Sugar alcohols maybe cause heart attack and stroke?

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Eddy Edson

Eddy Edson

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I have gut feeling reservations about artificial sweeteners and my policy has been to reduce my intake of sweet stuff in general rather than supplement with sweeteners. I have come to the conclusion that a tiny bit of sugar or honey occasionally might be preferable to using sweetener regularly.
 
rebrascora said:
I have gut feeling reservations about artificial sweeteners and my policy has been to reduce my intake of sweet stuff in general rather than supplement with sweeteners. I have come to the conclusion that a tiny bit of sugar or honey occasionally might be preferable to using sweetener regularly.
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I use a little bit of aspartame in coffee but apart from that it's loads of fruit, berries, melon for me.
 
I avoid all artificial sweeteners as much as possible, but they serm to be pervading the food chain more and more.
 
They taste horrible so I don't have them. Also they're manmade, I think natural is best. If summats in a packet they've mucked about with it! 😡
 
Eddy Edson said:
Who knows if this will be confirmed by other studies, but I avoid erythritol etc anyway just because I think they're poxy.
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I wonder if it'll turn out not to be causative? (As it happens I'm not a big consumer of artificial sweeteners: I have insulin and I'm not afraid to use it.)
 
Bruce Stephens said:
I wonder if it'll turn out not to be causative? (As it happens I'm not a big consumer of artificial sweeteners: I have insulin and I'm not afraid to use it.)
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There seems to be quite a lot of skepticism about it.
 
Oh dear, I use them from time to time in my porridge to replace the golden syrup, will stick to just blueberries now :(
 
My dear late father used to drink chocolate options drinks, he loved them but in those days (possibly still now) they had a lot of artificial sweetner in them and I worried about his health quite a bit. He was on the whole free from ill health until he reached his 60s, he then had high blood pressure, cholesterol and then in his mid 70s got bowel cancer, although I do think that something gets you in the end, he was a healthy weight, walked a lot (led ramblers association walks) and was a vegetarian, didnt drink or smoke.
 
I used to only have sweeteners in diet squash, but since the ‘sugar tax’ you have to be careful about full sugar versions of drinks, because many of them have attempted to meet the rules by combining sugar with sweeteners. Lucozade is a particular culprit.

I’m currently using pepsi for hypos (because Lucozade prices have gone through the roof), which only has sugar in it, and as a bonus it doesn’t contain high fructose corn syrup in the UK).
 
Gil Cavarlho with a nice overview on why this seems like just another food/ingredient demonisation with very little evidence, plus a bunch of links to papers cited:
 
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