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Who knows?
Indeed.. All I know is. That I have never suffered any ill affects from not eating the stuff..
Who knows?
Sorry... just had to....
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Orange & mango. I know the one!
I'm more inclined to opt for pink grapefruit.. More tart to my taste.
Normally have a couple of glasses during the course of home maintenance or a glug after a hot day coming in from work!
Blood wise. It seems to stabilise or slow down what would/could have been a drop, till I manage to eat..?
Probably drink 3-4 glasses a day of the Robinson's No Added Sugar range @Jaylee, the one I like the best is the Orange & Mango flavour which has 0.7g of carbs per 100ml of concentrate, can't say I've noticed any bg rise.
You shouldn't have grapefruit, if on statins.
Short term maybe, but I wish I had never touched a sweetener. At least with sugar you could see the damage and take action, i.e. reduce food intake to lose weight. With sweeteners I never knew I was causing insulin resistance and upsetting my gut microbiome until many years down the line. I am still trying to put right the damage I caused myself back then.Better for you than granulated sugar I think so maybe the lesser of two evils .
Nor have I, but I regret ever using them. I don't believe I would have become T2 without them messing up my metabolism.I've tried all artificial sweeteners. My parents stopped buying sugar unless baking when I was very young. Think I've been on them since about 8 years old. I'm 52 now. Not died yet
Not So Sweet For Your Health? Potential Pitfalls behind “Natural” Sweeteners - Monk Fruit Sweetener and Stevia
The search for guilt-free sweetness that spares waistlines has led to the rise of “natural” sweeteners: extracts from particular plants whose sweetness does not derive from sugar, and cannot be metabolized by the body. You might have heard of stevia, and the up-and-coming monk fruit sweetener, derived from mogrosides in the monk fruit, also called swingle fruit or luo han guo. However, what is marketed as “natural” does not necessarily equal “healthy” for consumers, nor is “natural” necessarily environmentally-friendly in production.
Concerns over sweetener safety has led to global legislation. The FDA has not approved the use of raw stevia, and stevia has been banned in the U.S. since 1991 due to studies that suggested the sweetener may cause cancer. Elsewhere, the European Union bans sale of the plant as a food or food ingredient also because of safety concerns. Although newer sweeteners such as monk fruit sweetner have not been officially banned, it is of note that the AHA recommends that children and adolescents should limit their intake of artificial sweeteners, including so-called natural sweeteners like monk fruit sweetener, due to the inconclusive evidence on their effects. In particular, children under the age of two should not eat or drink anything with such sweeteners. CSPI recommends caution because the monk fruit sweetener has been poorly tested in animals.
What may seem natural in origin may acquire carcinogenic properties due to comtamination in production processes. Mogrosides from monk fruit are processed and extracted with methyl alcohol or other toxic chemicals, and traces of these chemicals may remain in the final products, particularly when production plants are poorly equipped and underregulated. Furthermore, such extraction factories may substantially mar their environment and the health of local populations. One of the major monk fruit sweetener producers, Ji Fu Si, a poorly equipped enterprise based in Guilin, China, is the nexus of air, river water, and groundwater polution in its county, with a significant number of cancer cases among farmers living nearby in the polluted environment. With such enterprises lacking the updated technology to control their environmental impact, it raises questions as to how safe and pure their extractions actually are.
A Danish study done in 59,334 pregnant women found that the intake of artificially sweetened beverage was associated with an increased risk of preterm delivery, so artificial sweeteners use including stevia and swingle should be accompanied with caution in certain high-risk individuals such as pregnant and lactating women, diabetics, migraine,and epilepsy patients, and children. Many of sweeteners’ purported beneficial effects remain invalidated in large scale clinical studies.
Hi, community friends.
Being new to this game, I thought there would be good, reliable professional advice on diabetes issues in this thread titled "Artificial sweeteners for and against". Instead it reads like all the other social media sites which have contributors peddling half truths and misinformed opinions. This may not be true of most posts here but how is one expected too know? Diabetes UK should be moderating posts in my opinion.
Thanks.
Hi, community friends.
Being new to this game, I thought there would be good, reliable professional advice on diabetes issues in this thread titled "Artificial sweeteners for and against". Instead it reads like all the other social media sites which have contributors peddling half truths and misinformed opinions. This may not be true of most posts here but how is one expected too know? Diabetes UK should be moderating posts in my opinion.
Thanks.
what an interesting first post. Would you please fill in your profile information so we know what type of diabetic you are, and what diabetes meds you are on, as this will affect the help and answers we can give to support you.Hi, community friends.
Being new to this game, I thought there would be good, reliable professional advice on diabetes issues in this thread titled "Artificial sweeteners for and against". Instead it reads like all the other social media sites which have contributors peddling half truths and misinformed opinions. This may not be true of most posts here but how is one expected too know? Diabetes UK should be moderating posts in my opinion.
Thanks.
So far I have not seen any irrefutable evidence that sweeteners are that harmful I have seen plenty that show sugar to be harmful in the short term and the long term I will continue with the sweeteners but will never touch granulated sugar again.
Sola dosis facit venenum...That is because the amount of artificial sweetener needed is very little.
"All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison."Sola dosis facit venenum...