Get Rid of all your artificial sweeteners!!!

Just use sugar or honey

Lookie here

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I'm suckking down a diet sunkist as I type. I would probably benefit from reading this.

Sorry about that.

It's fixed now!

I wish I could. I grew up with a diabetic father and I am so used to fake sugars and sugar free products. Real sugar actually bothers me.

I have so many 'fake foods' in me that after I'm dead, I'll still be around...

I'm one well preserved woman!

funny you post this. I decided to give them up this week, after realizing that is is possible that it is ALL artificial sweetners, and not just Splenda, that is wrecking havoc on my stomach.

now to see how fat I get drinking full sugar beverages.

I've switched to juice and vitamin water.

my boss is a scientist and has told me to kick the artifical sweeters for years now....i just like the taste of equal so much....

I haven't used artificial sweetners in years because one of the doctors my mom works with warned us against it.

I figure if I'm gonna have sugar though, I'm gonna go all the way and use the real stuff!

I put waaaay worse things in my system daily. Artificial sweetners is the least of my worries.

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Posted by JessicaM.

funny you post this. I decided to give them up this week, after realizing that is is possible that it is ALL artificial sweetners, and not just Splenda, that is wrecking havoc on my stomach.

now to see how fat I get drinking full sugar beverages.

I've switched to juice and vitamin water.

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If you research any of the artificial sweeteners you'll find that studies have proven that they actually block the absorbsion of certain protiens essential to lose wieght when dieting, and that real sugar in moderation is a better choice.

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Posted by cindyandkevin

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Posted by JessicaM.

funny you post this. I decided to give them up this week, after realizing that is is possible that it is ALL artificial sweetners, and not just Splenda, that is wrecking havoc on my stomach.

now to see how fat I get drinking full sugar beverages.

I've switched to juice and vitamin water.

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If you research any of the artificial sweeteners you'll find that studies have proven that they actually block the absorbsion of certain protiens essential to lose wieght when dieting, and that real sugar in moderation is a better choice.

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I can see you in tortoise shell glasses and a white coat saying this.

Kevin would love to see it too, I am sure.

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Posted by Naunie

I put waaaay worse things in my system daily. Artificial sweetners is the least of my worries.

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Cindy - I think that after I finish this last bit of diet (caffeine free) pepsi that I've got here at home I'm going to try to really kick that habit. thanks

About 2 years ago, I went diet soda-crazy. Every time I had a sweet craving, I'd reach for a diet coke. Diet ginger ales too, they were my favorite. So I was drinking like 3 a day.

One day, I woke up, and I couldn't feel my left arm. It was like it was asleep. After a little bit, the feeling kind of came back. But it would return on and off for the next few months, during which time I would also lose the sensations in my feet and my right hand. I had other, grosser, symptoms that I won't get into. The doctors tested me for everything - Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus, Lyme Disease, Diabetes, Vitamin deficiencies... they couldn't find anything wrong. I stumbled on one of those anti-Nutra-Sweet web sites one day and read story after story by people who had the same symptoms as me as a result of Aspartame intake. I stopped drinking the diet sodas that day. By about 8 weeks later, all my symtoms were gone. After all that sickness, all those doctors... it was just the aspartame. That stuff is poison. Apparently, most of the population is not too sensitive to it, but a small percentage can get really sick from it, and that was me.

I don't really like sharing that story, it's really painful, actually, but just in case anyone with similar symptoms surfs over this way, I thought maybe they should know.

Oh, and the other poster who mentioned it is totally right - AFTER I stopped drinking those diet sodas, I lost some weight. The diet sodas cause like a permanent bloat in you - they give you a 'beer belly.' So now I stick to water, seltzer, unsweetened iced tea, stuff like that, and not only do I feel healthier, I look slimmer too.