I Always Knew this Sh...
OK here's big shock, I don't use artificial sweeteners. When mid-life calorie counting hit me in the butt, I chose to reduce sugars. Come on, I only used honey and real maple syrup for sweeteners in beverages, would I now use Sweet and Low? I'm not a soda drinker, so it wasn't too hard to start drinking my coffee with no sugar, and I actually like it better now that way.
Today's New York Times profiles an Italian scientist, Dr. Morando Soffritti, who has studied aspartame. Now it wouldn't be fair for me to rip on this stuff without going through all points in the article, and giving subjective counterpointints. Dr. Soffritti's study concluded that aspartame may cause the dreaded "c" word.
I can't say I've never eaten at McDonalds: but I can say that artificial sweeteners have never passed my lips. I also know allot of people that consume three to four 20 ounce diet sodas a day. I just don't get that. Your whole pallet is washed with this weird flavor. Eewww, yuck and blah.
I'll try to hyperlink to the article here: The Lowdown on Sweet? - New York Times
Today's New York Times profiles an Italian scientist, Dr. Morando Soffritti, who has studied aspartame. Now it wouldn't be fair for me to rip on this stuff without going through all points in the article, and giving subjective counterpointints. Dr. Soffritti's study concluded that aspartame may cause the dreaded "c" word.
I can't say I've never eaten at McDonalds: but I can say that artificial sweeteners have never passed my lips. I also know allot of people that consume three to four 20 ounce diet sodas a day. I just don't get that. Your whole pallet is washed with this weird flavor. Eewww, yuck and blah.
I'll try to hyperlink to the article here: The Lowdown on Sweet? - New York Times
posted by Lola at 18:36
1 Comments:
Funny. I had this conversation with Tera the other day. Like you, I don't drink soda. I do, however, drink a ton of iced and hot tea. Some herbal teas are sweat as is, but the black teas are too bland. I use the "pink" packets to sweeten my black teas. Honey never did it for me. Plain sugar never did it for me.
The conversation started between Tera and I because a woman in my office recently cut out all diet sodas in exchange for regular soda. She drinks a lot of soda. She said she has been reading all of these articles about how sweeteners cause cancer. The irony is: she is a very heavy woman who should be more concerned about health complications from her weight (and the calories she's adding to her diet from regular sodas) than cancer from sweeteners.
I think this whole 'sweeteners cause cancer' hub bub is just another false sense of fear for us American to get in a tizzy about. Also, it diverts our attention from the reall issue - the fact that our waist lines are expanding.
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