Sweeteners

HooRU

We’ve discussed them just a little here already.

I’ve been a stevia user and use a 100% organic and pure extract. It’s good for iced drinks. It does have an aftertaste when used in foods. It is said to be a heart friendly food item, but after reading I realized my heart thumps might be caused by it (slowing the heart?) So I cut back and started drinking more plain water.

We have lead pipes here in Waterbury and I’m hoping to get a purifier a few months from now.

So on top of drinking water I decided to diversify my sweetener use and I got monkfruit sweetener, but it has xylitol in it darn it. It IS pretty good and is used like sugar.

I’m also going to allow aspartame a little again. I just want to keep the stevia use down a little bit as my heart likes going easier on it.

As I’m diabetic, plain sugar is something I avoid but every 3 months or so, I get a bag of sugar for general uses, like sauces.

My idea is everything in moderation.

Bombtrad

HooRU My idea is everything in moderation.

A good philosophy to take you through this life and see you to a good end.

HooRU We have lead pipes here in Waterbury and I’m hoping to get a purifier a few months from now.

Bloody hell!! I’d have been drinking only bottled water or panther p!ss rather than drink out of that tap. Should have done it years ago.

HooRU As I’m diabetic, plain sugar is something I avoid

But as a rule not totally prohibited, IF you monitor your sugar intake, and follow sensible guidelines, it can be a treat to be savored. Shout yourself a little pleasure. Life’s too short to live the life of an ascetic.

My wife has no Gall bladder, which means all fatty foods really should be prohibited. But over many years her system has come to adapt so that cream, in small amounts, or the occasional deep fry, do not harm her.

Dks01

I use Splenda exclusively and only on cereal and fruit. Otherwise I eat normally, don’t do takeout at all, eschew beef generally and a few other avoidances like dairy. I’m good.

Donoreo

Dks01 I use Splenda exclusively and only on cereal and fruit

Why do you put any kind on sweetner on fruit?

Somewhat-Reticent

HooRU Individual reaction to any sweetener varies, naturally.
And may change over time.

Enabling ( a massive improvement in ) taste only takes a tiny amount of sugar.

Some sugar-alcohols may result in significant gas generation.

( For some, gall-bladder-lack served chicken(fat) means be upwind. )

egeezer

HooRU
This is another topic you should note to take with you to your next Dr. appointment. Also, add the sweeteners you use to your list of meds and OTC items.

Dks01

Donoreo Sometimes the fruit is not quite ripe. Apples I can salt. Strawberries are the worst. Right now Niagara peaches are perfect.

Somewhat-Reticent

Dks01 Yeah, and strawberries don’t ripen after picking. Frozen works ok.

Most apples here are at the end of their warehouse storage life: refrig here.
Didn’t think @ salt, chemistry often helps - gonna try a light spritz/dip!

urbanriot

HooRU My idea is everything in moderation.

How about exercise and fasting? Honestly I don’t trust any of those alternative sweeteners not to have some kind of negative impact on us and prefer to stick with honey or maple syrup for additive sweetness and brown sugar in cooking.

I used to eat a lot of sweet things, like nutella by the spoon, wine gummies, added a lot of sugar to my coffee and tea, but a very healthy friend convinced me in my 30s to lower the amounts I added and I found that after a while my palate adjusted to reduced sweetness and I moved directly from two sugars in my coffee to one honey.

Since regularly exercising, intermittently fasting, and maintaining a healthy diet I’ve staved off diabetes despite it having a history in every man in my family on both sides of the family but I also ate healthy from a young age, avoided soft drinks, and I’m definitely healthier than the men who came before when they were my age. I also get blood glucose testing done every time my doctor has me for a checkup and so far its fine… and not because I use artificial sweeteners.

Somewhat-Reticent

An occasional 3-day fast can break appetite addiction.

dave

Donoreo Why do you put any kind on sweetner on fruit?

How are you with gooseberries? ;-)

Somewhat-Reticent

dave gooseberries

Dried, frozen, fermented, or canned with (citric/pineapple) acid, they’re great.
( Soaked in honey good too, but tedious/messy/costly. )
+( Make sure they don’t carry Cronartium ribicola = white pine blister rust! )

HooRU

I do fast some and my best friend gets really angry with me over it. He says “you have diabetes, you need to eat steady, small meals!”

When I was in my 20’s I fasted for 3 days a number of times, each time I got very sick and blacked out while on the road.

Since I don’t have the budget for meals all month long, I do fast for a day here and there and eat only one or two meals many days, out of necessity.

I just got back from Aldi a while ago, so tonight I eat. I don’t eat a lot of junk food or processed food, but I do have a little bit. I just house and pet sat for my sister for 3 days and they paid me by feeding me and I had ice cream. I shouldn’t have had it, I gained a few pounds.

My problem is late night nervous eating. During the day I’m not hungry. It’s crazy and frustrates the heck out of me.

wdunwoody

Also a diabetic here. I have two very informed medical/dietician friends who have advised me not to use any of the artificial sweeteners. I used to use Equal and then Splenda, only with coffee. But they both claim that these sweeteners undergo a chemical reaction with the hot coffee that produce trace amounts of substances that are NOT good for diabetics… They insist that careful use of sugar is better. I use “Sugar In The Raw”… it’s not “processed”. Also convinced me not to use microwave popcorn because of something that happens when the oil is heated…

Somewhat-Reticent

HooRU late night nervous eating

Not alone. (Sigh.)
{ Gotta remember protein only then, not “comfort-food” carbs. ( And pray? ) }

wdunwoody microwave popcorn

depends on oil that easily gets too hot & burned, producing toxic by-products.
Even veggies cut with sharp edges can likewise get too hot & burnt at points.
Hot-air popcorn poppers avoid that issue.

HooRU

Tonight I had sauerkraut (I’m half German) and I was in the CR for an hour. (Comfort Room, what my wife calls it). How can I German like me have such a problem? For crying out loud, I’m a Kraut!

HooRU

No offense to fellow Germans, for me it’s not an insult.

urbanriot

HooRU I do fast some and my best friend gets really angry with me over it. He says “you have diabetes, you need to eat steady, small meals!”

That’s literally the opposite of what medical science has said.

Endocrine Society: Intermittent fasting may reverse type 2 diabetes

The researchers conducted a 3-month intermittent fasting diet intervention among 36 people with diabetes and found almost 90% of participants, including those who took blood sugar-lowering agents and insulin, reduced their diabetes medication intake after intermittent fasting. Fifty-five percent of these people experienced diabetes remission, discontinued their diabetes medication and maintained it for at least one year.

HooRU My problem is late night nervous eating.

I had a huge problem doing this when I was younger. Well, not nervous eating but snacking, I was a compulsive snacker. Late at night I’d each nachos and cheese with salsa, a bag of chips, nutella with a spoon, nutella and peanut butter on toast, ice cream almost every night, etc.. Unfortunately I hit an age where my body decided to turn that into weight so I had to stop and the only way my family could get me to stop was to agree not to have anything in the house that was snackable until I was cured.

egeezer

wdunwoody . Also convinced me not to use microwave popcorn because of something that happens when the oil is heated…

I recall seeing an article on that a few years ago. Microwave popcorn isn’t good tasting IMO. I like white popcorn and found a brand with very few hulls and dead soldiers. I use a hot air popper then toss it with a sinful amount of butter and a little salt. 😃 It’s probably not healthy, but I don’t make it often.

HooRU

I need to get an air popper, plain popcorn is a dieter’s cheat so I heard.