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04-29-2007, 06:21 PM | #31 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Central Texas
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| Almost everything has potential side effects............. I just can't worry about everything. I've experienced none of those side effects - so I will just continue to sweeten my coffee with splenda. If not for splenda I would weigh A LOT more, and that can be just as unhealthy!
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04-30-2007, 04:39 AM | #32 |
I heart Sugar Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Florida
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| Stevia is really good! I used to grow stevia and I would throw a fresh bunch in with the tea bags to steep when making iced tea and it really tasted like sugar. I'm from the south so I know my sweet tea! The packets, here at least, are crazy expensive. I haven't started my herb garden here in my new house but when I do, stevia will be in it. Has anyone tried the new flavored splenda? I had 2 free packs in my Sunday paper- hazelnut and french vanilla. I'm not usually a huge fan of flavored coffee in the morning but I really liked both. I bought a box of the chocolate and at first I wasn't crazy about it. It didn't seem sweet enough. Now half way through the box, I'm addicted.
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04-30-2007, 08:25 AM | #33 | |
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here's another link with info http://www.deepdownwellness.com/alth...dasymtoms.html I also found the magazine article that I referred to in my 1st post. If anyone wants to read it, send me a pm with your email address
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04-30-2007, 08:28 AM | #34 |
Slave to Max 'n Abbie Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Pittsburgh
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| stevia is supposedly an herbal all natural sweetener but who knows... we are all guinea pigs when it come to EVERYTHING it seems. Put the products out there for us to try first, then find out about the long term effects later
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04-30-2007, 08:47 AM | #35 | |
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04-30-2007, 08:48 AM | #36 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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| Isn't it just better to just use good ol' natural sugar, than stuff that is made of stuff you cannot even pronounce? |
04-30-2007, 08:57 AM | #37 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member | I use Equal. Splenda is ok. S&L is sweet but I heard some bad things about it. Of couse, anything other that sugar is not as good, but sugar itself is that that good either!!! |
04-30-2007, 11:08 AM | #38 |
Just me 'n my boys Donating Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Murphy, TX
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| hmmm... I've been watching this for a while and all i can say is... there's a difference? LOL Actually I don't intentionally use any of them unless it's already in something I'm eating or drinking and by then I would have no idea it's in there unless i read the ingredients. I've been drinking some stuff lately that has spenda in it. There's always going to be someone or some entity that says this or that is bad for you. This year it will be bad and next year another test will come out that says it cures cancer or something. I never know what's up or down. Personally I think it's a preference. If something was that bad for you, you think they wouldn't sell it.
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04-30-2007, 11:10 AM | #39 |
No Longer A Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NEW YORK
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| If something was that bad for you, you think they wouldn't sell it. You'd think huh! |
04-30-2007, 11:22 AM | #40 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: FL
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| I like Splenda better than the Pink Stuff and I like Xylitol best of all non-sugar sweetners. Xylitol is all natural and even helps prevent cavities and gum disease. Hubby though, is a die hard Pink Stuff Man -- nothing else will do. So most of the time, I just use his Sweet 'N Low. But every once in a whle I go down to the Natural Med. Doc and get a canister of the Xylitol -- it lasts forever and it is just like sugar.
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04-30-2007, 07:02 PM | #41 |
Donating YT Addict Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: florida
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| where do you get xylitol....i have never heard of it before??
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04-30-2007, 07:50 PM | #42 |
Tiny Dog Big Heart Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Texas
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| Be careful with the xylitol it can kill your yorkie if he or she gets into it! same with sugarless gum or anything else sweetened with it. Don't leg the dogs get it. I imagine other artificial sweetners probably would do the same. Their bodies process it like real sugar and their sugar shoots sky high, then plummets too low and it can do them in. http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/sep04/040901c.asp I used Splenda a lot when I was on the Atkins diet, but found it was making me itch really bad. When I quit using it I quit itching.
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05-01-2007, 03:30 PM | #43 |
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| Xylitol is in sugarless gum and some donuts, but it is extremely bad for Yorkies (and other daogs) .... my vet told me that, unsolicited ...
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05-01-2007, 03:45 PM | #44 | |
Rescue Angel Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: md
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BY THE WAY....since your a southern sweet tea gal....do you ever make the mint tea from mint leaves. I never did until I moved here and everybody did it....so now I do it
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05-02-2007, 05:02 AM | #45 | |
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