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Hmm… sounds like avoiding all sorts of sweet things might be worth considering.
Also avoid potatoes. They have the same ingredients as aspartame.
As in, a carbon backbone with plenty of hydrogen everywhere, maybe a few functional groups here and there.
Phenylalanine and aspartic acid. They're just proteins.
Just took a look at the formula of aspartic acid (the amino acid) and aspartame (the artificial sweetener) and they are vastly different. What’s your point?
Your stomach breaks down aspartame directly into phenylalanine and aspartic acid. It's just the two glued together.
Unless the claim is that you're absorbing aspartame through your esophagus lining?
Oh. Well that’s a good point. Hadn’t looked into aspartame metabolism before.
Just use natural sugars in moderation and you will be fine.
Bullshit. There is no moderation on sugar intake and that's when aspartame could enter. Not totally but partially cutting sugar. You have to be realistic in life no one is willing to resign coke life or cakes.
Uhhh what?
I quit drinking soda years ago and switched to flavored seltzer water. I was drinking 4-6 sodas a day for years before that.
For me quitting sugar was only difficult for the first few days, until whatever was in my gut crying for it died off I guess.
Just have to want to do it, like anything else that requires willpower.
Just because you maybe do it, it doesn't mean that everyone is willing, or can, or will, or will be the same experience. Your personal case doesn't extrapolate to the big number.
You said “nobody is willing”.
I am saying YOUR experience can't be extrapolated to all people, and second, we are missing the point that is the cost/benefit of sugar vs sweeteners.
That's not what you're saying.
Edit: Also, nobody's experience can be extrapolated to all people. What a ridiculous idea. But there are plenty of people who are able to give up consuming excess sugar. Just because you can't, doesn't mean that extrapolates to all people.
As and to whom are you communicating this?
The pancreas is activated to produce insulin by first the sense of taste and sweetness, then by blood sugar levels.
This is why since the large scale adoption of synthetic sweetners, diabetes rates of skyrocketed. People don't even drink water now in US.
that's debatable based on the literature: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28148491/
People with diabetes survive into adulthood now too.
Wow, so why are you alive to start with to have such sad life, imagine cutting all sweet. I prefer to be dead.
Well, I was mainly thinking of that in terms of cutting back, not forbidding them entirely. Eating sugary things all the time will obviously cause obesity, but eating artificially sweetened things seem to come with some serious caveats too. Not too long ago, I stumbled upon a similar post about erythritol, then another one about xylitol and so on. The list of sweeteners is getting shorter…
This is not a realistic stand, people will never take healthy sugar intakes. Sorry.
Other people can do whatever they want. I'm not here to tell them what to do or how to live. It's your body, your responsibility. You're the one who benefits from good decisions and suffers the consequences of bad ones.
"Other people can do whatever they want". This is not a valid standpoint. We were talking about possible cost/benefit options to sugar, and yet your solution is just take less.
Are we crafting public health policy or making personal life choices here? What's at stake determines the course of action. What's reasonable for me to recommend myself may not apply to broader audiences, let alone special groups.
We eat so we may live. Not the other way around.
Sad, there isn't in life more worth than food.