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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 480391" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Honey is no healthier than sugar, when it comes to calorie counting. The only advantage you MIGHT get form using honey, is the stronger flavour might encourage you to not use so much. But gram for gram, honey and sugar are the same. Honey has a few other trace things in it.</p><p></p><p>Aspartame - because it is basically amino acids (which do occur naturally, although not usually in isolation) I can understand the application. But they should always contain a warning because people with phenylketonuria have to watch their intake of aspartame because their bodies cannot metabolise some amino acids, in years past before the cause was known, these people ended up with severe brain damage soon after birth.</p><p></p><p>Isomalt - the sugar molecule reversed - is interesting stuff. Because it does not occur in nature, your body won't recognise it. You can also leave a dish of it down for the ants and they will walk right past it. But because chemically it is identical to sugar (apart from the mirror image) your body tastes it like sugar.</p><p>But have you ever noticed? If you suck a sweet, or eat something high in conventional sugar or carbohydrates, you will get a sour taste in your mouth about fifteen minutes later. For a lot of people who do eat sweet foods, this sour taste is a reminder to go have another sweet. But what causes this is the digestive enzymes and bacteria in your mouth beginning the digestive process. However, if what you eat contains Isomalt instead of sugar, you get the same sweet taste but it never changes to sour. I find this makes it easier to cut back on intake.</p><p></p><p>And if you eat Isomalt, you MUST cut back on intake. Since it is chemically inert in your body, Isomalt does not get broken down into component molecules so it can be absorbed across the digestive tract. Instead, it dissolves (as sugar does) and continues its journey through your GI tract to the big exit sign. However, along the way you have a sugar solution in your gut. If that sugar solution is too concentrated (ie you ate too many Isomalt sweets - for me, two at a time is the max) it has an osmotic effect on your intestinal contents and stops your body extracting water from your small intestine and large intestine. It actually will make you thirstier because your body is trying to dilute the sugar. This also means your poop does not get dried out as much as it should - yup, diarrhoea. And because there is an increased volume there and the GI tract has to shift it along, you get gut aches as well.</p><p></p><p>So if eating Isomalt causes thirst, gut ache and diarrhoea, it is probably not due to a reaction of any kind. You probably just ate more of it than your body can tolerate at any one time. Break up the amount over a longer period, all according to how fast your body processes food along.</p><p></p><p>I found Isomalt to be really helpful in weight loss - it trains me away from sugar, because if I have too much I feel rotten. But when I desperately crave something sweet, I reach for my tin of Isomalt sweets. However, eating too many of those (or too many that contain other related substances) gives me trouble. So you do get taught by your own body reaction, to change your eating patterns.</p><p></p><p>On the thirst issue - anything which causes osmotic issues either in your gut or your bloodstream (salt, for example, or MSG) will make you thirsty as your body tries to deal with it.</p><p></p><p>I'm physically inactive, unable to exercise, very unfit. I lost 25 Kg over about 9 months but have since (over two years) gained back about 10 Kg. I've currently stopped the increase and I'm trying to turn the weight loss back down. Because I can't exercise (which would make it so much easier!) I have had to do it with diet alone. And that has meant cutting out all sugar (Isomalt excepted), all fruit except strawberries (one serve of other fruit allowed per day), milk only in tea, coffee and breakfast cereal, breakfast cereal that is high fibre and low sugar (and low fat of course), all simple carbs (ie no white flour, no white rice, no potatoes). I switched white to wholegrain and cut back to one slice of bread (wholegrain of course) per day, max. Cutting portion size drastically. Drinking lots of water or equivalent (about 2 litres a day). No more yogurt, no more drinking milk. This also meant having to take vitamin and mineral supplements because such a diet is just not enough. But for me, after years of trying to lose weight with all my other problems, tis is the only thing that worked and I had to do it or face gastric bypass. Instead I chose to eat as if I had already had the surgery, but without having to endure the operation.</p><p></p><p>I relaxed a lot of my diet rules which to some extent has contributed to the weight re-gain, but it won't be difficult to go back to the strict part of the diet. I made the mistake of going back to drinking milk, and that really piles the weight back on, even if it's skim milk. I did not realise milk would be such a problem with weight.