Stevia, Aspartame, Sugar and Insulin

I read, sometime ago, that aspartame, in all its various diet drink formulations, actually tricks the body into thinking too much sugar is coming into the blood stream. It is sweet. This causes the pancreas to drop insulin into the blood stream.

Now, the reason we take diet soda, and that is all I drank for a long time, is to NOT have sugar causing the insulin to increase. This is misplaced confidence. Indeed, the promotion of diet drink is a cruel con game.

Insulin increases in order to counteract an overabundance of sugar; hence, it enters to blood with a vengeance, to control sugar, but doesn't find any as it has been tricked by aspartame. (P.S., eat protein with carbs to control insulin.)

The end result is that aspartame is worse than sugar as the insulin has nothing to do but kill you, well cause inflammation/glycemic panic. That there are almost no calories in aspartame is irrelevant. It still makes one flabby, then, diabetic.

Below I lifted information about aspartame that you may find of interest. The cool thing is that after it gets to 86 degree F, it turns the inherent wood alcohol into formaldehyde. So, you could use it to preserve your dead body. As Dr. Roberts points out - it is NOT a diet food.

My point of looking back at this is I wanted to see if stevia was acceptable, so I double checked the old news and looked up the new.

Stevia is a Brazilian food that our government, to use the term loosely, says is not a food. Therefore, it is food and it is good for you.

Stevia tastes vastly sweeter than sugar and can be used in cooking and so on, but use very little. So far, it seems that stevia is acceptable in that there is no glycemic impact. Thus, don't even hesitate to switch to stevia. Have stevia cocoa all the time, with cinnamon.

Our "government" in N.Y., being more idiotic than most, is pushing to force aspartame into our schools in order to fight obesity. Since it is N.Y.'s decision to force diet drinks into the schools, it has to be a stupid idea, QED; now, you know why, though further research was not necessary.

Diet soda will make children fatter and generate diabetes at an early age. I wrote to the governor about this, as he said he needs input on things, which I like as an honest approach. If you feel motivated write to someone. Occasionally, the trees listen.

Oh, Japan has completely banned aspartame as a health hazard. So, you can believe Sheldon Silver or Japan.

TAKE AWAY POINTS:

    • Never use aspartame.

    • Avoid Sugar at all costs, even the joke "natural sugar."

    • Use Stevia. 

Some background:

    

    Aspartame FACTS:

    Marketed as 'NutraSweet,' 'Equal,' and 'Spoonful.'

    Aspartame is a man-made, high intensity, non-caloric sweetener, used extensively worldwide in over 5,000 products.

    When the temperature of Aspartame exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME coverts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. (Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants.)

    Methanol toxicity mimics multiple sclerosis; thus, many people are being diagnosed with having multiple sclerosis in error. The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where methanol toxicity is. It is a slow silent killer. The EPA recently announced that there was an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus across the United States.

    Aspartame actually causes sugar cravings and weight gain!

    The US Congressional record states, "Aspartame makes you crave carbohydrates and will make you FAT." Dr. H. J. Roberts, diabetic specialist, stated that when he got patients off aspartame, their average weight loss was 19 pounds per person. It is NOT A DIET PRODUCT!

    Aspartame is especially deadly for diabetics!

    Aspartame is especially deadly for diabetics. Physicians believe that in many of their diabetic patients with retinopathy, it is caused by the aspartame. The aspartame keeps the blood sugar level out of control, causing many patients to go into a coma.

    Dr. Roberts realized what was happening when aspartame was first marketed. He said his diabetic patients presented memory loss, confusion, and severe vision loss." At the Conference of the American College of Physicians, doctors admitted that they had wondered why seizures were rampant (the phenylalanine in aspartame breaks down the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin, which causes manic depression, panic attacks, rage and violence). According to the Conference of the American College of Physicians, "We are talking about a plague of neurological diseases caused by this deadly poison."

    Aspartame Is TOXIC To The Body!

    Upon ingestion, aspartame is metabolized to two amino acids (phenylalanine and aspartic acid) and methanol. (Trefz) Methanol qualifies as an exceptionally toxic substance, even at very low doses. (Roe) The minimum methanol amount needed to cause death (without medical treatment) is 300-1000 mg./kg. This is equivalent to only 0.85 - 2.85 oz. for a 154 lb. (70 kg.) man (much less for a child). (Kavet)

    The absorption of methanol into the body speeds up considerably when aspartame is heated. This occurs when aspartame-containing product is improperly stored or when it is cooked or heated (e.g., as part of a "food" product such as sugar-free gelatin or pudding).

    The formaldehyde stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. According to the EPA, methanol is considered a cumulative poison due to its low rate of excretion once it is absorbed. They recommend limiting consumption to 7.8 mg./day. A one-liter, aspartame-sweetened beverage contains about 56 mg. of methanol- 7 times over the safe limit. (Monte)

    Aspartame accounts for over 75% of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the U.S. Federal Drug Agency (F.D.A.). A February 1994 Department of Health and Human Services report the following portion of the 90 different documented Aspartame negative effects: (Kavet, Monte)

    Headaches/Migraines

    Dizziness /Vertigo

    Numbness

    Muscle spasms

    Weight gain

    Rashes

    Fatigue

    Insomnia

    Memory loss

    Vision problems

    Hearing loss

    Heart palpitations

    Breathing difficulties

    Anxiety attacks

    lurred speech

    Tinnitus /ear buzzing

    Joint pain

    The most well known problems from methanol poisoning are vision problems (misty vision, contraction of visual fields, blurring, obscuration of vision, retinal damage and blindness). Formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, causes retinal damage, interferes with DNA replication, and causes birth defects. (U.S. F.D.A.)

    Some researchers and physicians studying the adverse effects of aspartame report the following can be triggered or worsened by ingesting aspartame: (Stoddard)

    Brain tumors

    Multiple sclerosis

    Epilepsy

    Chronic fatigue syndrome

    Parkinson's disease

    Alzheimer's

    Mental retardation

    Lymphoma

    Fibromyalgia

    Diabetes 

Let's see Dale complain about this entry.