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National Soft Drink Association. | | The real toxicity of artificial sweeteners is the notion that they are a weight-loss panacea. They are not," Dr. Katz says. "The better way to restrict sugar intake is to learn to prefer less sugar. For that, you must take superfluous sugar and superfluous sweet out of your diet.
"Sugar is addictive, and like all addictive substances, tolerance develops," Dr. Katz continues. "The more you eat, the more you need to get satisfaction. | | Sinatra and I applaud the sugar-watching movement, we cringe at the fact that more people are eating—and even overeating—foods filled with potentially dangerous artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, Splenda, and saccharin. (More about this later.)
As Processed Low-Carb Products Disappear, Fresh Carbs Grab the Limelight
One of the biggest lessons of the low-carb movement has to do with the demise of many of the more than 3,000 low-carb products that glutted the market at the height of the low-carb frenzy. | | Artificial sweeteners are simply not the answer to dieting. Nor are they effective ways to deal with hypoglycemia, diabetes, or insulin resistance.
"Fake sweeteners like sucralose and aspartame are made of unhealthy chemicals with toxic by-products. For example, sucralose (Splenda) contains man-made, chemically produced chlorine, which is carcinogenic, and aspartame (Equal or NutraSweet) converts to formaldehyde, an embalming fluid used to preserve the dead," explains Dr. | | In addition, low-fat or fat-free products often contain potentially health-harming artificial sweeteners.
4. RAW SUGAR, BROWN RICE SYRUP, BARLEY MALT, AND MAPLE SYRUP ARE BETTER FOR YOU THAN REFINED WHITE SUGAR.
NOT TRUE. This seems to be a universal belief, especially among the "health conscious." "This is a way that manufacturers fool consumers by capitalizing on our desire to buy natural sugars," observes Dr. Ann Louise Gittleman.
"I think people want to believe that some of these products are better for you," adds Lynn Baillif, M.S., L.D., R.D., C.D.E. |  Agave nectar can be combined with artificial sweeteners to lessen their aftertaste.
• It can be used as a substitute for honey or sugar in baking.
Sharon's Simple Berry Sauce by Sharon Grotto
Servings: 4 • Prep and cooking time: 35 minutes
Our kids love to pour this berry sauce on their toaster waffles and pancakes or use it as an easy way to add fruit and sweetness to a smoothie. Simple to make but oh so good! This recipe contains two powerhouse ingredients. |  Both burping and farting may be signs of having eaten foods high in fiber (such as beans, some fruits and vegetables, and whole grains), dairy products, artificial sweeteners, and/or carbohydrates, especially sugar and starch.
Excessive burping (and farting) can also signal a lactase deficiency
(aka lactose intolerance). Lactase is an enzyme necessary to break down lactose in the digestive tract. If this enzyme is missing, many foods, including milk and other dairy products, of which lactose is a major component can't be digested properly and the end result is gas. | | A major problem of most weight-loss diets is the use of artificial sweeteners and fat substitutes to reduce calories. Substituting these products for real foods deprives your body of key anti-inflammatory nutrients. Main principles...
•Eat fish at least three times weekly. The omega-3 fatty acids in fish have powerful antiinflammatory properties. | | Is fish a source of healthful fats or dangerous toxins? Are artificial sweeteners smart low-calorie alternatives to sugar or dangerous chemicals?
Here is a closer look at the controversies about common foods...
FISH
Fish is a wonderful source of protein, vitamins, minerals and omega-3 fatty acids. However, the nutritional benefits of omega-3 fatty acids fall short of their hype. Some scientists claim that they are great for the heart as well as for improving children's ability to learn, but all we can say for sure is that omega-3s may be beneficial. with state health or wildlife officials. |  Next are dietary modifications that include having small, frequent meals; reducing intake of caffeine, sugar, alcohol, artificial sweeteners, salt, red meat, saturated fat, and simple carbohydrates; and increasing the intake of complex carbohydrates; and foods that are rich in calcium and magnesium. A general multivitamin supplement is also recommended.
2. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Cognitive-behavioral therapy is a short-term, structured psychotherapeutic treatment that helps emphasize the role of the patient's current thinking in determining behavior. |  You won't get instantly smarter from "smart" water or faster from sports drinks or healthier from teas that have lots of artificial sweeteners or corn syrup. If you want to sweeten a beverage, use a teaspoon of honey or add x/% inch of 100 percent juice to your water or fresh brewed tea. If you count it as a half a Flex (2 for 1), you can combine 4 ounces of any 100 percent SuperFoods juice to your water or tea. And unless you're out there exercising for more than 60 minutes doing cardiovascular, aerobic exercise on a regular basis, you generally don't need a sports drink. |  Sugar-Free Soft Drinks May Be Bad, Too
It sounds incredible, but sugar-free soft drinks and artificial sweeteners may be no better than sugary soft drinks.
Researchers have noted that people who consume two or more cans of either regular or diet soft drinks daily are about 50 percent more likely hood Isn't What It Used to Be to become overweight or obese compared with people who do not consume soft drinks. It's not What Are High clear why sugar-free soft drinks would also lead to Glycemic Foods? weight gain, but we have our suspicions. When .... . | | Here's one more thought on artificial sweeteners versus sugar: Since the latter has only 16 calories per teaspoon, if you want to use an occasional teaspoon of sugar in a drink or a recipe, go ahead.
Unhealthy Oils. This includes corn oil in particular and most "vegetable" oils. While corn oil is better in some ways that butter or shortening, it still has a less desirable profile in terms of health promotion when compared to olive, canola, and other nut and seed derived oils, for example.
Refined flOUr and its Spawn. Refined is good in people; bad in flour. | | We know for sure that since the widespread introduction of artificial sweeteners especially during the low-fat, "low-cal" diet days of the 1980s, the rate of obesity has skyrocketed. | | Foods that contain artificial sweeteners are the stealth bombers of healthy eating. Food manufacturers have led us to believe that "low cal" is king. How
The Truth About "Low Fat" Packaged Foods. People who are trying to lose weight see reduced-fat foods as great diet foods. But they usually fail to notice that what's missing in terms of fat has been added in some other form to make up for the loss of flavor and texture that fat provides. These foods are often nearly or as high in calories as a full-fat food. | | Foods that contain added sugars or artificial sweeteners. You know that ice cream and cake have lots of sugar and you're probably well aware that these are not foods that are going to help you lose weight. While sugar is not the enemy, the amount we consume these days is a significant problem. The average American consumes 142 pounds of sugar a year, which is the average healthy weight of a woman standing 5-foot-8! To break it down to a small measure, on a daily basis most of us eat roughly 42 teaspoons of sugar. It's not all in our coffee. |  Avoid "diet" drinks and foods: These items tend to be a rich source of artificial sweeteners and chemical flavorings. Studies suggest that sweeteners of this kind, although low in calories, increase the body's cravings for more sweet foods and drinks. They also tend to be found in nutritionally deficient foods and drinks, which do nothing to provide your body with essential nutrients.
Avoid convenient, "low-fat" foods: These foods often include chemical ingredients, such as trans-fatty acids, that have a negative effect on the body. |  It contains whole food concentrates, superfoods like spirulina and sea vegetables, enzymes, probiotics, amino acids, herbs, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals, all without using any refined sugars, artificial sweeteners, soy protein or other offensive ingredients.
This is an independent review based on the personal experience of Mike Adams. The author has no financial relationship whatsoever with Living Fuel, nor does NewsTarget sell this product or earn any commission from its sale. |  I simply will not promote products made with isolated soy protein, high-fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, refined grains or other garbage ingredients. That's why most of the big "health product" companies don't bother sending me samples: Because most of their products are crap! (PowerBar comes to mind... in my own personal opinion, of course...) But products like Larabar are far superior, and I will only promote products of extremely high quality.
Just remember: No junk. Oh yeah, and one more thing: Don't send me multivitamins made with cyanocobalamin. | | Many artificial sweeteners and other additives have received the stamp of approval from the FDA — the same agency that approved Vioxx, Prozac, and other questionable drug products.
