Yes Susan - I can't see how ANY of us can complain about "I don't LIKE
it", which is a purely subjective opinion.

I would be careful about recommending sugar alcohols tho, THEY can cause
real problems for many people.

Susan wrote:
> x-no-archive: yes
>
>
> Alan S wrote:
>
>
>> Darned if I can see that Bill made either of those statements, so
>> refutation seems a little unnecessary.
>
>
> Sometimes I get "crabby and cynical" and see commercial interests
> appearing in targeted newsgroups to push products like statins or
> sweeteners.
>
> Sometimes I just get concerned that folks may be too focused on finding
> fake forms of all the same stuff we used to eat on our way to diabetes
> (with the complicity of their DEs), rather than regrouping and
> substituting better whole food choices.
>
> Sometimes, I just share my own, often differing, experiences via anecdote.
>
> Mostly, it's a combination of those.
>
>>
>> Until someone proves that it's unsafe to eat, or even comes close to
>> proving it, I'll eat something that's a damn sight safer to eat (in
>> moderation) for a diabetic than pure, natural, sugar.
>>
>> No amount of hysterical fear-mongering by the
>> anti-unnatural-substances kooks will change my mind on that.
>
>
> I hope you've noticed that I've taken no anti Splenda stance, though my
> tastebuds have. ;-) It's my choice, and I'm completely comfortable
> with others making a different choice.
>
> I don't crave sweets, generally, so that helps me avoid AS. If I want a
> treat, I have small bits of very dark chocolate with natural sugar.
> There's so little in it that it doesn't bump my bg. Baking with xylitol
> is much more satisfactory for me, and my family and I get no gastric
> effects from it, though I can't say the same of all the sugar alchohols.
>
>>
>> There are NO foods (natural, organic or otherwise) on the supermarket
>> shelf that are proven totally safe to eat by all people under all
>> circumstances. You name a food and I'll find a study somewhere by
>> someone that shows they fed ten pounds of it to a starving albino rat
>> which immediately ate it's own tail and choked to death on the next
>> bits.
>
>
> Again, Alan, I haven't argued here that Splenda is unsafe. I did take
> issue with an absolute statement as fact that it *is* safe. Sometimes
> it takes many
> years on the marketplace for ill effects of drugs and other chemicals,
> if any, to show up.
>
>>
>> But I can absolutely guarantee that splenda (also insert saccharine,
>> cyclamates, aspartame, stevia whatever) will do me less harm than
>> sugar in my present diet and way of eating.
>
>
> I'll be glad to take your word for it.
>
> Your body, your science experiment. :-)
>
>
> Susan

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