with the two large snapping turtles and one alligator snapper (it’s too cold for them to). They (the stevia plant) really do not look so well.
Being from Florida where the wind chill factor stays around 85 degrees, I never had to worry too much about the cold.

[TheUnboundOne]

Ragnar, What you read confirms what I've thought for a long while: A small amount of real, natural sugar or honey is 'way better than either high fructose corn syrup or artificial sweeteners of any kind. Artificial sweeteners make my brain feel jangly.

:eek: :(

What's ironic about high fructose corn syrup is that back in the Seventies, it was touted as an alternative to both sugar and artificial sweeteners like Saccharin. I remember the Shasta Soda commercials of the late Seventies hyping that line. Oh well. Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

[Rustyshakelford]

Splenda is Sucralose. The only "Bitch" I can find about it is that it contains chlorine. Ever swallow a gulp of water while swimming in a pool? Do you drink water from the tap? I suggest that we get more chlorine from that then from a couple of packets of splenda.

[Rustyshakelford]

ok educate me what's stevia?

It ruins the taste of the second most perfect liquid on the face of the earth. Coffee!!. Tastes likes burnt plastic to me. Terrible stuff. YUCH!!

[Big_Saw]

ok educate me what's stevia?

Super-sweet sunflower herb....

[Diesel]

ok educate me what's stevia?

[Big_Saw]

Keep in mind that this is just what we are being told. Just because it is printed does not mean it is so. Does anyone remember this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXZRBJYX__E

Every one is in such a hurry to get in line to do something good, that they often forget to check and see if they are doing something good!

Love that vid...it point out very well the thoughtless idiocy that comprises most, if not all of the "far-left"....;)

[cudalyon]

Keep in mind that this is just what we are being told. Just because it is printed does not mean it is so. Does anyone remember this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXZRBJYX__E

Every one is in such a hurry to get in line to do something good, that they often forget to check and see if they are doing something good!

[Rustyshakelford]

Splenda only for me.

Tried Stevia. Tastes like smokey plastic to me.