Why do they recommend cutting out sweeteners?

[Heath o]

Just wondering I go through many sweetness each day,just wanting to know if they doing me any harm,

 

[mikeyB]

The short answer is no, there’s lots of guff on the internet about artificial sweeteners, but they’re perfectly safe. One of the commonest, Acesulfame K, gets ingested and you pee it out completely unchanged.

I’ve never used artificial sweeteners at all, even before I developed diabetes, but then I’ve never sweetened tea or coffee.

 

[Heath o]

Cheers Mike that's good to hear kept reading it everywhere to stop taking them

 

[Matthew James Hardy]

I had Canderel on my Weetabix this morning only little sprinkle is this okay and how much Canderel can you use on cereals tea coffee etc

 

[Drummer]

I found that cutting out things which were either really sweet or tasted sweet became compulsory for me as they became sickly. Normal tastes - conditioned to everything being sweet, including such things as bread or pastry for savoury fillings mean that everything has to be sweeter and sweeter tasting - cutting it out makes for some strange changes - peas and beetroot are sweet - carrot is sweet.
I think that it is not so much the sweeteners which are bad news, it the maintenance of levels of required sweetness.

 

[Radders]

There are a couple of theories apart from the one that the chemicals in them are harmful. One is that they don’t help you to retrain your tastebuds to enjoy less sweet foods. I sort of go along with this, however I have had some success in retraining my tastebuds but I still prefer sweetener in certain foods such as yoghurt and low carb cakes.
The other theory I am more dubious about which is that the sweetness tricks the body into producing insulin and therefore making you eat more. As I don’t produce insulin this can’t happen for me: I don’t know whether anyone with type 2 can confirm it. I guess if you knew this would happen you could just decide that you aren’t going to eat more!

 

[Matt Cycle]

I prefer sweeteners in fizzy drinks (i.e. diet drinks) because they don't sell anything else like it and water is rather boring - the only other option are sugar ones and they're useful for hypos only. 🙄 Diet drinks have never done me any harm going back to the early days of tab and one cal - an unpleasant taste as made with saccharine. I don't have anything in tea or coffee.

 

[Heath o]

I had Canderel on my Weetabix this morning only little sprinkle is this okay and how much Canderel can you use on cereals tea coffee etc

I have 30/35 cups of coffee a day all with sweetner

 

[Ljc]

I have sweetener in my white coffee and I drink Coke Zero I don’t need insulin for either and my BG doesn’t alter .
My taste has changed over time, I now prefer savoury, but I just can’t drink coffee without Sweetener.

 

[Heath o]

Now what you mean keep trying without sweetner but can't get used to it probably go through 60/70 sweetness per day in coffee just hoping it doesn't do me harm

 

[Matthew James Hardy]

I have sweetener in my white coffee and I drink Coke Zero I don’t need insulin for either and my BG doesn’t alter .
My taste has changed over time, I now prefer savoury, but I just can’t drink coffee without Sweetener.

Just a quickie here what’s the difference between Coke Zero and Diet Coke am I right in saying Diet Coke has small quantity of sugar ?

 

[Matt Cycle]

Just a quickie here what’s the difference between Coke Zero and Diet Coke am I right in saying Diet Coke has small quantity of sugar ?

None, it's just marketing- they're the same. Men (apparently) don't like asking for 'diet' drinks as it's a bit girly. So we get Zero or Max.

 

[Matt Cycle]

None, it's just marketing- they're the same. Men (apparently) don't like asking for 'diet' drinks as it's a bit girly. So we get Zero or Max.

Actually I have an anecdote about this. I was at the Glastonbury festival in 1995 and Virgin had launched their cola brand to compete with Coke and Pepsi. They had sponsorship at the festival and had caravans dotted around flogging this cola. Feeling a bit thirsty I went over to one and asked for a diet cola. The man behind the counter looked at me incredulously and said 'diet....cola' with the emphasis on diet. I said yes, diet cola. I didn't tell the stupid tw*t why I wanted diet cola in particular as it was none of his business. Anyway he shrugged and gave a smirk before handing it over. It didn't really bother me asking for diet drinks but I imagine it would have bothered someone like him. 🙄

 

[Matthew James Hardy]

Matt when I’ve check labels noticed think there is 2 to 3 per cent sugar in Diet Coke and None at all in zero can’t remember now though so always stuck with Zero however when your out in about seem not all places do Coke Zero you see more Diet Coke for example if you go to a chippy etc

 

[Matt Cycle]

No, at least there shouldn't be. Not in the UK anyway. Bit of salt in Coke Zero compared to Diet Coke but no sugar in either.

http://www.coca-cola.co.uk/drinks/diet-coke/diet-coke

 

[mikeyB]

I have 30/35 cups of coffee a day all with sweetner

How do you find time to eat? And with all that caffeine, how do you sleep? And, with caffeine having a diuretic effect, I assume you get most of your exercise walking to and from the toilet.

 

[Wirrallass]

I have 30/35 cups of coffee a day all with sweetner

Whhhaaaaaattttt?😱

 

[Heath o]

Hi Mike almost got me down to a t. Apart from the bit not sleeping very rare have trouble sleeping drank that much coffee for about 30 yr so I'm used to it used to have it with sugar till a month ago but since last reading strictly sweetners

 

[Heath o]

Whhhaaaaaattttt?😱

Hi wirralass will drink anybody under the table as long as it's coffee

 

[Wirrallass]

Hi wirralass will drink anybody under the table as long as it's coffee

What type of coffee do you drink Heath o?