Re: Re: Coffee And Us re Splenda

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A friend who used to bring us Splenda-sweetened chocolates recommended no more

than three at a a time, because they can cause diarrhea. Which I found to be

true.

" Joan Emmerich " wrote:

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>Do you know how much is too much and what bad effects did it have?

>Or, is this just an individual thing.

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>-- In TakingLipitorAndHateIt , linmalki@n... wrote:

>> Watch the Splenda; too much of it can mess up your lower digestive

>tract..

>> Linden

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>> LesinAZ@a... wrote:

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>> >In a message dated 10/27/2004 12:18:00 PM US Mountain Standard

>Time,

>> >bogdankl@y... writes:

>> >Hey...please don't kill the messenger. I'm not giving up my coffee

>> >either. I have some in the am and half a cup in the evening with

>my

>> >wife, after the kids go to sleep. The INFO does swing this way and

>> >than WAY over to the other side...every week or so. I could puke

>from

>> >all the mis-info we get. Black or with cream?????

>> >one cup in the morning , cream and Splenda , no matter what they

>say ,LOL !

>> >Les

>> >

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[Guest guest]

I've got my sugar-addicted friends to use molasses sugar instead of Splenda. At least it's got some nutrients in it. I also use it when I'm making bread or cookies etc.

(My problem is getting ambushed by chocolate deserts in the supermarkets and heaven knows what's in those!)

Pam

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Thanks Carolina. I agree entirely and have a bit of 70% cocoa solids dark chocolate occasionally.

As I only eat low GI foods, I don't have a sugar craving at all. It's just that when I do get attacked by one of these supermarket chocolate trifles - about every three months - I can't just eat the small portion I intend do. It won't let go of me until it's finished. They are all milk chocolate and real cream and just fantastic! Then I feel rather sick and manage to avoid them by for another few months !!

Pam

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Hi Carolina

I have real double cream on my breakfast fruit, nuts and seeds every day. It's not a problem at all.

I'm on the Schwarzbein Principle [equal amounts of fats (including saturated fat and cholesterol), protein, non-starchy vegetables, and carbohydrates]. Except that I have mild diabetesand impaired mobility from a stroke, so I eat very few carbohydrates.

Then, all the carbohydrates that I do eat, have a low glycemic index (low GI) which means that they enter the bloodstream very slowly. High GI foods, like wheat and potatoes, cause a surge of insulin and raise your blood sugar levels very quickly, followed by a drop, making you feel ravenous again not longer after you've eaten them. You don't get hungry for ages after eating low GI foods.

If you eat fats with a carbohydrate, it automatically lowers the GI of a food. And it's now being shown that it is high Gi foods that contribute towards heart disease. Much more so than high cholesterol ever did!

You also lose weight on a low GI diet - also because you don't put such demands on your insulin - as well as help to control your diabetes.

So the cream is no problem at all (as it has no GI) - nor the cocoa (which has a low GI), it's the darned high GI sugar that they use to sweeten the trifles. And even that wouldn't matter too much, if I treated myself once in a while to a little of it once in a while. It's the fact that I simply can't stop.

Pam