On 15 Feb 2004 12:54:54 -0800,
[email protected] (Abe) wrote:
>I'm a recently diagnosed Type 2 diabetic and I have been emailed the website below with information
>about Aspartame being not safe. Are there any alternatives that are just as good. I heard of
>sucrose and froctose but dont really understand the afect they have on the BG levels
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http://www.betty?.com/
You will get a lot of responses shortly presuming that you are a shill for spam.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
Sucrose is plain old sugar, the stuff you put on your coffee.
Fructose is the sugar that naturally occurs in fruit; it has a similar affect on your BGs as
sucrose. That is, a piece of fruit will usually send your BGs up significantly. Simplistically, if
it ends in -ose, it's a sugar.
The various artificial sweeteners out there might have some negative effects on a small percentage
of the population. But almost every substance we eat will have a small proportion of the population
allergic to it in some way. And nearly everything is bad if we eat too much of it. That doesn't make
it bad for the rest of us who eat sensible amounts of sensible foods.
For a diabetic, if you wish to eat sweet-tasting foods, it's a lot safer and more sensible to eat
officially approved artificial sweeteners than anything ending in -ose.
Cheers Alan, T2, Oz. dx May 2002 , A1C 8.2=>5.8, wt 117kg=>90kg, no meds, diet and not enough
exercise. I have no medical qualifications beyond my own experience. Choose your advisers carefully,
because experience can be an expensive teacher.
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Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter.