sweetner and diet foods.

jezebel1

i didnt know there was a sw thread can you give me the link please thanks x

jezebel1

hi cybes100 thats great weight loss well done glad your feeling beter deff cutting it out will see if it works x

GlynD

I've been using sweetners for over 10 years now with no effects. I wasn't aware they caused any harm at all. Mind you I take one sweetner in a mug of tea and I don't drink any fizzy drinks or juices. It kind of confused the quacks when I was diagnosed as type 2 diabetic 8 years ago. They were even more taken aback when they told me to stop taking added salt on my food and I informed them I hadn't taken salt since the late 1970's.

Why all this fuss about sweetners all of a sudden?

*niptuckfan*

i think its a case of each to their own, i def have felt better without them but it could be that i have now drastically increased my fruit/veg and upped my water intake.

shebangs

I avoid using sweetner and just use honey instead, and if i fancy something sweet I have a little of what I fancy rather than try have the lower calorie version. I definitley notice if I have stuff with sweetner in but only because it doesnt seem to satisfy my sweet tooth and 20 minutes later I want something sweet again. I have a friend who has sweetner in her tea and eats all the low cal stuff and feels fine on it so I guess its a personal thing

Miroslav

I never realised sweetener was so bad!

I have it in all my drinks!

maman

jezebel1 wrote: »

i didnt know there was a sw thread can you give me the link please thanks x

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4362299

Hope that works, it's on the Health Beauty and Money Saving Board.

marmiterulesok

Diet foods or low-fat foods are really not a good idea in my opinion.

They don't really fill you up for a start.I'd much rather have a healthy full-fat plain yogurt than a low-fat one.Often they have more sugar in.Look at the ingredients,often a low-fat yogurt will have at least 3 teaspoons of sugar in it (1 teaspoon equals 5 grams).We don't need all that extra sugar.The thing is that your tastebuds get used to it.
As for artifical sweeteners,I avoid them like the plague.I have read a few stories about aspartame.Who knows exactly what harm if any it does.Best avoided.

I do believe that diet foods of all kinds just do not give you satisfaction the way proper food does.You probably end up eating twice as much.

You might find that if you stop eating diet foods,you will actually eat less (even though you're eating non-diet food)because feel more satisfied.

Well done on the weight loss btw.

Edwardia

I am a college-trained ex-chef and despite not having eaten sugar since 1985, I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 2007.

I went low carb in 2010 after asking questions of doctors and researchers outside of the NHS as healthcare professionals (HCPs) inside the NHS cannot go against NHS policy. Back in 2010 the advice I was being given was to take oral meds and eat plenty of starchy carbohydrate.

Well, carbohydrate is converted into glucose and following that advice was making my diabetes worse. I could watch my blood sugar rise, by testing my blood.

Despite plenty of research to the contrary, many HCPs still do advocate cutting back on fat. If your cells don't use the glucose from carbs, pushed into them by insulin, you lay it down as fat.

If you eat less fat you are eating a higher carb diet and if there's very little fat in food to give it flavour, processors add glucose-fructose syrup and salt.

I gave up diet soda, sweeteners and processed food in 2010 and went from size 22 to size 14 by 2012. Going organic in March last year I'm now a size 12. No calorie counting, no points, not a gym bunny.

Yes if your body is expecting sugar and doesn't get any it does have effects btw. Also, the only thing that can process much of the muck is your liver.

Suggest Sugar The Bitter Truth Dr Robert Lustig MD on YouTube.

jezebel1

hi thanks to eveyone for your input it would seem that the majority have or would stop using sweetner ,thanks maman for the sw link, and well done to edwardia on a great weight loss hope it works even half as good for me x