Erin and I have been doing a little research lately-- Just in time for the holiday season. In an effort to overcome our addictions and reign in our overindulgences we have decided that we need to cut back our sugar intake, for us and our kids. This will be particularly hard because I LOVE baking sugary goodness and even more than that, I love to eat it. It surrounds us at every turn.
Just for fun we thought we would do a little research on alternative artificial sweeteners. We started with everybody's favorite Splenda and found out is is not so splendid. Lets just say we wont be stocking our pantry with that stuff, or any of the other chemical artificial sweeteners on the market. Here are a couple a links to one of the many websites we found (not) extolling the 'goodness' of artificial sweeteners.
Artificial Sweetener Explodes Internally
We already knew aspartame was a bad one, Erin has an acute sensitivity to it. When ever she consumes food with even small traces of aspartame in it she is immediately overcome with nausea and intense headaches. My first experience of seeing the effects of this toxin on Erin happened on a family vacation to Hawaii a few months after we were married. It was savory nuts that we were not expecting to be sugared up. I now take every precaution to make sure she is not accidentally besieged.
Many people use chemical artificial sweeteners thinking there is not problem with them. Artificial sweeteners are in nearly every possible food you can think of and in many you would have never dreamed. How many people have similar reaction to artificial sweeteners as Erin does, but don't know what the cause is? Is your favorite sugar-less gum or your daily diet soda causing your headaches? The more we learn about chemical sweeteners, the scarier it is for us. We hear more and more stories that are alarming –we thought Erin's reaction was bad, but it turns out it is pretty mild compared to symptoms similar to MS or worse.
The bad news is that good old fashioned table sugar is not much better. (long sigh...) We are on a mission though, to find a perfect balance of good healthy life style and yummy goodness. Recipes to come.
Many people use chemical artificial sweeteners thinking there is not problem with them. Artificial sweeteners are in nearly every possible food you can think of and in many you would have never dreamed. How many people have similar reaction to artificial sweeteners as Erin does, but don't know what the cause is? Is your favorite sugar-less gum or your daily diet soda causing your headaches? The more we learn about chemical sweeteners, the scarier it is for us. We hear more and more stories that are alarming –we thought Erin's reaction was bad, but it turns out it is pretty mild compared to symptoms similar to MS or worse.
The bad news is that good old fashioned table sugar is not much better. (long sigh...) We are on a mission though, to find a perfect balance of good healthy life style and yummy goodness. Recipes to come.
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Sitting here drinking my agave-sweetened tea (Erin...have you tried it yet? Tulsi Sweet Rose?) and I say BRAVO to you all. I'm on this same quest. It's not so easy....
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