[Sca-cooks] Re: sugar substitutes

[Sue Clemenger]

*Ahem*
1. You're not old (hell, I think you're younger than I am, so *hush*).
2. You're not fat, just cuddly.
3. Balding? who cares?
4. Now, the wife....that's another matter.  This woman *likes* to play
with rocks.  I've seen her eyes spin in opposite directions when
suitably "fueled" by Grape Jolt.  All Artemisia quakes when her wit
flashes forth! (okay, so she has some of the worst puns and sense of
humor I've ever known, and from me, that's saying something).
5. There are places where you can get cola beverages made with real
sugar.  Canada. England. Ireland.  (Ask Mst. Juliana about her Canadian
Coke jones sometime.....;-P)

I don't *mind* the taste of nutrasweet (I use it mostly to add sweetness
to my coffee or tea), but I do prefer regular old sugar.  Still haven't
figured out what all the fuss is about with Demerara sugar. It tastes a
bit different, all by itself, but I don't notice anything special when
it's in my tea (mmm....real tea....*sigh*) I haven't really tried any of
the other sweeteners, except saccharine (which tastes just vile,
AFAI'mConcerned), and sorbitol, which I rather unfortunately encountered
(involuntarily) when mistakenly buying sugar-free jelly bellies for a
road trip instead of the regular kind.  The -uh- gastric distress was
horrible.
--The Real Maire (tm)


El Hermoso Dormido wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 26 November 2002 06:25 pm, Anne duBosc wrote:
> > All these years I've been avoiding foods containing sorbitol because I was
> > under the impression that the body processes it the same way it processes
> > glucose, so it's really not that good an idea for a diabetic to eat it
> > thinking they are avoiding high blood sugar.
>
> As I understand it, this is only true in a very broad sense.  Evidently, the
> big difference between the "sugar" the diabetics have to avoid (mainly [only?]
> dextrose [which is just a synonym for glucose!] and sucrose [which is a
> disaccharide made up of glucose and fructose] but evidently not plain
> fructose) and sugar alcohols is their affect on blood sugar (glucose) levels.
>
> Sugar alcohols get digested just fine, so they are NOT non-caloric, but they
> are processed more slowly, so you don't get the big spike in blood-sugar
> level all at once that you do with sugars that directly put glucose into
> the system.
>
> > For the most
> > part, I avoid anything with artificial sweeteners.  (except my Diet Coke.)
> > I find the taste almost universally yuckky.
>
> I used to be this way as well.  One of my main dietary weaknesses is that
> unless I am EXTREMELY thirsty (and it takes a considerable amount of
> dehydration to make me feel that thirsty) I just don't like the taste of
> a non-sweet beverage.  I used to drink quite a lot of High Fructose Corn Syrup
> which I'm sure didn't help my fat level.  One day I decided I was getting WAY
> too fat (even for me) so I started "cutting" my regular soda with diet soda.
> After increasing the proportion of diet soda over a period of time I
> eventually got to the point where NOW I can't stand the taste of High
> Fructose Corn Syrup but aspartame or sucralose and/or acesulfame K sweetened
> beverages taste fine to me.  Strange.
>
> Oh, and best tasting diet soda, in my opinion: diet cherry coke.
> Unfortunately, it ONLY seems to be available as expensive 6-packs, so
> I rarely bother.  Diet RC is good, too, if you can find it.
>
> On those rare occasions you can find them, I still do like sucrose-sweetened
> beverages, but it seems no major bottler uses it any more...
>
> > Unfortunately, the only thing that
> > seems to really work is a REALLY low calorie diet, and huge amounts of
> > exercise.
>
> For me, intense strength-training type exercises seem to be the only effective
> thing to get me leaner.  At one time I'd tried really low calorie intake with
> moderate exercise (lots of walking) and it just seemed not to do any good, but
> on the rare occasions when I can get myself to do regular strength-training
> type exercises it makes a noticeable difference.
>
> Signed,
> El Hermoso Dormido, ugly fat balding old man, who just tonight got dragged off
> to a health club to play with the weight machines, and who therefore may
> someday be an ugly MUSCULAR balding old man...
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