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.

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(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.)