Aspartame Dangers
🧘Mental/Physical Health 🏋🏼♂️
When heated to 86 degrees F (body temp is 98.6) it releases free methanol that breaks down to formic acid and formaldehyde - a deadly neurotoxin.
The FDA refused to approve its use as it causes cancer and diabetes.
Donald Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle, the conglomerate that manufactured Aspartame. For 16 years approval was refused - until Rumsfeld got into the WH.
Starting to think sugar was demonised to get people to use artificial sweeteners.
Got this info from "The Fourth Reich" by Jim Marrs.
Salt, Eggs, Sugar... all maligned by "Experts"
Remember when they demonized butter.
Yep. I refused to eat margarine as it tasted like crap in comparison, fake food. Aka paying attention to your body and your intuition.
I also switched from frying in seed oils (especially corn oil) to coconut oil. It is solid below a certain temperature so I have to melt it in the pan first but It is just a habit now.
Lard and Beef dripping. If you are going to cook a steak and some bacon then it doesn't make any sense to cook them in oil.
It took me a long time to come around on sugar, but I have final arrived. The Bible having several shoutouts to honey, helped me.
Avoiding toxic processed garbage gets a whole lot easier once you realize that refined sucrose is in no way bad and that honey is excellent!
Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Honey should be eaten sparingly. Same with sugar.
Interesting.
On the other hand there is also:
Proverbs 25:27 - "My son, eat honey because it is good, And the honeycomb which is sweet to your taste;"
Exodus 3:8 - "I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey"
So maybe there is a moderate amount which is best to eat.
I do remember seeing a blog reporting on a study which showed average protein, average fat and above average carb intake was associated with the lowest biomarkers of aging (among the biomarkers tested in the study).
Honey is a sweet treat, not something to fill up on.
Proverbs 25:16
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
That is interesting. It doesn't give a clear macro breakdown, but probably because that is variable.
I am doing about 500 cal from raw honey each day. It is supposed to be good for healing from illness, especially if the gut is damaged. (I have Crohn's)
I wonder if what the verse means by "eat so much as is sufficient" isn't that we shouldn't eat beyond hunger.
It's the same lesson children learn if their parents let them eat all the candy they want on Halloween.
It is impossible to eat "too much" honey. It is extremely filling. If you try it, you will only eat a few tablespoons before you body says "nope."
I accidentally got the diet drink from a fountain machine and one sip later i had a headache. i honestly couldnt believe my head could hurt almost instantly from a drink lol. it didnt even taste right it tasted like shit. how can people drink it every day? lmfao
Me too - I react very quickly to hidden nasties and now read the ingredient lists carefully. If something has more than 3 or 4 ingredients goes back on the shelf.
I recall during the gulf war they talked about this. Lots of troops were getting sick from "Gulf War Syndrome". Conspiracy Consultants at that time theorized it was caused by heated up aspartame (desert environment) in the diet coke given to the troops.
Interesting. Thx for sharing u/undine53/. I didn't know much about Aspartame. So I did a little research and found this: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/foods-contain-aspartame-artificial-sweetener-possible-carcinogen-rcna93913
For those interested, here are some of the common foods that include Aspartame. I wanted to find out so I could make sure to avoid them.
Tabletop sweeteners, including NutraSweet, Equal and Sugar Twin.
Beverages and drink mixes, such as Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Diet Snapple, Fanta Zero, Sprite Zero, Crystal Light and Wyler’s Light.
Sugar-free gum, including Trident, Extra, Wrigley’s and Mentos gum.
Gelatin-based products, including sugar-free Jell-O and Royal Gelatin.
Syrups, including Mrs. Butterworth’s Sugar Free Syrup and Log Cabin Sugar Free Syrup.
Good info - thanks!
I never used those but changed to Stevia and Xylitol for a while. Gone back to using sugar (mostly unprocessed) in small amounts. All the people I knew when I was growing up used white sugar in drinks and cooking, all stayed healthy and lived to their 90's. Speaks volumes.
sure does!!
Sugar in moderation is not bad. High fructose corn syrup is bad. Big corporations began substituting HFCS for sugar in the late 70s/early80s. This is when obesity rates in the US began climbing. I grew up with millions of others in the 1960s and 70s. We ate candy, cakes, cookies, etc. and did not get fat. These were made with cane sugar.There were maybe 5-10 overweight children in the whole school.
"Sucrose, or regular cane sugar, is made of one molecule of glucose and one molecule of fructose – each the same size (a 50-50 ratio) – and tightly joined by a chemical bond. In the digestive tract, it takes time for enzymes to break the bond between the two molecules. Gradually, the glucose and fructose molecules separate and enter the bloodstream to be used for energy.
Though HFCS is also made of a glucose and a fructose molecule, the structure is different. The fructose molecule is larger, making the fructose to glucose ratio 55-45, and the two molecules are not bound together.
Because there is no chemical bond in HFCS, when we consume it, no digestion is needed to separate the glucose from the fructose. The sugars are immediately absorbed into the bloodstream.
The fructose, which is sweeter than glucose, goes immediately to the liver and causes it to produce triglycerides (fats) and cholesterol. Over time, this can lead to a type of liver damage known as “fatty liver,” a condition already affecting about 70 million people.
The rapidly absorbed glucose from HFCS triggers unnatural spikes in the body’s production of insulin, a hormone involved in fat storage, and the body’s ability to use sugar for energy."
https://eatingdisorders.com/lifestyle/general-lifestyle/cane-sugar-vs-high-fructose-corn-syrup-how-they-differ
Sugar can definitely be bad for you, but the answer is to adapt your palate to not crave so much sweetness rather than lean on stuff like aspartame.
Stevia is the one non-sugar sweetener that's naturally occuring, but it's also commonly mixed with erythritol so it's tricky to find in its pure form.
My nursery had stevia plants. The leaves are very sweet and taste good. Can probably grow that and throw in chopped freah leaves. Also, coconut palm sugar has a much lower glycemic index of 35 vs sugars 60.
Good info! I'm going to remember this. Do you happen to know if it can be directly substituted in cooking?
I picked some up at walmart. Very good taste, not as sharply sweet as goyslop white sugar. Makes sense since white sugar is pure sweetness with eveything else removed. Havent cooked with it yet but id imagine its a great substute, may need to add a little more. Price is much higher. Organic coconut palm sugar 24oz 7.44. 64oz goyslop sugar 3.22. Also palm sugar is nutrient dense.
Nothing wrong with erythritol IMO, it's made from fermented molasses so is quite natural.
I hear from my buddy Walt that that Stevia crap is killer too.