Do you feed your kids "sugar free" foods?

[Anonymous]

Oh hell no!

However, we don't eat much processed foods anyway so there is no need to bring artificial sweeteners in the house.

Our family is thin and active and it helps us stay that way by eating real food..which includes whole milk products, butter, and real sugar.

[Anonymous]

We don't really do fake sugar, fake butter, fake mayo, or anything fat free. It doesn't taste as good, and I worry about the chemicals. My MIL once made me a sandwich with miracle whip and fat free cheese and I just couldn't.

That said, if someone offers me soda and only has diet I may drink it, or if all that's left at a coffee shop is something yellow or pink I'll use it, and if my kid wants to make jell-o and I accidentally get the aspartame kind, oh well. But I avoid it if possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh hell no!

However, we don't eat much processed foods anyway so there is no need to bring artificial sweeteners in the house.

Our family is thin and active and it helps us stay that way by eating real food..which includes whole milk products, butter, and real sugar.

+1

Except that in addition to avoiding processed foods, we limit sugar intake. And as part of that plan, we use real food sugar alternatives, like maple syrup and coconut sugar. They have minerals and some actual food value, and since they have stronger (better!) flavors, they are naturally used in smaller quantities.

[Anonymous]

No, my kids are teens and I can count on one hand the number of times I've let either of them have a food with artificial sweeteners. I'd rather them have sugar than chemicals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:yup we do, its healthier and prevents obesity. again retard paranoia crew above.

Yikes. What a fundamental misunderstanding of biochemistry. And as the the second part of the comment - you seem like a real peach, PP. Stay classy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband feels that so many of these artificial sweeteners are new that no one knows the effect they will have on a body 80 years from now when we hope our children will still be going strong. I am amazed though how hard it has gotten to be to avoid them. Stevia in Girl Scout cookies..sucralose in the bread...

interesting but does your husband have any scientific basis for this idea? is he a nutritionist or biologist?

Not the PP, but even if he doesn't, I don't see how that changes his point. The chemicals are new, so even if popular opinion is that they're okay, their true effects (whether benign or harmful) over the long-term won't be able to seen until time has passed.

Well, I asked because without his credential, which I believe PP provided below, it was an odd thing to say. Why quote your husband and not yourself if it's just an opinion?

[Anonymous]

No, I prefer reasonable (and occasionally unreasonable) amounts of sugar.

[Anonymous]

No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:yup we do, its healthier and prevents obesity. again retard paranoia crew above.

Yikes. What a fundamental misunderstanding of biochemistry. And as the the second part of the comment - you seem like a real peach, PP. Stay classy.

16:36 has had way too much fake sugar.

[Anonymous]

Watch out for sugar alcohols in sugar free foods. They have a laxative effect.

[Anonymous]

Dd is 4. No artificial sweeteners. I add some sugar into her oatmeal. I don't use sweeteners myself and have no intention of introducing them to dd at any point in time.

[Anonymous]

Fatties in progress consume real sugar,

[Anonymous]

Long term 20+ years spends users no problems and very healthy, lots of science explained. Also interesting is that the people spreading the.negatively about splenda is the high fructose corn syrup companies and sugar http://low-carb-news.blogspot.com/2011/06/sucralosesplenda-inert-safe-and.html

[Anonymous]

OMG PP. This makes you comfortable with it??

[Anonymous]

No. We limit sugar and try to avoid chemicals completely. I absolutely detest the taste of fake sugar, so his isn't difficult at all.