Todd > wrote:
: Hi All,

: Here is a great opinion piece on artificial sweeteners
: from a journal called:

: Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism
: http://www.cell.com/trends/endocrinology-metabolism/

: http://download.cell.com/images/edim...sm/tem_888.pdf

: A quick summary: artificial sweeteners initially trick the
: body into reacting as if something sweet is entering. Then
: the body gets wise to the trick and stops. Then when you
: do eat something sweet or carbie, the body doesn't react
: properly. And the satiation response doesn't kick in,
: causing overeating and T2 to kick in.

: Basically, the criticism of artificial sweeteners is
: that body gets wise to them and doesn't react appropriately
: to the real stuff. Not that the body thinks the fake stuff
: is real, but that the body starts to think the real stuff
: is fake.

: -T

I didn't read it, for various vision reasons, bu does Stevia do or not do
the same thing of tricking the body into thinking it is getting sugar,
etc? It most liekly is the sweetmess pf tehtaste that is the problem, not
its artificiality . the Stevia is also an artificial sugar as it is
someting pretending to be a sugar that is not(no calories, no carbs) so if
the non-nutritive(better word for the general catgory) sweetener fools the
body into thinking it is gettign sugar, thusr eleasing insuin, etc, then
Stevia is just as guilty.

Wendy