"Sugar Free" Stuff

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"Sugar Free" Stuff
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Thu, 01-08-2004 - 1:03pm
Are all these sugar free stuffs ok?


I still remember the days of SAccharin causes cancer, etc....

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Thu, 01-08-2004 - 1:21pm

As long as it's on the list and SF it's ok.

MelMel
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Registered: 11-18-2003
Thu, 01-08-2004 - 3:19pm
Hello all! Russell Stover makes a full line of sugar free goodies, from peppermint patties, turtles, and peanut butter cups, just to name a few. I have found them at just about every grocery store I have been in as well as drugstores. I know for sure that Wal-Mart carries them and everyone has one of those closeby! They are good and really satisfy that craving for chocolate. Hope this helps anyone looking for them. I have been on the Beach since November...did really well, then fell of the wagon the week in between Chrismas and New Years. I started back this week, Phase 1 and am back on track. I enjoy the foods I can have on this diet.

Barb

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Registered: 08-30-2003
Thu, 01-08-2004 - 3:33pm
Here is the theroy of Saccharin as explained to me by my oldest sons doctor. (A little back story my son is extreamly allergic to Aspartame and any artifical Colors especially FD&C Red #40 and most artifical flavors)

The company Monsanto owns both Saccharin and Aspartame, one is dangerous the other not. Saccharin has been around for a very long time and Monsanto was bought out by another company that had developed Aspartame. Before this some had alleged that Saccharin caused cancer and testing was done and it has never been found to be harmful to humans, but the new Monsanto never tried to dispute this because they wanted to push Aspartame, but they also didn't want to pull Saccharin completely off the market, so they sat on the fence. They can make a whole lot more money publicly pushing one product but still selling both. The cancer warning were pulled off Saccharin produce, it is false! I know I probably sound like a fundalmentalist or a crazy person, but I have seen the affect of both on my son (not cancer, but other reactions). Below is excepts from an article that better describes my little overview. And please don't think I am preaching to anybody about lifestyle, I would be the last person to do that, just thought you might like the info!

Pink VS Blue - Who Will Win the Sweetener War?

by: Dr. Janet Starr Hull, Ph.D., CN

http://www.detoxprogram.net/articles/the-sweetener-war.php


Research history proves that saccharin, the pink stuff known as Sweet 'N Low, is perfectly safe for human use and has always been safe to use. The pink stuff never caused cancer in any human being in over 100 years of use. Saccharin has only received a total of six FDA complaints whereas aspartame, found in the blue packet known as NutraSweet's Equal, had received over 10,000 complaints to the FDA after only ten years of use. Aspartame has been proven in laboratory studies to eat holes in the brains of laboratory animals,cause mammary gland and testes tumors, lower fetal IQ and adversely affect fetal formation, yet it has no danger warning other than for Phenylketonuria, the inherited inability to process the amino acid phenylalanine.

So why then is the pink pack labeled a carcinogen and the blue pack deemed as safe when it's actually the other way around?

in 1917 the U.S. government filed suit over the safety of saccharin as a test case at Monsanto's request. The suit was dismissed in 1925, ending the government's unsuccessful attempts then to prove saccharin as harmful.

In 1981, saccharin was again questioned as a carcinogen, but no respectable scientific proof was ever presented. In 2001, the cancer warning was removed from saccharin product labels as saccharin was shown, once again, to be safe for human consumption, as it has never been proven to cause cancer in humans. The laboratory protocols used to prove saccharin caused cancer in laboratory rats have been questioned as being unethical modus operandi.

In 1981, G.D. Searle & Co. succeeded in getting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve NutraSweet (aspartame) for the second time, and made preparations to purchase Monsanto in 1985, taking the company deeper into pharmaceuticals and the sweetener industry. NutraSweet, saccharin's new competitor, was now owned and marketed by the same company - Monsanto.

So, here is the answer why the saccharin manufacturers didn't cry foul and fight back. Monsanto owned them both, and decisions were made to sacrifice saccharin for NutraSweet, but not to completely take saccharin off the market.

When Monsanto sold its sweetener business in 2000, including the NutraSweet brand sweetener, the sale brought Monsanto $440 million.

As of 2003, saccharin is now sold without the cancer warning and is being reintroduced into food products. I personally recommend saccharin use over aspartame and sucralose, a chemical sweetener compounded with chlorine. Natural sugars such as Sucanat and Stevia are preferable over saccharin of course, but saccharin has less harmful side effects than the more modern artificial sweeteners. Saccharin does not completely digest in the human body and it's by-products are, therefore, less harmful than aspartame or compounded sucralose.

(a side note, the tests on lab rat described above: "The laboratory protocols used to

prove saccharin caused cancer in laboratory rats have been questioned

as being unethical modus operandi." in this test they administered Saccharin in dose 10,000 to 100,000 time the normal consumption. This is why they are not accurate, because anything is bad for you in that sort of dosage.)

This is not the whole article, just bit and pieces I pulled out so this wouldn't be soooo long! The link above should take you to it, if you want to read the whole thing.

Sorry this is so long

Jedi

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Registered: 03-21-2003
Thu, 01-08-2004 - 3:53pm

That's awesome, thanks for the info, I had NO idea.

MelMel
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Thu, 01-08-2004 - 5:12pm
RE: those Russell Stover candies.......

I drooled over them just today in the store.....

However, I wondered about the calories....

Isn't there a 75 cal sweet limit a day?

I'd hate to spend it all at once - I could eat sweets all day!

Someone please correct me.....??????

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Registered: 10-01-2003
Thu, 01-08-2004 - 5:21pm

You are correct.