Stevia and Splenda

[Guest guest]

The nurse recommended Splenda as a good sugar substitute for my buddy.

I was thinking more along the lines of stevia but he and I both

remember that it had an awful taste, something along the lines of

Sweet and Low. I remember the aftertaste was pretty bad. Have things

gotten better with stevia? It has been years since either one of us

has tried it.

Thanks,

Belinda

[Guest guest]

Stevia is pretty tricky. I like the now foods stevia liquid extract

as the powders are just too hard to guess how much to use and don't

always mix in right...but with the liquid you can just count how many

drops.

I've had nasty stevia extracts before but the liquid I mentioned above

has no funny after taste if you use the right amount.

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--- In , " labelleacres " <bilherbs@...>

wrote:

>

> The nurse recommended Splenda as a good sugar substitute for my buddy.

> I was thinking more along the lines of stevia but he and I both

> remember that it had an awful taste, something along the lines of

> Sweet and Low. I remember the aftertaste was pretty bad. Have things

> gotten better with stevia? It has been years since either one of us

> has tried it.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Belinda

>

[Guest guest]

..> The nurse recommended Splenda as a good sugar substitute for my

buddy.

> I was thinking more along the lines of stevia but he and I both

> remember that it had an awful taste, something along the lines of

> Sweet and Low. I remember the aftertaste was pretty bad. Have things

> gotten better with stevia? It has been years since either one of us

> has tried it.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Belinda

I have a different perspective. It sounds to me like he has a raging

sugar intake, and trying to simply substitute an artificial sweetener

will be the worst kind of symptom management.

Sugar is opportunistic and people start craving it only after they

start getting mildly malnourished and are HUNGRY - sugar is the fastest

energy ever. But, as you use sugar, the body systems adapt to run on

sugar. You literally lose the minerals and enzymes needed for

metabolizing protein, fat, and fiber.

so then if you try to cut out sugar, you leave the person with a

literally malnourished " interior milieu " PLUS lacking the enzymes and

minerals to process good food, PLUS a brain chemistry system that is

tilted to run on sugar, plus an upregulated taste system that only

responds to mega sugar. This is not only a shock to the body but as you

can imagine, feels awful and has a horrendous recidivism rate.

A much better way is to add in the good food before taking out the

sugar. That way, the underlying malnutrition gets a head start and the

body can recover better to run on other diet intake than sugar.

This is the approach taken by DesMaisons' " radiant recovery " program

for sugar addicts. I got off junk food that way and it is a permanent

retraining.

Also - your friend may not realize how good it feels to eat

without " white powder " foods. I didn't because my folks had fed me

that junk from childhood so I was never junk food free. Only thing is,

you can't feel how good it is, until you do it. quite a test.

Radiant Recovery has a free discussion group for diabetics too.

>

[Guest guest]

I would use raw honey, agave or something similar ... Splenda is bad

stuff that messes you up.

http://www.naturalnews.com/023961.html

[Guest guest]

I like KAL brand pure stevia organic extract (powder). It has a minuscule

" scoop " in it that measure out the perfect amount needed, IMO, for a large glass

of tea. I'm sure it's not as nutritious as the unrefined green stuff, but I

can't stomach that stuff.

Laree