--> You can try liquid Stevia, a natural sweetener, which is sold in health food stores;' Splenda or sucralose, which is quite expensive, is available in many regular stores. Another possibility is xylitol. There are, also, some kiwi fruit natural sweet substitutes that are supposedly better than sugar."9 (/personally would avoid any artificial sweeteners, especially aspartame, at all times.)4*'**
You can try to drink large amounts of pure water and organic juices and organic herbal teas, in glass, as much as possible. | | The FDA is now evaluating the safety of two more artificial sweeteners, sucralose and alitame. sucralose doesn't seem to cause cancer, but it may cause other problems that would limit the number of foods in which it could be used. Alitame hasn't yet been linked to any problem.
What other additives the future will bring is anyone's guess. Some companies are developing salt substitutes. And it is clear that more and more processed foods will be relying on additives to cut back on calories, fat, and sugar. |  Your tongue will pick up the creaminess of fat and this causes a pleasant taste sensation, but like acesulfame K, sucralose, and chitin, olestra goes right through you . . . and drags along some important nutrients in the process that should be left for your body to absorb.
Olestra traps fat-soluble vitamins like vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, and the antioxidant carotenes that are waiting for passage into circulation during the digestive process. | | Therefore, sucralose may be an excellent addition to mouthwash, toothpaste, and other oral hygiene products that should taste good but never be swallowed.
Artificial Indigestible Ingredients: Presumed Innocent?
Alpha-amylase inhibitors or starch blockers were popular in the mid-1980s because they blocked the digestion of carbohydrates, promising that you could eat as much pasta as you wanted without any calories. Americans rushed to try the newest weight-control gimmick, but so many people complained about stomachaches and other gastrointestinal upsets that the fad died before long. | | The more toxic food chemicals, inhalants, and drugs (prescription or OTC) the liver is confronted with, the greater the potential for toxic effects of artificial ingredients like sucralose.
It's tempting to think you can eat all the sweet-tasting foods you want and not have any calories to count. But the reason it sounds too good to be true is that—to date—it is. This new sweetener may have the potential for doing even more harm than aspartame or acesulfame K. |  This warning is especially timely as licensing will be sought for the extended uses of sweeteners (acesulfame-K, sucralose, alitame) and the introduction of micr op articulated protein as "fake fat" (Roberts 1989a).
The Community Nutrition Institute
Rodney E. Leonard of the Community Nutrition Institute, a consumer organization in Washington, D.C., issued this pertinent statement on July 17, 1986. The following excerpts (reproduced with permission) are noteworthy.
"The continued use of aspartame ... |  There is Splenda, which is made of sucralose, which comes from sugar, and is therefore somewhat better from a health standpoint than other artificial sweeteners. Although it says it has no calories, there are 2 calories per teaspoon. (This is allowed under current labeling laws.) It's fine for sweetening beverages, but according to Consumer Reports it is not recommended for baking.
/ was told I'd be better off eating real potato chips than fat-free ones. I thought the lessfat the better, so how can this be?
It can be because most fat-free potato chips and snacks contain the fake fat Olestra. |  See Glycerides and Succinic Acid. sucralose • Splenda. An artifical sweetener made from sugar. It is about six hundred times sweeter than sugar but does not contain calories. Producers claim it has no aftertaste and is more stable. It can be used in cooking and is already sold in Canada and Latin America. Among its users are Cadbury Beverages and Corby Distilleries in liqueurs. Johnson and Johnson plans to make it another NutraSweet in the United States by aggressively marketing it when it is approved. It had been waiting for U.S. approval since 1987 in fifteen food categories. | | SPLENDA • See sucralose.
SPRUCE NEEDLES and TWIGS • Extract of Picea spp. used in flavorings. See Spruce Oil.
SPRUCE OIL • Colorless to light yellow, pleasant-smelling oil obtained from the needles and twigs of various spruces and hemlocks. Used chiefly in scenting soaps and cosmetics but also used as a flavoring. See Hemlock Oil. SQUALENE • Obtained by hydrogenation of shark-liver oil. Stable in air and oxygen. Occurs in smaller amounts in olive oil, wheat germ oil, and rice bran oil. |  Saccharine (in Sweet'n Low) is on the "potentially hazardous to your health" list, having produced cancer in laboratory animals who were fed huge amounts of this sweetener. sucralose (Splenda) and acesulfame-K (Sunert) appear safe, although it might be too soon to tell the long-term health effects, since these sweeteners have not been thoroughly tested. Aspartame (Equal or Nutra-Sweet) also appears relatively harmless to health in tests and general use. The down side is none of these sweeteners boosts mood, helps curb carbohydrate cravings, or manages weight. |  Splenda), which seems the least likely to be problematic in the long run.
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Nonnutritive Sweeteners
Saccharin (Sweet'N Low, Hermesetas)
Composition: Synthetic—synthesized from petroleum or coal and other chemicals Sweetness vs. Sugar (Sucrose): 200-700 times sweeter than sugar Properties: Heat stable with bitter aftertaste
Food Uses: U.S.—used in many foods and beverages, tabletop sweeteners, and chewing gum. Canada—available only as a tabletop sweetener and sold in tablet or powder form in pharmacies. |  Others include: sucralose, acesulfane potassium, saccharine and others. I don't believe there has been enough research on the safety of any of these agents, and they need to be avoided.
Ellen, age 52, suffered with severe migraine headaches for five years. "I have been to numerous doctors and the only thing they can do for me is to medicate my headaches. The medications make me drowsy and give me side effects. I would rather have the headache than take the medications," she said. Ellen was also complaining of having a 'brain fog'. "I feel as if my brain does not work most of the time. | | Thus, it has the potential of inclusion in even more foods than NutraSweet, which breaks down when it is heated. sucralose has been approved for addition into all baked goods, baking mixes, nonalcoholic beverages, chewing gum, coffee and tea products, confections and frostings, fat and oils, frozen dairy desserts and mixes, fruit and water ices, gelatins, puddings and fillings, jams and jellies, milk products, processed fruits and fruit juices, sugar substitutes, sweet sauces, toppings, syrups, and as a tabletop sweetener. | |
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