Re: Re: 'Alternative' Media Quietly Sells Out to Whole Foods Market

[Guest guest]

Mike,

Please share your source for the information on stevia. I'm very interested to

know more about it.

Thanks!

KerryAnn

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Here's the worst: I'm diabetic with (as most diabetics) a sweet tooth.

Yesterday I found out that not even STEVIA is really safe....it drops

sperm production, steviol can metabolize into a carcinogen, etc. GROAN

--Mike Schneider

[Guest guest]

> Here's the worst: I'm diabetic with (as most diabetics) a sweet tooth.

> Yesterday I found out that not even STEVIA is really safe....it drops

> sperm production, steviol can metabolize into a carcinogen, etc. GROAN

>

,

Have you tried Xylitol, birch sugar, a 5 instead of 6 carbon sugar

http://www.laleva.cc/food/xylitol.html

Licorice root has natural sweetness that satisfies cravings. I've drank a

cup of Celestial Seasonings Tension Tamer tea every night for the last 15

years. Will aggravate high blood pressure if you have it and found

some hormonal issue with whole herb ingesting over long periods. Other than

that I've found if your protein and fat is sufficient and stress doesn't

throw you off there are no more sugar cravings. Harold J. Kristal D.D.S. for

his diabetes diet in his book The Nutrition Solution says stevia and xylitol

are the only ok's.

Wanita

[Guest guest]

BWAHAHAHA! Stress is the problem! I moved to this farm to help

avoid

stress, and now I have the stress of getting the garden in and

things

repaired!

Hi , I can relate to that. At least with my old job in the city I

could leave it after 8 hours or so and I was " off " . Now I'm never off and it

kills me! Too much of a " good thing " ? :-)

I'm working on making some adjustments.. ~Robin

[Guest guest]

>> Other than

that I've found if your protein and fat is sufficient and stress doesn't

throw you off there are no more sugar cravings. <<

I have to agree, at least for ME. Since going high fat/low carb, I only

crave sweets the day or so before my period, and that's pretty much just

chocolate, LOL. And I crave only what you might call " bittersweet "

chocolate, just a hint of sweetness to it. I never did like the ultra-sweet

milk chocolates, although I loved the kind of fluffy light chocolate cake

that comes from a box mix more than dense " torte " type cakes back in my

sugar/high carb days. Of course I was young and foolish then. <G>

Christie

Caber Feidh ish Deerhounds

Holistically Raising Our Dogs Since 1986

http://www.caberfeidh.com

http://doggedblog.com

[Guest guest]

> BWAHAHAHA! Stress is the problem! I moved to this farm to help avoid

> stress, and now I have the stress of getting the garden in and things

> repaired! But when I'm working physically and away from this devil box

> I'm typing on, my carb consumption is much less.

> Meanwhile, I have flour soaking for NT gingerbread...if I'm going to be

> bad, best to be bad in a good way.

,

Hope that's gluten free flour soaking. Made some GF blueberry gingerbread

yesterday. Seriously, since giving up the gluten stress has gone higher and

different than anything I've had to deal with before but am dealing with it

to surprise myself.

Not immune totally from weak moments. Had two dinner rolls with butter few

weeks back day night before I absolutely had to do some waste of my time

paperwork, not taxes. I was short tempered all day long enough to notice a

pre GF me.

Understand the balancing act of farm to off farm work to it's time to do it

now no matter the weather. Way more than the standard homeowner. Different

kind of socialization. Hope you find what works for you in an easier way

than we did.

Am delegating or cooperating this year instead of doing it myself and

wondering where summer went at the end. Instead of repairing pigpen we

haven't used in 5 years, neighbor with all metal fencing is raising one for

us. I'll feed her farm animals on her summer vacations, get leftover produce

to all she's raising every week from our local food pantry for her feeding

of our pig and pay our costs. DH started working on raised beds. Suggested

he do vegetable garden this year and he agreed. I'm tackling the near acre

of lawn leaf raking not done before snow last fall, the neglected to

vegetable garden for years perennial beds that are past overgrown, making

more beds and doing the straw, blue, black and cranberries as usual.

Time and weather are the biggest bullies to farming for yourself. Depending

on how the door to income farming is opened determines if people bullies

join in. Was my point in this thread, bullying down tactics to employees

without any hint to cooperation. Shouldn't feel good to any conscience but

it happens everyday in the competitive world. Good farmers have always

refused to bully any of the life they raise, what makes them farmers.

Wanita