In the early years of my diabetic life, sweets meant cyclamates or saccharine-altered products. Both were eventually declared carcinogenic after the FDA approved aspartame as their artificial sweetener of choice. | | Action to take:
You, and especially your children, must avoid NutraSweet, aspartame, and any other artificial sweeteners for the dangerous toxins they are.
Check the label on everything you buy. If the label boasts that the product is "sugar free," they're probably riding the low-carbohydrate, high-animal protein wave.
In itself, that is a good thing, but the bad news is most of these products contain NutraSweet or Splenda (which is guilty by its association in the fake-sugar family) — either of which is even worse than the sugar it replaces. And that's saying something. |  But what about artificial sweeteners like Aspartame? Now one of the most widely used food supplements in the world, this chemical was first approved for limited use for diabetics, for whom glucose, the usual form of sugar, can be life-threatening.
In January 1977, FDA Chief Counsel Richard Merrill made agency history. He formally asked the U.S. Attorney's office to convene a grand jury to decide whether to indict the major producer of aspartame, G.D. Searle, for knowingly misrepresenting "findings, concealing material facts and making false statements" in aspartame safety tests. |  According to a company press release, it took two decades for researchers to develop a diet Slurpee by combining artificial sweeteners with undigestible sugar alcohols.) So when the grape dumps water at the first sign of frost, it's actually protecting itself in two ways—first, by reducing water volume; and second, by raising the sugar concentration of the water that remains. And that allows the grape to withstand colder temperature without freezing.
Eliminating water to deal with the cold? That sounds an awful lot like cold diuresis—peeing when you're cold. And higher levels of sugar? | | For more information on the toxic effects of artificial sweeteners, visit: www.sweefpo/son.com
How Does Caffeine Affect My Colon?
Caffeine is a highly addictive compound that many people have come to depend on for the perception of increased energy. Caffeine is found naturally in tea, coffee, and cocoa and is added to many carbonated beverages. Caffeine keeps you going by preventing the chemical adenosine from telling the brain it's time to relax. | | Or perhaps artificial sweeteners reinforce our preference for sweets. Personally, I prefer sugar—just not much of it.
Bottom line: If you are trying to lose weight, it is best to eat less, move around more and avoid junk foods.
MILK
For decades, dairy trade associations and lobbying groups have told Americans that drinking milk strengthens bones. Now they claim that dairy helps us lose weight. As in many aspects of nutrition, the evidence linking dairy foods to health conditions is complicated and contradictory. |  Thus, rather than being an aid to weight reduction, these studies were suggesting that artificial sweeteners may actually cause a gain in body weight.
Conflicts in science usually resolve themselves with replication and increased scrutiny. As evidence in bottom panel of Figure 17 indicates, the effect observed by Rogers and Blundell [157] was never replicated by any other investigator and may be attributed to a type 2 statistical error. |  Foods that contain artificial sweeteners, such as aspartame, Splenda, or saccharine, severely upset the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas. Drinking alcohol on a regular basis has a dehydrating effect on both the bile and the blood, causing fat deposits in the liver; eating foods that contain a lot of sugar has the same effect. Moreover, carbonated drinks and fruit juices are loaded with sugar. |  In an attempt to avoid dealing with the problems associated with the craving for the sweet taste of sugar, and instead of facing our sweet taste issues which are more of an acquired taste at the level of excess that is practiced in the world today, we have invented artificial sweeteners and excitotoxins. The negative health consequence of this has become more and more significant. |  Studies over the past two decades have linked attention and activity disorders to deficiencies in zinc and essential fatty acids, and consumption of caffeine, artificial flavorings, and other food additives like MSG and artificial sweeteners.
Nutritionist Marcia Zimmerman points out that the timing of what we eat has a powerful effect on the brain. "There was work done at MIT and Harvard that showed how carbohydrates raise serotonin levels in the brain. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that is calming and tends to put children to sleep. | |
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