</p><p></p><p>But sugar - also a huge problem, if you have it regularly or in quantity. </p><p></p><p>Okay, lecture over.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 480391, member: 1991"] Honey is no healthier than sugar, when it comes to calorie counting. The only advantage you MIGHT get form using honey, is the stronger flavour might encourage you to not use so much. But gram for gram, honey and sugar are the same. Honey has a few other trace things in it. Aspartame - because it is basically amino acids (which do occur naturally, although not usually in isolation) I can understand the application. But they should always contain a warning because people with phenylketonuria have to watch their intake of aspartame because their bodies cannot metabolise some amino acids, in years past before the cause was known, these people ended up with severe brain damage soon after birth. Isomalt - the sugar molecule reversed - is interesting stuff. Because it does not occur in nature, your body won't recognise it. You can also leave a dish of it down for the ants and they will walk right past it. But because chemically it is identical to sugar (apart from the mirror image) your body tastes it like sugar. But have you ever noticed? If you suck a sweet, or eat something high in conventional sugar or carbohydrates, you will get a sour taste in your mouth about fifteen minutes later. For a lot of people who do eat sweet foods, this sour taste is a reminder to go have another sweet. But what causes this is the digestive enzymes and bacteria in your mouth beginning the digestive process. However, if what you eat contains Isomalt instead of sugar, you get the same sweet taste but it never changes to sour. I find this makes it easier to cut back on intake. And if you eat Isomalt, you MUST cut back on intake. Since it is chemically inert in your body, Isomalt does not get broken down into component molecules so it can be absorbed across the digestive tract. Instead, it dissolves (as sugar does) and continues its journey through your GI tract to the big exit sign. However, along the way you have a sugar solution in your gut. If that sugar solution is too concentrated (ie you ate too many Isomalt sweets - for me, two at a time is the max) it has an osmotic effect on your intestinal contents and stops your body extracting water from your small intestine and large intestine. It actually will make you thirstier because your body is trying to dilute the sugar. This also means your poop does not get dried out as much as it should - yup, diarrhoea. And because there is an increased volume there and the GI tract has to shift it along, you get gut aches as well. So if eating Isomalt causes thirst, gut ache and diarrhoea, it is probably not due to a reaction of any kind. You probably just ate more of it than your body can tolerate at any one time. Break up the amount over a longer period, all according to how fast your body processes food along. I found Isomalt to be really helpful in weight loss - it trains me away from sugar, because if I have too much I feel rotten. But when I desperately crave something sweet, I reach for my tin of Isomalt sweets. However, eating too many of those (or too many that contain other related substances) gives me trouble. So you do get taught by your own body reaction, to change your eating patterns. On the thirst issue - anything which causes osmotic issues either in your gut or your bloodstream (salt, for example, or MSG) will make you thirsty as your body tries to deal with it. I'm physically inactive, unable to exercise, very unfit. I lost 25 Kg over about 9 months but have since (over two years) gained back about 10 Kg. I've currently stopped the increase and I'm trying to turn the weight loss back down. Because I can't exercise (which would make it so much easier!) I have had to do it with diet alone. And that has meant cutting out all sugar (Isomalt excepted), all fruit except strawberries (one serve of other fruit allowed per day), milk only in tea, coffee and breakfast cereal, breakfast cereal that is high fibre and low sugar (and low fat of course), all simple carbs (ie no white flour, no white rice, no potatoes). I switched white to wholegrain and cut back to one slice of bread (wholegrain of course) per day, max. Cutting portion size drastically. Drinking lots of water or equivalent (about 2 litres a day). No more yogurt, no more drinking milk. This also meant having to take vitamin and mineral supplements because such a diet is just not enough. But for me, after years of trying to lose weight with all my other problems, tis is the only thing that worked and I had to do it or face gastric bypass. Instead I chose to eat as if I had already had the surgery, but without having to endure the operation. I relaxed a lot of my diet rules which to some extent has contributed to the weight re-gain, but it won't be difficult to go back to the strict part of the diet. I made the mistake of going back to drinking milk, and that really piles the weight back on, even if it's skim milk. I did not realise milk would be such a problem with weight. But sugar - also a huge problem, if you have it regularly or in quantity. Okay, lecture over. Marg [/QUOTE]
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