nutritional articles

[merchimerch]

Here are two sweetener related articles I found via the mercola blog. Both are a combo of no-brainer and harsh realization.

The first says that our cells remember even one dose of sugar for 2 weeks:
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=187166

The second says that Splenda/sucralose reduces the good bacteria in our intestines by 50%:
http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=150785

It's nice to have some more ammunition for when I get in the "diet foods" are bad for you discussion. Now I'm contemplating a 2-week sweetener fast/detox, but I'm not sure about when to do that.

Comments

[sps.livejournal.com]

I dunno, to me the knock-down argument goes like this: "Where did my ancestors gettheir supply of Splenda? ... Oh, they didn't? It's an engineered solution? So where are the system diagrams that explain the engineering?"

Of course, the counter arguments are "::drool::" and "give me all your money," which I guess can be pretty hard to defeat....