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Sunday, September 02, 2007

the wee hours

The Artificial Sweetener Denial Experiment

Well, it’s now been quite a while since we gave up artificial sweeteners and the verdict is…we feel the same.  Sure, we may have prevented an aspartame brain tumor, but we don’t know that.  All we know is that it’s a whole lot more inconvenient to make single serving beverages in bottles of water.  I got an iced tea maker for my birthday (Mr. Coffee Iced Tea Maker - 3qt) and we’ve been making delicious iced tea - fruit medley from Adagio and passion tea from Tazo, the same stuff you get at Starbucks.  Frankly, I think our new beverages are slightly tastier than our artificially sweetened (we use Stevia in the fruit medley & Sugar Shots in the passion tea, because it’s too strong for the rather expensive Stevia to sweeten) beverages of yore, but is it worth the trouble?  Meh.  Who knows.  Like I said, we feel the same…exhausted and sore, but did that have anything to do with artificial sweeteners?  I guess not.  Perhaps it’s not fair to do any sorts of food/beverage related tests when our stress level is at 12, on a scale of one to ten.  I would think the stress would overwhelm everything else.

Artificial Sweetener Denial Experiment - Inconclusive!