Questions about sweeteners & sugar substitutes

Bathgate66

one of the very first ingredients in Sweet - N - Low or Equal , or Twin ,

is Dextrose.( Sugar )

people mistakenly take these as sugar "substitutes" when in reality they are only another option ( alltho alot less but still with sugar )

GraySaturday

I drink a ton if diet soda. Like 6-7 cans a day. Its so bad for me with all that sweetener I know, but water alone just can do it for me. I use splenda in coffee/tea. I think it tastes the best out of the fake sugars

Get_Right

ForestBrain wrote:

As is the case with most things: All things in moderation. Raw sugar, honey and molasses are all fine. But ALL of those sugar substitutes are nothing but garbage. GARBAGE I TELL YOU!!!

there you have it

100% correct

add high fructose corn syrup to the list

STAY AWAY

GreenTeaDisease

GraySaturday wrote:

I drink a ton if diet soda. Like 6-7 cans a day. Its so bad for me with all that sweetener I know, but water alone just can do it for me. I use splenda in coffee/tea. I think it tastes the best out of the fake sugars

I lost like 30lbs I believe due to my diet coke addiction. I would still be addicted to it if I were still working somewhere with a fully-stocked diet coke fridge. people are always saying the artificial sweeteners in it make you hungrier, but I dunno, I gulped that stuff down and never wanted to eat.

mookie9999

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

I lost like 30lbs I believe due to my diet coke addiction. I would still be addicted to it if I were still working somewhere with a fully-stocked diet coke fridge.

You lost the weight from drinking the diet coke or once you stopped?

GreenTeaDisease

mookie9999 wrote:

You lost the weight from drinking the diet coke or once you stopped?

from drinking diet coke. it completely eliminated my appetite. that's due to the caffeine though, not the sweeteners .

boxwine_in_hell

NY PJ1 wrote:

splenda aint bad


but im a sugar addict

It's like sugar without the sugar. Wait a second, that can't be good for you.

GraySaturday

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

from drinking diet coke. it completely eliminated my appetite. that's due to the caffeine though, not the sweeteners .

yeah. When I have the taste for something I try to drink a diet sofa and most if the time I don't feel like eating anything afterwards. Its sorta like having a snack. Fake sugar may be bad but my diet seems to work better with a diet coke as a snack instead of a bag of chips.

GreenTeaDisease

GraySaturday wrote:

yeah. When I have the taste for something I try to drink a diet sofa and most if the time I don't feel like eating anything afterwards. Its sorta like having a snack. Fake sugar may be bad but my diet seems to work better with a diet coke as a snack instead of a bag of chips.

I used to drink diet coke for meals...

...and I wonder why I'm not that thin anymore...

small town beck

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

I used to drink diet coke for meals...

...and I wonder why I'm not that thin anymore...

As a meal? :eek:


I bet you are a whole lot healthier now. Thin or slim? They are two different things.

GreenTeaDisease

small town beck wrote:

As a meal? :eek:


I bet you are a whole lot healthier now. Thin or slim? They are two different things.

well I was still in very good shape at the time because when I ate I ate super healthy and I was NUT in the work out area...not sure if I was "healthier" then or now...I definitely have a higher body fat ratio now...

but yeah I used to drink diet coke for "lunch" all the time, and when I was "on" diet coke I never needed any snacks at all through the day. I just never felt like eating anything so it was just easier to have a diet coke!

mookie9999

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

well I was still in very good shape at the time because when I ate I ate super healthy and I was NUT in the work out area...not sure if I was "healthier" then or now...I definitely have a higher body fat ratio now...

but yeah I used to drink diet coke for "lunch" all the time, and when I was "on" diet coke I never needed any snacks at all through the day. I just never felt like eating anything so it was just easier to have a diet coke!

Would you also drink water, or just diet coke? If it was just dc, wouldn't your mouth dry out?

GreenTeaDisease

mookie9999 wrote:

Would you also drink water, or just diet coke? If it was just dc, wouldn't your mouth dry out?

I also drank a gallon of water every day during this time.

acoustic guy

GraySaturday wrote:

I drink a ton if diet soda. Like 6-7 cans a day. Its so bad for me with all that sweetener I know, but water alone just can do it for me. I use splenda in coffee/tea. I think it tastes the best out of the fake sugars

Gray, I am telling you.....stop drinking that shit. They are linking all sorts of problems to the sweetner in diet soda!
Look it up yourself. I think even what Michael J Fox has, I forget the name, but stop drinking that shit! You will loose a lot of weight just from that.

Edit......Not that you need to loose weight, just saying.

acoustic guy

gabers wrote:

:eek:

I thought everyone knew what inhiding looks like. Definitely not fat and definitely not a man. I'd put my life savings on it.

But on the real, try switching out those Peppas with some coffee or espresso inhiding, that just ain't right.

Now I need to see a picture of her.
Fatty, LOL

PJaddicted

Ice tea with no sugar. I use all sort of flavored Tea and Green tea bags. Just add them to a pitcher of hot water and put in the fridge. Healthy and cheap! My entire family drinks tons of tea...hot and cold, no one adds sugar.

oxc

PJPixie

Bathgate66 wrote:

one of the very first ingredients in Sweet - N - Low or Equal , or Twin ,

is Dextrose.( Sugar )

people mistakenly take these as sugar "substitutes" when in reality they are only another option ( alltho alot less but still with sugar )

I'm 100% percent insulin dependent diabetic (I've been on insulin since I was 17 years old, that's 21 years.....do the math). I don't use real sugar at all (In my drinks) only diet coke and coffee with equal. These two things have NEVER raised my blood sugar. I have no choice but to use artificial sweeteners. From all these so-called studies done, I should have 3 eyes by now and an arm growing out of my head.

GreenTeaDisease

PJPixie wrote:

I'm 100% percent insulin dependent diabetic (I've been on insulin since I was 17 years old, that's 21 years.....do the math). I don't use real sugar at all (In my drinks) only diet coke and coffee with equal. These two things have NEVER raised my blood sugar. I have no choice but to use artificial sweeteners. From all these so-called studies done, I should have 3 eyes by now and an arm growing out of my head.

the thing is a lot of the studies are done on rats and mice, and people are a lot bigger than rats and mice. A lot of times there has to be a sort of multiplier added to the dosage needed to result in cancer and whatnot, and that doesn't always translate.

roar

timely topic.
a new study on artificial sweeteners has been all over the news recently...
it's controversial amongst the health community, but you can decide for yourself: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/11/health/webmd/main3817821.shtml

long story, short:
they found that rats who were given artificial sweeteners overate and gained more weight than those given real sugar.

why?
over time, the artificial sweeteners disrupted their bodies natural ability to accurately assess caloric intake. the rats overate to compensate and gained weight accordingly.

i, myself, use Splenda.
but my hippie friends are convincing me to use stevia. i may.

PJPixie

roar wrote:

timely topic.
a new study on artificial sweeteners has been all over the news recently...
it's controversial amongst the health community, but you can decide for yourself: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/11/health/webmd/main3817821.shtml

long story, short:
they found that rats who were given artificial sweeteners overate and gained more weight than those given real sugar.

why?
over time, the artificial sweeteners disrupted their bodies natural ability to accurately assess caloric intake. the rats overate to compensate and gained weight accordingly.

i, myself, use Splenda.
but my hippe friends are convincing me to use stevia. i may.

That is kind of interesting. I've been using these types of sweeteners for 20+ years and over the last 4 years have put on a bit of weight. (a HUGE bit of weight)