The Dangers of Artificial Sweeteners (found in many low fat/low sugar food and drink)

[Mel_B1981]

The only softdrink I drink is coke zero.....but I only ever drink it when drinking scotch....so which is worse? The artifical sweetener....or the scotch??

[BellyBelly]

Misty, there are many safe alternatives out there. The recent rave thing is coconut sugar.

Coconut Sugar is a great tasting, mineral rich low GI (35) cane sugar alternative, produced from coconut palm blossoms. Coconut Sugar has a rich toffee like flavour.

There is also stevia.

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[Tinks]

Kelly, I'd love to read these articles but don't really want to subscribe to the site. Do you have any articles that don't require a subscription to read?

[misty]

I did mention that I do use Stevia and other natural product when I can. However, the problem is that most of the artifical sweetener I consume are already in the products I buy - ice cream, yogurt, diet softdrink, diet cordial etc. I try not to consume to many of these foods, but when I do want a treat they are often a better, lower kj choice for me to consume then the sugar filled version.