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I've been reading the posts about hfc and how it is bad for you. I also get flak from my brother for letting my kids occasionally drink diet soda less than 1 time a month. Since according to him diet soda was only invented for diabetics.
HFCS is probably not as bad as the zero-calorie sweeteners, but who really knows. if i had to pick my poison, i'd go for the regular soda with HFCS. most diet sodas use aspartame (generic name for nutrasweet/equal), but many are switching to splenda. aspartame is evil, plain and simple. there was quite a bit of political wrangling behind getting aspartame approved by the FDA. basically, monsanto, the food giant, held the patent for aspartame, and the monsanto family was close friends with ronald reagan. year after year before reagan went into office, the FDA refused to approve aspartame as safe. then as soon as reagan got inaugerated into office, he fired the head of the FDA... guess what got approved within months??? . i also know enough of the chemistry behind aspartame to be scared to ever ingest it again (i used to consume it daily).
i know very little about splenda, however, so i can't really comment; it may well be better than aspartame, but then again it could be worse. who knows...
Every time I drink soda or gatorade or powerade or anything with HFCS or lots of artificial sweeteners or colors I get an awful migraine. We've pretty much sworn off soda; the only time we buy it is once in awhile when we get take-out. I had a Sprite earlier and I am fighting a headache right now. Probably need to get offline, I doubt the computer screen is helping.
That is so true. I did a paper on Aspartame and MSG for a Nutrition class a couple of years ago. Awful stuff happened to get it approved - just like Southpaw mentioned. In the end, the FDA panel voted AGAINST it, yet the director appointed by Reagan overrode the scientists and approved it. He then left to go work for Monsanto (or whatever company it is that makes it). Same kind of stuff happens with drug approval as well.
Splenda is basically bleached sugar. So you're eating bleach. That's what our Nutrition professor told us. She agreed that taking a moderate approach to sugar is better than taking a chance with anything invented to take sugar's place.
One exception is stevia. It is derived from a sweet-leaved plant, not chemically engineered. I've tried it and think it tastes bitter like Sweet-n-Low.
So we go for regular sodas, regular sugar, etc. We just try not to have too much of it. I can send you a copy of my paper if you want - I have tons of research quoted on the ill-effects of Aspartame.
They're both bad, in my opinion. I haven't had soda in over 20 years (and even prior to then I didn't really care for it)and I've never given it to my kids. I'm not a coffee or tea drinker either, it's strictly water for me 100% of the time. There is ZERO nutritional value in soda, so why even let the kids get a taste for it? I'm not a big fan of juice either. My boys either drink milk or water.
I didn't know that about Splenda, that it's bleached sugar. I've been drinking Pepsi One, sweetened w/ Splenda. Might have to rethink that.
Some micro-brewed sodas and Mexican-brewed Coke have regular table sugar in them rather than HFCS. Options.
Kristin
the key ingredient in Splenda, called sucralose, is made through a process that begins with pure sugar, or sucrose, and then replaces three of eight hydroxyl groupings on the sucrose molecule with three chlorine atoms......... First, he showed the jury a sugar molecule. Next to it, he projected a sucralose molecule, explaining that the only differences were three places on the molecule where a hydrogen atom and an oxygen atom had been replaced with a chlorine atom. .......... Splenda is made from pure cane sugar that is burned off in the manufacturing process and is not found in the final product, he said.
"Let me be clear: Sucralose starts out as pure cane sugar," Zalesin said, and is then "modified at the atomic level in a way that preserves the taste of sugar but eliminates the calories."
But LoCascio told the jury that the process used to make Splenda could also begin with onions or beans. But McNeil, he said, knew that consumers would not be attracted to a product that had a slogan proclaiming it is "made from onions so it tastes like sugar.
Some micro-brewed sodas and Mexican-brewed Coke have regular table sugar in them rather than HFCS. Options.
Kristin
I'm don't think she literally meant "bleached sugar" - I think something fancy is done in the lab, like adding a molecule or something that makes it the chemical/molecular equivalent of "bleached sugar"... Just wanted to clarify that!
not only do mexican sodas contain regular sugar, most sodas from anywhere outside of the US contain regular sugar... the last time i was in europe i checked on this... they all hade sucrose (plain table sugar). same for most sweets and chocolates.
both table salt and bleach contain the element chlorine.
When we lived in Egypt, I noticed that Coke tasted differently there. I guess now it was maybe the regular sugar....?
Yes! We are such "sea salt" people here. No "table salt". :thumbsup:
sorry to burst your bubble, but sea salt is primarily sodium chloride with small quantities of other beneficial ions... table salt is just refined sodium chloride. that said, we use sea salt too, if only for the flavor and the unrefined aspect of it!
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The salt that you find in table salt and most processed foods is sodium chloride. Salt in this form has been processed at high temperatures, which changes the molecular structure and removes vital minerals from the salt. Table salt also contains additives, anticaking agents, and even sugar. Excess salt consumption is associated with high blood pressure, fluid retention, heart and kidney disease.
Trash It: Dump out your salt shaker and toss out all other packaged or processed foods with a high sodium content. This should be pretty easy for most people.
Stash it: We have been told for years to avoid salt, but following this advice can lead to even more problems. We are all salty on the inside--our blood, sweat, tears, and even our urine--it's all salty. It's important to replenish the salt in our body, using the right salt is what makes all the difference in the world. The best way to put salt back into your body is to use Celtic sea salt. This high quality salt contains over 80 balanced minerals from the sea. Celtic sea salt is essential for maintaining proper fluid balance and utilization in the body. It also normalizes blood pressure, enhances digestion, and nourishes the adrenal glands.
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Salt is an essence of Life.
Natural Salt is an essential element in the diet of not only humans but of animals, and even of many plants.
Use of natural salt is as old as human history. Natural Salt is one of the most effective and most widely used of all food seasonings and natural preservatives.
Natural salt is a source of 21 essential and 30 accessory minerals that are essential to our health.
According to some sources, other elements are up to 5% of dry ocean salt.
Refined salt contain only 0.1 - 0.5% other elements.
Unrefined sea salt contain 98.0 % NaCl (sodium-chloride) and up to 2.0% other minerals (salts) : Epsom salts and other Magnesium salts, Calcium salts, Potassium (Kalium) salts, Manganese salts, Phosphorus salts, Iodine salts, .. all together over 100 minerals composed of 80 chemical elements... Composition of crystal of ocean salt is so complicated that no laboratory in the world can produce it from its basic 80 chemical elements.
Nature is still better chemist than people.
This salt has been used since begining of life, by ocean plants, by animals and by people
(Percentage is referring to the percentage of dry matter. Salt can contain high percentage of water.)
Refined salt (Table Salt) is 99.9% NaCl (sodium-chloride), (chemical as clean as Heroin or White Sugar) . It almost always contain additives, like 0.01% of Potassium-Iodide (added to the salt to avoid Iodine deficiency disease of thyroid gland), Sugar (added to stabilize Iodine and as anti-caking chemical), Aluminum silicate.
Thanks to Potassium-Iodide, we now have an epidemic of Hyperthyroidism.
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