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]

Quite. It's only been the last decade or so that reports of new drugs have started to have coherent explanations of how they work attached, and they are still quite strikingly absent from all of these dietary things, as far as I can tell. So I'll stick to the theory that only things that my ancestors ate are known-safe, for now.

[sps.livejournal.com]

(Not, of course, that there aren't situations in which the best course is to take a gamble. But in situations where there's no evidence, not even a coherent line of reasoning, that the cure is better than the disease? I don't think so.)