Question regarding alternative sweetners

March 22, 2007

Right you are - stevia is an herb with antioxidant and other positive

health qualities, yet no known health problems other than the fact

that it posed a huge threat to the artificial sweetener industry and

so they lobbied their pals in congress to first ban it and then

reluctantly allowed it to be marketed provided that it was prohibited

from using the term " sweetener " in it's advertising or labeling (which

explains why you see the term " don't sweeten it, supplement it " on the

packaging and advertising.

ALL artificial sweeteners are patently dangerous to your health,

perhaps none worse than Aspartame but there are NO good ones. Period.

All one has to do is google " dangers of ______ " and put in the name of

the artificial sweetener in the blank and see what I am talking about

in the many, many results you get.

Another herb that is used for sweetening is Lo Han (seomtimes referred

to as Lo Huang). It tastes better than Stevia (it tastes like sugar),

does not have the aftertaste some find a bit unpleasant with Stevia,

and is harder to find and more expensive.

Live long, live healthy, live happy!

Tony Isaacs

, zoe W <ilovegrafix

wrote:

>

> Stevia is NOT artificial, its an herb. It has no effect on

your blood sugar levels, does not cause hunger,

> in fact it assists with reducing your craving for sugar. I have

been using stevia in the raw form since the late 1980's and more

recently the liquid and powdered extracts as well as the fresh herb

with absolutely no negative

> effects. zoe

>

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