A diversionary tactic against carbohydrate craving

[beetiger]

Comments and discussion welcome.

[Poll #119634]

Comments

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Eep! I can't believe I left out High Fructose Corn Syrup!

[aynjel.livejournal.com]

Granted, the one I use most often is Aspartame. That comes from drinking diet sodas all the time...

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

You know what they say, blood is sweeter than water.

[freeko.livejournal.com]

Good thing you did, that stuff is purely evil. I know I am trying to consume as little as humanly possible these days

[eetmewithtoast.livejournal.com]

Especially when you make it into Girl Scout cookies!

The kind made from real Girl Scouts . . .

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

I also like Stevia and Rice Syrup.

[genders.livejournal.com]

Victoria's Secret Panties! Believe it or not, it's apparently been a year and the new panty is in. In honor of this, I'm finally packing you. I swear; Bev is watching me.

My things probably smell a bit smoky even though they've been in the closet. The panty, of course, will not smell.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot about Stevia! Good if you like the taste of licorice...

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

And I do! Especially in tea.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

(half serious)HFCS is everything that's wrong with America!(/half-serious) It's a health risk, it stems from huge government subsidies to irresponsible megacorps, and it tastes like ass. Not that white sugar is a tonic, but it's amazing how much better soft drinks made with real sugar taste.

[freeko.livejournal.com]

I agree with you! You should meet my friend Randi Steele. She has been preaching about the evils of High Fructose Corn Syrup for years.

I know I am trying to cut back my intake severely.

Real Sugar Soft Drinks

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Buy your soda right now, then. Look for the Kosher for Passover labeling. This is the only time of year you can get sugar-sweetened soda in parts of the country that aren't Louisiana or Hawaii, cause HFCS isn't allowed for the holiday.

[orb2069.livejournal.com]

Have a question, BT...

Links-off-of-links on one of postvixen's 'conspiracy' posts make some pretty nasty claims about aspartame - You're probably the only person I know who could provide any real perspective on these - Are any of these things grounded in reality?

(Yes, I know the rest of the site reads like 'Conspiracy Theory 2', but... Three years ago I thought that the United states setting up ethnically oriented interment camps, strip searching airline passengers and invading foreign countries, would have been tin-foil-hat talk, too...)

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Not particularly, no. Aspartame's a small peptide (protein), and probably one of the most-tested food chemicals around. It will take a lifetime of people drinking the stuff to even vaguely see if there are any chronic effects, of course. But American palates and American policy don't want to wait that long to put new technologies in the foodstream.

It's not really a great sweetener, though it was a big improvement over saccharin when it came out. It's not very heat-stable or pH-stable.

It's very bad for people with a rare disease called phenylketonuria. And I'm sure there are some people who don't respond well to it. There's not any actually reason you need to consume it either, so if it worries you, don't. I'd only worry about saccharin and cyclamate, if I were prone to worry about these things. Or red dye. Red dye is worrisome.

Or you can worry about Donald Rumsfeld, which I think was actually the vixen's concern.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

People are very prone to psychosomatic illness, and to trying to find causes for everything, in our culture as well. Remind me to tell you a story about my Pepsi days in a less public forum sometime.

Muahaahaa

[fenton.livejournal.com]

And I, posting late, bring the swing vote between honey and brown sugar. Honey forever! Mead tastes better.