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Just a little side-blog because I don't want to go on about dieting in my main blog, some people just don't wanna keep reading about that sorta thing! I just want to be happy with my body and the way I look, and I guess losing a bit of weight is my first step to achieving that goal. I hope you find it useful!
| Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |
| Artificial Sweeteners and Sugar Substitutes |
Hmm....I've been wondering about these for a while since a heard about the dangers of the chemical sweetener Aspartame. (Here is a great informational blog about it).
Aspartame is 200 times sweeter than sugar and is used to sweeten SO many low/no added sugar products as well as sugared products. It's most commonly used in diet soft drinks such as Diet Coke and Fanta Z, however is also used in the non-diet varieties of these drinks. Have you ever seen the words "WARNING: Contains a source of Phenylalanine" on a label? Well, Aspartame is just that, and WHY would they post a warning on foods about a substance if it wasn't dangerous?
Now, I thought Aspartame was the only dangerous artificial sweetener...until now. When I first started the Atkins diet a few years ago, I ate and drank "Sugar Free" stuff freely. The next time I tried it, I'd heard about the dangers of Aspartame and its carcinogenic (Cancer causing) properties and so I tried to cut out Aspartame from my diet as much as I could, still allowing myself products sweetened using other things like sucralose and maltitol. I've especially loved eating low sugar diabetic chocolate from places like Thornton's and Boots.
I've always known that sugar free products can have a laxative effect - and it always says so on the label, but I never really thought about what they were doing to my body. So, today after eating rather a lot of sugar free Sula toffees and feeling really bloated and full of gas and cramps - as well as having diarrhoea - I decided to google "Maltitol", which is what said toffees are sweetened with.
Well...I opened pandora's box with this one! Pages upon pages of "the dangers of maltitol" PLUS Sucralose (aka Splenda), and tonnes of other sweeteners.
So, in thinking Aspartame was the only Polyol (Sugar Alcohol) i couldn't eat, I was way off base, and am now banning as many products as possible which have been artificially sweetened from my diet.
I'm gonna do more research on this and post it up on here, but in the meantime google it for yourself and you'll just see how bad these substances can be for you, as well as hindering the progress of a Low-Carb diet, unlike previouslt believed!
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Name: Stace
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About Me: I'm crazy! Only joking...though some people probably think I actually am! I'm a 21 year old pianist/singer from Kent, England who loves anything pretty, random, creative and a little bit different, because I am a little bit different, but I love it! I enjoy things like sunsets and beautiful scenes in nature, along with geeky stuff like Chemistry and word origins (Shhh!), history and stuff like that. When I was little I wanted to be an archaeologist, and then a teacher, and then a famous musician, and then a tri-lingual translator...and now it's back to the famous musician, I'm not holding my breath but I'm crossing my fingers! Once I pull my finger out and get my stuff recorded properly, that is...
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