I quit artificial sweeteners!!!!

bobbimrn

We all came to MFP to improve our health and the forums are for discussions. Everyone has made some excellent points and yes I could absolutely be wrong as these are Only my observations. Although I’m still not convinced our bodies know what to do with all these modern “foods”. I greatly admire all that medicine can do, but over time I’ve come to see what it can not do and have chosen augment with “Let Food be thy Medicine “. to help the body heal itself. Anyway, I seem to have accidentally high-jacked this thread, I’m just glad feels Elmaj5575 feels better.

“In Defense of Food”
“The Blue Zones Solution”
“ The China Study”
“Eat to Live”
“Crazy Sexy Diet”

kimny72

bobbimrn wrote: »

We all came to MFP to improve our health and the forums are for discussions. Everyone has made some excellent points and yes I could absolutely be wrong as these are Only my observations. Although I’m still not convinced our bodies know what to do with all these modern “foods”. I greatly admire all that medicine can do, but over time I’ve come to see what it can not do and have chosen augment with “Let Food be thy Medicine “. to help the body heal itself. Anyway, I seem to have accidentally high-jacked this thread, I’m just glad feels Elmaj5575 feels better.

“In Defense of Food”
“The Blue Zones Solution”
“ The China Study”
“Eat to Live”
“Crazy Sexy Diet”

If you're interested in discussing this you could always start a thread about it in the Debate forum. You might want to skim some of the threads in there to get an idea of how they roll, but that's always an option!

kshama2001

psychod787 wrote: »

kshama2001 wrote: »

gebeziseva wrote: »

I clicked "Woo" and I didn't mean "woo-hoo".

Why did you quit them? Sugary drinks are bad for your teeth and no drinks is just sadness...

I know you didn't really mean that life is sad without diet soda, but that's how your words come across so I have to say that I don't find life without either kind of soda the least bit sad.

Studies have shown that for some people, artificial sweetener increases their appetite, so for these people, cutting that out can help them lose weight.

Your Opinion, ksharma.... op... you do you..... though, I think the research does not back up what you are saying. We all have our own way of doing things.

Yes, it is my opinion that life is not sad without soda and if the person I quoted had said her life would be sad without soda I would have left it go unchallenged, but she made it a blanket statement "no drinks is just sadness".

slossia

It seems that only overweight people tell me that diet sodas are bad for me. I’ll take my advice from people who don’t need to loose any weight.

johnwelk

bobbimrn wrote: »

Although I’m still not convinced our bodies know what to do with all these modern “foods”.

What modern foods do our bodies not know what to do with?

I greatly admire all that medicine can do, but over time I’ve come to see what it can not do and have chosen augment with “Let Food be thy Medicine “.

What can medicine not heal that food can?

TravisJHunt

I so wish I could quit them just because drinking this much diet Pepsi isn't healthy for my gut. Its the acidity I'm worried about. I'm 3-4L a day type guy and that's just way too much. Sucks because I hate coffee but love caffeine!

NovusDies

slossia wrote: »

It seems that only overweight people tell me that diet sodas are bad for me. I’ll take my advice from people who don’t need to loose any weight.

They can be equally misinformed on a subject like this. In the days or organic, gluten free, non-gmo, etc. the word artificial is going to stand out even more like a sore thumb. It sounds bad in context. Doesn't seem to be enough to hurt sales though so I think the a.s. conspiracy squad must still be a small minority.

I honestly do not care if someone wants to cut them out of their diet whether they have a good reason or not. I don't care about people who want to eat "clean" by whatever definition they choose to use either. If it doesn't risk your health, it is sustainable, and you can afford it do whatever you want that makes you more comfortable. I wasn't comfortable getting headaches when I skipped or delayed my daily coffee years ago so I made my choice to stop. I still drink caffeinated beverages (I am drinking a cup of coffee right now) but I don't do it daily anymore. 20 or so years later it hasn't helped me or hurt me that I can tell.

ETA: I do care if people preach their choices at me though. Some of these things I consider to be like decorating your home. You can choose to paint your walls green with purple polka dots if that works for you but that doesn't make you an authority on how I choose to paint mine.

starryphoenix

The only thing I want to say here is that Stevia is not an articlficial sweetener. Stevia comes from a natural source, therefore it is a natural sweetener like sugar, or xylitol. Artificial sweeteners are man made.