Comments on Kitchen Courage: Oh, Sugar

When I was pregnant with my first child 20 years a...

2009-10-18T17:39:06.774-06:00

When I was pregnant with my first child 20 years ago, my doctor banned artificial sweeteners from my diet during pregnancy. I felt great during the pregnancy. I used to have lots of headaches (lots of intestinal trouble, too) and they all went away.

After the pregnancy I thought to myself, if it's not healthy for me to eat artificial sweeteners while pregnant, it's probably not healthy for me to eat them when I'm not pregnant either.

Once in a while I would drink a diet soda and get those headaches again. Finally I put it together and I eliminated all fake sweeteners.

People think I'm crazy but I've had 20 years to learn that my body functions much better without that stuff.

i believe in Whole foods. Although TOO MUCH sugar ...

2009-10-18T17:25:27.047-06:00

i believe in Whole foods. Although TOO MUCH sugar is bad, real sugar is definitely better than artificial sweetners.
i eat real stuff but not too much of it. perhaps once a month? i like to use raw agave or raw turbinado sugar. sometimes i would use fruits in cooking too.

Wow - that's so interesting it had such an effect ...

2009-10-18T16:49:39.830-06:00

Wow - that's so interesting it had such an effect on you!

I try to avoid artificial sweeteners, because there seem to be so many unanswered issues about them.

That said, for me, I can't ban myself from them. When I tried that, all I wanted was a diet coke. It works better for me to just try to avoid them. Totally a mind trick, lol.