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And in this corner…fighting for saccharine… Saccharine has received a bad rep.  Research has shown that it causes cancer.  Specifically, it causes bladder cancer in male rats.  What happens is that certain proteins within the bladder become crystallized and, they believe, stimulate the cancerous development.  Since saccharine has been available for many years, longitudinal studies have shown no increase in cancer that can be attributed to its use.  Since the jury is still out on Nutra Sweet, I would stick with saccharine.  It’s cheaper and more powerful as a sweetener.  I drink Ice T loaded w/ the stuff.  just a thought. Jim  Eric Pepke wrote in article … – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This is a tough question.  Actually all the artifical sweeteners are fairly problematic, even though Atkins does recommend their use.  The best sub I’ve found is an herbal called Stevia.  Completely natural, very sweet, you can bake with it, etc.  Most health food stores in this area carry it (Denver, CO), but if not, you can order it by mail. By using a natural product like Stevia, you avoid the significant problems medically  linked to both aspartame and saccharin. Nope.  Stevia is the original source of saccharine.  People have been extracting saccharine from it since the middle of the 19th century.  Mark Twain mentions saccharine tablets in his _No. 42: The Perfect Stranger_. You eat it, you eat saccharine. Chemicals are chemicals.  If you want to believe that eating an "all natural" product automatically means that it must be safe and it must be good for you, go ahead.  But it has nothing to do with reality. Eric Pepke                                     |   Everyone’s dream Supercomputer Computations Research Institute  |    Is to unstep Florida State University                       |     The butterfly.

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And in this corner…fighting for saccharine… Saccharine has received a bad rep.  Research has shown that it causes cancer.  Specifically, it causes bladder cancer in male rats.  What happens is that certain proteins within the bladder become crystallized and, they believe, stimulate the cancerous development.  Since saccharine has been available for many years, longitudinal studies have shown no increase in cancer that can be attributed to its use.  Since the jury is still out on Nutra Sweet, I would stick with saccharine.  It’s cheaper and more powerful as a sweetener.  I drink Ice T loaded w/ the stuff.  just a thought.

    I have a real problem with any studies showing rats get cancer from any product since keeping pet rats, and discovering that living gives rats cancer. Rats in the wild are designed to live short lives, breed fast and furiously, and die. Tame rats who live long lives get cancer, in large numbers, just from living longer than their bodies are designed for.     Personally I wish I could get cyclamates. I liked them.      Bright Blessings,   Read about the criminal bait-and-switch cult of $cientology   at Operation Clambake   http://home.sol.no/heldal/CoS/   Lisa McPherson’s death should not be in vain.

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This is a tough question.  Actually all the artifical sweeteners are fairly problematic, even though Atkins does recommend their use.  The best sub I’ve found is an herbal called Stevia.  Completely natural, very sweet, you can bake with it, etc.  Most health food stores in this area carry it (Denver, CO), but if not, you can order it by mail. By using a natural product like Stevia, you avoid the significant problems medically  linked to both aspartame and saccharin.

Nope.  Stevia is the original source of saccharine.  People have been extracting saccharine from it since the middle of the 19th century.  Mark Twain mentions saccharine tablets in his _No. 42: The Perfect Stranger_. You eat it, you eat saccharine. Chemicals are chemicals.  If you want to believe that eating an "all natural" product automatically means that it must be safe and it must be good for you, go ahead.  But it has nothing to do with reality. Eric Pepke                                     |   Everyone’s dream Supercomputer Computations Research Institute  |    Is to unstep Florida State University                       |     The butterfly.

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This is a tough question.  Actually all the artifical sweeteners are fairly problematic, even though Atkins does recommend their use.  The best sub I’ve found is an herbal called Stevia.  Completely natural, very sweet, you can bake with it, etc.  Most health food stores in this area carry it (Denver, CO), but if not, you can order it by mail. By using a natural product like Stevia, you avoid the significant problems medically  linked to both aspartame and saccharin. Michele

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I’m starting the first stage of Atkins induction diet this evening and I went to the store this afternoon looking for the type of sugar substitute he recommends but I couldn’t find it. I bought aspartame but on the ingredients it lists dextrose and I though the book said not to use anything that ended in -ose because that meant it was a sugar. What is the best brand/type to buy? Can anyone help?

The best tasting one is Stevia (an herb). GNC has it, and many other places. Buy the purified (white) extract. Only downside is it’s quite expensive. Andy Pursuant to US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II,