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If you're asking me personally, it's because I don't have any problems with eating too much sugar so I would never want to introduce an artificial sweetener int
by elevaet 1y ago
If you're asking me personally, it's because I don't have any problems with eating too much sugar so I would never want to introduce an artificial sweetener into my diet when it carries potential strange health risks.
I think people get hung up on finding sugar substitutes when the root is eating sweet things constantly. You don't have to eat and drink sweet all the time. Many modern diets (not just n. Amer) are totally overindexed on sweetness.
Drink water, eat good foods, enjoy a bit of jam on your toast or whatever here and there and get lots of exercise and you'll be fine. You don't need aspartame and xylitol and stevia to be healthy.
- rurp 1y agoI second this, and would add that taste buds are more elastic than many assume. Drinking less sweet drinks can be underwhelming at first but your tastes do adjust fairly quickly and can often get to the point where mildly or unsweetened drinks taste as good or even better than the sugary stuff does, and the stuff that used to taste normal will be too sweet. Drinks like tea and coffee have a lot of flavor that that comes out without so much sugar. One issue is that if you're buying drinks there are very few intermediate options. I don't mind a little sugar but if I'm traveling and stop at a store the drink options are usually 97% super sweet (artificial or otherwise) and 3% zero sweetness, with nothing in between.
- agos 1y agoStores usually have water though